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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:12 PM
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30+ C Street Fascists in Gov. I'm naming Names. Biblical Capitalism IS ChristoFascism



"You guys," David said, "are here to learn how to rule the world."

~snip~

"It's called a covenant. Two, or three, agree? They can do anything. A covenant is . . . powerful. Can you think of anyone who made a covenant with his friends?"

We all knew the answer to this, having heard his name invoked numerous times in this context. Andrew from Australia, sitting beside Doug, cleared his throat: "Hitler."

"Yes," Doug said. "Yes, Hitler made a covenant. The Mafia makes a covenant. It is such a very powerful thing. Two, or three, agree."

harpers.org Jeff Sharlet's "Jesus + Nothing"

What Douglas Coe is talking about is fascism, Christofascism, where a few powerful dominate the masses despie their collective will and against their interests.


Go below the fold. I'm Naming Names.

MinistryOfTruth's diary :: :: UPDATE:

Let's be honest, if I left out the D's and only went after the R's same people booing me would be applauding me for it, and my journalistic integrity would be ashamed of itself. Therefore, I went after everyone I could based on fact based evidence. If you are inclined to disagree, feel free to use the sources I have used to disprove my claims, or introduce other sources to the contrary. Any education on the matter is and will always be appreciated.

Further: I assert that the precept of biblical Capitalism is Christofascism.

I do NOT want to make it seem as though all Christians are fascists. Far from it


House of Representatives

Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Ann Emerson (R-MO)
Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
Heath Shuler (D-NC)
Vernon Ehlers (R-MI)
Bart Stupak (D-MI)
Mike Doyle (D-PA)
Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Joe Pitts (R-PA)
Todd Tiahrt (R-KS)
Zach Wamp (R-TN)
James "Randy" Forbes (R-VA)
Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
John Carter (R-TX)
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Frank Wolf (R-VA)

Senators

Chuck Grassley (R-IO)
John Ensign (R-NV)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
John Thune (R-SD)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX)
Joe Lieberman (I-CT)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)

Governors

Mark Sanford (R-SC)

In the Current Administration

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Members who no longer hold office

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Sen. Steve Largent (R-OK)
Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS)
AG John Ashcroft
The Spiritual advisors of Gov. Sarah Palin, so, presumably Sarah Palin


The following sources were used to create this list, as well as other sources listed in this diary.

salon.com

pubrecord.org

markdroberts.com

huffingtonpost.com

democraticunderground.com

You want proof that Fox's 9/12ers and Tea Parties are Fascist oriented? Well both DeMint and Blackburn were guest speakers, and both of them subscribe to the Jesus + Nothing Biblical Capitalism as a laissez faire Free market system. It begs the question, which came first? Jesus or the Free Market Corporatism?

They believe in . . .

Jesus the Union Buster
Jesus the Tax Cutter
Jesus the De-Regulator
Jesus the Free market Unfettered Capitalist

and they say that

Jesus = Hitler
Jesus = Stalin
Jesus = Osama nin Laden
Jesus = Power

Do you want bipartisanship? The "Christian Mafia" as founder Douglas Coe calls them will give you bipartisanship, but with a twist.

Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) denies involvement with The Family. However, Pryor told Jeff Sharlet directly during a phone call that he was indeed associated with the sect. He described to Sharlet some of what he’d learned there. On "the real meaning of bipartisanship": "Jesus didn’t come to take sides, he came to take over."

rso.cornell.edu

Anyone who has studied Fascism knows it is NOT socialism or communism. It IS capitalism merged with the state. Corporatism is a better word for it. Nevertheless, the fact remains that a number of elected officials honestly adhere to the notion of biblical capitalism, a notion that is not too far removed from the idea of intelligent design or climate change denial. It is a way of re-writing history to suit an agenda. That is agenda is unfettered wealth and power in he hands of an undemocratic few. Call it fascism, corporatism, Oligarcy or Plutocracy, but it sure as hell isn't Democracy, either politically or Economically.

The Iron Heel of the Wealthiest 1% cares not for who is in charge, just as long as they are stamping on the face of the working class.

JEFF SHARLET: The Family began as this domestic organization way back in the 1930s, a union-busting organization. But by the ’50s, they—

AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, union-busting organization?

JEFF SHARLET: Oh, they—it’s part of that invisible hand of the market. They believe that organized labor is ungodly, to put it mildly, perhaps Satanic. It began with this vision in 1935 that the New Deal and organized labor were literally a Satanic conspiracy they had to fight back.

In the 1950s, in the Cold War, they started moving overseas and identifying strongmen, dictators, who they thought were effective in the fight against communism, who they thought were effective in the fight for free markets. And Suharto was one of those men. You know, Suharto, who—even the CIA, which helped him orchestrate his coup, later said it was one of the worst mass killings of the twentieth century.

DemocracyNow.org

At the 1990 National Prayer Breakfast, George H.W. Bush praised Doug Coe for what he described as "quiet diplomacy, I wouldn't say secret diplomacy," as an "ambassador of faith."

harpers.org

The Family is headed today by Douglas Coe

The organization has operated under many guises, some active, some defunct: National Committee for Christian Leadership, International Christian Leadership, the National Leadership Council, Fellowship House, the Fellowship Foundation, the National Fellowship Council, the International Foundation. These groups are intended to draw attention away from the Family, and to prevent it from becoming, in the words of one of the Family's leaders, "a target for misunderstanding."

The Family's only publicized gathering is the National Prayer Breakfast, which it established in 1953 and which, with congressional sponsorship, it continues to organize every February in Washington, D.C. Each year 3,000 dignitaries, representing scores of nations, pay $425 each to attend. Steadfastly ecumenical, too bland most years to merit much press, the breakfast is regarded by the Family as merely a tool in a larger purpose: to recruit the powerful attendees into smaller, more frequent prayer meetings, where they can "meet Jesus man to man."

harpers.org Jeff Sharlet's "Jesus + Nothing"



The Co-Chairs of the last 4 National Prayer Breakfasts (an honor I assume the Family does not just bestow upon anyone)

2006 Senators Norm Coleman (R-MN), Mark Pryor (D-AR)
2007 Reps Emanuel Clever (D-MO), the late Jo Ann Davis (R-VA)
2008 Senators Ken Salazar (D-CO), Mike Enzi (R_WY)
2009 Reps Heath Shuler (D-NC), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI)

This years National Prayer Breakfast has President barack Obama as it's guest speaker.

President Obama: "Good morning. I want to thank the Co-Chairs of this breakfast, Representatives Heath Shuler and Vernon Ehlers. I’d also like to thank Tony Blair for coming today, as well as our Vice President, Joe Biden, members of my Cabinet, members of Congress, clergy, friends, and dignitaries from across the world.

Michelle and I are honored to join you in prayer this morning. I know this breakfast has a long history in Washington, and faith has always been a guiding force in our family’s life, so we feel very much at home and look forward to keeping this tradition alive during our time here."

Read Obama's full speech to the National Prayer Breakfast here

And about that long history of the National Prayer Breakfast that is hosted by the C Street's Familt or Christian Mafia every year, the one Obama is glad to continue? (In all fairness, President George W. Bush attended many, if not all of them too)

The Family was founded in April 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a traveling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright and blinding. The next day he met a friend, a wealthy businessman and former major, and the two men agreed upon a spiritual plan. They enlisted nineteen business executives in a weekly breakfast meeting and together they prayed, convinced that Jesus alone could redeem Seattle and crush the radical unions.

~snip~

By the end of the war, nearly a third of U.S. senators attended one of his weekly prayer meetings.

In 1944, Vereide had foreseen what he called "the new world order."

harpers.org Jeff Sharlet's "Jesus + Nothing"

I submit to you, fellow Progressives, something that is NOT a theory. This is FACT. This is mainstream media coverage, as reported by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and by Harpers Magazine, among others. This is no theory, it is Conspiracy, Conspiracy to subvert America to a free market fascism where the wealthiest live by a different set of rules and will use ANYTHING to justify it, while the masses go hungry and lose everything to the profiteers who rip our bread from our children's mouths. This is FACT. Even now, while Rome burns, the best our politicians can think of is how to screw us a little more, milk us a new way, this time it's the insurers, last time it was the banks, the next time it'll be the war profiteers again, drumming up unprovable WMD's in a country far away so that we can continue our crusade against people who aren't true believers as they are, and as they assume that we too should be.

I am not wearing tin foil. The family IS FACT. If you would like to ignore it you can be my guest, but I thought this was a reality based community, and like it or not, this is the reality.

I do NOT claim to know where President Obama stands on all of this. I am no mind reader. I hope Preisdent Obama means the best for us, but I will judge him by his actions, not his words.

I do know where I stand on this, and it is pure and simple.

I believe one of our Number 1 goals in the next election cycle should be to expose, humiliate and expel every last one of these Christofascists and their affiliates. I think we SHOULD throw this in the face of the entire Republican Party, both the elected officials involved AND the Conservative electorate, AND the Democrats involved should be thrown out on their asses.

The fact is, C Street has 10 Active Senators. That alone should be cause for action. And I wouldn't be surprised if this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/4/789335/-30+-C-Street-Fascists-in-Gov.-Im-naming-Names.-Biblical-Capitalism-IS-ChristoFascism
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:23 PM
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1. Someone needs to take them out of the dialogue
Seriously, the C Street organization has no place in America, let alone the world

C Streeters need to be shown the door if nothing else
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:27 PM
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3. How can we do that? Any suggestions?
(Not being facetious, just wondering what the hell we can do!)
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:32 PM
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5. Work against each of them in their primaries, elections and fundraising activities
And if you feel like playing dirty tricks, use some of theirs

Join "meetups" for each candidates reelection campaign, and subvert from within. Wear Klan robes to their next event, and make sure photographers are present. If you want to make it look real, have it be a random pic on a facebook page.

Spread rumors around their contributors - not the kind of rumors that might anger us, but them. Make up stories about increased taxation.

I'm all for opening up the Rove playbook and fighting fire with fire.

And I'll take on one if you do :)

Let's make a "covenant" - a "pact" if you will :evilgrin:
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:35 PM
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6. I'm tempted -- I'll think about it (but might chicken out on some of
the suggestions). I WILL, if possible, contribute to their opponents, write letters to their local newspapers, etc., stuff like that.

But what about all those who are waiting in the wings?

And this guy who's their leader, hasn't he been around forEVER? Nobody even heard of him until these exposes began appearing.

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:45 PM
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7. If you cut off their funds (e.g. elected representatives) you kill the head
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 09:03 AM
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12. they groom people for years hoping a few will acheive positions of power
they also cultivate those already in positions of power starting with generic Christianity (like the international prayer breakfasts) only later revealing their true agenda to deeper members of the group like other cults do.

"The Family" and its use of cells, explained (written by an escapee of a fundamentalist christian cult)
http://www.talk2action.org/printpage/2008/4/6/14135/88564
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6050171&mesg_id=6050171

Level 1 in "The Family"--and in most other pyramid-style groups (as we'll get into)--is the level of initial indoctrination and "shepherding". In "The Family", there's evidence (which, again, Sharlet will be discussing in full in his book) that indicate the same coercive practices common across pyramidal cell-groups may be occuring.

In particular, at least one comment by Sharlet has indicated that quite a bit more than innocent "Bible study" goes on in these cells, and that other potentially more coercive activities may go on in the inner circle:

I've never accused them of "conspiratorial mind control" but I do document that this is about a lot more than worship and Bible study, which are just fine. In fact, the inner circle of the Family does very little of either -- Doug Coe rejects church, and elite believers are encouraged to seek the advice of Jesus by direct consultation in a cell group, with scripture rarely consulted.



This is more than a little dangerous. In fact (we'll need to wait for Sharlet's book to come out to document more of it, alas), this is a rather strong hint that potentially abusive tactics may be in use (the use of unethical confession tactics by "Family" predecessor/model Moral Re-Armament are already a concern, and disallowing people to read the Bible for themselves (and requiring specific, leader-inspired interpretations) removes a powerful form of "reality testing" for persons in Bible-based groups). In addition, the specific advise to not participate in mainstream churches is very, very worrisome--it's a classic method to isolate people from communities that might threaten the dogma of what is promoted by Coe and by "shepherds".

The fact that group leaders promote authoritarianism in general also does not exactly relax one--it is extremely common in abusive "cell church" groups for leaders to claim direct personal revelation from God, and opposition to the group leaders to be opposition to God.

Level 1 initiates in pyramidal groups are generally not trusted to leadership positions within the group, are privy to only some of the info, and are essentially seen as "infants in need of instruction" internally--so they do tend to be shepherded and shadowed, in part because the group doesn't yet see them as "loyal faithful" and doesn't trust them not to leave or to bugger up.

There are equivalents to this elsewhere. Level 1 in AmWay is typically the level where people have joined the group, are not yet Diamonds, but are trying to peddle Quixtar merchandise to their relatives et al. (This is also where they are encouraged to join the AmWay "business motivational organisations" where quite a bit of the reports of coercive practices come from.) In Scientology, this is the level where people are in the group, aren't yet privy to the secrets about Xenu et al, are running up their credit cards with "auditing" sessions, and often join the Sea Orgs (a paramilitary/missionary group within Scientology) as a method of alternate payment for their E-Meter sessions.)

In addition, there's a potential second form of coercion that "The Family" has in their deck that is rarely available to "level 1" in abusive pyramidal groups (other than groups using org-owned living and working arrangements)--namely, "The Family" really can threaten to derail a political career if their mark gets too out of line. The only comparable common level of potential coercion over someone's career and livelihood that I'm personally aware of is with Scientology after someone has signed themselves into the Sea Orgs (and that's in part because, at that point, they do often end up in employment with Scientology as well as in Scientology-provided housing as well as force their members to sign coercive (and, likely, illegal) "contracts" where members forfeit their right to sue for damages); generally pyramidal groups do not get this sort of ammo until the "Level 2" recruitment stage.

This is the level at which Hillary Clinton is presently a member (and why I have concerns for her at this point).




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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 08:25 AM
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10. They're not just politicians.
I'm almost finished with Sharlet's book.

The heads of and the executives of some of the largest businesses are members. And their reach is worldwide, including some of the bloodiest dictators on the planet, including Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti, Suharto in Indonesia, Selassie in Ethiopia.

They, and their American members, including Congressman Richard Nixon, apologized to their German counterparts for De-Nazification after WW-II.

Sharlett uses their own documents to expose them.

His book is a must read for everyone!
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:26 PM
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2. Somebody on TV mentioned that their place appears to have
been abandoned -- that they've picked up and moved elsewhere as a result of the media (or some in the media) scrutiny. Newspapers on the porch, a plant dead due to lack of water, etc.

Wonder if that's true. It even makes them SCARIER if they feel they need to hide.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 06:37 PM
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8. Damn Straight They Need to Hide
Recommend they make a run for the border, as well.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-04-09 04:30 PM
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4. This is certainly a diabolical and dangerous group in my opinion! n/t
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 07:30 AM
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9. Sharlet's book was an eye opening for me. I had never realized that Evan Churches were preaching
the anti-social gospel where Jesus was all for free trade. It's scary there are so many gullible people, it justifies their own selfishness. k&r
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 08:26 AM
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11. Kick
And keep this kicked. These people are dangerous.
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 09:50 AM
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13. K&R
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Iwillnevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 10:27 AM
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14. K&R
This book is next on my list (as soon as I finish "Crazy for God.")
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Blaze Diem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 11:03 AM
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15. Sarah Palin should be on this list , or did I miss a qualifying factor
How does she fit with this group?
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