"Swatting" Conservatives?
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was founded in 1971, during the cold war, at the height of an era of civil unrest in the United States, by Joe Levin, Julian Bond, and Morris Dees. The SPLC lists itself as a "nonprofit organization", with assets of $260,500,000.00 in 2011, and they are known to profit from civil unrest by targeting what they call "hate groups." The problem is that innocent people can get caught up in their assessment.
Our free law enforcement trainings teach officers how to recognize hate groups, symbols and activity; the threat potential of specific groups; and how to respond to hate group activity.
The SPLC has posted, on their website, a page of "Law Enforcement Resources" that include videos detailing a variety of police actions involving groups of miscreants. It appears that an attempt is being made to include all conservative and patriotic groups into the "hate" category. The products that are being peddled by the SPLC to law enforcement groups are confusion, ambiguity, and fear. It's become a lucrative and effective form of "swatting" conservatives.
The following video represents a good example of the chaos that the SPLC and their ilk produce: