White Supremacist
Expanding A3P Absorbs Another Hate Group
originally posted by Larry Keller for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
Jun 29th
The American Third Position (A3P), a fledgling but important Southern California-based white supremacist political party, has expanded its base by merging with another relatively new racist and anti-Semitic organization.
The latter group, the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots (LOAP), was absorbed into the A3P a few days ago and became the Metro New York area chapter of the A3P. LOAP was founded in March 2008 and is headed by a New Jersey attorney, Alexander Carmichael. It is based in Butler, N.J. Members must be heterosexuals “of complete European Christian ancestry.”
The A3P, which has attracted several leading American white supremacists and seems to have been growing steadily, was launched in January of this year “to represent the political interests of White Americans.” Its roots are in Orange and Los Angeles counties. The group’s goal is to eventually garner enough support to run white nationalist candidates for political offices in every state.
The A3P’s chairman also is a lawyer, William Daniel Johnson of Los Angeles. He’s a failed political candidate in three states who once wrote a book advocating that millions of non-whites be deported from the United States. Its first director was Kevin MacDonald, the California State University, Long Beach, psychology professor who is the author of an anti-Semitic trio of books. Other directors include James Edwards, host of the racist radio program, “The Political Cesspool”; Tomislav Sunic, a frequent speaker at racist and anti-Semitic venues; and Don Wassall, the longtime publisher of a monthly white nationalist newspaper.
In its 2½ years, LOAP has distributed racist fliers in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania neighborhoods. One of them beseeched readers to “Stop Minority (Non-White) Crime Now!” Members also dumped anti-Barack Obama fliers in neighborhoods during the 2008 presidential election, with one claiming that “Black Ruled Nations [are the] most unstable and violent in the world.” Other fliers have taken aim at undocumented immigrants, portraying them as criminals who deplete social services.
In March 2009, about 15 LOAP members met in a room they reserved at a branch library in Clifton, N.J., after stating on an application form that they were the “Polish-American Issues Forum.” When five protesters showed up, a brawl ensued, according to the library director. LOAP members also attended Tea Party gatherings in New Jersey and New York last July 4 and handed out fliers reading, “Celebrate Western Heritage.”
In an announcement about the marriage of the two racist groups on its website, the A3P praised LOAP for “the gracefulness by which it presents its message to the American people” and declared the merger “a giant step forward for the A3P.”
White Supremacist Richard Barrett Murdered in Mississippi Home
Apr 22nd
Update: Police announced that they arrested Barrett’s neighbor late Thursday afternoon and charged him with murder in connection with Barrett’s slaying. Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington told The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger that Vincent McGee, 22, had done yard work for Barrett. Barrett was stabbed to death and his body set on fire. Though McGee is black, police have not revealed whether Barrett’s racism played a role in the killing.
Richard Barrett, a longtime white supremacist leader who generated more publicity than influence, was found dead this morning in his Pearl, Miss., home, apparently the victim of a homicide.
Firefighters discovered his body in a bathroom after neighbors reported a fire at Barrett’s home around 8 a.m., according to news reports. Few details have been released about the incident, which is under investigation by local, state and federal authorities.
Though Barrett, a lawyer, never became a major leader in white supremacist circles, he drew substantial press attention by organizing rallies and filing free speech lawsuits. “He was known not only for being one of the hardest of the hard-core haters but a gadfly as well, because of his limited legal knowledge,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernandino. “And he was notorious for claiming legal victories, some of which he never actually won.”
Barrett led the Nationalist Movement, which advocated striking down civil rights laws, and organized white power rallies nationwide. Barrett’s “The Spirit of America Day,” which for 40 years honored high school student athletes, was recognized multiple times by Mississippi lawmakers, most recently in February.
Barrett, 67, had a long history of denigrating minorities, particularly blacks, immigrants and gays. Born in New York City, the Vietnam War veteran launched his efforts on behalf of white Christians when he moved to Mississippi in 1966, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In his 1982 autobiography, The Commission, he called for resettling minorities groups to “Puerto Rico, Mexico, Israel, the Orient and Africa.” He also argued that “the Negro race … possess[es] no creativity of its own [and] pulls the vitality away from civilization.” And he favored sterilization and abortions of those deemed “unfit.”
During a failed 1984 run for U.S. Congress in which he faced three black candidates, he said voters had to decide between “the cotton boll and three lumps of coal.” (Barrett also ran repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, for governor of Mississippi.)
In 1988, he headed a protest against integration in predominantly white Forsyth County, Ga. Sixty-five mostly out-of-town activists took part, including 40 robed Klansmen. Barrett was among the protestors who signed “The Forsyth County Covenant,” which argued for the advancement of “America’s heritage as a free, white, Christian, English-speaking democracy” and asserted that “all efforts to make us a bilingual, bisexual or biracial society must be defeated.” That same year, he worked with two racist leaders of the National States Rights Party to organize a pro-white demonstration at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta.
He also led rallies in Atlanta against the Martin Luther King Day holiday; in California (twice) in support of the Los Angeles Police Department officers acquitted of assaulting Rodney King; in Boston after a St. Patrick’s Day parade was cancelled when a court forbade the exclusion of gay groups; and in Morristown, N.J., to commemorate “Independence from Affirmative Action Day.” Each time only a handful of followers showed up, but the events attracted large crowds of counter-demonstrators and received considerable media attention. In 2003, he successfully sued York, Pa., after the city initially refused to give the Nationalist Movement a permit to hold a rally.
Barrett reached out to young skinheads in December 1988 when he hosted a weekend of paramilitary training in Learned, Miss., according to the ADL. The few teenagers who attended tried to hit a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. during target practice, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. In recent years, Barrett ran an online forum for skinheads, despite criticizing the violence of certain extremists groups.
Barrett also campaigned on behalf of several 1960s-era murderers. After Byron de la Beckwith was convicted in 1994 of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Barrett circulated a petition and led a march seeking a pardon from the Mississippi governor. (Another purpose of the march was to support a high school principal who lost his job after saying he would cancel the senior prom rather than allow interracial couples to attend.) In 2004, Barrett tried to sponsor a booth at the Mississippi State Fair backing Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klan leader who was found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of three civil rights workers. And in fall 2008, he planned a Louisville rally in support of James Forde Seale, who was convicted of facilitating the Klan murder of two black teenagers.
Barrett marched on Martin Luther King Day in January 2008 in Jena, La., to deride King and the six black teenagers subjected to harsh prosecutions for an attack on a white student. The marchers chanted slogans such as, “If it ain’t white, it ain’t right.”
Croatian Extremist Joins White Hate Group Leadership
originally posted by Larry Keller for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
Mar 24th
A popular speaker at gatherings of white supremacists and anti-Semites has joined the board of directors of the nascent white nationalist political party, American Third Position (A3P).
Tomislav Sunic, who describes himself as a former professor, Croatian diplomat and author, has spoken on multiple occasions to the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) and the Institute for Historical Review (IHR). The CCC is a racist hate group directly descended from the White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s that were once famously described by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as the “uptown Klan.” The IHR is a Holocaust-denying organization and publisher. He has also spoken at events organized by the neo-Nazi National Alliance, including a February 2003 “Euro-Fest” in Sacramento, Calif., where his central theme was that Europe has been repeatedly invaded by “alien” peoples and that whites have become a minority in Western Europe. He railed on about non-white immigrants, ending with the Turkish workers who have moved to Germany. “The Turks,” he said, “are enslaving white people in Germany.”
Sunic spoke this March 6 at an IHR gathering in California that was attended by William Daniel Johnson and Kevin MacDonald, the chairman and director, respectively, of the A3P. In that appearance, Sunic lamented what he characterized as vindictive treatment of Germans in the aftermath of World War II.
Johnson, a lawyer who has been a white supremacist activist for nearly three decades, has run for offices in three states, losing badly each time. MacDonald is a psychology professor at California State University, Long Beach, who is best known for his anti-Semitic writings. Johnson and MacDonald formed the A3P last October and hope to eventually run candidates for political offices across the United States. The party’s simple mission statement: “The American Third Position Exists to represent the political interests of White Americans.”
Sunic joins James Edwards on the A3P board. Edwards hosts a weekly white nationalist, anti-Semitic radio program, “The Political Cesspool.” Sunic, Johnson and MacDonald have all appeared on “Cesspool.”
In an interview he did with the Britain-based Holocaust-denying publisher and website, Historical Review Press, Sunic spoke of his “Confederate-Southern sympathies.” He added, “What is of my concern is the passing of the white race.” In the same interview, he bemoaned the fact that his native Croatia “chose a losing side!” in World War II, but said nothing about the Croatian Nazi puppet government’s building of concentration camps where Jews, Serbs and gypsies were killed.
Sunic also spoke in 2008 to the Pacifica Forum, a far-right discussion group that meets as the University of Oregon. A meeting of the group in December showcased the National Socialist Movement, America’s largest neo-Nazi movement.
Sunic hosts a radio program on the Voice of Reason radio network. Last week, he interviewed Thomas Robb, the Arkansas-based national director of The Knights Party, better known as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. And the first weekend in April, Sunic is slated to speak at Robb’s three-day Faith and Freedom Conference. No wonder, then, that the A3P website proclaims that Sunic “will be of tremendous benefit to the party.”
Controversial Anti-immigrant Group Attends Immigrant Rights March
originally posted by Stephen Piggott for IMAGINE 2050 » Immigration [click here]
Mar 21st
Today in Washington D.C., Roy Beck, the executive director of the anti-immigrant organization NumbersUSA will be on the National Mall debating with immigration reform marchers who are flooding to the capital from all across the country.
NumbersUSA will be streaming the event live on its website as part of a four day anti-immigrant hate campaign which began on Friday. NumbersUSA’s campaign has so far failed to live up to its own high expectations with less than one percent of its alleged 900,000 members signing its most recent “anti-amnesty” petition, a key part of the four day campaign.
Throughout the campaign, NumbersUSA has updated its twitter page constantly. On many of the tweets there is the term “#AFIRE.” This term refers to Americans for Immigration Control and Enforcement, a “National DC based office in conjunction with Americans for Immigration Reform and Enforcement (AFIRE) made up of FAIR and Numbers USA.” According to this statement on the Utah chapter of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), we can see that NumbersUSA and FAIR are actively working together. This is just another example of two John Tanton Network groups teaming up to bash immigrants.
NumbersUSA’s finances and ties to white nationalists are very disturbing. Roy Beck, the group’s executive director spoke at a 1997 Council of Conservative Citizens conference, something that has haunted Beck ever since. Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is a white supremacist hate group. Its conferences have hosted a who’s who of the white nationalist hierarchy over the years, including Jared Taylor, founder of American Renaissance.
Beck is paid a colossal amount of money each year by NumbersUSA to spew anti-immigrant rhetoric. Beck was compensated a whopping $274,500 in 2007 alone, Beck’s paycheck is more than five times the net income of an average American.
Beck has also begun to think about the future of NumbersUSA and who will replace him at the helm when he finally retires. One of Beck’s right hand men at NumbersUSA is Chad MacDonald, the Director of Social Media Marketing for NumbersUSA. Chad recently spoke with Roy Beck and Tom Tancredo at the National Tea Party Convention, telling the crowd that each tea party group should have an “immigration expert.”
MacDonald has been busy in recent weeks in preparing for the four day anti-immigrant campaign. He has appeared in many videos, on both NumbersUSA’s website and YouTube page, discussing the immigration reform march and NumbersUSA’s anti-immigrant response to it. MacDonald is a much younger and more likable alternative to Beck, making him an ideal candidate to be the new face of NumbersUSA.
Second Hal Turner Trial Ends in Mistrial
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
Mar 10th
The federal trial of hate blogger Hal Turner ended in a mistrial late this afternoon — for the second time.
After deliberating for three days in Brooklyn’s U.S. District Court, jurors decided they would not be able to reach a verdict, according to The Associated Press. Judge Donald Walter declared a mistrial and scheduled a third trial for April 12. Turner’s first trial in December also resulted in a deadlocked jury. An Internet radio host from New Jersey, Turner was charged with threatening to assault and murder three federal judges in Chicago after he wrote on his blog in June that they “deserve to be killed” because they had upheld a local handgun ban.
As during the first trial, the proceedings this month focused on whether Turner’s blog entries constituted a criminal threat or merely heated rhetoric that’s protected under the First Amendment. However, the second trial differed from the first in key ways, according to news accounts. This time, for instance, the judges that Turner targeted on his blog testified. In addition, Turner took the stand to describe his past work as a confidential FBI informant, claiming that the agency had encouraged his online vitriol to give him credibility with the extremists the FBI was trying to apprehend. Turner, whose FBI code name was Valhalla, said the agency paid him more than $100,000 during the four years he worked intermittently as an informant. He also insisted he was not a white supremacist.
If convicted, Turner faces up to 10 years in prison.
Anti-immigrant Bill Dies in Mississippi
originally posted by Chris Bober for IMAGINE 2050 » Immigration [click here]
Mar 4th
So what’s got me smiling today? Could it be the “surprised kitten” YouTube clip floating around the office? No, as sweet as that is, I’m most excited about Tuesday’s civil rights victory in Mississippi which saw the state’s legislature kill the so-called “Immigration Reform Act of 2010” (SB2032).
The bill, which initially passed the senate, died in a house committee despite being promoted by the anti-immigrant group, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) and a last minute endorsement by the white supremacist hate group, Council of Conservative Citizens.
This alarming and fiercely anti-immigrant bill (co-authored by Senators: Michael Watson, Chris McDaniel, and Lee Yancey) called for severe penalties for undocumented immigrants caught with false identification. It also included 287(g) provisions for local and state law enforcement and language which would have created a “new crime” to “transport” or “harbor” undocumented immigrants in the state of Mississippi.
Of course, the transporting part got my attention too. Especially, because according to the bill, one can “conceal, harbor, or shelter from detection” an immigrant in “any building or means of transportation.” This, unfortunately, would have opened the door to a whole new dimension of racial profiling and meant offenders would see over $1,000 in fines and at least a year in prison.
The Council of Conservative Citizens, the reconstituted old White Citizen’s Council, which has referred to blacks as “a retrograde species of humanity” and opposes “all efforts to mix the races of mankind” promoted SB2032 on their website this week writing, “Please call your representatives and urge them to keep this bill alive, pass it, and continue to drive illegal immigrates (sic) out of our state.”
In order to “drive immigrates (sic) out of (their) state” those writing the bill (see above) would have had to include penalties which were sufficiently scary and extreme. Indeed, had it passed, SB2032 would have drastically changed existing state laws by charging undocumented immigrants (21+), found in possession of false identification, with a felony. This felony charge would include a $10,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. To put this into perspective, the existing laws in Mississippi state that a U.S. citizen convicted of manufacturing false identification (i.e., those people in the business of making fake ID’s) can only face a $5000 fine and/or up to 3 years in prison.
Furthermore, the 287(g) provisions in the bill would have given greater power to state and local law officials to enforce immigration laws – which has led to abuses of power in the past – most notably, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s extreme actions in Maricopa County, Arizona.
However disturbing, it is not surprising that language found in the bill is similar to model legislation promoted by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. IRLI is the legal arm of the John Tanton Network and primarily pushes legal causes which unfairly target immigrant communities. On their website, IRLI offers model legislation for policymakers interested in “planning state and local enforcement of immigration law.”
In one such model – Model Ordinance I – it states that it is not lawful for a business or person to provide safe haven for an immigrant “knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of the law.”
SB2032 states similarly that it would be against the law for anyone in Mississippi to “shelter from detection” any undocumented immigrant whether “knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien has come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law.”
It is not clear whether the Immigration Reform Law Institute played a part in the development of this legislation; however, it is frightening that legislation like SB2032 fits so nicely within the ideology of groups like IRLI and CofCC.
With despicable and discriminatory legislation such as SB2032 (so willingly pushed by those in state legislatures), I worry that an anti-immigrant and white nationalist vision of America may move forward right under our noses. It’s enough to wipe the smile right off my face.
Mississippi House Again Backs Supremacist’s Resolution
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
Mar 3rd
Mississippi lawmakers have short memories.
That, at least, may be the kindest explanation for their latest decision to laud an occasion organized by a staunch white supremacist. In what has become an absurd yearly tradition, the Mississippi House voted last month to approve a resolution honoring high school student athletes who took part in “The Spirit of America Day” on March 1. As in the past, the resolution does not mention that the day’s events — which have traditionally included an awards ceremony and other activities at the state Capitol — are hosted by Richard Barrett, a Learned, Miss., lawyer who leads a white supremacist organization.
“The thing that is so bizarre about embracing one of the most longstanding and notorious neo-Nazis for a civics lesson is that they keep doing it repeatedly,” Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at the California State University, San Bernardino, told Hatewatch. “To make a mistake of that nature once, I don’t know if it’s forgivable, but twice is downright reprehensible. It would be funny if it weren’t disgusting.”
House Rules Committee Chairman Joe Warren told The Associated Press that he had talked to some black legislators, who weren’t opposed to the resolution if it didn’t include Barrett’s name. “They didn’t seem to have any problems with it as long as it was geared just toward these young people, who evidently are great kids academically and athletically,” he said.
Now in its 40th year, “The Spirit of America Day” recognizes exceptional male athletes in Mississippi. It most recently was hailed by the Mississippi Legislature last year, when both the state House and Senate approved resolutions declaring March 2, 2009, “The Spirit of America Day.” However, the resolution later died in the House after some lawmakers argued it was unacceptable to promote an occasion sponsored by an avowed racist.
That didn’t stop the House from adopting a similar resolution a year later, this Feb. 17. No resolution was brought to the Senate this year for approval.
Barrett’s Nationalist Movement advocates striking down civil rights laws and organizes white-power events nationwide. In his 1982 biography, Barrett, now 66, called for resettling non-white Americans, asserted that “the Negro race … possess[es] no creativity of its own,” and proposed sterilization and abortions for those deemed “unfit.” He has campaigned on behalf of several 1960s-era racist killers, including James Forde Seale, who facilitated the Klan murder of two black teenagers; Byron de la Beckwith, who assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers; and Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
Barrett has also organized white supremacist rallies that have garnered local and national headlines. In 2008, he marched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Jena, La., to deride King and the six black teenagers subjected to unusually harsh prosecutions for an attack on a white student. Among the slogans chanted by movement members and supporters: “If it ain’t white, it ain’t right.”
Anti-immigrant Movement Attacks American Property Owners
originally posted by Jill Garvey for IMAGINE 2050 » Immigration [click here]
Mar 1st
The anti-immigrant movement wants private property owners to enforce immigration laws, and be punished when they don’t. It’s shocking the lengths some groups have gone to in order to pressure, intimidate or force ordinary citizens into complying with their anti-immigrant activities.
Leading this effort is Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), the legal arm of the John Tanton Network. IRLI’s primary purpose is to push legal causes that unfairly target immigrant communities. IRLI works with extremist anti-immigrant groups and leaders to push anti-immigrant ordinances at the municipal level. In 1985, John Tanton launched IRLI, but made sure he kept it firmly under the control of Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has tried to portray itself as a mainstream organization despite its links to extremist groups, including white nationalists.
IRLI “was structured in such a way that it could operate under FAIR’S tax exemption but have its own board, appointed initially by FAIR’S board,” Tanton says in an oral history. “We tried to keep control of IRLI by making sure that the FAIR board was the ultimate authority in appointing the IRLI board.”
In New Jersey, IRLI brags about bringing a federal civil racketeering lawsuit against apartment owners for “illegal harboring” in 2008. In Pennsylvania, IRLI has persistently tried to pass anti-harboring ordinances and cost the city of Hazelton an untold amount of money in the process.
These are just a few examples of IRLI’s efforts to set a model for local legislation that will make it impossible to rent an apartment or give someone a ride in a car without first confirming their citizenship. This will make for some very serious divisions in our communities. Divisions that would make John Tanton’s white supremacist friends very happy.
Friends like VDARE, the white supremacist online publication founded by Peter Brimelow and supported by his foundation Center for American Unity. This 2006 brief illustrates Center for American Unity’s collaboration with John Tanton Network organizations. The Center for American Unity considers multiculturalism a threat to American heritage.
Then there is the question of who will be targeted next. Will taxi drivers be sued for picking up customers? Will school bus drivers have to defend themselves in court if they drive undocumented children to school? What about motel owners in these communities or ambulance drivers? I wouldn’t put it past The John Tanton Network to do whatever is necessary to divide communities along racial lines. One of FAIR’s state contacts, Minnesotans for Immigration Reform, has already taken these activities to the fringe. It recently promoted a very extreme website to supporters. The website asserts that “aiding and abetting” undocumented immigrants is a felony, and offers visitors the opportunity to “report” their landlord. Aside from all the blatantly inaccurate information contained on the site, it is clearly advocating for extreme vigilantism.
The anti-immigrant movement claims to be protecting regular, working Americans, but its actions say otherwise.
Americans value the freedom to prosper. And the freedom to do with their property as they see fit. Threatening property owners with lawsuits to further a political agenda is underhanded and hinders the economic prosperity of average Americans.
Racists Holding Event at Former Justice Roy Moore’s Foundation
originally posted by Heidi Beirich for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
Feb 18th
This coming Saturday, the Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Ala., will be the site of the 2010 Alabama Secession Day Commemoration, featuring speakers tied to the League of the South, a neo-Confederate hate group that considers slavery “God-ordained” and advocates for “the cultural dominance of the Anglo-Celtic people and their institutions.” The Foundation for Moral Law’s president is defrocked Alabama Chief Supreme Court Justice Judge Roy Moore, who is more commonly known as the “Ten Commandments judge.” In the dead of night on July 31, 2001, Moore placed a 2½-ton stone monument with the Decalogue carved on it in the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building, where he then presided. Moore was thrown out of office in 2003 by Alabama’s Court of the Judiciary after refusing to remove the monument, as he was ordered to do as the result of a federal lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The event is being organized by Patricia Godwin, a racist neo-Confederate from Selma who annually holds a birthday party to honor Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a wealthy slave trader who became the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Godwin, who often refers in E-mails to her majority-black hometown as “Zimbabwe on de Alabamy,” has lately crusaded to block any acknowledgement on the Capitol grounds of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march. Godwin has railed at “the trash that came here in 1965,” complaining that those who honor the civil rights movement “are aiding and abetting the ultimate goal of the ONE WORLD ORDER — to BROWN AmeriKa and annihilate Anglo-Celtic-European culture!”
The event Godwin is advertising features quite a lineup of extremists. Franklin Sanders, a charter member of the League of the South, will be speaking. Sanders is a radical tax protester who writes on his website how state tax officials in Arkansas, where he was living at the time, found him liable for $30,000 in unpaid sales taxes, causing him to flee to Tennessee. In Tennessee, he ran afoul of both federal and state tax officials and eventually served time on state charges. He’s also a novelist. In 1989, Sanders published Heiland, a novel whose title means “savior” in German. In it, America is divided into two: the “Insiders” are the urban, pro-federal government population, while the “Freemen” are rural folks who refuse to pay taxes and live happily off the land. In the end, the Freemen realize they cannot live with the Insiders and decide to establish “the rule of Immanuel” by, in part, destroying Nashville with a laser freeze ray.
Another league favorite, John Eidsmoe, is on the bill. Eidsmoe is a former law school professor and close friend and one-time legal adviser to Roy Moore. A theocrat, Eidsmoe has suggested that the government “may not act contrary to God’s laws.” In 2005, Eidsmoe spoke to the national conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a hate group that routinely denigrates blacks as “genetically inferior,” complains about “Jewish power brokers,” calls homosexuals “perverted sodomites,” accuses immigrants of turning America into a “slimy brown mass of glop,” and named Lester Maddox, the now-deceased, ax handle-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, “Patriot of the Century.”
Chuck Baldwin, a Pensacola, Fla., pastor and former presidential candidate for the staunchly antigovernment, anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-immigrant Constitution Party, will also speak. Baldwin has written that “the South was right in the War Between the States” and that Martin Luther King Jr. “brought havoc and unrest to America as few men have ever done.” Baldwin also asserted during a campaign appearance that Sept. 11 could have been an inside job and vowed, if elected, to appoint an independent committee to uncover the truth. In recent months, Baldwin has been warning of President Obama’s supposed plans to return 200,000 troops from other countries to the U. S. Northern Command in preparation for an imminent civil war at home.
Godwin’s E-Mail says that the event is a “GRASSROOTS event & is NOT sponsored by the Foundation for Moral Law,” but she adds that “All Proceeds go to Foundation for Moral Law.”
UPDATE: Rich Hobson, executive director of the Foundation for Moral Law, told AP on Feb. 19 that Moore was unaware of the event.
Monthly Racism Round-up
originally posted by Jill Garvey for IMAGINE 2050 » Immigration [click here]
Feb 2nd
Cairo, IL 1970
It’s common to encounter subtle bigotry from all types of people in every community in America, even in unexpected places. A sad reality of our progress as a nation is that we are not even close to overcoming racial divisions. But sometimes things are said or events take place that are so outrageously overt, they deserve special condemnation. This is a recent round-up of insidious items that went down just in the first month of 2010.
First up is Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies with this thoughtful quote, “My guess is that Haiti’s so screwed up because it wasn’t colonized long enough.” He goes on to say that French colonizers didn’t do a good enough job suppressing paganism. He is referring to Haiti becoming the first Black-led republic in the world when it fought for and won independence from France in 1804. It’s akin to saying that America should have been ruled by the British longer or slavery ended too soon. It’s blatantly racist and insults our most cherished American value: freedom. Center for Immigration Studies is trying hard to secure mainstream respectability, but with spokespersons like Krikorian, it can’t help stepping in racist doo-doo time and again.
Mark Krikorian’s friends at the white supremacist American Renaissance are on the radar as well. They’re on the hunt for a space to hold their annual conference on “Defending the west” after they were banned or booted from many DC-area hotels. With things like, “Virtually no whites anywhere are willing to break taboos about racial differences in IQ, the costs of ‘diversity,’ or the challenges of non-white immigration,” printed on its website, it’s no wonder every hotel is running in the opposite direction.
Concluding our racism round-up is Bob Kellar, a California councilman who spoke at a Save Our State anti-immigration rally in California and declared himself a “proud racist”. Kellar said he was glad when people told him he sounded racist. It doesn’t get much scummier than this blubbering bigot, folks.
As the above items illustrate, no matter how bigotry is qualified, it can’t be tolerated.