"Damned right. I hate 'em all - negroes, wasps, spics, eskimos, jews, honkies, krauts, ruskies, ethopans, pakis, hunkies, pollocks and marxists; there are way too many of them. I'm all for trout, elephants, bacteria, whales, wolves, birds, parrot fish, deciduous foliage and mollusks. Time to rebalance the planet, bleeding heart liberals be damned. [sic]"

- Fred Elbel, President, Defend Colorado Now

CNC SPECIAL REPORT: DEFEND COLORADO NOW

Defend Colorado Now (DCN) has received significant financial support from national anti-immigrant groups.

The organization is headed by two long-time anti-immigrant activists—Fred Elbel and former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm—with deep connections to controversial national nativist groups.

DEFEND COLORADO NOW & US INC.

The largest single contributor to-date to Defend Colorado Now is a shadowy anti-immigrant foundation from Michigan run by the grandfather of the modern anti-immigrant movement.

The Petoskey, Michigan-based U.S. Inc. has contributed $48,000.00 to Defend Colorado Now since March 2005. [1]

U.S. Inc. is a financial umbrella organization for a number of anti-immigrant, population reduction, and conservationist groups run by John Tanton. Since its creation in the 1980s the organization has contributed to some of the most extreme grassroots anti-immigrant groups, including the California Coalition to Reform Immigration and Voice of Citizens Together/American Patrol.

 The flagship organization under the US Inc. umbrella is The Social Contract Press (TSCP) - the publishing wing of John Tanton’s vast anti-immigrant enterprise. US Inc. and TSCP actually share staff and office space.

Tanton, the head of U.S. Inc. and the publisher of The Social Contract once wondered aloud in a memo to other anti-immigrant activists if “As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? Why don’t non-Hispanic Whites have a group identity, as do Blacks, Jews, Hispanics?” [2] Tanton also commented regarding the fertility of non-white immigrants verses white Americans: “Can homo contraceptivus compete with homo progenitiva if borders aren’t controlled? Or is advice to limit ones family simply advice to move over and let someone else with greater reproductive powers occupy the space?” [3]  

Working closely with Tanton as the editor of The Social Contract is Wayne Lutton, an ardent white nationalist. Lutton has spoken at the biannual conference of the white nationalist group American Renaissance, is a trustee of the American Renaissance parent organization, the New Century Foundation, and is on the editorial advisory board of the Council of Conservative Citizens Citizens Informer and the white nationalist journal The Occidental Quarterly. He has also written numerous, pseudonymous articles for the Journal of Historical Review, the Holocaust denial journal founded by Willis Carto. [4] Tanton has consistently supported Lutton, despite his continued involvement with unabashed white nationalist groups.

The ideology of The Social Contract Press is probably best described as nativist, or nativist with white nationalist leanings. The cover blurb printed on the inside of each issue of TSC lists the following as key topics of interest: human population, immigration, national unity (language, assimilation, culture), individual rights vs. civic responsibilities, and what other nations are doing with respect to these issues. TSC uses a variety of arguments, including economic self-interest, environmental sustainability, and cultural cohesion to support its positions on immigration.

There is also, however, a thread of race-based fear-mongering in TSCP/TSC, based in consistent attacks on civil rights organizations that represent the interests of Latinos. Subtly and not-so-subtly they implicate non-white immigrants as criminals, drug dealers, and terrorists. Nor do TSC’s principals avoid making overtures to explicitly racist organizations.