Hey Southern Poverty Law Center: Get Your Hate Straight

Back in February, we became aware that the well-funded Southern Poverty Law Center  (SPLC) has placed Camp Constitution on its infamous “Hate Map” listings us an anti-government group.  However, they have us listed in Charlotte, North Carolina.

We went to the website of SPLC explaining to them that we are a New Hampshire based organization and they need to make a correction.  We added that an organization that receives millions of dollars from scared white liberals and woke corporations should be able to afford staffers that could have easily verified our proper address.  We explained that our camp manager, who formerly resided in Rindge, NH moved to Charlotte a number of years ago, and the only reason why his address is on the website is due to the fact that he manages the applications for our annual family camp.  We told SPLC that he is an elderly man living with his wife, and we didn’t want them to be targets of some of SPLC’s more violent supporters.  Back in 2012, one of SPLC’s supporters Floyd Le Corkins II tried to conduct a mass shooting of the D.C. based Family Research Council because SPLC had the group on their hate map.  We received an acknowledgement of our message, but they took no action.

Yesterday, Thursday September 5, 2024, I placed a call to SPLC asking them to make a correction.  (Sadly, as mentioned in an earlier blog, our camp manager, co-founder, friend and mentor, Charlie Everett passed away.)   Here is an audio of that call and conversation:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2024-09-05T16_58_33-07_00  My conversation with the SPLC staffer begins at about 5:01.

While there are indeed many hate groups, most of which are on the Left side of the political spectrum and not included in the SPLC’s hate map, SPLC lumps legitimate hate groups like Neo-Nazis with hundreds of conservative and Chrisitan groups whose only crime is to be hated by the Marxists who run the SPLC.  We think Camp Constitution was placed on the SPLC’s hate list due to our lawsuit against the City of Boston which we won in a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court decision http://www.lc.org/flag 

We consider is a badge of honor to be listed by the SPLC and say to like-minded groups -with tongue in cheek have not made the list: “You need to hate harder.”  We also want to acknowledge that the Granite Grok is on the SPLC’s hate map.