-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?fileName=lsn20010830130000.html }}>Begin US Should Extradite "Hate Mongers" SPLC Claims First Amendment Shouldn't Protect US Citizens From Foreign Speech Laws August 30, 2001 13:00:00 PM Discuss this story in the forum LSN Staff Montgomery, Alabama -- In their new issue of the "Intelligence Report" released today, the Southern Poverty Law Center has come out in favor of extraditing US citizens who violate the speech laws of foreign nations, by criticizing foreign governments, their leadership, or their policies towards their citizens. Proving that they are the most dangerous of the extremist anti-free speech "anti-hate" groups active in America today, the SPLC launched an attack on international extradition laws stating that "the principle of 'double criminality'" (the principle that says Americans can only be extradited if what they have done is a crime in the United States) is posing a "dilemna" that "needs to be solved" -- solved by the extradition of US Citizens to Germany and other nations that pass laws prohibiting their speech. The SPLC, generally a foe of capital punishment, admits that this policy would also involve forcing European nations to extradite individuals to the US to face capital punishment. It doesn't point out that this policy would also involve extraditing US citizens critical of the Chinese government, or US citizens critical of the Iraqi government, to those countries to face execution for their political views. Though the SPLC's wacky extremist positions are unlikely to be adopted any time soon, the SPLC enjoys a special relationship with the US media -- particularly US Today, where at least editor (who we are not naming -- yet) is virtually on the SPLC pay roll, and CNN, where the SPLC enjoys good friendships with several of the network's producers. It is likely to use these positions in the near future to push to undermine the US First Amendment by claiming that since US Citizens are violating foreign speech laws, that the US must turn them over to foreign nations for prosecution. It is also likely this article was coordinated with German Interior Minister Otto Schily, who is meeting with the Bush Administration in the next few weeks to discuss the extradition of Americans to Germany for publishing websites the German government finds offensive. The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by Morris Dees, who attempted to rape his 16-year old step daughter in the 1970s, and who kidnapped his wife during a 1977 divorce, locking her in a hotel room where she was beaten and tortured in an attempt to force her to sign "no fault" divorce papers. Dees, a major fundraiser for the Democrats, has used his influence to suppress information on his past from reaching public ears, and has maintained a profile as an "anti-hate" watchdog instead. Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 http://www.overthrow.com (check out our messageboards -- discuss this story on-line!) End<{{ &&&&&&&&&& From http://www.overthrow.com/lsn/news.asp?fileName=lsn20010830113438.html }}>Begin Southern Poverty Law Center Says Justice Department Must Investigate AF- BNP Told Ya So ... 8/30/01 11:34:38 AM Discuss this story in the forum USA Today Washington, DC -- [Did we tell you so, or what? CNN failed, so the used SPLC to make an end run ...] Va. group accused of illegal efforts for racist party By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON � A civil rights group is asking the Justice Department to investigate the fundraising activities of a Virginia organization with ties to the British National Party, an anti-minority group blamed for instigating civil unrest in the United Kingdom. In a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft on Wednesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center accused the American Friends of the British National Party of raising nearly $100,000 for the party, in violation of U.S. law. The law center, based in Montgomery, Ala., alleges that the American Friends group did not register its activities with the Justice Department, as foreign political organizations are required to do under U.S. law. "The activities of the AFBNP and (its leader, Mark) Cotterill appear to be exactly the kind that Congress had in mind when it enacted the Foreign Agents Registration Act," the law center's general counsel, J. Richard Cohen, said in the letter to Ashcroft. Cohen referred to legislation passed in 1938 in response to Nazi officials who were in the USA. Neither Cotterill nor the British National Party in England responded to requests for comment. The Justice Department did not comment on the law center's allegations and request for an investigation. In a policy statement published on its Internet site, the British National Party says it supports "an immediate halt to all further non-white immigration (into Britain), the immediate deportation of illegal immigrants and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those non-white immigrants who are legally here will be encouraged, but not compelled, to return to their lands of ethnic origin." British National Party officials say in the statement that the party "will ensure the proper financial and material provisions are available" for fulfilling its political objectives "with the aim of halting and reversing the trend towards a non-white Britain, and ensuring that the British people have a homeland and retain their unique identity." "Hate knows no borders," says Mark Potok, editor of the law center's Intelligence Report, which first reported the American Friends group's activities. "The globalization of the neo-Nazi movement is being fueled not only by the Internet, but also by ultraviolent white power music and almost non- stop shortwave radio programming." [Note there is significant evidence that the money in question here was never actually sent to Britain, but was used in the United States for the interests of the AF-BNP, according to a CNN producer working on this story who contacted LSN two weeks ago.] Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 http://www.overthrow.com (check out our messageboards -- discuss this story on-line!) 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