Trial of SPLC suit against IKA and Defendant
Ron Edwards
Update: 10-28-08: The SPLC is trying to put
a gag order from allowing the media in the
trial against Ron Edwards and the IKA.What
do they have to hide? In past cases against
other white separatist such as the Aryan
Nations and White Aryan Resistance the SPLC
allowed media coverage. Click on the documents
below to read more.
SPLC gag order
Edwards response to gag order
Edwards response to gag order #2
UPDATE: 10-24-2008: Yesterday a hearing was
held before the Meade County Curcuit Court
Judge. Most documents that would prove Edwards
innocents in this BIAS lawsuit was objected
by Morris Dees and was ruled in the SPLC's
favor and was gagged by Judge Bruce Butler.
On the other hand every document that was
submitted by the SPLC was objected by Ron
Edwards and ruled in favor of the SPLC by
Judged Bruce Butler of the Meade County Circuit
Court.
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The SPLC is trying to gag
Another scam by Morris Dees to profit off
this unlawful lawsuit against Ron Edwards
and the IKA. As usual Dees lies and ridiculus
statements are enough to fill his pockets
with millions more in con money from donors
who believe his deceitful and cunning ways.
This was an email sent to people on the SPLC's
contact list.
CLICK HERE TO READ EMAIL
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Ron Edwards speeks about the SPLC lawsuit
against him and the IKA
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
46th Judicial District, Division 1
Meade Circuit Court
Civil Action No. 07-CI-00082
SPLC VS Imperial Klans of America
Documents of civil case Brandenburg Kentucky
American free Press
Article about dees
Document 1
Document 2
Gruver confesses to Dees lies on USA Today
Document 1
Document 2
Document 3
Dees tampering Charges in murder case
Document 1
Submitted exibits in defense of civil case
against the IKA
Document 1
Document 2
Letters from defendant Andrew Watkins
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Second letter from defendant Andrew Watkins
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Third letter from defendant Andrew Watkins
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Fourth letter from defendant Andrew Watkins stating that Dees tried to Bribe
him.
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Letter to Meade County Clerk
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Matt Roberts interview by Dees around a month
prior to Roberts deposition. (NOTE) Roberts
statements changed over a phone interview
with Dees.
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Deposition of Matt Roberts
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Offer to Ron Edwards from the SPLC
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Ron Edwards response to offer
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Land trust from Ron Edwards to Son one year
and one month prior to the 2006 incident
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SPLC MOTION IN LIMINE
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Ron Edwards response to MOTION IN LIMINE
VEIW RESPONSE CLICK HERE
Court documents from Dees Divorce
Child Molester, Pervert, and Liar?
Link to other website Click here
Many other documents and website of Morris
Dees character and deception
http://www.slrc-csa.org/site/dees.php
http://www.sclos.org/SPLC.htm
http://www.driftline.org/cgi-bin/archive/archive
_msg.cgi?file=spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive
/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0005&msgnum=
314&start=13796&end=14272
One of the 14 documented statements is from
Harper’s magazine:
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“The cover story of Harper’s magazine’s November
2000 issue exposed the SPLC’s alarmist fund-raising
tactics with which it raises large sums that
are not used to help those it purports to
serve. The Southern Center for Human Rights’
Stephen Bright charged that [Dees] is a fraud
who has milked a lot of very wonderful, well-intentioned
people. If it’s got headlines, Morris is
there.”
Quoting from the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals,
CIV2114 (1979), the brochure says:
“Of all the damning indictments against Morris
Dees, the worst comes from his closest connection.
He was sued by his ex-wife, Maureene Bass
Dees, who alleged that he had committed incest
with his stepdaughter and future daughter-in-law.”
“When Dees saw the program he was visibly
shaken,” the paper quotes Salley. “I stood
up and asked him why 55 percent of the SPLC’s
income went into his pocket, and he tried
to shout me down. Then other members of our
group tried to ask him similar questions,
and they shut down the question-and-answer
period.”
Carolina Productions “is taxpayer funded
and in the past they have had groups such
as transvestite exotic dancers,” Salley said.
The following night Dees spoke at Western
Carolina University where about 200 attendees
received the same brochure.
Dees refused to comment on the well-deserved
roasting he took.
(Issue #14, April 5, 2006)
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Dees' income has provoked accusations of
fraud against the SPLC's founder. Stephen
Bright, a director of the Southern Center
for Human Rights, a leftwing Atlanta-based
group that opposes the death penalty, put
it bluntly in a 1996 letter to Dees, in which
he denounced Dees as a "a fraud and
a conman," and upbraided Dees because
"you spend so much, accomplish so little,
and promote yourself shamelessly."
The charge of self-promotion is one that
Dees has not gone out of his way to dodge.
A longtime leftwing activist, Dees sought
out prominent roles as a finance director
for Democratic Senator George McGovern's
1972 Presidential campaign; a national finance
director for President Jimmy Carter
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indivi
dualProfile.asp?indid=1655
in 1976; and a national finance chairman
for Senator Ted Kennedy
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individual
Profile.asp?indid=804
during his1980 Presidential bid. In addition,
Dees has courted the admiration of his supporters,
touring college campuses around the United
States and collecting, according to his SPLC
biography, "at least 25 honorary degrees."
After the SPLC won a much-ballyhooed settlement
against the Ku Klax Klan—a case that earned
Dees $350,000—Dees' life became the plot
of a doting TV movie, 1991's Line of Fire:
The Morris Dees Story, with Dees played by
the actor Corbin Bernson. In 1996 Dees wrote,
along with reporter James Corcoran, Gathering
Storm: America's Militia Threat. This book,
which charted the activities of radical militias
in the United States, drew special attention
to a supposedly prescient letter Dees wrote
to then-Attorney General Janet Reno six months
prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. In the
letter, Dees cautioned in the most general
terms that a "mixture of armed groups
and those who hate is a recipe for disaster."
“Morris Dees doesn't need your financial
support,” writes Ken Silverstein in “The
Church of Morris Dees” (Harper’s, November
2000), observing that:
"The SPLC is already the wealthiest
civil rights group in America…Back in 1978,
when the Center had less than $10 million,
Dees promised that his organization would
quit fund-raising and live off interest as
soon as its endowment hit $55 million. But
as it approached that figure, the SPLC upped
the bar to $100 million, a sum that, one
1989 newsletter promised, would allow the
Center 'to cease the costly and often unreliable
task of fund raising.' Today, the SPLC’s
treasury bulges with $120 million, and it
spends twice as much on fund-raising-$5.76
million last year-as it does on legal services
for victims of civil rights abuses. The American
Institute of Philanthropy gives the Center
one of the worst ratings of any group it
monitors, estimating that the SPLC could
operate for 4.6 years without making another
tax-exempt nickel from its investments or
raising another tax-deductible cent from
well-meaning 'people like you.'"
JoAnn Wypijewski has remarked in The Nation
(February 26, 2001):
"What is the Southern Poverty Law Center
doing…? Mostly making money…In 1999 it spent
$2.4 million on litigation and $5.7' million
on fundraising, meanwhile taking in more
than $44 million--$27 million from fundraising,
the rest from investments…On the subject
of 'hate groups' …No one has been more assiduous
in inflating the profile of such groups than
the center's millionaire huckster, Morris
Dees, who in 1999 began a begging letter,
'Dear Friend, The danger presented by the
Klan is greater now than at any time in the
past ten years.”…With…a salary close to $300,000
putting him among the top 2 percent of Americans,
Dees needn't worry about 'fitting in' with
the masses of Montgomery [SPLC headquarters].
Naturally, he'd erect a multimillion-dollar
office building that's a monstrosity. 'I
hate it,' a security guard across the street
told me, as the sun's hot rays bounced off
the building's vast brushed-stainless-steel-clad
southern exposure and onto his face, making
him sweat, roasting his skin while he stood
watch for the militia nuts Dees would have
his donors believe are lurking around every
corner."
Keep up the great work, Mr. Dees. Don’t let
truth and decency get in your way.
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