Anna Marie Hoffman, who is the founder of the conservative Counter Cultured blog, was at the Family Research Council the day Floyd Corkins tried to execute his act of terrorism. She was working there at the time. In her post published yesterday, she said:
[Last] Wednesday, Floyd Lee Corkins II, who was responsible for the Family Research Council shooting on August 15, 2012, plead guilty to three charges, which included committing an act of terrorism.
While interviewed by the FBI, Corkins admitted that he wanted to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.”
I was one of those people who could have been his victim. I was on the 6th floor of the FRC building working on my pro-life internship assignments. I could have lost my life. My dear friend Rosa and everyone else in the building, including my boss Jeanne Monahan, now president of March for Life, could have lost their lives.
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It is time to stop Southern Poverty Law Center labeling FRC, and other organizations that just want to make society a better place, as “hate groups.” I only pray that people will learn from this shooting that wrongful labels and violence are not ways to solve political disagreements. Let’s stop the hate to prevent acts of violence like this shooting from occurring again.
As Bryan Preston posted on February 6, Corkins used the SPLC’s “hate map” to select his target. As Preston noted, this crime does present a certain problems for left, especially his third point.
This crime presents the militant left with a couple of problems. One, by their definition, it’s a hate crime. Two, rhetoric such as Spencer Ackerman threatening to smash conservatives’ faces through plate glass windows may be relevant to the intended killer’s inspiration. Third, the Southern Poverty Law Center targeted the Family Research Council as a “hate group” for holding a mainstream position on a cultural issue. The shooter explicitly admits that he used the SPLC’s map to choose his target for a mass killing.
I wonder if the SPLC will designate themselves as a hate group, and then they can fold up shop.
All hate groups say they want to make society a better place. No blanket thrown over the whole will suffice. Only principle and discriminating right from wrong will suffice. Trust me, the Nation of Islam thinks they’re fighting the good fight. So does James Cone, Rev. Wright and Hug-This-Racist-Obamanable.
All hate crime is thought crime. Just punish the act people, motivations be damned.
The very concept of a “hate crime ” leads on to the idea of “hate speech” which iis conceived as a way of stifling freedom of expression. Take physical violence for instance. If a white man bludgeons a black man , we assume its a hate crime simply because they are of different races, but the punishment for this act should not depend on whether it was motivated by “hate”
Now hate speech is going to be used more and more to punish criticism of sexual deviants.
We should just punish criminal acts. The person killed from hate is just as dead as the person killed from jealousy or envy or greed.
Morris Dees and the SPLC is as relevant today as the trade union movement and the NAACP.
Mostly, union leadership, which is primarily a bastion of left wing parasites feeding on the body of their so-called constituents, had had nothing to do of substance since the federal labor laws were passed in the 1930′s. Holding office in a trade union is a very cushy sinecure, so union leadership needs causes to stay in power.
The same for Dees. Since the lawfare he and the SPLC waged against the KKK wound down, he has really had nothing to do, except to manufacture crisis out of whole cloth on the (left) bias. The SPLC literally lists thousands of organizations as hate groups. A lot of money in that, the hate business.
Perhaps someone with standing in the case should sue Mr. Dees and the SPLC, for real and punitive damages relating to the attack by one of his disciples on the Family Research Council.
One thing is common about these people. They are all really in it for the money. That is the best way to punish them, in the end. Take away their money and make them indigent.