Arnold’s Connection to Racist Hate Groups

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1430228

A Look at Schwarzenegger’s Father’s Ties to the Nazis and Arnold’s Connection to Racist Hate Groups

Biographer Wendy Leigh reveals Arnold’s father voluntarily became a Nazi brown-shirted stormtrooper and how the gubernatorial candidate once publicly made Hitler-like gestures. Meanwhile the Southern Poverty Law Center outlines the links between U.S. English (where Arnold serves on the board) and right-wing hate groups.

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MARK POTOK: Yeah, it's an important piece of this puzzle I think. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined back in 1988, the advisory board of U.S. English very shortly after that, there was a scandal when memos were leaked written by the group's founder, John Tanton the memo said essentially they made racist statements about Hispanics. They weren't completely guttural statements. But they were enough to cause at that time Walter Cronkite to quit the advisory board of the group and Linda Chavez, the conservative republican columnist to quit as executive director. But Schwarzenegger stayed on. That's I guess is neither here nor there that was 15 years ago, thereabouts. But very recently we found about three months ago the U.S. English had just hired a guy named James Lubinskus. Lubinskus is a fellow who is for many years back to 1998 the assistant editor of something called American Renaissance which is simply a white supremacist magazine. In addition Lubinskus has spoken at groups of Klan-like organizations that featured, you know, on the Dias with David Duke, a well known neo-Nazi named Sam Van Rensberg, the membership coordinator of our main neo-Nazi group in the United States. And so on. I am not alleging because I certainly don't know that Schwarzenegger had any idea who these people were.I think it's not believable that the people who run U.S. English had no idea who Lubiskus was.He's very well known in racist circles. And really the point is that since this came out, since we told the columnist of the "Washington Post" the details of what had occurred at US English, David Horowitz, the very conservative fellow who used to be a left winger has reportedly left the advisory board as a result, in addition Lubiskus was either fired or resigned he left right away after that column appeared with these revelations contained in it.And Schwarzenegger has done nothing. He said nothing about it, he is still up there if you go on the website today, you will find him on the advisory board. Along I should say in the interest of fairness with a number of other celebrities. People like Alex Trebeck that is the story. I think that what U.S. English has shown is they have always been kind of followed by accusations, allegations of racism. I think the hiring a few months of this fellow Lubinskus tells you something about the group. This is not a mainstream immigration restriction group. It's got a nastier agenda underneath.
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[BayCityProgressive]

1. He is a Republican

That is a hate group in and of itself :evilgrin:

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[newsguyatl]

3. uh oh

sniff

[donsu]

4. LOL

nt

[mitchtv]

5. no better?

alert button please. they're out and about