The extremist, anti-white, anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center; who they hurt

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER BACKGROUND

· In 2002 the SPLC and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Alabama Supreme Court justice Roy Moore for authorizing a two-ton display of the Ten Commandments on public property.[56] Moore, late at night and without telling any other court justice, had installed a 5,280 pound (2400 kg) granite block, three feet wide by three feet deep by four feet tall, of the Ten Commandments. After defying several court rulings, Moore was eventually removed from the court, and the monument was removed as well.

· On March 18, 2003, two illegal aliens from El Salvador, Edwin Alfredo Mancía Gonzáles and Fátima del Socorro Leiva Medina, were trespassing through a Texas ranch owned by Joseph Sutton. They were accosted by vigilantes known as Ranch Rescue who were recruited by Sutton to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border region nearby. According to the SPLC, Gonzáles and Medina were held at gunpoint, and Gonzáles was struck on the back of the head with a handgun, and a rottweiler was allowed to attack him. The SPLC said Gonzáles and Medina were threatened with death and otherwise terrorized before being released. The El Salvadorans stated that the ranchers gave them water, cookies and a blanket before letting them go after about an hour. Ranch Rescuer Casey James Nethercott denied hitting either of the trespassers with a gun, and none of the vigilantes were convicted of pistol-whipping. In 2003, SPLC, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and local attorneys filed a civil suit, Leiva v. Ranch Rescue, in Jim Hogg County, Texas, against Ranch Rescue and several of its associates, seeking damages for assault and illegal detention. In April 2005, SPLC obtained judgments totaling $1 million against Nethercott and Torre John Foote, Ranch Rescue’s leader. Those awards came six months after a $350,000 judgment in the same case and coincided with a $100,000 out-of-court settlement with Sutton. Nethercott’s 70-acre Arizona property, which was Ranch Rescue’s headquarters, was seized to pay the judgment.

· The SPLC has spoken against Arizona SB 1070, the anti-illegal immigration measure passed by the State of Arizona in 2010, calling it “brazenly unconstitutional” and “a civil rights disaster.”

· The SPLC has collaborated with the US Department of Homeland Security to establish guidelines for combating extremism by such means as defining and inculcating terminology and partnership with community-based organizations such as churches, schools, and other civic organizations. Richard Cohen, president and CEO of the SPLC, was part of the Countering Violent Extremism Working Group for the Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2010.

SOURCE: MichaelSavage.com