Abramoff former member of CNP !

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.seekgod.ca/topiccnp.htm

The CNP, according to their 1996 Telephone Directory, was founded in 1981. While those involved are from the United States, their organizations and influence cover the globe, both religiously and politically. Members include corporate executives, television evangelists, legislators, former military or high ranking government officers, leaders of 'think tanks' dedicated to molding society and those who many view as Christian leadership. Members in many cases are owners or leaders from industry such as lumber, oil, mining, commodities, real estate, the media, including owners of radio, television and print, with all aspects of life covered. Many are involved in education, determining to influence society's direction by direct input with children and youth.

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[leveymg]

1. From the CNP Website - These ARE heavyweight ERW

http://www.SeekGod.ca/cnpupdate.htm

The Council for National Policy:

Update: October 15, 2004

See Also: What is the CNP

On August 28, 2004 the New York Times ran an article titled "Club of the Most Powerful Gathers in Strictest Privacy" by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK. It was a report about the CNP's most recent meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Reportedly the purpose was for what a participant called "a pep rally" to re-elect President Bush.

Speakers at the 2004 event included Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York. The NY Times article again confirmed many of the details that have been compiled in the Council for National Policy section on this site.

The reporter also quoted the CNP rules, which they obtained, and which stated in part:

"The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs, before of after a meeting,"

"The membership list is "strictly confidential." Guests may attend "only with the unanimous approval of the executive committee...."

According to the article, President Bush had addressed the group in fall 1999 to solicit support for his campaign. It was also reported that after the Iraq invasion, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld attended a CNP council meeting. The report went on to say that an agenda obtained by the Times revealed that "several Bush administration and campaign officials were on hand."

"The destiny of our nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement," the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, told the gathering as he accepted its Thomas Jefferson award on Thursday, according to an attendee's notes"

Prior recipients of the Thomas Jefferson award have included:

Thomas Jefferson Award for Servant Leadership

1997 Ward Connelly
1996 Paul Weyrich
1995 Edwin J. Feulner Jr.
1994 Phyllis Schlafly
1993 Daniel O. Graham
1992 Clarence Thomas
1991 Robert H. Krieble
1990 James Dobson
1989 Ellen St. John Garwood
1988 William Armstrong
1987 Fred Schwarz
1986 Edwin Meese III
1985 William J. Bennett
1984 John F. Lehman
1983 Jesse Helms
1982 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

See: CNP Executives

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. very, very scary stuff. But, you know, you have to give them

credit for one thing. They stick together for common goals (power and money), however evil... All you have to do is read through the list of members and it will be crystal clear that our country is being controlled by a vast web of people who all stick together..

[phoebe]

8. "The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our

programs, before of after a meeting," 'nuff said...

[maddezmom]

2. from his bio - The International Freedom Foundation

Jack Abramoff - CNP Member 1984-85, 1988. National Chairman, College of Republicans; Chairman, United Students of America Foundation, 'dedicated to educating students on the need to defund political activism on campus'; president Scorpion Film Productions, Inc.; chairman, Regency Entertainment Group, Ltd.; member, Board of Directors, The Conservative Caucus Research and Education Foundation. Former executive director, Citizens for America, former chairman, College Republican National Committee, and also USA Foundation. Founder and former chairman of The International Freedom Foundation (IFF) which was recently exposed by senior South African military personnel as a cut-out of the South African military and Special Branch. IFF functioned as a propaganda arm for South African STRATCOM directed against the African National Congress and the trade union confederation. 3b

RE: STRATCOM "...General Viljoen had personally ordered the attacks on so-called "African National Congress Targets" including the blow up of suspected anti-apartheid activists and critics. As revealed by former spy Craig Williamson from classified State Security Council documents, Viljoen was also responsible for Stratcom (Strategic Communications), a covert organization involved in frame-ups, political assassinations, bombings, torture, covert propaganda and "dirty tricks campaigns"...(Stefaans Brummer, "The Web of Stratcoms", Weekly Mail and Guardian. 24 February 1995)." 4

"...In the late 1980s and early 1990s Dan Burton and Republican Senator Jesse Helms worked with the International Freedom Foundation, a Washington-based organization in part clandestinely funded by the South African military to prop up overseas support for apartheid. The goal of the anti-communist group was to gather intelligence on, and discredit, the then-banned African National Congress. Burton and Hatch voted against key 1986 legislation banning trade and investment with South Africa, even when most of their party moved across the floor to support it...It is the height of hypocrisy that Orrin Hatch or Dan Burton would be opposed to anyone breaking sanctions against South Africa," said Salih Booker, who was the Democratic professional staff member of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on Africa in the mid-1980s. He is now executive director of the Africa Policy Information Centre, a non-profit advocacy organization in Washington. Dan Burton called the freedom movement of the ANC a 'terrorist' organization and spent most of the time attacking their leadership, notably Nelson Mandela," Booker said, noting that Burton was the ranking Republican on the Africa subcommittee at the time. "He never had a word against the white supremacists who ruled; he never met with those fighting for freedom, unlike others on the committee, Republicans and Democrats alike...after many of his Republican peers decided to support US trade and investment sanctions against South Africa, Burton remained a stalwart against the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. So did Hatch. That Bill " which became law by garnering a two-thirds majority to override president Ronald Reagan's veto " outlawed petroleum product exports and imports of South African coal, uranium, iron, steel, textiles, sugar and other agricultural products, and prohibited new investment in South Africa.

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http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm#abramhoff

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Bolton has ties to IFF as well - I bet there is a whole hell of a lot

more about Abramoff than the recent lobby money scandals. Too bad the whole thing is such a complex web..

[leveymg]

7. These people are capable of ANYTHING - assassinations, vote fraud,

coups d'etat. You name it, they've done it -- here and abroad.

Great catch!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. You're right, if anyone doubted the election fix was on, let there

be no more doubt. It would have been a snap..

[jimshoes]

5. Aren't there laws or something

about secret societies on the books now? I mean, how can a group be allowed to secretly assemble when the rest of us are spied on every minute of every day practically?

[leveymg]

9. It's called terrorism -- oops, only if you're Arab or Earthfirst,

Sorry, almost forgot my official categories there. Kinda like Jeanne Kirkpatrick's distinction between Totalitarian and Authoritarian dictatorships. Former are good torturers and terrorists, latter are bad SUV burners. Evil!

My bad.

[chat_noir]

6. Sith Lords of the Ultra-Right

A list of former and past members reads like a who's who of conservative Christian Right activists, anti-tax and anti-government activists, billionaire right wing philanthropists and GOP office holders, past and present: Here's a partial list (as of 1998) assembled from this website (http://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/cnp/name98.html):



Right Wing Religious Leaders:
Dr. Tim LaHaye, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson (Focus on the Family), Howard Ahmanson (Christian Reconstructionist), Rev. Donald Wildmon (American Family Association), David W. Breese (Christian Identity), William R. Bright (International Christian Leadership University), Robert P. Dugan Jr. (National Association of Evangelicals), Robert Grant (Christian Voice), Haldeman "Hal" W. Guffey (International Ministries Fellowship), Sara DiVito Hardman (Christian Coalition of California), Seamus Hasson (Becket Fund for Religious Liberty), Donald Paul Hodel (Christian Coalition), James B. Jacobson (Christian Solidarity International), Bob Jones III (Bob Jones University), Ed McAteer (Religious Roundtable, Inc.), Dal Shealy (Fellowship of Christian Athletes), John A. Stormer (I Chronicles 12:32 Ministries and authour of None Dare Call it Treason famous McCarthyite anti-communist screed), Jay Strack (Christian motivational speaker, former appointee to "Just say no" drug task force).

Right Wing Media and Communications:

L. Brent Bozell III (Media Research Center), Stuart W. Epperson (Salem Communications Corporation), Tracy Freeny (AmeriVision Communications, Inc.),Reed Irvine (Accuracy in Media), Mark Maddoux (USA Radio Network), Pat Matrisciana (Jeremiah Films), James D. McCotter (Media Management Group, Inc.), Liz McCotter (Channel 26 Orlando), Patrick B. McGuigan (The Daily Oklahoman), Sam Moore (Thomas Nelson Publishers), Thomas L. Phillips (Phillips Publishing International), Larry W. Poland (Mastermedia International, Inc.) , Gerry Snyder (member of editorial board, Valley Views, a conservative weekly newspaper), Bill Tierney (Capital Communications, Inc.), George Uribe II (Uribe Communications and former political director of Alan Keyes for President).

Businessmen, Lobbyists, Lawyers and Political Consultants:

Gary Jarmin (Jar-Mon Consultants), David Keene (American Conservative Union), Larry Klayman (Judicial Watch), Mark R. Levin (Landmark Legal Foundation), Christopher Long (Friess Assoc.), Edward A. Lozick (Nerts, Inc.), Edith D. Hakola (National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation), Carolyn Malenick (Triad Management Services, Inc.), Thomas E. McCabe (Killion McCabe & Associates), Dana Meese (Deloitte & Tousche Consulting Group), Eugene Meyer(Federalist Society), Ralph Reed (Century Strategies), William Bradford Reynolds, Jay A. Sekulow (American Center for Law and Justice), Kyle Stallings (Permian Basin Acquisition Fund), Allen Stevens (Capital Insurance Services of Mississippi), Christine Vollmer (Aragua Services - K Street lobbyist), Jack Webb (Jack Webb & Assoc.), Somers White (Somers White Co.).

Funders of Conservative Causes:

Nelson Bunker Hunt (of the famed Texas based family of oil tycoons), Various members of the Coors' family (Beer Barons), Richard DeVos (Amway founder), Pierre S. duPont IV.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/22/155525/061

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. wouldn't it be great (or would it?) if we on the left could affiliate

in the same manner to accomplish good in the country/world in the same manner? Would a just cause be a strong enough bond to hold us together, rather than money, power, and religious fanaticism?

[Servotron]

10. Why would a Jew be a member of a "Christian" evangelical/fascist group?

I didn't think those nazis let "non-believers" into their little circle.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. guess it's all about a means to an end, regardless. And the

lobbyists are part of the whole scheme.

[Jara sang]

14. Big surprise, rich powerful men meet in secrecy to carve up the world.

A friend of mine told me that once when we were talking about the Council on Foreign Relations. He thought it was a pithy quip, I took it as a warning.