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June 08, 2005

Old times there are not forgotten

I work across the street from the Southern Poverty Law Center, near the Civil Rights monument. On cold days, you can walk in the cool shade of one state building, and marvel at the heat radiating off SPLC's blast shield walls.

This past weekend, this happened:

About 47 people, some carrying picket signs and waving Confederate flags, participated in a nonviolent protest outside the Southern Poverty Law Center on Saturday.

One protestor who held a sign with the question, "Where's the Poverty" refused to explain its meaning, saying he didn't speak to "communist media."

"It's just a civil right's hustle," said 64-year-old Gordon Baum, CEO of the council and organizer of the protest. "(Morris Dees, the founder and chief trial counsel for the Law Center) makes up all this bogeyman stuff to make money."

Read the rest if you like. What I find curious is this... slightly different coverage from SPLC: George Wallace Jr. gives major speech to hate group

Notice the finely nuanced liberal bias? Notice (in the full article) that the Advertiser just neglected to mention Mr. Wallace at all?

I don't find this in and of itself terribly ominous, or see a conspiracy at work beyond business-as-usual in Jesusland, AL; I don't think Wallace Jr. is pure evil, just a politician. But it certainly needs pointing out -- eternal vigilance is the price of freedom and all that.

Posted by Jeff at June 8, 2005 11:34 AM