Left Funds Hate
Coalition Aimed at Choking Americans’ Political Speech
by Lee Stranahan 30 Dec 2016
A coalition of institutional left, anti-Trump groups
will attempt to choke Americans’ free-speech rights, using the excuse they’re
opposing “hate speech.”
The assortment of far-left and establishment groups in
the “Coalition Against Hate” includes two groups associated with Hillary
Clinton’s campaign chief operative John Podesta, plus pro-illegal immigration
groups, such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund (MALDEF) plus the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was
an unindicted
co-conspirator in an anti-Semitic, jihad-funding operation.
MALDEF, which was formed in 1967 with funding almost
exclusively by The Ford Foundation, has been called by
author David Horowitz a group which “no longer draws a
distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.”
Other members of the 55-member hate coalition include the
Brennan
Center for Justice, CHIRLA, Color of Change, Common Cause, GLAAD, Matthew
Shepard Foundation, National Immigration Law Center, and the Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
These groups are suppressing their own rivalries — such as Islam’s
hatred of gays — to unite against Americans.
The coalition plans to use legal action and government
pressure to stop what it calls “hate speech.”
As Breitbart News recently
reported, the SPLC has published a list of
what they call “Terror from the Right” that categorizes two Islamic terror
attacks as “radical-right terrorist plots.”
The group lays out their “mission” on their website,
under the guise of stopping what they refer to as “hate speech.” That “hate
speech” term helps them stigmatize rival opinions and ideas that the left
rejects, even as the group ignores the hatred by fellow progressives towards
President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.
Our mission is to #breakhate by elevating the voices of
the impacted and hold purveyors of hate speech accountable. As the Coalition
Against Hate, we will encourage media platforms to abandon hate speech as a
profit model and bring civil discourse back to the public square. We will
expose purveyors of hate speech and those that use multiple media platforms to
amplify their hateful rhetoric. We have a responsibility to speak out against
hate speech and demonstrate to our communities and our children that words have
meaning. We will also promote positive portrayals to illustrate that our
diversity is what makes communities flourish.
This trend is fortified by media outlets such as the New York
Times, which has a new, regular section by the Editorial Board
called This
Week in Hate, where it says, “The editorial board tracks hate crimes
and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump.”
The Times had no such column regularly tracking
the crimes and harassment spread by Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and
various college groups during the Obama administration.
One approving
article about the new group makes it clear that President-elect
Trump and Breitbart News will be targets for the Coalition Against Hate,
writing:
The coalition said it will warn of the dangers of using
the “alt-right” label to describe what it said is actually white supremacy, and
that it will take issue with Trump appointees and staffers.
The candidate himself has broad-brushed Mexican
immigrants as rapists and Muslims as potential terrorists and his tapping of
Stephen Bannon of the Breitbart News site drew a firestorm of criticism from
those who see that site, and Bannon, as facilitating hate speech
On the
group’s website, they urge fellow progressives to seek legal help
from lawyers working for CAIR.
The Civil Rights Department of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations works to protect and extend the civil liberties
guaranteed primarily by the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. We take
requests for legal help for civil rights matters.
The irony of the Coalition’s positions against “hate” is
made clear by a tweet supporting #BreakHate from Hussam Ayloush, the Executive
Director of the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR and part of CAIR nationally.
In December, Ayloush had been quoted by the Coalition Against
Hate’s Twitter account:
The Coalition has not commented on Ayloush’s statement.
Breitbart has frequently noted that the CAIR group is so
closely entwined with Islamists and with
jihadis that court documents and news reports show that at least
five of its people — either board members, employees, or former employees —
have been jailed or repatriated for
various
financial and terror-related
offenses.
Breitbart has also published evidence
highlighted by critics showing that CAIR
was named an unindicted co-conspirator
in a Texas-based criminal effort to deliver $12 million to the Jew-hating HAMAS
jihad group, that CAIR was founded with $490,000
from HAMAS, and that the FBI bans top-level meetings with CAIR
officials. “The FBI policy restricting
a formal relationship with CAIR remains … [but] does not preclude communication
regarding investigative activity or allegations of civil rights violations,”
said an Oct. 2015 email from FBI spokesman Christopher Allen.
In 2009, a federal judge concluded that “the government
has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR…
with Hamas.”
The CAIR group defends itself here.
John Podesta
John D. Podesta
was a temporary CEO for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the campaign chairman for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign, is the founder of the Center
for American Progress, and the founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Note: Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Washington
Center for Equitable Growth is an affiliate of the Center for American Progress.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and a contributor for MoveOn.org.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the People for the American Way.
Maria Echaveste
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and a
U.S. ambassador
nominee for Mexico.
Danielle C. Gray
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and a director at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Peter B. Lewis was
a director at the Center for American
Progress, and a contributor for MoveOn.org.
Herbert Sandler
was a funder for the Center for American
Progress, and a funder for MoveOn.org.
Van
Jones was a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and a
co-founder for the ColorOfChange.org.
James Rucker is a
co-founder for the ColorOfChange.org,
a director at the Southern Poverty Law
Center, and was a director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org.
Melanne Verveer
was a field manager for Common Cause,
the EVP for the People for the American
Way, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
chief of staff.
Norman
Lear is a director at the People for
the American Way, and the president of the Lear Family Foundation.
Lear
Family Foundation was a funder for the People
for the American Way, and a donor for the Movement Resource Group.
Movement
Resource Group was a funder for the Occupy
Movement.
Occupy Wall
Street was the initial protest for the Occupy
Movement.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton’s chief of staff was Melanne
Verveer, was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Carlos Slim Helu
was a funder for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the vice president for the Mexican Stock Exchange, is a stockholder in the New York Times Co., the owner of Inmobiliaria Carso, and principal owner
for Telefonos de Mexico.
Inmobiliaria
Carso was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
John D. Podesta
was a temporary CEO for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the campaign chairman for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign, is the founder of the Center
for American Progress, and the founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary)
supported for the 2016 Hillary Rodham
Clinton presidential campaign.
Washington
Center for Equitable Growth is an affiliate of the Center for American Progress.
Maria Echaveste
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and a
U.S. ambassador
nominee for Mexico.
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