RACIST LEADS ANTI-IMMIGRANT CAMPAIGN IN ARKANSAS

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A man who has been a member of a leading white supremacist group and is associated with other extremists heads a major new anti-immigration group in Arkansas. Joe McCutchen, who announced the formation of Protect Arkansas Now recently from the steps of the Capitol in Little Rock, was a member of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) in 2001, according to the CCC's newspaper. He gave a speech on a panel of that year's CCC conference where he was joined by two well-known white supremacist immigrant-bashers. A year earlier, he had written to the neo-eugenicist “American Renaissance” hate sheet to ask readers to join the Michigan Immigration PAC, which he helped establish in 1999. It was not clear if McCutchen is still a member of the CCC, which has described blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity," compared singer Michael Jackson to an ape, and promoted neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial materials. McCutchen has also written anti-Semitic material of his own. In June 2003, he wrote a letter to the “Southwest Times Record” of Ft. Smith, Ark., that alleged that "the central government, banking, media (radio/TV) and entertainment are controlled by Jews." Jews also "own the world monetary system," McCutchen declared. McCutchen denied claims that he was a member of the Council of Conservative Citizens, but acknowledged that he wrote about his campaign to tighten immigration laws in the February 2000 edition of "American Renaissance," identified as a "hate sheet" by the racism watchdog group. McCutchen also acknowledged participating in a 2001 anti-immigration forum in North Carolina, sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a successor of the old White Citizens Council.