To show you how much mind I pay the Socialist Pecunious Lawyer Center, I'd never even heard of Hidy Be-rich until perhaps a year ago, though she is surely one of the busiest of busybodies at the SPLC. 

Have you ever wondered where the SPLC gets the authority sneak and snoop and spy on or, alternately, plague, harass and browbeat innocent and unsuspecting Americans since it ran out of genuine racists?  Where do you suppose Be-rich learned to be such a nag?  Is there some college course you take to learn to be a professional gnat?  Perhaps seminars one can attend?  Is it something you learn OJT?  Or is it more a talent you're born with? 

Wherever it was that Hidy acquired her distinctly unadmirable (not to mention unladylike) abilities, two men who have been on the receiving end of her badgering have given us glimpses into her mindset and modus operandi.  (Reading the accounts of her antics in the links below, I couldn't help but be reminded of the words of the immortal Lewis Grizzard discussing the William Kennedy Smith rape trial back in the early '90s.... "What else happened is [that] a lot of men sided with Cousin Willie because of the female prosecutor, who whined and bitched and asked the same questions over and over again and reminded us of our ex-wives.")

Reading the experiences of Roger McCredie and Dr. John Tanton, organizer of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, gives us some insight into what it was like when Hidy aimed her handy-dandy verbal harass-o-flamethrower toward others in the SCV.  The SCV has a little money, you see.  There are certainly organizations that have a whole lot more, but I guess the SPLC sees the SCV's money as easy, what with them flying that evil Rebel flag, and all.  So a destructive faction was created within the organization, known by a name, "Save the SCV" which is the precise opposite of its mission.  The process of destroying that venerable old organization is well underway. 

As part of those ongoing efforts, Hidy Be-rich snoops and spies and writes fantasies that the SPLC folks call "reports"  One of those reports involved Florida SCVer John Walker Adams.  The incident started when, as the "Unintelligent Report" tells it, Hidy sent an email to SCV Executive Director Ben Sewell.  But, as the report says, the e-mail "was misaddressed" and ended up in the mailbox of John Walker Adams, Florida SCV commander.

Just like that. 

How does email get "misaddressed"?  Do your fingers just type the wrong addy of their own accord?  Do they make you click the wrong recipient in your address book?  The names "John Walker Adams" and "Ben Sewell" aren't similar in the least.  Identical email addys aren't possible.

So what are we supposed to think -- that this "misaddressed" email was some kind of accident? 

At any rate, in the middle of all her SCV-snooping, harrassing and innuendo-spreading, somebody signed Hidy up for a bunch of porno-email.  Turns out that the person who had signed her up was the "misaddressed" (misharassed?) John Adams.  Reportedly, he later apologized to Be-rich, and if the Unintelligent Report got the apology even close to accurate, Adams overdid it, in my book. 

Some of us on a proSouthern discussion group had a chat about this incident with an SCV turncoat who invaded our group -- a genuine traitor who has joined the SPLC's efforts to eradicate the SCV.  The interloper said Adams had called Hidy a "bitch."  He said it like it was a bad thing.  He was quite disapproving of our lack of disapproval of Adams' behavior. 

Now, I'm not going to defend Adams' actions in the email-porno incident.  It was an ungentlemanly thing to do, no two ways about it.  But that does not mean Hidy is some kind of victim.  First of all, it happens all the time.  You get yourself a computer and hook it up to the internet, and sooner or later, somebody in cyberspace will email you some pornography; if you try to stop it, you'll get even more -- that's just what happens in a culture that has degenerated to the point the USA's has. That's why a whole sub-industry of protecting internet users from porn has mushroomed since the 'net began.  Second, if Hidy felt unfairly harassed by the unwanted porno-emails, maybe, just maybe, it gave her a taste of the harassment other people feel when she aims her phone calls and emails at them -- though I suspect the lesson would be lost on her.

As for the "bitch" remarks, it sounds like Adams was right on the money.  This wasn't mindless namecalling.  It is a perfect allusion to her behavior...  I mean, if it looks like a bitch, waddles like a bitch, quacks like a bitch and harasses like a bitch...

The bottom line --  while we can all concede that Adams' behavior was certainly ungentlemanly and naughty and deserved a scolding, it can't possibly hold a candle to the sleazy, injurious and thoroughly unAmerican behavior exhibited by Hidy Be-rich and her co-conspirators at the SPLC.

Roger McCredie, a marketing communications consultant in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the immediate past Chief of Heritage Defense and a current member of the National Heritage Defense Commitee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans

John Tanton organized the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) based in Washington, D.C.

Judging by her seeming interest in wierd and unhealthy behavior like  harassing strangers, Hidy Be-rich couldn't possibly have found a more compatible job than working for the Socialist Pecunious Lawyer Center (with the possible exception of signing on as a military corrections officer at, say, Abu Graib prison in Baghdad). 

The avaricious hypocrites at the SPLC make themselves marvelous targets for ridicule and jokes, but the fact is, they present a danger to innocent and unsuspecting people.

Edited from "FBI spy fronts" By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com:

The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have extensive networks of hundreds of people who spy on unsuspecting U.S. citizens who they consider to be their enemies,charges Laird Wilcox, author of two comprehensive books on extremist groups on both the left and the right, as well as "American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others."

The groups maintain the information they gather in a huge database until the FBI needs it, he said, adding that watchdog groups have the luxury of being able to go beyond the laws to which the FBI must adhere when gathering intelligence information or conducting an investigation.

"Watchdog organizations feed law enforcement agencies information in order to prompt them to go after their enemies, real or imagined. By alleging 'dangerousness' on the basis of mere assumed values, opinions and beliefs, they put entirely innocent citizens at risk from law enforcement error and misconduct."  Wilcox authored "The Watchdogs: A close look at Anti-Racist 'Watchdog' Groups," to document this phenomenon.

Wilcox claims watchdog groups have hundreds of people in major cities throughout the country who monitor editorials, observe who attends certain meetings, and actively create lists of people they consider to be offensive.

Following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center gave the FBI a list of several thousand alleged members of militias and 'hate groups' culled from its files. None of them had anything to do with the bombing. These names came from letters to newspapers expressing right-wing political views, lists of 'members' supplied by informants, names from license plate numbers collected outside public meetings, pilfered mailing lists, and so on," explained Wilcox.

The Anti-Defamation League also provided extensive information to the FBI about the Branch Davidians prior to the raid in Waco, he added.

FBI spokesman Greg Rampton admits the FBI uses such information from watchdog groups, but insists that people who write letters to the editor or attend gun shows and preparedness shows are not under surveillance and that no records are being kept about them by the FBI.  Wilcox disputes that claim, insisting that watchdog groups are paid millions of dollars by the Department of Justice to develop intelligence files on thousands of Americans. Those files are never provided to the FBI until they are needed.

Although the law enables citizens to obtain copies of their FBI files, Wilcox said it would do them no good in many instances -- since the FBI doesn't have the file yet. It is most likely still in the possession of one or more of the watchdog groups being paid with tax dollars to spy on unsuspecting Americans,he said.