Free Republic Founder Joins Boycott Of CPAC

Free Republic ^ | 12-21-09

[icwhatudo]

The founder of the website "Free Republic", Jim Robinson, has joined a growing boycott of the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) due to a homosexual activist group sponsoring the event.

GOProud, a group that advocates same-sex "marriage," a repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and "expanding access to domestic partner benefits" for homosexuals, is listed as a sponsor of the event at CPAC's website.

Mr. Robinson has joined a number of conservative activists including Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver, and Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan in their efforts.

On a reply to an article about the boycott, Mr. Robinson stated "I’ll join that boycott. If CPAC is no longer for conservative family values then I want nothing to do with them. They’ll have to change their name to HOMOPAC."

[whatisthetruth]

Obviously there must be a RINO running the organization so they should call themselves RINOPAC.

Michael Steele maybe, maybe NARAL should become a CPAC sponsor too. Big tent and all that.

[sausageseller]

I've always considered myself a lesbian Am I in trouble?

Depends on how the sex change went.

[Shaun_MD]

Way to go, Jim!

[manc]

My view is that he should not speak there like other conservatives now but I will not go against him right now based on that.

[tutstar]

bump

[magritte]

Thanks...I really like Rubio and his numbers in FL are astounding...don’t want to see this hurt him and get Crist back in the game...magritte

[helpfulresearcher]

Perhaps you should do your homework before you call someone an ass. See Michelle Malkin at http://michellemalkin.com/2004/07/30/what-say-you-now-grover-norquist/ on the subject.

While he does not run CPAC alone, he does have huge influence there on who are allowed to speak etc. and ran his who’s who DC conservative weekly meetings with an iron hand.

Consider also the following:

The head of the famously inept California Republican Party, Ron Nehring, hired a realtor from the Dominican Republic, Michael Kamburoski, to be the Chief Operating Officer of the California GOP even though the man had no relevant experience, and wasn’t even an American citizen. [73] The man was managing millions of GOP dollars in California. The only qualification the man had was he, like Nehring, had been employees of Grover Norquist. [74]

Since Nehring took the post in February, the California GOP ran up a million dollar deficit, Nehring has jet setted to countries around the world, and Kamburoski filed suit against the US government. [75] Kamburowski was not only a Dominican real estate broker, he was a salesman in the same Punta Cana community where the Clintons reportedly bought a home. [76]

It is not the first time Grover Norquist has been friends with people from a tropical paradise renowned for money laundering. Public records [77] show that Norquist was the lobbyist for the Seychelles when it became a money laundering center:

“The clear design of the Seychelles law is to attract capital by permitting international criminal enterprises to shelter both themselves and their illicitly-gained wealth from pursuit by legal authorities,” said the head of international Financial Action Task Force for Money Laundering (FATF), Ron Noble in 1996. “Drug traffickers and other criminals can enjoy the spoils of their illegal activities secure in the knowledge that the Seychelles authorities will protect them. This poses a grave threat to efforts to combat money laundering and maintain the integrity of the world’s financial systems.” [78]

MSNBC commentator Tucker Carlson (whose father had been an ambassador to the Seychelles) reportedly dumped a drink on Norquist’s head in a DC bar one night and has said “Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep”, a “buffoon commissar who has misplaced his principles to the extent of accepting money to lobby on behalf of the Marxist government of the Seychelles.” [79] As a free-market warrior, is Grover Norquist perhaps taking the free-market a bit too literally - even believing money laundering for Marxists is a moral free market activity?

The Seychelles were the first place that the Clintons used FinCEN to shut down for money laundering. By 2003, under the Bush Administration when Grover Norquist once again had influence in the White House, the Seychelles were given an OK by FinCEN. [80]

Grover Norquist has also had an important role in getting questionable Moslems into the White House. Frank Gaffney (a TTP author and president of the Center for Security Policy) has been viciously attacked by Norquist for his devastating investigations and expose of Norquist, which is detailed at length in A Troubling Influence[81].

In short, Gaffney found that Norquist was dealing with people linked to known terrorists, and was busy getting Moslems with questionable associates into positions of authority in the White House in a blatant breach of security. In Khan Job [82] Gaffney writes:

“The Islamic Institute was established by Grover Norquist in 1998 with $20,000 in seed money from Abdurahman Alamoudi (who is currently serving a 23-year federal sentence for terrorism-related activities). II is the principal vehicle for the Islamists’ influence operation aimed at the Bush Administration and Republican and conservative circles. Norquist was its founding president; Alamoudi’s long-time deputy, Khalid Saffuri, was its first executive director; and II’s offices continue to be housed in the downtown Washington office suite rented by Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform.

In fact, Grover Norquist is the Islamic Institute’s chief enabler. As Arab-American pollster, John Zogby, put it to the New Republic in November 2001,... “absolutely, [Grover is] central to the White House outreach.”

When a White House access list of Moslems to be invited to meetings in the presidential complex was prepared, it actually had Norquist at its top. Given that Grover Norquist is married to a Moslem woman, one could conclude that he had become Moslem as well. When asked point-blank by Frank Gaffney if he had converted to Islam, Mr. Norquist reportedly answered, “That’s personal.”

It is hard fully to calculate the magnitude of the damage done by the pro-Islamist influence operation run by Grover Norquist and his friends. Law enforcement agencies have been forced to receive “sensitivity training” from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Norquist has lent conservative political cover to those who would weaken our counter-terrorism authorities and techniques. He has helped place into positions of trust and official responsibility people whose often-undisclosed past associations at least raise questions about their reliability.

In short, thanks in part to the Norquist operation, America’s enemies have been emboldened. And the United States is at considerably greater risk.” [82]

When Jack Wheeler warned Grover Norquist about working with Moslem extremists such as Khalid Saffuri, Norquist responded by questioning Jack’s patriotism! Specifically, he said that he trusted his Moslem friend’s patriotism more than he trusted Jack’s. [83]

Grover Norquist’s Islamic Institute helped place Moslems in sensitive positions in the White House. Is it a coincidence that Grover Norquist was against wire taps? [84] Is it also a coincidence that Norquist was leading the charge against the Patriot Act? [85]

To what extent is President Bush aware of Norquist’s connections to Islamic extremists and corrupt Marxists in the Dominican Republic?

References:
73. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501644_pf.html
74. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/28/EDG6QQ4T6V1.DTL
75. http://billbradley.pajamasmedia.com/2007/07/25/california_republicans_financi.php
76. http://www.calnews.com/archives/contreras337.htm http://www.nysun.com/article/57203?page_no= 1
77. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/links/search.html
78. http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/63/24/35752397.pdf
79. http://www.americanpolitics.com/20021209Koop.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson
80. http://www.fincen.gov/advis2w.pdf
81. http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID={C7CD908B-6D7E-49EB-A0A9-DA0A18745A29}
82. http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaffney/070220
83. personal communication, Dr. Jack Wheeler. The Wheeler-Norquist email exchange took place shortly after Sept. 11, 2001.
84. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/26/MNG24GTB8O1.DTL
85. http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200310201247.asp

[Cacique]

btt

[ThomasSawyer]

"On a thread like this I begin to wonder where “Hate the sin but love the sinner” begins and ends..."

We are to love our neighbor as ourselves regardless of what lifestyle they have chosen (yes, I did say "chosen") to lead. This does not entail accepting their sin as anything other than what it is. We are all sinners in need of repentance, but there are those that not only refuse to repent, but attempt to promote their sin as at the very least inconsequential or at worst a positive to society. Jesus saved the adulteress from stoning, but the part that is often forgotten is that he told her to go and sin no more.

Efforts to influence political and educational policy as well as church doctrine by those who have organized based on their homosexual activities should be steadfastly resisted for the good of our children, society, and themselves.

[manc]

He’s making a lot of headway here and I’m up in the north east part of the state where he’s hardly been compared to the south part of the state.

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[pabianice]

Come on, everyone. We need to make the distinction between gays who are pro-American and gays who are anti-American. Painting all with the same brush is as wrong as saying every woman who owns a gun is Sarah Palin, as in that wretched new movie with Sara Parker. I don’t care about people who are gay. I do care about people who are anti-American, pro-Obozo.

[Humidston]

JimRob, YOU DA MAN!

[magritte]

Merry Christmas to you and yours as well...we’ll see if GOProud sticks as co-sponsor...they represent a significant segment of Republicans; fiscal conservative, social liberal ... if CPAC drops them, that’s a clear signal that fiscal/social conservatives are making a significant impact with the party...magritte

[catarac]

Leviticus 18:22: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus 20:13 13: If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
Jim, you are a man of God. You deny not the commands of our GOD.May God Bless you and keep you my brother.

[TV Dinners]

well stated.

[stevio]

News to my ears that CPAC allows this. I’m with JR on this.

[cashless]

Dittos.

[jla]

You try so hard to come across as intellectually and morally superior to others. I'd say you're a very insecure person.

Moving forward, does the fact that Jefferson owned slaves (nowhere near 600 by the way) negate the Declaration of Independence? Is the Constitution null and void because its chief author, Madison, owned slaves?
And you conveniently fail to reply on the unambiguous references to God in those documents.
Speaking of God, are you aware that He sanctioned slavery? If you're not perhaps the Old Testament should be included on your reading schedule. God also doesn't appear to suffer homosexuals very well. Fortunately, like all sinners, even those who are pretentious blowhards :), they can change and get to be in Heaven.
Though God does not ask us to condone, tacitly or not, the ways of the sinner.

So, if you want to attend CPAC with GOProud group, knock yourself out. Do not censure others who won't buy into your phony, holier-than-thou pretense.

Have a GREAT day, Bob!

[Waryone]

Sure NARAL will fit under that big tent.

Next thing you know someone will be sneaking NAMBLA in there too and the only ones who will want to be inside will be the terrorists, anarchists, marxists, and degenerates. Just like when the circus closes. There won’t be any people in it, just one empty, big and nasty tent that needs to be folded up and packed away.

[jla]

BTW - It does not surprise me you are FR's biggest Palin supporter.

Thanks, I take that as a compliment, though I am merely one of many, many, many supporters of the grand lady from Alaska; our future, and first female, President.