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	Saltire hijacked by US far-right group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The starry rebel cross of Old Dixie, the flag of the breakaway southern states, was modelled on the Saltire, and the white rebels in the deep south have mythologised their imagined Scottish heritage ever since.
		The Southern Poverty Law Centre is one of the most virulent hate organizations in America, and should not be given the sort of credence that this writer gives them.
		The best way to deal with the SPLC is to look at what they are actually saying, and ignore their self-righteous smearing of anyone who dares to challenge their premises--which are pretty close to the traditional premises of Communism.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/757157/posts (3094 words)

	Southern Poverty Law Center
		The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was established in Montgomery, Alabama in 1971 by Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin and Julian Bond.
		After the lynching of Michael Donald in 1981, the SPLC represented his mother, Beulah Mae Donald, in a civil suit which resulted in a $7 million liability judgment which bankrupted the United Klans of America.
		The SPLC also sponsors the Civil Rights Memorial which celebrates the memory of 40 individuals who died during the Civil Rights Movement.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAsplc.htm (168 words)

	Lou Dobbs' Dubious Guest List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) Intelligence Report catalogued a number of occasions when Dobbs overlooked controversial statements, inflammatory websites, and white-supremacist connections of some of his anti-immigration guests.
		Last year, during a segment on the Minuteman Project, Joe McCutchen, who the SPLC reports heads an anti-immigration group called Protect Arkansas Now, and wrote a series of anti-Semitic letters to the editor and gave a speech to the Council of Conservative Citizens, was quoted.
		Dobbs, revered in anti-immigration quarters, won the 2004 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration, given by the Centre for Immigration Studies, an organisation that SPLC says claims to be a nonpartisan research institute, "but in fact is a thinly disguised anti-immigration organisation".
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0701-08.htm (1077 words)

	American Renaissance
		The civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Centre has joined the battle and is running a candidate of its own to highlight the issue.
		I’m Canadian.” He said that at the present rate of growth, the US population would reach 1 billion by the end of the century, and that that was unsustainable.
		He added that the Southern Poverty Law Centre was being hypocritical by raising the race issue, not least because one of the candidates was fl.
	www.amren.com /news/news04/01/27/sierra.html (963 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - Alabama clings to segregationist past - US state with racist history votes to keep ...
		Almost 50 years since Rosa Parks was ejected from a bus in the shadow of the governor's mansion because she would not move to the back, most people thought the amendment to remove the segregation clause would pass fairly easily.
		But many in Alabama believe the taxation argument was simply a ruse for white southerners to flex their muscles, even on a symbolic issue.
		After the US supreme court ordered the end of segregation 50 years ago, many white southerners simply moved their children from state schools to private academies, often referred to as "seg academies" because they effectively kept segregation intact.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2004120115.html (1311 words)

	SIU Law Library: Intergovernmental Organizations
		CGIAR's mission is to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through scientific research and research-related activities in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, policy, and environment.
		Movement of 115 member countries representing the interests and priorities of developing countries; current focus is the advocacy of solutions to global economic and other problems.
		International organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations; the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments, are the founding charter of the organization and the basis for everything the WTO does.
	www.law.siu.edu /lawlib/topical/IGO.htm (950 words)

	americas.org - Amid Solidarity, "Nativists" Grow More Violent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to Burghart, the centre has received a number of reports of veiled threats of violence coming from radio talk show hosts in other parts of the country as well.
		Recently, two civil rights organisations, the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League, issued reports documenting the rise in both violence and the threat of violence against undocumented immigrants.
		According to SPLC's report, Lawless, who was an original member of Chris Simcox's vigilante militia before it became the Minuteman Project in early 2005, suggested a number of ways to harass and terrorise undocumented immigrants, including robbery and ''beating up illegals'' as they leave their workplace.
	www.americas.org /item_26986 (964 words)

	Bacon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In September 1626 he protested, in behalf of the London merchants, against the proposed debasement of the coinage, and his arguments, which he wrote out in A Discourse touching Alteration of Coyne chiefly led to the abandonment of the vicious scheme.
		For lawyers and judges, the library was a storehouse of the case law which it has been argue d (with considerable exaggeration) dominated their attitudes.
		It is evident of Cotton's standing in the House of Commons that though he did not sit in th e Parliament of 1614, he was consulted on the most important issue.
	www.southern-style.com /Cotton.htm (13977 words)

	English News Archive: February 24 to February 22, 1999
		Potok said the law center had also noted a shift in the demographics of the target audience for the white supremacist message.
		The Montgomery, Alabama-based centre, a human rights organisation that tracks hate groups and their activities, said hate sites on the Internet had grown by nearly 60 percent, from 163 in 1997 to 254 at the end of 1998.
		Potok said the Southern Poverty Law Centre had also noted a shift in the demographics of the target audience for the white supremacist message.
	www.vho.org /News/GB/SRN8_99.html (7613 words)

	The Review - The Swastika and the Crescent
		Perhaps the best contemporary snapshot of this Nazi-Islamist extremist axis comes in the person of one Ahmed Huber, a neo-Nazi whose home in a suburb of Berne was raided by Swiss police on Nov. 8, after US officials identified him as a linchpin in the financial machinations of Osama bin Laden.
		The raid was part of a coordinated law enforcement dragnet that seized records from the offices of Al Taqwa, an international banking group.
		After hijacked aeroplanes demolished the World Trade Centre and damaged the Pentagon, a number of Muslim newspapers published a flurry of articles by American white supremacists ranting against Israel and the Jews.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/2002/275/essay275.html (3763 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. support for UK extremists - August 31, 2001
		In Montgomery, Alabama, the Southern Poverty Law Centre has spent over a year investigating the activities of the BNP in the U.S. "This party is in the thick of some very ugly things in England," says spokesman Mark Potok, "And Americans are paying for it."
		Potok, however, believes that Cotterill is breaking the law, and has written to the Department of Justice to raise the issue.
		British electoral law restricts overseas political donations from individuals to a maximum of £200 ($280).
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/31/britain.extremism (1091 words)

	University of Michigan Law School: News and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Professor Douglas Laycock is a national authority on the law of remedies and law of religious liberty, frequently testifies before Congress, and has argued numerous cases in courts including the Supreme Court.
		Assistant Professor Eve Brensike is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked in trial and appellate divisions of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender.
		The University of Michigan Law School’s Voting Rights Initiative (VRI) has demonstrated that the Voting Rights Act has provided relief from state and local laws and practices that have resulted in the denial or abridgement of the voting rights of racial and language minorities since 1982.
	www.law.umich.edu /NewsandInfo/april2006.htm (2314 words)

	MajorityRights.com: A site for the discussion of issues affecting Western societies
		He argues that not all cultures are equally committed to democracy, and that democracy and the rule of law might not be preserved if Australia “eventually decides to reject its own culture on account of multiculturalism”.
		Most readers will be aware of the Southern Poverty Law Centre: a well-funded left-wing American group which targets those who don’t accept the “diversity” agenda.
		Well, the SPLC have scored another victory, one which is politically revealing.
	majorityrights.com /index.php/weblog/C39 (2894 words)

	Miltia Movement and Patriot Groups : 'We're living in 1930s Germany' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Outside urban centres and college towns, this is a very popular point of view.
		Indeed, while McVeigh's bomb is often blamed for the decline of the outlaw groups of the 1990s, they may have collapsed simply because their antigovernment creed has become such an acceptable mainstream force.
		Roman explained to his son that federal laws limit home use of this gun to a 10-shot magazine, rather than the 40-shot magazines used by armies around the world.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an010616-02.html (2896 words)

	Cyberhate goes into overdrive
		The claims vary -from there being the same number of Jews at wars end as before the war, to "only" 200,000 Jews killed; that there were no gas chambers or mass cremations, to the ovens being used only to stop the spread of typhus.
		The adjudications of the Canadian HRT (and similar bodies worldwide) are primarily directed at eliminating discriminatory conduct rather than punishing the offender, though a cyber-hate conviction was achieved this year for the first time after a Californian college drop-out sent threatening email to dozens of Asian students.
		Another is Klanwatch, run by the Southern Poverty Law Centre in Alabama, which not only monitors the activity of hate site operators and racist groups, but conducts educational programs to counter the effects of bigoted language and materials.
	www.aijac.org.au /review/1998/2313/cyberhate2313.html (1836 words)

	White supremacist movement in disarray, says US report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Miami -- The white supremacist movement in the United States is in disarray owing to a spate of arrests, money woes, and the death of a key neo-Nazi leader, says a civil rights organisation that tracks hate groups.
		A US crackdown on white supremacists was likely due in part to the federal government's restructuring of its domestic security after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
		The Southern Poverty Law Centre said it counted 708 active hate groups in the United States in 2002, up about 5 per cent from 676 in 2001.
	www.rickross.com /reference/supremacists/supremacists105.html (481 words)

	Myth #8 - Islam is a Tolerant Religion
		In fact, racism is more of a problem caused by those claiming to fight it, such as the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Centre, than it is from the traditional (and dying) groups like the Klan or the Aryan Nations.
		This is the law of the ulama of Islam.
		Muslims in Nigeria are imposing shari'a law in many northern states in that country, in violation of Nigerian law, and impose this on the many non-Muslims in those states.
	www.studytoanswer.net /myths_ch8.html (10256 words)

	Facts About Media Violence and Effects on the American Family: Christian Resource Centre (Bermuda)
		The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has documented more than a dozen cases in the last year of cyberspace seduction by paedophiles in which children were lured by on-line predators into travelling to locations hundreds of miles from their homes where they were then sexually assaulted.
		Due to their role-modelling capacity to promote real world violence, there is deep concern that playing violent video games, with their fully digitalised human images, will cause children to become more aggressive towards other children and become more tolerant of, and more likely to engage in, real-life violence.
		The Parents Music Resource Centre reports that American teenagers listen to an estimated 10,500 hours of rock music between the 7th and 12th grades alone - just 500 hours less than they spend in school over twelve years.
	www.nisbett.com /child-ent/facts_about_media_violence.htm (1240 words)

	Selected Diversity Web-based Resources
		Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre has a wide array of relevant publications and educational video resources related to Alberta’s human rights laws and promoting acceptance.
		Cultural Profiles Project at the AMNI Centre, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, has an interesting web site featuring snapshots of various cultures.
		Southern Poverty Law Centre has a number of excellent resources available.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~dtoolkit/selecteddiversitywebbasedresources.htm (1111 words)

	Political Correctness - Anthony Browne - Retreat of Reason
		Groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Centre have proved very effective at silencing those they deem guilty of ‘hate’.
		Various human rights laws, charters, conventions and treaties, from the UN to Europe to the Human Rights Act, create an entire international and domestic legal framework that upholds PC values and beliefs, making it very difficult for future governments to challenge them.
		When Michael Howard, the Conservative leader, said in 2005 that if elected Prime Minister he would take Britain out of the UN convention on refugees, he was told by the European Commission that he had no legal right to, and Britain would immediately be taken to the European Court of Justice.
	www.angryharry.com /boretreatofreason2.htm (2036 words)

	dumbass americans :: you guys are fascists! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mark Potok, of the Southern Poverty Law Centre in Alabama, recognises the Minuteman volunteers' stated intention to patrol peacefully.
		But, says Jeff Passel of the Pew Hispanic Centre, no amount of danger will deter immigrants as long as a better life beckons beyond the wire - dooming current border policies to failure.
		Laws enforced by a government that we vote for.
	www.politicalforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=9285 (1959 words)

	Center for Spirituality and Justice - Swope Endowed Lectureship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After graduation from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1960, he returned to Montgomery, Alabama, where he opened a law office and continued his mail order business.
		He was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in 1987, given the Public Service Achievement Award from Common Cause in 1988, received the Roger Baldwin Award from the American Civil Liberties Union in 1989, the Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Dees is Chief Trial Counsel and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
	www2.ups.edu /dsa/spirituality_justice/Swope/MDees.htm (885 words)

	t r u t h o u t - John F. Sugg \| Mississippi Editor Shows Guts in the Face of Hatred
		There was no federal law against lynching and most states refused to prosecute whites for killing fl people.
		According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre in Alabama, 25 of them have been re-examined or are under re-examination.
		None of this swayed the Senate, where southerners insisted a federal law would intrude on states' rights.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/061305B.shtml (2033 words)

	Trinicenter.com - Don't take the blue pill
		Take the blue pill and the story ends with the cases of these men and the vile acts of which they are accused.
		There is equal opportunity in Philadelphia." If Prince is right, then the poverty, low levels of educational achievement, unemployment and high prison rates among fls, not just in Philadelphia but elsewhere in the state and the country, can only be explained by fl people's genetic inability or inherent unwillingness to seize those opportunities.
		Those who deride Make Poverty History and other activists for their naivety in trying to challenge inequalities bequeathed from the past are in need of a new slogan for a new wristband: Make History Impoverished.
	www.trinicenter.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1077 (1315 words)

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		But in 1691 after the rebellion, Virginia enacted laws that designated "white" as a social class and tightened the enslavement noose for fls.
		Even though this law gave new privilege to whites, it could not have been the only impetus that leads to Joe and Jane's rationale today.
		The SPLC is known for their work in keeping people informed and educated on the activities of the Ku Klux Clan and white supremacist groups.
	www.thedish.org /TheDISHv8no31.htm (2238 words)

	Where Someone's Pocket Change Can Feed Another's Family For a Week
		The Southern Poverty Law Centre has filed two collective action lawsuits in New Orleans on behalf of several thousand workers who say they have not been paid or were underpaid.
		"There is a general sense here at the moment that the only law that matters is the law of power," says Jennifer Rosenbaum, a lawyer with the centre's immigrant justice project.
		We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
	www.commondreams.org /views06/0220-24.htm (1330 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks domestic extremists groups, called on US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward white supremacist groups in the military.
		But the centre said standards have been relaxed because of wartime recruiting pressures, allowing large numbers of people with links to neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups to join the military.
		It cited neo-Nazi and white supremacist publications that encourage their followers to join the military to get combat training.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Americas&month=July2006&file=World_News2006070844441.xml (326 words)

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