By Anna Von Reitz
The recent report about events in Underwood, South Dakota, being totally mis-represented and mis-reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center, with me as the Evil Svengali in residence--- needs to be pointedly rebutted.
I earned my stripes with the American Indian Movement and with the Farm Union Cases back in the 1970's and 80's, so nobody in at the Southern Poverty Law Center today has one word to say to me about "social consciousness". I hope they find some.
Maybe the "social consciousness" will spark a little basic "social conscience" as well, and the sort of introspection it takes to confront evil instead of being co-opted by it.
I gave SPLC an interview about a year ago. They sent Brandon Joel Kelly to my home in Anchorage and we had an hour-long chat that was friendly and animated, during which I informed him of a lot of history he had never known.
About a month later someone from the SPLC who never interviewed me at all wrote a piece under a separate by-line and pretended that he interviewed me and clipped and pasted quotes out of context and hemmed and hawed and was brought up short on the Big News that "sovereign citizen" is an oxymoron that intelligent people never use.
Oh, my. SPLC staffers were blatting it day and night prior to me pointing that out to them. Some of them still are.
I answered all the questions the actual SPLC reporter asked me, but I never got an answer back about the questions I asked about them:
Why "Southern" --- since all the people I know or have ever known to be working at the SPLC are all Northerners? Jews from New York and Ivy Leaguer chicks from Mt. Holyoke and little snits from Haaaarvahd. They may be black, but they aren't "Southern". As in this case, they don't focus on "Southern" issues. What does water rights in South Dakota have to do with "Southern" anything?
So why don't we begin Truth in Advertising by calling it the "Northern Poverty Law Center"?
Why all the undeclared Trotsky-ites at SPLC? Last time I checked, over half the people there had direct ties to the Socialist Workers Party. Are you ashamed of your Communist heritage?
As long as you are advocating "coming out of the closet", why don't you come out yourselves?
As long as we are doing our Truth in Advertising campaign, let's call it the "Northern Socialist Worker's Party Law Center".
Might as well drop the "Poverty" line, too, because nobody working there is impoverished, and other than for themselves, I have never once seen them create any jobs or do anything to alleviate poverty....have you?
