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The bulbous and sour leftist hate propagandist Heidi Beirich is about the last person you’d expect would be involved in a passionate love affair, and there are certainly less generous explanations of her behavior available, but as improbable as it is, the New York Post reported Tuesday that “a top Southern Poverty Law Center official is accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance white supremacist group — who was also allegedly her lover.”

Hiedi Beirich’s lover? Yes, as unbelievable as it all may seem, “the Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC accusing it of funneling donor cash to hate groups they were then telling donors they were fighting. One figure, referred to as ‘Employee-2’ in the indictment, is described as a ‘person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.’”

That would be Beirich, and it seems that Employee-2 “wrote an article based on material stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and then paid off an informant to take the blame for the robbery.” And “based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, ‘Employee-2’ is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.”

Fascism expert. Beirich is not in any sense a fascism expert, but she is certainly an expert on “hate,” but not in the way she would claim. She would tell you that she has dedicated her life to fighting “hate,” when in reality she has years of experience smearing and defaming decent Americans as “hate group leaders” for the crime of dissenting from the left’s agenda.

And now that it has come out that the SPLC was paying the leaders of genuine hate groups so that they could stay in business and the SPLC could pose as their chief opponent, the jig is up. Nevertheless, the SPLC has done a great deal of damage, and some of that damage will never be repaired.

The indictment of the SPLC “alleges Beirich was very close to the informant known only as ‘F-9’ who ‘infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.’” It states that Beirich “was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts.” So Beirich was living with a Nazi while posing as the nation’s guardian against Nazism.

Wait, it gets worse. “Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich]. This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. [Beirich] then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.”

Meanwhile, “the indictment also claims that while getting paid by the SPLC, the unnamed informant was also raising money for the National Alliance and helping to ‘carry out its extremist activities.’”

Why did the SPLC fund the very groups it claimed to oppose? The organization gained a great deal of money, as well as political power and influence, by claiming to fight racism. That required that there be some racism to fight. Since there wasn’t enough of the genuine article in America, the SPLC had to gin some up to keep the donations coming in and the meetings with congressmen and senators on schedule.

And so the SPLC became that which it professed to hate and combat, and a major funder of the groups it begged for donations from unsuspecting leftists in order to fight. While it wasn’t pulling off that particular scam, it added another: it massively expanded its “hate group” listings to include patriotic Americans who simply dissented from the left’s agenda. Opponents of unvetted mass migration, the left’s insane gender fantasies, and jihad violence and Sharia oppression suddenly found themselves lumped in with the KKK and the Aryan Nations. And the group that the establishment media touted as the world’s foremost expert on “hate groups” was doing the lumping.

It worked, too. The popular X account “Insurrection Barbie” noted Tuesday that the “SPLC’s hate map got hardwired into corporate America. Amazon’s AmazonSmile program used SPLC lists to exclude charities. PayPal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Airbnb, Eventbrite, Mastercard, Visa many used SPLC classifications to deplatform people and organizations. Bezos later admitted to Congress that Amazon’s reliance on SPLC was ‘an imperfect system’ and that he’d ‘like a better source.’”

He never got one. And it was true. Because the SPLC designated me a “hate group leader,” the establishment media (and many lily-livered “conservatives”) shunned me, and I was banned from AmazonSmile, PayPal, GoFundMe, and Mastercard, as well as Patreon, Zelle, and numerous other services. Some of these bans, notably the ones on PayPal and Patreon, were later reversed after the corporations in question heard from my attorneys. The others are still in place. Just a few weeks ago, I gave a speech to a group; the organizer told me afterward that he had sent me payment through Zelle. I had to tell him I was banned from Zelle and ask him kindly to pay another way.

Now that we know what a sham operation it was running, financing race hatred and then collecting money from leftist idiots to fight that race hatred, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s massive fraud on the American people should be ended. But that means much more than just that the SPLC should be forced to close.

The organizations that defamed, deplatformed and denied service to law-abiding Americans on the basis of the SPLC’s hit pieces should be penalized financially and made to reinstate the banned people to all denied services. The SPLC itself should be dissolved, and its assets divided up among those whose lives it endangered and whose careers it tried to destroy by branding them “hate group leaders.”

Surely you don’t object, do you, Heidi?