The Pink Flamingo :: The Roots of the Anti-Immigration Movement

"I post on Michelles' blog on a regular basis and I am becoming very concerned about the level of anti-hispanic hatemongering that I see displayed there by both the hostess and some of her responders. Her hatred of John McCain and her willingness to derail his campaign is simply an extension of this.

It truly seems as though Ms. Malkin has lost all sense of proportion.

Her blog has been overrun by Paulians, supremacists, and freaks who are into decidedly un-conservative ideologies like eugenics and "population control". Either she sees it and doesn't care, or she's so blinded by her animosity for McCain and hispanics that she can't see it.

I have challenged her about the racist comments on her blog publicly. I brought to her attention one post calling Muslims "ragheads" and another post by a population control advocate who publicly states that he hates all Mexicans and wants them gone. He uses China as a model, how sick is that?

The "raghead" comment was deleted, but not the comment about Mexicans. She responded publicly on the thread and said that she "doesn't agree with the comment, but she's not going to censor it either".

WTF is wrong with these people?"

The problem is the fact that they are what I call intellectually dishonest. Let's take Planned Parenthood, John Tanton & Michelle Malkin. Today in her blog, Malkin is taking Barack Obama out over his abortion ties and his adoration of Margaret Sanger. You aren't going to get me to disagree with any of this. She quotes an interview with Sanger:

"...SANGER: I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world–that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin — that people can — can commit..."

Let's also be honest here. I think the greatest stupidity a person can commit is having children. They are dirty. They carry germs. They smell bad. They cost money. They bring nothing but heart-ache, then they dump their dirty laundry and their children in your lap - and those are the good kids. Don't want any. And in full and honest disclosure, I really don't like them all that much. If parents made them behave that might be different, but they don't. (and that's another rant) Just give me cats and a poorly behaved poodle, not that I like dogs all that much either. They're like kids, needy, stinky, and have bad breath. Okay, I'm going to ask this one rhetorical question: Why the heck do people think I like kids enough to have the joy of being around theirs? I will admit there are exceptions, based more upon friendship and love than anything else.

I digress.

One of my great joys in life is watching staunch pro-life conservatives like Michelle Makin wax poetic about their anti-abortion platform and how much they hate Planned Parenthood, and yet give slobbering devotion to Mr. Planned Parenthood's anti-immigration engenics. The problem is John Tanton. Tanton is one of the most devoted of all of Planned Parenthood's supporters.

Let's examine Tanton's record.

"...NumbersUSA: Founder, 1996 (1)
ProEnglish: Founder, Former Chairman, and Board, 1993-present (1)(4)
Social Contract Press: Founder, Former Editor, and Publisher, 1990-present (1) (3) (4) (5) (6)
E Pluribus Unum: Co-organizer, 1992 (6)
Emergency Committee on Puerto Rican Statehood and the Status of English in the United States: Co-organizer, 1990 (6)
American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities: Co-founder, 1989 (6)
Center for Immigration Studies: Founder, 1985 (1)
U.S. English: Co-founder and Chairman, 1982-1988 (1) (4) (6)
U.S. Inc.: Founder and Chairman, 1982-present (1) (6)
Population/Environment Balance: Former board member, 1980-1990 (6)
Federation for American Immigration Reform: Co-founder, Former Chairman and board member, 1979-present (1) (2) (3) (5) (6)
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Advisory Commission: Member, 1978-1980 (6)
Zero Population Growth: National President, 1975-1977 (6)
Zero Population Growth Immigration Study Committee: Chairman, 1973-1975 (6)
Zero Population Growth National Executive Committee: Member, 1973-1978 (6)
Little Traverse Conservancy: Co-organizer, Board, and Former President, 1972-1988 (6)
Little Traverse Group: Co-organizer, Executive Committee Member, and Former President, 1972-1988 (6)
11th Congressional District League of Conservation Voters: Organizer, 1970-1974 (6)
National Long-range Planning Committee of Sierra Club: Member, 1970-1973 (6)
Mackinac Chapter Population Committee of Sierra Club: Organizer and Chairman, 1969-1971 (6)
Petoskey Regional Group of Sierra Club: Organizer and Chairman, 1970-1972 (6)
Hartwick Pines Natural History Association: Organizer and President, 1969-1972 (6)
Petoskey Regional Audubon Society: Co-organizer and President, 1967, 1969 (6)
Great Lakes Public Affairs Committee of Planned Parenthood: Chairman, 1970-1971 (6)
Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood Association: Organizer and President, 1965-1971 (6)
Bear River Development Commission: Organizer and Chairman, 1965-1972 (6)
Michigan Natural Areas Council: Secretary, 1962-1963 (6)..."

ROOTS OF ANTI-IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT
The liberal blog, Eristic-Ragemail has a very good history of the anti-immigration movement. John Tanton is known as the Puppetteer. He pulls the strings and people like Michelle Maklin dance. Until these people can leave behind their Tanton baggage and accept the truth about who is promoting their anti-immigration agenda, their anti-abortion hand-wringing means nothing - Absolutely Nothing. It is all about abortion, eugenics, and population control.

"...It is not often that a single individual is largely responsible for creating an entire political movement. But John Tanton can claim without exaggeration that he is the founding father of America's modern anti-immigration movement.

In addition to directly controlling four prominent immigration restriction groups, Tanton has been critical in establishing or helping fund several other anti-immigration groups. He serves on the board of the group with the largest membership, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which he founded 23 years ago. It was an odd turn of events for an erstwhile liberal activist who loved beekeeping and the rural life.

Raising a family and practicing medicine in Petoskey, Mich., Tanton started out as a passionate environmentalist. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he was a leader in the National Audubon Society, the Sierra Club and other mainstream environmental groups. But Tanton soon became fixated on population control, seeing environmental degradation as the inevitable result of overpopulation. When the indigenous birth rate fell below replacement level in the United States, his preoccupation turned to immigration. And this soon led him to race.

Tanton had something akin to a conversion when he came across The Camp of the Saints, a lurid, racist novel written by Frenchman Jean Raspail that depicts an invasion of the white, Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees. Tanton helped get the novel published in English and soon was promoting what he considered the book's prophetic argument. "Their [Third World] 'huddled masses' cast longing eyes on the apparent riches of the industrial west," Tanton wrote in 1975. "The developed countries lie directly in the path of a great storm." And so he began to develop a counter-force. After 1979, when he co-founded FAIR, Tanton launched "a whole array of organizations that serve the overall ideological and political battle plan to halt immigration — even if those groups have somewhat differing politics," explained Rick Swartz, the pro-immigration activist who founded the National Immigration Forum in 1982. "Tanton is the puppeteer behind this entire movement," Swartz said. "He is the organizer of a significant amount of its financing, and is both the major recruiter of key personnel and the intellectual leader of the whole network of groups."..."