| My long-time VDARE colleague James Fulford here explains why wire fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center are such a threat–because they trigger draconian Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) War On Drugs/ War On Terror laws. Like Al Capone being nailed for tax evasion. Con Inc. media fixating on (false) assertion that SPLC astroturfed the Right: they were actually trying to pay informants untraceably. |
25 Years Of The SPLC And Me
| James FulfordApr 23 |
Earlier on the Fulford File: The SPLC Was NEVER A “Civil Rights Stalwart”—It Was ALWAYS A “Dangerous Joke”
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Yesterday, the AP reported what no one was expecting from the Trump Administration: Southern Poverty Law Center Charged With Defrauding Donors With Payments To Extremist Informants, AP, April 21, 2026.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples.
Banking expert Patrick McKenzie pointed out on Twitter that Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) laws make it illegal to lie to your bank about what you’re doing with your money, e. g. saying “We’re totally not using this to pay undercover informants” etc.
He adds an image of the SPLC’s banking information being used in the the indictment and says
This is extremely common prosecutorial practice; the only surprising part is the defendant. (About which, doubtless your opinion journal of choice will have some column inches fairly soon.)
And here we are!
A search of VDARE.com archives says that I’ve been writing about the Southern Poverty Law Center for twenty-five years—and I’m not the only one.
They, of course, spent a lot of time writing about VDARE.com, and to a certain extent, me personally. It’s arguable that their attacks on VDARE.com inspired Letitia James’s persecution of VDARE.com, causing me to lose my job:
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In 2001, the SPLC was calling VDARE an “Anti-Immigration” group, and trying to say we were guilty by association with writers they’d already condemned, and in 2004, they either upgraded or downgraded us to “Hate Group”, based apparently on a fairly mild speech VDARE editor Peter Brimelow gave to a Chronicles conference.
You have to realize that VDARE was basically a journalistic enterprise, like National Review, Chronicles, Mother Jones, or The New Republic. It’s not about street-fighting, agitation, demonstrations or even, despite our writing on politics, political activism.
It’s about reporting facts, and analysis, which is what I do now, but the SPLC didn’t like the analysis, or for that matter even the facts, which is why they would attack people who read, quoted, or forwarded things we wrote. People attacked for reading us by the SPLC included the Center For Immigration Studies, and Trump advisor Stephen Miller.
In 2017, they attacked something I had written in the article below:
The picture above is of mentally-challenged white teenager kidnapped and tortured on Facebook Live, by blacks who yelled “F— Trump!” and “F— white people!”
You have to understand that “F— Trump!” and “F— white people!” is the ideology of, very specifically, the Southern Poverty Law Center…and their Black Lives Matter allies.
Here’s them denying that and attacking me:
The false narrative of an epidemic of so-called “black-on-white crime” has long been one of the most effective deceptions in white nationalist propaganda, playing directly into an idea of besieged white populace while also attacking the press for censoring the “real facts.”….
VDARE, another pseudo-intellectual white nationalist outlet more narrowly focused on immigration policy, was happy to promote the #BLMKidnapping narrative anyway, despite its ideological divorce with Cernovich.
“A young white man was kidnapped by four blacks, inspired by Black Lives Matter propaganda, and anti-white, anti-Trump hate, the hate that comes from black leaders, the mainstream media, the Democratic Party…and the White House,” wrote James Fulford, a columnist at VDARE.
In a bizarre twist, Fulford voluntarily introduced Dylann Roof as an attempt to point out hypocrisy from the left while bemoaning the widespread removal of the Confederate battle flags around the South after photos surfaced of Roof with one in the wake of the shooting. The connection was analogous to him.
It certainly was. This post of theirs contained an actual link to my January 2017 post Black Lives Matter Inspired Kidnap/Torture Of White Man Getting “Man Arrested” Treatment, so possibly their readers could have judged for themselves.
But the point is that Roof committed a mass murder of random innocent blacks allegedly because he’d been told about massive black-on-white crime, which is not a “false narrative” but simple fact.
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The SPLC specifically blamed the people who’d posted these facts online, while calling black-on-white crime a “lie”.
A would never defend Dylann Roof’s shooting innocent black people in a church, but there are many, many, people, including the SPLC, who are very understanding of, and supportive of, black-on-white violence. Here’s what I said in my 2017 post:
Buzzfeed’s headline is
Four People Charged With Hate Crime After Man Tortured In Facebook Live Video
“Fuck Donald Trump, fuck white people,” an attacker says while an 18-year-old man, described as having mental health issues, is beaten.
I call that burying the lede, but here are the pictures Buzzfeed provides:
Buzzfeed is not promoting this as a black crime, but they noticed it was a black crime in order attempt to exonerate the Black Lives Matter movement:
People Are Blaming The Chicago Kidnapping On Black Lives Matter With Zero Evidence
The Chicago police said they could not confirm if the video was tied to any organization. posted by Tasneem Nashrulla [Email her]on Jan. 5, 2017, at 1:16 p.m.
To Hell with your “Zero Evidence”—were the riots and the shooting of police also not inspired by BLM?
No one ever asks for “evidence” in the rare white hate crimes. Dylann Roof was part of no “movement”, but they tore down Confederate flags all over the South because of his crime.
Next time a “Black Lives Matter” spokesman makes a public appearance, the MSM should ask him to condemn this—but they won’t.
It would be nice to think that the criminal prosecution will inspire people to refuse to associate with the SPLC, but that’s a long way to go.
In any event, the fact that the FBI director Kash Patel was recently smeared as a drunkard by the Atlantic inspired me to Tweet this:
James Fulford has been writing about the national question for over 20 years, mostly for VDARE.com, more recently for WhitePapers.