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by Paul and Phillip Collins ©, Nov. 7th,
2005
Strange Confluences: The Tanton Network
On
February 13, 2002, U.S. Representative Tom
Tancredo (R-Colo.) and former San Diego
congressman Brian Bilbray addressed a
sizable audience concerned with illegal
immigration issues ("The
Puppeteer," no pagination). Hosted at
the Cannon House Office Building in
Washington, D.C., the event was the prelude
to a two-day lobbying campaign (no
pagination). The discerning researcher who
investigates this event will automatically
identify intimations of a racist Fifth
Column, which threatens to subsume the
Minutemen Project and subvert efforts to
restore America's border integrity. A white
supremacist newsletter entitled the Citizens
Informer was made available at the
meeting (no pagination). This newsletter is
published by the Council of Conservative
Citizens, a racist organization financed by
the Shea Foundation (no pagination).
More importantly, this assembly was
"masterminded by NumbersUSA,"
which is but one appendage of a larger
organizational octopus (no pagination). When
NumbersUSA executive director Roy Beck
addressed the audience, he admonished
activists to underplay the organization's
involvement in the lobbying effort on
Capitol Hill (no pagination). Beck candidly
stated that the campaign "needs to look
like a grassroots effort" (no
pagination). However, NumbersUSA is anything
but a grassroots organization. The Southern
Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report
elaborates:
Despite attempts to appear otherwise,
it [NumbersUSA] is a wholly owned
subsidiary of U.S. Inc., a sprawling,
nonprofit funding conduit that has spawned
three anti-immigration groups and
underwrites several others, many of which
were represented at the NumbersUSA
conclave. (No pagination)
NumbersUSA is part of a
"loose-knit" network of groups
connected to a man named John Tanton
("John Tanton's Network," no
pagination). Tanton has founded, co-founded,
and financed numerous organizations that are
gradually redirecting the movement for
immigration policy reform towards an agenda
of anti-immigration bigotry. The following
is a list of those groups:
- American Immigration Control
Foundation
-
AICF, 1983, funded
- American Patrol/Voice of Citizens
Together
-
1992, funded
- California Coalition for Immigration
Reform
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CCIR, 1994, funded
- Californians for Population
Stabilization
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1996, funded (founded separately in
1986)
- Center for Immigration Studies
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CIS, 1985, founded and funded
- Federation for American Immigration
Reform
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FAIR, 1979, founded and funded
- NumbersUSA
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1996, founded and funded
- Population-Environment Balance
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1973, joined board in 1980
- Pro English
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1994, founded and funded
- ProjectUSA
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1999, funded
- The Social Contract Press
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1990, founded and funded
- U.S. English
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1983, founded and funded
- U.S. Inc.
-
1982, founded and funded (no
pagination)
Following the February 13 meeting in
Washington D.C., other racist elements began
to rear their ugly heads. The SPLC Intelligence
Report reveals these dubious
individuals and groups:
Two weeks after the NumbersUSA lobbying
trip to the offices of Tom Tancredo and a
series of other congressmen, Glenn
Spencer, head of the Tanton-funded
anti-immigrant American Patrol, was one of
the main speakers at a conference hosted
by Jared Taylor of American
Renaissance magazine. Joining
Spencer, who warned his audience that a
second Mexican-American war would erupt in
2003, was an array of key extremists:
- Mark Weber, a principal of the
Holocaust-denying Institute for
Historical Review;
- White power web maven, former
Klansman and ex-con Don Black;
- Gordon Lee Baum, "chief
executive officer" of the CCC;
and
- several members of the neo-Nazi
National Alliance. (No pagination)
Upon closer examination of this assembly,
strange confluences become apparent. For
instance, the Institute for Historical
Review is actually connected with left-wing
icon Noam Chomsky. Werner Cohn expands on
this relationship:
The IHR's publishing and bookselling
arm is called Noontide Press.
Holocaust-denying is only one part of the
anti-Semitic menu of this supermarket of
Nazism. The latest NP catalog is dated
1995. Among its offerings we find
Nazi-made movies that are banned in
Germany because of their brazen propaganda
(pp. 29, ff), as well as the notorious Protocols
of the Elders of Zion (p. 10),
books by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels
(pp. 10 and 12), a book by the later
Father Coughlin (p. 7). Chomsky is
represented by five separate items: The
Fateful Triangle (p. 16); Necessary
Illusions (p. 11); and Pirates
and Emperors (p. 12). Chomsky,
according to the IHR, "enlightens as
no other writer on Israel, Zionism, and
American complicity" (p. 4). (No
pagination)
What makes this association even stranger
is the fact that Chomsky is Jewish. However,
researchers like Cohn have found substantial
evidence suggesting that Chomsky is a hofjuden
(self-loathing Jew). Many icons of the left
have belonged to this odd racialist
tradition. Karl Marx is one case in point,
as is evidenced by his book A World
Without Jews. It is possible that
Chomsky is yet another example.
Even more significant is Glenn Spencer,
founder of the American Patrol Report and a
supporter of the Minutemen Project. As was
previously mentioned, Spencer forecasted a
second Mexican-American war in 2003. While
Spencer's prophecy was never fulfilled, his
open advocacy of a race war certainly raises
suspicions about his true agenda. These
suspicions only intensify when one considers
the fact that Spencer's operation is
financed by Tanton.
We contend that there is a conspiracy to
radicalize the Minutemen project, subvert
efforts to restore America's border
integrity, and manufacture a politically
expedient race war. This conspiracy is being
financed and coordinated by factions of the
power elite, which have a vested interest in
the destruction of America's national
sovereignty and the establishment of a
one-world government. The immigration issue
is of particular interest to these
supranational oligarchs because it directly
affects America's border integrity, which is
integral to a country's national
sovereignty. John Tanton is no small player
in this conspiracy and it is with him that
we shall begin this investigation.
The Neo-Malthusian Connection
In 1990, John Tanton founded the Social
Contract Press. Those who visit the
organization's website will find links to
Population and Sustainability, Carrying
Capacity Network, and Negative Population
Growth. Obviously, these organizations are
guided by a common theme: population
control. Social Contract Press shares this
agenda, as is evidenced by the group's
mission statement:
The Social Contract Press is an
educational and publishing organization
advocating open discussion of such related
issues as population size and rate of
growth, protection of the environment and
precious resources, limits on immigration,
as well as preservation and promotion of a
shared American language and culture. (No
pagination; emphasis added)
In fact, population control is one of the
primary motives underpinning the Social
Contract Press's immigration reduction
agenda. According to the official website,
the Press members "favor
immigration," but desire "fewer
admissions in order to reduce the rate
of America's population growth, protect
jobs, preserve the environment, and foster
assimilation" (No pagination; emphasis
added).
Evidently, population control is one of
Tanton's preoccupations. A preliminary
perusal of Tanton's resume further expands
on his preoccupation. Social Contract
Press's website states:
His [Tanton's] conviction that
continued human population growth was a
large part of the conservation problem led
him to chair the National Sierra Club
Population Committee (1971-74), and to the
national board of Zero Population Growth
(1973-78, including a term as president,
1975-77). In 1979, as immigration grew to
be the significant part of the U.S.
population problem, he organized the
Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR) based in Washington, D.C. (No
pagination)
This preoccupation represented a natural
progression from Tanton's radical
environmentalist passions. A Southern
Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report
elaborates:
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. (No pagination)
A novel entitled The Camp of Saints
reinforced Tanton's racialist contentions
(no pagination). Authored by Jean Raspail,
the book's narrative involved "an
invasion of the white, Western world by a
fleet of starving, dark-skinned
refugees" (no pagination). Tanton was
so enamored of the novel that he supported
its publication in English (no pagination).
The "prophetic argument" of The
Camp of Saints succinctly
encapsulates Tanton's messages (no
pagination).
The cause of population control has been
historically connected with the eugenics
movement. Researchers Webster Tarpley and
Anton Chaitkin synopsize the intimate
relationship between the two:
The population control or zero
population growth movement, which grew
rapidly in the late 1960s thanks to free
media exposure and foundation grants for a
stream of pseudoscientific propaganda
about the alleged "population
bomb" and the limits to growth,"
was a continuation of the old prewar,
protofascist eugenics movement, which had
been forced to go into temporary eclipse
when the world recoiled in horror at the
atrocities committed by the Nazis in the
name of eugenics. By mid-1960s, the same
old crackpot eugenicists had resurrected
themselves as the population-control and
environmentalist movement. Planned
Parenthood was a perfect example of the
transmogrification. Now, instead of
demanding the sterilization of the
inferior races, the newly packaged
eugenicists talked about the population
bomb, giving the poor "equal
access" to birth control, and
"freedom of choice." (203)
With this synopsis, the thematic
continuity running throughout Tanton's work
becomes clearer. It represents a
continuation of the eugenics agenda. In
fact, portions of Tanton's organizational
network have been intimately involved in
eugenics projects. FAIR, which Tanton
co-founded, received $1.2 million from the
Pioneer Fund between 1985 and 1994
("The Puppeteer," no pagination).
According to eugenics expert Barry Mehler,
the Pioneer Fund qualified as a
"neo-Nazi organization, tied to the
Nazi eugenics program in the 1930s, that has
never wavered in its commitment to eugenics
and ideas of human and racial inferiority
and superiority" (no pagination).
Evidently, Tanton is keeping the eugenics
tradition alive.
It comes as little surprise that Tanton
also concerns himself with environmental
issues. Radical environmentalism is yet one
more vehicle for the population control
agenda and, by extension, a eugenical
agenda. It is even less surprising that
Tanton was the former president of the
northern Michigan branch of Planned
Parenthood. This organization, which was
founded by the racist Margaret Sanger, has
had a long history of involvement in the
eugenics movement. In her book, The
Pivot of Civilization, Sanger
revealed the eugenical motives underpinning
the cause of birth control. She unabashedly
declares:
Birth Control, which has been
criticized as negative and destructive, is
really the greatest and most truly eugenic
method, and its adoption as part of the
program of Eugenics would immediately give
a concrete and realistic power to that
science… as the most constructive and
necessary of the means to racial health.
(Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization,
189)
Sanger's talk of "racial
health" in conjunction with birth
control sounds awfully similar to the
racialist rhetoric of Adolf Hitler. Of
course, Sanger had always maintained a close
association with the racial ideologues of
the Third Reich. Planned Parenthood's board
of directors included Nazi supporters such
as Dr. Lothrop Stoddard, author of a racist
tract entitled The Rising Tide of
Color Against White Supremacy. In
fact, Birth Control Review acted as a
conduit for the dissemination of Nazi
propaganda in America. In April of 1933, Dr.
Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic
sterilization and a founder of the Nazi
Society for Racial Hygiene, published an
article in Birth Control Review.
Entitled "Eugenic Sterilization: An
Urgent Need," the article presented the
following appeal:
The danger to the community of the
unsegregated feeble-minded woman is more
evident. Most dangerous are the middle and
high grades living at large who, despite
the fact that their defect is not easily
recognizable, should nevertheless be
prevented from procreation.... In my view
we should act without delay. (102-4)
There are numerous parallels between
Sanger's ideas and the racialist policies of
the Nazis. For instance, Sanger proposed the
establishment of a network of concentration
camps for the unfit. In an issue of Birth
Control Review, she recommends that
America:
...apply a stern and rigid policy of
sterilization and segregation to that
grade of population whose progeny is
already tainted... to apportion farm lands
and homesteads for these segregated
persons where they would be taught to work
under competent instructors for the period
of their entire lives… ("Plan of
Peace," 107-8)
Just how many people would have qualified
for internment in Sanger's gulag system?
Basing her conclusions on army statistics,
Sanger presents the following figures:
...nearly half--47.3 percent--of the
population had the mentality of
twelve-year-old children or less--in other
words that they are morons. (The Pivot of
Civilization, 263)
Ultimately, Sanger concluded that:
"only 13,500,000 will ever show
superior intelligence" (The Pivot
of Civilization, 264). Thus, only
13.5% of the population would be allowed to
reproduce. Meanwhile, the rest would be
incarcerated for orderly disposal.
Thankfully, such a program was never
implemented in America. Germany, however,
witnessed its tangible enactment with
frightening results. Today, it is known as
the Holocaust.
Discoveries of Nazi atrocities shortly
after World War II constituted a public
relations disaster for Planned Parenthood.
Yet, the organization survived and acted as
a conduit for the entry of the eugenics
movement into the post-war world. Tarpley
and Chaitkin elaborate:
Although Planned Parenthood was forced,
during the fascist era and immediately
thereafter, to tone down Sanger's racist
rhetoric from "race betterment"
to "family planning" for the
benefit of the poor and racial minorities,
the organization's basic goal of curbing
the population growth rate among
"undesirables" never really
changed. (195)
In fact, Planned Parenthood even won the
approval of George Bush Sr., who would later
win the presidency running as a
conservative, pro-life candidate. Tarpley
and Chaitkin reveal that: "Bush
publicly asserted that he agreed '1,000
percent' with Planned Parenthood"
(195). Sanger's eugenical tradition remained
intact and continued into the late twentieth
century.
Tanton belongs to this eugenical
tradition. Recall his membership in Zero
Population Growth. This organization's
founder, Paul Ehrlich, wrote The
Population Bomb. Published in 1968,
Ehrlich's book presented the following
prediction:
The battle to feed all of humanity is
over. In the 1970s the world will undergo
famines--hundreds of millions of people
are going to starve to death in spite of
any crash programs embarked upon now. At
this late date nothing can prevent a
substantial increase in the world death
rate... (xi)
To counter this plague of global
starvation, Ehrlich prescribes overtly
authoritarian measures: "We must have
population control at home, hopefully
through a system of incentives and
penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary
methods fail" (xi). Of course, the
arrival of the 1970s thoroughly refuted all
of Ehrlich's prognostications. However, his
fraudulent eschatological claims acted as a
pretext for the proposal of totalitarian
policies. Of course, such policies, if
implemented, would have proven politically
and socially expedient for the power elite.
This is the true agenda underpinning the
carrying capacity myth. Whether or not
Ehrlich actually believed the overpopulation
fables that he peddled, they still provided
the ruling class with a readily exploitable
threat.
Ehrlich's wife is a member of the Club of
Rome, an organizational machination of the
power elite. The Club specializes in
manufacturing hypothetical scenarios
concerning overpopulation and environmental
degradation. The organization typically
compiles these apocalyptic forecasts and
publishes them for public consumption. It
should be fairly obvious why. The following
excerpt from the Club's 1991 report, The
First Global Revolution, reveals the
motive:
In searching for a new enemy to unite
us, we came up with the idea that
pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would
fit the bill.... But in designating them
as the enemy, we fall into the trap of
mistaking symptoms for causes. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention
and it is only through changed attitudes
and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.
(King and Schneider 115)
In making humanity the ultimate enemy,
the oligarchs have the perfect pretext for
world government. After all, only a massive
supranational entity with unlimited powers
could compel the nemesis of humanity to
retard its "environmentally
unsound" industrial and technological
development. Thus, a global socialist
totalitarian government could be erected in
the name of "ecological
preservation." This is the cause that
men like Tanton and Ehrlich are
perpetuating.
Although Ehrlich's false predictions
should have qualified the man as a
certifiable phony, his claims were still
given credence by certain factions of the
elite and government think tanks. During his
Congressional career, George Bush Sr.
founded and chaired the Republican Task
Force on Earth Resources and Population
(Tarpley and Chaitkin 199). Bush's task
force subscribed to the same old
eschatological claims of environmentalists.
It members contended that "the world
was already seriously overpopulated; that
there was a fixed limit to natural resources
and that this limit was rapidly being
reached; and that the environment and
natural species were being sacrificed to
human progress. (199) The task force was
thoroughly neo-Malthusian in character and
provided Ehrlich with an audience. Tarpley
and Chaitkin explain:
Comprised of over 20 Republican
Congressman, Bush's task force was a kind
of Malthusian vanguard organization, which
heard testimony from assorted "race
scientists," sponsored legislation,
and otherwise propagandized the
zero-growth outlook. In its 50-odd
hearings during these years, the task
force provided a public forum to nearly
every well-known zero-growth fanatic, from
Paul Ehrlich, founder of Zero Population
Growth (ZPG), to race scientist William
Shockley, to the key zero-growth advocates
infesting the federal bureaucracy.
(199-200)
Ehrlich suggested "a 'tough foreign
policy' including termination of food aid to
starving nations" (200). Naturally,
people of a darker skin hue populated most
of these nations. The scientific racism of
such a "tough foreign policy"
should be fairly axiomatic. Ehrlich's
mandates for domestic population control
included "the addition of… mass
sterilization agents" to America's
water and food supplies (200). Such ideas
were given serious credence, as is evidenced
by the pedigree of those comprising the task
force.
Ehrlich's fellow traveler, William
Shockley, was even less circumspect about
his scientific racism. During the 60s, this
race scientist had generated a substantial
amount of controversy by promoting his
already refuted thesis that black people
were mentally and cognitively inferior to
white people (200). In the same year that
the GOP task force supplied him with a
congressional platform, Shockley wrote:
"Our nobly intended welfare
programs may be encouraging dysgenics -
retrogressive evolution through
disproportionate reproduction of the
genetically disadvantaged… We fear that
'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare
money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may
contribute to a decline of human quality
for all segments of society." (200)
This is the sort of thinking that
motivates Tanton. As a former member of ZPG
and Planned Parenthood, he lays claim to a
neo-Malthusian heritage. Neo-Malthusianism
originated with the ideas of Thomas Malthus,
an Anglican clergyman who had received the
blessings of French deist Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and radical empiricist David Hume
(Keynes 99). Malthus authored Essay on
the Principle of Population, a treatise
premised upon the thesis: "Population,
when unchecked, increases in a geometrical
ratio. Subsistence increases only in an
arithmetic ratio" (qutd. in Taylor 61).
Although Malthus articulated his
observations in succinct mathematical
equations, the labyrinthine and complex
machinations comprising the natural order
typically defy such overly simplistic
reductionism. Nonetheless, Malthus concluded
that society should adopt certain social
policies to prevent the human population
from growing disproportionately larger than
the food supply. Of course, these social
policies were anything but humane. They
stipulated the stultification of industrial
and technological development in poor
communities. With the inevitable
depreciation of vital infrastructure,
society's "dysgenics" would
eventually be purged by the elements.
According to Malthus, such sacrifice
guaranteed a healthy society.
Tanton's anti-immigration racism
synchronizes comfortably with neo-Malthusian
thought. Neo-Malthusians harbor no small
amount of disdain for pro-fertility belief
systems. According Wikipedia online
encyclopedia, this disdain is directly
related to the population question:
In any group some individuals will be
more pro-fertility in their beliefs and
practices than others. According to
neo-Malthusian theory, these pro-fertility
individuals will not only have more
children, but also pass their
pro-fertility on to their children,
meaning a constant selection for
pro-fertility similar to the constant
evolutionary selection for beneficial
genes (except much faster because of
greater diversity). According to
neo-Malthusians, this increase in
fertility will lead to hyperexponential
population growth that will eventually
outstrip growth in economic production.
(No pagination)
Of course, Hispanic immigrants come from
predominantly Catholic countries.
Catholicism is a pro-fertility belief
system. Such a system encourages
"careless breeding." Therefore,
Hispanic immigrants represent a threat to
neo-Malthusians. Moreover, neo-Malthusians
contend that immigrants contribute very
little to the nation's economy. Wikipedia
online encyclopedia elaborates:
Neo-Malthusians argue that although
adult immigrants (who, at the very least,
arrive with human capital) contribute to
economic production, there is little or no
increase in economic production from
increased natural growth and fertility.
Neo-Malthusians argue that
hyperexponential population growth has
begun or will begin soon in developed
countries. (No pagination)
Herein is the true motive underpinning
Tanton's promotion of limits to immigration.
His ultimate objectives are the culling of
surplus population and the eugenical
regimentation of society. Tanton's network
is gradually redirecting the Minutemen
Project towards these objectives.
Connections to the Power Elite and the
Intelligence Community
However, it would be wrong to consider
Tanton the center of the onion. Behind him
lurk the controlling hands of the Power
Elite. While this fact can be seen through
Tanton's connection to the Club of Rome by
way of Ehrlich's ZPG, it can also be seen
through the different tax-exempt foundations
that supply a steady flow of capital to
Tanton's network. Tax-exempt foundations
allow the elite to shield their money from
the income tax and conduct social
engineering projects.
Two foundations funding the Tanton
network are significant because of their
connections to the U.S. intelligence
community. The first is the Smith Richardson
Foundation ("The Puppeteer", no
pagination). The financing for Smith
Richardson comes from the Vicks Vaporub
fortune ("Smith Richardson
Foundation", no pagination). In 1973,
the Smith Richardson Foundation came under
the presidency of R. Richardson Randolph (no
pagination). With a mind-boggling net worth
of 870 million dollars, the Richardsons are
one of America's richest families. We are
far off the trajectory of back hill bubbas
and rednecks and have entered the realm of
the Power Elite.
The origin of the Smith Richardson
Foundation's involves a rogue gallery that
includes the Bush family dynasty, the Yale
secret society of Skull and Bones, and Nazi
sympathizers. Tarpley and Chaitkin explain:
The Bush family knew Richardson and his
wife through their mutual friendship with
Sears Roebuck's chairman, Gen. Robert E.
Wood. General Wood had been president of
the America First organization, which had
lobbied against war with Hitler Germany.
H. Smith Richardson had contributed the
start-up money for America First and had
spoken out against the U.S. "joining
the Communists" by fighting Hitler.
Richardson's wife was a proud relative of
Nancy Langehorne from Virginia, who
married Lord Astor and backed the Nazis
from their Cliveden Estate.
General Wood's daughter Mary had
married the son of Standard Oil president
William Stamps Farish. The Bushes had
stuck with the Farishes through their
disastrous exposure during World War II...
Young George Bush and his bride Barbara
were especially close to Mary Farish, and
to her son W.S. Farish III, who would be
the great confidante of George's
presidency.
The H. Smith Richardson Foundation was
organized by Eugene Stetson, Jr.,
Richardson's son-in-law. Stetson (Skull
and Bones, 1934) had worked for Prescott
Bush as assistant manager of the New York
branch of Brown Brothers Harriman. (77)
Tarpley and Chaitkin also point out the
Smith Richardson Foundation's connections to
the U.S. intelligence community:
In the late 1950s, the H. Smith
Richardson Foundation took part in the
"psychological warfare" of the
CIA. This was not a foreign, but a
domestic, covert operation, carried out
mainly against unwitting U.S. citizens.
CIA Director Allen Dulles and his British
allies organized "MK-Ultra," the
testing of psychotropic drugs including
LSD on a very large scale, allegedly to
evaluate "chemical warfare"
possibilities. In this period, the
Richardson Foundation helped finance
experiments at Bridgewater Hospital in
Massachusetts, the center of some of the
most brutal MK-Ultra tortures. These
outrages have been graphically portrayed
in the movies Titticut Follies.
During 1990, an investigator for this
book toured H. Smith Richardson's Center
for Creative Leadership just
north of Greensboro, North Carolina. The
tour guide said that in these rooms,
agents of the Central Intelligence Agency
and the Secret Service are trained. He
demonstrated the two-way mirrors through
which the government employees are
watched, while they are put through
mind-bending psychodramas. The guide
explained that "virtually everyone
who becomes a general" in the U.S.
armed forces also goes through this
"training" at the Richardson
Center.
Another office of the Center for
Creative Leadership is in Langley,
Virginia, at the Headquarters of the
Central Intelligence Agency. Here also,
Richardson's Center trains leaders of the
CIA. (77-78; emphasis in original)
The second contributor to the Tanton
network is Richard Mellon Scaife. The SPLC Intelligence
Report documents this relationship:
Tanton's most important funding source
for the last two decades may well have
been the Scaife family, heirs to the
Mellon Bank fortune. Richard Mellon
Scaife, a reclusive figure, has been
instrumental in establishing right-wing
organizations like the Heritage Foundation
and supporting causes like the
"Arkansas Project," an effort to
dig up dirt on President Clinton. Scaife
family foundations, including those
controlled by Scaife's sister, Cordelia
May Scaife, provided some $1.4 million to
FAIR from 1986-2000. (No pagination)
Scaife's attacks on Clinton might lead
many to believe he is a genuine crusader
against elite criminality. However, Scaife's
skirmishes with the Clintons amounted to
little more than factionalism in the ranks
of the oligarchs. Richard Mellon Scaife's
elite pedigree is impeccable. Like most
bluebloods, Scaife has a fixation with
eugenics. Robert G. Kaiser and Ira Chinoy
report:
Scaife has long favored abortion
rights, to the chagrin of many of those he
has supported. In the first years of his
philanthropy he stuck to a pattern set by
his mother and sister and gave millions to
Planned Parenthood and other population
control groups, though most such giving
stopped in the 1970s. (No pagination)
In addition to supporting eugenics,
Scaife also attended the 1964 Bohemian Grove
retreat, a major blueblood gathering (Kaiser
and Chinoy, no pagination). Scaife is also
connected to the U.S. intelligence
community. Richard was, at one time, the
head of the publishing organ Forum World
Feature, which was publicly named as a CIA
front organization ("Richard Mellon
Scaife," no pagination). However,
Scaife's intelligence connection is even
deeper. Edward Spannaus goes into this
connection:
Dickie Scaife is what one might call a
second-generation ``OSS brat.'' During
World War II, Dickie's father, as well as
a number of his father's close business
and familial associates, occupied high
positions in the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS)--America's wartime
intelligence service. Alan Scaife, his
father, was a lieutenant colonel in the
OSS. A number of cousins of Dickie's
mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, also had very
high positions in the OSS.
For example: Paul Mellon (a cousin of
Dickie's mother and a rabid Anglophile)
was recruited in London to the OSS by his
brother-in-law, David Bruce. Paul trained
with British troops, became a major in the
OSS, worked under Allen Dulles in Berne,
Switzerland, and commanded a unit
responsible for conducting propaganda
operations behind disintegrating German
lines.
David Bruce, husband of Paul Mellon's
sister Ailsa Mellon Bruce, was designated
by OSS head William Donovan to oversee all
OSS operations in Europe from his base in
London. (Although some say, with
justification, that it was Bruce who was
designated by the U.S.
banking-establishment families to oversee
Donovan.) Another OSS cousin was Larimer
Mellon, who likewise worked on Allen
Dulles's staff in Berne. David Bruce (a
direct descendant of the Scottish Bruce
dynasty) later divorced Ailsa and married
his second wife, Evangeline, an OSS
secretary whose father had been a special
liaison to British intelligence from the
U.S. State Department.
It is reliably reported that these
Anglophilic OSS circles around Scaife's
father were the crucial influence on
steering Dickie into intelligence-related
``philanthropy''--i.e., the private
funding of joint British-U.S. intelligence
projects which were commonly
mis-identified as ``CIA'' projects or
fronts. (No pagination)
Funding on the part of the Smith
Richardson Foundation and Scaife makes it
quite possible that the Tanton network is an
intelligence project meant to foment race
war. Would intelligence groups such as the
CIA be interested in manufacturing such
chaos? During an interview with William
Norman Grigg, former DEA agent Michael
Levine recounted a discussion he had with a
CIA spook. The discussion, which occurred in
Argentina in 1979, suggested that this is
the case:
"There was a small group of us
gathered for a drinking party at the CIA
guy's apartment. There were several
Argentine police officers there as well;
at the time, Argentina was a police state
in which people could be taken into
custody without warning, tortured, and
then 'disappeared.'"
"At one point my associate in the
CIA said that he preferred Argentina's
approach to social order, and that America
should be more like that country,"
Levine continues. "Somebody asked,
'Well, how does a change of that sort
happen?' The spook replied that it was
necessary to create a situation of public
fear -- a sense of impending anarchy and
social upheaval..." (No pagination)
Such a "situation of public
fear" could be incited by agent
provocateurs within the ranks of white
supremacists. If the idea of intelligence
agents working within white supremacist
groups seems foreign, consider the following
report by John Hooper:
Germany's most notorious postwar
neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence
agent working for the British, according
to both published and unpublished German
sources.
The alleged agent - the late Adolf von
Thadden - came closer than anyone to
giving the far-right real influence over
postwar German politics.
Under his leadership, the National
Democratic party (NPD) made a string of
impressive showings in regional elections
in the late 60s, and there were widespread
fears that it would gain representation in
the federal parliament.
Yet, according to a report earlier this
year in the Cologne daily, the Kölner
Stadt-Anzeiger, the man dubbed "the
New Führer" was working for British
intelligence throughout the four years he
led the NPD, from 1967 to 1971.
However, a former senior officer in
German intelligence told the Guardian this
week that he had been informed of a much
longer-standing link between Von Thadden
and British intelligence. His recollection
raises the question of whether the German
far-right-winger was under the sway of M16
when he and others founded the NPD in
1964.
Dr Hans Josef Horchem, who was the head
of the Hamburg office of the
Verfassungsschutz - the West German
security service - from 1969 to 1981, said
he received regular visits from British
intelligence liaison officers.
"We held general discussions on
security. At one of these - I think it was
towards the end of the 70s- they said,
'Adolf von Thadden was in contact with
us', and that was in the 1950s". Mr
Horchem did not know whether the links
between the German and British
intelligence had continued into the 60s
and 70s. According to the Kölner
Stadt-Anzeiger, whose report passed
virtually unnoticed when it was published,
the neo-Nazi leader met his British
contact at a hotel in Hamburg. (No
pagination)
As the above example clearly illustrates,
government control of radical groups is
really nothing new. The evidence suggests
that shadowy factions of the intelligence
community are pulling Tanton's strings. As
the Tanton network entangles itself with the
Minutemen project, the very same sinister
hands may soon hold what started as a
legitimate attempt at immigration reform.
Promulgating Racial Dialectics
Among one of the racist ideologies
disseminated by the ruling class is the
racial myth of Aztlan. According to this
myth, the southwestern states—California,
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas—comprise
the original homeland of the Aztec Indians
(Grigg, "Revolution in
America,"9). Many of the groups that
adhere to this myth believe that these lands
must be forcefully reclaimed by "la
Raza," the Mexican race (9). Ominously
enough, some of the Aztlan cult is
"equipped with a paramilitary
auxiliary" (9).
Automatically, one will recognize the
Marxist concept of a people's revolution,
which is farcical at best. Invariably, such
revolutions result in the creation and
maintenance of new class distinctions. The
ostensible proletarian dictatorship is
merely another oligarchy in disguise.
Moreover, one might notice parallels between
this myth and the Aryan myth of Nazi
Germany. In sum total, the doctrine of
Aztlan amounts to little more than a
racialist variety of socialism. The Aztlan
myth culminates with La Raza's
reclamation of the southwestern states and
the establishment of the Chicano Homeland
(9). This "worker's paradise"
would become a nation-state unto itself,
separate from the United States of America
(9). Thus, the Chicano Aryan would have his Lebensborn.
This virulent racism was promoted through
tax-exempt foundations, which insulate the
wealth of the oligarchs from the income tax.
While the common American is subject to the
institutionalized theft of the IRS, the
power elite receives a tax write-off.
However, tax-exempt foundations are more
than simple tax shelters. They allow the
ruling class a channel for the dissemination
of racist ideologies. Henry Santiestevan,
who formerly headed the Southwest Council of
La Raza, confessed as much when he stated:
"It can be said that without the Ford
Foundation's commitment to a strategy of
national and local institutions-building,
the Chicano movement would have withered
away in many areas" (Jasper 35).
Santiestevan had good reason to express
such gratitude. New American
journalist William F. Jasper reveals that
"a tabulation of Ford Foundation grants
to the Hispanic radicals during the period
of 1968 to 1992 came to over $31
million" (35). To make matters worse,
Jasper adds: "Millions have been added
since" (35). Jasper proceeds to
enumerate various grants listed from the
Ford Foundation's Summer/Fall 1995 report:
- National Council of La Raza, $160,000
and $75,000.
- Northern New Mexico Legal Services,
$20,000.
- Mexican Academy of Human Rights,
$20,000.
- Hispanic Leadership Opportunity
Program, $2,325,000 (including $525,000
for MALDEF).
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center,
$145,000.
- National Immigration Law Center,
$335,000.
- National Immigration Law Forum,
$130,000.
- Urban Institute Program for Research
on Immigration Policy, $900,000.
- Hispanics in Philanthropy, $100,000.
(35)
Ironically, the Aztlan movement may hold
more in common with the white supremacist
movement than one might expect. It certainly
is no more popular with the Anti-Defamation
League than the standard white hate group.
In fact, the ADL contends that many of the
Aztlan movement's doctrines are similar to
neo-Nazi and white supremacy ideas.
According to Wikipedia, these parallels
include Holocaust-denial, homophobia, and
anti-Israeli sentiments (no pagination). In
fact, both the ADL and the Southern Poverty
Law Center have accused the movement's
official webzine, La Voz de Aztlán, of
promulgating anti-Jewish conspiracy theories
(no pagination). One such theory is that
Jews plotted the infamous anthrax mailings
of 2001 (no pagination). If the allegations
leveled at La Voz de Aztlán are
true, then the Aztlan cult is a certifiable
counterpart of the white supremacy movement.
The founder of La Voz de Aztlán
is Hector Carreon, who is a former member of
the Brown Berets (no pagination). The Brown
Berets were a community youth organization
birthed from the tumult of the 60s
counterculture ("Brown Berets," no
pagination). The group was heavily
influenced by several other radical
revolutionary movements, particularly the
Black Panthers (no pagination). Like the
Aztlan cult of today, the Black Panthers
were financed and controlled by the power
elite. In fact, some Black Panther members
may have been aware of the manipulation. One
such Panther was Stokely Carmichael, who was
also the leader of SNCC. Former Communist
Party member and FBI informant James Kirk
made the following observations concerning
Carmichael:
Mr. Carmichael was obviously in the
middle of something very important which
made him more nervous and tense than in
the past…He started speaking of things
which he said he could not have said
before because his research was not
finished…
He repeated the line from the song he
liked so well, "Something is
happening here, but you don't know what it
is, do you, Mr. Jones?" He kept
hitting on the theme that a very large
monopoly capitalist money group, the
bankers to be exact, was instrumental in
fomenting (the) idea that the Jews are the
ones actually behind the oppression of the
blacks…In the agencies of this power, he
cited banks, the chief among which were
Morgan Guaranty Trust and Chase Manhattan.
And the foundations connected with these
monoliths. (Griffin 108)
Apparently, Carmichael's revelations
presented a distinct threat to the hidden
manipulators. According to researcher Des
Griffin: "Within weeks Carmichael had
been mysteriously removed from SNCC and the
Black Panthers. He had learned too
much!" (108) Evidently, this tradition
of manipulation continues within the ranks
of the Aztlan movement today.
Financed and propagandized by the elite,
these radical Chicano organizations are
helping to create a cultural milieu of
neo-tribalism, which further contributes to
the ongoing social fragmentation of America.
If such militant revolutionaries boast
"a paramilitary auxiliary," then
imagine the potential chaos should some
branch of the Aztlan movement were to engage
in armed conflict with a radicalized sect of
Minutemen.
In fact, according to Observer
journalist Paul Harris, just such a state of
affairs is already developing:
Michael Nicley, head of US Border
Patrol in the sector where the Minutemen
will operate, has called it a 'recipe for
tragedy'. The Reverend Robin Hoover, of
local relief group Humane Borders, said:
'It looks destined to deteriorate into
some form of confrontation.'
The Minutemen have become a great cause
among white supremacists, including the
notorious Aryan Nation. Though organizers
screen all volunteers for links to
extremists, there are fears some will
descend on the area. The Hispanic criminal
gang MS-13 has said it will try to attack
the Minutemen. (No pagination)
White supremacist efforts to co-opt the
Minutemen could represent a ruling class
conspiracy in promulgating racial
dialectics. If the ranks of the Minutemen
project can be inculcated into some form of
militant white supremacy, then they can be
subsequently pitted against factions of the
radical Marxist Aztlan movement. Such a
manufactured race war would be extremely
advantageous for the power elite.
The Dialectic of Race: A Hegelian
Manipulation
Upon closer examination, the dialectic of
race merely camouflages a broader Hegelian
manipulation. Marginalized and deprived of
any substantial political capital, many
ethnic and racial groups are predisposed to
exploitation by socialist revolutionary
movements. Race war invariably becomes class
war and class war invariably results in some
form of dictatorship. Whether the resulting
dictatorship ostensibly belongs to the
proletariat or bourgeoisie, absolute primacy
is always held by a hidden oligarchy. An
October 15, 2005 riot in Toledo, Ohio offers
a prime case study in racial dialectics. The
National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi
organization, was scheduled to conduct a
demonstration against so-called "black
crime" ("Planned neo-Nazi march
sparks violence," no pagination). The
protest received a violent response. A CNN
news report explains:
Most of the violence happened when
residents, who had pelted the Nazi
marchers with bottles and rocks, took out
their anger on police, said Brian
Jagodzinski, chief news photographer for
CNN affiliate WTVG. Video showed crowds at
around 2:25 p.m. using bats to bring down
a wooden fence as looters broke into a
small grocery store.
"The crowd was very ... extremely
agitated at the police ... for doing this
[making arrests in] the community when
they should be doing this to the
Nazis," Jagodzinski said.
Around 3 p.m., crowds of young men
pelted the outside of a two-story
residence with rocks, smashed out the
windows with wooden crates, ran inside and
threw out the furniture and lamps from the
upper-level windows to the sidewalk below.
No police were on the scene. About 10
minutes later, the building's second story
was in flames as a crowd of people
watched. When police arrived, they used
pepper spray on counter-demonstrators and
shot tear gas containers into the crowd,
Jagodzinski said. He added that his news
van and a police car had windows smashed
and doors bent back. (No pagination)
This civil unrest created a pretext for
the implementation of authoritarian measures
and considerable restrictions on personal
liberties. The CNN news report
elaborates:
Toledo Mayor Jack Ford declared a state
of emergency and asked for 50 highway
patrol officers to reinforce Toledo
police. A curfew came into effect at 8
p.m. for people "roaming around the
streets," he said. (No pagination)
Several oddities surround this event,
suggesting that it was orchestrated to
create politically and socially expedient
chaos. First, there is the question
concerning the demonstration's venue:
It's not clear why the National
Socialist Movement chose north Toledo for
its march, said Ford, himself
African-American. "It is not a
neighborhood where you have a lot of
friction in the first place," he
said. (No pagination)
In response to this question, the
National Socialist Movement (NSM) issued an
interesting allegation:
A spokesman for the [NSM] group, Bill
White, blamed the riot on Toledo police,
saying the police intentionally changed
the group's march route to make it collide
with a counter-demonstration. (No
pagination)
Given White's dubious affiliations with
neo-Nazi and white supremacist interests,
one could certainly question the voracity of
his claim. However, his allegation gains
more credence when one examines the
"counter-demonstration":
About 20 members from both the
International Socialists Organization and
One People's Project showed up, and some
handed eggs to African-American residents
to throw at the Nazi marchers, White said.
Ford said that scenario was likely.
"Based on the intelligence we
received, that's exactly what they do --
they come into town and get people riled
up," Ford said. "I think that's
a very common technique." (No
pagination)
Herein is the second oddity suggesting
Hegelian manipulation. It should not be lost
upon the astute reader that the NSM
demonstration and its counter-demonstration
rival both represent some variety of
socialism. The NSM represents national
socialism or, more succinctly, fascism. The
International Socialist Organization
represents a more traditional variety of
Marxism, something more akin to communism.
The distinctions, however, are superficial.
This becomes clear when one contemplates the
etymology of "communism" and
"fascism." The appellation of
"communism" comes from the Latin
root communis, which means
"group" living. Fascism is a
derivation of the Italian word fascio,
which is translated as "bundle" or
"group." Both fascism and
communism are forms of coercive group
living, or more succinctly, collectivism.
The only substantial difference between the
two is fascism's limited observance of
private property rights, which is ostensible
at best given its susceptibility to rigid
government regulation. In 1933, Hitler
candidly admitted to Hermann Rauschning
that: "the whole of National Socialism
is based on Marx" (Martin 239). Nazism
(a variant of fascism) is derivative of
Marxism. The historical conflicts between
communism and fascism were merely feuds
between two socialist totalitarian camps,
not two dichotomously related forces.
The dialectic of race merely disguises a
larger Hegelian dialectic: communism against
fascism. Ayn Rand probably provides the most
eloquent summation of this dialectic:
It is obvious what the fraudulent issue
of fascism versus communism accomplishes:
it sets up, as opposites, two variants of
the same political system... it switches
the choice of "Freedom or
dictatorship?" into "Which kind
of dictatorship?"--thus establishing
dictatorship as an inevitable fact and
offering only a choice of rulers. The
choice--according to the proponents of the
fraud - is: a dictatorship of the rich
(fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor
(communism). (180)
The Toledo riot represents a tangible
enactment of this traditional Hegelian
dialectic. The National Socialist Movement
(thesis) superficially conflicts with the
International Socialist Movement
(antithesis) resulting in Toledo's
transformation into a miniature garrison
state (synthesis). Toledo is only a
microcosm. On the macrocosmic level, the
final Hegelian synthesis is a global
socialist state.
If the Minutemen are successfully
radicalized by some variety of National
Socialism, then it can be set on a collision
course with the radical Marxists of the
Aztlan movement. Not only would such a
dialectic effectively confuse the issues of
border integrity and national sovereignty,
but it would also facilitate America's
Fabian migration towards the ultimate
Hegelian synthesis: state socialism.
The Solution
Racism, quite simply, is evil. However,
it would be a gross oversimplification to
assume that racism is evil merely because it
is premised upon hate. In fact, one must
hate the principle of evil itself in order
to align himself/herself with the principle
of good. Thus, hatred, in and of itself, is
not evil. It is the principles toward which
one's hatred is directed that determine
whether or not one is evil. For instance,
the individual who hates justice is evil
because he/she hates the intrinsic goodness
of justice. The individual who hates
injustice, on the other hand, is good
because he/she hates the intrinsic evil of
injustice.
Thus, racism is evil because of its
misallocation of hatred and the criteria
according to which that hatred is applied.
What is the ultimate object of racial hate?
It is the individual. After all, a racial
criterion for determining human value
presupposes that one derives value from a
group. This criterion precludes all personal
merit, thus subordinating the individual to
the collective. In short, racism is
collectivism, albeit a racially defined form
of collectivism. This explains why Marxism,
whether disseminated on the popular level as
fascism or communism, tends to accompany
racialist movements. Remember, the Nazis
were National Socialists.
Racism is irreconcilable with
Americanism, which observes the rights of
the individual within the parameters of
natural law. Any movement seeking to restore
America must logically reject racism.
Otherwise, that movement is merely
advocating some form of race-based
socialism. Socialism, as history has
irrefutably demonstrated, is an equal
opportunity oppressor. An organization
devoted to race-based socialism invariably
promotes an ecumenical socialism. Such was
the case with the Nazi Germany, which
eventually oppressed its own citizens along
with Jews. If racist elements continue to
co-opt the Minutemen, then it will become a
similar aberration.
There are two necessary courses of action
that must be taken to remedy this problem.
First, any good grass roots movement
requires some periodic house cleaning. The
Minutemen Project is no exception. Although
Gilchrist and other luminaries within the
movement claim that members are screened,
the overwhelming evidence suggests that the
present screening criteria is not stringent
enough. For the issues of border integrity
and national sovereignty to be clearly
addressed, there must be absolutely no
bigots or racists included in the debate.
Such people equate national identity with
race, confusing the real issues at hand. For
all their flaws and ideological biases, the
journalists of the Southern Poverty Law
Center make a valid point:
The danger is not that immigration
levels are debated by Americans, but that
the debate is controlled by bigots and
extremists whose views are anathema to the
ideals on which this country was founded.
(No pagination)
This point provides an excellent segue
for discussing the second course of action
needed. This course of action may not be
readily accepted by the purveyors of
populist pseudo-intellectualism that
currently people the so-called "Patriot
movement." Such individuals seem to be
under the spell of the WASP mystique and
parrot Patrick Buchanan's contention that
America owes her greatness to Anglo-Saxon
culture (a contention reminiscent of John
Ruskin's race patriotism). Nonetheless, the
second action is a vital step in winning the
war against the power elite and restoring
America as a constitutional republic. There
must be an enormous cultural paradigm shift.
America must finally overcome the
neo-tribalism of race distinctions.
Otherwise, the vision of Americanism cannot
be realized. After all, the axiomatic values
of human liberty and dignity are
irreconcilable with racial hierarchies and
caste systems. Abraham Lincoln correctly
observed that the nation would either
survive as entirely free or entirely
enslaved. No doubt, the oligarchs desire the
latter. If humanity does not "grow
up," so-to-speak, then the oligarchs
shall have their wish.
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About the Authors
Paul D. Collins has
studied suppressed history and the shadowy
undercurrents of world political dynamics
for roughly eleven years. In 1999, he
completed his Associate of Arts and Science
degree. He is working to complete his
Bachelor's degree, with a major in
Communications and a minor in Political
Science. Paul has authored another book
entitled The Hidden Face of Terrorism:
The Dark Side of Social Engineering, From
Antiquity to September 11. Published
in November 2002, the book is available
online from www.1stbooks.com,
barnesandnoble.com, and also amazon.com. It
can be purchased as an e-book (ISBN
1-4033-6798-1) or in paperback format (ISBN
1-4033-6799-X).
Phillip D. Collins acted
as the editor for The Hidden Face of
Terrorism. He has also written
articles for Paranoia Magazine, MKzine, News
With Views, B.I.P.E.D.: The Official Website
of Darwinian D
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