The Southern Poverty Law Center: Mostly Full Of It Or Completely Full Of It?

Mark Potok, head of the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, released a report last week outlining a new threat.

The anti-government militia movement is “surging” across the country, fueled by a changing demographic in the country, the spread of conspiracy theories in mainstream media outlets and fear of a black man in the White House, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

These militias are concentrated in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and the Deep South, according to Mark Potok, an SPLC staff director who co-wrote the report, the Associated Press says.

Now, we know what you’re thinking:  Douchebag Report, isn’t that the same Mark Potok, the Chicken Little at the Huffington Post, who is always freaking out about Ann Coulter?

The same.

But doesn’t Potok’s obvious agenda risk tainting his work? Possibly, but if Potok is good enough for ABC, CBS and MSNBC, then he should be good enough for the rest of us.

One only needs to look at the case of Dyron L. Hart to see an example of white supremacy rearing its ugly head.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.

Hart admitted creating a name [Colten Brodoux] and using a white supremacists’ photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

He originally was charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State — where he had attended one semester — but pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count.

This case fits Potok’s narrative almost perfectly.  The only problem is that Dyron L. Hart is African-American.