SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER SUES SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER



Jerry Salyer
For INN Thu Mar 22,
MONTGOMERY, Alabama

In a daring move Morris Dees, long-time director of the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), announced yesterday that he intends to bring a lawsuit against himself
and his organization so as to “compel removal of the blatantly racist term,
‘Southern’” from the
organization’s title.

The stage is now set for a show-down.

“It’ll be a tough, uphill offensive,” conceded Dees. “As
always, we are operating as underdogs in a society where all the cultural chips
are stacked against us — all we really have in our corner are Hollywood,
the government, and the media industry.”

Yet SPLC representatives explain that they are used to fighting an uphill battle
on such Goliath v. David terrain, and are optimistic about their quest to force
themselves to rename their organization “RLNTMLC” — the Regrettably-Less-Northern-Than-Manhattan
Law Center.

“We will perservere. We shall overcome,” said Dees. “In the
interests of building a tolerant society, it’s our sworn duty to target
and harass any group, even our own, which might try to give positive connotations
to the term ‘Southern’. Indeed, we yearn for that
bright day when intolerant people will be afraid to show their faces in public.”

He added that the effort directed into the name-changing campaign will not
interfere with work on the SPLC’s groundbreaking new documentary “The
White Hoods of Bhutan”, which alleges the existence of ties between the
Tibetan independence movement and the Ku Klux Klan.

On the other side of the fence, Morris Dees – the besieged SPLC’s
long-time director — declared that he and his co-defendants are resolutely
circling wagons, and will not go down without a fight.

“I am utterly undaunted by the lawsuit being brought against me by myself,”
Dees announced at a press conference, adding: “I think it’s painfully
obvious that a white-supremacist conspiracy is what’s really behind this
whole nuisance-litigation.

No doubt the conspirators want to deflect our investigation into the right-wing
racist agenda of the so-called ‘Dixie Chicks’.”

Dees vowed defiantly: “But we won’t be intimidated.”

He justified use of the word “Southern” in the SPLC title by pointing
out that his organization makes a thorough mockery of the hated hatemongering
word at every opportunity.

“All that crap about Southern honor, dignity, and chivalry?” said
Dees. “Trust me, that’s the last thing people think of when they
watch us at work.

We do our best to drag the word Southern through the mud, via its association
with us.”

The SPLC’s anti-SPLC attack could not have come at a worse time, as Dees
explains that his organization is desperately short on needed monies —
and so he has initiated a massive fund-raising operation to support the costs
of hiring him to be his lawyer in his
crusade against himself.

Yet the costs come from both sides of the fence – the cost to Dees of
hiring himself to defend himself against himself is also expected to be substantial,
so Dees has created what he calls the “Civilly-Righteous Morris Dees-fense
Fund.”

Plus there are still normal SPLC operating expenses, as one anonymous SPLC
accounting-troll explains:
“Well, there’s the cut for the Payroll Department—we have
to provide some basic subsistence living level of comfort for the Princeton-alum,
cosmopolitan idealists on our staff– and I can tell you that Gucci bags,
sushi combo platters, and snowboards don’t grow on trees.

Then there’s our Tolerance Department, which just purchased 10,000 copies
of Billy Learns That Two Mommies Are Better Than One for distribution to first-graders.

And our Illegal-Immigration Enablement Department needs at least $6 million
for our lobbying-campaign to have the Arizona state seal changed into a welcoming
happy-face bearing the motto, “¡Invádanos! ¡Lo amamos!”

When asked by reporters whether his organization might have gotten a little
too wealthy for its own good, Dees retorted: “Look, colonial occupation
takes money.

So does defending our hallowed non-Western identity.

The Southern Poverty Law Center protects America from a bleak potential future
in which progressive elites cannot ruin their opponents’ lives by simply
labelling them racist, sexist, or homophobic. I know I sound like Chicken Little
here, but such a dystopia really
could come about, if we’re not vigilant.”

In defending society from this dire fate, it would seem that Dees and the target
of his latest lawsuit can find some common ground via the Liberal Man’s
Burden.

“Yes, there is a real danger– in recent years we’ve seen
increased efforts by parents trying to usurp the traditional authority of educrats,”
Dees agreed with his adversary, adding grimly: “Really, the SPLC is the
frontline defense against the possibility that someday the monuments of a community
might reflect the values of the lowly peasants who actually live there.”

So even though the SPLC has its differences with itself, all concerned agree
that they should never forget who the real enemy is here: Ordinary working-class
people, especially the white ones.

Dees would not comment on rumors that he and his self might reach a compromise
settlement out-of-court.

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