THE SPLC "HATEMAP" AGAINST ALL OPPOSITION TO THE LEFT

 

Liberty Counsel has joined the legal team in a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) regarding its “hate group” list and “Hate Map.”  Our lawsuit is the first of its kind against the SPLC where it recently survived a motion to dismiss, making it the first case against the group to go to discovery.  This has never happened before — until now.  The next step is the process of discovery to collect more evidence, hold depositions, and request documents from the SPLC about its false “hate” labels. SPLC’s “hate list” and “hate map” lump Christian and pro-family law-abiding organizations together with groups like the KKK and the Aryan Terror Brigade.  The SPLC designated our client, The Dustin Inman Society, as an “anti-immigrant hate group” in its annual Intelligence Report. Former Senior Fellow at the SPLC Mark Potok, who served as editor-in-chief of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report, spoke publicly and frankly on different occasions about the SPLC’s real purpose regarding hate group labeling saying,  “Our criteria for a ‘hate group,’ first of all, [has] nothing to do with criminality or violence. ... It's strictly ideological. ... I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.” (emphasis added) The SPLC “hate” label is false and dangerous, and Liberty Counsel is taking the SPLC to court. Read on about our latest case. But first, please consider making a generous donation to our legal fund. Every donation made today will be DOUBLED IN IMPACT by a special Challenge Grant. — Mat

Friend,

Sixteen-year-old Dustin Inman was killed instantly when a speeding car slammed into his family’s car while on their way to the North Georgia mountains for a Father’s Day fishing trip.  The driver of the other car was an illegal immigrant.  Now the nonprofit organization named in Dustin’s honor, which advocates for legal immigration, has been labeled a “hate group” by the SPLC. The SPLC “hate” label is false and dangerous. Stop the SPLC false “hate” label! The Inman family car was stopped at a traffic light when another car traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into it. Dustin died instantly, and the collision knocked both of his parents, Billy and Kathy, unconscious.  Kathy would spend five weeks in a coma before learning her only son had been killed, and that she would never again be able to use her legs. The driver of the car that shattered the Inman family was an illegal immigrant who, despite his status, had been granted a valid North Carolina driver’s license.  The illegal immigrant fled to Mexico and has never been brought to justice for killing Dustin or paralyzing Kathy. In 2005, the Dustin Inman Society (DIS) was formed by Donald “D.A.” King with Billy and Kathy’s blessing.  The organization was founded to “end illegal immigration, illegal employment, and the illegal administration and granting of Public Benefits and services through the equal application of existing laws” in the state of Georgia. The SPLC designated DIS as an “anti-immigrant hate group” in its annual Intelligence Report from 2018 to 2021, and classified it as a “hate group” on its “Hate Map” from 2019 to 2021.  The SPLC also stated that D.A. King “focuses on vilifying all immigrants.”  This label is false and the SPLC knows it. The SPLC has publicly stated its hate group label is not about hate or violence, but it is “strictly ideological.”  The SPLC’s motivation is to “destroy” groups with which it disagrees, and it accomplishes this objective by falsely labeling nonviolent organizations as “hate groups.”  This label is false and dangerous, and the SPLC and those who rely upon the false label must stop. Let me tell you why. Help us END the SPLC “Hate Maps.”

The SPLC’s false “hate group” label motivated Floyd Corkins to attempt mass murder in 2012 at the Washington, D.C., office of Family Research Council (FRC).  Corkins admitted to the FBI that he targeted the pro-family group because of its biblical stance on marriage and picked FRC based on the SPLC’s online hate listing.  Corkins went to the FRC with almost a hundred rounds of ammunition with the intent to gun down staffers and then to stuff Chick-fil-A sandwiches into the mouths of their corpses.  Thankfully, an alert security guard stopped Corkins, but not before Corkins shot the guard.  Corkins is now serving a 25-year federal sentence for domestic terrorism. In addition to Corkins, James Hodgkinson — the D.C. shooter who gunned down Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), two congressional staff members and two U.S. Capitol Police officers — "liked" the SPLC on Facebook.  In 2015, the SPLC published an article falsely inferring that Rep. Scalise was a white supremacist. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice sharply rebuked the SPLC for using its “hate group” label against groups with which it disagrees, calling it “unprofessional” and “uncivil.”  Despite the admonishment, since taking office, the Biden administration has had a number of meetings with the SPLC at the White House.  You can draw your own conclusions about their get-togethers. For far too long, the SPLC has been allowed to destroy people and organizations with its false “hate” label.  It’s time to hold the SPLC accountable, which is exactly what Liberty Counsel is doing. Last year, Liberty Counsel announced that we joined the legal team representing the Dustin Inman Society and its founder and president, D.A. King, in their claims against the SPLC.  We are now deep in the throes of discovery and the battle is intense. We have assembled a stellar legal team, which includes a nationally recognized defamation attorney who represented Nick Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, who attended the 2019 March for Life event in Washington, D.C., wearing a MAGA hat.  The defamation lawsuits against the Washington Post and CNN for $250 million and $275 million, respectively, were settled in 2020 for undisclosed amounts. An Alabama federal judge ruled against the SPLC’s motion to dismiss.  We are now working on extensive discovery of this organization that has inflicted harm on our client and so many others. We continue to fight in courtrooms across the country and at the U.S. Supreme Court for the right to life, religious liberty, and the natural family.  We won all four of the cases we argued or briefed before the High Court last year, and two cases so far this year … and we aren’t done winning yet! YOU can be part of the victorious blessing with your generous donation today, which will be DOUBLED IN IMPACT by a special Challenge Grant. Please, give generously today.

Mat Staver Founder and Chairman Liberty Counsel

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Source: “Liberty Counsel Represents Immigration Policy Group against SPLC.” Liberty Counsel, July 10, 2023. LC.org/newsroom/details/071023-liberty-counsel-represents-immigration-policy-group-against-splc.    “Mission Statement.” New Dustin Inman Society. Accessed July 10, 2023. Newdustininmansociety.org/mission-statment/.  “Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Group” Label is False Propaganda.” A Liberty Counsel Special Report. LC.org/southern-poverty-law-centers-hate-group-label-is-false-propaganda.  “Who Was Dustin Inman?” New Dustin Inman Society. Accessed July 10, 2023. Newdustininmansociety.org/who-was-dustin-inman/.

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