http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271093/southern-poverty-law-centers-perfect-storm-daniel-greenfield
The nation's longest running civil rights mail order scam has almost $450 million in assets.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by a lawyer who had formerly defended a violent racist who beat a Freedom Rider on behalf of the KKK, has a swollen bank account but is headed for a reckoning.
Like most big scams, the SPLC is a victim of its own success. ...
What the SPLC's expansion into fighting "homophobia" and "Islamophobia" have in common is that they both touch on issues of religious freedom: the religious freedom of Christians and Jews to be true to their beliefs about sexual morality or even the freedom of Muslims to criticize the Muslim Brotherhood.
As tech companies deplatform organizations smeared as hate groups and in the wake of the Nawaz case, Christian organizations are preparing to launch a massive legal campaign against the SPLC.
The SPLC may have $450 million in assets, but it's going to need it because the organizations intend to launch as many as 60 lawsuits against the civil rights mail order scam group across the country. The organizations will include the ADF and many others, which will sue the SPLC individually, forcing it to respond to every single lawsuit.
And the SPLC is clearly rattled.
Its letter to Attorney General Sessions emphasizes, awkwardly, that its accusations against the ADF and FRC are protected by the First Amendment. But the trouble is that the SPLC doesn't just offer opinions. Instead it puts out a rating system used by other organizations to discriminate by denying products and services to its targets. The SPLC is aware of how this impacts the First Amendment rights of its targets.
As SPLC's Mark Potok had said, its blacklists have "nothing to do with criminality or violence or any kind of guess we're making about 'this group could be dangerous.' It's strictly ideological.'"
"We're not trying to change anybody's mind. We're trying to wreck the groups. We're trying to destroy them," he had said.
Until now, the SPLC had little ability to destroy its targets. But as tech companies line up to censor the political opposition, it has that power. And that's why its targets are preparing to fight back.
The SPLC is more dangerous than ever. But now it's also more vulnerable than ever.
A perfect storm of lawsuits is headed for the SPLC. And the outcome will help determine the fate of religious freedom in America.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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