SPLC: Family Research Council is a Hate Group or Something

Leave it to those charming folks at the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center to spread the holiday cheer.

The Southern Poverty Law Center this week labeled as "hate groups" several political and religious organizations that campaign against same-sex marriage and, the center says, engage in "repeated, groundless name-calling" against gays and lesbians.

Included on the list released by the civil rights organization is the Family Research Council, a prominent and politically influential group of social conservatives. The report by the law center, which has spent four decades tracking extremist groups and hate speech, accuses the council and a dozen other groups of putting out "demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual minorities."

The report, which has sparked debate across the Internet, taps into the continuing potency of social issues, such as same-sex marriage, in American politics. Several of the groups described in the report supported a successful effort to oust state Supreme Court judges in Iowa because of a unanimous ruling last year that legalized same-sex unions.

The Family Research Council has been at the forefront of political activism against same-sex marriage. In explaining the decision to put the council on its hate-groups list, the law center highlighted comments by Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the council, who told MSNBC host Chris Matthews this year that he thinks "homosexual behavior" should be outlawed.

Council President Tony Perkins, who was also named in the report, called the hate-group designation a political attack by a "liberal organization."

"The left's smear campaign of conservatives is . . . being driven by the clear evidence that the American public is losing patience with their radical policy agenda as seen in the recent election and in the fact that every state . . . that has had the opportunity to defend the natural definition of marriage has done so," Perkins said in a statement.

"Earlier this month, voters in Iowa sent a powerful message when they removed three Supreme Court justices who imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Would the SPLC also smear the good people of Iowa?"

The law center said it chose to highlight the groups on the list "based on their propagation of known falsehoods" and "repeated, groundless name-calling.

Of course they would smear the people of Iowa. This is how these groups operate: You disagree with them and you're bigots, Nazis, homophobes, etc. When you cannot win in the arena of public debate, you slander people.

Maybe The NAACP and SPLC Along With DHS and DOJ Ought to Look Into the NBPP

Is that enough acronyms for you? After watching this video clip posted by Breitbart from a meeting that the New Black Panther Party had in Atlanta you do have to wonder why we never hear about them being highlighted in any DHS memos like the Tea Partiers are. The clip features Eric Holder's BFF King Shamir Shabazz.

I am familiar with Malik Shabazz since he likes to come around every so often and try to incite riots in the black neighborhoods of south Atlanta, which so far have not netted any results.

For those that don't know the Southern Poverty Law Center, they are another progressive civil rights organizations which includes veterans, Tea Party members, Republican voters and any white person living in the south on their list of militant groups and if you drill down far enough on their web site you will see the New Black Panthers listed on their state by state lists, but you won't find them listed under either their groups, ideology, or persons links. They have tried to ban the Confederate flag from NASCAR races and label all the groups as right wing. You know groups like the Nation of Islam.

So anyway courtesy of Breitbart here is your New Black Panther Party video of the day.

Time for Another 'Militias on the Rise' Story

You see this one every few years, usually during a Democrat administration. Naturally it comes from the far left Southern Poverty Law Center and leaps to wild conclusions.

Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends.

The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise, the report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration.

Bart McEntire, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told SPLC researchers that this is the most growth he's seen in more than a decade.

"All it's lacking is a spark," McEntire said in the report.

It's reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s - right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called "sovereign citizens" are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups.

Last October, someone from the Ohio Militia posted a recruiting video on YouTube, billed as a "wake-up call" for America. It's been viewed more than 60,000 times.

Any casual user of YouTube could tell you a video seen 60,000 times over the past ten months isn't very much.

Heck, this little blog you're reading had more page views than that in the past week.

Uh oh, I better watch out or we'll soon be termed a threat to society and reported to the White House snitch line.

Read the rest of the AP nonsense if you need to, but it's simply a tired regurgitation of a SPLC press release, though you can bet it'll sure get plenty of air time on the failing television networks today.

This isn't to suggest there are some loosely organized fringe groups out there, but their numbers are insignificant despite the scare tactics of the SPLC and their ilk. Seems to me your average gang, be it MS-13, the Bloods or the Crips pose a far greater danger to the public. But I guess mentioning them would be raaaaacist!

Secretary Nincompoop's Worst Fears Being Realized

I am sure this is causing DHS secretary Janet Napolitano some sleepless nights, because we know the open borders doesn't. There is a rise in conservative right wing groups on *gasp* college campuses.

A student group that bills itself as "America's right wing youth movement" focused on countering radical multiculturism, socialism and mass immigration is causing a stir on a growing number of college campuses across the country.

The ultra-conservative political group Youth for Western Civilization is currently organized on at least seven university campuses. According to its Web site, the group hopes to inspire Western youth on the "basis of pride in their American and Western heritage," counter and ultimately defeat "leftism on campus" and create a social movement in which a right-wing subculture is an alternative to what it calls a "poisonous and bigoted" campus climate.

There are some brave young folks out there. They are not only having to battle the entrenched liberals in the halls of academia but risk running afoul of the highly vaunted Homeland Security. They have already drawn the attention of one of the most racist, pretending to be unbiased observers, organizations out there, the Southern Poverty Law Center. For those outside of the south, you probably aren't that aware of this group, but they are a thorn in the side of politicians down her. I think at one time right after hurricane Katrina they had FEMA on their watch list.

Officials at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which identifies and tracks hate groups in the U.S., told FOXNews.com that the YWC is not currently on its list, but some of the group's views are "suspect," including the notion that Western civilization is somehow superior.

If DHS had an actual list of right wing extremist groups it would probably be a faxed copy they received from this group. As far as I know, the SPLC doesn't know of any left wing hate groups.

I visited the groups web site and there isn't much there. If there is something more sinister we need to know, but so far I don't see that from this group.