SPLC indictment alleges it funded the KKK using donor money for hate groups

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described itself as an organization that has combated extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) since the 1970s. This week, because of the indictment that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured through their stellar leadership, we learned that the SPLC was not fighting the Klan, but was funding it with generous donations from people who thought they were helping fight racism.

White supremacist James Alex Fields ran over and killed a Jewish woman named Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.

Following the attack, the SPLC doubled its revenue, using the event as a fundraiser and claiming it needed more money to fight racism. However, thanks to the indictment, we learned that the SPLC paid people and provided transportation to attend the rally.

The rally also gave birth to the “very nice people” hoax. Left-wing critics falsely claimed that President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” In fact, the president said, there are very good people on both sides of the debate over removing statues of historical figures such as General Robert E. Lee.

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After the speech, former President Joe Biden suggested that the Charlottesville incident encouraged him to run for president in 2020 and even served as the vehicle for Biden’s “Soul of America” ​​campaign theme.

The SPLC has also been accused of inciting racial hatred by paying people to post racist material in online forums. The organization did the exact opposite of what it promised, selling a list of products to its donors.

For more than a decade, millions of dollars in donations to the SPLC went to Klan- and Aryan-affiliated hate groups. According to the indictment, SPLC transferred this money through fictitious groups such as “Fox Photography” to conceal the true source of the donations. In addition to donor fraud, the SPLC has also been accused of lying to banks about its transactions.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) building seen in Montgomery, Alabama, in March 2020. (Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)

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This indictment is extremely important because the SPLC has played an important role in American politics, especially in recent years. The group labeled others as “extremists” and “hate groups,” and government agencies such as the FBI relied on these designations.

So the FBI began investigating the Freedom Mothers, a group of concerned mothers who attended school board meetings and voiced their objections to parts of the school curriculum. Thanks to the SPLC, the FBI investigated the group as a potential domestic terrorist organization.

Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray absurdly said that White supremacy was the greatest domestic threat — a claim the SPLC fomented.

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Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk were also labeled “extremists” by the group a few months before a deranged leftist assassinated Kirk.

The SPLC also gave the same name to mainstream groups such as the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). ADF has argued hundreds of times before federal and state courts, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court, to protect Americans’ constitutional freedoms. But according to the SPLC, the ADF is in the same league as the Klan, a group that the SPLC allegedly finances.

While the SPLC has sought donations from some of the world’s largest companies, including Apple, JPMorgan and MGM Resorts, it has sought to deplatform and shut down the banks of individuals and groups it deems “extremist.”

Old social media posts criticizing the Southern Poverty Law Center resurfaced after the group was charged by the Department of Justice, while a split image shows Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk (left) and billionaire Elon Musk (right). (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images)

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The SPLC met with PayPal as part of its debanking efforts and urged Amazon not to sell conservative books. The SPLC has also been involved in social media censorship on platforms like Twitter before Elon Musk’s acquisition, calling on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to ban those with views the SPLC disagrees with.

The group targeted advertisers of conservative programs, branding Fox News’ Laura Ingraham the “high priestess of hate.” Ingraham had a distinguished media and legal career, clerking for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court. The SPLC sought to destroy Ingraham because she posed a threat by voicing her conservatism.

If the indictment is true, the SPLC was running one of the largest frauds in American history. The SPLC promoted racial division to secure donations because there was not enough real division.

The Southern Poverty Law Center released its 2022 map showing hate and anti-government groups in the United States. (Southern Poverty Law Center)

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In reality, America has made such great strides toward equality that the SPLC had to fund a fabrication to make people believe the country was racist. The SPLC should be held accountable not only for donation fraud, but also for the much more serious crime of poisoning the discourse of the American public.

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While the SPLC caused much of the problem, according to the indictment, the SPLC led Americans to believe that racism was widespread. Blanche and Patel heroically exposed this fraud and we hope it will be replaced by a new indictment.

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SPLC executives must pay a heavy legal price for this atrocity, which, along with alleged major donor and bank fraud, has done incalculable damage to public discourse.

The indictment is a great start on the road to accountability and people should go to jail for this unconscionable charade.

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