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Subject: Dick Cheney to Address Far-Right Theocratic "Illuminati"
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Cheney to address secret group
Council for National Policy will meet in Salt Lake
"The membership list, previously made public, is now '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. It is said
that the secrecy is intended to insulate the Council from the
liberal bias of the news media."
By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 09/26/2007 02:11:44 AM MDT
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7001456
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 [or] 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. The trip
coincides with fundraisers in California, Colorado, Nevada and
Wyoming, Cheney's spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said.
All of the events on the trip are closed to the public and the
news media, McBride said.
Cheney last visited the state April 26 to give the commencement
speech at Brigham Young University.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy
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.
The Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell
University considers the Council for National Policy a leading
force in the Dominionist movement. TheocracyWatch, a CRESP project,
describes it as "an umbrella organization of right-wing leaders who
gather regularly to plot strategy, share ideas and fund causes and
candidates to advance the theocratic agenda."
Southeastern Louisiana University philosophy professor Barbara
Forrest says of the Council for National Policy "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, gays,
'witches' and those who worship 'false gods'."
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Council for National Policy
From SourceWatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy
The Council for National Policy is a secretive forum that was
formed in 1981 by Tim LaHaye as a networking tool for leading US
conservative political leaders, financiers and religious right
activist leaders. The group, which meets three times a year,
promotes "Educational conferences for national leaders in the
fields of business, government, religion and academia to explore
national policy alternatives. Weekly newsletters are distributed to
all members to keep them apprised of member activities and public
policy issues. A semi-annual journal is produced from membership
meeting speeches,"[1]
According to ABC News, "The CNP describes itself as a counterweight
against liberal domination of the American agenda." [2] The "far
right's answer to the Council on Foreign Relations" (Washington
Babylon)
Others are not so kind to the organization and its motives. Mark
Crispin Miller states that the CNP is a "highly secretive... a
theocratic organization -- what they want is basically religious
rule" (A Patriot Act).
Barry W. Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for
Separation of Church and State, told the New York Times about the
CNP meeting ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention, "The
real crux of this is that these are the genuine leaders of the
Republican Party, but they certainly aren't going to be visible on
television next week." [3]
2006 Meeting
An example of the group’s far reaching influence on the
conservative movement in the US is their May 9th 2006 meeting where
speakers included NRA President Sandra Froman, Senator Rick
Santorum, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Heritage Foundation pres.
Edwin Fuelner Jr., Phyllis Schlafly, Grover Norquist, US Amb. John
Bolton, Oliver North and Robert Bork. [4]
Membership
"The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part
in our programs, before of after a meeting," the New York Times
reported. [5]
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).
Books Mentioning CNP
Russ Bellant, The Coors Connection, How Coors Family Philanthropy
Undermines Democratic Pluralism, South End Press, 2nd edition
October 1991. ISBN 0896084167 ISBN 13 978-0896084162
Contact details
10329-A Democracy Lane
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone: 703 890 0113
Journal website: http://www.policycounsel.org/
SourceWatch Resources
Salem Communications Corporation
External Links
Marc J. Ambinder, "Vast, Right-Wing Cabal? Meet the Most Powerful
Conservative Group You've Never Heard Of," ABCNews.com, May 2, 2001.
Article by Barbara Aho.
The Council for National Policy: What It Is.
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL POLICY. One world "Christian" organization--
Very new information.
Media Transparency: Council for National Policy
David D. Kirkpatrick, "Club of the most powerful gathers in
strictest privacy," New York Times, August 28, 2004.
Jeremy Leaming and Rob Boston, "Behind Closed Doors: Who Is The
Council For National Policy And What Are They Up To? And Why Don’t
They Want You To Know?" Americans United for Separation of Church
and State, October 2004,
Sarah Posner, "Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why
aren't they paying taxes?" The Gadflyer, February 21, 2005.
Sarah Posner, "Secret Society," The Gadflyer, March 1, 2005.
Steven D, "Sith Lords of the Ultra-Right,", Daily KOS, June 1, 2005.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, "Why did J. Kenneth Blackwell
seek, then hide, his association with super-rich extremists and e-
voting magnates?" Freepress.org, March 10, 2006.
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