Donald Trump To Speak At Hate Group's Annual Event, A First For A President

SPC Randy Semanko - Randy, you will notice the down vote but not a single post to support it or to answer or challenge with a single fact any of the posts I made on the topic. Typical and expected.

Cpl Jeff N. your reply is typical and expected. To think that anything about this article is actually unbiased means you need more critical thinking training. I challenge all of you to quit reading these articles as personal attacks on you and to actually see that it’s the news media attacking all of us... your neighbor who you love and know as a good person may think differently than you on an issue, but if you only look at what the news media says about his belief, he’s a racist or a member of antifa... come on! You all know better than that. Stop being lemmings!

Col (Join to see) - What are you even saying? The SPLC has been exposed for what it is. The Family Research Council is not a hate group this is balderdash plain and simple. I think you are actually agreeing with me but acting as though you do not. The article is BS, this is the media attempting to manipulate people with poorly written stories that have an agenda behind them.

Cpl Jeff N.

1LT Sandy Annala - What do you consider government benefits if they are not property? It is a bit ironic that there is both case law and written law that makes government benefits 'property.' In most jurisdictions, compensation is considered property no matter the form.

SSG Robert Webster - I chose her character - the subject of the song - not the actress singing the song. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

1LT Sandy Annala - In that case you could have used Laurie Beechman's version, if it is the song and character that you care about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_iE2C0ZOc

SSG Robert Webster - This is a most beautiful rendering. I never saw her perform. I am so sorry she passed away. Warmest Regards, Alex :)

The SLPC is a joke!

Yet much like CAIR, certain segments of our society take what they say as gospel.

LT Brad McInnis - And that could be why other hate groups, are not on their Hatewatch list.
But then again - "[Morris] Dees' [(a founder of the SPLC)] critics have included the Montgomery Advertiser, which has portrayed his work with the SPLC as self-promotional, contending that Dees exaggerates the threat of hate groups. A 2000 article by Ken Silverstein in Harper's Magazine alleged that Dees kept the SPLC focused on fighting anti-minority groups like the KKK, instead of focusing on issues like homelessness, mostly because of the greater fundraising potential of the former. The article also claimed that the SPLC "spends twice as much on fund-raising – $5.76 million last year – as it does on legal services for victims of civil rights abuses." Stephen Bright, an Atlanta-based civil rights attorney and president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, wrote in 2007 that Dees was "a con man and fraud", who "has taken advantage of naive, well-meaning people – some of moderate or low incomes – who believe his pitches and give to his $175-million operation." These comments were made after a controversy pitting Dees against much of the Civil Rights community in his support of the nomination of Edward E. Carnes to be a Federal appeals court judge. Carnes was a well known proponent of the death penalty."

"In 1994 the Montgomery Advertiser published an eight-part critical report on the SPLC, saying that it exaggerated the threat posed by the Klan and similar groups in order to raise money, discriminated against black employees, and used misleading fundraising tactics. The SPLC dismissed the series as a "hatchet job". SPLC's co-founder Joe Levin stated: "The Advertiser's lack of interest in the center's programs and its obsessive interest in the center's financial affairs and Mr. Dees' personal life makes it obvious to me that the Advertiser simply wants to smear the center and Mr. Dees." The series was nominated for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism. Despite an SPLC campaign against the nomination the series was one of three finalists.
Starting in the 1990s, Ken Silverstein writing in Harper's Magazine and others were critical of the SPLC's fundraising appeals and finances, alleging that the group has used hyperbole and overstated the prevalence of hate groups to raise large amounts of money.
Based on 2015 figures, Charity Navigator rated the SPLC three out of four stars – 80.44 on financial health matters, 97.00 on accountability and transparency, and 86.00 (out of 100) overall; and GuideStar gives the SPLC a Gold-level rating."