Cheney to address secret group

[helderheid]

The conservative Council for National Policy will meet in downtown Salt Lake
By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 09/26/2007 02:11:44 AM MDT

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will speak to a super-secret, conservative policy group in Utah on Friday during his second trip to the state this year.

Cheney will address the fall meeting of the Council for National Policy, a group whose self-described mission is to promote "a free-enterprise system, a strong national defense and support for traditional Western values."

The organization - made up of few hundred powerful conservative activists - holds confidential meetings and members are advised not to use the name of the group in communications, according to a New York Times profile of the group.

"The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs, before after a meeting,'' a list of rules obtained by The Times showed. The group did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

Czech Republic President Václav Klaus is also expected to address the Council for National Policy's meeting in downtown Salt Lake City. After his speech, Cheney will meet with Klaus, the vice president's office said Tuesday.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who ran the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, will also be in Utah on Friday but his campaign did not respond to a question about whether he would talk with the group.

Cheney's visit is expected to be short, only a few hours, according to people familiar with the trip's details

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[napi21]

1. This isn't really THAT secret. I googled their name yesterday.

It's the most extreem RW Evangelical group in the Country and Dobson is a big part of it.

[Zandor]

16. Super-secret group makes headlines!

:)

[Virginia Dare]

20. Will Mary and Heather be attending as well with the little tike?

I'm sure Dobson would be thrilled to meet and greet the whole Cheney clan.

[napi21]

30. I wonder why these people are even interested in Cheney at all!

He's certainly not a religious guy. He's not charming. He's actually quite mean!

[beberocks]

2. God forbid we have open government.

Just the little handmaidens of the devil getting together for a chat. Nothing to see hear. No evil is present. :sarcasm:

[helderheid]

4. I'll be wearing garlic around my neck tomorrow while he's here.

[Justitia]

3. Sounds like a Klan rally to me. -eom

[Virginia Dare]

23. Not much difference really...

they probably will be wearing corporate casual instead of the white hoods is all.

[helderheid]

24. In this day and age I'm sure something from this meeting will be leaked on the internets...

wonder if we'll get to see their attire?

[Fleshdancer]

28. well of course

the wouldn't be caught dead with a white hood on after Labor Day.

[peace13]

5. Sounds to me like the Sunshine Law should apply here n/t

[Supersedeas]

34. good luck with that -- the sun doesn't shine on the prince of darkness

[helderheid]

6. Couple links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy

and

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121170&page=1


Inside the Council for National Policy
Meet the Most Powerful Conservative Group You've Never Heard Of


By Marc J. Ambinder

W A S H I N G T O N, May 2

When Steve Baldwin, the executive director of an organization with the stale-as-old-bread name of the Council for National Policy, boasts that "we control everything in the world," he is only half-kidding.

Half-kidding, because the council doesn't really control the world. The staff of about eight, working in a modern office building in Fairfax, Va., isn't even enough for a real full-court basketball game.

But also half-serious because the council has deservedly attained the reputation for conceiving and promoting the ideas of many who in fact do want to control everything in the world.

For many liberals, the 22-year-old council is very dangerous and dangerously secretive, and has fueled conspiratorial antipathy. The group wants to be the conservative version of the Council on Foreign Relations, but to some, CNP members  among the brightest lights of the hard right  are up to no good.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

15. "we control everything in the world"?

DAYUM!!! :wow:

[helderheid]

17. Yea, no shit! No beating around the bush there (no pun intended)!

[Orsino]

35. No matter who's in control of Congress or the White House. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

22. All the usual fundie nutjob suspects..

CNP was founded in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind series of books. Other early participants include Paul Weyrich, Phyllis Schlafly, Robert Grant, Howard Phillips, a former Republican affiliated with the Constitution Party, Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail specialist, and Morton Blackwell, a Louisiana and Virginia activist who is considered a specialist on the rules of the Republican Party.

The council employs about eight people. Its first executive director was Woody Jenkins; later, Morton Blackwell served in this role, which is currently held by Steve Baldwin. Presidents have included Nelson Bunker Hunt of Dallas, Amway co-founder Richard DeVos of Michigan, Pat Robertson of Virginia Beach, Paul Pressler of Houston, and former Reagan Cabinet secretaries Ed Meese and Donald Hodel, as well as current president Kenneth Cribb.

It's the friendliest audience Cheney can find at this point.

[pnorman]

44. Here's another link:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy

pnorman

[gateley]

7. The American Way. nt

[annabanana]

8. Lots of info on this in

this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3005532

[helderheid]

11. Thanks - you can bet Mittens will be there too.

[Virginia Dare]

25. Probably to officially accept the ring...n/t

[helderheid]

26. LOL!!

Oh man...

[L. Coyote]

9. Is this the board of "The Enterprise" or "Lake Resources" ??

[IDemo]

10. The Project for a New New American Century?

[helderheid]

13. ding ding ding!

[peacetalksforall]

12. Czech Republic What's that about? Are they going to help with

Iran - an aircraft lift off point?

[helderheid]

14. I wonder the same.

[Vilis Veritas]

18. Good reasons for being a Democratic Voter...

I did not see a single person on this list that I want to have anything to do with. Not a single democratic leader on there...or did I miss something?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy

We need to stay strong, focused and get the rethugs out of office...

Peace.

[helderheid]

19. Wow...

Board of Directors

The 2002 calendar year Form 990 return filed with the IRS lists the board of Directors as:

* Donald Paul Hodel President (former Secretary of Energy and former president of the Christian Coalition)
* T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., Vice President
* James C. Miller, III, Chairman
* John Seribante, Secretary/Treasurer
* Robert Fischer, Director,
* Dr. Dal Shealy, Director
* Howard Phillips, Director
* Ken Raasch, Director
* Mary Reilly Hunt, Director
* Stuart W. Epperson, Director
* Ann Drexel, Director (also a Red Cross board member)
* Becky Norton Dunlop, Director
* Jerome Ledzinski, Director
* Grover Norquist, Director
* E. Peb Jackson, Director

Staff members of the Board of Directors are:

* Steve Baldwin, Executive Director (paid $157,391 in 2002)
* David Fenner, Director of MIS & Programs (paid $89,088 in 2002)
* Jennifer Rutledge, Director of Finance & Administration (paid $57,504 in 2002)


Other Members

* Several groups have listings of CNP members on websites. However, the primary source documents for these lists are not included. Some listsings are at:
* Council for National Policy membership roster, last updated July 2001: *Member Directory.
* CNP Members Database.

A copy of the membership roster obtained by Institute for First Amendment Studies, listed current and former members as including:

* Attorney General John Ashcroft (former member)
* Tommy Thompson, Health and Human Services Secretary (former member)
* Holland Coors and Jeffrey Coors of the Coors brewing company
* Richard DeVos, founder of Amway and Orlando Magic owner
* John Ankerberg, who believes that biblical prophecies were literal promises and are coming true;
* Dave Breese hosts The King Is Coming, a show devoted entirely to Christian eschatology
* Chuck Missler, an Idaho radio host who has predicted an imminent invasion of Jerusalem by forces guided by the Antichrist
* Pat Robertson, former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition founder
* Steve Stockman, former Texas Republican Representative
* Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association
* Rev. Rousas J. Rushdoony, founder of Chalcedon Foundation (deceased)
* Williams, the founder of BAMPAC, a political action committee that promotes black conservatism
* Sam Moore, president of Thomas Nelson, the country's most successful Christian book publishing company
* Henry Morris, prominent creationist
* Dora Kingsley, political scientist
* John W. Whitehead founder of the Rutherford Institute
* Bob Jones III, President, Bob Jones University
* Phyllis Schlafly
* Oliver North

Other members who list their membership in their biographical profiles include:

* John Taylor, the chairman and president of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy <6>
* Brent Bozell <7>
* Charles W. Jarvis, chairman and chief executive of USANext and United Seniors Association

Mark Crispin Miller adds the following members:

* Tom DeLay
* Trent Lott
* Lauch Faircloth
* Ed Meese
* Howard Ahmanson
* Jerry Falwell
* Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind Series,
* James Robison
* Lou Sheldon, traditional values coalition
* Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Addressed the CNP:

* John Ashcroft
* George W. Bush, 2000


Funding

CNP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation. For the year ending December 31, 2002, CNP income was $1,240,377. <8>.

According to Media Transparency, between 1995 and 2002 the CNP received $125,000 (unadjusted for inflation) from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation and the Castle Rock Foundation. In 2000 the Castle Rock Foundation paid a membership fee of $10,000. <9>

The CNP also has a related 501(c)(4) organisation CNP Action Inc.. CNP Action re-imbursed CNP $16,563 for the use of its facilities with and $39,457 of staff time.

Joseph Coors gave start-up funding, according to Washington Babylon (p. 11).

[Vilis Veritas]

27. A Democratic Party Vote Is A Vote For Sanity.

Anyone? Questions?

Vote Democratic...IT REALLY DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Peace.

[helderheid]

29. NO SHIT!

[Vilis Veritas]

31. LOL...I know preaching to the choir!

:hi:

[helderheid]

36. :) I hope that didn't sound snotty - I didn't mean to!

:hi:

[Vilis Veritas]

38. No way...!

My new dream bumper sticker, courtesy of the inspiring helderheid..."Say No To Shit, Vote Democratic in 2008"

;-)

Peace.

[helderheid]

41. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[Lasher]

21. I'd been wondering where the neocon convention was going to be this year.

As soon as we elect a Democratic president they should all be arrested and waterboarded as provided by the Patriot Act.

[Vilis Veritas]

32. I think it is in St Paul, MN

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/09/27/cq_1515.html

They have already built the pens to hold the protestors...

http://www.nlgminnesota.org/events/rnc

No Fear.

[helderheid]

33. I read this in my morning paper here in Utah - figures they'd come here.

[Lasher]

37. Pens for the protestors...

No other administration has ever done such things. But the media is disgustingly silent on the subject.

[Vilis Veritas]

40. The second link in my post is for the lawyers who will be

helping those arrested...The media is not the friend of freedom...

Here it is again...

http://www.nlgminnesota.org/events/rnc


Peace

[Johonny]

39. This group has another name

The only people on Earth that can stand to be in the same room as Dick Cheney.

[Lerkfish]

42. will it be held in front of a large stone Owl?

[BrotherBuzz]

45. And peeing on a redwood tree

Think any magic underwear will be present during this particular enclave?

[rucky]

43. I can't repeat the first thing that came to my imagination. n/t

[texpatriot2004]

46. The group should be thought of as a true enemy combatant. nt

[cosmicdot]

47. is CNP the 'head of the octopus'?

considering it harbors the likes of the Diebold voting machines' seed-money man and Christian Reconstructionist/Dominionist Howard F. Ahmanson to Pat Robertson to Grover Norquist to Oliver North to Morton Blackwell (behind that weekend Leadership Institute 'course' which launched 'Jeff Gannon's career in 'journalism') and so many more characters ...

and, this secret organization is allowed to operate as an IRS tax exempt, tax deductible "charity" organzation because...???????


Sith Lords of the Ultra-Right
by Steven D
Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 12:55:24 PM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/22/155525/061

"We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure in this country." Paul Weyrich

[cutlassmama]

48. Super scary part...

"The CNP membership also includes a sizeable segment of Christian Reconstructionists: "Reconstructionists espouse a radical theology that calls for trashing the U.S. Constitution and replacing it with the harsh legal code of the Old Testament. "The CNP membership also includes a sizeable segment of Christian Reconstructionists: "Reconstructionists espouse a radical theology that calls for trashing the U.S. Constitution and replacing it with the harsh legal code of the Old Testament. They advocate the death penalty for adulterers, blasphemers, incorrigible teen-agers, gay people, 'witches' and those who worship 'false gods'.

[Swamp Rat]

49. The 21st Century American Nazi Party