DEVELOPING: SPLC lawyer arrested after Atlanta Molotov cocktail riot faces terrorism charges. The Southern Poverty Law Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2020, the SPLC carried water for antifa, condemning Trump's statement that antifa should be designated a domestic terrorist group. pjmedia.com/news-and-polit…
A big thank you to @EoinLenihan for first bringing this to my attention.
Yet more confirmation: Tom Jurgens is indeed an attorney at the SPLC, and his middle name is "Webb," just as it appears on the police record.
In 2020, I wrote the book "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," explaining how a once-noble public interest law firm became a threat to America's free speech culture. Check it out here:
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The arrest of Thomas Webb Jurgens only serves to highlight the Southern Poverty Law Center's long history of carrying water for Antifa extremists.
In 2020, the SPLC attacked Trump's decision to designate Antifa a "terrorist organization," defining Antifa as "a broad, community-based movement composed of individuals organizing against racial and economic injustice." It claimed Trump was echoing "far-right extremists."
“Individuals loosely affiliated with Antifa are typically involved in skirmishes and property crimes at demonstrations across the country, but the threat of lethal violence pales in comparison to that posed by far-right extremists," the SPLC claimed.
.@TulsiGabbard raises the alarm about the insidious threat behind the transgender movement. "We have no floor and no ceiling if there is no such thing as truth and if the only truth that exists is whatever the people in power say it is," she told me. dailysignal.com/2023/03/05/thi…
Speaking about the people pushing this ideology, she said, “They think they’re God and they think that they are the ones who get to determine what is true and what is not."
She addressed the FBI's memo on "radical-traditional Catholics" that cites the SPLC. The memo shows how “agencies within our government” are “being weaponized against the very people they’re supposed to be serving, all to advance political ambitions." dailysignal.com/2023/02/09/bre…
The FBI's "radical-traditional Catholic" memo unmasks a "pattern of anti-Catholic bigotry" at the DOJ that represents "the new Inquisition" against Roman Catholics, @CatholicVote Prez @BrianBurchCV told me. dailysignal.com/2023/02/14/cat…
Reminder: the FBI published an internal memo urging agents to infiltrate Catholic churches to monitor "radical-traditional Catholics," citing the SPLC's "hate group" accusations against some traditionalist Catholic groups that may be good targets for infiltration.
The FBI later told The Daily Signal that the memo did not meet "the exacting standards of the FBI." The bureau did not answer follow-up questions about how it came to exist in the first place.
"Naturally, we are concerned about the federal government gathering data on Americans' personal choices—data that serves no sincere purpose in treating patients' medical conditions—and how it may be used in the future," @chiproytx & 9 other House Republicans write.
"Why did the CDC and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) decide to start gathering data on why Americans chose not to take the COVID-19 vaccine?" Roy and his colleagues ask. "How do CDC and NCHS intend to use these new COVID-19 vaccination ICD codes?"
So Blue Cross Blue Shield NC will award a grant advancing "healthy food equity." Some organizations that employ mostly racial minority staff and have a mostly-minority board have asked about the grant and been denied. Why? Because their CEOs are "white." dailysignal.com/2023/02/13/wok…
The $300,000 grant aims to combat "food insecurity" and "systemic barriers" to healthy food from "generations of public policies, institutional practices, and social norms creating and reinforcing inequities among racial and ethnic groups."
The eligibility criteria are strict: the executive director or CEO must be a member of a racial minority or "from an immigrant community;" the community the organization serves is primarily racial minority or immigrant; and the staff and board "reflect the community served."
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: FBI rescinds "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" report that cited the Southern Poverty Law Center after @DailySignal reached out to the bureau for comment.
"While our standard practice is not to comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product - disseminated only within the FBI - ... does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI." FBI is "taking action to remove the document from FBI systems."
The doc warned about "interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMCEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology," citing SPLC, a left-wing smear factory that brands mainstream conservative and Christian orgs "hate groups," mapping them with the KKK