Who is John Tanton and Why Should You Care? Just Ask Joyce Tarnow.

• Joyce Tarnow is a baby killer

• In response to Panagioti: Illegal immigration is against U.S.law. Legal immigration historically was approximately 225,000 to 250,000 annually. We are now admitting over one million legal immigrants annually and Congress proposed to increase that to two millionwith the last "comprehensive immigration reform". We cannot be sustained much longer when we are adding three million people a year to our U.S. population. We are now at 306 million and will reach 429 million by 2050 if we keep on this course. To All Anonymous commentors: Take responsibility for your statements--name yourself.

• Great you expose these two: Abortionist FAIR board member, Joyce Tarnow and FAIR Founder John Tanton. Both in favor of Pop Control and both have ties to abortion and Planned Parenthood (You failed to mention this). Have you watched the documentary: Maafa21 Black Genocide in 21st Century America? This film proves how the eugenics groups use abortion to target minorities. Tarnow and Tanton are connected to abortion, and many on the board of FAIR either used to be on the board of or are currently on the board of Planned Parenthood the nation's largest abortion clinic chain who set up in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, just like Tarnow did when she ran her abortion clinics. The film: Maafa21 exposes why they do this and I find it revealing that these same people with connections to population control and PLANNED PARENTHOOD in FAIR, are now behind the anti-immigration movement. This is NOT About immigration, it is about EUGENICS. Watch Maafa21 (http://www.maafa21.com) and see why.

• Thankfully, the anti-immigrant sentiments of Tanton and Tarnow are very not prevalent in the efforts to pass Amendment 4, Florida Hometown Democracy. It is a disappointment that some environmentalists cannot get past the fact that migrating communities, in particular indigenous, land-based cultures are most often impacted in tandem to ecological impacts of industrial civilization. The present global economic system has destabilized the entire planet. But why blame working class immigrants for the problems caused by the corporate globalization (formerly known as colonialism) of the economic elite? After all, it is a similar economic elite (entities such as the Builders' Association) who are opposing the passage of Amendment 4... I wrote an article a few years back on the subject of immigration and ecology for the Earth First! Journal, half of it can be viewed here: http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/article.php?id=259 The other half was not posted online, but can be found in the original print edition. Thanks for your work uncovering this story Gail.

• @ Gail Could you possibly ask Ms. Tarnow for further comment on Tanton's publishing activities?

• Some clarifications from Joyce Tarnow, via email: Two points: I was a Pompano Beach resident for thirty-three years....owned and ran the Women's Clinic for twenty-eight years---hardly a gadfly with that kind of commitment. And, forty years working to remedy the overpopulation of the U.S. I posted the Puppeteer article to you today.....let me know your reaction. Hopefully, you will think it worth another article. Maybe from the standpoint of who and why are so many foundations funding open borders groups. In the case of the SPLC, the attacks make their cash register ring. Morris Dees is the true hate monger.

• @Anonymous: My post was an attempt to answer the question posed in the blog item's headline: "Who is John Tanton and why should you care?" If you like, I will amend my conclusion: "Whatever else Tanton may be or do, as a publisher he is an active, willing host to racist thought and a panderer to paranoia about immigration, legal and otherwise."

• "But whatever else Tanton may be or do, as a publisher he is an active, willing host to racist thought and a panderer to anti-immigrant paranoia. Posted On: Thursday, May. 20 2010 @ 8:19PM" If you had said "anti-ILLEGAL immigration" you would have had a better chance of catapulting your argument!

• Great article and thank you for the information. Have you seen the short 5 minute video on the John Tanton Network? You can see it at www.youtube.com/nativismwatchtv It's chilling!

• According to Joyce Tarnow, John Tanton's Social Contract magazine �features the best writers on population, immigration and the impacts on our resources and our citizens.� Really? Here's what a random walk through some recent issues revealed to me: -Spring 2009. An article titled �Mexico Mainlines Malevolence ...and Immigration Policy Brings It Here,� in which author Brenda Walker begins with the observation that �Mexicans� cultural fondness for the dark side is well known� and concludes with the �bottom line� that �One of the world�s worst possible immigrant groups (other than Muslims of course) is coming to America in record numbers and burdening us with their toxic culture of crime, sexism, bribery, pedophilia, slavery, child kidnapping, educational apathy, animal cruelty, superstition and general corruption.� -Spring 2009. A book review titled �Madison Grant and the Preservation of Buffaloes, Redwoods, and America�s European Heritage,� in which critic F. Roger Devlin writes approvingly of the book's subject, Madison Grant, a leading early 20th century racist and eugenicist, who believed that �the American human 'type' was degenerating under the onslaught of 'invasive species' from Southern Europe and the ghettos of Poland.� -Superficially less, um, malevolent, the Winter 2009-2010 issue includes an article titled �Adios, WQXR!� in which author Gerda Bikales, writes, �In the annals of America�s gradual retreat from the bedrock of Western culture, July 15, 2009 is a milestone to remember. On that day, the New York Times announced the sale of its iconic classical music station to Univision, the giant Spanish-language media company.� Gerda concludes by observing that �in an era of rapid change driven by mass immigration and failing assimilation, a nagging question presents itself: when does cultural enrichment become cultural displacement?� Bikales' lament seems comical, initially: Good lord! Them immigrants are the death of classical music. But really, what sort of paranoid mind attributes the decline in the popularity of Beethoven and Brahms to demographic change first and foremost? It appears Bikales has never heard of MTV. But such is the power of xenophobia. -Also in the Winter 2009-2010 issue, another choice book review, �Spiraling Toward Chaos,� in which critic Fred Elbel blithely passes on these nuggets of wisdom: �A derivative of a historically subjugated people is the engrained Mexican characteristic of the inability to trust anyone. 'The concept of cheating is accepted. It is universal in Mexico. It is a holdover from the Aztec system of accommodation'�and �Similarly, the rule of law is not held in high esteem in Mexico as it is in the U.S. 'When Mexicans do abide by the rule of law it is not for conceptual or moral reasons. They abide by the rule of law in order to not get apprehended by the police...The inability to accept responsibility for any mistake is a dominant Mexican characteristic�'� I could go on, but I'm sure one gets the idea. John Tanton may be Joyce Tarnow's �personal friend� and �a stellar individual.� But whatever else Tanton may be or do, as a publisher he is an active, willing host to racist thought and a panderer to anti-immigrant paranoia.

• For those who may wonder how the Southern Poverty Law Center keeps its pimp hand strong, please read Ken Silverstein's excellent 2000 piece in Harper's magazine titled "How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance." One of his central points was that it spent twice as much money on fundraising as it did on legal services. That hasn't changed. I read it the month it came out since I subscribed to Harper's from 1985-2003 while living in Chicago/Evanston and Arlington County, VA. Sadly, most people know nothing about the once-positive history of the SPLC -something I know about from growing-up as a kid in 1960's Memphis- much less, what it's become in the interim. Don't hold your breath expecting any of this sort of very helpful context to ever appear in the South Florida news media, especially the Miami Herald. The Herald no longer cares about context. Silverstein commented in 2007 in Harper's on that prior piece of his, and it's well worth reading: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/03/sb-this-week-in-1172847076

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