Common Sense with Paul Jacob

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been a deeply pernicious organization for a very long time. In 2017, Paul Jacob characterized one of the outfit’s key modi operandi as a scam, lumping “political opponents — conservatives and libertarians — in with Nazis and the KKK, in order to smear them.” That is, expand the enemies list the better to incite activist involvement.

It turns out that may not just be the judgment of SPLC critics like Paul.

The Department of Justice, last week, added another dimension to the story, bringing fraud and money laundering charges against the organization. What is the SPLC alleged to have done? A federal grand jury indicted the organization with “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.”

Substantively, the claim is that the SPLC funded and directed infiltrators into racist organizations, including the organizers of the infamous Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, who — as leaders in those organizations — pushed radical, extremist tactics (including criminal acts) that the SPLC then used to gin up donor panic to increase the organization’s funding.

Whether the case succeeds in court, legally, remains to be seen, but already the revelations of the SPLC’s tactics show a twisted moral sense, a corrupt view of strategy and tactics, and a general ethical ickiness.

Journalist Tim Pool added more information, telling his video and podcasting audience of his own encounters with the SPLC — based on the “psy-op” run against him a few years ago, in which Biden’s egregious Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly proclaimed that the journalist had been funded by Russia. But Garland wasn’t the first to advance this accusation. The SPLC had done it earlier. Mr. Pool suspects that the CIA was involved in this, too, apparently trying to destroy him and some other non-woke alternative media voices. Pool says it did not work because there was nothing to it:

“Weird, isn’t it?” asks Mr. Pool.

Not-so-weird, once you know the history of the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, according to attorney Robert Barnes:

Barnes also notes an eerie CIA odor to the whole affair.

Speaking of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA “whistleblower” who has been making the rounds on podcasts in the last few months does not dismiss the charges, noting that they are specific enough that whether or not the crimes have happened can indeed be determined in court:

“Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced a new proposed rule on Thursday,” explains The Epoch Times, one “that seeks to end the use of ‘gender identity’ across all departmental programs, which is intended to ‘restore biological reality and protect women.’”

HUD plans to “remove radical definitions of gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender, replacing them with sex” an April 23 statement from HUD clarifies.

Common terminology — including mother, father, woman, man, girl, and boy — will return to a commonsense usage, relating to a person’s sex as understood universally until just a few years ago with the rise of “gender theory” and “queer theory” and transhumanism, transgenderism and other now evidently transient fads in ideology.

In February the HUD secretary claimed that the new standards are in line with the infamous executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office.

“In its February 2025 statement,” the Epoch Times concludes, “HUD said that the 2016 rule allowed men to take advantage of department programs directed at women.”