The karmic shoe is on the other foot over at SPLC. It seems that the Southern Poverty Law Center, who loves to label vocal conservatives and devout Christians as “hate groups,” just because they question liberal talking points, has a terrorist on the payroll.
SPLC staffer arrested
Far-left leaning social activist group SPLC has frequently “categorized conservative and Christian organizations” as “hate groups.” Now that one of their own has been arrested, they’re putting their bias on full display. Instead of issuing a neutral statement, as befits a social minded “non-profit,” the Southern Poverty Law Center is “blaming the police.”
Their staffer wasn’t charged with something minor. Thomas Jurgens was booked on “domestic terrorism,” following Sunday’s battle of “Cop City,” near Atlanta, Georgia. He should have known better than to even be where he could be arrested. He’s a lawyer.
Any attorney will advise that it’s a really good idea to know the law before you break it. There are all sorts of ways to bend the law and slip through the loopholes. That’s what Thomas Jurgens and the SPLC are trying to do. That’s a tricky game because those loopholes can snap back around your neck like a noose.
BREAKING: Atlanta PD release arial view of Antifa column that attacked police facility with SPLC support this weekend pic.twitter.com/AST4PDubJ7
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 7, 2023
The center was quick to issue a press release following Jurgens’ arrest. They call police defending their own property a “heavy handed,” response. Cully Stimson, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation noticed that and took offense.
The release SPLC put out, he notes, “immediately does exactly what you shouldn’t do if you’re a neutral and detached organization and not a police-hating, capitalist-hating, hate monger group.”
What “they should have said,” he continues, is “we understand that one of our employees was arrested, and we will respect the legal process. And we’ll let that legal process play out.” They couldn’t leave it at that.
Here is a photo of the 23 Antifa degenerates arrested for Domestic Terrorism in GA last night after torching gov’t equipment and throwing rocks at cops
1 of them is a lawyer for the SPLC
Almost all are from out of state
Proof that Antifa is a nationwide terrorist organization pic.twitter.com/uKafpsyJ1B
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 6, 2023
A legal observer
On Monday evening, the SPLC released its press statement berating police for arresting their staffer and 22 others the day before. Jurgens, they write, “identified himself” as a “legal observer on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild.”
He was in the middle of a battle where fireworks were shot at police followed by bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails. Expensive heavy construction equipment was set ablaze. The liberals whine there isn’t any “evidence” of a crime. Instead, all they see is “heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protesters.”
They go on to whine that “this is part of a months-long escalation of policing tactics against protesters and observers who oppose the destruction of the Weelaunee Forest to build a police training facility.” The protesters aren’t following the rules. They’re acting like an organized guerrilla unit.
19 Antifa members who were bombing the Atlanta #CopCity, were arrested for ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Remember, this administration said they were an ‘idea?’ pic.twitter.com/vnb5hAAkoK
— 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) March 6, 2023
“The SPLC has and will continue to urge de-escalation of violence and police use of force against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, working in partnership with these communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.” Burning bulldozers is something they consider “civil disobedience.”
Police see things a whole lot differently than the way SPLC does. A “group of violent agitators used the cover of a peaceful protest of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers.” Lawyer or not, “Jurgens was one of 23 people charged with domestic terrorism.”
Sunday’s violence “came after protesters announced they would carry out a ‘week of action‘ against the complex, which will include an amphitheater, classrooms and training areas for police to carry out simulated crime situations, such as shootouts.“
