NumbersUSA: John Tanton Exposed (Like a Cheap Dirty Flasher)

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The Immigration Prof Blog beat me to the story! But, it's such a juicy one, I can't resist. Seems like the lid has just been blown off the whole John Tanton Empire and it couldn't happen to a better person. Over the years, Tanton has played the innocent victim card, complaining and crying tears of the crocodile when someone had the nerve to associate him with the less savory elements of American society. The SPLC has information that should prove ruinous.

Naturally the anti-immigration wonks will protest and say all manner of things about the SPLC, but the problem is, aside from repeating illuminating little episodes about Morris Dees' "love life" there's not much else they can find. This time, though, we have chapter and verse, along with enough in the way of personal correspondence to sink the Titanic.

Tanton has protested way too much when it comes to claiming that he is simply an innocent victim of circumstances, who just wants to preserve truth, justice and the American Way. He doesn't like Latinos. He is way too much into eugenics. Oh, and he has associates in the KKK, etc. Let's snoop into his personal letters. But - you may need a bath afterwards, or a good stiff drink. The cast is familiar: Sam Francis, Dan Stein, Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor...all the good little white supremacists.

"...In a Nov. 13, 1994, letter to white nationalist columnist Lawrence Auster, a regular correspondent, Tanton suggested that the Declaration of Independence was actually a document based on the "bond of blood and ethnicity nationhood" Almost a year earlier, in a Dec. 10, 1993, letter to Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor, he said: I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that. On Jan. 26, 1996, he wrote Roy Beck, head of the immigration restrictionist group NumbersUSA (and then an employee of Tanton's foundation U.S. Inc.), questioning whether Latinos were capable of governing California.

I have no doubt that individual minority persons can assimilate to the culture necessary to run an advanced society, Tanton said in his letter to Beck, but if through mass migration, the culture of the homeland is transplanted from Latin America to California, then my guess is we will see the same degree of success with governmental and social institutions that we have seen in Latin America. Referring to the changing California public schools, Tanton wondered whether the minorities who are going to inherit California (85% of the lower-grade school children are now minorities demography is destiny) can run an advanced society?...

....Over the years, his closest friend on the white nationalist scene seems to have been Jared Taylor, the man who began publishing American Renaissance, a racist, pseudo-scientific magazine focusing on race, intelligence and eugenics, in 1990. (When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Taylor wrote in its pages a few years ago, Western civilization any kind of civilization disappears.)

Tanton, who met Taylor shortly after American Renaissance began publication, seems to have been particularly taken with Taylor's angry opposition to affirmative action, spelled out in Taylor's 1992 book, Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. On Nov. 12, 1993, Tanton wrote Taylor and three of his American Renaissance colleagues Wayne Lutton, who would later work for Tanton; Sam Francis, a white nationalist ideologue then working as a Washington Times columnist; and Jerry Woodruff, who wrote for the nativist publication Middle American News suggesting that their new journal take on literary critic Stanley Fish, who had defended affirmative action in an article for The Atlantic. Tanton enclosed little something for Taylor's start-up costs."

Tanton promoted Taylor's efforts repeatedly. On Dec. 15, 1994, he wrote a friend to suggest that he read Taylor's 1992 book. More remarkably, on Jan. 24, 1991, he wrote to the then-president of the Pioneer Fund, Harry Weyher, about Taylor's American Renaissance effort. And as recently as April 20, 1998, Tanton wrote to several FAIR employees, including Dan Stein, to ensure that they were receiving American Renaissance mailings: “I write to encourage keeping track of those on our same side of the issue, but who are nonetheless our competitors for dollars and members. (The underlining was in Tanton's original letter.)

Tanton also corresponded for years with the late Sam Francis, a one-time Washington Times columnist who was fired after details of a racist speech he gave at an American Renaissance conference became public. From 1999 until his death in 2005, Francis edited the crudely racist and nativist Citizens Informer, the tabloid published by the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), an organization that says it “oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind.â€

What may have been most remarkable of all was Tanton's endorsement of a proposal from another friend, Peter Brimelow, who would later start a racist anti-immigration website that FAIR hire Sam Francis to edit its newsletter. That proposal, which Tanton sent to FAIR's Dan Stein on Nov. 3, 1995, was made two months after The Washintgon Times fired Francis for racism....

.... Beginning in the late 1980s, Tanton corresponded regularly with Virginia Abernethy, now a professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University. Abernethy is a member of the CCC and recently described herself as a “white separatist. On June 26, 1996, Tanton wrote to Sam Dickson a Georgia lawyer who has represented the Ku Klux Klan, written for and been on the editorial advisory board of Holocaust denial publications, and spoken at several of the biannual conferences put on by American Renaissance to thank him for a good time during a visit by Tanton and his wife. “The next time I'm in Atlanta, Tanton wrote Dickson, “I hope to take one of your politically incorrect tours....

...Tanton's criticism of religious groups wasn't limited to Jews, however. Over the years, he, like some principals of FAIR lashed out at a variety of religious denominations, especially Catholics, for their welcoming attitude toward immigrants coming to America from the Third World. In his letter to the FAIR board suggesting a discussion of Kevin MacDonald's theories, for instance, he described “the Roman Catholic Church [and] several of the Protestant denominations, the Lutheran Church in particular as being among “our opponents. In an earlier, May 24, 1994, letter to Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, he said that “one of the problems with churches is that they see themselves as universal, and as transcending national boundaries....

....Most remarkable of all, however, was the Feb. 13, 1997, gathering organized by Tanton at the New York Racquet and Tennis Club. Three years after FAIR had stopped taking Pioneer Fund money, Tanton brought FAIR board members Henry Buhl, Sharon Barnes and Alan Weeden along with Peter Brimelow, future founder of the VDARE.com hate site to a meeting with Pioneer Fund President Harry Weyher. The meeting, held expressly to discuss fundraising efforts to benefit FAIR, was memorialized in a Feb. 17, 1997, memo that Tanton wrote for his “FAIR Fund-Raising File. A year later, on Jan. 5, 1998, Tanton wrote to John Trevor, a Pioneer Fund board member and the son of the notorious pro-Nazi eugenicist John Trevor Sr., to thank him for his personal handsome contribution to FAIR...."

Do you still want to be a member of NumbersUSA or Fair? If you do plan to remain a member, what is your excuse? Don't tell me national security. Don't give me that line about deporting illegal immigrants. It no longer works. This has nothing to do with immigration reform. It's all about a racist little man who hates Hispanics, Jews, Catholics, and Lutherans and is willing to do anything to push them into a subservient role in our society. It is about a man who feels right at home socializing with some of the most infamous neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the country.

Do you really want to be associated with him and with his platform?

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Edited September 24, 2008 by Jabberwocky