Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Government Extremism Thrives As Politics Get Angrier

Nick R. Martin | March 8, 2012, 2:51PM

The same populist anger that has led to political victories nationwide in recent years has also fueled an incredible rise of anti-government fanaticism, one of the leading watchdogs of American extremism said on Thursday.

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Spokane, Washington

SPLC: MLK Day Bomb Suspect Was Member Of Supremacist Group

Eric Lach | March 9, 2011, 4:39PM

The FBI released photos of the backpack and the T-shirts inside.

The Southern Poverty Law Center tells The Spokesman-Review that Kevin William Harpham, the man arrested in connection with with a bomb found along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., earlier this year, was a member of a white supremacist organization.

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Pamela Geller

Pam Geller On 'Hate Group' Label: 'A Badge of Honor'

Eric Lach | March 1, 2011, 8:55AM

Conservative activist Pamela Geller

Pamela Geller is pretty worked up about the Southern Poverty Law Center's designation of her group, Stop Islamization of America, as a hate group. But not because she gives the designation any credence. On the contrary, Geller -- the blogger behind Atlas Shrugs and one of the most vociferous opponents to a planned Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York City -- says "a slam from the SPLC is a badge of honor."

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Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer On SPLC 'Hate Group' List: 'We Are Truth Groups, Not Hate Groups'

Jillian Rayfield | November 29, 2010, 11:23AM

Bryan Fischer, issues director at American Family Association

Bryan Fischer defended the American Family Association against the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate group" designation , arguing that "what the SPLC calls 'myths' about homosexuality turn out to be what neutral observers call 'truths' about homosexuality."

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Hutaree

Expert: Hutaree Were 'Right Smack In The Middle Of The Militia Movement'

Zachary Roth | March 30, 2010, 11:05AM

Members of the Michigan militia Hutaree (clockwise from top-left): David Stone, Sr., Tina Stone, David Stone, Jr., Jacob Ward, Joshua Clough, Michael Meeks, Kristopher Sickles and Thomas Piatek

Conventional militia organizations are racing to distance themselves from the Hutaree -- the Christian-based militia whose members were charged yesterday with conspiring to kill law enforcement as part of their preparation for the coming battle with the Anti-Christ. But that may be a tall order.

Appearing on CNN this morning, Michael Lackomar, a member of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, called the Hutaree -- also primarily based in Michigan -- "really a fringe group outside of anything we do."

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