http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=16
Immigration protesters joined by neo-Nazis in
California
Anti-immigration activist Joe Turner may be one of the
best things to happen to the Southern California white
power community in years -- a man whose group is seen
as a "Trojan horse" allowing radical infiltration of
mainstream politics.
Turner, a Ventura, Calif., man who founded the
immigrant-bashing Save Our State organization in late
2004, insists that he's no racist, even though his
self-described "aggressive activism" includes claims
that undocumented Mexican workers are turning
California into "a third world cesspool" and his Web
site vilifies a variety of prominent Hispanic
officials in a "Racialist Hall of Fame."
But neo-Nazis have found in Turner a tolerant master
of ceremonies. In rally after rally this year, Turner
and other SOS officials have failed to turn away
racist Skinheads and likeminded white supremacists who
have joined their protests.
Swastikas and sieg heils aren't usually welcome on the
streets of Southern California, but Turner's
followers, including SOS spokesman Don Silva, have
been photographed standing alongside Skinheads clad in
high black boots with red laces. Most recently,
swastika pennants and Confederate battle flags were
hoisted alongside Turner's own picket signs during a
July 30 protest outside a day laborer center in Laguna
Beach. One group in the crowd sieg-heiled repeatedly.
Turner has told members of his Web site's forum that
he opposes white supremacists joining his protests,
and he wrote to the Intelligence Report "there seems
to be very little we can do to keep them from
piggybacking off our activism. ... [W]e are unable to
really do anything about it."
He has also banned a few white supremacists from his
forum. But many others have posted racist attacks on
Hispanics -- attacks that are left on his Web site as
long as they don't directly advocate violence.
SOS forum member "Chris 2005," for instance, offered
this up on July 25: "Mexicans are like pigs. They are
by far the filthiest f-ing animals. I have also felt
like I needed to get into a hot bathtub of water and
soap and just soak until the filth comes off me after
being near any of them. I hate them, I hate them, I
hate them!"
Nine days later, the statement was still there.
And then there are Turner's own statements in his
forum. "I am sick and tired of all the white bashing
that goes on through the use of political correctness
as an indoctrinating tool," he wrote on July 16.
"I am sick and tired of multiculturalism, meaning,
let's celebrate every culture as long as it isn't a
European/white culture." During the same exchange,
Turner also wrote that "just because one believes in
white separatism that does not make them a racist."
All in all, white supremacists are delighted.
Posting on the neo-Nazi Stormfront Web site forum, one
person described Turner's operation as a "Trojan
horse" that radical racists can use to infiltrate more
mainstream political discourse.
"The tide is turning in our favor in the movement
against illegal aliens," this poster wrote in March.
"The grass roots sentiment against this invasion is
finally making its voice heard and [at] many different
levels. This is a movement every WN [white
nationalist] should support and be active in. It moves
in our direction even as it does not even acknowledge,
or even know, that the WN movement exists. Anti-alien
activism is a no-loose [sic] for WN."
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