Shortly after Obama was elected president a savvy undergraduate student of mine (president of the College Republicans) asked me if the Obama administration intended to call its critics on economic policy and everything else racists in order to shut them up. I said that Obama himself would stay above the sleazy, putrid fray and would have his supporters like the Southern Poverty Law Center do that kind of dirty work.
That of course was always the primary purpose (besides enriching the founders and executives of the “nonprofit” organization) as I explained fifteen years ago in this article. Racial racketeering was a very profitable business for these communist rabble rousers. Their apparent goal was to convince every elderly black person in America that there was a KKK guy hiding behind every tree with a rope in his hand, and the only defense was to send the SPLC part of their social security checks every month. Dopey affluent “liberals” were also a big source of their donations.
Doug French expertly explained how so many “nonprofit” organizations inevitably turn into fundraising rackets, especially after the founder retires or dies. The SPLC, on the other hand, was a fundraising racket from the very beginning. In fact, its founder, one Morris Dees (who was eventually fired by the board), was a professional direct mail fundraiser.
Today we learn from Stephan Kinsella’s post that the SPLC’s business must have been falling off after so many lawsuits against it and diminished donations that it apparently began secretly funding the very “hate groups” that it used to justify its existence, including the KKK! The U.S. government has indicted it for financial fraud among other things.
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