SPLC Bullies Music Distributors Into Banning Hate MusicBrandon Turbeville An investigation was recently undertaken by the SPLC in order to determine whether or not the music of bands that the SPLC deems offensive or racist except for explicitly racist rap music were being sold on online services like iTunes, Amazon, or Spotify. As one might expect, this investigation revealed a number of bands and songs that the SPLC believes Americans do not have a right to hear, access, or produce. This investigation and the subsequent report has resulted in the removal of a number of bands and songs from iTunes. The SPLC has complained that Amazon and Spotify, however, are responding too slowly to their command. On its own website, the SPLC stated, Apple is doing the right thing by preventing iTunes from being used as a recruitment tool for white supremacists, said Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLCs Intelligence Project. Amazon and other online retailers that continue to sell this music need to realize that they are providing a powerful platform for extremists to reach young people with messages that advocate hate and violence against African Americans, Jews and others. The SPLC apparently was not concerned with music that might reach young people with messages that advocate hate and violence against Caucasians since the focus was on white power bands from the outset. While some of the lyrics cited by the SPLC were undoubtedly racist and deplorable, what is also deplorable is that the SPLC, which has set itself up as the arbiter of all that is race and justice related, is allowed to erase an artists freedom of expression and ones right to hear and see it. The First Amendment exists in order to protect unpopular speech, no matter how strongly we may disagree with the statements being made. While, admittedly, the songs were removed by the decision of a private company after being lobbied by the SPLC, it is also true that the SPLC has made a career out of promoting acts and expressions of hate only to be seen as the opponent of these very acts and the savior of the perceived targets. The SPLC is also notorious for deeming Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Patriots, and militias as hate groups as well as for its nonstop paranoia and fearmongering over what they label conspiracy theorists and anti government extremists. Of course, the individuals lumped into at least two of these categories are generally obsessed with upholding and respecting the U.S. Constitution, the founding document of the United States government. But that has never mattered to the SPLC. According the SPLC, being pro-Constitution makes you anti-Government. The SPLC is also well known for its tight working relationship with the FBI as well as with many law enforcement agencies across the country. It is also well known that FBI controls most white supremacist groups operating inside the United States today. With the close relationship between the SPLC and the FBI, particularly in the area of hate groups, it is justifiable to question the exact role that the SPLC itself plays in hate crimes and hate groups in general. Thus, its fascination with hate music on the Internet rings somewhat hollow on ears that are informed as to the true nature of the organization. As Kurt Nimmo wrote in 2012, Despite the hype by Conservative media outlets earlier in the year, the SPLC continues to work closely with the FBI. In addition the SPLC admits, on its own website, that it works closely with local law enforcement agencies. It states, The incredibly biased, ignorant, and terrified police forces that look at every American citizen as an insurgent in occupied territory is greatly contributed to by the training provided to their local forces by the SPLC. Thus, it is important to remember the treacherous nature of the SPLC and their agenda to further divide the United States via relentless race-baiting and their constant attacks on freedom of speech, thought, and expression. It is also important to remember the SPLCs contribution to the law enforcement community and the American police state by virtue of its nonsensical training and fearmongering of police. It is also time for Americans to demand full transparency of the SPLC, its relationship to American and foreign intelligence agencies, and its relationship with domestic law enforcement. In fact, it is time for the SPLCs relationship with these agencies to end completely. Recently from Brandon Turbeville: Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria.Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 