Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Monday, August 20, 2012

Biggest Scam (outside of DC) in the Nation = SPLC

Morris Dees is the Bernie Madoff of Fake Charities, "Watch Dog" Race Pimping and Left Wing Scare Schemes (and Dems in Congress suck up to him). m/r

Radio Derb Transcript, Friday Aug. 17, 2012 by John Derbyshire


Southern Poverty Law Center is a shameless money racket is not just my opinion, and not even just the opinion of conservatives. The American Institute of Philanthropy, for instance, publishes a Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report, rating charities by how much of their donations they actually spend on their stated mission, as opposed to executive salaries and benefits. The last rating I can find for Southern Poverty Law Center, for 2009, is an F.
And here's a piece by Ken Silverstein in the liberal Harper's magazine, March 2007, longish quote:
Back in 2000, I wrote a story in Harper's about the Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Alabama, whose stated mission is to combat disgusting yet mostly impotent groups like the Nazis and the KKK. What it does best, though, is to raise obscene amounts of money by hyping fears about the power of those groups; hence the SPLC has become the nation's richest "civil rights" organization. The Center earns more from its vast investment portfolio than it spends on its core mission, which has led Millard Farmer, a death-penalty lawyer in Georgia, to once describe Morris Dees, the SPLC's head, as "the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement" (adding, "I don't mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye").
End longish quote. I once had lunch with some lawyers in Montgomery, guys who worked for the state Attorney General in a cramped little building next to the SPLC's extravagant multi-storey headquarters. Their joke was, that they worked in the shadow of poverty.
And as my friend Steve Sailer has written: "The Southern Poverty Law Center has worked tirelessly to eradicate the last vestiges of poverty, Southern or otherwise, in the lifestyle of founder Morris Dees." Indeed: back in March 2010 the Montgomery Advertiser ran a 60-photograph feature on the home Morris Dees shares with his wife Susan Starr. If you'd like to see that feature for yourself, go to the transcript of this broadcast on my personal website www.johnderbyshire.com, the "Opinions" section, subsection "Radio Derb," and there's a link in the transcript. Check it out. Poverty has been very, very good to Morris Dees and his pals at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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