Vlaams Belang blok

The Beat Goes OnThis year, YWC returned to the February CPAC conference, hosting a panel called “Will Immigration Kill the GOP?” DeAnna moderated the panel, while panelist Tom Tancredo, who warned in 2003 that immigrants “are coming here to kill you and to kill me and our families,” told his listeners that multiculturalism “is the dagger pointed at the heart of Western civilization.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, DeAnna had his own provocative language: “Even if you prove to me … that [curtailing illegal immigration] would hurt the economy, I would still be opposed to immigration because it’s about our dispossession as a people.”In the audience were several people not often seen at CPAC gatherings: <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/summer/minute-mess" rel="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Jim Gilchrist</a> [17], founder of the nativist Minuteman Project; <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/william-daniel-johnson" rel="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">William D. Johnson</a> [18], chairman of the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-third-position" rel="external" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">American Third Position</a> [19] hate group and a man who has advocated deporting any American with an “ascertainable trace of Negro blood”; and Jared Taylor.Two months later, Taylor Rose of the YWC chapter at Liberty University, the evangelical college started by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, met in Belgium with members of the Vlaams Belang political party. In 2004, under the name of Vlaams Blok, the party was outlawed because of its racist views; the party later reorganized under the new name to get around the prohibition. Rose also gave a speech in early May to an anti-Muslim demonstration in Germany hosted by two groups classified by the German government as “right-wing extremist.” DeAnna scoffed at that designation, telling the Report that European officials “recklessly” use “smear words.”