Unusual suspect among arrested domestic terrorists RT World News
March 6, 2023
An activist collective going by the name Defend the Atlanta Forest has been trying to block the construction of what they dubbed Cop City for months. Critics have called them Treehouse Antifa for their tactic of camping in the trees marked to be cleared.
Cop City will never be a legitimate project, the organization said in a statement on Sunday evening, as quoted by the local outlet WSB-TV We stand steadfast in our conviction to build a new world in which all people are safe from police terror.
The discovery of an SPLC staffer among the Antifa made waves, however. Yikes, Congressman Rich McCormick, a Georgia Republican, tweetedin response. His colleague from North Carolina, Dan Bishop, wonderedif the SPLC would now list itself as a hate group.
The SPLC runs a hate watch program and has been advising US authorities for years on who it considers hate groups and domestic terrorists, while avoiding any mention of Antifa and its various affiliates.
In a letter made public in mid-2018, the FBI described it as a well-known, established and credible organization that has provided briefings and advice since 2009. The FBI confirmed it continues to have a relationship with the SPLC, even though it is supposed to reevaluate relations with outside groups as necessary to ensure the appropriateness of any interaction.
In June 2018, the SPLC made a public apology and paid over $3 million for defaming Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz as an anti-Muslim extremist promoting hate-based violence.
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Monday, March 6, 2023 at 9:49 pm