Jeff Sessions: southern poverty law center uses hate designation as weapon against conservatives

[eagle1462010]

'Shocked' Anti-Defamation League slaps FBI 'diss on hate crimes

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as "hate groups" for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a "resource" on the FBI's Hate Crime Web page, a significant rejection of the influential legal group.

The Web page scrubbing, which also included eliminating the Anti-Defamation League, was not announced and came in the last month after 15 family groups pressed Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey to stop endorsing a group -- SPLC -- that inspired a recent case of domestic terrorism at the Family Research Council.

"We commend the FBI for removing website links to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that not only dispenses erroneous data but has been linked to domestic terrorism in federal court. We hope this means the FBI leadership will avoid any kind of partnership with the SPLC,” Tony Perkins, FRC President, told Secrets.


“The Southern Poverty Law Center's mission to push anti-Christian propaganda is inconsistent with the mission of both the military and the FBI, which is to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States,” he added.

The Anti-Defamation League, however, was "shocked" by the FBI's move, made without any notice. It's work with the FBI has not been questioned.

Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, told Secrets, “We are shocked, surprised and disappointed that this would be done without any consultation with groups such as ours who have been working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on issues of hate crime. We look forward to having further conversations with them on this issue.”

The FBI had no comment and offered no explanation for its decision to end their website's relationship with the two groups, leaving just four federal links as hate crime “resources.” The SPLC had no comment.

SPLC has been a leading voice against hate crimes, and has singled out evangelical and traditional family groups as advocates of hate against gays. It has even gone after a local official, Loudoun County Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio, who also heads a group that promotes traditional, opposite sex marriage.

In August 2012, a Washington area man guided by the SPLC's "hate map" that cited FRC, entered the group's headquarters and shot a security guard. The guard survived and the shooter, a volunteer with a gay group, pleaded guilty to domestic terrorism.

In their letter, the 15 conservative groups argued that the FBI website's inclusion of SPLC as a resource "played a significant part in bringing about an act of domestic terrorism." It added, "It is completely inappropriate for the Department of Justice to recommend public reliance on the SPLC hate group lists and data. The links to the SPLC as a FBI ‘Resource’ must be taken down immediately, leaving only official, trustworthy sources listed on the agency’s webpage."

 

[midcan5]

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil

Hate is the primary emotion of the right in America today. Hate binds people in groupthink. Calling the SPLC a hate group is a modern right wing American tactic in which the argument is reversed. (see Stanley Fish) Seeing the group is then the hard part. Trump rallies are an example. Hate is a more powerful emotion than care or consideration, you see that in the rallies and the Charlottesville white supremacist march. The curious aspect of hate on the America right is that they can hold in their minds the idea we are a Christian, loving nation who love unborn children. Abstractions are easy tools on the uneducated or unthoughtful, actual consequences much harder to fathom. But that is so much of history, isn't it.

In link below my post is # 100 and contains links.

Do you believe in evil?

Edit: link above has quote errors that are now in link below.

Ask A Philosopher: What Does New Brain Science Mean For Free Will?

Beyond Good And Evil: New Science Casts Light On Morality In The Brain

Explaining evil

'The 10 neuropsychological symptoms are:'

"1. Repetition: the aggression is repeated compulsively.
2. Obsessive ideation: the perpetrators are obsessed with ideas that justify their aggression and underlie missions of ethnic cleansing, for instance that all Westerners, or all Muslims, or all Jews, or all Tutsis are evil.
3. Perseveration: circumstances have no impact on the perpetrator’s behaviour, who perseveres even if the action is self-destructive.
4. Diminished affective reactivity: the perpetrator has no emotional affect...." see link

Is neuroscience getting closer to explaining evil behaviour? | Aeon Essays

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance." Eric Hoffer

 

[JakeStarkey]

hate on people and the slpc will find you and will out you

 

[WillowTree]

WTF? A group that monitors hatred and lets the public know whose operating among is is somehow wrong for doing this. Sessions is a weird little whore, though, and anything can come out of his mouth.

So-called "conservatives" get into trouble because they keep talking about other people instead of talking about why their ideas are so good for the nation. It 's always blacks this, women that, immigrants this, gays that, and blah, blah, blah. Some of them go to extremes.

But wouldn’t you like to know their criteria? Aren’t you the least bit curious?

 

[WillowTree]

WTF? A group that monitors hatred and lets the public know whose operating among is is somehow wrong for doing this. Sessions is a weird little whore, though, and anything can come out of his mouth.

So-called "conservatives" get into trouble because they keep talking about other people instead of talking about why their ideas are so good for the nation. It 's always blacks this, women that, immigrants this, gays that, and blah, blah, blah. Some of them go to extremes.

derp..............they are a legal leftwing attack group................That is all........

Carry on Snowflake................

You seem to be quite upset that the SPLC names names. Why is that? This delgaudio fella seems like a real sneaky character. His naming of his private organization as "Public Advocate of the United States" makes it sound like it is a governmental entity, when it has nothing to do with government. It's just a group that attacks other Americans. He's trying to trick people and he holds a public office. The public has a right to know this. I don't know how this group got 501c tax-exempt status. That's another matter that needs looking into.

yawn...........they are a mouth piece for your sides propoganda machine.............the legal arm of your daily poison..................

I wouldn't take a leak on them if they were on fire..............clear it up for you..............

I wonder if Louis Farrakhan is on their list? Have they named him?

 

[Crepitus]

Jeff Sessions: Southern Poverty Law Center uses ‘hate’ designation as ‘weapon’ against conservatives
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday the Justice Department would not partner with groups that discriminate against or defame others, singling out the Southern Poverty Law Center for its “hate group” campaign.


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What else can you expect from those who are interesting in nothing more than some Authoritarian bs Hitler style.

The SPL are a bunch of useless losers as well.

Alternatively, conservatives just have a lot of hate groups.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil

Hate is the primary emotion of the right in America today. Hate binds people in groupthink. Calling the SPLC a hate group is a modern right wing American tactic in which the argument is reversed. (see Stanley Fish) Seeing the group is then the hard part. Trump rallies are an example. Hate is a more powerful emotion than care or consideration, you see that in the rallies and the Charlottesville white supremacist march. The curious aspect of hate on the America right is that they can hold in their minds the idea we are a Christian, loving nation who love unborn children. Abstractions are easy tools on the uneducated or unthoughtful, actual consequences much harder to fathom. But that is so much of history, isn't it.

In link below my post is # 100 and contains links.

Do you believe in evil?

Edit: link above has quote errors that are now in link below.

Ask A Philosopher: What Does New Brain Science Mean For Free Will?

Beyond Good And Evil: New Science Casts Light On Morality In The Brain

Explaining evil

'The 10 neuropsychological symptoms are:'

"1. Repetition: the aggression is repeated compulsively.
2. Obsessive ideation: the perpetrators are obsessed with ideas that justify their aggression and underlie missions of ethnic cleansing, for instance that all Westerners, or all Muslims, or all Jews, or all Tutsis are evil.
3. Perseveration: circumstances have no impact on the perpetrator’s behaviour, who perseveres even if the action is self-destructive.
4. Diminished affective reactivity: the perpetrator has no emotional affect...." see link

Is neuroscience getting closer to explaining evil behaviour? | Aeon Essays

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance." Eric Hoffer

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance." Eric Hoffer

Wow that discribes Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Dan Rather, Joy Behar, Chris Mathews, Hillary Clinton, Steve Colbert, Seth Meyers, Obama .....lol

 

[WillowTree]

Is ANTIFA on their list?

 

[WillowTree]

Is BLM on their list?

 

[mdk]

I wonder if Louis Farrakhan is on their list? Have they named him?

He is. Along with the Nation of Islam.

Louis Farrakhan

Nation of Islam

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Here is the SPLC hate group list.

Groups

Most of them are real hate groups.

However complaining about Islamic Terrorism is not hate; that is a legitimate concern for reasonable people.

Disagreeing with same gender marriage is not hate; that is just a difference of opinion. If that can be designated as hate then people who are opposed to under aged marriage, polygamy marriage, incest marriage and bigamy would also have to be considered to be bigots.

Being concerned about mass illegal immigration is not hate; that is a legitimate issue. All countries control their border crossings and immigration. Sooooo using their own reasoning all 196 nations would have to be considered to be hate groups.

Race based organizations are inherently racist because they are segregating themselves from others and they are not concerned about other people’s rights.

 

[eagle1462010]

WTF? A group that monitors hatred and lets the public know whose operating among is is somehow wrong for doing this. Sessions is a weird little whore, though, and anything can come out of his mouth.

So-called "conservatives" get into trouble because they keep talking about other people instead of talking about why their ideas are so good for the nation. It 's always blacks this, women that, immigrants this, gays that, and blah, blah, blah. Some of them go to extremes.

derp..............they are a legal leftwing attack group................That is all........

Carry on Snowflake................

You seem to be quite upset that the SPLC names names. Why is that? This delgaudio fella seems like a real sneaky character. His naming of his private organization as "Public Advocate of the United States" makes it sound like it is a governmental entity, when it has nothing to do with government. It's just a group that attacks other Americans. He's trying to trick people and he holds a public office. The public has a right to know this. I don't know how this group got 501c tax-exempt status. That's another matter that needs looking into.

yawn...........they are a mouth piece for your sides propoganda machine.............the legal arm of your daily poison..................

I wouldn't take a leak on them if they were on fire..............clear it up for you..............

I wonder if Louis Farrakhan is on their list? Have they named him?

Idk..............but Antifa isn't there...............it's a hack law firm...........

 

[SassyIrishLass]

LOL @ SPLC....staffed by morons. First clue a staff attorney's average salary at the SPLC is around 77K....chicken feed in the real legal world.

A hate group running around calling everyone else a hate group. LOL morons

 

[eagle1462010]

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as necessity." Simone Weil

Hate is the primary emotion of the right in America today. Hate binds people in groupthink. Calling the SPLC a hate group is a modern right wing American tactic in which the argument is reversed. (see Stanley Fish) Seeing the group is then the hard part. Trump rallies are an example. Hate is a more powerful emotion than care or consideration, you see that in the rallies and the Charlottesville white supremacist march. The curious aspect of hate on the America right is that they can hold in their minds the idea we are a Christian, loving nation who love unborn children. Abstractions are easy tools on the uneducated or unthoughtful, actual consequences much harder to fathom. But that is so much of history, isn't it.

In link below my post is # 100 and contains links.

Do you believe in evil?

Edit: link above has quote errors that are now in link below.

Ask A Philosopher: What Does New Brain Science Mean For Free Will?

Beyond Good And Evil: New Science Casts Light On Morality In The Brain

Explaining evil

'The 10 neuropsychological symptoms are:'

"1. Repetition: the aggression is repeated compulsively.
2. Obsessive ideation: the perpetrators are obsessed with ideas that justify their aggression and underlie missions of ethnic cleansing, for instance that all Westerners, or all Muslims, or all Jews, or all Tutsis are evil.
3. Perseveration: circumstances have no impact on the perpetrator’s behaviour, who perseveres even if the action is self-destructive.
4. Diminished affective reactivity: the perpetrator has no emotional affect...." see link

Is neuroscience getting closer to explaining evil behaviour? | Aeon Essays

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance." Eric Hoffer

Being offended by positions of some doesn't constitute Hate...............And in a Free Country is the ability to be offended and offending others some time..........

The 1st Amendment doesn't stop where your beliefs begin..........

While some groups are Hateful..............the slippery slope of Europe is the agenda of those who attack many groups............

SPLC is a Political Group of lawyers...............have a political agenda..............and aren't really a 501c group as classified............They should be challenged and lose that status..................

Have you noticed Europe where people are afraid to speak on some issues for fear of being arrested for simply speaking their mind?

 

[eagle1462010]

Groups like the SPLC who challenge the Freedom of the republic and the Constitutional rights of citizens................they should be challenged.........

You don't have the right to silence groups because your views aren't the same...............the left has an agenda to silence those who don't agree, and the SPLC is one of the arms they are trying to do it.............

Hey ..........SPLC..........You can kiss my ass.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

To be fair they should include La Raza, Muslim Brotherhood, Aztlán Nationalist, BLM separatist, Brown Berets, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus, race based employee organizations, race based student organization, race based political organization and Antifa.

It’s easy to determine if an organization is racist or not by inserting white in its name, then if it sounds racist, it probably is.

 

[eagle1462010]

To be fair they should include La Raza, Muslim Brotherhood, Aztlán Nationalist, BLM separatist, Brown Berets, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus, race based employee organizations, race based student organization, race based political organization and Antifa.

It’s easy to determine if an organization is racist or not by inserting white in its name, then if it sounds racist, it probably is.

In Portland............Antifa organizers actually sent out a message to bring guns to the last episode of riots...............Their very charter openly shows to conduct violence...........they bring weapons..........metal rods........homemade shields...........and promote violence at every rally...........Trying to use force to stop the Free Speech of any who disagree......

They claim to be anti-fascist................they should be against themselves then...........as their very tactics are fascists.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

To be fair they should include La Raza, Muslim Brotherhood, Aztlán Nationalist, BLM separatist, Brown Berets, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus, race based employee organizations, race based student organization, race based political organization and Antifa.

It’s easy to determine if an organization is racist or not by inserting white in its name, then if it sounds racist, it probably is.

In Portland............Antifa organizers actually sent out a message to bring guns to the last episode of riots...............Their very charter openly shows to conduct violence...........they bring weapons..........metal rods........homemade shields...........and promote violence at every rally...........Trying to use force to stop the Free Speech of any who disagree......

They claim to be anti-fascist................they should be against themselves then...........as their very tactics are fascists.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Jeff Sessions: Southern Poverty Law Center uses ‘hate’ designation as ‘weapon’ against conservatives
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday the Justice Department would not partner with groups that discriminate against or defame others, singling out the Southern Poverty Law Center for its “hate group” campaign.


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What else can you expect from those who are interesting in nothing more than some Authoritarian bs Hitler style.

The SPL are a bunch of useless losers as well.

Is the SPL the same group who successfully bankrupted the largest klan group in the country -- which was based where? in Session's own home state of Alabama?? The same Klan organization that killed a white civil rights volunteer for helping black people register to vote, the same organization that blew up a church killing 4 little girls?

Yea to put them out of business is definitely something to be ashamed of. Wonder why Sessions didn't do it himself, since he was the AG back then.....hmmm....

The Real Story of Jeff Sessions's Role in Prosecuting the Klan - The Atlantic

Donald v. United Klans of America

 

[DrLove]

Obama DOJ Reprimanded SPLC for Hateful Attacks on Immigration Control Groups - Judicial Watch

They even got reprimanded under Obama.............LOL

Now that's a hoot

So? What are the groups that the SPLC rates as "hate groups" doing. Who are these groups and what do they want?

Jihad Watch – Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Reports jihad related articles.....................terrible...........just terrible................so terrible that they were labeled.............OMFG.........and Paypal kicked them........then brought them back...............Just showed the article.................

Jihadwatch has every right to point out JIHAD across the world................If you don't like them.........change the dang channel.........but SPLC targeted them.............

Ah yes - David Horowitz - His JihadWatch is a wonderful example of a hate group.

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Jihad Watch is a blog affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, run by blogger Robert Spencer,[2][3][4][5][6] it has been described as one of the main homes of the Counter-jihad movement on the internet.[7]

According to the website, a theology of violent jihad, which denies non-Muslims and women equality, human rights, and dignity has been present throughout the history of Islam. Jihad Watch says that it is "dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correct popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts."[8]

It has been repeatedly criticised by numerous academics who believe that it promotes an Islamophobic worldview and conspiracy theories.[9][10][11][12][13][14]