[ April 18, 2024 ]
Many people have been asking me what I think of the CPAC panel on social media censorship that is taking place today.
I submitted this panel proposal to CPAC, as a panel of my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI). The work my organization and I do is critical and singular. It addresses the most serious issue of our time. I organized this panel and gave it its focus, title, and speaker roster.
Now Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project (APP) says he is holding the panel anyway, without either me or Hoft, and that it was his panel to which he invited me. In reality, neither Schilling nor the APP nor anyone at CPAC had any hand in the conception or organization of this panel. CPAC’s claim that I was “invited” to this panel that I originated and that I then bowed out is a lie; their running with this panel that I conceived and organized without my authorization or consent is intellectual theft.
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This is the height of irony: a panel on free speech from which not one, but two speakers have been banned. How can they claim to stand for free speech after dropping a speaker because of pressure from the authoritarian left? What value can a free speech panel have when two free speech leaders were banned from that panel? And if I am so toxic, having been shunned at CPAC for years, why are they stealing my work?
The panel is now bitterly ironic: social media censorship discussed at a heavily censored event. CPAC should be inviting us, not banning us. To bow to the left by dropping Jim Hoft because the left is targeting him only reinforces our weakness and shows why we are losing this great war.
Conservatives are noticing what is happening with CPAC, and they aren’t happy. A new hit piece on CPAC in Vanity Fair reveals that “there are currently only 31 groups sponsoring the convention this year, compared to 47 in 2017, and just 30 listed exhibitors, down from 44 grassroots activist groups the year before….CPAC had lost nearly a third of its attendees from a peak of roughly 12,000 in 2014.”
CPAC, like the social media giants, needs to be scrapped and replaced with a more open, honest, and genuinely inclusive entity.
We cannot accept the silencing of our colleagues. We can disagree, of course, and debate. But banning and shutting us down? No, that’s what the left does. That is not who we are.
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6 years ago
Painful.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
RINO’s/Dems Like facebook , twitter, even Google have joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris
They are either funded(muslims holding stake in their company) or paid Millions to shill for Islam and run down/smear those who oppose Islam.
And conservatives don’t want to fund the alternative media, nor unite to pursue the issue politically or legally then act surprised their First amendment is not getting up and fighting for them !
6 years ago
Pamela, I’m glad you’re standing up for yourself.
6 years ago
Awsome, AWSOME !!!!
Katie Hopkins – Get Furious and Fight Back against the narrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=CJbk4yLPedQ
-[poikjuhgfdx
6 years ago
This is a repost of something I posted yesterday, and is my most articulate statement on this controversy. I think it is still relevant and would invite considered criticism.
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I think I can understand, and even respect, Pamela’s outrage at having “her baby” sabotaged in the manner it has been, particularly given that people for whom she has no respect are now raising “her baby” and taking credit for it. However, I strongly suspect she would vociferously object to having her name associated with the panel as it is presently constituted, as it has been re-shaped from how she, the fountainhead behind it, envisioned it.
Nevertheless, I think I can understand the motive behind CPAC’s desire to remove Jim Hoft from the panel. If his very presence could have become a distraction from the important issue being raised, I find it easy to understand why CPAC would have wanted him to be disinvited. Suppose, for example, one of the panel members had come under attack for sexual harassment, such as using that time-honored technique of the “casting couch” for employment purposes. Pretty sleazy, I would say (hat tip Tippi Hedren, aka “Marni”), but it would not have direct bearing on the person’s expertise on the matter of freedom of speech. An unfortunate situation all around, one for which I don’t have a completely satisfying answer.
ATTN Goon Squad: Don’t bother to respond to this.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
Thanks, Ron. I take a lot of guff here from the local goon squad (Achmed being a charter member), so I appreciate your comment.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Poor little itty/Cat Mandu, she gets SO many “upvotes”. She is simply a misunderstood little blithering idiot.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
But Hoft has NOT been accused of sexual harassment, so your comment is meritless.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Attention: Guttersnipe … I did not read your drivel, except to notice the last line. So, what’s the resident blithering idiot (itty) up to, today?
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
I’ve been cognizant, of that word, for well over six decades. This is the first opportunity that I have had, of being able to truthfully call something that term. You did not teach it to me .. You only showed me the example of what a guttersnipe is, bitch (a term you seem to like).
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
bitch (a term you seem to like).
No, goon, it is not a word I like. I will use it to someone who opens discourse with me, as Joy did, and calls me an “ass”. Context when disparaging people seems to mean nolthing to trash like you, who seek not to refute, but merely mindlessly disparage.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
When I can come up with a definition of “nolthing”, I’ll get back to you on how you are FAR (special emphasis added) lower than trash. Moreover, you were not returning the slanderous term of “bitch”, due to having called it by another .. You were the first one to use it. You truly are nothing but a blithering idiot’s blithering idiot. You offer nothing but pure unadulterated drek. I may be a goon, but you define the term “guttersnipe”. Simply a disgusting thing .. There is nothing about you that is not disgusting.
6 years ago
Righteous people will often be found standing alone. Popular conservatism does not appeal to this writer.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
Also I Corinthians 15:58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord
6 years ago
CPAC: Calculated Politics Against Peacekeepers. Most of the speakers on this list should new ashamed of attending. No Family, No Free Speech, and very little courage. Who’s next? the JR-ROTC? boy scouts? Gee-they forgot to invite Bruce Jenner. This organization is becoming an elitist cesspool. Let’s not be islamophobic; where is Nihad?
6 years ago
It appears you banned yourself, Pam. So only one was banned. It was your choice to be an inseparable pair. Still, it was a crappy outcome. Don’t lose credibility by exaggerating when you don’t need to.
6 years ago
Reply to
gfmucci
To a degree, I share your opinion that she banned herself and I sometimes share your concern that she inclines toward exaggeration. Just reading her words, however, tells me that she has good reason for her outrage: her product was taken, without attribution, by someone with no standing on the issue. Personally, I think she could have handled it better, but I’m not really in a position to judge the situation.
But I consider these mere quibbles. She is still a stalwart leader who gets things done with a “full steam ahead” approach. Be thankful she is there, bearing in mind she is not the Woman for all Seasons. The counter-jihad movement would be the poorer without her: she is the lightning rod for the epic struggle of our time,
BTW, she prefers to be referred to as Pamela.
6 years ago
I do not see Pamela’s being locked out of CPAC of any importance to her followers.
Without her we would be in the dark about the muslim threat and its slimy supporters in our gutter`mint.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
She’s hardly the only one, but she does it with a matchless style. I particularly like the following sites:
elderofziyon.com
gatesofvienna.net
gatestoneinstitute.org
jamieglazov.com
palwatch.org
camera.org
thetower.org
https://thereligionofpeace.com/
frontpagemag.com
I spun those out from memory, and it’s possible that I incorrectly remembered the domain.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Jihadwatch. org? com? THAT’S an important one if you have not yet checked it out!
6 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
This is what got me banned from the moslem loving, islamophiliac site, jihadwatch.org: “There is but one satan and its name is allah. And, the lowest and MOST COWARDLY of his demons is mohammed”. Freakin’ moslem loving islamophiliacs ..
6 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
I do not like Robert Spencer and will never promote his site. Little prima donna that he is, he banned me from jihadwatch for a while for some mild criticism of his opinion in which he had criticized a Melkite cleric. My criticism, largely quoting a respected book about the Copts, was along the lines of criticism I have made of Pamela here, but Pamela, bless her, as best I know has never retaliated against me in public or impugned my reputation.
Spencer continued in his fine style by, a couple of years later, denying he had banned me and, as I recall, called me a liar (it may only have been one of the idiots on his site who called me that, but as very least Spencer said I made “counterfactual” claims). It developed into a minor controversy on his site in which my name was trashed by Spencer and others. After I sent him a copy of his email in which he notified me I had been banned, he acknolged privately that I had spoken truthfully, but removed the entire discussion from his web site.
Spencer’s version of integrity apparently means you can impugn a person’s character and, when proven wrong, simply send the discussion to the bit bucket. I acknowledge his contribution to the counter-jihad movement, but I have no respect for him as a man. Ergo, I would never commend his site to anyone’s attention. He is, in my opinion, a sleazebag.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
She can inform more people having a presence at CPAC. We know Pamela Geller, perhaps many still do not. Who she is, what she does must reach more people. This is how a movement & strength grows, don’t you agree?
6 years ago
I’d say this is the very definition of hypocrisy. CPAC will go the way of Bill Kristol & the Never Trumpers. Boggles the mind…….
6 years ago
Unfortunately Grover’s influence as well as others who seek to weaken the conservative message is still strong at CPAC.
The fact that attendance numbers are down testify they are being successful .
6 years ago
CPAC was always weak
– not really conservative
– more like ‘centrist-right’
– the placebo condition of politics
– goal is to be harmless
– they get upset when clear-thinking conservatives speak up
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
As present-day conservationism finds a clearer vision
– CPAC gets fuzzier
– and less representative of conservatism
6 years ago
Plain and simple, Pamela got shafted by the spineless Schilling. Then, to add insult to injury, he stole HER idea for the panel. All I can say is the man qualifies for the Establishment RINO POS Award.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ebayer
Yep, banned her and Hoft, then stole her idea. The man is a genuine turd.
6 years ago
CPAC has become little more than a job fair for graduates with associates degrees in criminal science looking for internships. Not that that’s a bad thing but it has shifted the focus of the convention.
6 years ago
They probably mispelled the name. I thought it was CPUKE.
6 years ago
I just started watching your video and then, “this video is no longer available”… looks like internet censorship has broken the glass ceiling?
3 years ago
EVERYTHING good and righteous WILL EVENTUALLY be eroded and changed/molded into what EVIL PEOPLE WANT. The Bible tells us this. YES, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO REVEAL IT AND FIGHT IT. THAT IS OUR DUTY TO GOD AND COUNTRY, AS WELL AS TO OURSELVES.
Pamela: start another organization (GOFUNDME PAGE) AND HAVE TOTAL AUTONOMY OVER IT! Maybe the Young Republicans organization, which I also support, will help. I certainly would if I were in NYC and I would do it FREE OF CHARGE (build the website, etc.).
Pamela, we stand with you BECAUSE you have proven yourself to be honest and WISE. I cannot say that even about most RINOS and I certainly can’t say that about ANY DEMOCRAT.
THIS FAMILY SUPPORTS YOU BOTH FINANCIALLY AND IN THE MAINSTREAM!
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CanvasBlocker
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But, the above will safely and affectively takes care of 95% of problems most people have IF THEY USE FIREFOX. AND, with FF, you can disable these add-ons thru the HELP selection on the FF menu if it does not work out for you, but with all my clients (that I have helped with their computers/software/security), it has solved their problems.
