The ironically named Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has collected millions of dollars from donors over the years by claiming to oppose “racism” and “hate,” which it seems to find everywhere and identifies on its website. Along with the Neo-Nazi and KKK groups listed there, you can also find numerous conservative organizations whose only crimes are that they have dared to oppose what SPLC stands for.
One such organization is the tiny Dustin Inman Society, a Georgia-based nonprofit that advocates against illegal immigration. Basically the work of one man–D.A. King–the Society is named for a 16-year-old Georgian boy who was killed by an illegal immigrant in a car crash 23 years ago.
On a June day in 2000, Dustin Inman, along with his mother Kathy, was a passenger in a car driven by his father Billy Inman. While stopped at a traffic light in Ellijay, Georgia, their car was rammed from behind by a speeding car driven by Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez, an illegal alien who had obtained a valid North Carolina driver’s license using a Mexican birth certificate and a Mexican Matricula Consular ID card. Dustin was killed outright, and Billy and Kathy were knocked unconscious. When Kathy awoke five weeks later, she learned of her son’s death and that she herself would be wheelchair-bound for life.
Harrell-Gonzalez meanwhile fled back to Mexico. Although charged in the U.S. with vehicular homicide, the DOJ has said that is not an extraditable offense, and so there he has been allowed to remain. Billy Inman died in 2019, and Kathy passed away from her injuries in August 2021, neither living to see their son’s killer brought to justice.
The Dustin Inman Society, founded in 2005, has continued in its lonely quest against illegal immigration, only to be defamed in 2018 when the SPLC labeled it a hate group and refused to retract the charge. The Society filed suit and in April 2023 passed a milestone when a judge allowed the suit to go forward to the discovery phase, thus passing a hurdle that had stimied previous such lawsuits. Writing for National Review yesterday, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies says the following about D. A. King and the Society’s case:
[D]iscovery can be expensive — masses of emails and other documents to go through, opposing counsel obstructing at every turn — I shudder to think of the cost.
King doesn’t have deep pockets — he’s had to take out two mortgages just to keep going. Which is why he needs the support of anyone who wants to see some sunlight shed on the SPLC’s shenanigans. To help fund its fight for justice, the Dustin Inman Society has a GoFundMe page, and one at GiveSendGo. I’ve donated myself; this is not a grift. It’s not every day that an opportunity like this comes along to get accountability from one of the worst actors on the left. Don’t squander it.
AIC Foundation readers can help the Dustin Inman Society by donating at either of the funding sites Krikorian mentions.
For more, see the National Review website. You can find the Dustin Inman Society here.