Posted on 02/20/2006 5:53:06 AM PST by SJackson
CPAC invites Islamist groups and a Soros-front for drug legalization to influence the next generation of conservatives.
But, when it comes to co-sponsors, CPAC and its parent group, the American Conservative Union, are keeping strange company.
CPAC always has a lustrous line-up of speakers. Ann Coulter, Oliver North, George Will, Senator Rick Santorum, and Vice President Dick Cheney all addressed this years conference. For the most part, the panel discussions and workshops were informative.
Increasingly, CPAC is becoming a youth conference demonstrating the movements vitality. Of the 3,500 or so attendees at CPAC 2006 (Feb. 9-11), at least half were under 25.
But this also highlights the danger of CPAC associating with the American Civil Liberties Union (an exhibitor at this years conference), Muslim organizations with dubious ties and Soros-funded drug-legalization groups.
College kids who encounter the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Drug Policy Alliance at CPAC assume that theres a connection between what these groups are pushing and the conservative agenda, especially when theyre also on the CPAC program.
For a $3,000 fee, co-sponsors get an exhibit, listing in conference materials and a place in the program. CPAC is getting less and less discriminating about who it lets in the door. Finances outweigh principle.
At its booth in the exhibit hall, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) distributed flyers headlined: "American Muslims Fighting Terrorism." If there are American Muslims fighting terrorism, theyre not in MPAC.
The group was founded in 1989. On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, MPAC co-founder Salam al-Marayati told a Los Angeles talk show that the Israelis might be responsible for the World Trade Center carnage lest anyone suspect the religion of peace (just because all 19 of the hijackers happened to be from Saudi Arabia and practitioners of the fanatical Whabbi brand of Islam).
Another MPAC leader, Maher Hathout, condemned U.S, air strikes on terrorist bases in Afghanistan (following the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania) as "illegal, immoral, unhuman, unacceptable, stupid and un-American." Hathout has an unfortunate tendency to equivocate.
When a suicide bomber blew up an Israeli pizzeria in August 2001, scattering the body parts of young parents and their children, MPAC said the Israelis had it coming. According to the self-styled anti-terrorist group, Israel was "responsible for this pattern of violence."
In a 1999 publication, MPAC excused the 1983 suicide attack on the Beirut Marine compound (that left 241 dead) as a military operation. In its "Position Paper on U.S. Counterterrorism Policy," MPAC observed: "Yet this attack, for all the pain it caused, was not in a strict sense a terrorist operation It was a military operation producing no civilian casualties exactly the kind of attack that Americans might have lauded had it been directed against Washingtons enemies" which should come as a great comfort to the families of 241 dead Marines.
On its website (January 26, 2006), MPAC posted a report that tried to rationalize the Hamas victory in the recent Palestinian election.
A win for terrorism? Not at all, MPAC argued. Voters chose the enthusiastic killers of Hamas (over the more sedate killers of Fatah) because they were "unhappy with the status quo" and demand better services like the more efficient murder of Jews.
With Americans dying in Iraq, its sick and twisted for the American Conservative Union to allow these apologists for terrorism to infiltrate CPAC.
The Islamic Free Market Institute has been a CPAC co-sponsor for the past two years. While theres less of a paper trail here, there is enough troubling intelligence to disqualify the Institute as a co-sponsor. Also known as
So, the Islamic Free Market Institute do they cut your taxes before or after they cut off your head?
Also waging war on Western civilization were CPACs druggie co-sponsors. Speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives on February 8, Congressman Mark Souder, R-IN, whos spoken at CPAC in the past (as has your humble servant, at least half a dozen times in the past 20 years), declared:
One can imagine a conservatives surprise to read on the CPAC agenda that a representative of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is slated to moderate yes, moderate a panel Friday discussing drug policy. For those who are unacquainted with it , the pro-marijuana MPP has been funded by Soros in the past. Also represented on the panel is the Drug Policy Alliance, which is [George] Soros principal pro-drug arm. Incidentally, the moderator himself (Rob Kampia) is a convicted drug dealer.
The Congressman could have added that billionaire George Soros (dubbed "the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization" by former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano) is the chief financial angel of the Marijuana Policy Project, and donated $8.5 million to the Drug Policy Alliance between 2001 and 2004.
Drug legalization is part of Soros final solution for America. Besides his spending here, the Lear Jet leftist has lavished a fortune on promoting euthanasia, abortion advocacy and an isolationist foreign policy.
A dispassionate observer of the political scene, he once compared the president to the Nazis ("When I hear George W. Bush say: Youre either with us or against us, it reminds me of the Germans" this not in reference to Beethoven and Kant.) In 2004, through a complex of 527 groups like MoveOn.org, Soros spent an estimated $18 million dollars to defeat the Fourth Reich of Herr W.
Soros could make common cause with the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Hes forever telling us that the War on Terrorism cant be won (just like the War on Drugs).
An inveterate root-causer, Soros cautions that we must "correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds" including the lack of a Palestinian state, the existence of Israel, cartoons depicting Mohammed, and the destruction of the Spanish caliphate in 1492.
In his book Soros On Soros (hows that for humility?), the Hungarian-born immigrant and convicted insider-trader said that if it were up to him, hed legalize all drugs "excluding the most dangerous ones like crack." Presumably, the legalization list would include such benign substances as cocaine and heroin.
The Drug Policy Alliances Ethan Nadelmann recently suggested, "Coca (the plant from which cocaine is derived) deserves the same opportunities to compete legally in international markets as coffee." Cocaine good to the last drop?
In an interview with The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Nadelmann argued, "If you possess small amounts of a drug for your own personal use, that should not be a crime regardless of the drug."
While its true that there are a few prominent conservative proponents of marijuana legalization (like William F. Buckley Jr. and economist Milton Friedman), with the exception of the libertarian CATO Institute which also follows the Soros line on foreign policy I cant think of a single legitimate group on the Right that shares this societal death wish.
Reportedly, ACU Chairman David Keene is amused that Soros is helping to fund a conservative conference. Does he also chuckle over the fact that young conservatives are duped into thinking that the hypodermic crowd is conservative? ("Yeah, man, like we believe in individual liberty or something.")
Is he amused that the Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Islamic Free Market Institute can use their association with CPAC (theyre co-sponsors, after all) to legitimize themselves?
Informed conservatives understand that the Left is involved in a relentless crusade to undermine America at home and to bolster our enemies abroad.
Tragically, the Conservative Political Action Conference is now unwittingly aiding Americas enemies on both fronts.
Perhaps next years CPAC will include the Medellin Cartel and Hamas among its cosponsors. Wouldnt that be a blast?
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I wonder how much of this is driven by Islamist uber Conservative Grover Norquist?
You beat me to this one. I searched for it and was about to post, but thought I better check again. Way to go, too bad it's not in breaking news. Everyone should read this.
FYI ping.
This was a surprising article for me. But I question it. Should we really think that under-25-conservatives "assume that theres a connection between what these groups are pushing and the conservative agenda"? That seems like a pretty dumb conclusion to come to after seeing a vendor booth at a convention. I think that young conservatives are probably smarter and wiser than this article gives them credit for.
I go to a huge state homeschool convention every year and every year there are tons of true homeschool vendors mixed in with booths from health-nut vendors and even political groups that are truly unrelated to the homeschooling movement or even opposed to strict not-government-regulated homeschooling. Usually these non-homeschool-booths are either totally ignored or infrequently visited.
I would figure that the under-25-conservatives at CPAC conferences have just as good odds of seeing these not-conservative groups for what they are and either totally ignoring them or only paying attention to them in so far as getting a little info and then confirming the suspicion that they are booths to be ignored.
In fact, what is there to stop the featured speakers at the conference and the presenters in the workshops from making comments to their audiences that help assure that they see this. I would think that would happen naturally with out the conference organizers having to plan it.
Drug [RE-]legalization is part of Goros' final solution for America
Get rid of your paranoia re: those of us who enjoy using recreational drugs & quit comparing everyone you disagree w/ to the Nazi's, Mr. Feder...you sound just like the Dims when you bring up THAT version of the "N-word". Smoke a joint & relax.
Whose arguments Feder apparently doesn't dare try to rebut.
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