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Why Did the Southern Poverty Law Center Include Occupy-Related Terrorists Under ‘Radical Right’ Header?

Sep. 11, 2012 11:46am Erica Ritz

Southern Poverty Law Center Classifies Occupy Linked Ohio Bridge Bomb Suspects as Radical Right

(Photo via ABC News)

On “May Day” of 2012, when the “Occupy” movement and its various offshoots took to the streets to protest corporate greed and capitalism, five men took the protests to another level and plotted to bomb an Ohio bridge.

Two of the suspects listed “Occupy Cleveland” as their employer on their Facebook pages, and according to U.S. District Court records, federal authorities got wind of the plot after infiltrating Occupy Wall Street.

Not only that, but one of the suspects, Anthony Hayne, actually signed the lease for the Occupy Cleveland warehouse.

Why, then, is the well-known Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit civil rights organization, linking the suspects as a part of the “radical right”?

Here is a screen shot from the organization’s “Hatewatch” page, which says “keeping an eye on the radical right”:

(Photo: Southern Poverty Law Center)

The SPLC does not give a clear analysis of why the men are considered right-wing in its article, though it does note the Occupy connections.

The connections, however, are largely downplayed, and the suspects are described as members of the “Revolutionary People’s Party,” which they allegedly formed after growing disillusioned with the movement that started in Zucotti Park.

But either way– is the “Revolutionary People’s Party” any more right-wing than Occupy?

The American Thinker speculates that “Occupy” and all of its violent offshoots have become a headache for the left, and now the Southern Poverty Law Center has found a solution:

The movement, which received favorable comments from the commanding heights of the American left — President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the New York Times, and MSNBC — has now shown itself to include very violent elements, including actual terrorists…

Perhaps drawing inspiration from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who can lie with an utterly straight face about reality…the Southern Poverty Law Center has stepped in to solve the problem for the left. Re-define the Occupy movement as “radical right.”

This is not the first time the Southern Poverty Law Center has inexplicably labeled an individual as part of the “radical right.” Somehow, historian David Barton, the Ku Klux Klan, the Family Research Council, and Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz have all been considered right-wing by the nonprofit civil rights organization.

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barber2
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:55pm
This is all part of the Alinsky trained Radical Left: they target. They isolate. And they lie like rugs. The entire Occupy Movement is an international LEFT wing, anti-capitalism movement. Like Obama’s good buddy Bill Ayers, they hate capitalism . They have allies with the international anarchists and the Black Bloc types. Obama shares their anti-capitalism and their international focus. Guess this is just more of the Obama Administration’s masking of what they really stand for ! The fact that the OWS found havens in Democrat controlled American cities should tell people that they are allied. Unfortunately, too many of the Democrats are too busy watching American Idol and Honey Boo Boo to take the time to WAKE UP to what is going on with the Masked Showtime in the current White House. Their base is dumb and/ or naive.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:42pm
  Why Did the Southern Poverty Law Center Include Occupy-Related Terrorists Under ‘Radical Right’ Header?
  
  Because, like Alinsky, it’s a Jewish led organization. When you’re a minority, you must divide the majority into as many small pieces as possible in order to be relevant, and to push your desire for kibutz-ism/commune-ism.
  
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- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:18pm
  Way to go with the Jew angle, Jerky. Stellar. Go to ancestry.com and weep. You prolly have black and Jew in the blue blood you purport to have. Manson is a backer of the swastika between the eye brows-where do you favor the placement?
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Why did they do it? Simple. Propaganda.
  
  The SPLC is a “chosen people” ran communistic organization. How they have any authority is beyond me. They are a private organization with the power of a branch of government. Maybe they are so powerful because they are ran by “chosen people.” You know, “chosen people” that all these Blazers worship on this site. They are so ignorant they don’t realize that these very same “chosen people” that you love are the same people that fight you on everything. They are the same people behind political correctness, Bolshevism, Marxism, SPLC, Marxist Media, George Soros, etc. and all the other leftist things they have their greedy little fingers in.
  
  I have no love for those “chosen people” until they stop fighting conservatives and the Constitution. These “chosen people” are enemies to the Republic.
  
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vox_populi
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:55pm
Aren’t you guys the ones always saying anarchism is on the far-right of the political spectrum?

Do you get why that’s stupid now?

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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:00pm
  please provide the evidence for that POXIE..thanks champ.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:06pm
  VOX: I never saw anyone say that anarchists are Far Right . Unless maybe one of you Trolls threw that in for a typical Lefty Alinsky lie. Anarchism is Far Left.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:08pm
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvI8Am7dgrs
  
  Ta-da!
  
  Too easy.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:21pm
  VOX, Its all based on a graph developed by the ancient Greeks as they assessed their version of a democracy. The left end of that graph is totatalinarism, with everything run by a form of government, while at the farthest right end is no government, which is pure anarchy. Our form of government was developed to fit roughly just to the right of the center of that graph. Nothing absurd about it at all. You just have to know one end from the otherf. You might also want to take a look at this video I keep posting here that will explain a portion based on that graph, but really tells the story of American government.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:23pm
  VOX, Oops, guess that you just shot yourself in the foot, from that last post.
  
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- Shiroi Raion
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:36pm
  That is incorrect. The Right is small government, not no government. No government is anarchy and the anarchists are revolutionary nuts that joined the Occupy crazies.
  The linear graph is not Left versus Right. It’s Progressive versus Libertarian. The anarchist and the Communists (complete opposites) banded together because both groups knew their ideas would lead to revolution. I remember watching that and that video was purposefully edited to mislead viewers. The Right are not people that want to destroy America, they want to restore it. The Left wants to destroy it. Glenn explained this on a different episode.
  If you listen, you won’t hear Glenn mention Left vs Right, but Progressive vs Libertarian. There are Progressive Republicans (RINO’s) and there are Libertarian Democrats – mostly Ron Paul fans.
  That is not a Left vs Right linear graph.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:38pm
  “I never saw anyone say that anarchists are Far Right.”
  
  Let me introduce you to RJJINGADSDEN!
  
  “Its all based on a graph developed by the ancient Greeks as they assessed their version of a democracy.”
  
  No, it’s based on nonsense and is such an oversimplification as to be useless in political science.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:58pm
  Who says we like anarchy? Anarchy is a back door method to achieving tyranny.
  
  In an anarchy, people are scared. People want some big, powerful force to protect them; government.
  
  And so it’s up to ‘big brother’ to restore order. Great!
  
  Wait, why aren’t you shedding those “emergency powers” you authorized, Mr. Leader? …..Oh crap.
  
  When people are scared, they don’t care whose umbrella they run under.
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:45pm
  @VOX_POOPI
  
  Hey, stupid, anarchism is the absence of government, not the absence of morality–or self-control. Pull your head out of your a$$!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:49pm
  LOL…seriously POXIE? That’s your evidence? Good luck pushing that one champ.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:55pm
  POXIE..seriously…you’re trying push the idea that conservatives believe anarchists are on the far right of the political spectrum? After watching the Black Bloc do their thing with OWS? After countless G (insert number here) summits where the usual menagerie of dreadlocked, birkenstocked lefty useful idiots throw cinder blocks through bank windows..ad nauseum…you’re trying to push the idea that conservatives believe anarchist are to the right? Do you understand that limited government intrusion in our lives and NO government are two different things entirely? Does this really have to be dumbed down for you little guy?
  
  Perhaps you need a less potent dose of that medical marijuana you’ve been smoking?
  
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- Durruti
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:40pm
  I don’t know why I am doing this due to the people that post on this site being generally out of their minds but guess what. I am an actual anarchist, in the anarchist movement. Really, I generally troll this site but I am going to drop some knowledge for you folks.
  
  Yes, it is silly that the SPLC puts these guys in the right wing category, it makes no sense but they have been pretty clueless for awhile. Just as centrist as anyone and really a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.
  
  BUT: It is well known throughout Occupy and anarchist circles that these kids DID NOT consider themselves anarchists. Unfortunately, the FBI informer who led these kids down the path to create this plot PURPOSEFULLY separated them from other organizers, activists and radicals. For good reason, anyone who has been in the movement longer than 6 months would have heard about an older creepy guy buying a house for kids to live in, giving them jobs and booze and would have been instantly concerned.
  
  Look this **** up before you report on it.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:23pm
  DURRUTI..does your anarchy extend to the manufacturers of the iPads and other tech devices you use to post your drivel and communicate with one another?
  Does it extend to the power company that charges your portable devices?
  Does it extend to the car companies that manufactured the vehicles that bus your menageries of stinky human debris to the various “occupy” sites you used to infest before you were scattered to the dungheap of leftist failure?
  Does it extend to medical facilities that you use when you fall ill (see also: power company, tech device manufacturer and vehicle manufacturer)? Or let me guess…all that neat stuff you can’t do without is excluded from the collapse of society you want to impose on everyone?
  As for your Occupy myths you’re pleading others should subscribe to..you know those legends of “old creepy guys, houses and booze” you were rambling about? Do anarchists exercise any caution or critical thought before going to “old creepy guy’s homes to be plied with alcohol” or do you give your smelly bretheren a pass on that also? Or are you just too caught up in the romance of the revolution to bother with silly stuff like that? What other myths and legends do you occupy creeps tell each other around the occupy campfires? That you’ve heard the “1%” actually bathe? ugh..creepy huh?
  
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- Durruti
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:35pm
  Honestly, you are out of your mind, completely. But I will respond to both of your “(crazy) points” just for fun.
  
  If you would have noticed me tell you that these kids WERE NOT anarchists you would not be asking why anarchists follow creepy dudes around who give them free things. Your answer, if I could formulate one would be that young folks are impressionable and easier to manipulate by older folks. Shocking right!
  
  Second, your tirade about the items I use and how those items make me a hypocrite: Think about it this way, the CZAR in Russia and the royal press said the same thing about the Bolsheviks before they came to power. So whether I am a hypocrite or not doesn’t really stop me from being an anarchist now does it? LOL.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:04pm
  @AVENGERK
  
  “POXIE..seriously…you’re trying push the idea that conservatives believe anarchists are on the far right of the political spectrum?”
  
  No, I’m saying that Glenn Beck has pushed the idea that anarchists are on the far right of the political spectrum, and there are many on the Blaze that believe him. My evidence is 1. a video in which Glenn Beck literally displays this and 2. a commenter on this very thread who said “The left end of that graph is totatalinarism, with everything run by a form of government, while at the farthest right end is no government, which is pure anarchy.” So yeah, I’d say my evidence is solid.
  
  “After watching the Black Bloc do their thing with OWS? [...] Do you understand that limited government intrusion in our lives and NO government are two different things entirely?”
  
  Listen: I understand anarchism is a left-wing political ideology. Glenn Beck does not. I have attached a video of Glenn Beck suggesting as much. There are more videos and transcripts showing the same thing. I can find them for you, but I really feel like the points’ already proven.
  
  @DURRUTI
  
  Nice name.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:49pm
  Just the SELF-DESCRIBED right wing groups with members convicted of or awaiting trial for felony offenses since 1999:
  Aryan Covenant Church, Aryan Nations , Aryan Raiders, Christian Defense League, Culture Wars, Elohim City, Kinsman Redeemer Ministries, Ku Klux Klan, League of the South, Massive Resistance National Alliance, Nationalist Coalition, Nazi Lowriders, Neo-Nazism, Proud White Brotherhood, Prussians Motorcycle Club, The Society for Truth and Light, Stormfront, Traditional Values Coalition, Volksfront, Watchman Outreach Ministries, Watchmen on the Walls, Westboro Baptist Church, White Aryan Resistance, White Revolution.
  
  The Southern Poverty Law Center is wrong, Occupy doesn’t belong on the right wing list, but it’s plenty crowded already.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:01am
  LOL…typical unhinged incoherent lefty response DURRUTI. You’ve moved the goal posts so much in your little farce here you’ve become out of breath.
  
  Disavowing your little buddies after they were caught is nothing new for the duplicitous left. You need to keep up appearances right? Aftter all…you want to collapse society for the people and if the people are seeing you clowns trying to blow up bridges then your selling strategy in our schools etc becomes a little more difficult to sell, n’est pas? So all of a sudden these clowns “are not anarchists” and you repeat the lie often as you’ve been conditioned to do. And of course even they were anarchists they were plied with alcohol and shelter by “creepy old guys” so it’s not their fault anyway. That’s pretty much the garbage you’re selling here isn’t it champ? So you “educated elite” who know better than the great unwashed all of a sudden become “impressionable young people” being led by “creepy old guys”. You are indeed led by creepy old guys and gals…they’re your aging hippie/marxist professors still in an LSD haze from their youth. And you follow them like the rats in the Pied Piper story.
  Being the idiot you are…you didn’t catch on to what I was alluding to with all your high tech toys your parents bought you. I don’t care that you use them…I’m wondering what you’ll do when you collapse society and the infrastructure (and money) that supports them goes away?
  
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bdandsl
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:51pm
Liberals lie? Tell me it ain’t so!

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502_eagle
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:38pm
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Who’d a thunk the SPLC coulda do such a thing

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:49pm
  They’ve been doing this for quite some time now. Manufacturing the stats that so many in the media and politics use to bolster their stories. Hey, the Tea Party is in there too. Fixing a hole…..
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:02pm
  Still…it’s always nice to see the ENCINOM/MONICNE family portraits again isn’t it?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:16pm
  AvengerK, LOL!
  
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blackyb
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:34pm
Frankly I have never seen anyone of the classier right look like those bastard sons of the left above who the left will not claim when they get caught. They are good at disowning their own. They use and throw away. The conservatives are more civilized and for the most part, look more civilized. The left dopes them up and uses them. I despise any one of those demons who are so sorry as to throw away people who give their freedom up for this nasty bunch. They will rot in jail while Pelosi, Obama and Holder just sit around smug. These three are evil to the core.

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coizinho
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:33pm
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commonsenseguy
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:32pm
when you sleep with mangy dogs you get the mange, they paid this and others to be the rabid dogs for the cause they train them to bark,attack and bite, now that their no longer useful the left wing george soros union thugs don’t want or need them any more because they have been exposed,and they have contracted the mange and are just a tick and flea infested , sound like the splc is just trying to get as far away from their own dogs i hope they end up with rabies.

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coizinho
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:32pm
The radical should wake up, because they have bean reject for the on party. The left tron them in front of the bus like Obama did with all the people that try to interfered his agenda.

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blackyb
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:30pm
The left are liars. They are attracting like people who are liars and will believe a lie quicker than the truth. At the DNC, you can see there are more who are against what is good and decent than who are not. The votes against were actually louder to keep out what was in question. They do not want Christ or anything, but for the sake for some of the blacks who are fence sitting, they demanded it be put back in. Those blacks who are playing church and not real questions are outweighing those who really are Christians. These church players are duped and are going to hell.

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doomytram
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:30pm
Occupy has been re-written as the Tea Party. Since Obozo and Axelrod’s Occupy idea didn’t work too well, they (SPLC Terrorist Attorneys) just re-write the history books again. In two years, wikipedia will be the Tea Party Occupy Street.

It’s like when someone searches for Harry Truman or Abe Lincoln in Wikipedia they find references to Barrack Obozo.

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blackyb
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:28pm
Nancy Pelosi need a mental evaluation. She appears to be on some kind of dope.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:34pm
  Appears?
  
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COFemale
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:27pm
It is much easier to blame someone else for their own parties short comings. They can’t even own up to their sides violent nature. They think most Americans are clueless and will believe them. Unfortunately, anyone voting for Obama fits that bill. They must convince people this comes from Republicans.

Southern Poverty Law Center are a bunch of racist, what do you expect and no better than the ACLU. Both need to be disbanded as hate groups.

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Jenny Lind
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:27pm
Raise your hand and repeart after me; I Jenny Lind (use your name), declare that the SPLC is a radical left wing organization, who lies and makes false claims about right wing, or constitution loving, decent Americans. They are a major threat to this country. I do so swear.

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RANGER1965
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:26pm
This isn’t news. Who cares what a bankrupt, extreme socialistic, discredited organization says?

So if Media Matters announces “ALL CONSERVATIVES SUCK AND ARE LIKELY TERRORISTS!!” Is this news?

Let’s consider the source. When it comes from a sad pseudo commie organization, that’s corrupt to boot, it’s pretty easy to predct what they are gonna say.

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The-Real-Enrico
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:11pm
Simple. They call claim that any violent group or terrorist is apart of the right to give the appearance that we are the crazy wackos.

It is slander and redirection. They can’t allow a wacked out radical group belong on their side so they project their problems, failures and violence on us and blame us for it.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:08pm
The SPLC is a radical/race-terrorist organization themselves. They are so far left…they make circles. They want all terrrorists to be right wing so they can protect their brother communists.

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momrules
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:06pm
Because the SPLC is a radical arm of the left wing liberals.

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huey6367
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:05pm
Radical and right don’t belong in the same sentece. They are certainly not the same.

Left = liberal and radical
Right = conservative

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- skiz
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Plus there is NOTHING Southern about these idiots (SPLC) @ all!
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:06pm
  The correct term is “reactionary.”
  
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coyote1hell
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:04pm
The DNC has a new motto for Barry..”The Clown that will bring us Down”……..

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Morgue
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:02pm
The SLPC considers any anti-government movement to be right-wing. Occupy has some elements of anarchism, and thus can be considered anti-government. Although they are more anti-capitalism, and thus pro-government. Most Occupy rabble don’t have the mental capacity to be aware of the contradiction within their own movement. Liberals also have a long history of projecting the negatives of their own ideology onto the right.

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Elena2010
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:59am
Because they had to reinvent themselves when Black Americans got a fair shot at the American Dream. Rather than acknowledge that institutional racism had ended, celebrate that, and close down shop w/a happy Well Done!, they stayed in business. Get the right name and cause and the non-profit world is quite lucrative.

There is more money in hating the right than in hating the left. Soooo…label the anarchists right of center. Watch the money come in – KA-CHING!

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:59am
This is a self answering question, Blaze. The Left is nothing but lies, anger and hate. They accept no responsibility for any of their own acts (except the good ones, where they in fact usually accept responsibility for the acts of *others* in that regard).

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Gonzo
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:58am
The SPLC considers the Christian church a radical right wing terrorist organization.

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:36pm
  but yet they will stand with and sleep with the black panthers and terrorist like bill ayers, i can not believe anyone would even believe anything this left wing, anti conservative,old white men hating,terrorist supporting,commie loving anti american groups has to say,every thing they say or do is a lie.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:57pm
  GUY: you not only have common sense but good insight.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:15pm
  Commonsenseguy, The SPLC still has the New Black Panthers listed as a right wing terror orginastion. And, what kills me is that these bastards are right here in my home state.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:56am
They include them in the ‘right wing’ for slandering those who truly want a free nation. It gives the illusion that all who seek limited government and such are thus ‘radicals’

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woodyee
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:52am
Why Did the Southern Poverty Law Center Include Occupy-Related Terrorists Under ‘Radical Right’ Header?

PROJECTION.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Nope — SPLC is well left of center and moving further that way. It was never a conservative organization.
  
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- randy
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:01pm
  Exactly!
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:13pm
  By painting these ows as right-wingers, they’re deflecting left-wing radicalism away from themselves and projecting it onto conservatism – projection.
  
  I’ve known the SPLC to be a left-wing org for a LONG time, and I’m in my 60′s.
  
  ;-)
  
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