Comments on: Tacky: Morris Dees & SPLC Reveal a Kind Note from Brad Reynolds

By: dave

dave — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:54:31 +0000

Morris Dees and company has been in bed with the so-called justice department since 1979 when the splc sued the Klan in Alabama. In that case, Judge William Acker attempted to make the splc and the dept of justice comply with the law, but the eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed every ruling made by Judge Acker.

So many people have left the splc because it is so corrupt and evil. A few have divulged the tactics of the splc but the courts, for whatever reason, simply look the other way.

However, I commend JW for revealing these memos; it is enlightening. Hopefully, one day the legal system will prevail and the splc will be exposed for what it really is.

By: Christian Adams

Christian Adams — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:22:59 +0000

A couple of responses "Cracker." Firstly, Judicial Watch and Judicial Watch alone has filed an FOIA. They published the results of that FOIA in numerous publications. I don't think in any of those publications they implied it was the "most important investment of journalistic research done to date." Sorry if your standard of "most important" isn't satisfied before one may comment on it. Nor did someone claim it was worthy of a Pulitizer. So what you mean by "things are that bad" isn't very clear.

Nor was the information "leaked." It was provided in response to a FOIA that Judicial Watch filed with the Department of Justice. Perhaps you might read the story more carefully before you write comments.

And if you don't think that it is tacky to forward to government officials a kind note of the sort posted, then I suppose you are at odds with the values of many Americans who would consider it so. Usually, when you send someone a private note like that, you don't expect it to be forwarded to an office with considerable contempt for the author. Perhaps that assumption was not clear to you. Now it is.

By: Cracker

Cracker — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:24:08 +0000

Christian,
Seriously? Good thing we have Sherlock Holmes on the case. This is most assuredly THE most important investment of journalistic research y’all have done to date. Keep up the work because you may get lucky and write about something that will mean something one day. At this rate your going from a public perception rating of laughable to utter waste of digital space. Who gives a rip about a series of emails scheduling a speaking engagement with Morris Dees at the DOJ back in 2012? Most important who cares about a supposed letter written by Barry Kowalski to Dees, which you are not sure how, who or why it was handed over or leaked to the DOJ. To top it off you want to pose this as a public service announcement to warn people not to write Dees a personal letter on their stationary by striking fear in them that someone will publish it somewhere. I’m sure that those that support Dees will take your warning to heart before they think about sending him a personal written letter. I am very interested to know, how many hours of research and filing FOI request did you spend to create this Pulitzer Prize winning piece? Seriously are things that bad?

By: ed b

ed b — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:46:39 +0000

LOL – so when did anyone ever accuse Morris Dees of being an upstanding citizen with a shred of integrity?