... On a perhaps related note, the Southern Poverty Law Center (more on them at that link or here) has at least one indirect link to the Mexican government. From the AP:
A civil rights group sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Wednesday, claiming its agents had harassed five U.S. citizens of Mexican descent during raids targeting illegal immigrants in southeast Georgia... The...
... that:
But some, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, have voiced concerns about the searches.
And, as with the AP article, the news that the illegal aliens had lowered local wages and taken jobs from legal workers is hidden at the end of the piece:
Now the plant is paying a dollar more an hour than before the raid, to draw new workers from neighboring counties. "With the illegals gone,...
These Free Republic threads have at least two things in common:
freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709042/posts
freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709051/posts
freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709076/posts
freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709036/posts
The first commonality is that they're all in FR's "f-chat" section, which, as it sounds, is for "chatty" things rather than the supposedly hard news section...
The latest in a long line of Democratic Party smears is an anti-Randy Graf site at tooextremeforaz.org (that page is actually a frame coming from www.azdem.org/tooextremeforaz). At the bottom, it says it's paid for by the Arizona Democratic Party, but considering the pro-illegal immigration contents it could have been paid for by the GOP.
... Rights Project (McAllen, TX)
Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL)
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Derechos Humanos is working with the Mexican government. So is the CHRCL. So, MALDEF, the ACLU and the SPLC are associated with at least two groups openly working with the Mexican government.
[See the first update for more]
Tim Molloy of the AP offers a roundup of the recent protest by illegal aliens who are demanding rights to which they aren't entitled in the falsely-titled "Immigration Rallies Draw Thousands Nationwide". It contains the following:
Teodoro Maus, an organizer of the Georgia protest, estimated as many as 80,000 Hispanics did not show up for work.
Molloy or his...
... of Religion.
- Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center
Please write CSM senior editor Richard Bergenheim and let him know the CSM has lost several credibility points because of this article.
The AP offers the biased report "Vigilante Anti-Immigration Group Gaining" about the Minuteman Project. A search shows that that's the original AP title, and not the one from Yahoo.
This article is extremely shocking:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A black Tennessee lawmaker lamenting his exclusion from the state's White Legislative Caucus claimed Tuesday the group was less accommodating that even the Nation of Islam.
"My understanding is that the NoI doesn't even ban members by race," said Rep.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has responded to a post from her about the Ranch Rescue controversy. You really need to read their reply to believe it.
...then why did the NBC Nightly News mostly concentrate on "right-wing" terrorism? In a story broadcast tonight on domestic terrorism because of the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing, they discussed both left and right wing domestic terrorism. (Similar story here; the one I saw is from a different "reporter" and is currently video-only). In fact, they even broadcast that left-wing terrorism is...
... suspects:
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
Businesses:
VLASIC PICKLE GROWERS (OH)
U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
U.S. HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BIRDS EYE FOODS
DEERE & COMPANY
TYSON FOODS INC.
COBANK
FIRST PIONEER FARM CREDIT
MONROVIA GROWERS (CA, OR, GA, NC)
YANKEE FARM CREDIT
HARRY SINGH & SONS (CA)
John Harris Farms Inc (CA)
LASSEN CANYON NURSERY, INC. (CA)...
... relating to Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center:
"(Name redacted) telephone call from (name redacted) on or about 4/17/95, two days prior to the OKBOMB attack, when (name redacted) of the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound at (redacted), Oklahoma, notes the director."
The Daily Gazette reports, "References to an informant working for the SPLC at Eloh