You probably don’t have the self-awareness to present your own case as well as someone else would. You probably don’t have the time or resources to understand things as complex as the rules of evidence and procedure, and you will probably have more than enough to worry about during your trial just as a witness and as a defendant. It’s near-idiotic to represent yourself in court, and if you can avoid it, you should.
— The Guardian, 4/26/16

Thanks to the esquire class, everything from local laws to federal legislation has been conflated with gobbledygook meant to discourage private citizens from deciphering concepts left to contractors who will charge outrageous hourly fees with no guarantee of positive outcome.

Between cinematic and primetime representations, we’re to be in awe of lawyers. Even Supreme Court nominees are certified by the American Bar Association. Prospective lawyers are required to take “bar examinations” in certain states before they’re allowed to practice in local and state courts.

But why is it a requirement? You’d think these “bar” associations are an official, taxpayer-accountable wing of state and federal judicial systems.

They are NOT.

They are… nonprofit organizations.

Almost every state has a bar association, and unfortunately, it would take a lawyer to contest the Constitutionality of a state giving a dot org the ability to determine who can operate within the public legal system.

A mandatory or integrated bar association is one to which a state delegates the authority to regulate the admission of attorneys to practice in that state; typically these require membership in that bar association to practice in that state. Mandatory bars derive their power from legislative statute and/or from the power of the state court system to regulate practice before it. In the other states, membership in the bar associations is voluntary. In some states, a mandatory organization exists primarily for the purpose of regulating admission to practice, while a voluntary organization exists for other purposes. For example, in Virginia, the Virginia State Bar is the mandatory organization and the Virginia Bar Association is voluntary.
— Wikipedia

There are not a lot of professions in the United States where a state can deny you employment unless you get approval and certification by an entity unaccountable to the citizens within. While some “mandatory” bars have an official legislative origin and structure, most do not as almost ALL of the state bars are tax-exempt nonprofits.

Alabama: alabar.org — Alaska: alaskabar.org — California: calbar.org — Colorado: cobar.org
Connecticut: ctbar.org — Delaware: dsba.org — District of Columbia: dcbar.org — Florida: flabar.org
Georgia: gabar.org — Hawaii: hsba.org — Illinois: isba.org — Indiana: inbar.org — Iowa: iowabar.org
Kansas: ksbar.org — Kentucky: kybar.org — Louisiana: lsba.org — Maine: mainebar.org
Maryland: msba.org — Massachusetts: massbar.org — Michigan: michbar.org
Minnesota: mnbar.org Mississippi: msbar.org — Missouri: mobar.org — Montana: montanabar.org
Nevada: nvbar.org — New Hampshire: nhbar.org — New Mexico: nmbar.org — New York: nysba.org
North Dakota: sband.org Ohio: ohiobar.org — Oklahoma: okbar.org — Oregon: osbar.org
Pennsylvania: pabar.org — South Carolina: scbar.org — South Dakota: sdbar.org — Tennessee: tba.org
Utah: utahbar.org — Vermont: vtbar.org — Virginia: vsb.org — Washington: wsba.org
West Virginia: wvbar.org — Wisconsin: wisbar.org — Wyoming: wyomingbar.org

Most nonprofits depend on volunteers to help perform it’s mission. For some reason, members of state bars aren’t asked to volunteer. They’re required to pay “dues”.

Those dues come in handy as self-celebrations don’t come cheap.

Bar nonprofits could be considered rather unseemly for a profession built on serving customers who mostly are in need of representation during time of varying duress, requires clients to pay outrageous fees, there’s no guarantee of a positive outcome while making it quite prohibitive for a person to do it his or herself.

And be clear, state bars operate in the best interests of the esquires; not of potential or current clients.

It would be nice if there were more options like “People’s Court” so conflicts could be adjudicated quickly, without the mandatory involvement of people who may or may not be good at what they’re paid very well to do. Lawyers are like everyone else with the exception of having dot orgs all around the country created to remind us that we’re to be in awe of them, no matter the cost.

The first red flag is the blatant partisanship which is a clear nonprofit violation.

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.

Certain activities or expenditures may not be prohibited depending on the facts and circumstances. For example, certain voter education activities (including presenting public forums and publishing voter education guides) conducted in a non-partisan manner do not constitute prohibited political campaign activity. In addition, other activities intended to encourage people to participate in the electoral process, such as voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives, would not be prohibited political campaign activity if conducted in a non-partisan manner.

On the other hand, voter education or registration activities with evidence of bias that (a) would favor one candidate over another; (b) oppose a candidate in some manner; or (c) have the effect of favoring a candidate or group of candidates, will constitute prohibited participation or intervention.
— IRS: Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations

As they offer no public disclosure, we’re not sure if they are a 501(c)(3) or a 501(c)(4), but Voterizer may have crossed that legal line as well.

To be tax-exempt as a social welfare organization described in Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 501(c)(4), an organization must not be organized for profit and must be operated exclusively to promote social welfare. The earnings of a section 501(c)(4) organization may not inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. However, a section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization may engage in some political activities, so long as that is not its primary activity.
— IRS: Social Welfare Organizations

Voterizer’s been unleashed on Georgia despite being capable of registering their voters without outside assistance.

Not sure if all these requirements are being met by Voterizer because to try registering from a state other than Georgia would be a crime, but their site appeared to make it all pretty quick, easy, and devoid of having to provide physical PROOF of residency.

A quick search of nonprofit databases show no listing for Voterizer.org which may be excused because of how new they appear to be, but it also looks like they are blatantly breaking IRS rules against partisanship. It may also help to have some friendly #resistance types in the Internal Revenue Service that are willing to look the other way until after all the election missions have been accomplished.

Voterizer.org also appears to be a product of another nonprofit, FieldTeam6.org, with an exclusively partisan mission.

At the DNC, both Michelle and Barack delivered dire warnings that the survival of our democracy depends on Americans voting like never before. To help in this mission, this Saturday Field Team 6 officially launches our brand-new voter registration tool – VOTERIZER! (But you can use it now HERE!) It’s the only tool out there:• that is proudly partisan, built specifically to register Democrats…• that lets voters know not just when and where to vote, but who to vote for!• that uses new technology to check every voter against a 50-state database to confirm their registration and vote-by-mail status, so it’s no longer a mystery whether voters actually registered!
— DemCastUSA, 7/21/20

Who’s behind “Field Team 6”?

It took an “error” message to get a name.

And who is Jason Berlin?

Is Jason a political insider?

Not at all. Jason loved his job of 18 years as a tv reality and comedy writer but after Trump’s election in 2016, he felt he had to do something radically different to save democracy. So he quit his job and started volunteering. He worked with the California Democratic Party, helping to register more than 6,000 voters in the five swing congressional districts of Southern California, and all five of those districts ended up flipping in the 2018 Blue Wave midterms. After the midterms, his job was over with the Democratic party, but he didn’t want to put all his newfound expertise to waste, so he and his co-organizer founded Field Team 6 in March 2019 and went national with their voter registration project.
— New Faces of Democracy, 3/4/20

Nah, not an “insider”.

Not only are state and federal voter registration rules being possibly violated and across state lines, but so are specific IRS nonprofit rules and honest disclosure.

Then again, what rules do you expect Democrats to honor?

It was initially billed as a bombshell.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that the state is seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association in a lawsuit that accuses the leadership of the flagging nonprofit of diverting millions of dollars for their own personal use. According to the suit, the senior leadership of the NRA squandered millions in donations on personal trips, private jets and expensive meals. The suit argues that the four executives, including CEO Wayne LaPierre, shouldn’t be permitted to ever again serve on the board of a New York charity.
— CNBC, 8/6/20

Now, while the political world stood aghast and others gleefully applauded, do they realize the can-of-worms James may have opened?

While the National Rifle Association has had questionable methods, echoed most recently by former NRA president Oliver North, leadership squandering “millions in donations on personal trips, private jets and expensive meals” is not exclusive to this one activist nonprofit. In fact, the very nature of the nonprofit invites abuse.

Most successful businesses have clear missions that must be met. Burger King wants to sell the most hamburgers possible; Ford the most vehicles, etc. But if you look at the average nonprofit mission statement, they’re kept as vague as possible (“save the planet”, “help children”) as actually accomplishing said goal would eliminate the need for that nonprofit.

No successful business spends 60-80% of their sales income on salaries and benefits for their staff. No business could survive with such a top-heavy business model.

In 2015, then-Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared on national television that the state was the first in the nation to “functionally end” veteran homelessness. As a veteran, I was personally insulted by the clear sophistry of his statement and have monitored the activities of the Veterans Administration AND the thousands of nonprofits in the United States with the word “veteran” on their title since. If the American people took the time to look at the IRS Form 990 of some of these veteran nonprofits, they’d see a startling consistency.

Almost two-thirds of their donations go to staff salaries and benefits.

What’s also a constant is the very generous pay the principals give themselves. Whether we’re talking the American Civil Liberties Union or Tea Party Patriots, you’ll see executive directors paying themselves very well off the donations they constantly ask for.

But what works against these executives is their unbridled arrogance and narcissism. All one need do is look up the name of the head of any nonprofit and then check out their Facebook page. While some of the pictures they upload are of galas and other events with their volunteers, you may also get a good look at their nice home, vacation pics on picturesque beaches, golf courses surrounded by palm trees, or their menu choices at nice restaurants in foreign countries.

So, if the left wants to get all bent over the lavish spending by the NRA, then we should look at ALL nonprofits and how much donor monies are squandered on opulent salaries for their principals. Will Leticia James devote the necessary manpower to find out how many millions of donor money the Southern Poverty Law Center is hiding in the Cayman Islands?

If she won’t go there but pick on the NRA, you know her lawsuit is not about diverting donations for personal use because if it was, she’d have more nonprofits in her cross-hairs than she’d know what to do with.

Here’s an example of the latest email plea for anti-Trump dollars by MoveOn.org….

Dear MoveOn member,

Last week, in the middle of Donald Trump’s mind-bogglingly incompetent handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his approval rating hit 48%—his highest ever.¹

This wasn’t some bogus fly-by-night poll. It was the Washington Post-ABC News poll, one of only six polls rated A+ in the country, according to data expert Nate Silver.² And it’s part of a trend: Trump’s polling averages have been shooting up across the board for weeks.³

It’s infuriating but true: The coronavirus crisis is helping Trump politically.

Voters are rallying to their leader, while Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have almost completely disappeared from the news. But there’s another problem: Voters don’t know how badly Trump has botched the response to this crisis. They don’t realize that his mistakes are the reason we have the most COVID-19 cases in the world.

We need to face facts: If things keep going this way, Trump is going to get re-elected. So we’ve decided to take emergency action. We’re aiming to launch and sustain a massive digital ad campaign NOW AND THROUGH ELECTION SEASON, focused on voters who approve of Trump, to educate them about his part in creating this public health disaster.

On average, MoveOn’s monthly donors chip in $12 a month. Can you chip in $12 a month to help launch and sustain this critical ad campaign?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly to help stop Trump’s rise in the polls and defeat him in November.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

Of course as in the case of the most nonprofits, the majority of donations that come in don’t always go to the “cause”. It goes to keeping those within well paid and fed.

Instead of donating to those today who are on the real COVID-19 front line, for MoveOn it’s all about cashing in off Trump hate. Those who are running MoveOn aren’t making the big bucks, but they’re relatively comfortable, don’t have to put in a full 40-hour week, and even have side gigs on top of their nonprofit salaries.

Nonprofits are required to file IRS Form 990 annually, but liberal nonprofits have traditionally been allowed to slide and since their 2018 filing, some at MoveOn have decided to move on (probably to much greener pastures).

After six years leading MoveOn Civic Action and MoveOn Political Action respectively, executive directors Anna Galland and Ilya Sheyman today announced that they will step down in 2019 after MoveOn completes a search for new leadership.
— MoveOn, 1/17/19

Like most prominent “progressive” nonprofits that protest anything they deem exclusionary or racist, MoveOn finally hired a “woman of color” to take over in 2019 who probably doesn’t earn what her predecessors did (which could be why MoveOn’s 2019 Form 990 hasn’t been released for public inspection).

Rahna Epting takes the helm of MoveOn at a time when white nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise in the U.S. and throughout the world, massive misinformation efforts and social media manipulation are continuing to sow voter suppression and apathy, and the integrity of American democracy is in question. She will lead MoveOn in addressing these and other challenges and in advancing a positive vision of our country’s future in the 2020 elections and beyond.
— MoveOn, 5/29/19

So, the plea for dollars is on!

The corporate media has proven time after time that it’s totally incapable of holding Trump accountable. If our side doesn’t aggressively prosecute the case, Trump will get re-elected. And worse yet, the pandemic response won’t improve, and hundreds of thousands of people could die.

America can’t survive four more years of this president. Which is why we’re asking:

Can you chip in $12 a month to help launch and sustain the targeted ad campaign that is needed to make sure that voters know how badly Trump’s botching the crisis response, stop his rise in the polls, and defeat him in November? (The average gift from a MoveOn monthly donor is $12 a month, but whatever you can afford will go a long way.)

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Chris, Amy, Allison, Isbah, and the rest of the team

No shame required.

2017

On Tuesday night, Democrats flipped two Republican-held state legislative seats — one in Oklahoma, one in New Hampshire — that Donald Trump carried in the 2016 election.

That makes six turnovers from Republican to Democrat in contested state House and Senate races so far in 2017 — and 26 out of 35 races (at the state legislative and congressional level) in which the Democratic nominee has overperformed Hillary Clinton’s showing last November. (Worth noting: Republicans have yet to flip a Democratic-controlled seat so far this year.)
— CNN, 9/13/17

2018

After the 2018 midterm elections, 20 House Republican incumbents lost their seats to a Democrat. Of those, 10 were in Clinton-won districts, while 9 were incumbents who Republicans had previously said were in competitive, coin-flip races.
— Axios, 11/8/18

2019

Republicans suffered setbacks in two states in off-year elections Tuesday, despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to rally supporters to the defense of GOP candidates down the ballot as the 2020 race heats up.

A staunchly pro-Trump Republican governor in Kentucky faced what could be an upset loss in his re-election bid. And in Virginia, Democrats seized both houses of the Legislature from Republicans, gaining full control of state government for the first time in 26 years.
— Bloomberg, 11/6/19

But that didn’t stop Ronna from basking in yet another Fox News appearance to make excuses for defeats by blaming the candidate: a deflection that will surely be employed for years to come.

The red areas are staying red and the blue areas are staying blue.
— Ronna Romney McDaniel, Fox News, 11/6/19

If anything, Ronna Romney McDaniel is consistent. Given the activities of her “progressive Republican” Uncle Mitt over the years, her appointment to chair of the Republican National Committee can only be politics-as-usual at the least, nepotism at the worst. And while her tenure as chair has brought in highly-touted record amounts of fundraising for the party, like most nonprofits, the only people who appear to benefit are those within the GOP apparatus. Certainly not down-ballot candidates or ultimately Republican voters.

According to FEC filings in 2019 alone, it appears a whopping 71% of the monies raised in 2019 has gone to “operating expenditures”, meaning pricey office spaces, travel costs, lots of meals, overhead expenses and very generous GOP staff salaries that keep them visibly well fed.

If 2018 was any indication, it doesn’t appear that the Republican Party supports state and/or local candidates if at all.

The state and local Republican (nonprofit) parties don’t appear to be any better off as those at the top find it easier to blame their voters and not their lackluster attempt to inspire them with a solid ground game and exciting candidates.

For example, Bill Card, Chairman of the Prince William County Republican Committee in Virginia laid most of the blame for 2019 flips of Democrat-to-Republican seats on GOP voters and did so on local Washington, D.C. radio.

…
While Card conveniently blamed the absence of a top-of-the-ticket draw, the same could be said about the Democrats and for some strange reason, they were inspired to get their voters to the polls; a feat local Republicans failed at big time.

Between hiring inexperienced, victory-challenged millennials to charge top dollar and consistently run losing campaigns to lazy and literally fat-and-happy heads of state and local Republican parties who show little interest in providing near zero evidence that Republicans are even on the ballot, it’s no wonder why disciplined Democrats are winning seats previously held by Republicans for decades.

For example, outside voting precinct #401 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Democrats were present and readily handing out sample ballots. There were no Republicans in sight and in general there seems to have been an overall lack of urgency, especially given the highly-publicized monetary interference of George Soros. That was NOT the fault of the voters but of those who readily take in party donations and again have little to show in return.

Fairfax County Republican Party Chairman Tim Hannigan & Loudoun County GOP Precinct Operations Committee Chairman Lou Cironi were even less inspiring….

…
While those running the national, state and local Republican parties will continue to absolve themselves of results that would have gotten them run off The Apprentice long ago, Republicans in many locales will be forced to endure higher taxation, sanctuary states, counties and/or cities, infanticide on demand, anti-police #BlackLivesMatter and #Antifa promotion, assaults on the 2nd Amendment, LGBTQIAP+ anything and everything in schools, climate change mandates, Muslim special treatment, voting rights for super majority Democrat felons, gerrymandering run amok, pro-illegal alien programs and oversized welcome mats for “refugees”, complete with every housing, food and cash demand that can be doled out at taxpayer expense.

Yes, this is what happens when Republicans don’t vote.

It’s also what happens when the RNC party leadership provides little-to-no support for candidates, that is if we don’t provide Democrats the gift of more uncontested seats.

The red areas are staying red and the blue areas are staying blue.
— Ronna Romney McDaniel, Fox News, 11/6/19

Only someone who considers donors and voters stupid could make such a blatantly dishonest statement on national television with a smile.

Ronna Romney McDaniel is a self-serving, empty plus-size and the continued examples of her failed “leadership” has tricked down to the local level and the Republican Party is being made quite irrelevant.

It’s almost like this could be part of some divine plan to plow a path for a possible savior.

Uncle Mitt maybe…?

Should you find yourself in an altruistic mood, Facebook offers you a selection of nonprofits they deem worthy of your support. As you may have guessed, almost all are far-left.

Like the Southern Poverty Law Center is hurting for donations….

Aside from the fraud-ridden Wounded Warrior Project nonprofit, there doesn’t appear to be any choice offered for a nonprofit many on the right would donate to and few are any run by minorities. Not like this is really a surprise.

Should you wish to donate to a “personal cause” other than that which Facebook endorses, here’s their screening process to determine worthiness.

Looks harmless enough.

Now, here’s where things get interesting.

You’re offered a limited amount of choices and hope you fit into one of their categories.

If your fundraiser doesn’t fit into any one of the above, things now become subjective.

If approved, any donations that do come in may go through Facebook first. Maybe not for an outright “fee”, but they may hold onto your cash for a couple of days or so they can accrue interest before forwarding the donation to you. It’s probably also a given the same interest gathering process occurs should you donate to one of their endorsed, chosen nonprofits.

How benevolent and generous.

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California is hardly an anomaly when it comes to Democrats using the church for political events, which ARE a violation of the IRS code on the Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations. Unfortunately, those rules only appear to apply to Republicans.

In 2008, I ran for State Representative in Massachusetts and requested to speak on a local church property on issues that were pertinent to the district and was respectfully declined because for me to do so would put at risk their 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.

Note how Democrats have actively campaigned in churches because they knew what kind of racial hell would be brought down on any IRS official who dared threaten the 501(c)(3) status of a black place of worship.

Political office holders and candidates should be able to speak to members of a congregation. Nonprofit, tax-exemptions are another issue as despite the rules against partisan politics being a no-no, it’s something Republicans and conservatives are quite cognizant of and adhere to while Democrat and liberal groups cross that line often and with impunity. It could be we have the traditional career federal workers who sympathize with the left (see: Lois Lerner) and would never hold the left to the rules while the right has to obey the IRS code to the letter.

Time to do away with the rules against nonprofits and political speech?

Maybe this is something President Trump will get around to and be prepared for the progressive screech of all screeches when the possibility of their liberal career mills having to, heaven forbid, either stop being blatantly partisan or pay their fair share of taxes.

Bless their hearts.

UPDATE

In yet another move of desperation, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe called out the big guns. Barack and Michelle Obama, Joe and Jill Biden but he’s saving the best for last!

More than 300 “black churches” in Virginia will be shown a video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris urging members to vote for Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former governor Terry McAuliffe ahead of the Nov. 2 election in a presentation some have suggested is unconstitutional and illegal.
— BizPac Review, 10/17/21

Aside from talking down to black people like children, Kamala Harris appears to be fighting to keep a straight face….

Pitiful, but expected from Democrats.

The SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.
— SLPC website, “About us”

The beauty of progressive nonprofits is that they can make their so-called objectives as vague and unachievable as possible (“save the planet”…?), because if they were to actually achieve their goals, they should go out of business. We’ve also found that certain liberal nonprofits, especially those with spinoffs that indoctrinate on issues like racism, know how to tug at those bleeding heartstrings.

To be fair, the Southern Poverty Law Center has always had a scant few minorities on their Board of Directors. However, those positions appear to be unpaid and their representation are one of the only things being reduced at the SPLC.

For a group that proudly calls out racial “bigotry”, the Southern Poverty Law Center leadership has always been and continues to be very, very white.

The SPLC “leadership” pictured above from May 2017 boasts of only ONE person of color and their lack of diversity appears also be a part of their proud tradition. We speculate that a more recent, public tax return might show Ms. Lecia Brooks may not be earning anywhere close to where the previously, all-white leadership did back in 2015….

UPDATE:

According to the latest 2016 Form 990 tax filing made available by the SLPC (timely tax filing requirements for nonprofits are quite lax), “leadership” is living quite comfortably off bleeding heart donations. It must be nice to be a lawyer like Morris Dees who can sue anyone he wants, knowing he’ll get paid regardless of outcome in an arena where losses can also be financially symbolic and lucrative.

So while the SPLC will find every opportunity to smear anyone they can as a racist, sexist, homophobic and/or Islamophobic, remember where all those tax-deductible donations are going vice the ROI.

One would think for a $132 million annum, we’d see a little more from the SPLC than an “anecdotal”-plagued survey the media and activists gleefully run with, Facebook memes with as many black faces as they could Photoshop, an occasional press conference, hardly any pics of any gala events or leadership appearances, a few lawsuits and coincidental warnings that shit could happen, and an email or so a week as an update.

Morris Dees is a con man and fraud, as I and others, such as U.S. Circuit Judge Cecil Poole, have observed and as has been documented by John Egerton, Harper’s, the Montgomery Advertiser in its “Charity of Riches” series, and others.

The positive contributions Dees has made to justice–most undertaken based upon calculations as to their publicity and fund raising potential–are far overshadowed by what Harper’s described as his “flagrantly misleading” solicitations for money. He has raised millions upon millions of dollars with various schemes, never mentioning that he does not need the money because he has $175 million and two “poverty palace” buildings in Montgomery. He has taken advantage of naive, well-meaning people–some of moderate or low incomes–who believe his pitches and give to his $175-million operation. He has spent most of what they have sent him to raise still more millions, pay high salaries, and promote himself. Because he spends so much on fund raising, his operation spends $30 million a year to accomplish less than what many other organizations accomplish on shoestring budgets.
— Stephen B. Bright, director of Southern Center for Human Rights (1982-2005), president and senior counsel in 2006

And no nonprofit is successful without having abundant donations, thus monetary assets so the principles’ mortgages and car payments will be paid, bellies will be full, wardrobes will be updated, scenic vacations will be available to decompress, and Christmas will have many presents under the tree, unlike those with no voices they claim to champion.

The Southern Poverty Law Center appears to be yet another liberal career mill, funded by the generosity of the inflamed, and exempted from the same taxes every real business has to pay.

They don’t have a lot going for them when it comes to diversity in their leadership. It’s mostly white, and we all know what the Southern Poverty Law Center would be saying about a conservative group with the same physical makeup because that do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do is something racebaiters do best.

Just ask Lecia Brooks and within a month of this posting, the Southern Poverty Law Center hired another black person in leadership… who’s in charge of hiring and is clearly SPLC material!

The Southern Poverty Law Center is just a bleeding heart scam, has been known to have been such and has been stashing away unknown amounts of cash for many, many years.

The Progressive, 1988: Poverty Palace: How the SPLC Got Rich Fighting the Klan
The Montgomery Advertiser, 1994: Charity of Riches
Harper’s, 2000: Church of Dees
Harper’s 2007: The Southern Poverty Business Model
Daily Kos, 2010: Southern ‘Poverty’ Law Center’s Cayman Islands bank account

So, the next time you hear anyone or any group labeled as “hate”, ask yourselves why, who named them as such, and who could you contact if that label were falsely issued to you?

Try Morris Dees, that is if you can reach him in the nice home that “poverty” racebaiting built for him….

and it also may be tough reaching the SPLC in the Cayman Islands.

UPDATE

It looks like Morris Dees’ hustling days (or something else) finally caught up to him.

SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees’ dismissal was effective on Wednesday, March 13. When pressed for details on what led to the termination, the organization declined to elaborate.

“It was not my decision, what they did,” Dees said when reached by phone. “I wish the center the absolute best. Whatever reasons they had of theirs, I don’t know.“
— Montgomery Advertiser, 3/14/19

It must suck being blindsided. What goes around, comes around and around….

UPDATE

It was obviously worse that first reported.

The president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announced his resignation Friday, the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the anti-hate organization that have come amid allegations of misconduct and workplace discrimination. Cohen’s resignation comes the same day as a resignation by the organization’s legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, who did not give a reason for her departure in a brief email to her colleagues. Brownstein did not respond to requests for comment.

The recent resignations came amid staff concerns over the recent resignation of one of the organization’s top black attorneys, Meredith Horton, who wrote in a farewell email that “there is more work to do in the legal department and across the organization to ensure that SPLC is a place where everyone is heard and respected and where the values we are committed to pursuing externally are also being practiced internally.”

Following Horton’s announcement, about two dozen employees signed a letter to management and to the board saying they were concerned that internal “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism threaten the moral authority of this organization and our integrity along with it.”
— Los Angeles Times, 3/22/19

Everyone is finally coming around to our original assessment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A review of the center’s 2019 board and senior staff reveals that senior leadership at SPLC remains largely white. Last week, multiple employees sent a signed letter to SPLC leadership outlining concerns about workplace culture as well as sexism and racism, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Dees has weathered criticism for decades, with a 1994 Montgomery Advertiser series citing concerns about racial discrimination against black employees.
— Montgomery Advertiser, 3/22/19

They’re mostly a liberal, white-run racist (and sexist) nonprofit and rarely does anything good come from that. And to make matters worse…

Southern Poverty Law Center picks former Michelle Obama aide to investigate workplace complaints

… the SPLC chose the very person who’s now in the middle of the Jussie Smollett hoax to clean up their mess.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx reached out to Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson after Tina Tchen, the former senior Obama official, emailed the prosecutor saying the “Empire” actor’s family had “concerns” about the probe, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Tchen passed Foxx’s number to a family member of Smollett, and the ensuing conversations with the relative were later cited by the prosecutor as the reason she recused herself from the probe.
— New York Post, 3/14/19

It will be interesting to not how many media organizations and federal agencies continue to cite the SPLC when attempting to call out anyone as a racist, given what’s going on behind their closed doors. It will also be interesting to see how the media will also mute their stories on this “nonprofit” as to not harm their fundraising largess.

UPDATE

It’s sounding as bad as suspected.

Some employees at the Southern Poverty Law Center say the legendary civil rights nonprofit group suffers from a “systemic culture of racism and sexism within its workplace.”

CNN spoke with three current employees of the organization who talked on condition of anonymity because of fears over possible retribution. It was one of those employees who cited the systemic problems with racism and sexism, and a second employee agreed with that assessment.
— CNN, 3/29/19

“Retribution”.

The SPLC knows retribution well.

Before getting guilt-tripped into giving any kind of donation, take a very discerning eye at that nonprofit. With very few exceptions, their missions are intentionally unachievable because to complete the mission would put them out of business.

For example, we’ve researched many of the so-called veteran and homeless nonprofits just to find they offer minimal real help to those they claim to care about, while the mostly white-and-fat executive-tier are quite well compensated in the mid six-figures, their opulent offices are in high-rent areas, and they routinely host lavish fundraising galas where minorities are mostly showpieces and give back-patting, feel-good Lucite statuettes to themselves.

BTW — Have you ever heard ANY nonprofit address what happens to the interest earned by the donation money in the bank or whom it may be going to in the form of bonuses? Just askin’….

After the election of President Trump, most liberal nonprofits went into high gear for donations while their missions remain intentionally-vague or based on perpetuated fear-based, false stereotypes.

The hours following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has left many feeling speechless, helpless, and utterly devastated. An easy way to take action right now is to learn more, get involved, and donate, your money and your time, to progressive organizations like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, among many others.
— WMagazine, 11/9/16

Various news websites even went as far as presenting a list with links to liberal nonprofits that should be given cash consideration; lists of 501 (c)(3) nonprofits that are (by IRS law) supposed to be apolitical. Then again thanks to the activities of Lois Lerner, we all know IRS law was (and continues to be) selectively enforced in favor of the left.

The American Civil Liberties Union
Mission: To defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the constitution and laws of the United States.

The Audre Lorde Project
Mission: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.

Border Angels
Mission: A San Diego based non-profit that advocates for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice with a special focus on issues related to issues related to the US-Mexican border.

MoveOn.org
MoveOn is the largest independent, progressive, digitally-connected organizing group in the United States. We are constantly innovating how we organize at scale and work together to win the biggest campaigns of our time— ending the Iraq War, electing Barack Obama president, enacting health care reform, and taking down the Confederate flag from the state house grounds in South Carolina.

Campaign Zero
Mission: Police reform in association with Black Lives Matter.

The Center for Reproductive Rights
Mission: To promote and defends the reproductive rights of women worldwide.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
Mission: To advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees in Los Angeles.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Mission: A Muslim advocacy group working to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America.

National Organization for Women (NOW)
Mission: To take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.

The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault
Mission: To build the capacity of communities, organizations, and institutions to advance the right to live free from sexual violence and reduce the harm it causes individuals, families, and society.

Planned Parenthood
Mission: A nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health services both in the United States and globally.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Mission: Anti-sexual assault organization working with local rape crisis centers across the U.S.

She Should Run
Mission: A national network changing culture to inspire more women and girls to run for office.

The Trevor Project Mission: A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for gay and questioning youth.

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Mission: To promote the best interests – safety and well-being – of unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in the United States.

Prior to even considering giving any of these nonprofits a donation, one shouldn’t have to dig deep to get the answer to “How will you do that?”

Almost all of the above, premiere liberal nonprofits have missions that will never be met, which is really what it’s all about, and from time-to-time we hear about those who’ve used their nonprofits for their personal financial enrichment and been appropriately busted.

Wounded Warrior Project’s top execs fired amid lavish spending scandal
Nonprofit CEO arrested for using donations for personal use
Arrest Made In $25 Million Foundation Alleged Fraud
Former nonprofit CEO arrested, charged in $14 million health care fraud case
Former Executive Director of Defunkt Theatre Arrested, Charged With Theft From Nonprofit
Former president of R.I. black women’s nonprofit charged with embezzlement
Former Family Advocacy Center Director Charged with Theft of Nonprofit Funds
Former nonprofit director accused of grand theft. D.A. says she embezzled $55K
Federal Funds Stolen by Former CEO from Non-Profit Health Care Clinic
Prison reformer who runs nonprofit that aims to give ex-cons a ‘second chance’ is accused of sexual assault, harassment and ripping off her investors

While there may be less than a handful of nonprofits that actually treats those they claim to be advocates of with dignity and respect, most look down on their “cases”.

And as most of the liberal nonprofits are funded indirectly by the likes of George Soros, they are created to generously reward through employment prominent pundits, former staffers of Democrat politicians, and activists. Their promotionals and publications predominantly feature black people, minority women and children. They tug at bleeding hearts and ultimately, wallets.

Aside from providing tax shelters for the liberal uber-rich and really good-paying jobs for a select few, what are they really good for?

Good question.

Mr. Rieckhoff is a founder of the veterans group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Yes, another nonprofit dot org; one of many that displays the same, consistent symptoms: good intentions, questionable results, and generous compensation for the principals.

While it’s easy to create agencies and nonprofits that claim to help veterans, the extent to which they are helped can be interpreted in many convenient ways and if you actually talk to veterans in need of assistance, the customer satisfaction is quite low, that is if a homeless veteran seeking a place to hang his or her hat being uniformly directed to another nonprofit shelter can be defined as assistance.

When it comes to those who claim to want to help veterans, the Chris Rock analogy on medicine comes to mind….

Ain’t no money in the cure. The money’s in the medicine. That’s how you get paid. That’s how a drug dealer makes his money! Curing AIDS? Shit, that’s like Cadillac making a car that lasts 50 years. You know they can do it but they ain’t gonna do nothing that fuckin’ dumb.
— Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker, 1999

There are a whole slew of so-called veteran nonprofits out there and just what do you think would happen if they actually did what they’ve claimed they want to do for years? They would be out of work if they were effective, and the same can be said for government agencies that also claim to be there for veterans and this is where the politics comes into play.

As repeated here many times, when a Republican is in the White House, we will see and hear stories about the homeless ad nauseum. When a Democrat is in the White House, the scourge of homelessness is very seldom discussed until that president can be seen in a photo-op setting “helping” and highlighting the homeless.

As usual, when politicians get involved, numbers can and will be skewed to their advantage.

Anyone with a brain knows that veteran homelessness has not been ended, and adding the word “functionally” is an insult to the intelligence of the American people and veterans but politicians surely believe it makes them look good, thus is something they can and will run on for their own self-serving, reelection purposes.

Government agencies and nonprofits with the mission to get veterans off the street are an abysmal failure, if they were ever intended to complete that mission. The one thing they ARE good at is telling veterans what they can’t do and any veteran reading this will be nodding their heads in agreement of experience.

Government agencies and nonprofits with the mission of helping veterans obtain meaningful employment (independence) have the same abysmal track record.

Filling the janitorial jobs with veterans helps the VA meet its hiring goals without intruding on a lucrative union giveaway that favors current government employees over everyone else for the majority of open positions.
— Daily Caller, 1/17/16

Nonprofits and government agencies are, simply stated, career mills for liberals and we know from experience there is genuine disdain for the military from those who are tasked with the sole directive of helping veterans. We were recently told by a nonprofit supervisor that it’s unfortunate that more government monies available to help the homeless because so much is currently spent on “armaments”. We can only speculate that supervisor may have assumed I didn’t know what that word meant, but that’s illustrative of the contempt for the military seeing how all veterans either worked with or supported the use of “armaments”.

Why are nonprofits and government agencies hesitant to hire veterans in meaningful jobs? From experience we know liberals are some of the most intolerant, especially in a workplace environment and reliable, hardworking Republican veterans would intrude in their safe spaces.

Also, a hardworking veteran would expose the lackadaisical approach of co-workers and it’s just easier to point him or her to a mop instead of a desk.

Any veteran who has visited a veteran nonprofit or government agency serving veterans will note the amount of people who clearly never served, been homeless, let alone missed a meal. There is often no sense of urgency and understanding of the plight when veterans are given a photocopied piece of paper, phone numbers, or links directing them to yet another nonprofit or government agency. And if you were to look at the use of funds donated or directed to veterans, the ROI is an obvious fail.

While it’s easy for some to criticize Donald Trump’s fundraising for veterans, let’s also remember that some of those running for president have been instrumental in funding (through legislation) the very scandal-plagued government/nonprofit machine that receives taxpayer and/or charitable donations that benefit those entities FIRST, and actually helping veterans is something they won’t do because it would potentially put hundreds of thousands out of lucrative employment.

As for Mr. Trump, bringing attention to veterans is laudable.

We just don’t think he really understands just how bad the problems are, made worse by those who claim to be helping.