Fanatical Factions

Save Our State - California

Joe Turner, the founder of Save Our State, a California-based anti-immigrant group, has been angry about immigration since childhood. He is the featured speaker in a series of rallies which regularly attract neo-Nazis and racist skinheads clad in black boots with red laces. Some of what appears in Turner's Web forum doesn't sound much different than propaganda of neo-Nazis. One poster suggested that Hispanic fertility should be reined in with "crop dusters spraying birth control powder" and concluded, "STOP BREEDING LIKE RODENTS! YOU'RE RUINING MY COUNTRY!"

Turner, who was once charged with battery after a confrontation with an antiracist protester, does delete posts advocating violence and even has banned a White supremacist or two. But in the same breath, he has publicly complained that he is "sick and tired of multiculturalism" and "white-bashing" and adds, "Just because one believes in white separatism, that does not make them a racist."