Where’s the Southern POVERTY Law Center When the POOR Really Do Need Them?

Reuters reports that:

Despite the robust farm economy, the rural poverty rate is “statistically unchanged” at 15.2 percent, 3 points above the national average, the U.S. government said on Tuesday.

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“Rural America has been struggling throughout the decade,” said Jim Weill, president of the anti-poverty group Food Research and Action Center. While farm income is climbing, “the income for rural Americans are not connected.”

There are 2 million U.S. farms, so farm households are a small part of the population living outside cities. One-fifth of Americans live outside urban areas.

Where’s the Southern POVERTY Law Center when you need them? Other than catering to the urban rich hatred of “trailer trash” white folks, that is.

How much money does the Southern POVERTY Law Center have in their BANK ACCOUNT I wonder?

Posted by James Bowery on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 10:22 PM in
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Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 29, 2007, 12:40 AM | #

“Where’s the Southern POVERTY Law Center When the POOR Really Do Need Them?” (—the log entry’s title)

Where is the SPLC when you need them? They’re off working with fellow Jewish groups such as B’nai Brith of Canada to: 1) take away our freedoms including Freedom of Speech, and 2) get professors fired for expressing legitimate, inoffensive opinions about immigration policy.

Posted by gongstar on August 29, 2007, 02:02 PM | #

Anyone fancy testing his jaydar elsewhere?

The friend of the stars who fell from grace

Bruce Hyman was a barrister and an admired TV and radio producer. Then, inexplicably, he perverted the course of justice and now faces jail

...Hyman emailed a bogus legal judgment he had forged to his client’s former husband, who was trying to gain greater access to the couple’s daughter. The email, sent from what Hyman thought was an untraceable address, carried the logo of Families Need Fathers, the charity that campaigns for fathers’ rights. It appeared to bolster the father’s claim that he should be granted greater access to his daughter and, believing it to be a genuine judgment, he presented it before the judge at Taunton family court in Somerset.

Within minutes of doing so, Hyman pounced, suggesting not only that the judgment was a forgery but that the father, who was representing himself, might have been responsible for faking it. The father suddenly found himself facing a charge of perverting the course of justice and the prospect of having to pay substantial costs.

‘I cannot describe the feelings that went through me,’ the father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told The Observer. ‘To be accused in court of what the judge had no trouble reminding me was a serious crime was horrendous. I was frantic, panic stricken; not to mention angry.’ Baffled as to how such a ‘mistake’ had been made, he learnt that electronic documents could be traced via specialist online applications. Soon he had tracked the email via an internet server in Manchester to a shop in Tottenham Court Road in London.

The shop denied sending the email and offered to check its CCTV footage for the day the email was supposedly sent. ‘I couldn’t believe it when they emailed me some 12 or 13 of the CCTV stills,’ he said. ‘I almost fell off my chair.’ The pictures showed Hyman entering the shop, removing a motorcycle helmet and sending an email from a laptop. It seemed an open and shut case. ‘But the police would not investigate initially,’ said the father, who was eventually put in touch with a helpful police officer by a Families Need Fathers member. ‘As it was, my local force didn’t follow up my report until some months after Hyman’s arrest. If FNF hadn’t put me in touch with a police officer who took the case seriously, I might well have been facing a lengthy prison sentence.’

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2156512,00.html

A Bruce Hyman turns up as a signatory to a letter from “Jews living in the UK”:

Jewish group’s letter