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John H. Tanton, M.D., is a retired ophthalmologist from Petoskey, Michigan, and an influential activist in efforts aimed at reducing immigration levels in the United States. He was organizer and first chairman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit educational group that advocates for a reduction in the level of immigration into the U.S. He also helped to start two other groups with a similar goal: the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit research group; and NumbersUSA, a grassroots lobbying group.[1][2]
Tanton has also been a leader in efforts to make English the official language of government in the U.S. To that end, he was co-founder (1983) and chairman of U.S. English and later (1994) of ProEnglish, of which he is still a director.
Tanton has also held national positions in environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth, and local leadership positions in the Audubon Society and Planned Parenthood. He is the founder of The Social Contract Press, which publishes the quarterly journal The Social Contract[3] and other materials on the topics of immigration, population, conservation, and preservation of American culture. He has been the publisher of this journal since its inception in 1990, and he was its editor until 1998. Tanton's wife, Mary Lou Tanton, chairs the U.S. Immigration Reform PAC.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tanton
What I really don't understand is his connection with the Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)to do with their agendas ,blur virtue & venom ,it's an old Poppy trick to project respectability .
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)Hitler and his ideology was born forth, aided and financed by the USA/UK from the remnants of WW1. Large power brokers through the British Roundtable groups (the Cliveden Set, the Lord Milner group and the Cecil Rhodes group, etc), which morphed into the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs and its American counterpart, The Council on Foreign Relations in NYC (along with their member's Foundations (ie, Ford, Rhodes, Rockefeller, etc) helped set up the eugenics laws of Nazi Germany.
The Rockefeller's' chief executive of these institutions was the fascist Swiss psychiatrist Ernst Rudin, assisted by his proteges Otmar Verschuer and Franz J. Kallmann. In 1932, the British-led "Eugenics'' movement designated the Rockefeller's' Dr. Rudin as the president of the worldwide Eugenics Federation. The USA counterpart was the American Eugenics Society, which turned into Planned Parenthood through the latter's founder,(and Nazi and Klan supporter) Margaret Sanger.
The tattoos on Nazi concentration victims were a tracking system utilizing the IBM Hollerith punch card computer system, leased at below-market rates to the Nazis in 1933 by the US corporation IBM, under the direction of its CEO (and eugenics supporter/fascist sympathizer) Thomas J Watson. Watson also sent over one hundred IBM employees to Germany to help set up and run the initial system. It was first tested in the late 1920's in a Jamaican race-mixing study.
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"I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366) http://books.google.se/books?id=iy0oWya9H_kC&pg=PA366&dq=sanger+klan&ei=GGTTRvrgMqHgoAK79MHQBw&sig=KpEng56IBOGBOr8K4LvnKe5UDX4&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
RainDog
(28,784 posts)who thought about deporting slaves to Africa.
nevertheless, he helped to change the world for the better.
Andrew Jackson founded the modern Democratic Party.
nevertheless, he was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of American Indians in one of the most shameful moments in American history.
history doesn't go well with all or nothing thinking. neither does the present.
flexnor
(392 posts)you might, if you added a few shades of grey to your black and white thinking
for instance, one could argue that SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) is a nativist organization
how?
because I agree with some of the positions of numbersusa (flooding of job market with guest workers in a recession), and that makes me a nativist - i have a parent who agrees with me on this - so that parent is also a nativist
But, that parent also has given generously to the SPLC
THAT PROVES THE SPLC IS FUNDED BY NATIVISTS!!!!!!!!
and that makes SPLC secretly a nativist organization, they just dont want you to know it
see how absurd the 'guilt by association' game is? it was dumb when McCarthy did it in the 1950s, and it still is
Kevin Bacons' 6 degrees of separation game puts forth that the people you know know people who know..and when you get 6 links out, it's everyone in the country, you're 6 links out from everyone
'guilt by association' is about casting a net wide enough to catch anyone you disagree with, and it associates you with Senator Joe McCarthy, and that's some mighty bad company