Lawrence Auster
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Lawrence Auster is an American blogger and essayist. Auster was born Jewish but later converted to the Episcopal Church. He attended Columbia University. He currently resides in Manhattan.
He is the author of The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism and Huddled Clichés: Exposing the fraudulent arguments that have opened America's borders to the world as well as articles for FrontPage Magazine, Mandate, NewsMax, the Council of Conservative Citizens' Citizens Informer, American Renaissance, The Social Contract Press, National Review, the Occidental Quarterly and WorldNetDaily. The Path to National Suicide is regarded, along with Peter Brimelow's, Alien Nation, as a foundational text in the modern immigration restriction movement. Auster hosts a daily blog, VFR (View from the Right), which includes trenchant commentary on current events, politics, society and culture from a traditionalist U.S. conservative, anti-Islamic, anti-liberal and anti-immigration viewpoint. Many activists regard his blog as one of the most influential in creating the grass roots opposition which defeated the so-called McCain-Kennedy-Bush Immigration Bill in the Senate in June of 2007.
Auster has attacked both Neoconservatives and Paleoconservatives. His main target on the right are the neocons who he claims are able to identify the problem of radical Islam but refuse to do anything substantial about it such as reducing or eliminating Islamic immigration. Instead (according to Auster), neoconservatives advocate nation building abroad, and fail to recognize Islam itself as the cause of Islamic radicalism. He also criticizes paleoconservatives such as Patrick Buchanan for their criticism of Israel.
On Auster's site, well known paleoconservatives have submitted numerous comments. These include Joel T. LeFevre, editor of the Citizens Informer, Roy Beck, National Review columnist Andrew McCarthy, left wing Jewish Canadian journalist Ken Hechtman, American Renaissance member Eugene Valberg, and columnists for the online magazine VDARE such as Paul Gottfried, Marcus Epstein, Allan Wall, Robert Locke, Howard Sutherland and Eugene Girin.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has attacked Auster was a racist, because he spoke at an American Renaissance conference. He criticized Jared Taylor for his tolerating the former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke and Stormfront moderator Jamie Kelso who attended the conference and asked questions. Auster still is supportive of Taylor's personal views as well as those of Samuel Francis, another frequent speaker for the conferences. Robert Locke, a New York City friend of Auster and fellow columnist at FrontPageMag defended Auster against the charges of the SPLC.
Auster is often cited by advocates of immigration restriction and cultural conservatism. Pat Buchanan has cited Auster's monograph, The Path to National Suicide, as one of the sources for his own book, State of Emergency, The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.
On May 4, 2007 Auster was expelled from FrontPage Magazine, because of the controversy over an article he wrote commenting on Afro-american Rapists.
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