The DOJ indictment of the SPLC is a huge deal on many levels – including the way the press is already spinning it. First there was the preemptive strike: the Atlantic hit piece on Kash Patel that was basically anonymously-sourced gossip. Now there is the coordinated approach of the MSM, which is to say oh, the SPLC was only doing the perfectly normal thing of paying informants, just like the FBI!
But you know what? The SPLC is not a government investigative agency such as the FBI, which has such powers. It’s a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that deceived its donors and deceived the banks. Nor were the people it paid mere fringe players reporting back on activities. The SPLC’s activities involved being major and organizing players in the “white supremacist” functions it purported to be fighting.
Help create the problem and magnify it, and then raise gobs and gobs of money off it, lying all the way by creating fake companies to hide what you’re doing. Not just business as usual, although the MSM would like its readers (and/or headline-readers) to believe that.
The story has made me go back to look up certain details of the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the one that was so very useful to the Democrats and that Biden (or his speechwriters) made the centerpiece of his 2020 campaign. I found some fascinating things like this, from the late Scott Adams in 2023:
The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “an American intel op against Trump.”
Not by the government, as far as we know. But at least to a significant degree by the SPLC.
There’s also this, which means more to me now than it did back in 2017 when the rally occurred [emphasis mine]:
Prominent far-right figures in attendance included [Richard] Spencer, entertainer and internet troll Baked Alaska, lawyer Augustus Invictus, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke, Identity Evropa leader Nathan Damigo, Traditionalist Workers Party leader Matthew Heimbach … Right Side Broadcasting Network host Nick Fuentes …
Fuentes, grifter extraordinaire; I’m convinced he’s never actually been on the right, either.
Of course, even without this indictment it’s been clear that the SPLC has long been a propaganda outfit that falsely lists some groups as being on the “far” right or being “hate” groups when they’re not.
Who was it that the SPLC paid? The indictment doesn’t say exactly – that is, it doesn’t name names but just describes positions. But the indictment is well worth reading; you can find it here. I can’t cut and paste from it, but here’s my summary.
It mentions that “unbeknownst” to donors, the SPLC funded “leaders and organizers” of these groups – which doesn’t sound like the usual informants. The organization called them “field informants” but they actively promoted racist groups. One of them, for example, was part of the leadership chat group that helped organize the Unite the Right rally . “The field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.” One of the “informants” was the “imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America”. Quite a few other were higher-ups in these organizations, not just nonentities.
To pay these so-called informants, the SPLC created covert bank accounts under fictitious entities, and they made false statements about the accounts and the entities. The indictment lists at least eight fictitious entities such as “Fox Photography” – all with no employees. The creation of these fake companies makes it quite clear that this was not just paying informants but a coverup about paying these people and something that was never disclosed to donors, plus something the SPLC knew was wrong. Why else lie and commit bank fraud? And they defrauded donors by saying the money they raised – and there was plenty of it – would be used to dismantle such groups.
