I’ll be the first to admit, people who refuse to compromise their principles under any circumstances can be utterly terrifying. Defiance, in its purest form, requires fearlessness; a brand of fearlessness we have little experience of today. For many in our society, fearlessness in the face of immeasurable opposition is unthinkable, and (unjustly) considered a sign of “madness”, or of “extremism”. To go against the tides of a culture, a collective, and point out its crimes and inconsistencies, is so counter to what they have been conditioned to expect, any sign of dissent triggers in them feelings of confusion and fury.
The Liberty Movement, and all it’s more specific and specialized branches, represents a resurgence of the immovable ideal. We refuse to set aside the truth. We refuse to relinquish our freedoms. We refuse to be silent. We refuse to negotiate. Regardless of the consequences, and despite contrary impositions of so called “national security”, we simply will not go away. This kind of philosophy is a serious obstacle for any establishment system which seeks to maintain or even expand its base of power. If you cannot buy off a person, if you cannot co-opt a person, and if you cannot frighten him into compliance, then all that is left to do is to demonize his public character, lock him up, or kill him. Men of conscience force the agents of centralization to expose their inherent tyranny before they are ready for the citizenry to know who they really are. Frankly, the Liberty Movement is a considerable pain in the neck for those who would see the American dynamic distorted to the benefit of a select few.
We wear this distinction like a badge of honor. If we were not a threat to the globalist corporatist strategy, then they would not consistently go out of their way to attack us. They attack us, because we are doing something right.
Only days ago the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the most prevalent propaganda think tank tied to the wretched tentacles of the Department Of Homeland Security (DHS), released yet another hit piece article slandering not just the Liberty Movement in general, or specific spokesmen like Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers, Chuck Baldwin of Liberty Fellowship, or James Rawles of Survivalblog fame, but also a specific action the movement has taken, namely, the relocation projects now gaining steam in the northwest Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S. You can read that disparaging editorial, called “A Gathering Of Eagles: Extremists Look To Montana”, here:
The hit piece was of course perfectly timed with the announcement of Bob Fanning and Chuck Baldwin’s run for Governor and Lt. Governor of Montana in 2012. However, beyond the obvious attempt to preemptively derail a campaign that would bring back 10th Amendment awareness to Montana and effectively restrict overt Federal involvement in state politics, there is a distinctive tone of dismay from the SPLC over Liberty Movement projects that involve active organization and community building.
From Liberty Fellowship’s relocation program, to James Rawles’ American Redoubt, Stewart Rhodes’ Operation Sleeping Giant, and my own Safe Haven Project through Alt-Market.com, the powers-that-be are noticeably perturbed at the very idea of Americans walking away from their computers, leaving their homes, talking to each other face-to-face, and forming mutual aid groups. God forbid…
Mark Potok, the frontman for the SPLC, has remained an entertainingly impotent figure, and I’ve always seen his bumbling media statements and actions as more helpful to the movement than hurtful, but there comes a point in any nation teetering on the brink of oligarchy when the propagandists start to gain more power and more sway in the way activist groups are treated.
For now, the SPLC’s job is essentially to make average people with little background information believe that what we are doing here in the Northwest is first, a fringe activity with little support or reach beyond the boundaries of the Rocky Mountains. Second, that it is a movement based on inherent violence and a threat to the safety of average citizens. And third, that it is organized around racist methodologies, or any other socially detestable lifestyles they can come up with off the tops of their heads. The SPLC engages in this propaganda using the ever popular fallback strategies outlined by Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Hillary Clinton who believed that in social debate, there are no rules of engagement, and that those who play honorably, play to lose. For Alinsky, being right or factual in how you argue your position was unimportant. Instead, the point was to win, at any cost, even if you know you are entirely wrong.
Alinsky tactics relied heavily on character assassination. If you cannot effectively counter the arguments of your opponent, he believed, then you must attack his personal integrity, so that no one will listen to his ideas.
In his book “Rules For Radicals”, Alinsky also claims that effective action requires the “passport” of morality, meaning, the appearance of moral compass, but not necessarily honest intent. He goes on to say:
“…You do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral arguments…Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or use of ends or means.”
He elaborates further:
“…The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe’s conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action; in action, one does not always enjoy a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind.”
In other words, Alinsky taught that taking on a false position of moral righteousness was important in influencing popular support, and, in convincing people to accept criminal methods as long as the end result met some arbitrarily assigned “greater good”. For Alinsky, lying is acceptable, hurting the innocent is acceptable, creating chaos and crisis is acceptable, if his concept of a “better world” is ultimately achieved in the process. If this doesn’t describe the underlying corrupt nature of the SPLC perching on their fabricated moral high horse while casting down judgments designed to manipulate rather than inform, I don’t know what does.
“The Nesting Of Eagles” uses subversion, false association, fear mongering, and blatantly disingenuous accusations in a fashion classic to Alinsky’s strategies. However, its poor composition and remedial narrative give it the tone of a frustrated pre-teen lashing out at what he doesn’t understand. I suppose we can be thankful that the SPLC still refuses to hire any competent writers, otherwise, the Liberty Movement might be in trouble.
Below, let’s outline the generalizations made in the article, as well as the insinuations they construct. Here is what the SPLC is trying to imply about the relocation and organizational projects of the Northwest, and the people who were brave enough to start them:
We’re All Racists
The only real trick the SPLC seems to have up its sleeve is to constantly associate, directly or indirectly, every group that opposes corrupt state power as being racist or terrorist. They especially strive to make readers believe that Montana itself is some kind of breeding ground for neo-nazis. I have to say that in the course of my relocation and establishment here in the Flathead Valley, I have only met ONE dyed in the wool racist. In the first few months I lived in Pittsburgh, PA, I met dozens.
Does this mean that Montana is free of hate? No. But according to the SPLC’s very own “Hate Map” (…oh boy), our state actually ranks very low on the list:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map
States like Idaho and Wyoming rank equally or even lower, and yet we hear endless diatribes from the SPLC on how White Supremacists hide behind every rock and tree in these areas. Could it be that racism actually has nothing to do with their obsessive focus on our efforts? Oh, I think so…
The white supremacist that is consistently mentioned in the article is April Gaeda. I have never run into this woman during my time here. I have never seen her at any of the many meet-up groups or preparedness classes that take place here. I have never seen her at Chuck Baldwin’s services. As far as I can tell, no one in the movement here cares to know her at all. But, because she happens to live in the same area as us, our organizations are all made guilty by proximity?!
By this logic, the SPLC, whose headquarters is in Montgomery, Alabama, must be loaded with racists, and Mark Potok must dance daily around a burning cross. I mean, the League Of The South hangs out right down the road from them. Surely, there is room on the Hate Map for the likes of the SPLC, being that they are smack in the middle of so much bigotry…
We’re All Extremists
The word “extremism” is thrown around quite liberally by the SPLC and its representatives, but I have yet to hear them actually openly define what they mean by it. What makes someone an “extremist”? What definition does the SPLC or the DHS apply when they accuse movements like ours as being extremist entities? Is an extremist merely anyone who protests the abuse of governmental power? As a matter of fact, yes…
The truth was exposed clearly in the leaked and now highly publicized MIAC Report and the Virginia Fusion Center Threat Assessment, which used such broad profiles of extremist behavior that literally anyone who does not conform to current government policy could be labeled a danger, including veterans, and those who have Ron Paul bumper stickers on their vehicles:
http://www.constitution.org/abus/le/miac-strategic-report.pdf
http://publicintelligence.net/virginia-fusion-center-educational-facilities-threat-assessment/
Whether or not the SPLC was wholly responsible for the creation of the MIAC rhetoric handed out to police officers encouraging them to politically profile people is unclear, but what is clear is that the SPLC fully supported the assertions in the document back in 2009 despite massive legitimate criticism and is now pressing for its guidelines to be reinstituted:
What is the risk in allowing a purely establishment motivated construct like the SPLC to dictate the definitions of extremism as well as being given license to train law enforcement personnel? Eventually, we will see multiple activist groups harassed without probable cause due to their cultural and ideological concerns, and nothing more.
Honestly, I couldn’t care less what the SPLC or the DHS thinks of the Montana Safe Haven or the people who reside here. Their opinions are not important. Their actions, on the other hand, are. Any implementation of unconstitutional legislation or executive power which impedes the lives and freedoms of Americans, not just those in the Liberty Movement, should be met with unerring resistance. I and many others will NOT allow this particular path to gain favor. Government should always serve at the behest of the people. When it refuses to do so, it is no longer lawful. If this view makes me an “extremist”, then so be it…
We're All Kooky Conspiracy Theorists
If the racist label won’t stick, then the “conspiracy theorist” label is usually next in the SPLC’s toolbox. “Conspiracy theorist” is thinly veiled code for “crazy person”, let’s be honest. It is not uncommon throughout history for elites in power to accuse their opponents of insanity rather than face their factual arguments on their own merit. Insanity is like leprosy; no one wants to look at you, let alone listen to what you have to say. It is certainly an effective method to defuse a potential dissenting movement.
In the “Nesting Of Eagles” article, the SPLC makes a point to immediately pigeonhole Stewart Rhodes as being a “conspiracy theorist”, and Oath Keepers as being conspiracy oriented, without explaining exactly what Oath Keepers is. The bottom line? Oath Keepers encourages current serving or retired military and police to uphold their oaths to the Constitution. Gee, I didn’t realize that Constitutional law was so conspiratorial, or theoretical. I rarely if ever come across an SPLC article or interview which does not automatically mention Timothy McVeigh, white supremacists, or conspiracy theory in the same sentence when talking about Oath Keepers. This is not an accident.
Stewart Rhodes is a very good friend of mine, and a tireless champion for Constitutional freedom. Being a practicing lawyer, he could just as easily take on multiple wrongful arrest lawsuits (there are a lot of those nowadays) and make a tidy income for himself and his family. Instead, he struggles daily to ensure that police and military men and women know that following unconstitutional orders is not an option. He does this as much to protect them, as he does it to protect the citizenry. To see him lumped in with neo-nazis by the SPLC is more than disconcerting.
If our positions as a movement bear resemblance to falsehood or exaggeration, then I welcome the SPLC to confront those positions up front and in detail, rather than hiding behind words like “racist” and “conspiracy theorist”. Not only is it cowardly, but it is destructive of legitimate public discourse, because it prevents any honest debate from taking place. If Mark Potok wants to argue over the existing threats to Constitutional Law with Stewart Rhodes, the existing threats to freedom of speech and of religion with Chuck Baldwin, or the existing threats to the U.S. economy with myself, then let’s pick an unbiased forum to do so. Let us see how well the SPLC fares without the comfortable protections of the corporate mainstream media playground, shall we...
Always Pursue What They Fear
For the most part, SPLC and DHS attacks on our movement are a fantastic thing. Rarely if ever do they actually hurt the growth of our organizations. Instead, they draw more attention to our cause, and, they expose what the establishment fears most. Whatever strategies they try to persuade us from following, those are the strategies we should be exercising. If we aren’t making Mark Potok or Janet Napolitano progressively nervous on a regular basis, then we aren’t doing our jobs correctly.
Without a doubt, the relocation programs being instituted in the Northwest have struck a nerve. Large numbers of freedom oriented, intelligent, and talented individuals coming together to end participation in the rigged system and build something new? Of course they hate us! If we can set an example here, then millions of Liberty Movement participants around the country today might just follow it, or even improve upon it. Community without complacency has always been a threat to tyranny. Governments would much rather we stay idle in our homes in front of our TV’s and computer screens, and far away from each other. This is not how we do things in Montana, and I believe, it is not how most Americans will be doing things across the country very soon.
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written by harvey kline , November 21, 2011
What a amazing bit of truth!
As someone who has contacts deep inside the liberty movement. I know for a fact that the Nazi element is not welcome.
The Nazis have been glomming on to the Liberty movement for a couple years now. Since their ideology is so different from the Liberty movement I have to ask myself why.
Then I remember that so many in the Nazi movement are FBI/DHS (pick your alphabet soup name) informants.
written by Troy , November 21, 2011
Aren't Nazis national socialists? If so, they have much more in common with progressives than they do with libertarians or constitutionalists. The SPLC should be reaching out to them as kindred spirits.
written by David G. , November 21, 2011
I agree, I really don't care what others think of me....until they try to act against me. The Statist's are losing their grip on the collective, but they'll squeeze hard to keep what little remains.
Truth is nonnegotiable and uncompromising, me thinks a new era of truth is dawning. And, I love it.
-David
written by Daniel M. Parkman, Sr. , November 21, 2011
Find some patriotic links that are relevant to your post:
http://2012patriot.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/u-s-sheriffs-rise-up-against-federal-government-sheriff-threatens-feds-with-swat-team/
http://2012patriot.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/innocents-betrayed-the-history-of-gun-control/
written by Spartan , November 21, 2011
The SPLC is only shooting itself in the foot with such articles. You patriots on the front lines in the redoubt are being watched by many Americans spread across the country. We listen and we support you with our prayers and wish we too could join you. We are not ignorant and we know what is happening to our country. There are many patriots still left in this once-great land or ours who feel only resolve and become more committed when they read the crap that comes out of the SPLC. You are the Thomas Payne of our times Brandon.
written by Uncle Phillllllll , November 21, 2011
It is rare to see such a well penned article these days. 5 stars.
The funnestest part is that outside of the organizations, there are plenty of us grey men lurking...I will endure much, but in the end, MOLON LABE.
written by keydl , November 22, 2011
Excellent article, only things missing are definitions - progressives steal words and change the definition. For example when was the last time gay was used to mean 'happy and carefree.
Want to know what the Constitution really says - diagram and define each word. Many of the 'interprets' will only survive if the punctuation is moved or words are redefined, as in translation to a nonsense language language where the words don't matter.
written by Contrarian , November 22, 2011
I'll be, a man after m y own heart. Kudos to all up North.
written by Plain & Simple , November 22, 2011
With all the rhetoric, reports, studies, findings, investigations, official statements, etc., the single truth is this....free people are very hard to manipulate, steal from, intimidate, attack, humiliate, subjugate....just WAY too difficult to deal with! Isn't being an American great!
No matter how hard you try to discredit the Freedom Movement, you only highlight your tyrannical, anti-American objectives! It's a simple equation, if you are not "Free" then, you are imprisoned. Duh!
Another dead giveaway of a "wolf in sheep's clothing"...Southern Poverty Law Center? What does "Southern Poverty" have to do with attacking freedom?
Makes no sense at all!
Sounds just like the other famous misnomer called the Federal Reserve. Nothing "Federal" and no "Reserve"....just a group of privately owned banks that grabbed the US money supply control.
It's was a great hoax in it's day but, we have the Internet and we've seen a lot, heard a lot, and we are older...so, we know when the BS is being flung!
So give it up boys, the people who know what you are all about, will NEVER believe you (look at your name again, big lie)...and as far as the average Public is concerned.... they care less about what anyone is saying!
Yahtzee!
So, the people who think that they are "in charge" and have "delusional credibility" that we free people care, about anything they say, believe that the fear and lies that they spread will somehow....make sense to free people? Really?
I look at one simple fact and come to one simple conclusion - "Who controls the banks in the US? Who finances the wars of the US? Who buys the politicians in the US? Who controls the media in the US?
Freedom requires no "lobbying" from a special interest group. When
written by Sven , November 22, 2011
The SPLC is only known as this ADL Zionism attack front group. I would never bother listening to anything they said under any circumstances.
I support you doing whatever it is you want to do, but a retort to those SPLC nobody lowlifes is hardly worth reading.
I care too little about the SPLC to require people replying to them.
written by WillieG51 , November 22, 2011
To be honest, the SPLC scares me a lot more than any Montan "extremist". . I'm an extremist in my own right, now if only I could make their "hit list". .
written by Helen dukke from Canada , November 22, 2011
they were never in work camps they were the nazis.
written by Brian2 , November 22, 2011
Helen, have you ever heard of the I.G. Farben where about 400,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz to work at? Uf you Canadians weren't such pussies you would have free speech and understand these things.
written by Rich 172 , November 22, 2011
I have said all I need to in the title.
written by Lea , November 23, 2011
A quote from Barry Goldwater. The Right and Left in this country have more in common than they realize. I have spent much time in the local Occupy Wall St. camp and on their forum and have heard much the same as in your articles.
Many members of the original Tea Party ( Not the Glen Beck/Sarah Palin types) have sat down and had numerous conversations with OWS on how to avoid getting co-opted by the Dems as they were by the Reps and neo-cons.
Both groups have the same values, outlooks and respect for the Constitution and Bill of Rights. As you have the Nazi element infiltrating, we have the Communist infiltrator....which we DO NOT want.
Populist movements are rising around the world and the Establishment is trying harder every day to polarize us so that we demonize each other rather than address the issues of our societies together.
As someone once said (or should have said) you need two wings to fly.....a right and a left. Please, come visit us at an OWS camp. Sit down, have a cup of tea and let's talk together about how we can turn this country around and what we can do to survive the coming hard times.
written by Paul Bonneau , November 30, 2011
... that Free State Wyoming didn't make it into the SPLC hit piece. (www.freestatewyoming.org)
One other benefit behind the SPLC piece is that while it increases the attractiveness of Montana to freedom-lovers, it will scare the bejesus out of any freedom-haters who would consider moving there for things like pretty scenery. Good job, SPLC!
written by Sweet Home Alabama! , March 04, 2012
There I No Use trying To Beat These Blood Sucking Marxist Interlopers with fancy rhetoric filled with bullshit semantics. Words are their way of fighting against the good and just. The SPLC Just Sucks! Plain And Simple.
These word manipulators and twisted psychological manipulators most seriously aim to disarm us so they can then use their Golem to murder all of Christian America in their sleep as they did to at least 40 Million of our fellow Christians in Russia under the name of Bolshevism.
The State of Alabama,it's citizens, and it's flag is disgraced, dishonored, and spat upon openly by allowing this den of pernicious Communist snakes to thrive within it's borders!
I truly believe in the old axiom "Actions Speak Louder Than Words." We need to put the rhetoric aside, as arguing with a leftist is like trying to blow out a light bulb. It's high time we stop trying to fight their war of words on their terms and return the traditional manner in which all conventional warfare is waged.
written by a freeman , January 18, 2013
Great article, I support freedom and will die for it. Even though I live in Canada I saw the writing on the wall years when traditions were being changed to allow others to usurp those traditions. The only place I have found true freedom from government tyranny is in the Yukon where I can live off the grid. I support you in your endeavors.
God bless and may you stay free.
written by MARK TRAINA , June 08, 2014
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER – STATUS UPDATE – 06-06-2014
The SPLC and the ADL have come under fire in recent years by CHRISTIAN and CONSERVATIVE GROUPS, as well as, the FEDERAL BUREAU of INVESTIGATIONS which recently LABELED the SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER as a JEWISH HATE GROUP, along with its sister HATE GROUP the ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE!
Here is the latest news of these two ZIONNIST LEFTEST PRO-ABORTION, PRO-LGBT ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES, ANTI-WHITE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN and ANTI-CONSERVATIVE HATE GROUPS:
The most damaging and embarrassing information for the SPLC was the recent peer-reviewed study by North Texas University identifying the SPLC as being little more than left-wing hacks by displaying the bigotry and “hate” which they are accusing Christian and pro-family groups of participating in. As our scientific understanding of homosexuality advances and an increasing number of ex-gays and successful sexual orientation change therapists come to public awareness, the SPLC seems to have made an odd choice in choosing the oppressing side.
These activities may have played a role in the unceremonious dumping of the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League as resources by the FBI who did so without comment, a devastating blow to their validity and significance. The SPLC’s antagonism was largely blamed for a targeted shooting spree at the Family Research Council headquarters by a homosexualist supporter in August of 2012.
More on this Story: http://www.voiceofthevoiceless.info/splc-sued...
The SPLC and the ADL are closely tied in with the JEWISH owned and operated MAINSTREAM MEDIA, which selfishly controls 96% of the AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLETS– the following list (DIRTY DOZEN) of LIBERAL MEDIA OUTLETS are being BOYCOTTED by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE, as well as, CHRISTIAN, PATROIT and TEA PARTY GROUPS throughout NORTH AMERICA!
1) CNN
2) HLN
3) MSNBC
4) CNBC
5) OWN
6) ABC
7) CBS
8) NBC
9) The WASHINGTON POST
10) The HUFFINGTON POST
11) The NEW YORK TIMES
12) The LOS ANGELES TIMES
PLEASE join U.S. in our effort to SHUT DOWN all of the ZIONNIST GROUPS that are DESTROYING from within our own BORDERS? Please do not SUPPORT their OFFERINGS, or their SPONSORS?
GENERAL MOTORS and GENERAL ELECTRIC are two of the BIGGEST CORPORATE SPONSORS of ZIONNISM in AMERICA in 2014!
PLEASE join U.S. our WHITE BROTHERS and SISTERS in 2014? This is DEFINTELY a WINABLE BATTLE in our WAR for our GREAT AMERICAN WHITE CULTURE and GREAT AMERICAN WHITE HERITAGE!
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE -2014
written by MARK TRA , December 25, 2016
MARK ANTHONY TRAINA describes the SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER as the most FAKE ORGANIZATION in AMEIRCA, in 2017! The SPLC is infamous for making up FALSE NEWS STORIES, FILING BOGUS LAWSUITS, and RAISING MONEY, by PROMOTING IRRATIONAL FEARS! ... according to the SPLC, the KKK is the most DANGEROUS HATE GROUP in AMERICA, which everyone with half a brain knows is COMPLETE and UTTER BULLSHYT!
written by NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of AMERICAN CITIZENS , March 03, 2020
All the TOP BRASS at the SPLC has either RESIGNED, been FIRED, or forced into early RETIREMENT! The really good news is that they are all gone!
1) MORRIS DEES - FIRED
2) RICHARD COHEN - FORCED OUT
3) MARK POTOK - FORCED OUT
4) HEIDI BEIRICH - FORCED OUT
ALLEGATIONS:
1) SEXUAL HARASSMENT AGAINST EMPLOYEES
2) RACISM AGAINST EMPLOYES
3) MONEY LAUNDERING
4) FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS
5) BOGUS SMEAR CAMPAIGNS
6) POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING AS A NON-PROFIT
7) FALSE CLAIMS OF BEING CONNECTED TO THE FBI
Written by MARK ANTHONY TRAINA
