Thread. The groups listed here are affiliated with the “population control” groups that now have people embedded throughout DHS.
The ones I've been talking about for some time. Remember what I said. I grew up here. I was a border reporter. I know exactly who these fucking people are.
I followed this back when it happened very closely, as I had already started covering immigration by then, but from Los Angeles.
kpbs.org/news/2006/oct/…
kpbs.org/news/2006/oct/…
"Population control."
"...a number of CAPS representatives attended and addressed the 2012 Social Contract Press (TSCP) Writers Workshop event in Washington, D.C. The workshop is the brainchild of John Tanton, the founder of the modern anti-immigrant movement."
adl.org/news/article/c…
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By the way, do you know who started civilian border watch/border militia groups? All the way back in the 1970s?
nytimes.com/1977/10/18/arc…
nytimes.com/1977/10/18/arc…
I mean, this is what I've been watching coalesce and why I've been so alarmed, why I've tried so very hard to speak out, it's connected to all of my work. Racism and misogyny are the two greatest internal threats to the USA, as you can see -- they can be exploited to weaken us.
And Tom Metzger has always been a big proponent of using the popular media to normalize his white supremacist message. The WAR kids were the ones who taught me the significance of the👌 sign back in the 1990s. Metzger lived in San Diego for years. mediaburn.org/video/the-new-…
More about that professor:
If you re-read this opinion piece I wrote more than a year ago, I hope you do so with these threads in mind.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
So in other words, a small group of far-right population-control extremists have seized control of power in the United States with the help of a major, years-long, personalized disinformation campaign brought to you by @Facebook and enabled by the popular media. Metzger's dream.
In some cases, the popular media was so afraid of being labeled "biased" that it bent over backwards to ignore its own previous coverage of the exact same people they started platforming. For example, 8/2019 nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/…
1/2020 nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opi…
