FOLLOW UP TO “FOLLOW THE MONEY”
PART ONE: John Tanton & FAIR
New SPLC Report: Nation's Most Prominent Anti-Immigration Group has History of Hate, Extremism
From the Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=295
Dec. 11, 2007 — The country's leading anti-immigration organization — whose leaders have testified repeatedly before Congress and are frequently quoted in the media — has ties to known racists and a long track record of bigotry, according to a new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR):
- is the creation of a man who operates a racist publishing company and has compared immigrants to "bacteria;"
- has employed members of white supremacist groups in key positions;
- has promoted racist conspiracy theories; and
- has accepted more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund, a racist foundation devoted to eugenics and to proving a connection between race and IQ.
FAIR and its ties to white supremacy are examined in the latest issue of the SPLC's quarterly Intelligence Report.
The SPLC today added FAIR to its list of hate groups operating in the United States.
"FAIR's position on immigration is rooted more in its anti-Latino and anti-Catholic beliefs than in policy concerns," said Mark Potok, the director of the SPLC's project that monitors hate group activity. "Remarkably, it has still managed to infiltrate the mainstream and shape the immigration debate in this country."
FAIR helped defeat federal immigration reform earlier this year and has played a key role in fueling the fierce, anti-immigrant backlash in the United States. It was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, a man who has compared immigrants to bacteria and warned that high birthrates will allow Latinos to take over America. Still a member of FAIR's board, Tanton also operates The Social Contract Press, listed as a hate group for many years by the SPLC because of its anti-Latino and white supremacist writings.
"The sad fact is that attempts to reform our immigration system are being sabotaged by organizations fueled by hate," Henry Fernandez, a senior fellow and expert on immigration at the Center for American Progress, told the Intelligence Report.
The SPLC has documented a 40 percent increase in the number of hate groups since 2000, an increase that SPLC analysts attribute to the anti-immigrant fervor that is sweeping the country. The FBI recently released statistics showing a 35 percent rise in hate crimes against Latinos since 2003. A sampling of some of the most egregious acts of violence against Latinos over the past three years is included in the new issue of the SPLC's Intelligence Report.
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PART TWO: John Tanton’s Network
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=72
The organized anti-immigration "movement" is almost entirely the handiwork of one man, Michigan activist John H. Tanton.
Here is a list of 13 groups in the loose-knit Tanton network, followed by acronyms if the groups use them, founding dates, and Tanton's role in the groups.
Those organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center are marked with an asterisk (*).
In this list, "founded" means a group was founded or co-founded by John Tanton. "Funded" means that U.S. Inc., the funding conduit created and still headed by Tanton, has made grants to the group.
*American Immigration Control Foundation
AICF, 1983, funded
*American Patrol/Voice of Citizens Together
1992, funded
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
CCIR, 1994, funded
Californians for Population Stabilization
1996, funded (founded separately in 1986)
Center for Immigration Studies
CIS, 1985, founded and funded
Federation for American Immigration Reform
FAIR, 1979, founded and funded
NumbersUSA
1996, founded and funded
Population-Environment Balance
1973, joined board in 1980
Pro English
1994, founded and funded
ProjectUSA
1999, funded
*The Social Contract Press
1990, founded and funded
U.S. English
1983, founded and funded
U.S. Inc.
1982, founded and funded
Intelligence Report
Summer 2002
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PART THREE: Tanton’s Associates and Puppets: Trashing Senator McCain for His Moderate Stance on Immigration and Calls to End Hatred
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PART FOUR: Further Info on Tanton:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=180
'WITAN Memo' I
Read this addition to the Intelligence Report, found exclusively online, that lays out Tanton's plans to further insert FAIR into U.S. politics.
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'WITAN Memo' II
The second 'WITAN' memo reviews FAIR's history and urges FAIR to take on legal — not just illegal — immigrants. Conner's vision for a 'Border Security Project' seems to presage today's controversies involving Ranch Rescue and other groups.
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'WITAN Memo' III
Addressed to attendees of Tanton's exclusive retreats, where colleagues met to discuss the future of immigration, this memo is the most explicit, discussing Latinos and others in derogatory terms.
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SPLCenter.org: The Teflon Nativists
Southern Poverty Law Center: Despite its ugly record, the Federation for American Immigration Reform is still taken seriously by officials and the media
(1) "The Network," Tolerance.org
http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_hate.jsp?id=557
(2) Tanton, John. Tribute to Garrett Hardin by John Tanton. Garrett Hardin Society
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/tributes/tr_tanton_2003oct.html
(3) About Us. The Social Contract
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/aboutus.html
(4) Pro-English Board of Directors. Pro-English
http://www.pro-english.com/board/tanton.html
(5) FAIR Board of Directors Bios. FAIR
http://www.fairus.org/About/About.cfm?ID=356&c=21
(6) John and Mary Lou Tanton's Resumes. Social Contract Press
www.thesocialcontract.com/tantonresume.html
(7) "The Puppeteer," Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center, Summer 2002
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=180
(8) Hate in the News: The Puppeteer. Tolerance.org. June 18, 2002
http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_print.jsp?id=554
(9) Kolankiewicz, Leon and Roy Beck, Forsaking Fundamentals: The Environmental Establishment Abandons U.S. Population Stabilization, Center for Immigration Studies, March 2001
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/forsaking/why.html
(10) Tanton, John. Memo to WITAN IV Attendees from John Tanton, Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=125
(11) John Tanton, "The Puppeteer Replies," January 22, 2003, The Social Contract Press
www.thesocialcontract.com/puppeteer.html
(12) Linda Chavez, An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (New York: Basic Books, 2002), p. 197-206
· "Keeping America Empty: How one small-town conservationist launched today’s anti-immigration movement" Christopher Hayes, April 24, 2006, In These Times (Profile of Tanton)
· Beirich, Heidi (2007-12-17). Where Anti-Immigrant Zealots Like Lou Dobbs Get Their 'Facts'. AlterNet. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
Mary Lou and John Tanton: A Journey into American Conservation by John F. Rohe (ISBN 0-9710079-0-X)
| The organized anti-immigration movement, increasingly in bed with racist hate groups, is dominated by one man: John Tanton. Meet the man and explore the ... |
| Most Americans have never heard of John Tanton because he operates behind the scenes, but he is the founder and/or early funder of almost every national ...
www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/know_your_sources.html |
| John Tanton M.D. is "publisher of The Social Contract, and served as editor for its first 8 years. He is a retired eye surgeon whose boyhood on a farm made ...
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Tanton |
"Keeping America Empty: How one small-town conservationist launched today’s anti-immigration movement" Christopher Hayes, April 24, 2006, In These Times (Profile of Tanton)
· Beirich, Heidi (2007-12-17). Where Anti-Immigrant Zealots Like Lou Dobbs Get Their 'Facts'. AlterNet. Retrieved on 2007-12-20.
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PART FIVE: Connections
The Social Contract Press, owned by John Tanton, is an “anti-immigration and population control through eugenics and forced sterilization” publishing house. Their list of authors promoting the eugenics philosophy previously promoted by Adolf Hitler include:
Just one of the large number of extremists funded by John Tanton is Glenn Spencer and Spencer’s anti-immigration group – information on this group follows below:
http://subwaycanaries.blogharbor.com/blog/JohnTanton
http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=978
GLENN SPENCER
AGE: 67
COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZ.
If there were a Paul Revere of the anti-immigration movement, it would be Glenn Spencer, a vitriolic Mexican-basher who may have done more than anyone to spread the myth of a secret Mexican conspiracy to reconquer the Southwest. Glenn Spencer is an acknowledged member of the Jewish Defense League, (which is on the FBI’s list of domestic terrorist organizations.)
The so-called reconquista, an alleged plot to turn several American states into a Mexican state or some kind of puppet government controlled by Mexico, has been a top concern for Spencer for years. Back in 1999, he put it like this: "The consul general says Mexico is reconquering California. A Mexican intellectual suggests that anyone who doesn't like Mexicans should leave California. What else do you need to hear? RECONQUISTA IS REAL... . EVERY ILLEGAL ALIEN IN OUR NATION MUST BE DEPORTED IMMEDIATELY. ... IF WE CAN BOMB THE TV STATION IN BELGRADE [in the former Yugoslavia] WE CAN SHUT DOWN [U.S. Spanish-language stations] TELEMUNDO AND UNIVISION."
Spencer got involved in the anti-immigration movement in 1992, when he formed Voice of Citizens Together, also known as American Patrol, in California. In 2002, saying the battle was lost in that state, he moved to the "front lines" of the Arizona border, where he formed American Border Patrol. He was one of the first to call for border citizens' patrols and pioneered the use of surveillance technology.
He also was one of the first well-known anti-immigration activists to more or less openly court white supremacists and anti-Semites. He has attended conferences of American Renaissance magazine, which specializes in racist theories about blacks and others. He interviewed the magazine's editor, Jared Taylor, on his syndicated radio show. Another guest was California State Professor Kevin MacDonald, who is the architect of an elaborate anti-Semitic theory dressed up as evolutionary biology.
Just this September, Spencer promoted on his Web site a booklet published by Taylor called The Color of Crime. The booklet is a "relentlessly factual" study that alleges that blacks and Hispanics are far more likely than whites to be criminals. It also falsely alleges people of color commit vastly more hate crimes than others.
Sometimes, Spencer's racial paranoia seems to get the better of him. One night in 2003, thinking he was hearing noises outside his Sierra Vista, Ariz., home, he grabbed a gun and started shooting into the dark. He managed to hit a neighbor's garage, among other things, and was charged with four felonies. But charges like that have a habit of going away in Southeastern Arizona. In Spencer's case, his felony charges were reduced to one misdemeanor. He was fined $2,500 and given a year's probation. His lease was also terminated and he was forced to move away, taking up residence in a trailer in unincorporated Cochise County.
Additionally, Spencer has a long history of association with the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance. Spencer was one of the keynote speakers at the fifth biennial American Renaissance Conference held February 2002. The theme of the conference was “In Defense of Western Man”, and was advertised as "In all parts of the world, whites are afraid to speak out in their own interests. The costs of 'diversity,' racial differences in IQ, the threat of non-white immigration — politicians and the media are afraid to discuss what these things mean for whites and their civilization." [8] Spencer’s talk was titled “The Second Mexican-American War” in which he warned that Mexican immigration into the Southwest is nothing less than an unarmed invasion to reconquer land lost in the first Mexican-American War. By failing to halt illegal Mexican immigration, the United States is importing poverty, turning California into a Third-World nation, and inviting secession. In effect, Mexico is supporting the ethnic cleansing of the American Southwest.
Other attendees included a delegation from Stormfront.org, and members of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance. Stormfront White Nationalist Community is a prominent white nationalist / white pride / white supremacist Internet forum founded by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black. The 2002 American Renaissance Conference was heavily promoted on Stormfront.org, with Black himself posting: Several people here, including me, plan to attend the American Renaissance Conference in Herndon, Virginia (suburban D.C.) the weekend of February 22-24. Even with the backing of Stormfont.org the conference was fairly small, with only 258 registered guests.
Spencer’s Publications:
- Immigration: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union, Parts I and II (video)
- Conquest of Aztlan: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union, Parts III (DVD): billed as a documentary that describes how “A fifth column of subversives is plotting to recolonize the United States.” Sold exclusively by WorldNetDaily (owned by David Horowitz).
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PART SIX: The Social Contract Press
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract_Press
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The Social Contract Press (SCP) is an American publisher. It is a prominent proponent of immigration reduction and population control. It was founded by John Tanton and is headed by Wayne Lutton.
It issues a quarterly journal, reprints books, and publishes new works.
It has been criticized for reprinting Jean Raspail's 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which was a best-seller in France when first published, and the original publication in English of which was by Scribners. Due in part to the SCP's publication and endorsement of the novel, it has been labeled a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [1]
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract_Press"
http://hatewatchhallofshame.blogspot.com/2007/09/washington-times-still-wrong.html
The Washington Times is at it again
, pushing anti-immigrant views while citing questionable sources. On today’s front page, Stephan Dinan reports about a new ad campaign by the Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) that calls for fewer immigrant workers. Dinan’s article — which cites no union sources — implies that immigration is bad for the American worker.
CFAW’s campaign includes an inflammatory TV ad featuring a white couple sitting at a kitchen table with a baby crying in the background. The husband tells his wife he failed to get a job, because “they hired all foreign workers.” CFAW was harshly criticized in 2004 for running racially inflammatory ads in an attempt to influence a Texas congressional campaign.
Though CFAW portrays itself as a group that represents “the interests of American workers,” not one union participates in its “coalition.” Dinan did not report that, nor did he report that CFAW is, in fact, a front group for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the largest anti-immigration organization and the recipient of more than $1 million in grants from the racist Pioneer Foundation. One of the members of CFAW’s coalition is the American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF), which is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. AICF believes that immigrants have “sown the seeds of ethnic strife in America.”
CFAW’s coalition is incestuous, with several organizations that are founded, financed or led by a tiny handful of anti-immigrant activists. For example, John Tanton founded both FAIR and NumbersUSA. Roy Beck, who runs NumbersUSA and worked for many years for Tanton, heads several of CFAW’s other constituent groups. Dinan also cites Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which was established under FAIR’s nonprofit tax umbrella and whose creation Tanton endorsed in 1986. Krikorian claims in Dinan’s article that immigrants and their children will potentially add 105 million new residents to the U.S. by 2060 — an outlandish number that would require nearly the entire population of Mexico to move to the US.
The connection to Tanton, who is the founder of America’s modern anti-immigration movement, is particularly problematic given his history of anti-Latino bigotry. Tanton has questioned whether Latinos can be educated to the level of other races and he endorses and publishes the racist novel Camp of the Saints. (For a description of the book’s racism, see here.)
FAIR has been creating false front groups for years, usually in an attempt to hide the predominantly white face of American’s anti-immigration movement. FAIR bankrolls Choose Black America, which supposedly represents African Americans who want to restrict immigration. In fact, the group is basically one man, Ted Hayes. FAIR also bankrolls You Don’t Speak for Me!, a supposedly Latino group that favors immigration restrictions. As in the case of Choose Black America, the group has only a handful of participants and its media contact, Ira Mehlman, works for FAIR.
If Dinan really wanted to report on the labor movement’s view of American immigration policies, he could have talked with the AFL-CIO. The group, along with other unions and the American Civil Liberties Union, last week sued the Department of Homeland Security over its plans to force businesses to check Social Security numbers against the department’s records in an attempt to root out undocumented workers. They contend that the policy would lead to harassment against anyone who looks or sounds foreign.
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PART SEVEN: Obvious Conclusions:
The following have now been proven to be recipients of financing from White Supremacists, also neo-Nazis, and John Tanton’s mixture of White Supremacism and anti-Immigration fanaticism (aka “nativism”). It is inconceivable that these people are unaware of their financial backers. The evidence speaks for itself in that these people support their backers’ causes of White Supremacism, neo-Nazism, and anti-Immigration.
Robert Spencer (now we have a better idea of why he was the featured speaker at last year’s neo-Nazi convention in Brussels.)
Ann Coulter
Laura Ingraham
Michelle Malkin
Sean Hannity (now we know why he keeps hosting virulent neo-Nazis on his show)
Hugh Hewitt
Michael Savage
David Horowitz
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PART EIGHT: Further Reading:
| Glenn Spencer, one of the most shameless anti-Mexican bigots in California, will be moving to Cochise County in Arizona this month to join the vile ...
www.aztlan.net/spencerterror.htm |
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