Did you know that informing Americans about the often bitter truth about their nation and the world constitutes “hate”? Neither did we. But the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center sees itself fit to list 512 American patriot groups in a special issue of its quarterly Intelligence Report and characterize them as “hate” groups—even while admitting, “[The] listing here does not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist,” as the report states.
If these groups are not criminally inclined, then what’s the problem? The problem from the SPLC’s viewpoint is that many of these groups, whatever their imperfections, communicate pertinent information to a population that is increasingly indifferent to, or distrustful of, big media, misplaced or abused government authority and the rogue corporate structure.
Of course, not every group that made “the list” is always accurate in its views, nor does freedom of speech mean you must be accurate, nor does it exclude those who may say stupid things. It’s not illegal to be eccentric, nor is it against the law to be angry or upset at what’s going on. Most people are. Deal with it.
Corporate structure has colluded with government to impoverish the average person and bail out corporate titans to the tune of billions. Everybody knows this, except, it seems, the SPLC, which wants to tell Americans and law enforcement officials to distrust these citizen groups while those in the corporate world rob our nation and close down our industry.
