SPLC funded cross burnings; new rule will track federal ballots | Hour 3

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It was such a threat even though it was in so they had to pay people to manufacture more of that and then use the donations that they received from people who were against the racism and against the white supremacy to fund the growing of the white supremacy and the racism right. Okay, so that was the original indictment. Well, the Department of Justice this week secured what's called a superseding indictment, which means these are it's like really powerful seeds that they plant. I'm kidding. Superseding indictment means like, now this is in addition to it takes precedent over, it supersedes the previous indictment okay, again against the Southern Poverty Law Center. In this superseding indictment, the SPLC allegedly paid at least three people who actually wanted to leave the white supremacist movement. Okay, so they had three people that were trying to get out, and so the SPLC gave them a bunch of money to not get out, to stay. They paid them to stay. A federal grand jury back in April indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering, which, given the information in the indictment, is pretty clear that that is exactly what the SPLC did, like particularly when it came to lying on bank application forms they made up a couple of companies, and these were shell companies that they just passed the money through, so it wouldn't have the SPLC on the check that they were handing to the the white supremacists. Right. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges. While the organization purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred, according to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose. Correct. Right, there was such a short supply of racial hatred in America that the people whose mission is to fight the racial hatred had to pay people to promote racial hatred. See, this is the problem. This is the same sort of thing that you have with like these NGOs and these nonprofits that get set up in order to fight you know, homelessness addiction. USAID is another example of this kind of thing, like where we're going to take a bunch of money in government grants and we're going to fight this thing, and then it turns out that the people who are making the most amount of money off of the thing is the people who are supposed to be fighting the thing. And the thing never gets solved, right, that problem never gets fixed. And that's what Spencer Pratt was talking about in that video clip that I played last week where he's like, here's the plan to address homelessness, which isn't really homelessness, its addiction, and he went through his five point plan. Because you have nonprofits that set themselves up and they are led by political allies of the elected officials. The elected officials take the taxpayer money by force, and they then hand it off to their allies running the nonprofits to quote fix the problem. The problem only gets worse, which then requires more more money to be funneled to the political allies nonprofit and then that money is turned around and donated back to the elected officials. Limbaugh outlined this money laundering operation like that's what all of this stuff has become, virtually all of it. The charges revolve around the SPLC's program paying what they called field sources inside white supremacist groups such as the q klux Klan and neo Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants information did actually lead to prosecutions. However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations, and the superseding indictment reveals more details of those allegations. For example, the superseding indictment. This is according to Tyler O'Neill's piece at the Daily Signal, the Field sources used the money from the SPLC to increase to grow the extremist groups, increase their roles, add new members. They used it for recruitment, which again, if your mission is to dismantle these groups, why are you paying to grow them. Field sources use the money to attend and host extremist group rallies, grow and create new chapters, recruit new members, donate to extremist group leaders, purchase materials for cross burnings. They literally, the SPLC literally paid for the cross burnings. Think about that. And also the money was used to purchase materials to make KKK robes and hoods. Not sure about tiki torches. I don't know if that was one of the expenses, but one of the Field sources identified as F nine, that's what they're all of these unnamed Field sources in the indictment, they're all numbered. I think the numbering actually was done by the SPLC. That's what they would call them. They called them f's. I don't know. I guess it stands for field, but there's no S. So anyway, F nine reportedly had a romantic relationship with an SPLC employee. Oh my god. Okay, so are right, Hang on a second, Like, I understand why the reduction in racial hatred would jeopardize your business model. I do get that. I'm not saying it's right, Okay, I'm not defending it. I'm just saying I understand why that would jeopardize your business model. However, I don't really understand why somebody who is working at the SPLC, who I would assume is like on board with the mission. I'm not really sure why that employee would be stopping Graham Platner, I'm sorry, would be yeah, sorry, don't would be yeah, would be having relations with one of the whites premises that I feel like, I don't know, maybe it was part of the deradicalization program. I don't know. Maybe I am unclear. There's non information in the superseding indictment about this. It just says there's a there was a romantic relationship between one of the SBLC employees and F nine. F nine infiltrated the neo Nazi organization called the National Alliance and received one hundred and forty thousand dollars from the SPLC. F nine shared bank accounts with the SBLC employee, who used the cash to pay for the couple's personal living expenses, so they lived together. They were, oh, my gosh, Okay, now this this takes on a different character. No, like now it's now it's it's it's not just that you're funding the cross burnings and the hoods and the robes and such, the recruitment efforts and the new chapters, but now you're also paying for your utilities and rent. With this money from the donors, the SPLC not only paid white supremacist leaders and members, but actually convinced them to stay in the extremist groups when they tried to leave the movement. Yes, then there's another F named F thirty who used donor money to travel to extremist rallies, host rallies, donated money to leaders of other extremist groups recruit new members into his extremist group. Publish racist and extremist material for the purpose of recruiting new members, as well as created racist paraphernalia to sell at rallies to raise money for the extremist organization. This was all known to employees of the SPLC as they continued to secretly funnel donor money to F thirty. F thirty one actively recruited new members using donor money. F thirty two also participated in recruiting new members using donor money. The SPLC also allegedly reimbursed these field sources for the expenses that they incurred for the cross burning events. Yes, so okay, keep all of this information in mind because the SPLC's interim CEO, Brian Fair is his name. Brian Fair will testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week. I will make a prediction. I don't make them often, but I'm going to make a prediction. He's not going to answer really anything. He's going to cite an ongoing investigation. He's going to cite the indictment, and he's not gonna say anything. You know, stories are pas powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past. While transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Mint Hill, North Carolina. 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I'm trying to picture the SPLC's workshop where they're using all the materials to make all the crosses in the white rooms. Okay, I don't think. I don't think that the SPLC was actually doing like the stitching. You know, they weren't sewing on the patches. They weren't you know, they weren't like constructing the cross and dipping it in the kerosene or whatever. I don't think they were doing that. I think they were just they were just like paying the white supremacy groups and the clan. They were giving them the money so they could do it. Because after all, I mean, it's like stay in your lane, you know, it's like comparative advantage and economics. You know, like these guys are already experts at that stuff. Like I wouldn't even know, Like where do you go to get a clan robe? Like I assume you have to make those yourself, But I don't know. I guess they're a store or something you ordered them on like eBay or whatever. I don't know, because I think like they just gave the money to the experts, let them, you know, make the stuff. I don't think the SPLC folks were, but maybe they were. Maybe they had a little workshop tucked off the you know, to the side of the compound or whatever, and you never go in there. We don't show people that on the tour. I don't know. Richard says, my son's veteran group was slandered by the SPLC as racist and right wing for helping people in Appalachia after Hurricane Helene. This is the finest group of veterans you'll find. SPLC is just trying to create hate. Yeah. Thomas Soule talked about this years ago, saying that there is such a lack of this kind of racial hatred that it has to be manufactured, and that's what the SPLC was doing. Ian says, I wonder if the SBLC had operatives in the J six crowd. I have no doubt. I have zero doubt that there was at least one SPLC paid person inside that crowd. I have no doubt. Seven oh four number says Hey Pete. This SPLC deal sounds like a great plot for a new rom com, maybe starring Graham Platner. Ooh, I like it. I like it. Jennifer says. It looks like Democrats are finally going to be exposed for the real racist we have always known them to be. These people are in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I mean yeah, the SBLC is in some serious hot water over this stuff, as they should be. Eddie says, any church or religious organization that's worth millions of dollars and more is probably a criminal entity. Well, I don't know. Jeff says, they cannot be serious. The SPLC's CEO is Brian fair Be fair really Look, I'm just telling that's the guy's name. But I do feel like we're living like yeah, we're like we're living in like a Dickensian novel or something. There are so many times like people's names are attached with stories that like Charles Dickens would have written so you could remember, like is that a bad guy or good guy? Like what do they do? What's their role in this story? And so he'll give them a name so you could remember what they do whatever. Anyway, like have a sham that was a big one. Anyway, read, we need to hear from Tony and Charlotte City Council and mayor throwing Obama, Biden, Hillary and Greg Popovich. Steve Kirk could he please disavow the KKK. Yeah, it is interesting how many people have not spoken out that we're always so very vocal about the rise of white supremacy. It's the biggest thread and all of this stuff. And this is again just like what the New York Times did with the grand Platner story, right, this is its information laundering. Right. You get this left wing nonprofit quote unquote that puts out these reports, right that then feed the news cycle. The news then says, oh my gosh, white supremacy on the rise, new story, news story, news story everywhere, ro all over the place. Democrats, lefties, they were all like, oh my gosh, look at the rising white supremacy. Throw a bunch of more money at the SPLC because they're fighting the fight, right, and then they just keep making the same donations to the people that are giving them the taxpayer money. Things I learned right now actually was that Fang worked on Roe Kana's twenty fourteen congressional campaign. I did not know that. You know, Fang Fang, the former paramour and Chinese communist spy that was hooked up with Eric Swoalwell, apparently she also worked for Rokanna. I don't know if it was just like you know, campaign activity or anything beyond that, but maybe that's why he has opposed releasing all of the Fang Fang files as they are dubbed on the text line. Jeff says, Bernie Madoff comes to mind as well, speaking of these Dickensian names. Right, he had to be a con man. I mean his last name alone should have told you that he made off with all the money exactly right. Like, I don't understand why people couldn't see that scam coming a mile away. Hi, my name is made Off. I'd like all your money. What no, Eric says Pete. What people don't understand is how much the SPLC subsidized these groups, these white supremacy groups and people. They took was sorry, they took what was at most a side hustle for these individuals and paid them enough to make it a full time job. It would be like me getting paid extra money to go fishing. I would turn it into my full time job when in the real world that ain't happening. Yeah, that's a great point. I mean, because at some point, you know, you got to keep up with the membership lists, you got to go to the meetings and stuff. You got to I mean, who takes care of all the robes, Like you got to assemble the crosses to burn? You got all of this stuff. I mean it's like, gosh, like this is annoying. This is a time suck. You know, really I'm really enjoying this work anymore. I mean, okay, fine, like I can, I can volunteer, you know, like once a month or whatever, you know what I mean, Like anybody that's been in you know, an HOA or a volunteer group of any kind, like you know, there are always like one or two individuals that do most of the work and then everybody else just kind of shows up for the cross burning, right, But the Southern Poverty Law Center, right, they can pay people. Well now it's like, well I'm gonna start going to more of these events. I'm gonna get more active, you know, really nefarious stuff. And by the way, the investigation into the SBLC, I believe, if I remember correctly, it began under Joe Biden. So this is not a weaponization of the DOJ by Donald Trump. Now there is something that the Trump administration has done. They published a new postal rule. Wait wait wait wait no, no, this is important. Okay, don't tune now. I know, like I started talking about postal service and stuff, like that, people's eyes glaze over. It's a federal register notice. Oh booze boring, right, No, but this is important. But I'll tell you why in a second. But you're probably going to be able to figure it out when I tell you this quick story over it floppingaces dot net. Earlier this year, the state of Maryland mailed a lesson to the rest of the country, but it did not mean to do so. A vendor error sent voters the wrong party's primary ballots. Okay, so if you're a Democrat in Maryland, you were getting the Republican ballots and a Republican voter was getting the Democrat ballots. Slight problem, right. When officials tried to repair the mistake, they discovered they could not reliably tell which voters had received which ballot. They didn't know. More than half a million ballots had been requested, about four hundred and forty seven thousand of them by mail, and the state was forced to reissue ballots wholesale because it could not trace its own own mail system, its own mail stream. Okay, this was not fraud. It was something quieter and in a way more revealing. A blue state using a third party vendor that it could not control, committed an enormous error, and then could not even measure the size of the error that had been committed. That's the status quo, and that's precisely what Trump's new postal rule will end. This proposal was published as a Federal Register notice on May twenty ninth. It has been described by its opponents as a guess what what do you think? What do you think? Democrats and media? But I repeat myself, what do you think? What do you think? They're calling it? Okay? Besides like fascism, authoritarian, literal, hitler whatever, right suppression. This is a federal takeover of the American election system. Right, but it's not the rule to something far more modest and far more defensible. It declines to keep running federal ballots through the nation's own mail system, blind, untracked, unaccountable. The proposal would mean that a state that wants to use the US Postal Service to distribute and collect federal ballots, so just the federal ones, must hand the Postal Service the names and addresses of the voters that are receiving them, along with unique barcodes that are on the outbound envelope and the return envelope, which kind of makes sense and in fact does make so much sense that like, most states already do this, but some states do not. So it links the ballot that goes out the door from the Board of Elections to the ballots that get returned, so you know that they legitimately got the ballot that was sent to them, and now they're sending it back. With that data, the agency can compare how many ballots went out against how many came back and flag the gaps for further review. The states keep total control over who's eligible, right, that's a state function. What they can't do is demand that the federal mail system carry ballots with no data, no chain of custody, and no way to distinguish a real ballot from a phantom one. And by the way, if this sounds at all familiar, this mechanism sounds familiar, it's because like everything you buy online is handled this way. There are tracking numbers on everything. You can watch your package move across the country. You see a little car making its way to your house to deliver the thing. Right, this is already in use for the purchase of like almost just every single thing online. This is not new and get this, The rule actually was implemented and created under Democrat control in Colorado. Okay, so this is not some right wing conspiracy thing. It does not invent surveillance. The bar code sits on the envelope, never on the ballot itself, so the secrecy of the vote is preserved. This is not a novel and frightening technology. It is the ordinary machinery of a modern logistics system applied at at last to the one object we have inexplicably agreed to ship without a receipt, your ballots. So good rule, Trump administration. Good rule fully endorsed. As I mentioned moments ago, Colorado's actually came out of Denver. They were the first ones to start doing this project of the bar coding on the ballots, envelopes and such. It was championed actually by progressive election administrators. By twenty twenty, forty six states had adopted some form of ballot tracking, and the leading vendor now serves nineteen states and nearly four hundred counties, tracking about one in every four ballots cast in the United States. The Brennan Center for Justice, an institution that you should never confuse as a conservative outfit, concedes that Most jurisdictions already use internal barcodes to follow mail ballots from issuance through acceptance. States like California, Colorado, Florida already equipped their envelopes with intelligent mail bar codes. So the tech is not really in dispute here. It is the mainstream, It is bipartisan, and it's already in your mailbox. The only thing the proposed rule changes is that the standard becomes uniform and enforceable in federal contests. The Left loved this tool when it controlled the tool. It hates the tool now that the standard has slipped beyond its management. So we get the cries of voters suppression and such. You'll be shocked to learn that one of the lawyers presiding over this case and trying to prompt panic is Mark Elias, the cutout bagman for Hillary Clinton's campaign, who did the Russia Russia collusion hoax and the steal dossier payments and all of that. Okay, When the attorney whose entire career has been built on contesting ballot safeguards reacts to a simple tracking rule with this degree of alarm, he's not concealing the soft spot in the system. He's pointing directly at it. This is the soft spot. We can't have this. No, no, no, no, we can't use this. By the way, that's why it's taking not this isn't why. But relatedly, like it's gonna take a month for them to count ballots in California. It's insane. It is absolutely nuts. I was gonna get to that this week, but I ran out of time. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.