Morris Dees terminated from SPLC....

[phill4paul]

No reason given. Care to conjecture?


The Southern Poverty Law Center has dismissed founder Morris Dees, the civil-rights organization announced on Thursday. “Effective yesterday, Morris Dees’ employment at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was terminated,” said Richard Cohen, president of the SPLC. Dees, the SPLC co-founder and chief trial counsel, founded the Montgomery, Alabama-based center in 1971. “As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” Cohen said. “When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action.” The statement did not elaborate on why Dees was let go.

“Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve—one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected,” Cohen's statement read. “The SPLC is deeply committed to having a workplace that reflects the values it espouses—truth, justice, equity and inclusion, and we believe the steps we have taken today reaffirm that commitment.”



https://www.thedailybeast.com/southern-poverty-law-center-dismisses-founder-morris-dees-3

[shakey1]

Maybe it was something he said/did 20 years ago.

[Swordsmyth]

Somebody found something in his past that makes him too much of a liability?

[Danke]

https://thehayride.com/2018/08/splc-co-founder-morris-dees-is-a-sexually-deviant-perverted-pedophile-court-documents-reveal/

[oyarde]

No reason given. Care to conjecture?



https://www.thedailybeast.com/southern-poverty-law-center-dismisses-founder-morris-dees-3

Dem trial lawyer ? That is easy . Sexual deviate with under age .

[Swordsmyth]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the country’s most well-funded “anti-hate” organizations, announced Thursday that it has fired its founder Morris Dees, suggesting in a statement that misconduct played a role in the decision. “Effective yesterday, Morris Dees’ employment at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was terminated. As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” SPLC president Richard Cohen said (https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/03/14/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-co-founder-civil-rights-lawyer-morris-dees/3164839002/) in a statement. When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action.”
“Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected,” he added (https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/03/14/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-co-founder-civil-rights-lawyer-morris-dees/3164839002/).


According to the Montgomery Advertiser, Dees’ biography no longer appears on the Montgomery-based organization’s website.
ALReporter’s Josh Moon, citing multiple sources, said Dees faces allegations of sexual harassment.

The SPLC fired Morris Dees yesterday and announced it today. Multiple sources have told me that the allegations of inappropriate conduct involve sexual harassment incidents. Multiple incidents that have come to light after an initial recent allegation.
— Josh Moon (@Josh_Moon) March 14, 2019 (https://twitter.com/Josh_Moon/status/1106298682339745793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
In a statement (https://www.apnews.com/86078026d81347c1ac2ded02a41525a2) to the Associated Press, Dees said his dismissal involved a personnel issue and called the SPLC a “wonderful” organization. He said he wishes the organization luck.
Dees, a Montgomery-based lawyer, co-founded the SPLC in 1971.

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/14/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-founder-morris-dees-suggests-misconduct/#

[Mach]

In his 1991 autobiography[12] Dees wrote that in 1962, as a young lawyer, he had represented Ku Klux Klan member Claude Henley, who faced Federal charges for attacking Freedom Riders in an incident documented by a Life magazine photographer. When Dees learned that another lawyer had asked for $15,000 to represent Henley, Dees offered to do the job for $5,000, which was roughly the median household salary in America at the time. Dees's defense helped Henley gain an acquittal. But Dees said he later had an "epiphany" and regretted defending Henley.


The real joke here is that he seen the money to be made from the other side, and switched... now he sells hate from the other side.

[phill4paul]

https://thehayride.com/2018/08/splc-co-founder-morris-dees-is-a-sexually-deviant-perverted-pedophile-court-documents-reveal/

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Danke again.

[jkr]

This is a great news! I hope the ewok is next!

[dannno]

I'm glad they fired him, but what is with throwing around the word pedophile for a guy who tried have sex with an 18 year old????

[Danke]

I'm glad they fired him, but what is with throwing around the word pedophile for a guy who tried have sex with an 18 year old????

His step daughter, in her room with his wife at home...

[oyarde]

His step daughter, in her room with his wife at home...

The women around here would have stabbed him in the heart in his sleep until he was dead .

[dannno]

His step daughter, in her room with his wife at home...


Words have meaning.

[Anti Federalist]

The stepdaughter sex scandal was 40 years ago.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-s

Are they firing him over that, or over something new?

They find out he said "niggger" 50 years ago or something?

[Swordsmyth]

The stepdaughter sex scandal was 40 years ago.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-s

Are they firing him over that, or over something new?

They find out he said "niggger" 50 years ago or something?
They seem to be hinting that he is "guilty" of recent "sexual harassment" of personnel.

What the real reason is we can only guess.

[Danke]

The stepdaughter sex scandal was 40 years ago.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-s

Are they firing him over that, or over something new?

They find out he said "niggger" 50 years ago or something?

I seem to remember a staff member accused him of work place related of harassment (sexual, of course). But can't find it now with Google search...

[oyarde]

The stepdaughter sex scandal was 40 years ago.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-s

Are they firing him over that, or over something new?

They find out he said "niggger" 50 years ago or something?

Probably still flashing the same vibrator at work .

[Anti Federalist]

Southern Poverty Law Center Fires Founder Morris Dees, Suggests Misconduct

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/14/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-founder-morris-dees-suggests-misconduct/

14 Mar 2019

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the country’s most well-funded “anti-hate” organizations, announced Thursday that it has fired its founder Morris Dees, suggesting in a statement that misconduct played a role in the decision.

“Effective yesterday, Morris Dees’ employment at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was terminated. As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world,” SPLC president Richard Cohen said in a statement. When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action.”

“Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected,” he added.

According to the Montgomery Advertiser, Dees’ biography no longer appears on the Montgomery-based organization’s website.

ALReporter’s Josh Moon, citing multiple sources, said Dees faces allegations of sexual harassment.


Josh Moon
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The SPLC fired Morris Dees yesterday and announced it today. Multiple sources have told me that the allegations of inappropriate conduct involve sexual harassment incidents. Multiple incidents that have come to light after an initial recent allegation.

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In a statement to the Associated Press, Dees said his dismissal involved a personnel issue and called the SPLC a “wonderful” organization. He said he wishes the organization luck.

Dees, a Montgomery-based lawyer, co-founded the SPLC in 1971. Tax records show in 2017 that the organization had $450 million in assets.

The development comes as observers say the organization’s credibility has eroded, in part, due to its overzealous adding of conservatives groups and right-leaning figures to its “hate list.” A recent Washington Post opinion-editorial criticized the SPLC for a series of recent “blunders,” which included its failed attempt to label House and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and author Maajid Nawaz as “extremists.”

For decades, the hate list was a golden seal of disapproval, considered nonpartisan enough to be heeded by government agencies, police departments, corporations and journalists. But in recent years, as the list has swept up an increasing number of conservative activists — mostly in the anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim categories — those conservatives have been fighting back. Boykin, of the FRC, recently sent a letter to about 100 media outlets (including The Washington Post) and corporate donors on behalf of four dozen groups and individuals “who have been targeted, defamed, or otherwise harmed” by the SPLC, warning that the hate list is no longer to be trusted. Mathew Staver, chairman of the Christian legal advocacy group Liberty Counsel, told me 60 organizations are interested in suing the SPLC.

…

Along the way, the SPLC undermined its own credibility with a couple of blunders. In 2015, it apologized for listing Ben Carson as an extremist (though not on the hate list), saying the characterization was inaccurate. Then, this past June, the group paid $3.4 million to Muslim activist Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam organization to settle a threatened lawsuit.

According to a June 2018 report, more than 60 groups have weighed legal action against the SPLC for branding them as “hate groups” after Nawaz successful sued the organization. In February, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes sued the SPLC, accusing the organization of “defaming” him by publishing “false, damaging and defamatory” information in an attempt to “deplatform” him.

The SPLC has reportedly worked with some of Silicon Valley’s largest technology companies, including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to police their platforms for “hate,” and has enjoyed donations from Hollywood star George Clooney and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

[oyarde]

The stepdaughter sex scandal was 40 years ago.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-s

Are they firing him over that, or over something new?

They find out he said "niggger" 50 years ago or something?

I doubt it . I expect he would correct anyone for saying that .

[Anti Federalist]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Hope you end up homeless, fucker.

[Danke]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Hope you end up homeless, fucker.

230 million hidden away in the Cayman Islands...doubtful.

[Swordsmyth]

Big League Politics spoke with someone who is in contact with several SPLC employees, whom the source described as “whistleblowers.” The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said that there is increasing tension between the SPLC’s employees and its management.

“There’s a lot of anger and resentment inside the company. Their black employees are paid less than their white ones,” the source said. “Dees feels that he’s being scapegoated because the SPLC was down a whole bunch of money. They didn’t raise that much money last year.”
Morris had previously been accused of discriminatory treatment of black employees (https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/03/14/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-co-founder-civil-rights-lawyer-morris-dees/3164839002/).
When Big League Politics called the SPLC media center to ask why specifically Dees was fired, we were stonewalled.
Last year, Big League Politics exposed several alleged misdeeds of Dees from court documents obtained from his divorce proceedings. The bombshell revelation was that Dees was accused of attempting to molest his stepdaughter with a sex toy (https://bigleaguepolitics.com/court-docs-splc-co-founder-accused-of-trying-to-molest-step-daughter-with-sex-toy/). He also allegedly had an affair with an SPLC employee (https://bigleaguepolitics.com/splc-co-founder-morris-dees-allegedly-had-affair-with-employee/).

More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-splcs-morris-dees-fired-after-blp-expose-employees-detail-internal-strife/

[jkr]

230 million hidden away in the Cayman Islands...doubtful.


We still have asset forfeiture right?
Take it and build something with it or heal people...

[oyarde]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Hope you end up homeless, fucker.

That would be most excellent but I doubt it .

[UWDude]

Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected

Somebody has filed a lawsuit against them claiming they did not take immediate concrete steps, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of their internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that their talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected?

[oyarde]

Extra Rep for anyone who can post future photos of this guy eating from dumpsters and drinking from mud puddles .

[brushfire]

#YOUTOO

[dannno]

“Dees feels that he’s being scapegoated because the SPLC was down a whole bunch of money. They didn’t raise that much money last year.”

Now that's the funniest thing I've read all day...

You mean to tell me, after the fakestream news blasted The President of the United States non-stop for saying Nazis and white supremacists are "fine people" (which, as you should know, was completely fake news..he was talking about the people who were protesting the statue removal, not the tiki torch idiots..) the SPLC had a bad fundraising year??!

[specsaregood]

Words have meaning.

I was wondering when you'd show up, you missed the whole rapist thread earlier.
www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?532461-Italian-protests-over-men-cleared-of-rape-because-woman-was-too-masculine

[tod evans]

Great news!

Fuck Morris Dees and the horse he rode in on.

[Jamesiv1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2FPQvwhSDY

[Swordsmyth]

The Southern Poverty Law Center was long ago exposed as money-making scam.
It has amassed (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31729-splcs-money-pile-disclosed-by-free-beacon-will-come-in-handy-it-faces-three-lawsuits) almost half-a-billion dollars fighting an imaginary tide of “hate” that is ever “rising,” which provides the twin benefits of bringing in that money and advancing the totalitarian goals of the radical Left. Topping that agenda is demonizing any opposition to the Left as “hate,” be it racism, homophobia, transphobia, and Islamophobia.
But last week, the discredited group fired (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31757-splc-fires-founder-morris-dees-amid-lawsuits-and-credibility-crisis) its co-founder, Morris Dees, a shocker in the “civil rights community” that opened the door to discussing exactly who Dees is and what goes on at SPLC, also called the Poverty Palace.
Former SPLC staff member Bob Moser took to the New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center?irclickid=UHJyDbweAxyJR8R0MvSyQWlBUklxLCyBR 0cxzs0&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglin k%20Primary&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglink% 20Primary) yesterday to elaborate on what we’ve known for some time: The SPLC is, again, a money-making scam. But he revealed that truth from the inside.
Until Justice Rolls Down Like Dollars
A detailed report in the Los Angeles Times explained (https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-splc-morris-dees-20190314-story.html) that SPLC fired Dees likely because of the long-term abuse of women and blacks at the organization.
Stephen Bright, a Yale law professor and former director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, told the Times that SPLC’s fundraising is “fraudulent,” and called Dees a “flimflam man and he’s managed to flimflam his way along for many years raising money by telling people about the Ku Klux Klan and hate groups,” he said. “He sort of goes to whatever will sell and has, of course, brought in millions and millions and millions of dollars.”

The flim-flam man’s career is officially over, and Moser offers a few insights (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center?irclickid=UHJyDbweAxyJR8R0MvSyQWlBUklxLCyBR 0cxzs0&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglin k%20Primary&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglink% 20Primary) that open with an amusing but telling vignette:
I’ve been thinking about the jokes my S.P.L.C. colleagues and I used to tell to keep ourselves sane. Walking to lunch past the center’s Maya Lin-designed memorial to civil-rights martyrs, we’d cast a glance at the inscription from Martin Luther King, Jr., etched into the black marble — “Until justice rolls down like waters”— and intone, in our deepest voices, “Until justice rolls down like dollars.” The Law Center had a way of turning idealists into cynics.
Working in a building that “made social justice ‘look despotic,’” the earnest young leftist quickly learned that fighting hate involved a lot of hypocrisy and a lot more money.
Of the hypocrisy, Moser wrote, blacks at SPLC were almost uniformly “administrative and support staff — ‘the help,’ one of my black colleagues said pointedly.” But the “‘professional staff’ — the lawyers, researchers, educators, public-relations officers, and fund-raisers — were almost exclusively white. Just two staffers, including me, were openly gay.”
Of the money-making, Moser quotes (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center?irclickid=UHJyDbweAxyJR8R0MvSyQWlBUklxLCyBR 0cxzs0&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglin k%20Primary&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglink% 20Primary) another of Dees’s critics, who says Dees viewed “civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals.”
So beyond Dees’s having a “reputation for hitting on young women,” SPLC is just a storefront for selling the “fight against hate” to make a pile of money. “The work could be meaningful and gratifying,” Moser wrote. “But it was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam.”
SPLC, a former staff member said to Moser, was a “virtual buffet of injustices.”
Moser eventually admits (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center?irclickid=UHJyDbweAxyJR8R0MvSyQWlBUklxLCyBR 0cxzs0&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglin k%20Primary&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglink% 20Primary) that he and other staffers didn’t care enough about their own integrity to blow the whistle:
Outside of work, we spent a lot of time drinking and dishing in Montgomery bars and restaurants about the oppressive security regime, the hyperbolic fund-raising appeals, and the fact that, though the center claimed to be effective in fighting extremism, “hate” always continued to be on the rise, more dangerous than ever, with each year’s report on hate groups. “The S.P.L.C.— making hate pay,” we’d say.
It wasn’t funny then. At this moment, it seems even grimmer.
But Moser and this coworkers participated in the “making hate pay.”
No Objections at All to What SPLC Did
Not once in this half-apology for joining this massive fraud did Moser express sorrow for helping smear innocent conservatives.
Aside from defaming mainstream conservatives, SPLC’s application of the “hate group” label inspired an attempted mass murder (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/15227-video-shows-link-between-splc-and-attack-on-family-group) at the Family Research Council.
But Moser’s concern was this (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center?irclickid=UHJyDbweAxyJR8R0MvSyQWlBUklxLCyBR 0cxzs0&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglin k%20Primary&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglink% 20Primary): “As critics have long pointed out, however, the hate-group designations also drive attention to the extremists. Many groups, including the religious-right Family Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom, raise considerable money by decrying the S.P.L.C.’s ‘attacks.’”
Moser never admits that the SPLC’s “extremist” and “hate” designations are either bogus or highly suspect, or that the designated targets don’t really exist (https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_3/tsc_20_3_wilcox_interview.shtml). Nor does he mention that SPLC faces multiple lawsuits alleging (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31409-splc-hires-top-defamation-attorney-to-defend-against-lawyer-s-claim) defamation, mail fraud and violations (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/31207-cis-sues-splc-alleges-wire-fraud-rico-conspiracy) of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizaitions Act.


https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31809-former-staffer-admits-splc-is-a-money-making-scam

[juleswin]

Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen to step down

Source: USA TODAY NETWORK

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/montage/3c/presto/2019/02/08/PMOY/f536f16f-86ed-49e9-b849-bd2a51b5d630-splc08.jpg;/presto/2019/02/08/PMOY/979a899a-847d-4686-b831-02d2e0d3677a-splc11.jpg;/presto/2019/02/08/PMOY/00770281-dae3-4eda-ada7-ebe6525f5050-splc06.jpg?width=640&padding=6&bg-color=ffffff

Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen said in a statement Friday he has asked the board of the troubled organization to "to immediately launch a search for an interim president in order to give the organization the best chance to heal," and took responsibility for problems that have swept out the senior leadership of the group in just a week.

Cohen, who has worked at the SPLC since 1986 and served as president since 2003, said in the statement that "we'll emerge stronger" after an audit of the organization's practices by Tina Tchen, a former White House official and Chicago-based lawyer.

"Given my long tenure as the SPLC president, however, I do not think I should be involved in that process beyond cooperating with Tina, her team, and the board in any way that may be helpful," the statement said. "Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them."

When reached for comment on Friday evening, an SPLC spokesperson said the center cannot comment on the specifics of individual personnel decisions.

https://amp.montgomeryadvertiser.com/amp/3251224002?__twitter_impression=true