[Vision2020] a non-profit that isn't
Debi Smith
Debismith at moscow.com
Sat Sep 2 20:01:41 PDT 2017
Lovely!!! But do you honestly think the "Idjet Trumpsters" will even get
it? Preaching to the enlightened converted. Still, it made MY day!!
Debi R-S
On 9/2/2017 5:59 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:
> 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!
> ---------------------------------------
> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett.
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Ron Force <ronforce at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <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_annual_report_2016-2017web.pdf
> <https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_splc_annual_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 <mailto: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.summary&orgid=4482
> <https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4482>
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:09 PM, g crabtree
> <direoutcome at gmail.com <mailto: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-offshore-entities/
> <http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-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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