by: Gary DeMar
One way to gain attention for your cause is to claim that you are a victim. Modern-day politics is all about victimhood. This group or that group is a victim of the majority. In order to protect the victimized class, new laws are written to turn any word or action into a crime.
Hate crime legislation is the result. If you are murdered but are not part of a protected class, your murderer will not be punished as severely as someone who is murdered and is part of a protected class.
In the past few years, fake hate crimes have been uncovered. You might remember the census worker in Kentucky who was found hanging from a tree. Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center was Johnny-on-the-spot with his “expert” analysis. He blamed the incident on “anti-government sentiment very much whipped up by militia” types. Here’s the problem. The man wasn’t murdered by anti-government marauders. “Bill Sparkman, the late Census worker, had killed himself, and staged the homicide in the hope of recouping insurance money for his family. Tragic, yes. Right-wing terrorism? Only in Potok fantasy-land.”[1]
One way to gain attention for your cause is to claim that you are a victim. Modern-day politics is all about victimhood. This group or that group is a victim of the majority. In order to protect the victimized class, new laws are written to turn any word or action into a crime.
Hate crime legislation is the result. If you are murdered but are not part of a protected class, your murderer will not be punished as severely as someone who is murdered and is part of a protected class.
In the past few years, fake hate crimes have been uncovered. You might remember the census worker in Kentucky who was found hanging from a tree. Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center was Johnny-on-the-spot with his “expert” analysis. He blamed the incident on “anti-government sentiment very much whipped up by militia” types. Here’s the problem. The man wasn’t murdered by anti-government marauders. “Bill Sparkman, the late Census worker, had killed himself, and staged the homicide in the hope of recouping insurance money for his family. Tragic, yes. Right-wing terrorism? Only in Potok fantasy-land.”[1]
Mark Potok doesn't care whether a story is true or not because he doesn't have to. Nobody in the mainstream media has ever vetted even one of his spurious claims.
ReplyDeletePotok rends his toga, decries "hate" and pockets his $150,000 donor-dollar salary (which does not include the "honoraria" from his incessant speaking engagements).
Potok's histrionics seem to pay off though, because the SPLC now takes in more than $106,000 tax-free dollars a day, every single day.
http://wp.me/pCLYZ-d3
It's no wonder Mr. Potok has picked up more than $11,400 in raises over the past two years.
"Recession? What recession?"
The bottom line at the SPLC is always, always the bottom line.
The splc is a racist hate group and I list them as such
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