Posted on 03/12/2010 12:17:52 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain's campaign is calling on his primary challenger to disavow the backing of an anti-illegal immigration group that permits the use of terms such as "wetbacks" and "pepper bellies" – derisive epithets sometimes used for immigrants – on its website.
"Let's be clear: Congressman [J.D.] Hayworth's continued flirtation with extreme groups that condone racism only opens the door for liberals to falsely paint all opponents of illegal immigration as bigots. Congressman Hayworth should immediately disavow this group’s support and commit to never again associating himself with groups that accept this kind of hateful and counterproductive rhetoric," McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers said in a statement Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
After looking into some of Chichton’s claims, I can’t put myself fully into the “he’s a troll” category.
This post ended up being much larger then I originally intended but after doing the most cursory looking into Zero Population Growth/Population Control - I found it was important to quote from their site to show how radical they are. Btw, spelling errors and grammar is all theirs, I’m copying directly from the site.
Chichton, I’ve got to say is correct on this point - John Tanton is a vocal supporter of Population Connection. Further investigation, IMO is warranted.
I went and checked out John Tanton and see on his own bio he touts having been a board member of Zero Population Growth now called Population Connection.
Tanton’s bio here - http://www.johntanton.org/
Aside from his connection and involvement with groups I personally consider leftists and extremists, Sierra Club, etc; I didn’t find anything specifically extreme on his site except for his support and affiliation with Population Control. I did not read all of his letters dating back over a decade though.
I did however find from Population Connection very radical views; views I could not support and find highly unethical and immoral.
Their top Action Alert is preventing the passage of the Stupack Amendment - they believe women should have full access to government funded abortion, birth control and sterilization.
Their second Action Alert is to deny any funding for abstinence funded education.
Action alerts can be linked from the main webpage http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer
They have also infiltrated our schools and educate teachers on how to teach children that population growth in unsustainable and destroying the plant (reminds me of the global warning scare) - the only solution to save the planet is to limit the number of children a woman has through birth control, sterilization and abortion.
From their about section http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_us
Since 1968, Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG) has been America’s voice for population stabilization.
We are the largest grassroots population organization in the United States, with over 30,000 individual members (donors); 45,000 email activists; and 450 volunteer teacher trainers who bring our workshops to 12,000 teachers each year. We educate young people about unsustainable population growth through K-12 lesson plans that reach 3 million students a year. We inform constituents across the country about their congressional representitives’ stances on population growth and family planning. And we work directly with Congress and the White House to inform family planning policy.
The global population has grown from 3.5 billion when ZPG was founded, to 6.9 billion today. Population growth rates have fallen around the world because of the success of voluntary family planning programs. But the global fertility rate is 2.6—still higher than the “replacement level” of 2.1 children per woman. At this rate, the world’s population will grow to 11 billion by 2050.
Population Connection works to ensure that every woman around the world who wants to limit her childbearing has access to the health services and contraceptive supplies she needs in order to do so. Typically, when woman have access to affordable birth control, they have fewer children, regardless of income or educational levels.
Three main goals of the group
Protecting the Planet
Nearly 80 million people are added to the earth’s population each year. Reducing the rate of population growth eases the many pressures people place on natural resources, wildlife habitats, and the atmosphere.
Defending Women’s Rights
At least 200 million women around the world would like to delay or end childbearing but have no access to contraception. Family planning improves maternal and infant health and allows women to be more active in society.
Ensuring Social Justice
The 50 poorest countries on earth are also those with the highest fertility rates. Rapid population growth hinders progress on all Millennium Development Goals. Voluntary family planning improves everyone’s quality of life.
Populaion Control believe the US should lead the way and finance population control for the entire world and work with congress to establish this goal.
http://www.populationconnection.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issues_defendingwomensrts
Population Connection works with Congress to ensure that the United States is doing everything in its power to help women become empowered, active members of their communities. From fighting to end federal funding for failed abstinence-only sex education programs in the U.S., to urging Congress to appropriate $1 billion for international family planning, Population Connection stands behind women’s right to make the best choices for themselves and their families.
They do claim to only believe in voluntary population control measures - from www.populationconnection.org/site/DocServer/FAQ_MASTER.doc?docID=601
16. What is the most effective family planning policy? Population Connection firmly believes that only voluntary family planning programs are effective and sustainable. Coercive measures, which include forced abortions, sterilizations, and sex selection, are unethical, immoral, and unacceptable. The most effective family planning programs give men and women the freedom to choose the size and spacing of their family.
Population Control dedicates a large portion of their site to educating children (indoctrination IMO) to their view that controlling population, abortions etc are moral and jut policies designed to save our fragile planet. Once again we have a leftist organization targeting our children to their way of thinking even when it goes against the teachings of their parents or their religious beliefs.
See http://www.populationeducation.org/
That is true, and I can't *prove* ALIPAC is similarly .... tainted, we'll say. I have tried to make clear that while I consider the groups in the same or similar mold, they are not equivalent. For one thing, there is just not that much info on ALIPAC.
However, I have my opinion, based on their rhetoric and what I saw from them in North Carolina, and I believe I am right to warn others to at the very least be wary of them.
And you are wrong to react with kneejerk hostility.
I'm afraid I did not notice the question amid the hail of viking kittens and insults.
I do not support Little Lindsay's Grahamnesty or anyone else's. I admit that I haven't seen the details of Obama & Graham's creation - except a national ID card!? - but I don't really need to. Real immigration reform is not going to come from that quarter.
If you read my posts - did you even try? - you would see that I support strict enforcement of immigration law and border control.
I am sympathetic to those wishing to come to America to build a better life, and I have many friends who have done so legally, many as refugees, and made our nation all the richer. But I believe illegal immigration is bad for not only America but the illegal immigrants themselves.
Is it just coincidence or concerted.
Has it ever dawned you how Obama got elected when 55% of whites voted against him?
A number which used to be more than enough to ensure a GOP victory.
This is precisely because the rise in immigration....mostly illegal...which you applaud because you have pals...that's great.
You get touchy feeley. We lose our culture and nation and go Socialist....great bargain for the rest of us so you can preen about being an humanitarian.
I have two daughters who are dual citizens with Brasil but I don't use that as an excuse to keep all Brasilian illegals here or support more of the same.
I suspect who you are btw....it's still hard to tell. If you are that individual.
You have a lot of enemies here and you can count me as one of them...dear.
If you don't like how most folks here think..you shoulda stayed with the anti-freepers.
There is too much at stake here today for you folks to come back here now and try to ruin it again with your petty politically correct notions that are what got us so screwed up to begin with that we could elect the Red president we are now saddled with.
“I notice all you folks are now sneaking back in slowly.
Is it just coincidence or concerted.”
In a world which operates pretty much at random, coincidences are suspect.
no kidding...just when Loafers Graham starts dusting off his robes we get an influx of these old voices.
wonder what sinkspur, dane, bayourod, and prnd321 will all call themselves this go around?
“wonder what sinkspur, dane, bayourod, and prnd321 will all call themselves this go around?”
I think that they have all been caught at least once.
Don’t forget Howlin ;-)
lol
Good luck with the surgery. Get well, get back and get trolling again...
Jimbo
How soon we forget. That's a blast from the past...
Crichton: "If you read my posts - did you even try? - you would see that
Crichton: "I have many friends who have done so
Wardaddy responds: This is precisely because the rise in immigration....mostly illegal...which you applaud
I'm afraid I did not notice the question amid the hail of viking kittens and insults.
One word...Retread.
Hayworth needs to question McCain’s ties to La Raza, MALDEF, etc.
“Progressive” is a positive-sounding term.
“Traitor” is a more fitting appellation for McCain.
Wallow in ignorance and continue to cozy up to the radical left and their racist & anti-human anti-population agenda.
I've said what needs to be said.
What facts? You haven't shown me squat...Neither have you done that in any other threads you have posted in...
Wallow in ignorance and continue to cozy up to the radical left and their racist & anti-human anti-population agenda.
Pretty damn condescending for a newbie...I can write a book on the crap spewed by Margaret Sanger and George Bernard Shaw...If you where smart and watched Bill O'Riely you would know about eugenics
I've said what needs to be said.
That because you cannot back up anything you ever said on the Free Republic...If you think I am though try the mumbo jumbo on other Freepers...
Then why do you support FAIR and similar organizations if you know their disgusting agenda?
And why do you attack me for exposing them?
Who said I supported them? I don't! All I want is proof of your assertions...
Read this thread, for a start. You clearly haven’t. Then go to Google, or the search engine of your choice. I’m sure you can figure it out. Well.... I don’t want to overestimate you again.
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