Gord's Notebook : John Tanton Another Agitator Puppeteer & Peter Brimelow of VDARE : Republican Party Not White Enough ???

UPDATE: 1:03 PM & 2:26PM Oct. 31, 2009

John Tanton founder of Hate Group Federation For American Immigration Reform: FAIR

Over the decades, Tanton has repeatedly described contemporary immigrants as inferior. He has questioned the “educability” of Latinos and written that “for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” In a letter to Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, Tanton wondered “whether the minorities who are going to inherit California … can run an advanced society?”

It doesn’t stop there. Tanton has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage “race betterment,” at a 1997 meeting at a private club. He wrote a major funder to encourage her to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor — to “give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life” — and suggested that the entire FAIR board discuss the professor’s theories on the Jews. He idolized a principal architect of the Immigration Act of 1924 (instituting a national origin quota system that dramatically favored whites over people of color and barred Asian immigration), a rabid anti-Semite whose pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies was indicted for sedition in 1942.

Based on an investigation of Tanton’s views and those of his organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began listing FAIR as a hate group in 2007. Stein’s defense of Tanton shows one more reason they deserve the label.

From: FAIR Embraces Racist Founder by Heidi Beirich on September 14, 2009

Peter Brimelow of VDare on How Republican Party Has to be More White
at The young Turks Sept. 25, 2009

Racist appealing to Environmentalists WTF
And here's a neat trick arguing that first the illegal-immigrants crossing the US Mexican border are having a negative impact on the environment the natural ecological system and secondly by building the fence to stop these illegals revives the ecological system.

New Report Shows Positive Impact of the Border Fence on Ecosystems- Roy Beck Of http://www.numbersusa.com/content/ Numbers USA

Border fence fraud feb. 12, 2009

And so let the madness continue :

Roger Ailes at Fox news as we saw in the last post uses Fox News as a propaganda machine which attacks and smears the Obama administration day and day out while telling the American people that this government is in some way illegitimate and has a radical agenda which is UnAmerican which it intends to push through no matter what. There are also those such as Tom Tancredo & Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck etc. who act as spokespersons for the "Conservative Movement" who preach gloom and doom and the end of America as its citizens know it all being brought about by these fanatics who are now running the country.Everything the administration does is placed under the microscope to try to discern their nefarious plans and agenda.

So Glenn Beck and others shout and scream or cry and speak softly in an act of attempting self-control to speak to Americans as if one on one that the country as they know it is being destroyed. That America's enemies are not just outside the gates as it were but are also inside determined as a fifth column to destroy America. Part of what we need to examine is how these more radical ideas and conspiracy theories have been brought into the public arena as if they were legitimate.

Many of these right wing groups such as the Pro-Life Movement started out as single-issue campaigns but as the various groups on the right became more entangled through fund raising and overlapping directorships and boards each group then took on the agenda in part or in full of these other groups. Eventually these issues and causes became part of a list used as a litmus test of loyalty and of characterizing each member as a "True Believer'. So the pro-life movement adopts principles which deny the separation of church and state and goes on to be against the use of the Supreme Court as legislator and so adheres to a rigid literal view of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the intentions of the founding fathers.

The other part of this process is that individual members directed or manipulated by their leaders begin to see as Francis Schaeffer preached the whole picture so that they came to realize that the abortion issue and other issues such as the false notion of the separation of church and state and issues such as prayer and bible studies and the teaching of evolution in the schools and learning basic Christian American values and so many others were interconnected. All of these issues had arisen because the "Secular Humanists" "the Liberals " and the Feminists and Homosexuals had steered America away from its founding principles which were in their view based upon the Bible and a belief in God and Jesus. So A cross fertilization and an ongoing morphing of the various organizations has been taking place over the last twenty years or so.

John Tanton is another major player in the "conservative Movement" who's main concern has been population control and related issues such as immigration,race and Eugenics. He can be characterized as being a Nativist, a racist, xenophobic who believes that Western Civilization hangs in the balance and is at a point of crisis. The crisis he defines as being caused by accepting far too many immigrants who are not part of Western Civilization or who are unable to appreciate, understand and adapt successfully to the superior values of Western Civilization.

To spread his own beliefs about race and eugenics he has formed various organizations to put pressure on governments and to spread his radical ideas to the public . He uses various techniques to make what are really racist ideas and policies seem more palatable and acceptable and to give them an air of rationality and reason backed by evidence and studies which appear to be grounded in sound arguments based upon the various academic disciplines and social sciences as well as biology and genetics etc.

But the studies he relies on or which he commissions are often dubious and lacking in scientific integrity and rigor. This is bound to be the case because like others who begin with an already acquired set of beliefs to which one holds to rigidly then in such cases any evidence which appears to invalidate those beliefs are just plain wrong or are not trust worthy or flawed in some way or must be reinterpreted to make them fit with ones own predisposed beliefs and prejudices. This is true of almost any "true Believer" who rejects all evidence and experiences which goes against their basic beliefs . The "true Believer " desires certainty and believes they have already found it and believe that any new trustworthy data or experience merely adds to that certainty.

FAIR Embraces Racist Founder by Heidi Beirich on September 14, 2009

Over the decades, Tanton has repeatedly described contemporary immigrants as inferior. He has questioned the “educability” of Latinos and written that “for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” In a letter to Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, Tanton wondered “whether the minorities who are going to inherit California … can run an advanced society?”

It doesn’t stop there. Tanton has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage “race betterment,” at a 1997 meeting at a private club. He wrote a major funder to encourage her to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor — to “give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life” — and suggested that the entire FAIR board discuss the professor’s theories on the Jews. He idolized a principal architect of the Immigration Act of 1924 (instituting a national origin quota system that dramatically favored whites over people of color and barred Asian immigration), a rabid anti-Semite whose pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies was indicted for sedition in 1942.

Based on an investigation of Tanton’s views and those of his organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began listing FAIR as a hate group in 2007. Stein’s defense of Tanton shows one more reason they deserve the label.

The Tanton Files Nativist Leader's Racist Past Exposed By Heidi Beirich Intelligence Report Winter 2008 Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report 2008

The papers, which include more than 20 years of letters from the founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and a batch of other nativist groups, contain explosive material about Tanton's beliefs. They also show that FAIR, on whose board of directors Tanton still sits, has been well aware of Tanton's views and activities for years.

...Although Tanton has been linked to racist ideas in the past — fretting about the "educability" of Latinos, warning of whites being out-bred by others, and publishing a number of white nationalist authors — the papers in the Bentley Library show that Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage "race betterment," at a 1997 meeting at a private club. He wrote a major funder to encourage her to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor — to "give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life" — and suggested that the entire FAIR board discuss the professor's theories on the Jews. He practically worshipped a principal architect of the Immigration Act of 1924 (instituting a national origin quota system and barring Asian immigration), a rabid anti-Semite whose pro-Nazi American Coalition of Patriotic Societies was indicted for sedition in 1942.

As early as 1969, Tanton showed a sharp interest in eugenics, the "science" of breeding a better human race that was utterly discredited by the Nazis, trying to find out if Michigan had laws allowing forced sterilization. His interest stemmed, he wrote in a letter of inquiry that year, from "a local pair of sisters who have nine illegitimate children between them." Some 30 years later, he was still worrying about "less intelligent" people being allowed children, saying that "modern medicine and social programs are eroding the human gene pool."

Throughout, FAIR — which, along with Tanton, refused repeated requests for comment for this story — has stood by its man. Its 2004 annual report praised him for "visionary qualities that have not waned one bit." Around the same time, Dan Stein, who has led FAIR since 1988 as executive director or president and who was copied on scores of Tanton's letters, insisted FAIR's founder had "never asserted the inferiority or superiority of any racial, ethnic, or religious group. Never."
...Tanton on 'the Jews'

In some ways, given his ideas, it's not surprising that John Tanton would cozy up to white nationalists and their fellow travelers. What is unexpected, even among long-time observers of the FAIR founder, is his attitude toward "the Jews."
In the late 1990s, Kevin MacDonald, a California State University, Long Beach, professor, was finishing up a trilogy of books that purported to show that Jews collectively work to undermine the dominant majorities in the host countries in which they live, including the United States.

MacDonald said that Jews pursue these tactics — including promoting non-white immigration into white-dominated nations — in order to weaken the majority culture in a bid to enhance their own standing. He would later go on to speak and write for white nationalist groups across America.

Tanton liked what he read.

On Dec. 28, 1998 — the same year that the last two books of MacDonald's trilogy were published — he wrote MacDonald, saying, "I hope we can meet some day." On that same date, Tanton sent a memo to Dan Stein and the FAIR board of directors about a MacDonald paper "on the segment of the Jewish community that has an open borders mentality." The paper, Tanton said, "would be fertile for group discussion at the forthcoming board meeting."

Earlier that month, on Dec. 10, 1998, Tanton also sent MacDonald's work to Cordelia May Scaife, a now-deceased millionaire philanthropist who gave regularly to far-right causes and was a close Tanton friend. "I'm sure [MacDonald's article] will give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life, which explains a large part of the Jewish opposition to immigration reform," he wrote.

Eugenics:

...After starting his own eugenicist group, the Society for Genetic Education in 1996, he wrote to Graham, the California eugenicist, to discuss public relations strategies. In a Sept. 18, 1996, letter, Tanton explained how his new group's website "emphasized mankind's use of eugenic principles on plants and the lower animals as a way to condition the public to the idea of genetic manipulation, and raise the question of its application to the human race." Elaborating, he added: "We report ways [eugenics] is currently being done, but under the term genetics rather than eugenics."

and other groups connected to FAIR and John Tanton include:

* Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
* Negative Population Growth.org
*NumbersUSA
* Pro English
U.S.English Foundation
USEnglish

English First.org
*The Social Contract Press.com

* The Social Contract Quarterly Journal
*SUSPS.org: Support U.S.Population StabilizationThe Social Contract Press YouTube channel
* VDARE.com

and here's some samplings from a couple of related groups:

Profile of Social Contract press at Rightweb:

Overview

Social Contract Press, founded in 1990 by John Tanton, is "an educational and publishing organization advocating open discussion of such related issues as population size and rate of growth, protection of the environment and precious resources, limits on immigration, as well as preservation and promotion of a shared American language and culture." (1) Immigration issues are the main topic of the publishing house's books and reports. Among the books and reports published by the press are: Common Sense on Mass Immigration edited by John Tanton; The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail; Americans No More by Georgie Anne Geyer; Immigration Dilemma by Garrett Hardin; and The Immigration Invasion by Wayne Lutton and John Tanton.

"Immigrant numbers and immigration policies rank high in the activities and concerns of The Social Contract enterprises," according to the organization's website. "We favor immigration, but at much lower, more traditional levels. We are in favor of fewer admissions in order to reduce the rate of America's population growth, protect jobs, preserve the environment, and foster assimilation." (1)
The Social Contract Press publishes the Social Contract quarterly journal. Tanton, who serves as publisher, was the leading editor of the press for its first eight years. Current editor is Wayne Lutton, who also writes for the paleoconservative journal Chronicles and the National Review. Roy Beck, founder of NumbersUSA, has served as the Washington editor of the journal, and has written articles for the journal. Social Contract Press promotes books, reports, and charts written by Beck, Garrett Hardin, Rosalie Pedalino Porter (editor of the Center for Equal Opportunity's READ Perspectives), and other restrictionist authors.

Origins and Impact

The Social Contract Press is one of a more than a dozen anti-immigrant, population-control, and "official English" organizations closely associated by John Tanton, who is widely regarded by detractors and supporters alike as the founder of the modern anti-immigrant movement in the United States. Among the groups that Tanton has founded or has otherwise played a major role in guiding are Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), ProEnglish, NumbersUSA, and Center for Immigration Studies.

Tanton, whose concern with immigration flows arose out of his early activism in the 1960s and 1970s in environmental and population control issues, cofounded FAIR in 1979 after having left Zero Population Growth in 1978. The Social Contract Press (and its website) functions as Tanton's personal base for his anti-immigration advocacy. For example, a section of the Social Contract's website is devoted to Tanton's responses to his critics. (2)

Social Contract Press is best known for its promotion of the 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which was a major influence on Tanton's thinking about immigration, culture, national sovereignty, and population control. After founding Social Contract Press, Tanton reprinted the book, which according to the publishing house "has been described as the 1984 of the late twentieth century.a gripping novel, which envisions the overrunning of European civilization by burgeoning Third World populations." In its critique of Tanton and Social Contract Press, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote: The Camp of the Saints is "a lurid, racist novel by Frenchman Jean Raspail that depicts an invasion of the white, Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees."

Among the organizations listed by Social Contract Press in its related links page are FAIR, ProEnglish, Center for Immigration Studies, Rescue American Jobs Foundation, Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform, Voices of Citizens Together, ProjectUSA, Secured Borders USA, Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization, American Renaissance, Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration, and Californians for Population Stabilization.

Tanton also recommends VDARE and NumbersUSA. Among the organizations and individuals that Tanton regards as principals in the lobby for mass immigration are the following: National Immigration Forum, National Lawyers Guild, National Council of La Raza, Cato Institute, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), Rick Swartz, Frank Sharry, Raul Yzaguerre, and Stephen Moore.

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and from NumbersUSA:

What NumbersUSA Is All About What's the Problem?

The 1990s saw the biggest population boom in U.S. history. This is truly astounding news coming three decades after widespread agreement among Americans that the country was mature and probably already overpopulated. No wonder Americans became increasingly alarmed at their deteriorating quality of life due to sprawl, congestion, overcrowded schools, lost open spaces and increasing restrictions on their individual liberty caused by the new population explosion!

Who's Responsible?

This population boom was almost entirely engineered by federal forced-growth policies that are still in place. The Census Bureau states that Americans will suffer this kind of rapid congestion every decade into the future unless Congress changes these policies.
Using environmental concerns to justify more aggressive means of keeping illegal-immigrants from crossing US Mexican border. The building of the fence has been a boon for the ecology of the area.

Pro English is actually a Nativist group which is anti-immigration or immigration only by English speaking people. Their main purpose is not they claim racist but rather to ensure the survival of the English language in America as the official language. But as one reads their arguments and nasty screeds their true purposes and attitudes and prejudices come through showing their darker side.

and some facts about ProEnglish.org :

ProEnglish last updated: August 30, 2004 at Right Web

Founded in 1994 by former members of U.S. English (the national advocacy group founded in 1983 that spearheaded the "English-only" movement), ProEnglish says that it "is a member-supported, national, nonprofit organization working to educate the public about the need to protect English as our common language and to make it the official language of the United States." ProEnglish specializes "in providing pro-bono legal assistance to public and private agencies facing litigation or regulatory actions over language."

The members of ProEnglish's board of directors are: Bob Park (chairman), Gerda Bikales, Leo Sorenson, and John Tanton. In 1988 Park founded Arizonans for Official English, the leading state organization that organized a successful initiative to make English the official language of Arizona, a measure that was later overturned.

Before becoming a citizen activist in the issues of language and immigration
restrictionism, Park had a 30-year career with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Bikales was the founding executive director and a board member of U.S. English. Before coming to U.S. English, she was on the staff of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), another organization founded by John Tanton and funded in part through U.S. Inc, a nonprofit funding channel he established.

Sorensen, another longtime restrictionist, was a leading proponent of Proposition 63 in California, which made English the official state language by constitutional amendment. He is the cofounder of E Pluribus Unum, an organization committed to forging "national unity." John Tanton is the founder of a network of language and immigration restrictionist organizations, and the owner of Social Contract Press. K.C. McAlpin is the organization's executive director and media spokesperson.
ProEnglish's board of advisers includes the following members: Gerda Bikales (chair), Gwat Battacharjie, Daniel Benvenuti, Dinesh Desai, Robert Hannay, Phil Kent, Lupe Moreno, Dr. Rosalie Porter, John M. Templeton, Jr., and Jess Valdez. ProEnglish publishes The ProEnglish Advocate, a quarterly newsletter.

Founded in 1994 under the name English Language Advocates, ProEnglish's first project was to defend an official English initiative passed by the voters of Arizona, after the State of Arizona refused to appeal a decision overturning the initiative in federal court. (1) At least two of its principals-John Tanton and Gerda Bikales-are longtime activists in both language restriction and immigration restriction movements and organizations. Both also were members of informal think tank called WITAN (from the Old English term witenagemot, or council of wise men to advise the king) that attempted to set out a common agenda for the anti-immigration, official English, national unity, and population-control movements.

When the Arizona Republic published a 1986 WITAN memo shortly before the 1988 general elections, the memo's anti-Latino, white supremacist, and anti-Catholic language lent credence to the charges that the official English and immigration restrictionist movements were led by bigots.

Following the release of the memo, Tanton and Bikales left U.S. English along with its executive director Linda Chavez. Other members included staff, directors, and associates of FAIR and other organizations that were then or would later become part of Tanton's network of anti-immigrant, population control, and English only organizations, such as Social Contract Press and Richard Lamm's 21st Century Fund. Another member was prominent ecologist Garrett Hardin, author of the influential "The Tragedy of the Commons" essay. Hardin has argued that immigration flows tax the "carrying capacity" of receiving societies. Hardin has argued for the construction of a 2,000-mile electronic fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.