MI-GOP: No To Civil Rights Groups, Yes To Hate Group Leaders

by: Philip.R.Moon

Wed Oct 27, 2010 at 08:29:49 AM EDT

X-Posted to Daily Kos

The Michigan Republican Party has turned to negative campaigning in its hopes to defeat Jocelyn Benson for the Secretary of State post in this election cycle. A recent press release titled “Shame on You, Prof. Benson” complains that Jocelyn Benson worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that accomplishes its leftist policy goals through fear and intimidation and has been labeled a “hate group.”


The SPLC is an organization that is a civil rights law firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. It has sued and successfully shut down several hate groups when that violent rhetoric turned to actual violence. Among its other activities is the Intelligence Project, which tracks Neo-Nazi, KKK, black separatist and other hate groups. It also produces a quarterly publication The Intelligence Report for law enforcement.

As a result of it labeling and reporting on hate groups, it often gets labeled a hate group for opposing groups that expose violent racist and Anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The Michigan GOP leaves the sources of the “hate group” label vague. It does not list which group called them that. However, this is not the first time the GOP has opposed the SPLC in its work to expose hate mongers in Michigan. In 2007, it listed the Michigan State University Young Americans for Freedom a hate group after the group and its leader Kyle Bristow, who was a Republican Precinct delegate at the time, announced hate activities on campus.


Kyle Bristow burning a McCain shirt for McCain’s moderate stances.

The supersonic projectile hit the leftist agitator one inch below the eye, and the bullet exited the back of his head nanoseconds later. ...  Brain, blood, and skull fragments burst forth from what was once Greenberg’s head, and the leftist was blown off both of his feet. Greenberg died instantly, and his last words were “We must destroy the plague that is Western culture.” Ironically, Western culture got him first. From Valhalla [a celebration hall in Scandinavian mythology], Thor, the archenemy of trolls, smiled  at the accomplishment of the epitome of Western Man.

“The Michigan Republican Party describes the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a "hate group," "leftist," and a "shadowy organization"!”

“Viva the MIGOP!”