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Democrats Defend Giving SPLC Police Power To Target Conservatives With Impunity

The SPLC was able to ‘de-platform, de-bank, and deny services to every single organization on that hate map.’

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Democrats defended the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its mission to manufacture hate hoaxes and target conservatives by claiming Tuesday that the SPLC is basically a government law enforcement agency and also not at all anything like a government law enforcement agency.

At the second edition of the House Judiciary Committee hearing series “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., indicated the SPLC has the same power and authority as the FBI or other government law enforcement agencies to maintain confidential informants in extremist groups — and, ostensibly, to then fundraise off the manufactured chaos.

In an exchange with Georgetown Law Professor Mary McCord, a Democrat witness, Raskin justified the SPLC’s alleged funding of people to be “undercover as informants to find out what these groups are doing.”

“It is a very useful law enforcement tool to use informants and … cooperators to learn more, not just about hate groups and potential domestic violent extremism, but also as a tool to dismantle drug trafficking groups and human trafficking,” McCord said, listing other law enforcement activities.

Raskin then drew a direct comparison to the FBI, stating, “If the FBI sent someone undercover to expose a mafia organization, narco-traffickers, international human traffickers, that wouldn’t mean that the FBI is supporting those groups, would it?”

McCord also shrugged at violence against conservatives, stating a Trump memorandum........

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