[BretLudwig]

Alan Kuper€“RIP

[Brenda Walker]

"Im very sorry to report the death of a friend and long-time stalwart
in the battle to save America. Alan Kuper, a retired physicist who was 82
years old, died Saturday in his home in Shaker Heights, near Cleveland. He
was a tireless and honest environmentalist, a position that required him to
include the issue of unsustainable immigration as part of his belief
system.

I first became acquainted with Alan when I joined up with Sierrans for US
Population Stabilization, as the group was known then (now SUSPS). He was
one of the founders€“long time members of the Sierra Club who were
disgusted with the organizations disavowal of a responsible population
policy in 1996 and decided to change it back, using the Clubs
democratic mechanisms.

Up to that time, the Sierra Club had stated policy goals that were
entirely reasonable, e.g. €œImmigration to the U.S. should be no greater
than that which will permit achievement of population stabilization in the
U.S.€� (1988). We had no idea then that the fix was in, that Sierra
Executive Director Carl Pope was a pay-to-play guy who had sold the Sierra
Clubs integrity for $100 million. That €œdonation€� to the Club came
with ideological strings attached from Wall Street investor David Gelbaum
(not revealed until the October 27, 2004 LA Times article The Man Behind
the Land). €œI did tell Carl Pope in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came
out anti-immigration, they would never get a dollar from me,€� Gelbaum
declared.

As a result, the Sierra Club changed from a non-partisan environmental
organization to a far-left group whose new best friends were MoveOn.org
(used to smear our top-notch Board candidates as racists) and leftist
puppetmaster billionaire George Soros.

I explain this history because of all the people involved with SUSPS, Alan
still thought he could work within the Sierra Club, despite the loss of its
soul. He ran for a seat on the board even after the revelations about the
Gelbaum affair, but never succeeded. That was a shame, because Alan was a
devoted Sierra Club member, and continued to work for worthwhile issues
despite the corruption at the top. At an earlier time, he was recognized
nationally with a Special Achievement Award in 1994. He was a well known
voice of the environmental movement in northern Ohio because of the public
service radio announcements he presented over 25 years for a local radio
station, noted in a local Sierra newsletter in 2006.

Starting in 2000, he created CUSP - Comprehensive (approach to) U.S.
Sustainable Population in order to €œraise awareness of the
population-environment connection and to encourage reduction in U.S.
population and consumption.€� The website includes an assessment of
Congressional voting records as well.

Alan had an operation for stomach cancer at the end of October and was
initially upbeat about his prospects. Then he got the bad news from the
doctors which he sent around to his email recipients on Nov 6, that a
pathology examination indicated an aggressive form of cancer, and he had
less than a year to live. Sadly, his remaining time was far less than
that.

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