The labeling begins

http://www.alipac.us/article4073.html

March 26, 2009

ALIPAC is issuing a national advisory to all
local, state, and Federal law enforcement agencies and officers, along
with all DHS Fusion Centers, a warning against any reliance upon faulty
and politicized research issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) and Anti Defamation League (ADL).

A national scandal
emerged in Missouri, after their MIAC Fusion Center issued an eight
page document which made many false claims. The documents attempted to
politicize police and cast suspicion on millions of Americans. The
'Missouri Documents', as they came to be called, listed over 32
characteristics police should watch for as signs or links to domestic
terrorists, which could threaten police officers, court officials, and
infrastructure targets.

Police were instructed to look for Americans who were concerned about unemployment, taxes, illegal immigration, gangs, border security, abortion, high costs of living, gun restrictions, FEMA, the IRS, The Federal Reserve, and the North American Union/SPP/North American Community. The 'Missouri Documents' also said potential domestic terrorists might like gun shows, short
wave radios, combat movies, movies with white male heroes, Tom Clancey
Novels, and Presidential Candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck
Baldwin!

The Southern Poverty Law Center was cited as a
research source for the 'Missouri Documents'. Furthermore, the attempt
of these documents to cast suspicion of violent and life threatening
behavior on millions of Americans who are concerned about these issues
is consistent with the regularly released political materials of both
the SPLC and ADL.

Since the SPLC was listed as a source in the
MIAC Missouri Documents, ALIPAC sent a letter of inquiry to the
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on March 20, 2009 asking for more specific
sourcing information.

"When many of us read these Missouri
Documents we felt that the false connections, pseudo research, and
political attacks found in these documents could have been penned by
the SPLC and ADL," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "We were shocked to
see credible law enforcement agencies disseminating the same kind of
over the top political propaganda distributed by these groups."

Colonel
James F. Keathley, Superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol
issued a letter of response to ALIPAC and other sources on March 25-26,
which states that the Missouri militia documents are being withdrawn,
more oversight will be applied to future releases, the Missouri
Documents do not meet the high quality standards expected from the
MIAC, and that "certain subsets of Missourians will not be singled out
inappropriately in these reports for particular associations".

FOX
Radio Network is reporting that Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter
Kinder (R-MO) has asked that Missouri Public Safety Director John Britt
be placed on administrative leave. The report also says Kinder has
issued a public apology to Presidential candidates Ron Paul, Bob Barr,
and Chuck Baldwin.

ALIPAC would like to advise all media
sources, law enforcement officers and agencies, that the ADL and SPLC
are political organizations, with stated political goals and agendas
which are contrary to the candidates, political parties, and millions
of Americans besmirched by the MIAC documents.

While both the
ADL and SPLC actively market themselves and seek roles as advisers to
law enforcement and the media, both groups regularly engage in
political tactics like those observed in the now withdrawn Missouri
Documents. Materials from one or both organizations contributed to this
scandal.

"In the past, these groups have served a helpful role
in America by providing information about racist and potentially
violent groups like the KKK and Neo Nazis," said William Gheen.
"Unfortunately, their mission has drifted into political efforts to
paint almost any American or group who opposes their broader political
agendas as being associated with racist or potentially violent groups
just like what we saw in these scandalous MIAC documents in Missouri."

ALIPAC
hopes that future scandals can be avoided by issuing this advisory and
promoting awareness of the faulty information distributed to police and
media in America by the Anti Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law
Center to prevent future scandals of this nature.