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The Patriot Post Digest 6-30-2017
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Meanwhile, since there isn’t much need to sue the KKK out of existence these days, the SPLC has turned its attention to advocacy, as in trying to define itself as the sole arbiter of what defines a “hate group.” One recent case in point: The GuideStar directory of charities ran into controversy31 when it adopted the SPLC’s definition of “hate group” and applied it to legitimate organizations such as those opposing same-sex “marriage”32 or otherwise promoting Bible-based Christian beliefs. “The ‘hate group’ list is nothing more than a political weapon targeting people it deems to be its political enemies,” states a letter to GuideStar33 that was signed by more than 40 people, many affiliated with these organizations or otherwise sympathetic to their views.
In fact, the conservative Liberty Counsel is suing34. Its founder and chairman, Mat Staver, said, “We want to stop the lies because this kind of reporting is defamatory, it’s reckless, and it’s dangerous.”
One of the supposed “hate groups” is the Family Research Council, which has its own history35 with the SPLC. In 2012, a deranged man, Floyd Corkins, walked into the lobby of the FRC offices and began shooting, wounding a security guard before being subdued. (A year later, Corkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the shooting.) Corkins later told police his attack was a protest against the FRC’s pro-traditional marriage stance, and he was inspired in part by the SPLC’s labeling of the Family Research Council as a “hate group.”
Behind the imposing, nearly prison-like façade of its six-story headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama, the SPLC has more than 200 employees tasked mainly with a relentless study and definition of right-of-center organizations as purveyors of hatred36 merely for their stance on issues like immigration, religious freedom, social issues, and the welfare state. In its “Extremist Files,” the SPLC does have a handful of fringe leftist exceptions such as the Nation of Islam and a few black nationalists to provide a fig leaf of cover for themselves, but the SPLC seems to believe the hate comes almost exclusively from the intolerant Right — so much so that even the Obama administration backed away37 from using it as a resource.
Yet that mindset has moved into overdrive since the election of Donald Trump. It was made even worse when Trump appointed Alabama’s own Jeff Sessions as attorney general, a move Dees called38 “probably the worst mistake Trump could have made for the United States of America.”
There’s no question leftists are reeling from the 2016 election: The SPLC board was so confident Hillary Clinton had it in the bag that they were game-planning their next four years shilling for her when they met on the eve of the November election. They couldn’t envision a Trump administration, even if 63 million Americans could.
What the SPLC board lacked in vision, though, will more than likely be made up for with ruthless ambition. Once again, with the Right currently controlling all three branches of government, the SPLC will make Donald Trump a fundraising bogeyman. Maybe that wasn’t in the original plan 46 years ago, but the SPLC must now feed the beast of the intolerant Left. Indeed, it’s much more lucrative to build up those feelings of hatred before asking for that donation.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Do Twitter Tantrums Matter?5 — Do the words of the president of the United States matter? To ask is to answer.
VidAngel vs. Hollywood39 — There’s a service that helps edit movies and shows for explicit content. Guess who’s fought to make sure the smut stays?
Canadian Supreme Court Imposes Its ‘Authority’ Over the Internet40 — Canada orders Google to comply with its ruling world-wide. That isn’t exactly going to work.
Sweden’s Prosperity for Islamists41 — The Swedish government shows generosity to those they assume are former terrorists. What could possibly go wrong?
What Is Fake News?42 — Andrew Klavan for Prager University explains why various Leftmedia outlets produce almost nothing but fake news.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Tony Perkins: Defense Debate: Trans, Plans, and Auto-Repeals43
David Harsanyi: Masterpiece Cakeshop Is Fighting for the First Amendment, Not Against Gay Marriage44
Hans von Spakovsky: Don’t Be Fooled, the Supreme Court Handed the President a Big Victory45
For more, visit Right Opinion46.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Tony Perkins: “In a new paper, Peter Sprigg estimates (based on the Left’s own assumptions!) that opening the [military] doors to people who identify as transgender will cost a whopping $3.7 billion over the next 10 years for medical costs and lost deployment time. … With the price tag of $89,050 for female-to-male procedures and $110,450 for male-to-female procedures, taxpayers would be forking over hundreds of millions of dollars a year for people who are just using the military as their free ticket to elective surgery! And that’s just the surgery — not the cost of hormone treatment and counseling, which can run in the thousands per person. To put it in perspective, over the next ten years America would be spending roughly half of its annual ballistic defense budget on elective sexual reassignment surgery! While our troops are literally scavenging museums for jet parts, which would you rather pay for: hundreds of gender transitions or 22 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Planes? Obama’s extreme transgender agenda or 3,700 tomahawk missiles? Political correctness run amok or half of our annual cyber defense budget? I’m sure ISIS will sleep better at night knowing that we sacrificed 116 Chinook helicopters so that our troops could get radical makeovers.”
SHORT CUTS
Upright: “A conservative can fight for tax reform, celebrate military victories over ISIS in Mosul, and applaud Trump’s judicial appointments while also condemning Trump’s vile tweets and criticizing his impulsiveness and lack of discipline. A good conservative can even step back and take a longer view, resolving to fight for the cultural values that tribalism degrades. Presidents matter not just because of their policies but also because of their impact on the character of the people they govern. Conservatives knew that once. Do they still?” —David French
Observations: “We should all be concerned that the president seems very distracted by his war on the American press at a time North Korea, Russia, China, Iran, ISIS and more seem emboldened. But let us not pretend that the current hostility towards the American press is undeserved. People have finally had enough of the media’s liberal biases. The media’s response is to whine, play victim and engage in the same whataboutism and tit for tat they decry others engaging in.” —Erick Erickson
For the record: “It’s not fair to a working-class person who’s struggling to put food on the table for the federal government to double their premiums trying to work an indirect subsidy for others who are ill. Far better to have it through direct tax revenue.” —Ted Cruz
Alpha Jackass: “You find out in all these investigations that Jared [Kushner] was opening up a tunnel to Moscow so he wouldn’t have to deal with the State Department. So the son-in-law — you know, one good thing Mussolini did was execute his son-in-law.” —Chris Matthews
Late-night humor: “According to new research, a press-on patch for the flu vaccine works just as well as the flu shot. You just remove the adhesive backing and place it firmly over your co-worker’s mouth.” —Seth Meyers
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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