Terror Attack Against Conservative Group Inspired by SPLC Rhetoric

Man who shot up Family Research Council headquarters influenced by “anti-hate” website

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 7, 2013

The first person to be convicted under Washington DC’s 2002 anti-terrorism law admits he was inspired to attack a conservative Christian lobbying group as a result of Southern Poverty Law Center propaganda identifying the Family Research Council as “an anti-gay organization”.

“The man who opened fire at a Washington, DC, conservative values organization’s offices in the District last August — severely wounding a security guard, pleaded guilty to one terrorism charge and five other felonies on Feb. 6, becoming the first person to be convicted under the District’s anti-terror law,” reports Government Security News.

28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins could face 70 years in prison as a result of the shooting, which was planned as a response to fast food chain Chick-fil-A’s public support for “the traditional family,” which many leftists saw as an affront to gay rights.

Carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, Corkins intended to storm the Washington headquarters of the Christian group, kill as many people as possible, and smear victims’ faces with the sandwiches in order to, “make a statement against the people who work in that building … and with their stance against gay rights and Chick-fil-A,” he admitted yesterday.

Corkins tricked his way into the building before shooting security guard Leonardo Johnson in the arm. Johnson was able to wrestle the gun away from Corkins before calling police.

Corkins admitted that he had considered making a bomb and had made a list of other organizations which oppose gay marriage.

“In his plea agreement, Corkins acknowledged he identified the Council as “an anti-gay organization” by visiting Southern Poverty’s website,” reports the Associated Press. “The head of the Council, Tony Perkins, called on the group to stop labeling his organization and others hate groups because of their stance on gay issues. A spokeswoman for the Alabama-based Law Center did not immediately return a telephone message.”

Groups like the SPLC routinely demonize conservative political activists as violent right-wing extremists. The fact that a left-wing extremist used the group’s material as an inspiration for plotting an act of terrorism is chillingly ironic.

The SPLC has worked closely with Homeland Security to issue “threat projections” over recent years, demonizing gun owners, constitutionalists and libertarians as terrorists.

In August 2009, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that such reports were not based on any reliable supporting evidence whatsoever, but were merely the product of a DHS agent surfing around SPLC’s own website, as well as a widely debunked disinformation fringe blog.

A 2009 SPLC hit piece which erroneously connected Alex Jones to Pittsburgh cop killer Richard Poplawski was also littered with death threats made by SPLC sympathizers towards Jones.

“The SPLC, the well-heeled propaganda machine that smears conservatives for cash, is an integral part of the ongoing Leftist effort to demonize and destroy legitimate conservative voices,” writes Robert Spencer, adding, “The SPLC turns a blind eye to the real hate that comes from the Left and Islamic supremacists, and offers with its hate group listings not only an incitement to violence, but a handy tool that lazy Leftist mainstream media journalists use to try to intimidate people away from supporting our message of human rights.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

This article was posted: Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 11:00 am

Tags: domestic news, terrorism

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