Berlet describes CNP members as not only traditional conservatives, but also nativists, xenophobes, white racial supremacists, homophobes, sexists, militarists, authoritarians, reactionaries and "in some cases outright neo-fascists."
Some well-known figures affiliated with the CNP include Rev. Jerry Falwell, anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly and the Rev. Pat Robertson. But its the lesser-known CNP mainstays that are more indicative of the organization's politics. They include:
• Richard Shoff, a former Ku Klux Klan leader in Indiana.
• John McGoff, an ardent supporter of the former apartheid South African regime.
• R.J. Rushdoony, the theological leader of America's "Christian Reconstruction" movement, which advocates that Christian fundamentalists take "dominion" over America by abolishing democracy and instituting Old Testament Law. Rushdoony's Reconstructionalists believe that "homosexuals . . . adulterers , blasphemers, astrologers and others will be executed," along with disobedient children.
• Reed Larson, head of anti-union National Right to Work Committee.
• Don Wildmon, TV censorship activist and accused anti-Semite.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North, Major General John K. Singlaub and other principals from the Iran-Contra Scandal.
Investigative reporter Russ Bellant, author of OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY;THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN MICHIGAN POLITICS; and THE COORS CONNECTION, told the Free Press that the "membership of the Council comprises the elite of the radical right in America."
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/1848
Jay Bennish, the social studies teacher whose comments during a world geography class were recorded by a student, told school officials he had received several threats. He was placed on administrative leave Wednesday while Cherry Creek School District officials investigate, according to district spokeswoman Tustin Amole.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3564246
Hannity & Colmes Launches New Witch Hunt Against University Professors
FOX News has a new weapon in its crusade to divide and polarize America during a time of war: a new book by admitted traitor, David Horowitz, about the 101 most dangerous university professors in America. Hannity & Colmes not only showcased this latest hate-manifesto from the non-student who formed “Students for Academic Freedom,” the show will crucify a different professor from the book each night this week. And it’s not even published by a News Corp.
News Hounds
An organization calling itself the "Bruin Alumni Association" that has no official affiliation with the University of California has published an online list of UCLA professors it deems "radical.
The Association also posted an online offer to pay students for evidence proving that instructors have been espousing left-wing views in class, in violation of University of California rules.
The Association lists an advisory board of UCLA alumni that includes Senator and current Congressional candidate Bill Morrow, R-San Diego, former Congressman Jim Rogan, and former California Republican Party head Shawn Steel. The group's founder is Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate who has worked as a research assistant to David Horowitz, the right-wing commentator closely identified with criticizing universities for being too liberal.
liberal.http://www.capitolweekly.net/news/article.html?article_id=434
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for "dividing Go.
"God considers this land to be his," Robertson said on his TV program "The 700 Club." "You read the Bible and he says `This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, `No, this is mine.'"
Sharon, who ordered Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year, suffered a severe stroke on Wednesday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/05/ap/national/mainD8EUP88GB.shtml
Bill O'Reilly to San Francisco: "if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. ... You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead"
Criticizing a ballot measure passed by 60 percent of San Francisco voters urging public high schools and colleges to prohibit on-campus military recruiting, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly declared on the November 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, "if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off-limits to you, except San Francisco."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511100008
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today," said (House Representative Tom) DeLay, who was instrumental in pushing emergency legislation that gave the federal courts jurisdiction over Schiavo's care only to see them decline to order her feeding tube restored.
He said the courts "thumbed their nose at Congress and the president" and that he would not rule out the possibility of congressional impeachment of the federal judges involved.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050401/NEWS/504010409/1039
"I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection," (Senator John) Cornyn went on to say, "but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. . . . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence. Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/04/040605judgesFolo.htm
Nevada Democrats are decrying remarks by U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons condemning "tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals" for their opposition to the war in Iraq.
He added it was "too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket" to become human shields in Iraq.
For more go here:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/mar/02/030210032.html
Several instructors targeted by student's posting of red stars, state code on teaching of communism
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Santa Rosa Junior College's oak-studded campus is aflame with controversy triggered by the anonymous posting of red stars and a reference to communist indoctrination on 10 faculty office doors.
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When faculty members called a news conference to discuss the stars, McPherson came forward to acknowledge her action on behalf of the SRJC Republicans, a 75-member chapter of the California College Republicans, a statewide group.
For more got here:
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050302/NEWS/503020303/1033/NEWS01
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
President Bush’s chief strategist Karl Rove
"There ought to limits to freedom."
--Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a press conference at the Texas State House, May 21, 1999, referring to anti-Bush web site GWBush.com
In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with "Running Nazi front groups in the United States."
His name: Prescott Bush.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/012303A.ma.dead.htm
Hitler book bestseller in Turkey
18 March, 2005
Adolf Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf, has become a bestseller in Turkey - sparking fears of growing anti-Semitic feelings in the country.
The book has sold more than 50,000 copies since January.
Analysts fear that the Middle East conflict and the US-led war on Iraq might have fuelled extremist ideology.
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Dogu Ergil, a political scientist at Ankara University, told the BBC he believed recent developments in Iraq and the Middle East might have fomented anti-Semitic and anti-American feelings among right-wing ultranationalists and extremist Islamists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4361733.stm
14 points of fascism by political scientist Dr. Laurence Britt:
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism.
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected.
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections.
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm
``We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men,'' (Senator) Byrd said. ``But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.''
Byrd then quoted historian Alan Bullock, saying Hitler ``turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.''
Byrd added, ``That is what the 'nuclear option' seeks to do.''
The nuclear option is the nickname for the proposal to end filibusters of judicial nominations because of the devastating effect the plan, if enacted, would have on relations between Democrats and Republicans.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4838025,00.html
LIMBAUGH: "There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?" (Told You So, p. 68)
REALITY: According to Carl Shaw of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, estimates of the pre-Columbus population of what later became the United States range from 5 million to 15 million. Native populations in the late 19th century fell to 250,000, due in part to genocidal policies. Today the U.S.'s Native American population is about 2 million.
-Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality-
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1895
By Rev. Rich Lang
The Imperial Presidency
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Reconstructed Fascism
First and most basic is that Dominion Theology wants to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that would govern according to a very literal and peculiar interpretation of Biblical law. The disciples of Jesus are to have "dominion" over all of creation. It is the role of the Church to rule over the wicked and bring them into the obedience of faith.
In a "reconstructed society" democracy would be heresy. The division between sacred and secular would be abolished. A new insistence on conformity to moral rules would replace the pluralism we now know. The purpose of the Federal government would be to enforce morality through military and police functions. Society would be regulated by a theocratic elite: in the words of Pat Robertson: "just as the Supreme Court justices place a hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution, so they should also put a hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
We see this at play in the leanings of Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas. Against the common assumption that we are a secular state Mr. Scalia has said (in a FIRST THINGS: May 2002 ) "government ... derives its moral authority from God. Government is the minister of God with powers to revenge, to execute wrath, including wrath by the sword."
Rev. Rich Lang is pastor of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington
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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=15261
| "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
"Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president" (Helen Thomas' parents were Christian immigrants from Lebanon)."
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Ann Coulter
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The majority on the left is anti-American, is not patriotic and should be tried for treason, convicted and shot. I volunteer either for execution duty or burial duty {I'm too biased/honest to be a judge or the member of the jury}."
17 posted on 03/05/2005 9:19:14 AM PST by USS Alaska
Posted on Freerepublic.com, a neo-con blog.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1356633/posts
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hitler's #2 Man, Hermann Goering
(CBS/AP) Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster may strike there because they "voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching intelligent design.
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected him from your city," Robertson said on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club."
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