At this point, Gavin McInnes has been banned from virtually every main social media platform– Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers McInnes’ “Proud Boys” a “hate group,” but you can’t listen to anything the organization says, because it considers NON-hate groups “hate groups” ALL THE TIME. Pro-life organizations are hate groups. Organizations that champion traditional marriage? HATE GROUPS!
Well folks– he’s suing the SPLC. McInnes told the Gateway Pundit that the organization has “harassed me, my family, and my friends to a level of tortious interference that goes well into sabotage.”
The 70-page complaint was filed on Sunday evening in the Middle District of Alabama. The filing outlined defamation and other tortious acts resulting in reputational and economic damages to McInnes. He is being represented by the highly-respected First Amendment attorney Ron D. Coleman of Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C. and Baron Coleman of the Baron Coleman Law Firm.
McInnes v. SPLC. Filed. pic.twitter.com/dzFdlvaREw
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) February 4, 2019
Bravo! I wish you all success! If I could find a lawyer who would be willing to do it, I’d sue them myself! https://t.co/167RYHVVst
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) February 4, 2019
McInnes made an announcement as well:
“The SPLC has gone from a noble institution genuinely dedicated to eradicating hate to a hate group in and of itself that pretends this country is frothing with bigots desperate to foment World War III,” he said. “They purposely lie about their enemies in an attempt to ‘destroy’ them (their words) and it’s become a very effective way to make money. Scaremongering brought them the $50 million their founder originally set out to make. Since then, it’s garnered hundreds of millions including untold millions in the Cayman Islands. I don’t fault entrepreneurs, but they are using this incredible wealth to wield power over the innocent and destroy careers and businesses in their insatiable need to generate more bigots — because in the world of SPLC fundraising, mo hate is mo money.”
Get ’em.