Already, the FBI has dumped the agenda, influence and ideology of the Southern Poverty Law Center, that leftist organization that made a reputation for fighting the KKK back in the day, but now has turned into nothing more than a “partisan smear machine.”
And now there’s a petition urging the Department of Justice to treat the leftist activists who routinely describe ordinary Christian organizations across the nation as “hate” organizations the same way.
It was FBI Director Kash Patel who just days ago said the bureau has severed all ties to the SPLC.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” Patel told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.”
The SPLC’s hate map even has triggered a terrorist attack on a Christian group.
Now, a report in the Washington Stand confirms a petition organized by the Family Research Council is urging the DOJ to take the same path.
The FRC organized a petition backed by more than 30,000 signers that is urging a “complete purge” of SPLC influence from the federal government.
The petition was handed to the DOJ on Friday.
It indicted the SPLC as a “partisan smear machine” that unfairly and inaccurately has “vilified faith-driven groups like FRC, fostering national discord and, tragically, violence.”
“We need the entire Department of Justice and the rest of the federal government to sever ties with them too,” the FRC explained.
The use of the SPLC hate agenda as a trigger for violence dates to 2012, when, according to the report, “Floyd Corkins II scoured the online resource for targets, zeroing in on FRC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. Armed with a 9mm handgun and a cache of 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, Corkins entered the building intent on carnage.”
The report said, “FRC building manager Leo Johnson heroically subdued the attacker, sustaining a gunshot wound in the process and preventing further tragedy. Corkins later confessed he planned to stuff the sandwiches into the faces of those he killed as a symbolic protest against the chain’s support for traditional marriage values. And yet, the SPLC’s designations persist.”
The SPLC now even has claimed the ADF and Focus on the Family are part of America’s “hate.”
“The SPLC also listed Turning Point USA on their ‘hate and extremism’ report — the organization founded by the recently assassinated Christian and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk,” the report said.
The report noted the SPLC has a “long history” of influence operations on FBI training materials and such.
Despite its name, the SPLC has an endowment of more than $700 million, compensates its leaders handsomely, and possesses more than $30 million in offshore accounts, according to IRS filings.
‘Disgraceful record’: Kash Patel’s FBI cuts all ties to Southern Poverty Law Center