From: Paul Kneisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Peoples War] The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tue, 11 December 2001 --
5:101 (#629)
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 11 December 2001
Vol. 5, Number 101 (#629)
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Web Site of Interest:
01) Church Committee
Action Alerts On Civil Liberties Issues
02) Jack A. Smith (Mid-Hudson People's Campaign), "Philadelphia Police
Attack March Supporting Mumia," 9 Dec 01
03) International Action Center, "As Over 1,000 Turn Out in Philadelphia
for Mumia Abu-Jamal: Philadelphia Cops Ambush Rally, Beating and
Pepper-Spraying Mumia Supporters," 9 Dec 01
04) via AntiFascist Action / Sweden, "Call for Justice after the
Occurrences in Gothenburg"
More Civil Liberties Concerns
05) Frank Rich (New York Times), "Confessions of a Traitor," 8 Dec 01
06) Molly Ivins (Chicago Tribune), "We Are All Suspects, If Ashcroft Has
His Way," 6 Dec 01
07) Reuters, "British Reporter Fisk Badly Beaten in Pakistan," 8 Dec 01
Real Political Correctness:
08) Americans United, "Pat Robertson Resigns From Christian Coalition:
AU's Lynn Says Coalition 'Has Been a Sinking Ship for Several Years,
and Now the Captain's jumped Overboard'," 10 Dec 01
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WEB SITE OF INTEREST:
01) Final Report: Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With
Respect to Intelligence Activities (United States Senate)
"Church Committee"
23 Apr 1976
<http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/churchfinalreportIIIa.htm>
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ACTION ALERTS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES
02) Philadelphia Police Attack March Supporting Mumia
Jack A. Smith (Mid-Hudson People's Campaign)
9 Dec 01
An multinational crowd of over 1,000 participated in a militant
demonstration in Philadelphia Dec. 8 in support of African-American death
row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal on the 20th anniversary of his arrest for
killing a police officer. Jamal, and a worldwide movement supporting his
freedom, insist he is innocent.
Those attending the march and rally included youth from Toronto and
Montreal who carried a huge block-wide banner, and an official delegation
from the city of Paris. International Action Center members came from
Boston, New York City, Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Philadelphia police attacked the march without provocation, according to
the IAC, one of the event sponsors. The attack began when cops on bicycles
rode into the crowd and began beating, macing and arresting people. As
police drew their billy clubs and guns, protesters surrounded the cops to
try to protect those being arrested or attacked and chanted, "Let them go!
Let them go!" and "Shame! Shame!" Police responded by pointing guns at
peoples' heads and throwing others against cars.
At least seven demonstrators were reported to be arrested. Two of the
arrested women were sent to the hospital. Three IAC members were attacked -
- one maced and two beaten with clubs. Groups of supporters are maintaining
a vigil at the Round House, where protesters are being incarcerated.
After the attacks, the march proceeded to the final indoor rally at
Philadelphia's Ethical Society. Speakers at the rally, including the
delegation from Paris, charged that the award winning radical journalist
was the victim of a racist frame-up. (Earlier this month, Jamal was named
an honorary citizen of the French capital by the Paris city government.)
Protesters interpreted the attacks as further efforts on the part of the
Philadelphia's Fraternal Order of Police to prevent the truth about Jamal’s
case from emerging.
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03) As Over 1,000 Turn Out in Philadelphia for Mumia Abu-Jamal:
Philadelphia Cops Ambush Rally, Beating and Pepper-Spraying Mumia
Supporters
International Action Center
9 Dec 01
The International Action Center (IAC) condemns in the strongest terms the
Philadelphia police's unprovoked and brutal attack on today's thousand-plus
march in support of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
According to one eyewitness account, on behalf of a right-wing heckler of
the rally, bicycle cops towards the back of the march rode into the middle
of the crowd, dismounted their bikes and, wielding guns and batons, started
indiscriminately beating, pepper-spraying and arresting people. Guns were
pointed at peoples' heads; others were thrown against cars.
The crowd was marching from the corner of 13th and Locust, where 20 years
ago Abu-Jamal was arrested for a crime, the shooting of police officer
Daniel Faulkner, he says he did not commit. Today at that location
protesters viewed the videotaped confession of Arnold Beverly, who has
publicly admitted to killing Officer Faulkner for the mob.
As police drew their billy clubs and guns, protesters surrounded the cops
to try to protect those being arrested and/or attacked and chanted, "Let
them go! Let them go!" and "Shame! Shame!" Police attacked some of these
protesters.
Several IAC members were among those attacked, with some being maced and
others receiving several blows from police batons. Further eyewitness
reports include a woman being dragged for at least a block, choking and
with her skin exposed. One person was taken off in an ambulance. In one
incident, an African American reporter photographing the events from on top
a car was grabbed and pulled to the ground; the attack left a dent in the
car.
After the attacks, the march proceeded to the final indoor rally at
Philadelphia's Ethical Society, where more spoke out in favor of Mumia's
demand for his release based primarily on Beverly's confession. Protesters
saw the attacks as further efforts on the part of the Philadelphia's
Fraternal Order of Police to prevent the truth about Mumia's case from
emerging. Those present also watched fresh video footage of the police
attacks.
Currently a number of protesters who traveled to Philadelphia are staying
there to provide legal and political support to those who have been wrongly
incarcerated.
For more reports go to www.iacenter.org
Call Philadelphia Mayor John Street at 215-686-3000 or FAX him at
215-686-2170 to express your anger at Saturday's attack of the peaceful
Mumia rally by cops.
You can also call Philadelphia Police Chief John Timoney at 215-686-3149 or
215-686-3388.
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04) Call for Justice after the Occurrences in Gothenburg
via AntiFascist Action / Sweden
We the undersigned of this Call for Justice are deeply troubled by the
judicial aftermath of the occurrences during the EU Top Meeting in
Gothenburg in June of 2001.
We have concluded that:
* 50 civilian citizens have been accused, or risk being accused, in
conjunction with the occurrences in Gothenburg. Another 450 are identified
suspects waiting investigation.
* Meanwhile, none of the over 100 complaints filed with reason of police
violence have lead to charges being pressed. We know that only a quarter of
all those who received medical treatment after the riots in Gothenburg were
policemen. We ask ourselves if these numbers hold up proportionally to that
which actually happened.
* The incarceration of many of the accused young people has been, in
contradiction to the meaning of the law, excessively long (1-3 months).
Those incarcerated have, as a matter of routine, been held in isolation.
* The punishment for rioting has suddenly increased ten-fold or more.
Currently, nearly 30 young demonstrators have been sentenced for rioting
during the occurrences in Gothenburg. In the past, the punishment for this
crime has ranged from community service or probation to a few months
imprisonment. However, the average punishment for the occurrences in
Gothenburg has been one year and nine months. For instance, four teenagers
have been sentenced to between two and three years imprisonment. These
harsher levels of punishment, when appealed, have been sustained by higher
courts.
* In several cases, the accused have been sentenced collectively (up to
eight individuals and up to four years imprisonment) with identical charges
and identical repercussions. All have been charged without their individual
actions being documented or taken into account. This lack of individual
accountability exemplifies the non-existence of justice.
* The prosecutors have used every opportunity to bind the accused to
political activities and organisations -- ranging from actual membership to
supposed sympathies.
* Many witnesses that may have been able to speak in the defence of the
accused, have chosen not to witness for fear of being themselves accused
and treated in a similar degrading manner by the police and the judicial
system.
* Film and photo materials taken by witnesses, and then confiscated by the
police, have -- according to the same police force -- been lost and
therefore can not be used as evidence. When defence lawyers have requested
to use the police's own film materials from certain places and times during
the riots, the police have notified them that such materials do not exist.
At the same time, prosecutors have been able to use film materials from
these exact places and times in other cases.
* During several trials, the prosecutors have been allowed to show a
emotionally-charged film from the worst riot scenes -- even when the
accused in the case have not even been anywhere near the scenes portrayed
onscreen.
* The prosecutors have in at least one trial, shown a film where the
soundtrack was manipulated. Research of this film material's origin has
shown that the manipulation occurred while the film was being processed by
either the police or the prosecutor.
* Other accused individuals have, in separate circumstances, also claimed
that evidence against them has been falsified.
* The prosecutor has categorised the police raid of the Schillerska school
building, were card-playing and sleeping youths were dragged out onto the
schoolyard, and the five hour long police containment of a peaceful protest
manifestation at Järntorget, as a "violent riot". This categorisation leads
to the fact that possible witnesses of, or lodgers of complaints of, these
acts to risk being charged for participation in these "violent riots".
* During the EU Top Meeting in Gothenburg, no attempt was made to enter or
stop the meeting with the use of violent methods. However, everything from
the prosecutors charges to the documents containing court decisions,
contain the assertion that the accused attempted to stop the democratic
process by stopping the EU Top Meeting. This assertion lacks all factual
basis.
* No firearms or explosives have been found in the possession of the
accused-- or in the possession of the other 30,000 to 40,000 Swedish and
foreign nationals manifesting their opinions in Gothenburg from the 14th to
the 16th of June, 2001.
* The High Court has, to this date, not tried an appeal of any of the cases
pertaining to the occurrences in Gothenburg.
We demand that:
* The prosecutor's suspected manipulation of evidence be investigated with
the utmost of priority.
* The High Court try the appeals of several of the cases pertaining to the
occurrences in Gothenburg-- with special attention given to the
reasonability of the harshness of punishment.
* If evidence is found to have been tampered with and/or the High Courts
find unreasonably high levels of punishment have been dealt out, that all
the cases pertaining to the occurrences in Gothenburg be tried in appeals
courts and in those cases where sentences have been ratified, that are
held.
We additionally demand that:
* All complaints lodged against the police be investigated by a special,
independent commission. If the constitution of such a commission requires
the passing of new laws, then we recommend that they be so passed.
* All of the police's film materials be made available to the defence
lawyers.
* The accused be tried and judged with a high degree of individualisation.
* The prosecution remove their categorisation of the occurrences at the
Schillerska school and Järntorget on the 16th of June as a "violent riot".
* That every citizen's freedom of opinion is respected and that political
opinions are not used against defendents in the courts of law.
* The trials pertaining to the occurrences in Gothenburg be moved to
neutral courts and communities-- which means, courts far removed
geographically from Gothenburg.
We urge all citizens and organisations, with no regard to their political
leanings, to support this call for the defence of justice.
Send your name, title and location to
Erik Wijk,
Svartensgatan 5, SE-116 20
Stockholm, Sweden
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MORE CIVIL LIBERTIES CONCERNS
05) Confessions of a Traitor
Frank Rich (New York Times)
8 Dec 01
It's no longer just politically incorrect to criticize George W. Bush or
anyone in his administration these days -- now it's treason.
John Ashcroft, testifying before the Senate on Thursday, declared that
those who challenge his wisdom "only aid terrorists" and will "give
ammunition to America's enemies." Tough words. They make you wonder what
the guy who's charged with helping us whip Al Qaeda is afraid of. The only
prominent traitors in sight are the usual civil-liberties watchdogs and a
milquetoast senator or two barely known beyond the Beltway and their own
constituencies. Polls find the public squarely on the attorney general's
side, and even the few pundits who knock him are ridiculed by their
journalistic colleagues as hysterics so busy fussing about civil liberties
that they forget "there's a war going on."
Well, with the smell of victory over the Taliban crowding out the scent of
mass murder from the World Trade Center, the Ashcroft defenders have half a
point: some people are indeed forgetting that a war is still going on. But
it is not those questioning the administration who are slipping into this
amnesia so much as those who rubber stamp its every whim.
While I wouldn't dare call it treason, it hardly serves the country to look
the other way when the Ashcroft-Ridge-Thompson-Mineta team proves as inept
at home as the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Powell-Rice team has proved adept abroad. In
the Afghan aftermath, the home front is just as likely to be the next
theater of war as Somalia or Iraq. Giving a free pass to Mr. Ashcroft and
the other slackers in the Bush administration isn't patriotism -- it's
complacency, which sometimes comes with a stiff price.
Just how deep that complacency runs could be seen on Monday, when Tom Ridge
issued the administration's third urgent announcement to date of a
heightened terror alert. Why even bother? His vague doomsday warning didn't
lead every newscast and didn't rouse the public or even law enforcement. On
ABC, John Miller reported that the three F.B.I. field offices he canvassed
had neither been advised of the threat nor "told to batten down the hatches
any more than they were." What's that about? Under Mr. Ashcroft's dictum,
asking such follow-up questions is aiding and abetting the enemy. In any
event, no one did.
Surely it's also treason to indulge in blunt talk about airline security.
Norman Mineta, the transportation secretary, waited only one week after
President Bush signed the security bill to abandon all hope of meeting its
60-day deadline for screening checked baggage for explosives. Nor did he
call for any stopgap measures to help in the meantime (like enlisting the
cosmetically deployed airport national guardsmen to do at least some such
screening). Give Mr. Mineta credit for candor, but he might as well have
just painted a big target on the back of the nation's commercial airline
system as we segue from Ramadan into Christmas. Of course it would be un-
American to say so.
I asked Allan Gerson, the George Washington University professor who co-
wrote the new and definitive book on Pan Am Flight 103, "The Price of
Terror," if our approach to airline security is still preposterous all
these weeks after Sept. 11. His answer: "It's preposterous that we're
stupid enough to fly. It's sick." On the vast majority of America's
domestic flights, he noted, a suitcase containing a bomb (perhaps a bomb
planted in an innocent passenger's bag while it lingered at a hotel's bell
desk) can be checked curbside with little fear of detection as long as you
give the correct answer to the skycap's two security questions while
handing over a tip. Paul Hudson, executive director of the Aviation
Consumer Action Project, adds that even when the new law goes into effect
(or is purported to go into effect), it polices only the country's
airlines, not the 240,000 private, charter and corporate planes that
terrorists can turn into missiles.
As for the screening of passengers, Mr. Mineta proudly said in answer to a
question from Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes" last Sunday that he wanted to
give the same level of scrutiny to a 70-year-old white woman from Vero
Beach as he would to a young Muslim man from Jersey City. (And based on my
own air security experiences, he's getting what he wants.) To use Mr.
Gerson's language, it's sick that amid a Justice Department crackdown that
indiscriminately (and often pointlessly) rounds up young men for
questioning on the basis of their ethnicity, the administration is not
practicing such profiling at the venue where the strongest case can be made
for it -- the airports where 19 hijackers jump-started their crime. Such
inconsistency of law enforcement is beyond the Keystone Kops -- it's
absurdity worthy of the Marx Brothers.
That would make our attorney general the bumbling Chico of the outfit. But
don't count me among those who quake that Mr. Ashcroft is shredding the
Constitution. He does respect some rights, after all, like that of illegal
immigrants and terrorists to buy guns in the U.S. without fear of
government intrusion. And he just doesn't seem clever enough to undo the
Bill of Rights, even with the president's backing. You have to have more
command of the law than he does to subvert it.
Mr. Ashcroft said that he wouldn't release the names of the hundreds of
people he's detained since Sept. 11 because the law forbade it, even
though, as his own deputy later pointed out, the detainees have the right
to publicize their names on their own through their family or counsel. His
other excuse for keeping the names secret was to prevent Al Qaeda from
learning if any of its operatives might be locked up, as if our enemy were
not cunning enough to figure out on its own which members he might have
apprehended (if any). Then, when he couldn't take the heat, he released
some of the names anyway. Mr. Ashcroft doesn't even have the courage of his
own wrong convictions.
What's more chilling than the potential threats to civil liberties posed by
the emergency powers he is grabbing on behalf of the president are the
immediate practical threats these quick-fix legal schemes pose to the war
effort. The mere prospect of military tribunals is already hobbling our
battle against Al Qaeda. Spain, which, unlike Mr. Ashcroft, has actually
charged men said to have helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks, is balking at
extraditing them to the U.S. if a military trial is in store. Floyd Abrams,
the constitutional lawyer, says this could have a "multiplying effect" as
other European Union countries with similarly valuable Al Qaeda quarry,
like Germany and Britain, follow Spain's example, whether because of their
aversion to military tribunals or to capital punishment.
While we bog down in negotiating these roadblocks, our lack of easy access
to crucial suspects could slow our intelligence gathering. Meanwhile, says
Mr. Abrams, "the practical effect could well be that we may not be able to
try the people we want to try the most, and the countries that do try them
could lose the case."
Mr. Ashcroft's detentions and roundups may backfire as well. Eight former
F.B.I. officials, including a former director, William Webster, went on the
record to The Washington Post to criticize the blanket arrests -- not
because they compromise the Bill of Rights but because they defy law-
enforcement common sense. By nabbing possible terrorists prematurely, the
government loses the ability to track them as they implicate the rest of
their cells. The F.B.I. veterans also scoffed at the attorney general's
attempted 5,000 interviews of Middle Eastern men. Kenneth Walton, who
established the bureau's first Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York,
said: "It's the Perry Mason school of law enforcement, where you get them
in there and they confess.... It is ridiculous." Already early reports tell
us that most of the invited interviewees aren't turning up anyway, and that
those who do need only reply by rote to yes or no questions from a
four-page script.
The attorney general keeps boasting that he is winning the war on terrorism
at home and keeping us safe. But he provides no evidence to support his
claim, even as there's much evidence that he's antagonizing his own troops
(the F.B.I., local police departments) and wasting their finite time and
resources on wild goose chases that have pumped up arrest numbers without
yielding many (or any) terrorists.
If questioning our leaders' competence at a time of war is treason, take me
to the nearest military tribunal. But the one thing we learned on that
Tuesday morning, I had thought, is that it's better to raise these
questions today than the morning after.
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06) We Are All Suspects, If Ashcroft Has His Way
Molly Ivins (Chicago Tribune)
6 Dec 01
AUSTIN, Texas -- With all due respect, of course, and God Bless America
too, has anyone considered the possibility that the U.S. attorney general
is becoming unhinged?
Poor John Ashcroft is under a lot of strain here. Is it possible his mind
has started to give under the weight of responsibility, what with having to
stop terrorism between innings against doctors trying to help the dying in
Oregon and California? Why not take a Valium, sir, and go track down some
nice domestic nut with access to anthrax, OK?
Not content with the noxious U.S.A. Patriot bill (for Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept
and Obstruct Terrorism Act--urp), which was bad enough, Ashcroft has
steadily moved from bad to worse. Now he wants to bring back FBI
surveillance of domestic religious and political groups.
For those who remember COINTELPRO, this is glorious news. Back in the day,
Fearless Fibbies, cleverly disguised in their wingtips and burr haircuts,
used to infiltrate such dangerous groups as the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and Business Executives Against the War in Vietnam.
This had the usual comedic fallout, along with killing a few innocent
people, and was so berserk there was a standing rule on the left--anyone
who proposed breaking any law was automatically assumed to be an FBI agent.
Let's see, who might the Federal Fosdicks spy upon today? Columnist Tom
Friedman of The New York Times recently reported from Pakistan that hateful
Taliban types are teaching in the religious schools, "The faithful shall
enter paradise, and the unbelievers shall be condemned to eternal
hellfire." Frightful! Put the Baptists on the list.
Those who agitate against the government, constantly denigrating and
opposing it? Add Tom Delay, Dick Armey and Rush Limbaugh to the list.
Following the J. Edgar Hoover Rule (anyone who criticized Hoover or the FBI
was automatically targeted as suspect), we need to add the FBI alumni
association. According to The Washington Times: "A half-dozen former FBI
top guns, including once- Director William Webster, have voiced their
dismay at Ashcroft's strategy of detention and interview rather than
prolonged investigation and surveillance of those suspected of terrorism.
They contend the new plan will fail to eliminate terrorist networks and
cells, leaving the roots to carry on. The harsh criticism seems calculated
to take advantage of growing concerns in Congress about Ashcroft's overall
anti-terrorism
approach."
Harsh criticism? Put the ex-FBI agents on the list. Come to that, "growing
concerns"? Put Congress on the list.
I cannot commend too strongly those hardy, tough- minded citizens ready to
sacrifice all our civil rights in the fight against terrorism. It's clear
to them anyone speaking up for civil liberties is on the side of the
terrorists, and that's the kind of thinking that has earned syllogism the
reputation it enjoys today.
Some of us are making lists and checking them twice to see who stood with
us on this particular St. Crispin's Day. And when next we see you
Federalist Society types at some debate over, say, strict construction,
we'll be happy to remind you how much you really care when the chips are
down. With the honorable exception of the libertarian right (William
Safire, Rep. Bob Barr), the entire conservative movement is missing in
action, and so are a lot of pious liberals.
And what could be better than the insouciance with which the attorney
general himself approaches the Constitution? During his six years in the
Senate, he tried to proposed no fewer than seven constitutional amendments.
Since we've only managed to amend it 17 times in the last 200 years (that's
leaving out the Bill of Rights), it's an impressive record. Of course, one
of John Ashcroft's proposed amendments was to make it easier to amend.
Another was the always helpful flag-burning amendment, which had it been in
effect, would have done so much to prevent the terrorist attacks.
Yep, if we had a constitution largely rewritten by John Ashcroft, as
opposed the one we're stuck with by such picayune minds as Madison,
Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, etc., we'd be a lot safer today.
Wouldn't we? How? you ask. Well, for example, uh . . . And there's . . .
uh. Well at least we could have had a better visa system. So that has
nothing to do with the Constitution: picky, picky.
In this fight for our cherished freedoms, those cherished freedoms should
definitely be the first thing to go. Sieg heil, y'all.
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07) British Reporter Fisk Badly Beaten in Pakistan
Reuters
8 Dec 01
LONDON -- British journalist Robert Fisk was attacked and badly beaten on
Saturday by a mob in Pakistan.
Fisk, 55, a veteran foreign correspondent for the London based Independent
newspaper, was set upon by a group of around 100 Afghan refugees after his
car broke down on the road between the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and
Chaman.
"It was a very frightening experience and I am in a lot of pain but I am
glad to be alive," he told a colleague on the Independent. "I'm going to
bear the scars for the rest of my life. Sadly I broke down in the wrong
place at the wrong time."
The colleague told Reuters: "He was passing through a village full of
refugees who'd just escaped from Kandahar. Robert told me he discovered
later that they'd been bombed.
"He said that the sight of two westerners pushing a broken down car
attracted a crowd. They were friendly at first but then a child threw a
stone which hit him on the head and then the others joined in."
Fisk suffered injuries to his head, face and hands after being pelted by
stones. A spokeswoman for the Independent said Fisk was recovering at his
hotel in Quetta.
"Robert says he completely understands why this happened," she told
Reuters. "These people were refugees. They've lost everything. Robert says
he understands why they're angry. He doesn't hold it against them at all."
Asked whether Fisk, widely acknowledged to be an expert on the Middle East,
would continue to report on the conflict in Afghanistan the spokeswoman
said: "We're expecting Robert to be writing for the Independent on Monday."
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REAL POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:
It's from the rightwing authoritarians and always has been
08) Pat Robertson Resigns From Christian Coalition: AU's Lynn Says
Coalition 'Has Been a Sinking Ship for Several Years, and Now the
Captain's jumped Overboard'
Americans United
10 Dec 01
Television preacher Pat Robertson announced today that he is resigning as
president of the Christian Coalition, the right-wing political organization
he founded in 1989. The move spells the certain demise of the floundering
group, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
"The Christian Coalition has been a sinking ship for several years, and now
the captain's jumped overboard," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive
director of Americans United. "Without Robertson's money and political
clout, it's only a matter of time before the organization collapses
outright."
Added Lynn, "The sooner the Christian Coalition collapses the better as far
as I'm concerned. Its activities have taken politics closer to the gutter
than to Heaven. The country will be better off without it."
Although the Coalition enjoyed some political successes in the early to mid
1990s, the group has fallen on hard times in recent years. Its budget has
plummeted from $25 million annually to less than $3 million. Top staffers
have fled the group in droves, and earlier this year it was sued by several
African American employees who alleged racial discrimination at the
Coalition's Washington, D.C., offices.
Americans United has been the leading critic of the Coalition since its
founding. In September of 1997, Americans United obtained a tape of
Robertson outlining a partisan agenda for the group during a closed-door
meeting of group activists and turned it over to then Federal Election
Commission and Internal Revenue Service.
Americans United has also taken the lead in warning churches nationally
that distribution of Christian Coalition "voter guides" could endanger the
tax-exempt status of houses of worship. The guides, AU asserts, are really
partisan campaign material that endorse conservative Republican candidates
while attacking Democrats.
Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington,
D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the
importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom.
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