Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, on CPAC’s Sharia Enforcers #StandwithPamelaGeller

Thomas Lifson weighs in on "CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller":

CPAC
already has earned headlines for narrowing the conservative tent this
year. Now, after not inviting Christ Christie to speak, and declining to
allow GoProud to participate, CPAC is refusing to allow Pamela Geller
to have a booth or rent rooms to conduct events. From her own site, Pamela writes:

the Grover Norquist/Suhail Khan cabal refuse to address (jihad, sharia, the war on freedom in the West).

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This
year, I applied to speak and was ignored. I tried to get a room for an
AFDI event, "The War on Free Speech," and was ignored. So, for the first
time in five years, I won't be at CPAC. Last year Suhail Khan bragged
out loud that he (and his other operatives) had successfully kept Robert
Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He went so far as to warn
people not to attend our events or read our books.

>In several articles I took on Grover
Norquist and his powerful influence over CPAC, most notably here and
here. As soon as I published my Newsmax column concerning his perfidious
influence at CPAC, my Newsmax column was taken down and my name and
picture were removed from the Newsmax page….. it was two slots away
from Grover's. My weekly column never appeared at Newsmax again. It was axed.

Now this. I might add, every AFDI event at CPAC was standing room only. We turned people away every year.

independent account of Pamela's CPAC event last year:

 I
remember in 2011, I was hanging out with Tania Gail and all of sudden
she jumps up and says, "Oh my gosh, we've got to get over to Pamela
Geller's screening of "The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the
9/11 Attacks." We then ran over to the other side of the conference
center to find a jam-packed hall just sitting down to the movie
screening. It was awesome. And then the next day, Pamela held a standing
room event for the families of 9/11: "THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE EVENT AT
CPAC." These events were the freakin' pinnacle of the conference.
Sheesh. What is wrong with this world? Now Pamela's banned?
Unbe-freakin'-lievable.

Breitbart News adds:

For
the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American
Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she
invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America. But this year,
the American Conservative Union (ACU) has no room for Geller or her
message.

In
2009, she brought Geert Wilders, who is the head of the third largest
party in the Netherlands and has spoken out against the Islamization of
his country.

In
2010 she held an event that her organization, The American Freedom
Defense Initiative, hosted, titled "Jihad: The Political Third Rail",
with speakers like Allen West, Wafa Sultan, Simon Deng, Anders Gravers,
and Steve Coughlin.

In
2011, she hosted an event discussing the Ground Zero Mosque with 9/11
families. In 2012, the event was titled "Islamic Law in America."

In
years past, the events were standing room only thanks to their
popularity, but that apparently was not enough to counter pressure
brought to bear from somewhere to exclude Geller's message.

I
will be attending CPAC for the first time this year, and am saddened
that the organization is restricting the scope of conservatism allowed
to be represented. As Jonah Goldbergwrote before news of the Geller ban came forth:

Some
will no doubt see this as CPAC bravely holding the line. But it reads
to many in the public as a knee-jerk and insecure retreat at precisely
the moment conservatives should be sending the opposite message. Maybe
the near third of young Republicans who support gay marriage are wrong,
but CPAC won't convince them – never mind other young voters – of that
by fueling the storyline that conservatives are scared of gays.

It's
not CPAC's fault that the borders of conservatism are shrinking, but it
would be nice if at this moment it acted less like a border guard
keeping all but the exquisitely credentialed out and more like a tourist
board, explaining why it's such a great place to visit – and live.

CPAC is a private group, and free to manage
its affairs as it sees fit, of course. But it occupies a significant
role in politics because many stripes of conservatives have regarded it
as something close to a comprehensive representation of where
conservatism stands. That is certainly not the case this year. Too bad.

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mgoldberg

11 years ago

Just who are those who run CPAC…? Aren’t there any ‘board’ members who understand and accept the necessity for all the conservative voices and issues to have redress?
Any names to write to too urge reinstatement?

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katherine

11 years ago

board of directors:
http://conservative.org/about-acu/board-of-directors
Board of Directors
Al Cardenas
Chairman,
Cardenas Partners LLC
Thomas S. Winter
First Vice Chairman,
Human Events
Donald J. Devine
Second Vice Chairman,
Donald Devine Company
Becky Norton Dunlop
Treasurer,
The Heritage Foundation
Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr.
Secretary,
Jameson Books, Inc.
Joe Bast
The Heartland Institute
Jeffrey Bell
Capital City Partners
Morton C. Blackwell
The Leadership Institute
Ambassador John Bolton
American Enterprise Institute
Floyd Brown
Western Center for Journalism
Muriel Coleman
‘Tis The Season Dr.
Larry Eastland
Global Public Strategies, Ltd
Paul Erickson
USA PAC
Carly Fiorina
Fiorina and Associates
Charlie Gerow
Quantum Communications
Alan M. Gottlieb
Citizens Committee for
the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Van D. Hipp, Jr.
American Defense International, Inc
Asa Hutchinson
The Asa Hutchinson Law Group
David A. Keene
National Rifle Association
Suhail A. Khan
Microsoft
James V. Lacy
Wewer and Lacy, LLP
Michael R. Long
New York State Conservative Party
Serphin Maltese
Carolyn D. Meadows
Cleta Mitchell
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Joseph A. Morris
Morris & De La Rosa
Grover G. Norquist
Americans for Tax Reform
Ron Robinson
Young America’s Foundation
Allen Roth
Matt Schlapp
Cove Strategies
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Lewis K. Uhler
National Tax Limitation Committee
Kirby Wilbur
Washington State Republican Party

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MA02169

11 years ago

“But this year, the American Conservative Union (ACU) . . .”
The American Conservative Union?
This reminds me of communist countries who refer to themselves as “Republics.” You know like The Peoples Republic of China. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.
If this union is for conservative Americans, why do these anti-American; anti-Geller; pro-Islam bastards, Grover Norquist, and Suhail Khan running the show?
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And now for something completely different.
This one is for all of the Suffragette Shruggerettes.
The women’s suffrage parade a century ago today when 100 marchers were hospitalized when they clashed with a hostile male crowd
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:06 EST, 3 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:45 EST, 3 March 2013
A huge step forward on the road to women’s suffrage in the U.S. happened exactly 100 years ago today. The ‘Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913’ was a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3.
Scheduled for the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, the official program called for a ‘march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287438/Pictured-The-womens-suffrage-parade-century-ago-today-100-marchers-hospitalized-hostile-male-crowd.html#ixzz2MTbOAYpA
There are lots of cool photos as well.

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chilipalmer

11 years ago

I see John Bolton’s name on the board of directors. Why is he on a board that includes Norquist and Khan? Why is he on a board that doesn’t welcome Pamela Geller?

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Bezelel

11 years ago

I am reminded of what happened when Michelle Bachman pointed out that we have muslim brotherhood ties in the Federal gov.Republicans jumped her as well.WTF?

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pam k

11 years ago

Is there a list of participants? Have people already paid to attend? Can someone urge a boycott?
Maybe if Pamela has lists of attendees from previous years, a letter can be sent to them signed by Pamela’s supporters urging them to cancel their attendance and their membership.

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Chip Murray

11 years ago

Ann Barnhardt has been 100% right from the beginning. We are no longer living in a Republic! The US Government has been underthrown and taken over by a cabal of thieves and jackals which include republicans, democrats and now (just as I was about to switch from life-long republican)”conservatives” too? What’s a lonely patriot to do?

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Laura

11 years ago

I have no problem with them not inviting Chris Christie who is not a conservative and and is an islamophile. In fact considering Christie’s views on islam, I’m surprised he wasn’t welcomed at CPAC with open arms.

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