the southern poverty law center or splc, is a nonprofit civil rights organization that tracks extremistroups and fights them in court. >> brian contacted us because we had published an article about the vinlander social club which was an organization that he was involved in. >> splc investigators, joe roy and lori wood, asked to meet with brian and julie. >> when we first met them we were talking obviously about my facial tattoos. that always comes up in conversations. and i was actually looking on e-bay at the time for der mall acid to burn them off my skin. >> when i first heard about that i was terrified that he would even consider that. >> the southern poverty law center offered to cover the cost of brian's tattoo removal procedures. >> if i could prevent one other kid from making the same mistakes i did, if i can prevent one other family from having to go through the same -- the same crap that i put my family through, maybe i can redeem myself and maybe it will be worth it. >> the difficulty with brian is the number of them. i mean, it's just -- he's got so many. so the biggest cha