Subject: Southern Poverty Law Center

• Spreading Democracy... or something

  Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the British were kicked out many long decades ago: white supremacists. As the New York Times reports this morning: "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," the [Southern Poverty Law Center] quoted a D

  July 7, 2006

• Who is David Duke's Favorite Orange Countian?

  *Updated below . . . Why, none other than our favorite non-racist white supremacist, of course! Martin Millard has made a name for himself in extremist circles thanks to rants against the "Tan Everyman," drawn local ire due to his influence over Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, and even garnered attention from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Millard's been on a writing tear as of late thanks to the proposed amnesty bill currently in the Senate. He's not happy with it—indeed, he calls i

  May 24, 2007

• Neo-Nazis for Gilchrist

  The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report has a piece on Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the border-sealing Minutemen Project, tolerating neo-Nazis campaigning for him when he ran unsuccessfully for an Orange County congressional seat last year. We think someone misunderstood when it was suggested the Minutemen need to be more tolerant. The story claims that neo-Nazis were spotted at Gilchrist rallies in Sacramento, Lake Forest and Laguna Beach, and that when Orange County dance instr

  August 8, 2006

• Man-Sore Losers

  It's bad enough that Costa Mesa and its divisive Mayor Alan Mansoor are getting beat up by their own hometown Daily Pilot columnists (here and here, not to mention that paper's own readers here and, oh, by one of its more distinguished residents here). But now they are getting national unwanted exposure from the organization that Martin Luther King, Jr. helped found, the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose new Intelligence Report piece, The Tinderbox, takes on Mansoor, the City With a Heart and M

  August 10, 2006

• The Truth About Glenn Spencer

  *Updated, with grammatical erros bolded The last time I saw Glenn Spencer (founder of the frothingly anti-immigrant American Patrol), the portly man was sporting a huge smile as a race riot erupted around him. The occasion was a Dec. 8, 2001 rally in front of Anaheim City Hall, where Spencer and his amigos were decrying the Anaheim Police Department’s policy to accept Mexican-government-issued identification cards as proper ID for illegal immigrants. Anarchists counter-protested Spencer's i

  September 3, 2007

• Exodus International Even Worse than Reported

  Our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center just released their latest issue of the muckraking Intelligence Report, which features a doozy of a feature on the Orange County-created Exodus International Ministry, the folks who say they can take the homo out of any homo sapiens. The story follows up on our Janine Kahn's beautiful July piece on the battle between ex-gays and ex-ex-gays by documenting Exodus' connections to extremists, homophobes and plain ol' weirdos. God bless the Intelligence

  December 12, 2007

• La Raza: Know Your Know Nothings

  We appreciate WeCanStoptheHate.org, a website run by perennial conservative cucuy the National Council of La Raza that documents the going-ons of various anti-immigrant pendejos. We don't agree with their efforts to boot said pendejos off the airwaves, and do they really want to eliminate one of their top reasons for existence? And while we're excited they cover some of our local Know Nothings, the NCLR should at least get their facts right--especially when it comes to the Weekly. For instance,

  February 11, 2008

• Idiots Already Misconstruing Ask a Mexican on YouTube!

  March 16, 2008

• Barbara Coe, Sonny Bono, And the Illuminati

  It must be nigh-impossible for the nicotine-stained brain of California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe to keep up with all the conspiracies (Reconquista, evil Muslims, the Cult of the Two Blue Shoes) she subscribes to. Nevertheless, we always dismissed her efforts and rambles as those of a bitter, hate-filled woman--until this weekend, when we received proof of Coe's beyond-the-pale mind from Babs herself. On April 5, Coe forwarded a story to her group that interviewed o

  April 9, 2008

• Hugh Hewitt Gets Tracked by Southern Poverty Law Center

  It's one thing for Orange County blabbermouth Hugh "Baby Hewie/Hughcifer" Hewitt to get monitored by myself and Clockwork Coker, but it's quite the feat that Baby Hewie made it into the pages of the Southern Poverty Law Center's fall issue of its award-winning Intelligence Report. In its round-up of racist, fucked-up quotes by media personalities (including Barbara Coe!), Baby Hewie notches a spot with this doozy: "[I]t's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United S

  September 11, 2008

• Southern Poverty Law Center Proclaims UC Irvine Guest Speakers Anti-Semitic

  For years, conservative students at the University of California, Irvine, have labored mightily to get the country to consider their campus a haven for Jew-bashing. Most of their criticism has been lobbied at the Muslim Student Union, which has done everything from host seminars called "Holocaust in the Holy Land" to invite controversial speakers they claim are merely anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish. Conservative students, in turn, have fired back by displaying those Danish Mohammad cartoons that

  September 24, 2008

• Letters to the Editor 1/22/99

  January 28, 1999

• Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race

  *Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't like Schiff because he dared tried to pass a House resolution that would acknowledge the Armenian genocide, a historical fact that only Turkish nationalists and their apologists deny. Leading the charge

  November 4, 2008

• The Godfather of Mexican-Haters to Visit CCIR Tomorrow!

  What an exciting couple of days it's been for members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform! They held a rally this past Saturday at their little slice of Nuremburg, the Garden Grove Women's Club, in which a Who's Who of Know Nothings was scheduled to rally geriatrics against amnesty for illegals: Jeff Schwilk of the San Diego Minutemen (a group so goofy they despise Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist), CCIR head witch Barbara Coe, "Chicana" activist Lupe Moreno, Save Our State

  February 23, 2009

• Gay-Bashing, Jew-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Rushes to Defend Anti-Semitic KPFK Show

  Mere moments after the Jewish Journal published an éxposé of the anti-Semitic KPFK-FM 90.7 show "La Causa," the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate website La Voz de Aztlán rushed to the defense of the only publicly broadcast radio show in the United States that has ever considered it anything other than a embarrassment. "Pro-Israel Jews attack a popular Los Angeles Chicano radio program," screamed the headline, and writer "Ernesto Cienfuegos" (really La Voz publisher Hector Carreon,

  March 20, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Recap Edition

  October 9, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] 'What Is an Anchor Baby?'

  September 25, 2008

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  November 15, 2007

• Bush's New Year Devolution

  January 23, 2003

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Wetbacks on the Brain

  April 16, 2009

• !Ask a Mexican!

  November 23, 2006

• Real Gene-ius

  August 17, 2006

• Hatesville, USA

  July 20, 2006

• Commie Girl

  May 4, 2006

• Live Free Now

  March 16, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  July 21, 2005

• One of us

  December 4, 2003

• Mayhem in Santa Ana

  April 24, 2003

• Now Fear This

  September 12, 2002

• Let's Get Mikey

  December 31, 1998

• Local H.

  December 31, 1998

• San Diego Minuteman Head Urges Violence Against O.C. Activist

  Naui Huitzilopochtli has been a long-time fixture in Orange County progressive activism, first as a mere protester but increasingly as perhaps Orange County's most prolific political YouTuber. His incessant hectoring of Know Nothings has made Naui Dirty Mexican #1 amongst local anti-illegals activists, with all types of online insults and doctored videos ridiculing him for various actions.But no one seems to have it in more for Naui than Orange County native Jeff Schwilk, head of the San Diego M

  May 11, 2009

• Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a UCI Muslim Student Union Fave, an Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Coward

  Ali, with a UCI goon trying to intimidate Levin by snapping a shot of himEvery year for the past couple of years, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union has invited a hilarious hater named Abdel Malik Ali, one so noxious that the Southern Poverty Law Center profiled the pendejo. I'm not sure why the MSU kids bring in Ali--ostensibly to rail against the treatment of Palestinians by Israel, but he always brings up anti-Jewish canards that have nothing to do with the current problems in the Holy Land. In

  May 16, 2009

• Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

    Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and racists and supremacists and Hitler lovers and Mexican bashers and hater/racist skinheads of Huntington Beach (and, yes, not all skinheads are hater/racists, so hold that comment). Oh, yes, the

  July 30, 2009

• Another Know Nothing Turns Against Barbara Coe

  Notice the Iron Cross on Coe's T-shirt...The Beer Hall Putsch of America's modern-day Know Nothing movement keeps turning more hilarious by the day. Earlier this week, we reported on how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe tried to put  murders at the hands of Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist. Now emerges a scathing July 9 email in which Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) head William Gheen calls Babs a "two-faced backstabber"--and that's one of the

  July 11, 2009

• The OC Register Needs to Stop Respecting CCIR

  ​The Orange County Register did another immigration story over the weekend, this one interviewing Know Nothings and saints on opposite sides of the issue. I understand that reporter Cindy Carmaco has to adhere to trying to antagonize the Know Nothings as little as possible lest she receive dozens of nasty phone calls and email like every Reg reporter who ever covers SanTana and immigration, and thus must refer to any anti-immigrant loon as "anti-illegal-immigrant." But seriously, Cindy's edito

  September 8, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Activista (the Activist): Brian Levin

  October 8, 2009