Indictment Exposes Corrupt Motives of Southern Poverty Lie Center
There's more than one layer to the 11-count indictment for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering that a federal grand jury issued Tuesday against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Underneath the political drama lies a simpler, more biblical interpretation to unearth. In essence, the SPLC lies, and it has used its lies to enrich itself at the expense of both innocent third parties and the country as a whole.
Political thespians will choose to read the situation in terms of political drama alone. Here is yet another episode in the second Trump administration's campaign of political retribution. The twist is, this time the Trump administration's target is an unsympathetic adversary who richly deserves every spoonful of calumny heaped upon it. Let the spigots' unsolicited opinions spew forth!
If we only manage to hold our heads above the torrent of outrage sloshing odorously through the airwaves, then we shall be so much filthier but none the wiser. Let us then salvage what facts we can and extricate them from the flood of political opinion, that we may better examine them in the purer light of God's Word.
"The story here is that the SPLC, which bills itself as an organization aimed at rooting out racism, was actually secretly bankrolling major figures in racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the National Socialist (i.e., Nazi) Party of America, and a member of the leadership group that planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va.," National Review's Dan McLaughlin summarized concisely.
"The indictment details just shy of $2 million in transfers to those figures over the past twelve years," McLaughlin added. "Given the small and marginal nature of these groups, the obvious conclusion is that the SPLC found that demand for racism outstripped the supply, so it had to spread cash around to keep talking up these fringe groups." Furthermore, "this wasn't just a matter of paying the small fish in these groups to rat out the big ones. The SPLC was allegedly bankrolling the leaders."
Thus, while the SPLC was "holding itself out to be promoting justice," said Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh on "This Week on Capitol Hill," "what they were really doing was deceiving the American people, deceiving their donors, and deceiving financial institutions, all to promote & fake racism throughout the country."