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Center for Immigration Studies vs. The Truth
01 year ago
On a recent public radio program in Wisconsin, Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies was confronted about his controversial organization by a local organizer.
Rather than address the concerns being raised, Camarota instead implied that the organizer had a “deep hatred of American workers.”
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An Open Letter to Mark Krikorian
01 year ago
Mark Krikorian
Executive Director
Center for Immigration Studies
1522 K Street N.W., Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005-1202
Dear Mr. Krikorian,
Thank you for your recent response regarding a post on the blog Imagine2050, entitled “Tanton Network Caught in Bed Again with Anti-Semites and Holocaust Deniers,” which ran September 13, 2009 at www.imagine2050.org. Feedback from readers is very important, particularly from individuals like you, who have “never heard of our site . . .”
Your comments on “Tanton Network Caught in Bed Again with Anti-Semites and Holocaust Deniers” indicate that you have given much thought to this particular blog post and I appreciate your frank appraisal of it. To be accurate, this blog post referenced an article under the byline of Steve Camarota, the Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research, which appeared in not one, but two editions of the anti-Semitic American Free Press. It was first published as an article on August 31, 2009 and then—of all things—as part of a fundraising appeal on September 7, 2009.
At this point it is unclear to me if you are suggesting that this article was submitted by Steve Camarota to American Free Press without your permission, or if you are suggesting that American Free Press ran the article without approval of the Center for Immigration Studies. Either way, we are glad to have been of assistance in bringing this matter to your attention, and in helping you determine the origin of Mr. Camarota’s article in a white nationalist newspaper. I look forward to your clarification on this matter.
I regret that you are unable to obtain a copy of the articles on the web, but as you surely know everything that appears in print does not necessarily appear on the web. You might contact American Free Press directly for copies of its publication, rather than requesting them through us. However, if CIS would like to obtain copies of the American Free Press articles through Imagine2050 we would be happy to provide them. Please do not hesitate to contact me about a pricing guide for research and material requests if you decide to go this route.
Frankly, I am a little confused as to why the religious background of your senior staffer, Stephen Steinlight, is relevant to your letter to Imagine2050. Are you suggesting Mr. Steinlight’s background serves as some “totem” against political extremism?
Would you also argue that because blacks fought on the side of the South during the civil war, the Confederacy had nothing to do with white supremacy? Does your employment of Stephen Steinlight somehow change the anti-Semitic background of American Free Press?
Rather than distortion, as you claim, the blog post is based on the Center for Immigration Studies’ controversial history, including:
- Over the last year CIS has distributed nearly fifty articles to its members and supporters from the website VDARE. VDARE is a white nationalist website that is named after Virginia Dare, allegedly the first white child born in North America. VDARE contributors include anti-Semitic writer Kevin McDonald.
- CIS seems unable or unwilling to distance itself from white nationalist John Tanton. According to correspondence, James Edwards, author of the latest report by the Center for Immigration Studies and a CIS Fellow, appears to have been a paid lobbyist for John Tanton.
- Your own byline, along with that of CIS Fellow James Edwards, and former Chairman of the CIS Board David Simcox, appears in John Tanton’s The Social Contract Press, a publication that routinely publishes works by white nationalist writers, including John Vinson.
- Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) was founded in 1985 as a project directly under the control of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). John Tanton raised millions of dollars for the Center for Immigration Studies. John Tanton has made comments that have been deemed racist. John Tanton also wrote that hate crimes laws in Europe “. . . have generally been pushed by Jewish interests who are offended by those who have challenged the received version of the Holocaust.” The “those” in Tanton’s statement are also generally known as Holocaust Deniers and Holocaust Revisionists.
I welcome the opportunity to hear your responses to these matters. Until then, thank you for writing. Good luck getting to the bottom of how Mr. Camarota’s article appeared in not one, but two issues of the despicable American Free Press.
Anti-immigrant Network Uses Faith to Mask Hateful Agenda
01 year ago
by Jill Garvey
in American Free Press, American Renaissance, Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy, Charles Martel, Conservative Political Action Conference, Council Of Conservative Citizens, Father Patrick Bascio, Immigration, Immigration Policy, James C Russell, John Tanton, Politics, Wayne Lutton, White Nationalist, Willis Carto
Fr. Bascio at Tanton event
The John Tanton Network has debuted its newest spin-off group. This time, instead of targeting environmentalists or progressives, they are trying to win over faithful Americans to their anti-immigrant agenda.
The group is called Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy (CMIP). The public face of the organization includes a priest who, keeping with the Tanton Network’s history, has ties to controversial organizations like American Free Press – founded by notorious holocaust denier Willis Carto, and the white nationalist journal, The Social Contract, founded by John Tanton.
In fact, Social Contract’s bigot-in-chief, Wayne Lutton, personally helped Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy (CMIP) get started at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. this past Friday. In addition to releasing racist publications, Wayne Lutton is also a Board of Director for the Charles Martel Society, an anti-Semitic organization that publishes the Occidental Quarterly. Lutton was also active with the overtly racist magazine American Renaissance and the flagship publication of the Council of Conservative Citizens. The Council of Conservative Citizens is the reconstituted, segregationist White Citizens’ Councils.
Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy, which is also staffed by James C. Russell, may appear at first glance to be run by a few harmless, Christian academics who just happen to have a lot in common with the Tanton Network. However, CMIP has been strategically orchestrated by Tanton’s anti-immigrant movement to distract the public from some of its decidedly un-Catholic activities.
Sadly, this isn’t the first time James Russell or Father Patrick Bascio have dabbled in hate.
James Russell’s book, The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation, I found was cited by several racist online publications, including Vdare.com and The Occidental Quarterly. Coincidentally, one of the only gushing reviews of Father Bascio’s book, On the immortality of Illegal Immigration, came from VDARE.com’s Brenda Walker. VDARE is named for Virginia Dare, allegedly the first white child born in the U.S. Brenda Walker is a prolific anti-immigrant blogger who uses racist and xenophobic outlets to spread her views. Walker was a featured presenter at last year’s “Preserving Western Civilization” conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The annual conference gathers a group of racist academics and anti-immigrant activists who focus on how the “massive influx” of “third-world immigrants” allegedly threatens American and European cultural values, as well as the dangers of Islam, and alleged racial differences in intelligence.
In 2009, Father Bascio’s book was sold on Amazon.com under the publisher American Free Press – the same publisher that persistently peddled anti-Semitic conspiracy theories post 9/11. Now it is sold as a revised edition under a different publisher. But the first few pages are filled with praise from a veritable all-star list of Tanton Network players. Otis Graham, an old friend of John Tanton and a board member for both organizations founded by Tanton, FAIR and Center for Immigration Studies, calls Bascio’s book “invaluable”. Leah Durant, the head of another Tanton front group, Progressives for Immigration Reform, says Bascio makes a “compelling case”. The book lists Vernon Briggs as a Cornell University professor, but conveniently omits that he is a board member with Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and The Social Contract. Maybe that’s because the book’s other admirers include CIS fellow James R. Edwards, board chairman Peter Nunez, and former director David Simcox.
John Tanton, the founder of FAIR, has financially supported platforms to debate pseudo-scientific research (racial eugenics) purporting to show that African Americans and Latinos are mentally inferior to whites because of their genetic makeup. While the false science of racial eugenics lost respectability after the crimes of Nazi Europe in the 1940s, Tanton still clings to these beliefs. In The Case for Passive Eugenics, Tanton does not overtly distance himself from Adolf Hitler’s application of eugenics to “cleanse” the German population. He writes instead that “Hitler’s reign in Nazi Germany did little to advance the discussion of eugenics among sensitive persons.”
Then of course, there is long-time FAIR representative Rosanna Pulido who is well-known for her anti-catholic diatribes. As we reported in January, Pulido stated at a public forum in October 2007, “The Catholic Church is not Catholicism. It has nothing to do with Christianity or the Bible.”
Of the Catholic Church and immigration she stated at the same forum, “What better way to fill your pews and fill your offering coffers than with inviting in and giving sanctuary to illegal aliens.”
In March 2009, Pulido harshly criticized Chicago’s Cardinal George for his appeal for humanity on behalf of immigrants. She told ABC news, “Cardinal George is responsible for every illegal immigrant who dies while crossing the border coming over here because he is luring them.”
It is clear that CMIP is merely John Tanton and Co.’s latest puppet show. America’s Catholic communities have proven time and again that they reject anti-immigrant bigotry. Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy does not speak for America’s faithful.
Republic Broadcasting Network: Safe Haven for Hate
02 years ago
When I came across Republic Broadcasting Network, billed as “The most provocative programming on the internet”, I immediately thought it was going to be another conservative talk network like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. But after digging deeper and finding the list of shows and hosts, I came to the conclusion that Republic Broadcasting Network was not just “provocative” but rather extreme.
The network features a whole slew of extreme right characters, not to mention its weekly ad in the anti-Semitic newspaper, American Free Press. Two current American Free Press employees, Michael Collins Piper and Mark Anderson have their own radio shows on Republic Broadcasting Network. Both men have strong connections to anti-Semites. Piper and Anderson both spoke at a recent 1st amendment conference that featured famous anti-Semites David Duke and Texe Marrs as keynote speakers. Anderson is also spearheading the anti immigrant segment of American Free Press. Its August 10, 2009 issue, Anderson reported from the border in south Texas, spending a day in the company of the South Texas Minutemen Project. Michael Collins Piper, like many of his American Free Press colleagues has a long history of anti-Semitism. One of his many racist books, “The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America,” was on sale at the now famous Holocaust Conference in Iran in 2006.
A few former hosts on the Republic Broadcasting Network are also noteworthy. The most famous of these is James Edwards. Edwards, tapped by many as a rising star in the white nationalist community, runs the radio show Political Cesspool which used to air on Republic Broadcasting Network. Besides running Political Cesspool, Edwards is also serves as a board member for the racist Council of Conservative Citizens and the American Third Position Party, which also boasts anti-Semite professor Kevin MacDonald as a director. Political Cesspool’s guest list is also full of hate. The list includes anti-Semites such as David Duke and Willis Carto, as well as Nick Griffin, the leader of the white-only UK political party, the British National Party. Edwards has also had many anti-immigrant guests on his show, such as Virginia Abernathy – a self-described white separatist who once shared the podium with Rick Oltman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Edwards also hosted two other guests with strong connections to FAIR, Jim Staudenraus, a former FAIR spokesman and Wayne Lutton, the editor of The Social Contract, a quarterly journal published by John Tanton’s financial umbrella, U.S. Inc. FAIR is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Another former host on Republic Broadcasting Network is William Gheen. Gheen is the founder of Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), an anti-immigrant group. He is described by Anti-Defamation League as an “anti immigrant leader” while the Southern Poverty Law Center call him a “nativist” and quotes Gheen in reference to the immigrant population: “Call me old fashioned, but people should be able to shop at Wal-Mart without worrying about catching [t]uberculosis.”
It is clear that Republic Broadcasting Network is extreme. Several of its past and present hosts are white nationalists, anti-Semites and anti-immigrant activists. It is comparable to David Duke Radio and Stormfront Radio as a venue for hate.
Willis Carto Reaches Out to More Extreme Anti-Semites
02 years ago
Willis Carto is not your typical 83-year-old. Instead of spending his days basking in the Florida sun or playing cards, Willis is still very active in his life’s work. His activities revolve around anti-Semitism and racism. Carto runs the anti-Semitic publication, American Free Press. American Free Press evolved out of The Spotlight magazine which stopped printing in 2001 after Carto’s assets were severely diminished due to a lawsuit. This lawsuit may have crippled him and his network financially but it did not damper their spirit. Along with American Free Press, Carto publishes the historical revisionist publication, The Barnes Review which specializes in Holocaust denial.
In recent months Carto and his cronies have been very active. Not only have they courted anti-immigrant organizations such as Center for Immigration Studies, but they have also reached out to more extreme anti-Semites. One example of this is an article published in the September 21 & 28 edition of American Free Press written by B. Frederick White. The article, entitled “Protesters So No ‘Tolerance’ for Rights of White Activists”, promotes the National Socialist Movement, (NSM) a neo-Nazi organization. At the end of the article, an address and telephone number are provided for readers to get more information on the movement. The organizations website NSM88.org is also listed. The number 88 has a special meaning for neo-Nazis; each 8 represents the 8th letter in the alphabet which is ‘h’, thus 88 translates to ‘hh’ which is short for Heil Hitler.
Last month, Carto continued courting extreme anti-Semites when American Free Press sponsored a First Amendment Festival in Washington DC. Only AFP subscribers could attend the event and its two featured speakers, David Duke and Texe Marrs, have a history of extreme anti-Semitic views. Duke, a former Klan member and Louisiana state representative spoke first about Judaism. He lambasted Jews throughout his speech noting at one point that “the racial policies of Israel are more extreme than the policies of National Socialist Germany.” Texe Marrs, a radical anti-Semite living in Texas spoke after Duke. Marrs remarked that President Obama “will go down in history as the first Jewish president of America.” He also attacked televangelists like Pat Robertson for being funded by Jews.
As we can see, it is obvious that Carto is trying very hard to connect with extreme anti-Semites. But why? For me the obvious answer is that Carto, along with many others on the far-right are finally bringing their hatred and targeting of Jews (or Zionists as the far right likes to call them) into the open. It is clear that Carto is trying to align as many groups and individuals as possible in a united front against Jews. They want their followers to believe that Jews are to blame for problems like immigration, the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This sort of twisted logic must be taken very seriously because it is a threat that can have major consequences. Willis Carto, David Duke and Texe Marrs are influential people who are seen as champions by many on the far-right. They are not champions, they are merely racists.