Prosecutors charge Heidi Beirich with financial crimes as part of case against the Southern Poverty Law Center
The justice department charged the SPLC in April over a now-ended program in which it paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist groups.
The government said the civil rights organization committed financial crimes by laundering money through bank accounts set up on behalf of fictitious entities to protect the identities of their informants. The government says the SPLC deceived donors into thinking they were combatting extremism, when they were actually supporting it.
The organization has strongly denied that accusation and says the charges are politically motivated. Experts have raised questions about the charges.
Seems like they are going to throw false accusations of money laundering like they did With that pro-palestinian activist in Spain.
Ohh, an expert about the far right, not an expert who’s part of the far right. Took me too long to parse that headline
Probably intentional
As usual, Wonkette does a great job of contextualizing this.
The conservatives have been butthurt about SPLC doing damage to one of their favorite orgs, the KKK.
Could’ve used a few more "illegitimate"s. No, I’m serious. Once you start calling things this admin does illegitimate, where do you stop?
The SPLC is the organizational equivalent of Fauci when it comes to one of the many obsessions of the unhinged RWAs. They’ve been extremely upset that such an organization even exists to watch and catalog all of their movement’s activities.
They’ll use any excuse whatsoever to try to take them down.
You all do know that this shit will continue and escalate until there is some serious, serious pushback.
The SPLC is one of America’s greatest moral institutions, and something the legal profession should be proud of. Trying to destroy it speaks volumes. On payday I will give them money.
Don’t forget that the cons had it in for ACORN and due to their lying, underhanded ways, they were pretty effective in destroying it.
I just set up a recurring donation and got my employer to match.
Fuck Trump and the white supremacist magats.
Me too!
The SPLC should’ve ran their ops to the north, now they are dealing with some shitholy TN fed judge.
The SPLC should’ve ran
*run
Many regional dialects use the past-tense form as a participle, so your correction may be incorrect.
The administration 100% serious when they say “antifa” is a threat to them. Anti-fascism is dangerous to their plans for obvious reasons.
It’s so obvious. But people cannot see the forest for too many trees anymore.
Nazi strategy. Spurious reasons to lock people up and quiet any dissent.
The easiest way to know that those accusations are not true, is that the case would not have been persued by the justice dep, if the SPLC really wanted to fraudulently use donations for supporting Nazis.
This won’t go far.
A.) They’d have to identify these white supremacist entities as actually being dangerous extremists, and won’t do that because their most racist supporters would revolt, shaving off more votes.
B.) They’d have to show that it’s illegal to use paid sources for investigation; it’s not & it’s something the FBI does on the regular.
EDIT: I love that you downvoting MAGA pukes are too afraid to actually post here. 🤣🤣🤣
It doesnt have to go far. This is the same play as the Broadview 6, Comey, and the refelecging pool guy. The charges are the point because yes, she probably has the means to defend against this but it is going to send a chilling affect across other people/organizations that may not have the same resources.
It should be obvious by now that the ‘chilling effect’ thing isn’t working out for them. They are just making us madder and more determined. Every single protest I’ve been to has been larger than the previous one & It’s cost the pedo GOP nearly every special election since 2024.
You’re assuming these people are smart. The thing is I’m pretty sure they are basically incapable of deviating from whatever plans or strategies they cooked up ages ago so now they just double down till it either fails or works. Pretty sure that’s what happened with Iran for example, it was probably an old plan that had been sitting around for decades that maybe could’ve worked then but was left shelved until it became worthless, kinda like the Schlieffen plan during WW1.
Also I just realized your profile pic is the Neverwinter Nights logo.
Also I just realized your profile pic is the Neverwinter Nights logo.
Yes it is, addicted to modding it. Do you play?
Used to a couple years ago, but my current poison is Rimworld and CK3 the mod AtE. Also it’s mostly not my cup of tea will usually choose to play Fallout or more modern CRPGs unless I’m already burnt out on those but still in a CRPG kick.
Yeah this admin is deathly afraid of discovery.
They don’t have to say they are dangerous. In fact, if their tongues don’t cut themselves loose and jump out of their mouths on their own, they can claim that the groups are innocent patriotic social organizations targeted by the evil antifa terrorists.
Well, if that is their argument then no laws were broken. Try again.
You’re making the bold assumption that the law works, which is a pillar that isn’t as reliable as it used to be. You’re likely right, but I don’t think that’s an immediate foregone conclusion
If you read the Dworkin Report, you’d know the judiciary smacks this regime down literally every single day.
