Editor’s Note: As many of our readers know, the FBI was recently exposed as having circulated an internal memo targeting ‘traditional’ Catholics as potential perpetrators of “hate-crimes” and domestic terrorism and associated them with “white supremacist” movements. Yet the whistleblower believed this could be a step towards declaring all Christians ‘criminals.’ Certain organizations were mentioned by name, including The Fatima Center. Dr. Brian McCall of Catholic Family News (also named) provided a stinging rebuke.
This “intelligence” was based primarily on a report from the extreme-left and radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has very little to do with poverty or with law these days. Mr. C. J. Doyle of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts and one of the speakers at our recent conference has provided this follow-up story.
An Arrest for Domestic Terrorism
Conservative media platforms have been reporting the arrest of a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center – Thomas Webb Jurgens – who participated in a violent Antifa attack on a police and fire training center outside of Atlanta.
On March 5th, armed and black clad Antifa anarchists invaded the Atlanta Public Safety Training Facility in South River Forest, Georgia, setting fires, destroying construction equipment, and hurling rocks, bricks, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails at police officers.
Thirty-five individuals were arrested in connection with the attack. Twenty-three, including Jurgens, were charged with domestic terrorism.
The arson, vandalism, and assaults on police came less than a month after the leak of a memo from the Virginia office of the FBI, targeting traditional Catholics as violent extremists, which cited the Southern Poverty Law Center as its source.
The Soros-funded SPLC has now defended Jurgens, claiming that he was acting as a “legal observer” for the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Largely overlooked in this controversy, is the fact that the National Lawyers Guild has long been identified as a front group for the Communist Party, USA.
The House Un-American Activities Committee once described the NLG as the “foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party,” an assessment shared by U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell.
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “The SPLC has a long, mendacious and disreputable history of demonizing social conservatives and traditional Catholics as extremists who belong to ‘hate groups.’”
“Now we find that one of the SPLC’s attorneys, Thomas Jurgens, participated in a terrorist attack by an actual extremist group – Antifa – which has an extensive record of destructive acts of criminal violence.”
“Moreover, this SPLC official collaborated with Antifa on behalf of another extremist organization – the NLG – which is affiliated with the Communist Party, undoubtedly the most murderous hate group in human history.”
“The SPLC is a lucrative bunco scheme which monetizes left wing paranoia by inciting fear of conservative Christians. As of the end of fiscal 2021, its total assets exceeded $800 million, while its annual income was north of $130 million.”
“Honest observers have long known that the SPLC traded in fear, calumny, and bigotry. Now we know that the SPLC has a link to domestic terrorism and Communism.”
“Only journalists devoid of professional ethics and personal integrity could continue to cite the now discredited Southern Poverty Law Center as a credible source on extremism in America.”
Note: This news release was posted on the Catholic Action League website and is re-posted here with permission.