So Did the SPLC Buy the Tiki-Torches for Charlottesville?
False-Flagging Southern Poverty Law Center Finally Busted
Joe Biden knowingly launched his 2020 presidential campaign on a hoax—”the very fine people” hoax—likely knowing that his hoax was based on a deeper hoax, one that the United States Department of Justice exposed on Wednesday.
The DOJ confirmed in a grand jury indictment what many people had suspected about the fund raising mill known as the Southern Poverty Law Center: “The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.”
And who paid for these guys?
The indictment continues: “In order to covertly pay its field sources, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities. The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the field sources. In order to keep the scheme going, the SPLC made a series of false statements related to the operation of the accounts.”
According to the DOJ, the SPLC funneled more than $3 million to its “field sources” between 2014 and 2023. The Charlottesville field source, F-37, was secretly paid more than $270,000, enough to buy some 30,000 tiki torches. Other sources served in even more nefarious enterprises. One, F-9, a fundraiser for the National Alliance, broke into the group’s headquarters, stole a box of documents, published an article about the contents, and had the SPLC pay another member $6,000 to take the blame.
A wholly owned SPLC subsidiary?
Another source served as the Imperial Wizard of a revitalized United Klans of America. Still another chaired the National Alliance. A third led the National Socialist Party of America. But no source did more to feed the paranoia that fueled the SPLC’s fund raising machinery than did Charlotteville’s F-37.
SPLC brass had to be popping corks at day’s end, August 12, 2017. The two days of chaos they helped spawn culminated with the murder by auto of a leftist female. And the Charlottesville gift just kept on giving. In the days following the event the media and the Democrats happily twisted every word President Trump said, leaving the impression he called the neo-Nazis and white nationalists involved in that day’s dustup “very fine people.”
For the next two years, Democrats repeated this lie, no one more often or more passionately than Joe Biden. To sell the lie, Biden routinely ignored Trump’s earlier comment, “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists. They should be condemned totally.” With the media refusing to fact check, Biden launched his presidential campaign on the tailwinds from this lie. In April 2019, after showing a stunningly dishonest video about Charlottesville, Biden excoriated Trump for his imagined racist sympathies.
The fulminator-in-chief
“It was there on August of 2017 we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism,” Biden fulminated. “And that’s when we heard the words from the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation. He said there were ‘some very fine people on both sides.’ Very fine people on both sides!”
No major candidate, not even George Wallace, has ever begun a presidential campaign with a more divisive and slanderous opening gambit than did Biden. Claiming that Trump’s racism motivated him to run Biden insisted, “We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.”
On the third anniversary of Charlottesville in August 2020, Biden repeated the claim that the moment he heard Trump say there were “very fine people on both sides” was “the moment I knew I would have to run.” This, of course, was another lie. During several interviews about his presidential ambitions before he announced in April 2019, Biden never mentioned Charlottesville.
Milwaukee 2024, where the “very fine people lie” went to die
Once Biden was safely in the White House, the media began to back away from the “very fine people” hoax, but the Democrats believed it still had punch enough to sway black voters. So in the final weekend of the 2024 campaign, Barack Obama was dispatched to Milwaukee to squeeze out the lie’s last juice.
There, Obama recycled a series of fabrications that had been slam-debunked, even by fact checkers on his own side. Among his many sins against common decency, said Obama, Trump had suggested that “any Mexican crossing the border is a criminal and a rapist.” Trump had also “instituted a so-called Muslim ban.” If that were not enough, Trump had “said that there were ‘very fine people on both sides’ of a white supremist (sic) rally.”
From the jump, the SPLC had, as its mission, the creation of racial anxiety to scare people into giving it money. For the last generation or so, the Democratic Party has had the exact same mission.
PBS and NPR have always held the SPLC in high regard; reporting their news releases as established facts.
It will be interesting to see how they spin this one.
I have been passionate about social and racial justice my whole life. For that reason, I used to admire Morris Dees and the work the SPLC did. In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s they did genuinely admirable work to fight hate in this country. But around the 2010s my opinion on Mr. Dees and the organization changed as I saw how they had morphed from an organization genuinely committed to combating hate in this country into yet another arm of the race grievance industry. When this story came out I was not the least bit surprised. Somewhere along the way, idealism had given way to greed. The SPLC had a problem, racism was fading and not what it had been back in the 20th Century when they got started. They needed a way to keep their jobs and continue to line their pockets. So they funneled money to actual hate groups to drum up fear so donors consumed by white guilt will cough up their cash to them. They’ve smeared so many respectable people and groups. They lied about Charles Murray, Ayaan Hirshi Ali, Maajid Nawaz, and historian David Irving among others.
They also put groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy which are no longer racial segregated or dedicated to spreading the Lost Cause, which are all about history and heritage and forbid members of actual hate groups to join by the way, in with reprehensible groups like the KKK, the National Socialist Party of America and the Nation of Islam. They made a killing off fear mongering about a greatly exaggerated racism in this country. The Democratic Party however, does the same thing pretty much. President Biden lied and lied again about Trump but his worse lie was that Trump called Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people.”
Of course, he failed to mention that Trump before he said that explicitly condemned white supremacy and he said that in the context of the debate on Confederate statues. Barack Obama dutifully repeated that lie as well. He also told several other bald faced lies about Trump. Trump did NOT say Mexicans coming across the border were drug dealers and rapists. He said SOME of those coming across the border illegally were drug dealers and rapists. Also, Trump did not do a Muslim ban. He did a suspension of travel from certain Muslim-majority countries where terrorism was prevalent. You’ll note the two countries not included in the ban Indonesia and Egypt, are the two countries with the largest Muslim populations in the world.