After Infowars and Prison Planet reported on the Department of Homeland Security’s “rightwing extremism” report earlier this year and the story went mega-viral on the internet — and was subsequently picked up by the corporate media, often with the usual dismissive caveats — it was discovered the agency had based much of its “research” on reports generated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League.
The MIAC story went public after an anonymous source in the Missouri State Police provided Alex Jones with a report characterizing Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin as extremists and their supporters as terrorists.
The SPLC has lately made a cottage industry out of maligning members of the patriot and consitutionalist movements. After it was discovered accused cop killer Richard Poplawski posted on Infowars, the SPLC and a handful of writers (in particular, Dennis B. Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) attempted to forge a link between Poplawski and Alex Jones. As Alex Jones has pointed out on numerous occasions, Poplawski did indeed post on Infowars. It was not mentioned by the SPLC or the writers, however, that the comments posted on the site were critical or Jones, nor was it mentioned that Jones does not share Poplawski’s racist and antisemitic beliefs.
