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One of the nation’s leading left-wing activist organizations, responsible for fostering and encouraging hostility towards Christians, has been officially indicted by a federal grand jury, in what conservatives are hailing as a significant step towards restoring accountability.
A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on Tuesday handed down an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering. More than $3 million in SPLC funds were funneled to extremist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Aryan Nations, and American Front, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche noted that the SPLC “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred” but was “not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the indictment “is a welcome development, especially if it marks the beginning of the end” of the SPLC’s “long pattern of misrepresentation and harm.” In his statement released Tuesday, he continued, “For years, the SPLC has used its platform to label and target organizations with whom it disagrees, often blurring the line between legitimate concern and ideological attack. That kind of reckless characterization doesn’t just damage reputations, it has put lives at risk.”
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Trump’s DOJ also confirmed last week that the Biden administration collaborated with left-wing, pro-abortion organizations to unfairly target and prosecute pro-life Americans. Gacek suggested that the indictment against the SPLC could have stemmed from the Trump administration’s review of the Biden DOJ’s collaboration with the SPLC. “What’s fascinating here is that, a year and a half ago,” the SPLC was “sitting at the table with the FBI, dishing out dirt on conservative groups,” Perkins observed. “I mean, they were helping shape the policy of the FBI and the Department of Justice on conservative groups.”
A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on Tuesday handed down an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering. More than $3 million in SPLC funds were funneled to extremist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Aryan Nations, and American Front, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche noted that the SPLC “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred” but was “not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the indictment “is a welcome development, especially if it marks the beginning of the end” of the SPLC’s “long pattern of misrepresentation and harm.” In his statement released Tuesday, he continued, “For years, the SPLC has used its platform to label and target organizations with whom it disagrees, often blurring the line between legitimate concern and ideological attack. That kind of reckless characterization doesn’t just damage reputations, it has put lives at risk.”
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Trump’s DOJ also confirmed last week that the Biden administration collaborated with left-wing, pro-abortion organizations to unfairly target and prosecute pro-life Americans. Gacek suggested that the indictment against the SPLC could have stemmed from the Trump administration’s review of the Biden DOJ’s collaboration with the SPLC. “What’s fascinating here is that, a year and a half ago,” the SPLC was “sitting at the table with the FBI, dishing out dirt on conservative groups,” Perkins observed. “I mean, they were helping shape the policy of the FBI and the Department of Justice on conservative groups.”
The SPLC was targeting and profiling (with the FBI) Mark Houck.
