Scam operators effectively function as local government
βThey're essentially the law enforcement. They're the government.β
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βThey're essentially the law enforcement. They're the government.β
βToday, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11 count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.β
βThey had these slogans that would always chant before we'd start to work every day, and it was something like cripple the US and the European economy.β
βSince 2010, a search of the New York Times pulls up 711 instances where the SPLC is cited as an authority on hate or discrimination statistics. They are like the go to. The New York Times sees a Jussie Smollett story, and they call up somebody from the SPLC to talk about it. There's a Nick Fuentes story. They call the SPLC to talk about it. There's a Charlie Kirk story as it turns out, and they call up the SPLC to talk about it.β
βToday, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11 count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.β
βIf you go to any other country on planet Earth, what you will notice is that there is significantly more racism than there is in The United States. If you go to Japan, fair bit of racism in Japan. Go to South Korea, fair bit of racism in South Korea. You come to The United States and the poll statistics suggest that, for example, the vast majority of Americans are fine with living next to people of different races. They are fine with intermarrying with people of other races.β
βNonprofits exist theoretically to solve problems. You give money to a nonprofit to solve a problem. If the problem goes away, you no longer give to that nonprofit. So what do you do? You create a fake supply of white supremacy so you can go back to your donors and say the problem is worse than ever. That's what you are doing. If your donors are addicted to the fentanyl of the problem, and the fentanyl is in short supply, what you do is you create tranq.β
βWell, in there, people are sold. You are slaves in there. What really disturbed me was how systematized it was, the brutality.β
βThis predatory industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's growing fast. It's probably bigger than the illegal drug trade. Behind it is a dystopian criminal underworld, of forced labor, corruption and intrigue.β
βSince 2010, a search of the New York Times pulls up 711 instances where the SPLC is cited as an authority on hate or discrimination statistics. They are like the go to. The New York Times sees a Jussie Smollett story, and they call up somebody from the SPLC to talk about it. There's a Nick Fuentes story. They call the SPLC to talk about it. There's a Charlie Kirk story as it turns out, and they call up the SPLC to talk about it.β
βThe SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the twenty seventeen Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportations to the event for several attendees. This donation money was instead being used in part by the SPLC to pay leaders and others within the same violent extremist groups.β
βTo a small town in rural Kansas, where $47 million went missing from the local bank. What do you mean something's wrong with the bank? We never have problems. Over several months, the bank's CEO had quietly put most of the bank's money into some sort of cryptocurrency investment, until the board called him in to explain himself.β
βNonprofits exist theoretically to solve problems. You give money to a nonprofit to solve a problem. If the problem goes away, you no longer give to that nonprofit. So what do you do? You create a fake supply of white supremacy so you can go back to your donors and say the problem is worse than ever. That's what you are doing. If your donors are addicted to the fentanyl of the problem, and the fentanyl is in short supply, what you do is you create tranq.β
βThe SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the twenty seventeen Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportations to the event for several attendees. This donation money was instead being used in part by the SPLC to pay leaders and others within the same violent extremist groups.β
βIf you go to any other country on planet Earth, what you will notice is that there is significantly more racism than there is in The United States. If you go to Japan, fair bit of racism in Japan. Go to South Korea, fair bit of racism in South Korea. You come to The United States and the poll statistics suggest that, for example, the vast majority of Americans are fine with living next to people of different races. They are fine with intermarrying with people of other races.β
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