[Vision2020] a non-profit that isn't

Sat Sep 2 17:59:05 PDT 2017

Mr. Ron Force must know that the allegedly "independently" audited SPLC
likely employed accountants who are complicit with the left wing liberal
onspiracy, who run our media and government.   Well, now that Trump is in
power, they might have less control over their brainwashing socialist
agenda, as it is promoted by fake news media and left wing liberal
politicians. These "independent" accountants are probably associated with
the global warming
hoax scientists and their fraudulent scare tactics to regulate our economy
into a state of socialist tyranny!

At least we have the Trump administration to thank for knocking back on
their heels both the politically correct nonsense about "white
nationalists" as a problem, that the SPLC exploits for profit and personal
enrichment, and the climate change UN manipulated one world government
anti-US economic progress oriented agenda,  represented by the Paris
Climate Accord, that the US no longer supports.

Who says Trump has not accomplished anything significant so far in his
administration?  Both global warming skeptic Pruitt as EPA head, Trump
scuttling US participation in the Paris Climate accords and  the dog
whistles send to White Power groups to come out of their hiding places, are
major achievements.

Make American Great Again!
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett.

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Ron Force <ronforce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charity Navigator gets its information from the Form 990s that all sizable
> nonprofits have to file annually with the IRS detailing their income and
> expenditures. In addition, Charity Navigator indicates whether or not the
> nonprofit is independently audited (which SPLC is).
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:35 PM, g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that using using the information that is provided on the
>> splc website is truly the most objective and unbiased method of checking
>> their veracity.
>>
>> g
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What the heck?
>>>
>>> I just in the past hour had this exact website from Charity Navigator
>>> regarding the SPLC ready to post to Vision2020... Good to read someone else
>>> doing it...
>>>
>>> I was holding off on posting till I did my own research on some of the
>>> claims in this article on the SPLC from the Washington Free Beacon.
>>>
>>> Everyone has political and ideological confirmation bias filters that
>>> result in unquestioning belief in information that confirms their bias, and
>>> disbelief in and rejection of information that disputes their bias.  Thus
>>> it behooves everyone to check on the veracity of all information sources,
>>> regardless!  Right?
>>>
>>> I dug a bit deeper into the Washington Free Beacon story on the finances
>>> of the SPLC regarding this claim:
>>>
>>> "The SPLC, which claims <https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice> to
>>> boast a staff of 75 lawyers who practice in the area of children's rights,
>>> economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT rights, and criminal justice
>>> reform, reported
>>> <https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/990_103116.pdf> spending
>>> only $61,000 on legal services in 2015."
>>>
>>> Here is the tax form source the story was referencing:
>>>
>>> https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/990_103116.pdf
>>>
>>> I read through this rather long tax form to find the $61,000 legal
>>> expenses figure they referenced.  I assume this is what they were
>>> quoting:
>>> Under Part IX "Statement of Functional Expenses," 11b Legal, is the
>>> amount $61, 808.  But I do not think this is the total legal expenses spent
>>> on their entire staff of lawyers, unless I am misinterpreting.  This is a
>>> separate legal cost figure for only a part of their operations.  So if
>>> I am right (?), the Washington Free Beacon is engaging in a grossly
>>> misleading use of so called "facts" to promote an agenda.
>>>
>>> Here is a figure for the SPLC "legal services" from their 2016 Annual
>>> Report on page 18 of the pdf at the following website, toward the bottom.
>>> The tax form with the $61,808 legal cost figure is from 2015, but still the
>>> figure given below for 2016 legal costs blows the $61,000 claim out of the
>>> water!
>>>
>>> https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_splc_annua
>>> l_report_2016-2017web.pdf
>>>
>>> *STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES*
>>> Legal Services $15,352, 662
>>> --------------------
>>> Regarding their "offshore" financial connections, they do list "non-US
>>> equity funds" under "Assets" at $69,093,576, and other types of "funds,"
>>> the parsing between I admit at this moment I do not possess the banking
>>> expertise to explain.
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Ron Force <ronforce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You can judge how accurate this is by looking nonprofits up on Charity
>>>> Navigator. Here's the SPLC info:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar
>>>> y&orgid=4482
>>>>
>>>> Ron Force
>>>> Moscow Idaho USA
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:09 PM, g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> "The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based
>>>>> 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on
>>>>> the left for its "hate group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to
>>>>> offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.
>>>>>
>>>>> Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its
>>>>> top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services
>>>>> despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation,
>>>>> education, and other forms of advocacy."
>>>>>
>>>>> For the rest of the story please see:  http://freebeacon.com/issues/
>>>>> southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-of
>>>>> fshore-entities/
>>>>>
>>>>> An extremely eye opening read. Perhaps folks will stop citing these
>>>>> money grubbing grifters as the font from which all moral authority flows.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> g.
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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