Social Contract Press Lies to American Voters
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I smell desperation. And the stench is coming from the direction of John Tanton’s clique of racist, nativist groups. A few days ago, a report was released by Social Contract Press, the most vile, insensitive of the bunch. The report, called How Many Non-Citizen Voters? Enough to Make a Difference, is such a blatant and despicable attempt to fabricate an issue around voter fraud that I refuse to post a link to the report. This is the second report in so many weeks that has tried to paint the immigrant population as a threat to American livelihoods, and I’m fed up with their pack of lies. They would have Americans believe that the election is going to be decided by non-citizen voters. Everybody knows that it is hard enough to get your average American voter to register and then actually show up on election day to cast a ballot. Does Social Contract Press really expect us to believe that there are hordes of non-citizens out there deviously planning the demise of democracy by voting?
It’s far more likely that Social Contract Press is feeling the scorn of a country that is embracing change. A nation that is increasingly tolerant and diverse, one that rejects racism and bigotry. When you are one of the 15 groups identified as an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center it must be pretty scary to see Latino citizens gearing up to vote next month. Especially for the editors of Social Contract Press, like Wayne Lutton, who has spent the last 25 years trying to portray Latinos as inferior beings. Wayne Lutton is a known white nationalist who has been, and continues to be, intimately involved with racist, hate organizations.
Lutton has been a speaker at Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) events, a white separatist organization that denounces racial integration and opposes non-European immigration to the United States. He also served on the Citizens Informer editorial advisory board, CofCC’s quarterly hate newspaper, as well as the editorial advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly, an anti-semitic journal that “defends the cultural, ethnic, and racial interests of Western European peoples.” Lutton was a director at the National Policy Institute, an advocacy organization for white Americans, and served as a trustee of the New Century Foundation – better known as American Renaissance – a white nationalist group that describe themselves as 
“race realists”.
The Social Contract Press is also responsible for the shameless publication of The Camp of the Saints, an overtly racist novel that is the favored leisure reading for racial extremists. The publisher of Social Contract Press, John Tanton, considered the “puppet master” of the modern-day anti-immigrant movement, is the founder and current board of directors member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an organization recently designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As we have discussed before on this blog, Tanton has been linked to notorious white nationalists and white supremacists, such as Virginia Abernethy, Sam Francis, Jared Taylor and the Pioneer Fund.
Voter fraud is certainly an issue to be taken seriously, as are violations of federal laws when it comes to voter registration. According to an article in today’s New York Times key states are improperly blocking eligible voters.
“States have been trying to follow the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and remove the names of voters who should no longer be listed; but for every voter added to the rolls in the past two months in some states, election officials have removed two, a review of the records shows.”, says NYT’s columnist Ian Urbina, “The six swing states seem to be in violation of federal law in two ways. Michigan and Colorado are removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is not allowed except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state, or have been declared unfit to vote. Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio seem to be improperly using Social Security data to verify registration applications for new voters.”
Clearly, Social Contract Press is trying to distract the American public from the real issues when it comes to voting discrepancies. Rather than waste their time worrying about non-citizens voting, American voters should be asking themselves ‘Will my vote be counted this November?’
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what a surprise these conservative academic elites are “releasing” such a despicable, two-year-old report – just 5 weeks before the election, but claim to not be suggesting anything about the upcoming vote.
good thing someone is paying attention! nice work imagine2050
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