Meet the Most Powerful Conservative Group You've Never Heard Of
When Steve Baldwin, the executive director of an organization with the stale-as-old-bread name of the Council for National Policy, boasts that "we control everything in the world," he is only half-kidding.
Half-kidding, because the council doesn't really control the world. The staff of about eight, working in a modern office building in Fairfax, Va., isn't even enough for a real full-court basketball game.
But also half-serious because the council has deservedly attained the reputation for conceiving and promoting the ideas of many who in fact do want to control everything in the world.
For many liberals, the 22-year-old council is very dangerous and dangerously secretive, and has fueled conspiratorial antipathy. The group wants to be the conservative version of the Council on Foreign Relations, but to some, CNP members — among the brightest lights of the hard right — are up to no good. Continue...
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Now who's wearing the tin-foil hat?
Uhm... ABC news?
This article is a couple years old but still relevant today. You can also check out the CNP Wikipedia entry for more info. Check out the member roles, you might be surprised who you find lurking in the shadows. Wink, wink.
Members of the CNP have included: General John Singlaub, shipping magnate J. Peter Grace, Edwin J. Feulner Jr of the Heritage Foundation, Rev. Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Jerry Falwell, Senator Trent Lott, Senator Don Nickles, former United States Attornies General Ed Meese and John Ashcroft, gun-rights activist Larry Pratt, Col. Oliver North, and philanthropist Else Prince, mother of Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater the private security firm. Go CNP!
Don't forget ex-Gov. Sarah Palin and Rev. Sun Myung Moon (sourcewatch).
Oh, you mean this Erik Prince
Go Sarah!
So Moon and Oliver North are on the same team? Hmmm...
You kind of dig that, huh? Glad I could make your day.
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