The below was sent out by Jerry Gonzalez (GALEO) on October 23, 2007 – on behalf of the ADL

Atlanta, GA – October 23, 2007

Contact: Bill Nigut (404) 262 3470

As the national debate over immigration reached a fever pitch, some mainstream advocacy groups “reached for the playbook of hate groups” — resorting to hateful and dehumanizing stereotypes and outright bigotry to demonize immigrants. One of those groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), is the Dustin Inman Society, based in Marietta, Georgia.

In a report released today, ADL, which monitors extremist groups and the rhetoric they employ in the immigration debate, has exposed a new development where some anti-immigrant groups increasingly are adopting the tactics and rhetoric of racist groups and moving it into the mainstream.

The ADL report identifies D.A. King, head of the Dustin Inman Society, as one of those who are demonizing immigrants as a scare tactic in the war against undocumented workers.

“King has become accepted by many media outlets as a legitimate spokesman, but when the cameras aren’t rolling, he uses hate-speech to characterize undocumented workers as a threat to the safety and well-being of American citizens,” said Bill Nigut, ADL Southeast Regional Director.

Speaking at a Newton County Republican Party meeting in April, 2007, King reportedly told attendees that undocumented immigrants are “not here to mow your lawn. They’re here to blow up your buildings and kill your children, you and me,” according to a report in the Rockdale Citizen.

In that same meeting, the Citizen reports, King displayed a Mexican government ID card with the name “Al Qada Gonzalez.”

In a July, 2004 article, King wrote: “We have become sadly acquainted with the absolute and brazen disregard for the law that comes from the Third World horde that is allowed to swarm over our border with Mexico. It is clear that when the mostly Mexican mob illegally ‘migrates’ into our nation, it brings with it the culture of lawlessness and chaos that is responsible for the very conditions they flee in the rapidly deteriorating example of Democracy without the rule of law that is Mexico.”

ADL’s new online report, Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream documents the rhetoric employed by groups that routinely position themselves as legitimate, mainstream advocates against illegal immigration in America.

A closer look at the public record reveals that many ostensibly mainstream anti-illegal immigration organizations – including those who testified before Congress or frequently appeared on news programs – promote virulent anti-Hispanic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Some groups have fostered links with extremist groups. Other groups highlighted along with the Dustin Inman Society in the ADL report include Mothers Against Illegal Aliens (Phoenix, AZ), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (Washington, DC), Choose Black America, You Don’t Speak for Me, Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee (Raleigh, NC) and Grass Fire (Maxwell, IA).

“The Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis were not the only ones who saw an opportunity in the national debate over immigration to sow the seeds of racism as a means to derail immigration reform,” said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. “While reasonable people can disagree about border control and the appropriate parameters for immigration reform, the debate has been tainted by the virulent anti- immigrant message employed by a handful of groups. The real victims in this are Hispanic-Americans and other immigrants who are being unfairly targeted, demeaned and stereotyped.”

The report cites several key tactics used by anti- immigrant groups, including:

Describing immigrants as “third world invaders,” who come to America to destroy our heritage, “colonize” the country and attack our “way of life.” This charge is used against Hispanics, Asians and other people of color.
Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of “hordes” that “swarm” over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.
Portraying immigrants as carriers of diseases like leprosy, tuberculosis, Chagas disease (a potentially fatal parasitic disease), dengue fever, polio, malaria.
Depicting immigrants as criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and a danger to children and families.
Propagating conspiracy theories about an alleged secret “reconquista” plot by Mexican immigrants to create a “greater Mexico” by seizing seven states in the American Southwest that once belonged to Mexico.
ADL has written a number of reports documenting the impact of anti-immigrant rhetoric and activities by extremist groups. The full report, Immigrants Targeted, which includes video clips showing the rhetoric of some of the groups, is available on the League’s Web site at www.adl.org.

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GALEO NOTE: Donald Arthur King is also a convicted felon (click here for story). Additionally, King has served as a proxy speaker for Georgia State Senator Chip Rogers when the Senator is not available for speeches. They traveled to the U.S. Mexico border together for a “fact finding mission”. In fact, Mr. King appears frequently with State Senator Chip Rogers. Watch them together at this screening of the documentary, Fighting 529 at Georgia Tech earlier this year.

Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GALEO, added,” What is also disturbing is that you have Georgia Legislators defending Mr. King’s rhetoric. In addition, you hear many state and local elected officials also using the same language described in this report.”

About GALEO
GALEO is a statewide 501 (c) (6) nonprofit and non- partisan organization focusing on leadership development and increased civic engagement of the Latino community. GALEO also provides a voice for the growing Latino population in Georgia and a framework for collaborative and proactive legislative initiatives for Georgia’s Hispanic community.

Website: http://www.galeo.org
About the Anti Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world’s leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

Website: http://www.adl.org

This press release was sent on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League.

I will respond to the ADL attack soon, and look forward to exposing the absolute hypocrisy involved. Until I do, I offer one example here.

From the ADL attack and its leader in Atlanta, Bill Nigut ( in a GALEO ALERT) : “King has become accepted by many media outlets as a legitimate spokesman, but when the cameras aren’t rolling, he uses hate-speech to characterize undocumented workers as a threat to the safety and well-being of American citizens,” said Bill Nigut, ADL Southeast Regional Director. The ADL goes on to write “Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of “hordes” that “swarm” over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.”

I love this.

Here is an excerpt (page V) from a previous ( 2005) effort from the ADL and others to silence us . This time the ADL admits working with GALEO as well other partners in smear, the Center for Hispanic Studies – at no less than Kennesaw State University – the third largest college in Georgia.

“According to a recent study (March 21, 2005) by the Pew Hispanic Center, the number of undocumented immigrants is approximately 11 million in the United States, despite current efforts to control illegal immigration through “higher fences, hordes of agents and hundreds of sensors.”

Got it so far? Bill Nigut, Kennesaw State University, GALEO and the ADL tell us that using the word “horde” to describe millions of illegal aliens with zero regard for American laws that do not benefit them is “HATESPEECH” – but their ( and Pew Hispanic Center’s) use of the word “horde” to “dehumanize” and describe Border Patrol Agents risking their lives to secure our borders is apparently just fine.

Horde here from Merriam Webster. You decide.

Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream
ADL here

ADL press release here.

Groups: The Dustin Inman Society – Georgia

Donald Arthur (D.A.) King is the founder and leader of the Marietta, Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society (DIS), a group that focuses entirely on opposing immigration of Hispanics to the United States (Dustin Inman was a 16-year-old boy who was killed when an alleged undocumented immigrant crashed into the back of the Inman car in 2000). King has described the United States as a country “being invaded and colonized,” and its “way of life” destroyed with the “Hispandering” of his state, which he has taken to calling “Georgiafornia.”

King routinely makes derogatory statements about Mexican immigrants, equating them to criminals. In a July 2004 article, he wrote, “We have become sadly acquainted with the absolute and brazen disregard for the law that comes from the third world horde that is allowed to swarm over our border with Mexico…It is clear that when the mostly Mexican mob illegally ‘migrates’ into our nation, it brings with it the culture of lawlessness and chaos that is responsible for the very conditions that they flee in the rapidly deteriorating example of Democracy without the rule of law that is Mexico.” Commenting on Hispanic immigrants in a May 2004 article, King asked, “Must the United States silently suffer the incursion of one million people a year because they are brown?”

Drawing on the vocabulary of anti-government extremist groups, King claims that there are designs by “the Globalist elite” to form a “new America” that would eliminate American sovereignty to create a “New World Order.” In a June 2006 article on VDare, a Website that publishes racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant articles authored by extremists, he described the ABC network’s airing of an award show hosted by the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, as “Reconquista TV,” referring to the conspiracy theory that Mexicans are allegedly plotting to conquer the Southwestern United States.

King also maintained a blog on VDare, which also posted many of his articles. In one blog entry, he discussed his experience at a March for Dignity, comprised of, in King’s words, “mostly Hispanic demonstrators.” He wrote, “I got the sense that I had left the country of my birth and been transported to some Mexican village, completely taken over by an angry, barely restrained mob….My first act on a safe return home was to take a shower.”

In September 2006, he attempted to distance himself from VDare. The Dustin Inman Society Website states, “D.A. King demanded that [VDare] remove his name from the VDARE Editorial Collective.” However, King also requested the VDare “archive his writings along with other past authors.”

Despite King’s numerous other inflammatory statements, the national media and elected officials have provided King with a mainstream platform. He has toned down his rhetoric in mainstream television and print media and his statements and articles now reach millions of Americans. In May 2007, Anderson Cooper interviewed King on CNN Today, introducing him as a “columnist” and “activist.” Twelve mainstream newspapers have printed King’s articles, most notably The Washington Times, which neutrally describes the Dustin Inman Society as “a Georgia-based coalition of citizens with the goal of educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.” King’s pieces, mostly discussing immigration, are also featured regularly in Georgia in The Marietta Daily Journal.

On the political front, in August 2006, King served as a witness at a Gainesville, Georgia, field hearing of the House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Subcommittee. As participants entered the building, Dustin Inman Society members greeted them. Though King softened his language during his testimony, he had secured a permit for his group to demonstrate. One person held up a sign saying “Stop the Invasion.”

King has not, however, completely abandoned his problematic rhetoric, actions, and affiliations. Speaking at a Newton County (Georgia) Republican Party meeting in April 2007, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, King reportedly told attendees that undocumented immigrants are “not here to mow your lawn – they’re here to blow up your buildings and kill your children, and you, and me.”

That same month, King organized a kick-off rally for “Hold Their Feet to the Fire,” a series of anti-immigrant events held in Washington, D.C. He brought together anti-immigrant speakers from around the country, including his self-described “personal friend” Terry Anderson, Rick Oltman, and William Gheen, all prominent anti-immigrant activists. The Dustin Inman Society organized a similar rally in 2005, featuring Chris Simcox, currently the leader of the border vigilante Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which encourages armed patrols and surveillance by volunteers to prevent Mexicans from crossing the border into the United States. In 2005, Simcox co-founded the Minuteman Project, which had a similar agenda. Today, the Minutemen are a loose network of local chapters around the country, whose primary goal is to keep undocumented immigrants from Mexico out of the United States. The more extreme Minutemen chapters continue to advocate patrols of the Mexican-American border by armed volunteers.

Published in today’s MDJ:

Everett Robinson Letter to the Editor: King not filled with hate

Anti-Defamation League spokesman Bill Nigut knowingly took MDJ immigration columnist D.A. King’s comments out of context and then labeled them as “hate speech.” He then goes on to make the comparison of the KKK with that of King’s organization, The Dustin Inman Society. I’m convinced that Mr. Nigut and others of the same mind-set will do anything at all to overthrow the rule of law of the United States.

I am a black American and a personal friend of D.A. King. I’ve been his neighbor for 23 years. Having lived only two doors away from he and his wife and having many interactions with them both equips me – much more than Nigut – to characterize this man.

He doesn’t hate any group of people. What he does hate, as do I, is to sit and watch the rule of law in this country continue to be ignored while our political leaders do absolutely nothing.

Everett Robinson

East Cobb

Atlanta Latino was not taping last year when Jerry Gonzalez marched with others at Atlanta’s CNN CENTER screaming that Lou Dobbs is a “racist” and that “This is our continent – go back to Europe!”

Having been there carrying my own sign ( SECURE OUR BORDERS – ENFORCE OUR LAWS!) , I asked some of the group with Jerry to where my Black friends who opposed illegal immigration should return. “AFRICA” was the quick and very loud reply.

I have my own photos of that one, but am saving them for my book. See here for Atlanta Latino’s pics. English tab top right. Hit the PHOTO GALLERY link.

From a 2002 ADL report:

One of the most important findings of ADL’s 2002 Survey of Anti-Semitism in America concerns Hispanic Americans, one of the most significant and fastest growing segments of the American population, in which the poll found an extraordinary gap between those born in the United States and those born abroad. The survey revealed that while 44% of foreign-born Hispanics hold hardcore anti-Semitic beliefs, 20% of Hispanic Americans born in the U.S. fall into the same category.

The anti-Semitic propensities of foreign-born Hispanics were significantly above the national average. Meanwhile, the number of African-Americans with strong anti-Semitic beliefs continued to hold steady at 35%.

“Religious background has always played a role in determining one’s beliefs about Jews. So it is not surprising yet very distressing that one of the fastest growing segments in America holds strongly anti-Semitic views,” said Mr. Foxman. “There is no doubt that this is a reflection of what is being learned about Jews in the schools, churches and communities of Hispanic nations, which is anti-Semitism at its most basic. We need to re-focus our efforts on reaching out to these groups in addition to the larger American public.”

Marietta Daily Journal
Published: 10/28/2007

Laura Armstrong: Spooky tactics should be resisted

We live in villainous times.

Way too many ghouls out there are rattling chains for radical change. I don’t mean replacing Republicans with Democrats. I’m talking revolution – in our culture, our economy, our fundamental Americanism.

We have socialists masquerading as Democrats and communists haunting the Greens. Academics dress up as defenders of speech, and jihadi sympathizers pose as champions of “social justice,” ironically hoping to dismember the very system that permits them to flourish here. And don’t forget the bottom-feeding anarchist zombies who’ve lost touch with reality completely.

With or without their trick or treat masks, they’re all just America-haters who care little or nothing for freedom, capitalism or the components that have made us great. Dare I say, many even cheered 9/11 on some level, and all depend on our ignorance to gain political ground.

In each case, as in history, the truths of their radical agendas have been rejected by Americans. Therefore those who would reveal them must be silenced.

Take the latest shot at Rush Limbaugh, whose conservative radio show reaches 600 markets, including Atlanta’s WGST AM640. Forty Senate Democrats actually signed an unprecedented letter denouncing him, a private citizen, on a bogus charge that he denigrated veterans who are outspoken against the mission in Iraq. Those foolish enough to sign onto this stunt were either embarrassed or disappointed, however, when Rush’s real comments – about one fake soldier, Jesse Al Zaid Macbeth, who unlawfully claimed benefits meant for real vets – were revealed clearly on the record. Rush supports the troops, left-wing Democrats don’t, and everyone knows it.

Another leftist tactic: if you can’t smear, show your rear.

That’s what happened Wednesday when the Terrorism Awareness Project’s David Horowitz came to town, hosted by Emory College Republicans.

Booing, jeering and chanting “heil Hitler” from the moment Mr. Horowitz appeared, a large mob took control of the venue and shut down his talk on Islamic fascism, yet another defeat for academic freedom of speech and truth on college campuses.

Closer to home, my friend and fellow MDJ columnist D.A. King has become a national expert on the troubling facts surrounding illegal immigration, the go-to guy on reform. Yet he was marked last week as a hatemonger by former WSB reporter-turned Anti Defamation League crusader Bill Nigut, who apparently believes legal and illegal mean the same in America.

The reality is that D.A., a former Marine with a beloved sister adopted from Korea, couldn’t care less about race or skin color and doesn’t rate this smear. His mantra is, “It’s not about where you’re from; it’s about how you got here.”

He speaks for many, including naturalized citizens who waited years for their status, when he brings attention to this cause. And he’s tough to beat in the arena of ideas, so open borders activists label him racist and hope people will believe it.

“I’m proud I’ve made all the right enemies,” he explains.

I admire his perseverance against the spooky tactics of the left.

Joe Kirby: Modern-day McCarthyism
Marietta Daily Journal

Published: 10/28/2007
Joe Kirby

There’s no question that one of the biggest villains in U.S. history was Sen. Joe McCarthy, who almost single-handedly fueled the “Red Scare” of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

McCarthy’s heavy-handed attacks, which relied mostly on public accusation, insinuation, guilt by association and brow-beating, eventually backfired. Though his stated goal of rooting out Communist influence in Washington and Hollywood was a worthwhile one, his methods wound up discrediting not only himself but also anti-Communism in general.

More than a half-century later, one of the strongest political epithets that many, especially on the left, can hurl at someone is to accuse them of “McCarthyism.”

That’s why it was so disappointing to see a respected organization like the Anti-Defamation League resorting to McCarthy-like tactics last week against, among others, MDJ columnist D.A. King of east Cobb, who writes about immigration reform and heads the Dustin Inman Society.

The New York City-based organization released a report Tuesday claiming that activists who favor curbing illegal immigration are using “hate speech” to further their cause. You can read the report by clicking on www.adl.org/PresRele/Cvl Rt_32/5154_32.htm.

Among those the ADL cited for using what it contends are such hateful words was King, who along with state Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) and perhaps one or two others is most responsible for making immigration reform a front-burner issue in Georgia in the past several years.

King gave up a successful career selling insurance to become a full-time activist on the topic. His guest columns have appeared in numerous other publications around the country, including The Washington Times and the Atlanta newspaper; and he is frequently interviewed on CNN and various TV news and radio talk shows.

Claims the ADL report: “As the national debate over immigration reached a fever pitch, some mainstream advocacy groups ‘reached for the playbook of hate groups’ – resorting to hateful and dehumanizing stereotypes and outright bigotry to demonize immigrants.”

The ADL’s report was long on insinuation, but woefully short on substance.

Yes, it did include words that are troubling at first glance – a claim by the ADL that King told a Republican Party meeting in Rockdale County that illegal immigrants are here “to blow up your buildings and kill your children, you and me.”

King says he was quoted correctly, both by the Rockdale Citizen newspaper in its stories on the event, and in the ADL report. But – and this is a big “but” – he explains that his comments referred not to illegal Hispanic aliens, but to terrorists, and to the 2006 report by the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. The report (http://www.thedustininm ansociety.org/docs/us_house_line_in_the_sand_report_2006oct16.pdf) states in its introduction that a significant number of those crossing our southern border illegally are from countries with known terrorist ties, and states that members of Hezbollah have already entered via that route. The terror threat posed by them – not by illegal aliens – is what King says he was warning his listeners about as he briefed them about the report.

King’s comment that day were quickly attacked by a spokesman for the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, but the Rockdale newspaper’s stories about the meeting confirm King’s account of what he said, as did state Sen. John Douglas (R-Newton), who was there.

Thus, the ADL’s report about the incident can be seen as either sloppy – or as McCarthy-style distortion.

“Deliberately taking something out of context (like the ADL did) is the same thing as lying,” King said on Friday.

The ADL’s report also cites a long list of grassroots anti-illegal immigration groups like King’s, then tosses in a gratuitous quote from ADL Director Abraham Foxman about the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis to make it sound as if they are somehow linked to the other groups.

It’s the same kind of sly verbal trick at which McCarthy was a master.

And like most of those on the “open borders” side of the fence, Foxman’s report never uses the phrase “illegal aliens,” preferring to call them “undocumented”; and refers to “immigrants” when “illegal immigrants” would be more accurate. But then, that makes it easier for him to blur the issue.

The report also takes exception to groups like King’s describing the illegals as part of a “horde,” saying that doing so dehumanizes them. But facts are facts. There are between 15 million and 30 million illegals in this country. And if that doesn’t constitute a “horde,” I don’t know what does.

A half-century ago, the easiest and most unscrupulous way in our part of the country to discredit a political opponent was by accusing him of favoring civil rights (although the actual accusation usually was accompanied by much more pungent language than that in this sentence). Now, the easiest and most unscrupulous way of achieving such a goal is by accusing them of racial insensitivity. And it doesn’t even matter if the accusation is true. The onus is on the accused, not the accuser.

In King’s case, rather than argue the facts on immigration, the ADL is trying to marginalize the messenger.

At long last, have they no sense of decency?

Joe Kirby is Editorial Page editor of the Marietta Daily Journal.

Below is a letter to the editor in yesterday’s Marietta Daily Journal

Johnny Plunkett/Letter to the Editor: League on smear campaign

Published: 10/28/2007

I don’t think its fair for the Anti-Defamation League to make wild, slanderous comments against MDJ columnist D.A. King, attempting to link him with hate-mongers.

I have heard him talk several times.

He is a forceful speaker, but I have never heard him utter a mean or derogatory word about anyone’s ethnic or cultural heritage.

If he is really such a bad guy, then there should be dozens of articleshe has written they could give examples of.

King has tried hard to keep the racists and nuts who flock to any issue away from his activities.

What seems to be behind attacks on decent folks by groups like the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center is their need to attract corporations and prominent people to pay their bills.

These high-level financial sponsors often have some sort of agenda to promote, and they will use organizations like the ADL and SPLC as tools to shut down the discussion of an issue.

The watchdog groups build up a record of going after true problem people and organizations, Ku Kluxers, skinhead thugs and Nazis who need to be exposed.

Then they use that credibility to smear anyone they disagree with by connecting them with such scum by citing some careless word or accidental association.

It’s a shameful tactic but a very effective one.

Fred Williams/Letter to the Editor: ADL’s tactics cannot go unchallenged
Marietta Daily Journal

Published: 10/27/2007

It is becoming all too common by far left-leaning groups to demonize their opponents in hopes of distracting attention from real issues.

Your story in Tuesday’s MDJ that the Anti-Defamation League had called local illegal immigration activist D.A. King and the Marietta-based Dustin Inman Society he formed a hate group illustrates this cynical and dishonest tactic.

Not only does the ADL cloud the real problem of uncontrolled immigration and its associated costs by smearing King, but it goes further to personally attack him by saying “when the cameras aren’t rolling, he uses hate-speech to characterize undocumented (illegal) workers.” How they supposedly know this is undisclosed. It is at the core of the open-borders crowd to brand anyone who supports enforcement of existing laws governing immigration as a racist. It’s the “big-lie” tactic.

I know Don King. I speak with him on a business basis at least once a week when the cameras aren’t rolling. Never, in the time that I have known him, have I ever heard him utter a single word that could be interpreted as racist or hateful toward anyone. What I have heard him say is what the vast majority of Americans believe: The border control situation is out of control. Every poll shows most Americans want the problem solved without blanket amnesty. They want our borders secured. That doesn’t make them racist.

The open-border views and dishonest, even desperate tactics, of groups like the ADL cannot go unchallenged. Illegal immigration is hurting the country.

Fred Williams
Cobb County

and…

Maria Litland/Letter to the Editor: Immigrant offended by ADL report

Published: 10/27/2007

It’s absurd that anyone would label MDJ immigration columnist D.A. King as “anti-immigrant.” I am an immigrant that came to the United States the legal way.

Illegal aliens are not immigrants. They are foreign nationals who have entered our country illegally. I support D.A. King and The Dustin Inman Society for his pro-immigrant and anti-illegal alien positions.

I am offended to be bundled into the same category of immigrant that the Anti-Defamation League feels illegal aliens belong to.

Maria Litland
Marietta