We’ve covered the defamation/conflation angle from a gun owner perspective many times at Gun Rights Examiner. TSC expands that to show how other groups that the SPLC agenda finds convenient are also smeared in order to advance their agenda and bring in the cash. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes there's pretty damn good money to be made exploiting hate.
Also see how the guy with taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards thinks you defending yourself is an affront to "the sanctity of life," and determine the type of ammunition that's best for flushing out stuffed bears.
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The Social Contract exposé is one of the best sources to document means, methods and agenda of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
ReplyDeleteIn 1994, SPLC founder Morris Dees vowed that he would stop all fund-raising when the bloated Endowment Fund hit the $100 million dollar mark, which it did by 2002.
And yet the fund-raising letters went out like clockwork.
In 2008, the Endowment Fund broke the $200 million dollar mark.
And yet the fund-raising letters went out like clockwork.
Last year the SPLC's total annual expenses came to $29 million dollars, $5.3 million of which went to fund-raising (compared with the measly $1.1 million that actually went to legal case costs).
Total donations exceeded $31 million and the Endowment Fund grew by $39 million in tax-free interest.
This means that the SPLC could have met all of its operations costs and STILL dump $10 million tax-free dollars into the Endowment Fund... without soliciting a single dime.
If you subtract the $5.3 million in fund-raising costs, which would no longer be necessary, the SPLC could have paid all the bills and still dumped $15 million into the bank.
For every $100 check some well-meaning, blue-haired old lady sends the SPLC, $40 dollars go toward salaries, $3.70 cents goes toward legal case costs...
and $19 dollars go toward getting Granny to cut the NEXT hundred dollar check.
The Bloated Endowment Fund
The most ironic (read: “hypocritical”) thing about the Southern Poverty Law Center is that NOT ONE of its top ten, highest paid executives is a minority.
SPLC:Whites Only
In fact, according to the SPLC’s hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King’s home church, the SPLC has NEVER hired a person of color to a highly paid position of power.
Some “experts”