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1. FBI Dumps Southern Poverty Law Center As Hate Crimes Resource
   Breitbart | 03-26-2014 | Austin Ruse

   Christian groups are celebrating with the news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have scrubbed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) from its hate crimes webpage, where the controversial group was listed as a resource and referred to as a partner in public outreach.

   A letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, drafted by Lieutenant General (Ret.) William G. Boykin, Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council (FRC), calls such an association “completely unacceptable.”

   Signed by fourteen other conservative and Christian leaders, the letter calls SPLC “a heavily politicized organization producing inaccurate and biased data on ‘hate groups’ – not hate crimes.” It accuses the SPLC of “providing findings that are not consistent with trends found in the FBI statistics.” Where the FBI has found hate crimes and hate groups declining significantly in the past ten years, SPLC claims hate groups have increased 67.3% since 2000. Where once SPLC’s hate list was reserved for groups like the Aryan Nation and the KKK, in 2010 SPLC started citing as hate groups those Christian groups that oppose same-sex marriage or believe homosexuality is not inborn, or are otherwise critical of homosexuality. Among the Christian groups targeted by SPLC was FRC.

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   Domestic Terrorist Says He Targeted FRC After Finding It on Southern Poverty Law Center Website
   CNSNews | April 25, 2013 | Fred Lucas

   Domestic terrorist Floyd Corkins told the FBI that he found the Family Research Council as a target because they were listed online as an “anti-gay” group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

   Corkins walked into the FRC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters last Aug. 15, carrying a pistol, 100 rounds of ammunition and knapsack filled with 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He later admitted that he intended “to kill people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face.”

   He was stopped by FRC buildings operations manager Leo Johnson.

   The FRC has now released a video that includes footage from a surveillance camera that shows Johnson heroically stopping the would-be mass murderer.

   The video also shows part of an FBI interrogation of Corkins in which Corkins admits that he found the FRC as a target because it was listed by the SPLC.

   On the video, an FBI agent asks Corkins: “How did you … this building, this organization. Did you, how did you find it earlier? Did you like look it up online?”

   Corkins answers: “It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law lists, uh, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website. Stuff like that.”

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   Southern Poverty Law Center Places Dr. Ben Carson on Its Extremist Watch List
   Americanthinker.com | 2-9-2015 | Thomas Lifson

   The Southern Poverty Law Center has descended to the level of self-parody (though it has a lot of company on the left) with its posting of Dr. Ben Carson on its “extremist files” list. Dr. Carson, a world-renowned brain surgeon, has served as inspiration for generations of African-Americans, and was portrayed on screen by Cuba Gooding in the movie version of his autobiography Gifted Hands.

   But to SPLC, desperate to find targets and keep the donations coming in to support the lavish salaries of its executives, apparently no convoluted reasoning is too bizarre.

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   Apparently, criticizing President Obama qualifies you as an extremist, in the SPLC’s eyes. Or maybe it is opposing the redefinition of marriage that is the trigger.

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