Does the SPLC and Platkin support a form of torture in America’s schools?

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By Rubashov

Amnesty International defines torture as “when somebody in an official capacity inflicts severe mental or physical pain or suffering on somebody else for a specific purpose. Sometimes authorities torture a person to extract a confession for a crime, or to get information from them. Sometimes torture is simply used as a punishment that spreads fear in society.”

Amnesty notes that “torture methods vary” and can be of a “physical nature”; a “sexual nature”, like “sexual humiliation”; or a “psychological nature”. Amnesty states:

Under international law, torture and other forms of ill-treatment are always illegal. They have been outlawed internationally for decades. To take just a couple of examples, 172 countries have adhered to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which prohibits torture and other forms of ill-treatment, and 165 countries are parties to the UN Convention against Torture which Amnesty International campaigned hard to create.

But many states have failed to criminalize torture as a specific offence under their national laws, and governments around the world continue to defy international law by torturing people. Between January 2009 and May 2013, Amnesty International received reports of torture in 141 countries, from every region of the world.

Torture can never be justified. It is barbaric and inhumane and replaces the rule of law with terror. No one is safe when governments allow its use.

The United States Department of State, in its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (2004), quotes a report by the Committee for Human Rights listing various psychological methods which it describes as torture. These include non-physical methods such as “fear and humiliation” and “sexual and cultural humiliations” such as “public nakedness”, exposure to nudity, and “forced nudity”.

An International Red Cross report on torture and sexual taboos (2007) concludes: “The methods used to break such taboos can be psychological as well as physical and can, depending on a variety of factors, amount to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or torture. In most cases, they involve crude male-on-female abuse ranging from lewd remarks and innuendos, having to undress and stay naked in front of males, crass groping or pawing, and ultimately sexual rough treatment and (but not always) rape. Rape, meaning sexual aggression with penetration, has now been officially defined as being a form of torture. It should be recognized, however, that the other forms of sexual abuse mentioned above, apart from rape, can also have devastating effects, precisely because of the psychological trauma they cause.”

Having to undress and stay naked in front of males is the fate many culturally traditional females are having to endure as a matter of official government policy in states like New Jersey. Government is inflicting emotional and psychological suffering on school-aged females in the furtherance of an ideological purpose. Does it amount to torture?

If a military occupation force made young women and girls take off their clothes or use the toilet in front of men, might they end up before a war crimes tribunal at The Hague? This is government policy in many New Jersey school districts, and it is being enforced by a militant Attorney General named Matt Platkin.

Here are details of the government policy in force in the Hopatcong school district in supposedly “red” Sussex County, New Jersey:

“The school district shall honor and recognize a student’s asserted gender identity and shall not require any documentation or evidence in any form, including diagnosis, treatment, or legal name change.”

“A school’s obligation to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity requires schools to provide transgender students equal access to educational programs and activities, even in circumstances in which other students, parents, or community members raise objections or concerns.”

“With respect to gender-segregated classes or athletic activities, including intramural and interscholastic athletics, all students must be allowed to participate in a manner consistent with their gender identity.”

“The school district shall: Provide transgender students with the same opportunities to participate in physical education as other students in accordance with their gender identity; Permit a transgender student to participate in gender-segregated school activities in accordance with the student’s gender identity”.

“All students are entitled to have access to restrooms, locker rooms, and changing facilities in accordance with their gender identity”.

“The school district shall allow a transgender student to use a restroom or locker room based on the student’s gender identity.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is leading an attack on Moms for Liberty, one of the few organizations asking questions about the possible psychological and emotional torture of young women and girls in America’s schools. SPLC’s attacks have been described as “dehumanizing” and providing violence-prone individuals with an excuse to threaten and physically attack members of Moms for Liberty and their families.

Tyler O'Neil linked the SPLC to a series of threats in a Daily Signal article yesterday, titled: “‘I WILL… ERADICATE YOU’: Moms for Liberty Threatened, Treated as ‘Subhuman,’ After SPLC Attack.” O’Neil’s article is informative and worth reading:

Moms for Liberty Receives Death Threats After SPLC Attack (dailysignal.com)

Moms for Liberty cofounders Tiffany Justice, left, and Tina Descovich, right.

Tyler O’Neil is Managing Editor of The Daily Signal and the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. You can purchase his book here:

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Hate-Pay-Corruption-Southern/dp/1642934399

Racial discrimination. Sexual harassment. Off-shore accounts. Inflated and biased attacks on “hate.” These are some of the many reasons Americans should mistrust the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Southern Poverty Law Center started with noble intentions and has done much good over the years, but a pernicious corruption has undermined the organization’s original mission and contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views. The SPLC’s false accusations have done concrete harm, costing the organization millions in lawsuits. A deranged man even attempted to commit mass murder, having been inspired by the SPLC’s rhetoric.

How did a civil rights group dedicated to saving the innocent from the death penalty become a pernicious threat to America’s free speech culture? How did an organization dedicated to fighting poverty wind up with millions in the Cayman Islands? How did a civil rights stalwart find itself accused of racism and sexism?

Making Hate Pay tells the inside story of how the SPLC yielded to many forms of corruption, and what it means for free speech in America today. It also explains why Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC’s disingenuous tactics at face value, and the serious damage they cause by trusting this corrupt organization.

“It was a thoughtless, mindless action… It’s really disturbing to think that the kids were targeted.”

Dr. Paul Saxton, Fort Lee School District

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell