Morris Dees' SPLC only targets certain colors

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The cover story for the winter, 2001 edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)'s quarterly “Intelligence Report,” which is “free for law enforcement only,” claims that 10 years after the passage of the federal hate crimes act, hate crime statistics do not add up. If law enforcement depends upon intelligence provided by the SPLC to tally hate crimes in the U.S., we may have our first clues as to how hate crimes are so scandalously underreported.

During the week before Christmas, Jewish Defense job function email list League (JDL) Chairman Irv Rubin, 56, and organization member Earl Krugel, 59, were arrested on charges that they planned to bomb a mosque and the office of Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

The SPLC boasts an international reputation for its crusade against “hate.” According to the SPLC website, “All hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or denigrate an entire class of people.” Under the auspices of the federal act, and according to the definition of “hate” provided by the SPLC, the Rubin/Krugel conspiracy qualifies as being motivated by “hate” because they were a couple of Jewish guys who intended to kill Arabs for no other reason than they are Arabs.

H. Millard, author of “The Outsiders,” went to the SPLC website to see what intelligence it had on the JDL. “On the SPLC website I found a list of 602 groups that the SPLC considers 'hate groups.' I thought the SPLC would have something on its website about the JDL. I was wrong,” Millard admitted.