Hate Group Sues SPLC Over Hate Group Designation

November 8, 2023 Christianists, Hate Groups

Posted to the Liberty Counsel’s website:

Liberty Counsel has joined the legal team representing The Dustin Inman Society (DIS) and its founder and president, D.A. King, which the SPLC has falsely painted as an “anti-immigrant” hate group.

DIS was formed in 2005, after an illegal immigrant’s recklessly driven vehicle hit and killed 16-year-old Dustin Inman and paralyzed his mother. The organization was founded to “end illegal immigration, illegal employment, and the illegal administration and granting of Public Benefits and services through the equal application of existing laws” in the state of Georgia.

The SPLC designated the DIS as an anti-immigrant “hate group” in its annual Intelligence Report published in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The SPLC also stated that D.A. King “focuses on vilifying all immigrants.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

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From the SPLC’s entry on the group:

The Dustin Inman Society is a Georgia-based anti-immigrant hate group founded and led by activist D.A. King. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists it as an anti-immigrant hate group because it denigrates immigrants and supports efforts to make the lives of immigrants so hard that they leave on their own—a tactic known as “attrition through enforcement.”

Despite his regular demonization of immigrants, King finds allies in the Georgia State Legislature and has played a significant role in passing anti-immigrant legislation in Georgia for more than a decade. King is also comfortable working with some of the most hardcore elements of the anti-immigrant movement, including white nationalists.

DIS and King are longtime allies of the anti-immigrant movement. In 2007, DIS accepted $5,000 from John Tanton’s foundation U.S. Inc. Tanton is a Michigan ophthalmologist turned white nationalist who has created a network of anti-immigrant organizations. Tanton has a long track record of working with white nationalists and espousing racist rhetoric.

If all of this sounds familiar, it’s because the Liberty Counsel has twice lost lawsuits brought on the grounds of hate group designations. In 2021, the 11th Circuit Court rejected their appeal of the suit brought against the SPLC on behalf of Fort Lauderdale-based Coral Ridge Ministries. In 2018, the Liberty Counsel lost its own lawsuit against the charity review site GuideStar for citing the SPLC’s designation of the Liberty Counsel as a hate group.



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