There is “no clear evidence” white supremacists are participating in the rioting and looting sweeping U.S. cities across America following the death of George Floyd, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) conceded in a New York Times report published Sunday.
“Signs of any organized effort or even participation in the violence were relatively rare,” the Times acknowledged in the bottom half of its article, referring to white supremacists.
“I have not seen any clear evidence that white supremacists or militiamen are masking up and going out to burn and loot,” Howard Graves, an SPLC research analyst who tracks white supremacists and other anti-government extremist groups, told the newspaper.
On Monday, Politico did report an account linked to white supremacists was posing as the far-left group Antifa that espouses anarchist views and encouraging violence early last week, two days after Floyd’s death on May 25.
Citing the FBI, a May 29 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence memo to authorities, marked unclassified/law enforcement sensitive, reportedly said that on May 27 “a white supremacist extremist Telegram channel incited followers to engage in violence and start the ‘boogaloo ’— a term used by some violent extremists to refer to the start of a second Civil War — by shooting in a crowd.”
A Telegram message urged potential shooters to “frame the crowd around you” for the violence, the DHS document added, according to Politico, which does not provide any evidence of white supremacists actually participating in the riots.
Some supporters of the “boogaloo” should be easy for law enforcement to detect among the rioters and looters since the Times reported they are known to wear Hawaiian shirts.
The SPLC analysts’ comments about there being no evidence white supremacists are taking part in the rioting and looting came after Democrat political leaders in Minnesota, on Saturday, indicated without evidence white supremacists were instigating the civil unrest.
Several news outlets, however, quoted an unnamed spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety admitting authorities in the state “cannot say we have confirmed we have cells of white supremacists.”
Nevertheless, the Democrat-allied mainstream media, particularly CNN, appeared eager to promote the untested assertion.
By Sunday, the Star Tribune reported Minnesota officials had backed off from allegations that outsiders such as white supremacist groups were perpetrating the violence and property damage over the death of a Floyd, a black man.
Floyd died after a now-fired white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneed his neck for several minutes after arresting him. Authorities have charged Chauvin with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
“A this point, I don’t have any credible evidence of any specific group being here in Minnesota,” the state’s Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington stressed, according to the newspaper.
Still, the Times article claimed individual members of far-right groups, including Hawaiian-shirt wearing individuals promoting the second Civil War or “boogaloo,” are likely engaging in arbitrary acts of violence, noting it is likely not an organized effort.
There could also be far-right “factions that express solidarity with some in the African-American community in their animosity toward the police” participating in the rioting and looting, the Times claimed.
Over the weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration blamed the far-left Antifa group for the havoc engulfing many American cities.
President Trump announced his administration would deem Antifa a terrorist organization.
“Others said white supremacists and far-right groups were responsible, pointing to online statements by adherents that the upheaval would hasten the collapse of a multiethnic, multicultural United States,” the Times noted, adding:
Members of hate groups or far-right organizations filmed themselves, sometimes heavily armed or waving extremist symbols, at demonstrations in at least 20 cities in recent days, from Boston to Buffalo to Richmond, Va., to Dallas to Salem, Ore.
A common nickname for their anticipated second Civil War is the “boogaloo,” which sometimes gets mutated into the “Big Igloo” or the “Big Luau,” prompting its adherents to wear Hawaiian shirts.
Megan Squire, a professor at Elon University in North Carolina who tracks extremists online, told the newspaper posting racist jokes and memes on social media is much different than organizing an armed group to travel across state lines.
“They do not have strong real-world networks where they really trust each other,” she said, referring to far-right groups.
SPLC, considered a far-left hate group by some analysts, has argued that Antifa itself is not a hate group.
THE ENTIRE REASON THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY WANTS ILLEGALS
VOTING BY MAIL IS TO DESTROY THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM. WE ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE
DEMOCRAT SANCTUARY STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO SEE THEIR MEXICAN WELFARE STATE
SUPPORTED BY ALL DEMOCRAT BILLIONAIRES FOR CHEAP LABOR.
“The SPLC's massive blacklist is sustained by a powerful movement
on the left and in the Democratic Party, which is determined to suppress its
conservative opposition and create a one-party state — a feat it has already
accomplished in our colleges and universities and in large swathes of our media
institutions.”
The Biggest Blacklist in American History
How this anti-American scourge works.
May 29, 2020
John
Perazzo
The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a $592 million
non-profit. It is also the creator and leader of the largest blacklist, by
far, in American history. Its infamous list of “hate groups,” which currently consists of 940 separate
entities in all 50 U.S. states, is the centerpiece of a massive smear campaign
that conflates a small number of mostly insignificant fringe groups with
entities whose sin is being politically conservative, but which are not “hate”
groups in any meaningful sense of the word.
By equating a smattering of actual hate groups with
respectable conservative organizations, SPLC seeks to delegitimize
conservatives as repugnant monsters whose viewpoints do not merit a hearing.
And by labeling mainstream conservative individuals and organizations as “hate
mongers,” it seeks to deprive them of the funding they need to reach an
audience or even stay alive. Consider, for instance, the SPLC's branding of
David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, as an “anti-immigrant,
anti-Muslim extremist” and as one of the “10 Most Dangerous Hatemongers” in the
United States — solely because he opposes illegal immigration and warns against
the dangers of Islamic jihad.
After Horowitz gave a speech to the bi-partisan American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) in August 2018, SPLC organized a boycott that singled
out his remarks as worthy of suppression and called on ALEC’s corporate
sponsors to withdraw their support. The actual sin Horowitz committed was
confined to one sentence in which he referred to Black Lives Matter as a “racist
organization” and the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group.[1] Within two weeks, 79 leftist organizations had
joined the boycott.
BLOG: THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S LA RAZA SUPREMACIST FASCIST PARTY NOW
CALLING ITSELF UNIDOus IS FUNDED BY MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 HUNDRED AS THEY
BENEFIT FROM UNCONTROLLED INVASION OF ‘CHEAP’ LABOR BY MEXICO.
This led to the withdrawal of financial support by major
corporations like Verizon, AT&T, and Dow Chemical, and the loss
of tens of thousands of dollars for ALEC.
The following month, SPLC’s slurs were the basis of major media attacks
smearing Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis as a “white
supremacist” for appearing at a Restoration Weekend event hosted by Horowitz,
who was described as “an infamous racist” in a headline that appeared in
the Huffington Post. (As a side note to this baseless slander,
Horowitz is a friend of Arianna Huffington — who founded but no longer owns
the Post — and was married in her home.)
The SPLC blacklist is enabled by — and could not be successful without —
the mindless support of media outlets like the Washington Post, New
York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and so-called “liberal” organizations
like People for the American Way and Common Cause. It is also empowered by
major support from billionaires like Apple CEO Tim Cook and JP Morgan chairman
Jamie Dimon, and by the charitable arms of such major American corporations as
Amazon.
Amazon's alliance with SPLC is institutionalized in its popular
“AmazonSmile” program, through which customers can purchase Amazon products at
their regular prices and then indicate, at checkout, that they wish to have
Amazon redirect 0.5% of the payment to a charitable nonprofit organization of
the customer's choice. In fiscal 2018, AmazonSmile funneled some $44 million to non-profits via
this program.
But not every governmentally recognized non-profit is eligible to receive
Amazon’s largesse. Amazon warns its customers that “organizations that engage
in, support, encourage, or promote intolerance, hate, terrorism, violence,
money laundering, or other illegal activities are not eligible to participate.”
Among the organizations denied Amazon charity on these grounds is the Alliance
Defending Freedom (ADF), the chief legal non-profit group committed to
protecting religious liberty. ADF is ineligible for Amazon’s program because it
defends the First Amendment rights of religious organizations to hold views
that SPLC doesn’t support.
ADF, by its own telling, provides legal advocacy “for
the right of people to freely live out their faith,” with a specific
focus on “cases involving religious liberty issues, the sanctity of human life,
and marriage and family.” In other words, ADF thinks that if a religious
organization opposes taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, or believes that
marriage should be defined explicitly as a sacramental union between one man
and one woman, such an entity should be allowed, in accordance with the First
Amendment, to freely espouse those particular values.
But to the leftists at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the defense of the
First Amendment by organizations like ADF is a “hateful” endeavor which merits
the group's inclusion in the SPLC blacklist. And AmazonSmile, in turn, has
dutifully declared itself off-limits to ADF. As one AmazonSmile spokesperson
has acknowledged: “We remove organizations that
the SPLC deems as ineligible.” And by that chain of unexamined “evidence” —
i.e., the mere word of SPLC — the blacklist works.
ADF is just one of scores of mainstream religious organizations that have
been targeted by SPLC. In particular, SPLC depicts any entity objecting to
transformative cultural changes involving homosexuals — such as gay marriage —
as a “hate” group whose opinions have no more legitimacy than those of an Aryan
militia. In this way, SPLC classifies the conservative Family Research Council,
a Christian public policy ministry, as yet another purveyor of hate. And in accordance
with SPLC's guidance, AmazonSmile has removed the Council from
the list of charities eligible to receive AmazonSmile donations.
The D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM), whose mission is to
proclaim “the Gospel of Jesus Christ” as
widely as possible, likewise opposes the notion that marriage should be
redefined to include same-sex unions. Consequently, SPLC has defamed DJKM as
yet another “active hate group.” And AmazonSmile, in turn, refuses to direct any of its customer
funds to DJKM. But in fact, there is not the faintest trace of “hate” in DJKM's
message. As Ministries spokesman John Rabe has said: “We desire all people,
with no exceptions, to receive the love of Christ and his forgiveness and
healing. We unequivocally condemn violence, and we hate no one.”
Other noteworthy Christian groups blacklisted by both SPLC and AmazonSmile
include the Religious Freedom Coalition (RFC), the Ruth Institute, and the
Saint Benedict Center — all of which are guilty of the apparently unpardonable
sin of opposing same-sex marriage on religious grounds. When a spokesman for the Saint
Benedict Center, Brother André Marie, asked Amazon to explain why his
Center had been barred from participating in AmazonSmile, the company told him
candidly: “We rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center to determine which
charities are in certain ineligible categories. You have been excluded from the
AmazonSmile program because the Southern Poverty Law Center lists Saint
Benedict Center Inc. in an ineligible category.”
In stark contrast to its shabby treatment of the aforementioned Christian
groups, AmazonSmile has had absolutely no objection to
passing along 0.5% of its customer expenditures to the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR),
which was co-founded by individuals with close ties to Hamas — a proudly
genocidal organization of murderous Jew-haters. Terrorism expert Steven
Emerson, citing federal law-enforcement sources and internal documents, has
bluntly described CAIR as “a radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”
AmazonSmile is likewise happy to funnel some of its customer funds to the
Islamic Center of Jersey City (ICJC), an institution whose imam, in a recent
sermon, not only characterized Israeli Jews as
“apes and pigs,” but also besought Allah's assistance in killing them, right
“down to the very last one.” Moreover, a former ICJC imam was a
Hamas activist who was named on a “List of Possible Unindicted Co-conspirators
for the [1993] World Trade Center Bombing.”
The Islamic Circle of North
America (ICNA)
— a Jew-hating entity that praises terror attacks, supports the imposition of
Sharia Law, promotes the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, has
ties to the radical Pakistani group Jamaat-e-Islami, and is closely linked
to the Muslim Brotherhood — is also an AmazonSmile member in perfectly good
standing.
Similarly, the Islamic Society of North
America (ISNA),
which promotes Sharia Law and Islamic supremacism, is free to rake in
loads of cash through AmazonSmile. Established by U.S-based members of
the Muslim Brotherhood, ISNA was identified by
declassified FBI memos as a Brotherhood front group as early as 1987. Four
years after that, ISNA was explicitly named in a Brotherhood document as
one of 29 likeminded Islamic organizations that shared the common goal of
carrying out a “grand Jihad” in America and “destroying … Western civilization
from within.” But it's not a “hate group,” according to the cheerful, grinning
folks at AmazonSmile and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Obviously, the double standards of AmazonSmile are many. But perhaps most
troubling is the fact that the single most noteworthy beneficiary of the
program is none other than the Southern Poverty Law Center itself. That's
correct: The principal gatekeeper that determines who should, and who should
not, be permitted to earn money through AmazonSmile, routinely stuffs its own
deep pockets with AmazonSmile cash. Indeed, SPLC is currently the 33rd leading
recipient of contributions through AmazonSmile. This of course is in keeping
with SPLC's legendary aptitude for wringing every last penny out of every cash
cow in the proverbial barn. Today SPLC boasts a $592 million endowment, of
which nearly 30% is sheltered in offshore tax havens.
In their crusade against conservative organizations, SPLC and AmazonSmile have
plenty of company. For instance, Color of Change has pressured corporations to cut
all business and commercial ties to entities that SPLC designates as “hate
groups.”
Similarly, BloodMoney.org will
not be satisfied until all “financial service companies” stop “profiting from
hate” by “tolerating the use of their services by hate groups.” In short,
BloodMoney favors the blacklisting and economic suffocation of conservative
groups in much the same way as AmazonSmile does. Particularly remarkable is the
fact that BloodMoney has named none other than Amazon as a company guilty of
conducting business with various “hate groups” that pursue “dangerous agendas.”
In other words, AmazonSmile's blacklist doesn't go far enough for BloodMoney,
which boasts that, as a result of its own blacklisting efforts, “158 funding
sources have been removed from white supremacist sites.”
In 2017, Discover, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal — much like AmazonSmile — blacklisted a number of
organizations deemed objectionable by self-anointed arbiters of “hate” like
SPLC, Color of Change, and BloodMoney. As PayPal said in a statement at that time, its
own objective was to “ensure that our services are not used to accept
payments or donations for activities that promote hate, violence or racial
intolerance.”
While aiming to deprive conservative organizations of funding from a host of
sources, leftist entities like Amazon and SPLC unapologetically seek to pack as
much cash as possible into their own massive coffers. Business
Insider recently published an article speculating that Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos is on track to
become the world's first trillionaire by the year 2026.
And if present trends continue, the Southern Poverty Law Center's holdings may
surpass the $1 billion mark at just about that same time. Such a parallel would
be a fitting reflection of AmazonSmile's unique relationship with
SPLC — one gang of reckless slanderers lining the pockets of another,
in an obscenely crooked, rigged charade.
The SPLC's massive blacklist is sustained by a powerful movement on the left
and in the Democratic Party, which is determined to suppress its conservative
opposition and create a one-party state — a feat it has already accomplished in
our colleges and universities and in large swathes of our media institutions.
Notes:
[1] The full text of the speech is
available HERE.
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