On April 21, the Department of Justice indicted the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of conspiracy to launder money and raise money fraudulently. The introduction to the indictment reads as follows:
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s ("SPLC") stated mission included the dismantling of white supremacy and confronting hate across the country. However, unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. The SPLC’s paid informants ("field sources") engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website. The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. In order to covertly pay its field sources, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities.
In 1992, this writer personally observed the resounding silence of the Southern Poverty Law Center when the State of Alabama decided to execute Cornelius Singleton in 1992. Singleton, an impoverished African American with an IQ of approximately 60, was convicted of murdering a white nun, even though eyewitnesses described the murderer as a blonde Caucasian male.
The SPLC worked hand in glove with the other racist-extremist hate group, the Anti-Defamation League, to destroy the reputation of America’s most qualified presidential candidate, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr.
One of Martin Luther King Jr.’s field organizers, Reverend Richard C. Boone, regularly picketed the offices of the SPLC because of their racist policies.
Many social media comments under the news of the indictment asked, “Is the ADL next?”
