From the Weekly Standard, King of Fearmongers, an expose on the SPLC. SPLC has been earning consistent Fs from CharityWatch, due partly because of SPLC's habit of holding excess reserve funds (standard is supposed to be 3 years of operating expenses), but also to the relatively high amount of donor money spent on operations, particularly fundraising.
The article begins with the story of a gay activist who attempted to murder the staff of the Family Research Council.
This quote got me thinking of an analogy: SPLC (and many other activist organizations all over the political spectrum) is like a Mafia Don: he tells his boys that "Mr. X needs to be taught a lesson". A few days later, Mr X get a beatdown or ends up shot to death. The Don never gave a direct order, but he just looked around the table and one of his guys decided to do the Don a favor. Seems to me that's what's happening with the SPLC, attempting to incite hate crimes while not actually telling anyone to commit them.
The article begins with the story of a gay activist who attempted to murder the staff of the Family Research Council.
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Of course, it was as ridiculous to blame the SPLC for Corkins’s rampage as it had been to blame Palin for Loughner’s. Still, there was a delicious irony to savor: The “anti-hate” SPLC had unwittingly revved up someone who carried out an act that was unequivocally a hate crime: a potentially murderous vendetta against a group of people predicated solely on the religious and political views that they happened to hold.
This quote got me thinking of an analogy: SPLC (and many other activist organizations all over the political spectrum) is like a Mafia Don: he tells his boys that "Mr. X needs to be taught a lesson". A few days later, Mr X get a beatdown or ends up shot to death. The Don never gave a direct order, but he just looked around the table and one of his guys decided to do the Don a favor. Seems to me that's what's happening with the SPLC, attempting to incite hate crimes while not actually telling anyone to commit them.