Stan Dai is apparenty not new to political theater

[drm604]

From an April 27, 2004 article here: http://www.lifenews.com/nat482.html

The NARAL women eventually enveloped three of the students, including Suanne, in a circle and began dragging them away.
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Both Edmiston and Stan Dai, a GWU political science major and a friend of the women, said Priscilla, another pro-life student, was dragged by the strap of a backpack. The strap began to wrap itself around her neck and she began to choke.

This sounds like the same Stan Dai, a GWU poli sci major.

I apologize for the source but the only places I've been able to find mentions of Stan Dai in connection with this story are in anti-choice or right-wing sources, which is interesting in itself.

The heavy-handed supposed NARAL Activists who were accused of dragging Edmiston were repeatedly told by other NARAL activists to leave the anti-choice people alone. Could they have been plants?

[maddezmom]

1. I think this is going to bigger than we know....just found this

Anti-Choice Abortion Warriors Have a New Poster Girl

Rose's attack on Planned Parenthood has inspired anti-abortion activists all across the country. One fascinating aspect of her story is how quickly she has become connected to the broader Christian conservative movement, receiving legal and public relations support, education training, philanthropic grants, financial awards, and a tonne of publicity from longtime conservative media operations.
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While a freshman at UCLA, she and James O'Keefe came up with the idea to infiltrate clinics. O'Keefe was the founder of The Rutgers Centurian, a conservative magazine published at New Jersey's Rutgers University.

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The Alliance Defence Fund, a Christian legal group, has given her free legal advice; she is receiving support from the Washington, D.C.-based CRC Public Relations, a conservative PR firm that played a role in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign that targeted Democrat John F. Kerry during the 2004 presidential race.

Earlier this year, Rose received 50,000 dollars as a winner of the Gerard Health Foundation's inaugural Life Prizes awards. The foundation is a Massachusetts-based charity founded by Raymond Ruddy, a Catholic businessman who has funded antiabortion campaigns and abstinence-only sex education projects.

more:http://www.alternet.org/sex/140347/anti-choice_abortion_warriors_have_a_new_poster_girl/

[drm604]

2. Your mention of the Swift Boat Veterans is interesting.

If you read the rest of the article I link to in the OP you'll see that the incident occurred at a Kerry rally and the anti-choice people were trying to make it sound as if Kerry deliberately ignored it. Interesting.

I find it questionable that O'Keefe and friends are acting out of concern for the things they claim to be concerned about. Did he really go after ACORN because he was concerned that they may be aiding comical 70s stereotype pimps?

[maddezmom]

3. read from sourcewatch re: CRC.

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Creative Response Concepts, an Alexandria, Virginia-based public relations firm, "has many links to the Republican Party and the conservative movement," Eric Boehlert wrote September 10, 2004, in Salon.

"Among its clients are the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and National Republican Senatorial Committee. Its client list also includes the Christian Coalition, National Taxpayers Union, Media Research Council and Regnery Publishing. Regnery is the firm that published Unfit for Command, the SBVT screed against Kerry's military record," Boehlert wrote.

"Interview requests for CRC's clients are routed through the main switchboard at a single telephone number; extensions 108 and 110 at the same number handle Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, while extensions 109 and 130 are for the Judicial Confirmation Network," Todd Johnston wrote July 5, 2005, in ePluribus Media.


these dudes are the new ratfuckers.

[maddezmom]

4. TPM: Alleged Landrieu Phone Tamper Crew Emerged From World Of Conservative Campus Journalism

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Our first case is Stan Dai, who served as the editor-in-chief of the GW Patriot at George Washington University. Dai was also a Club 100 Activist of Young America's Foundation, and an Undergraduate Fellow on Terrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies, according to a scholarship citation at the conservative Philips Foundation (h/t Lindsay Beyerstein).



Stan DaiDai was reportedly picked up by authorities Monday a few blocks away from Landrieu's office, sitting in a car with a listening device that could pick up transmissions.

The GW Patriot, it's worth noting, is the same paper that produced John McCormack, the Weekly Standard scribe with the habit of getting into scuffles at political events.

Both O'Keefe and Basel seem to have gotten their start in the conservative college press with a little bit of help from the Leadership Institute, the group that aims to recruit and train conservative activists.

In an interview with the two men posted Jan. 14 on the Leadership Institute's CampusReform.org, it's noted that O'Keefe founded The Centurion at Rutgers and Basel launched The Counterweight at the University of Minnesota-Morris. Both "were started with assistance from the Leadership Institute's 'Balance in Media' grant."


more:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/alleged_landrieu_phone_bug_crew_emerged_from_world.php