Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:23:57 -0500
Subject: Re: I should have been paying attention...





carp here, go figure where the fake leftist-fascist association becomes 
obvious.





To: digifighter-AT-hotmail.com Subject: [Hitler] Fwd: On Morris Dees
 >[Even Dees' fellow Reds can't stand him! - HAC]
 >
 >Subject: Morris Dees: "Anti-Hate" Activist, DNC Fundraiser, Racist, Wife
 >Beater, Incestuous Father, and Child Molestor
 >
 >
 > [From FC#1304]
 >
 > Morris Dees: "Anti-Hate" Activist, DNC Fundraiser
 > Racist, Wife Beater, Incestuous Father, and Child Molestor
 >
 > Bill White
 > March 30, 2000
 > http://www.libertariansocialist.com/cgi-bin/bbmat.cgi?script=libsoc
 >
 > In May last year the anti-hate movement came to my attention when
 > someone from the Wiesenthal Center claimed in a Reuters news wire
 > article that my website at the time, Overthrow.com, was "hateful"
 > because, during a fight with radio talk show host Michael Reagan, we had
 > posted material that seemed to him "anti-Christian." Ignoring the great
 > courtesy this rabbi showed through his concern for the "hate" of
 > anti-Christian rhetoric, his ridiculous claim led me to begin an
 > investigation of the anti-"hate" movement. My first real story came
 > when we exposed on LSN the Southern Poverty Law Center, and how it was
 > using the case of would be fuehrer Andrew Greenbaum to fraudulently
 > raise money and excite public fears. Later, LSN exposed the fraud the
 > SPLC engage in when it accused music producer and performer Michael
 > Moynihan of making "hate" music. Today, I am happy to expose thief
 > fraud that is Morris Dees himself, and to discuss Mr Dees' history of
 > racism, wife beating, incest and child molesting, and how the media and
 > the Democratic Party have conspired to cover it up.
 >
 > Who is Morris Dees?
 >
 > Morris Dees is best known today as the head attorney of the Southern
 > Poverty Law Center. But who is Morris Dees? What is his history? Who
 > does he know?
 >
 > Born Morris Seligman Dees in 1936 in Alabama (SSN 424-46-7003), he
 > led an undistinguished life until the early 1960s. In 1961 he took on
 > his first case of note, see below, and opened up a direct mail
 > business. Dees made millions in 1960s selling products direct mail, and
 > came to the attention of the Democratic Party and several of its
 > candidates over the next decade. Dees head the direct mail fundraising
 > efforts of noted Democrats such as Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy, all the
 > while parlaying the Democratic Party's fundraising lists into the direct
 > mail activities of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which he founded in
 > 1971. By the end of last year, Dees had accumulated over $100 million
 > dollars as a result of his efforts.
 >
 > Despite a number of scandals in his life, including wife beating,
 > adultery, an attempt to molest his step daughter, public statements
 > denigrating blacks, and incest with his son's wife, he has remained
 > protected from criticism because of his political contact's strong
 > influence over the media, influence which has shut down talk radio shows
 > mid-caller when callers have attempted to confront Dees about his past.
 > Now, today, on LSN, that protection disappears.
 >
 > Racism
 >
 > No one who knows Dees believe he founded the Southern Poverty Law
 > Center out of conviction. Rather, he founded it very clearly out of an
 > attempt to make money picking on the easy target of the Ku Klux Klan.
 > Dees likes easy targets. That's why the only person he is known to have
 > struck is his wife, and the only child he is known to have sexually
 > assaulted is his step-daughter. It is not for nothing that his biggest
 > win has been a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a television
 > repairman who's cable access show Dees found objectionable.
 >
 > But Dees himself is an avowed anti-racist who has made public
 > statement against black lawyers, who openly discriminates against the
 > hiring of black people, and who has often used derogatory terms to refer
 > to his black employees. In the rods of former employee Donald Jackson,
 > "the center is guilty of some of the same things that they are out there
 > protesting against and filing lawsuits over."
 >
 > According to an expose published in the Montgomery Advertiser in
 > 1994, twelve of the thirteen former black employee of the SPLC they
 > interviewed reported being racially harassed. Several said the law
 > center was "like a plantation." One former intern, Christine Lee, said
 > she had been nicknamed "little girl" by white supervisor as a racially
 > derogative term, and had been told that "they don't need black people
 > telling them how to handle black issues." By 1994, they had no black
 > attorneys left on staff. In Congressional hearing later that year,
 > Representative John Rogers (D-Birmingham), stated that the Center did
 > not employee any black people at all. In another article, Dees told a
 > local newspaper that he didn't hire black attorneys because he didn't
 > feel they were as competent as whites.
 >
 > In short, Morris Dees has, in practice, engaged in behavior that, if
 > he were a state, would lead to an NAACP boycott.
 >
 > Adulterer
 >
 > The most embarrassing material about Morris Dees can be found in a
 > complaint filed by his ex-wife in the Court of Appeals in Alabama during
 > their 1979 divorce. In the complaint, his wife details his adultery,
 > his abuse of her, his attempt to molest their step-daughter, and the
 > incest he committed with his son's wife.
 >
 > In the complaint (http://www.deeswatch.com/court.html), which was
 > upheld by the court, Dees was accused of committing adultery against his
 > wife with seven women, two of whom were family and who are detailed
 > below, and one man.
 >
 > Dees wife divorced him because he could not give up a relationship
 > with Vicki McGaha, a member of a jury in a case Dees tried. McGaha was
 > also married, but became pregnant with Dees' child. Dees later paid for
 > the child to be aborted, but, in the interim, attempted to persuade his
 > wide to sign paper permitting an "open" marriage and contracting to
 > allow him to have sex without necessitating a divorce.
 >
 > Before that relationship, his wife detailed seven other
 > relationships. In 1973 he had an affair with Diane Hicks, an employee
 > of the Southern Poverty Law Center. In 1974 he had an affair with Cathy
 > Bennet, a psychologist working with Dees on several cases. Apparently,
 > Bobby Kennedy may have also been involved somehow in that affair. In
 > 1976 Dees had an affair with Deborah Levy of the American Civil
 > Liberties Union, and attempted to swap his wife for her with her
 > boyfriend Michael. In 1977 Dees had an affair Judith Rogers, a criminal
 > psychologist who was also married. Later in 1977 Dees had an affair
 > with Pamela Horowitz, another employee.
 >
 > Note that most of Dees' "affairs" are with employees or people in
 > such a position that such affairs would be considered "sexual
 > harassment" or a hostile work condition if they were to be discovered
 > today.
 >
 > In 1978 Dees had his first, and only documented, homosexual affair
 > with Charlie Springman, the Regional Coordinator for the National
 > Endowment of the Arts. He invited Springman into his and his wife's
 > room at the Watergate hotel. He admits to having taken off his clothes
 > and gotten into bed with Springman. According to his wife, "Springman
 > kissed Morris' penis, and in fact, Morris complained that he bit him and
 > that it hurt ... Morris kissed Springman on Springman's penis". His
 > wife said she was very disturbed by this the next morning.
 >
 > Incest
 >
 > It was in 1975 and 1977, however, that Dees committed his two most
 > dishonest documented sexual acts.
 >
 > In 1975, when his daughter-in-law to be, Karen Sherman Dees, was
 > only 18 (and Morris Dees was 39), Morris' wife caught him having sex
 > with her out by the family pool. Apparently his son, Scooter, was
 > inside washing dishes when this occurred.
 >
 > Sexual Assault
 >
 > It was in the summer of 1977 that Morris Dees' sexual appetite led
 > him to assault his sixteen year step daughter as she lay in bed.
 >
 > According to his stepdaughter, Holly Buck, Dees entered her bedroom
 > in his underwear and touched her on the back, waking her. He said he
 > had brought her a present and showed her a vibrator. The then plugged
 > it in and offered to show her how to use it. She said that wasn't
 > necessary. At that point, he attempted to force the vibrator between
 > her legs. She began to shout "No" loudly, and he retreated.
 >
 > He return approximately two hours later, woke her up again, and
 > again tried to force the vibrator between her legs. A shouting match
 > ensued, and he was again forced away.
 >
 > Cover-Up
 >
 > Dees has twice been publicly confronted with these facts, and both
 > times the media has censored the person making the expose.
 >
 > At one appearance in Toledo, Ohio on the radio program of Carl
 > Dettmer, 1370 AM, a caller, Jim Floyd, confronted Dees. He asked Dees,
 > "Did you really go after your sixteen year old step daughter with a
 > vibrator/dildo, as sworn in your court papers?" Silence followed, and
 > then there was the sound of Dees throwing something, and Dees then ran
 > out of the room.
 >
 > Floyd had agreed with Dettner, prior to the show, that if Dees were
 > to leave, Dettner would finish the interview out with Floyd. However,
 > fifteen minutes into the interview, Dettner inexplicably cut the
 > interview short and rushed Floyd off the phone.
 >
 > Dees was also confronted with his infidelity by a former militia
 > member, Bob Fletcher, during Mr Fletcher's testimony before Congress
 > given shortly after the Freeman standoff. After Dess challenged
 > Fletcher regarding Fletcher's accusations regarding the militarization
 > of law enforcement, Fletcher shouted at Dees "Maybe it is time we
 > investigate Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center for the fraud and
 > financial irregularities and other moral indiscretions by Mr. Dees,
 > widely reported in numerous Mississippi newspapers". Parts of the
 > exchange were carried by CNN, which was apparently broadcasting live,
 > but according to those who witnessed event, the CNN reporter protested
 > and ordered the camera shut off."
 >
 > Recently, LSN and myself are aware of two other incidents where
 > reporters at national newspapers have stated to us they have been
 > threatened because they have considered publishing article critical of
 > Dees.
 >
 > Conclusion
 >
 > I have no problem standing up against racism and racial hate, when
 > it is done on principle and in a principled way. I have no problem
 > fighting racists when racists provoke fights. But what Morris Dees does
 > is not anti-racist activism. He acts as a quasi-legal organization that
 > monitors thought and reports offensive thoughts to law enforcement
 > agencies. He works closely with the FBI and is actively involved in
 > assisting law enforcement in denying citizens civil rights.
 >
 > Given that, it should be of no surprise that he is also a generally
 > dishonest person with a history of sexual problems and racism. His
 > organization is typical white liberal -- he shouts about opposing racism
 > and sexism while secretly supporting both.
 >
 > It is time the left rejects Dees and his fake "anti-hate" center and
 > begins to engage in constructive and independent struggles for equality
 > and for worker's rights.
 >
 >

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