Secretive Groups supporting Bush

[ck4829]

Bush met with the Council for National Policy back in 1999. Here is an excerpt from that article in the New York Times.
"George W. Bush gave a closed-door speech to the council in 1999, after which the religious right in effect endorsed his candidacy. Accounts vary about what he promised, and the organization has refused to release the tape (The CNP makes recordings of all of their meetings). But it's notable that he appointed John Ashcroft as attorney general; Mr. Ashcroft gives every appearance of placing his biblical worldview above secular concerns about due process."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/opinion/17KRUG.html
Why is it that Bush and the CNP keep us in the dark? What ever Bush did talk about at that meeting, the average non-wealthy, non-Ultra-Right Americans who are not part of the CNP will never know, but what is known is that the Christian Right has become much more powerful because of Bush.

Bush has also continued to collaborate with the CNP.
"CNP's elite Gold Circle Club (CNP members who pay a fee of $10,000) met May 3 2002 at the White House with chief strategist Karl Rove and President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke at a private Gold Circle dinner."
http://pontificator.blogspot.com/2002_12_29_pontificator_archive.html

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A mysterious committee backed by members of a secretive religious
group whose members are forbidden to vote spent more than $500,000 on
newspaper ads last year supporting President Bush and U.S. Senator
Mel Martinez.

The Thanksgiving 2004 Committee raised the money from residents of 18
states, plus $377,262 from Bruce Hazell of London, England. None of
the money was raised in Florida, according to a report filed with the
Federal Elections Commission.

The group of men who formed the committee belong to the Exclusive
Brethren, a reclusive religious group with roots in England and
Australia. The group includes members from Knoxville, Tenn., Omaha,
Neb., and other American cities.

Members of the Exclusive Brethren do not vote, read newspapers, watch
television or participate in the outside world, according to
published reports. So why would they care who gets elected in the
United States?

That's hard to say, and members contacted by the St. Petersburg Times
wouldn't say anything except to praise President Bush and say they
wanted to see him re-elected.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050118/NEWS/501180333/1040/NEWS12

Can you find more examples of Secretive Groups that support Bush?

[mhr]

1. Dominionists - Watch This Video To Learn More About The Threat

To All,

Often we hear terms that define groups without having the background to understand the group well. The following Real Media video will explain the movement and people that are behind the Republican takeover of our Democracy - Dominionists and Christian Reconstructionists.

http://www.theocracywatch.org/av/video_dominion.ram

One should take the time to watch the video since it will crystallize the battle we face in keeping our secular democratic state. Do not underestimate the people or movement that is working diligently to recast our government into a theocracy.

More information can be found here:

http://www.theocracywatch.org/audio-video.htm

As is oft said "knowledge is power."

[merwin]

2. KKK!

[zmdem]

3. The supreme court has said there is a constitutional right to privacy

A private group of citizens enjoys that right, don't they ?

[K-W]

5. Not when they conspire to undermined government.

No.

[zmdem]

6. Nothing in the OP suggests that

What makes you think this group is/was attempting to undermine the USA government ? Certainly not Bush, he has run for election, nominated cabinet members, got congressional approval for two wars. All according to the constitution. Hate to tell you this, but in the ebb and flow of politics, sometimes Republicans win.

The important thing is for Democrats to figure out why they are losing and fix the problem.

[KissMeKate]

4. cnp is extremely creepy.

they have their paws in the state politics, too.

[UTUSN]

7. CNP, Cullen DAVIS, ROBISON, MOON, uh, (on-and-on)

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http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/cohen_24_4.ht ...

.... James Robison

To try to understand President Bush, we cannot help but scrutinize Robison. Now sixty years old, Robison is the product of the rape of a forty-year-old woman who tried but was unable to secure an abortion. After a hard-scrabble childhood, Robison rose in Southern Baptist circles. As a young man, he became a big draw on the revival circuit. ....

In 1982, Robison befriended Texas millionaire T. Cullen Davis. Davis had been acquitted of the murder of his wife’s lover and his stepdaughter in 1977. In 1979, Davis was acquitted again, this time of attempting to procure the murder for hire of fifteen people, including the judge who had presided in his divorce case. Davis owned over one million dollars worth of Asian religious art treasures made of jade, ivory, and gold. He wanted to contribute them to Robison’s ministry. Robison opined that the objects were idols and had to be destroyed in obedience to Deuteronomy 7:25.6 Davis and Robison broke the art objects to pieces with hammers and dumped the shards into a lake. ....

http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&st ...

Bush moons America
by Bob Fitrakis
April 1, 2000

Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush — the son of former CIA Director George Herbert Walker Bush — found himself in trouble and faltering after his New Hampshire defeat to Senator John McCain. A shadowy, secretive and spooky network centered around right wing religious organizations and causes rushed to his rescue in South Carolina.

At the crux of this network is the Council for National Policy (CNP) founded in 1981 by the Rev. Tim LaHaye and T. Cullen Davis, members of the ultra-right John Birch Society with financial backing from Nelson Bunker Hunt. Currently, the clandestine CNP has over 500 members and serves as the Who’s Who network of the United States’ right wing. At the center of the CNP, with a seemingly endless supply of questionable cash, is self-proclaimed Messiah and mind control cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon. ....

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cnp.php

Council for National Policy

Acronym/Code: CNP

Updated: 9/89

Categories:

Political

Background:

According to one source, the CNP was formed in 1981 by Texas millionaires Nelson Bunker Hunt, Herbert Hunt, and T. Cullen Davis. (5) A second source reports that it was formed by Richard Viguerie to rival the Council on Foreign Relations. (8,26) The council is composed of politically powerful, wealthy individuals. It intentionally maintains a very low profile. (3,5) One of the conditions of membership is not to reveal the names of other members or the substance of the group's meetings. (9)

The CNP bills itself as being the Council on Foreign Policy for the Right. (9) But, its importance does not lie in producing and promoting an ultra-conservative foreign policy agenda, many of its affiliates already do that. It is considered by its members as a network that encompasses the entire spectrum of right-wing politics. (3) It provides a "safe" place for representatives of a wide range of ultra-conservative, anticommunist, pro-military organizations--including the executive branch of the White House--to discuss and promote their programs. (3) ....

The right wing rode the crest of glory and power in the early years of the Reagan administration. The Iran-Contra scandal, coupled with the moral fall of the religious right, have had a devastating effect on its wellbeing. According to investigative reporter, Sidney Blumenthal, the right is bankrupt. (9) ....

Representing the New Right and neoconservatives are: ... .... ...Cullen Davis, vice pres of Kendavis Industries Intl ....

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