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The following doesn't surprise me at all. "Follow the money," ya
know.
I do take issue with the former SPLC employees who call the
organization "a joke," however--- Dees and his ilk are far too
malicious and create too much paranoia and ill- will for me to be
able
to laugh. At best (being generous and assuming they're not just in it
for the bucks), they're another great example of the old
psychological
"projection" bit-- since *they* are full of hatred and resentment,
they figure everyone else must be also.
~Olga
FEWER "HATE" GROUPS THAN ORGANIZATIONS CLAIM
Kansas author and editor Laird Wilcox has been researching so-
called "anti-hate" groups for decades; he thinks they have their
own dirty linen to explain. As he sees it, the groups greatly
exaggerate the threat of racist groups in order to drum up
contributions from liberal-leaning Americans.
o Wilcox estimates the total of active, organized, racist
extremists at little more than 10,000 -- including 5,000
to 6,000 in militias, about 3,000 members in the Ku Klux
Klan and 1,500 to 2,000 in neo-Nazi groups.
o One of Wilcox's chief targets is the Southern Poverty Law
Center, which has amassed an endowment of $113 million by
exaggerating the size and number of extremist groups, he
charges.
o For example, he says that in 1992 the SPLC's Klanwatch
division claimed there were 346 white-supremacy groups
operating in the U.S. -- while Wilcox puts the figure at
about 50.
Wilcox has been joined in his criticism by other SPLC critics
including former center employees who have called the
organization "a joke," former black employees who have claimed
they were discriminated against by the center -- and by left-
wing writer Alexander Cockburn who claims the center raised
millions "by frightening elderly liberals that the heirs of
Adolph Hitler are about to march down Main Street."
Source: Robert Stacy McCain, "Researcher Says Hate 'Fringe'
Isn't as Crowded as Claimed," Washington Times, May 9, 2000.
For text
http://www.washtimes.com/culture/default-20005922336.htm
For more on Hate Crimes
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/crime71.html
--
Kathleen
"The president has said he will pay the fine, and
his lawyers have said that he will pay the fine.
... The president has said that he will pay the
fine that she's imposed, and I don't have anything
to add to that. ... Well, he's going to pay the
fine." --White House chief of staff John Podesta,
when asked repeatedly by NBC's Tim Russert, "In
this era of accepting responsibility ...does the president accept the judge's decision
that he lied
under oath?"
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