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https://www.thedailybeast.com/council-for-national-policy-membership-list-shows-top-republicans-in-shadowy-group-with-extremists?ref=homeLeaked Membership List Shows Top Republicans in Shadowy Group With Extremists
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
Jamie Ross
News Correspondent
Published Sep. 30, 2021 9:03AM ET
madaboutharry
(40,252 posts)people lived in Germany in 1939 that they would have had the slightest hesitation of joining the nazi party.
FSogol
(45,631 posts)people lived in America in 1776 that they would have had the slightest hesitation of staying with England.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,080 posts)... I have said that about the GOP for the past 20 years.
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FSogol
(45,631 posts)Response to madaboutharry (Reply #1)
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PatSeg
(47,868 posts)Different century, but the same type of authoritarians. It seems they have always been with us, but we usually manage to keep them under control. Trump revealed to us the weaknesses in our system and institutions, weaknesses that authoritarian types will take advantage of any chance they get.
Americans got too complacent for far too long and the devil is at the door.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Not that there will be consequences, of course, for any illegat conspiracies or activities.
Ty for sharing!
Hotler
(11,527 posts)Agent Mike, would you go down the hall and knock on the door of the DOJ and see if anyone answers,.
Thanks
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Response to CentralMass (Reply #13)
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George II
(67,782 posts)....of all their investigations.
The fact that they're not on the front page of the Washington Post doesn't mean they're not doing anything.
Hekate
(91,232 posts)malaise
(269,590 posts)That is all
jmbar2
(4,948 posts)Captain Zero
(6,909 posts)I think there may be more dots to connect, even yet.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)His views are probably fairly mainstream for right-wing Jews, although he is more outspoken. He's a disciple of Richard Perle, for example. Like many of them, he was involved in PNAC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#Signatories_to_Statement_of_Principles
Ocelot II
(116,140 posts)He was one of the extreme Islamophobes who inspired Anders Breivik to kill some 80 people in Norway 10 years ago.
jaxexpat
(6,930 posts)Membership reads like a who's who of those who manufactured the current state of the union.
ck4829
(35,109 posts)"The Center for Security Policy originated a conspiracy theory that the Obama administration manipulated the redesign of the Missile Defense Agency to look like his campaign logo. This theory then evolved to claims that the new logo incorporates the Islamic crescent as well. Only one problem with this is that this logo was changed before the 2008 election."
http://rw-infopedia.pbworks.com/w/page/117365805/Center%20for%20Security%20Policy
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/frank-gaffney-posits-that-missile-defense-logo-is-evidence-of-obamas-submission-to-shariah-17386118306/
For sake of the other side: I don't think anyone here was even saying Trump was putting "secret Russian symbols" on government logos.
Pretty psycho-extreme.
JHB
(37,170 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,544 posts)Ocelot II
(116,140 posts)you don't talk about Council for National Policy.
KPN
(15,697 posts)cant make MSM news, this sure in hell wont.
wiggs
(7,835 posts)often our big US media won't run it especially if it exposes some of the worst from TFG.
Hotler
(11,527 posts)dlk
(11,649 posts)Lately, they are checking off quite a few of the boxes
2naSalit
(87,171 posts)dlk
(11,649 posts)NT
ck4829
(35,109 posts)Greybnk48
(10,187 posts)is connected to this group. He's a Scott Walker protege, but doesn't like it brought up publicly these days (eyes on the White House).
calimary
(81,678 posts)H2O Man
(73,776 posts)Thank you for this! And for everything you do here! Much appreciated!
ancianita
(36,273 posts)from Wikipedia
The Jan6 Committee should ask Steve Bannon about his connection between the Jan5 meeting and who attended and what was discussed the last time the CNP met. All such secrecy and secret societies are anti-democratic.
Allow enough of them to proliferate and they demolish democracy.
The membership list for September 2020 was later leaked, showing that members included prominent Republicans and conservatives, wealthy entrepreneurs, and media proprietors, together with anti-abortion and anti-Islamic extremists. Members are instructed not to reveal their membership, or even name the group.[7]...
Marc J. Ambinder of ABC News said about the council: "The group wants to be the conservative version of the Council on Foreign Relations." The CNP was founded in 1981. Among its founding members were: Tim LaHaye, then the head of the Moral Majority, Nelson Bunker Hunt, T. Cullen Davis, William Cies, Howard Phillips,[8] and Paul Weyrich.[9]
Members of the CNP have included:
General John Singlaub, shipping magnate
J. Peter Grace, Edwin J. Feulner Jr of the Heritage Foundation,
Rev. Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network,
Jerry Falwell,
U.S. Senator Trent Lott,
Southern Baptist Convention activists and retired Texas Court of Appeals Judge Paul Pressler,
lawyer and paleoconservative activist Michael Peroutka,[10]
Reverend Paige Patterson,[11]
Senator Don Nickles,
former United States Attorneys General Edwin Meese and John Ashcroft,
gun-rights activist Larry Pratt,
Colonel Oliver North,
Steve Bannon,
Kellyanne Conway,
philanthropist Elsa Prince (mother of Blackwater founder and former CEO Erik Prince and Trump Administration Secretary of Education Betsy Devos),
Leonard Leo,[1]
Virginia Thomas (wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas),[1] and
ormer California State Assemblyman Steve Baldwin.[12]
Membership is by invitation only. The organization's membership list is considered "strictly confidential". Guests may attend "only with the unanimous approval of the executive committee." Members are instructed not to refer to the organization by name to protect against leaks.[4]
ZonkerHarris
(24,350 posts)Marthe48
(17,196 posts)Guess 3 meetings a year is all the order they can muster. Anarchists gonna anarch :/
3825-87867
(864 posts)operated eagerly and openly going after those DFH, Peace-niks and ignoring Tail-Gunner Joe!
But...liberal media!
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