I am having to wrestle myself to the floor to stop from posting on Facebook:
Please, my friends. Don’t embarrass yourselves by defending the SPLC, which has already been making fools of its supporters for decades. It’s fine to be a progressive or a knee-jerk Democrat, except that your party’s leaders are in denial, and lying to you. This is not the time to accuse the Justice Department of targeting legitimate social reform organizations or of supporting “white supremacy.” The apparently agreed-upon spin, that all SPLC was doing by giving millions to the same groups they were claiming to be fighting was creating “paid informants” won’t stand up to reality. Read the indictment. Admit that you’ve been had. Condemn the SPLC for being another social justice racket, even worse than Black Lives Matter.
I won’t though, because the protests and rationalizations I will get back will make me physically ill.
As more of this damning story comes out (and is in the process of being buried by the Axis media, which is substantially responsible for helping the SPLC in perpetrating this astoundingly cynical, disgusting scam), the clearer it is how corrupt this organization was, has been, and is. Also, as in the cases of Eric Swalwell, Harvey Weinstein and Cesar Chavez, the question must be asked: Did the rest of the Axis of Unethical Conduct know the SPLC was a scam, and when did they know it?
Also:
Ethics Alarms 
As more and more scandals emerge of money (donor or state or federal) going into these pits, I think it becomes increasingly fair to ask if ANY endeavor on the Left isn’t just a fraud channeling money into leftist pockets.
I think the answer to that is, “why, yes, this organization is simply a front to funnel cash into the pockets of the organizers, who probably syphon it off into the hands of political campaigns.” How else do you explain Rep. Omar’s $30 million wealth (well, downgraded to between $18,000 and $96,000.00, on rounding errors, I guess . . . ).
Did you check out the 2015 Form 8879 tax return filed by the organization? Here it is:
https://www.splcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/files/990_103116.pdf
In 2015, SPLC had a net assets of $328,000,000.00. That is a ton of cash.
As for the “paid informants” nonsense, the SPLC has absolutely no law enforcement or prosecutorial powers. None. It can file lawsuits and class action cases against suspected “hate” groups (whatever that means) but it cannot file criminal charges, indict, arrest, criminally try, convict, sentence, and/or incarcerate anyone.
A few years ago I remember everyone weeping in relief when the SPLC got a jury to hold a chapter of the Klan liable for civil damages because some its supposed members did some stupid, awful thing but that seemed to be a phyrric victory, aside from foreclosing on the Klan’s clubhouse. It’s not like it changed the culture. I don’t think the Klan wannabe down the street from me thinks, “well, golly. I guess I can’t racist anymore. I might sued and my neighborhood club house might be sold at foreclosure. Dad gummit. Those were the good ol’ days.”
jvb
“2. Hamilton said it would be as if his own conservative group was secretly giving money to DEI officials to set up more DEI programs while raising money to fight against DEI. He might have also added, “And paying six-figure salaries to our own organization with the funds.”
Indeed, imagine my church using tithes and offerings to pay people to infiltrate Muslim mosques, encourage vandalism and violence in the community and then argue that the increased negative activity is why the church needs more money.