Keyes, Alan amb

=not technically renta-tom?=srcwatch: Alan Keyes was a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy" title="Council for National Policy">Council for National Policy</a> (CNP Membership Directory) in 1996, 1998, and 1999. Keyes, former U.S. representative to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, "was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Kristol" title="William Kristol">William Kristol</a>'s roommate at Harvard." <a href="http://watch.pair.com/database1.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://watch.pair.com/database1.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>. NB: Though Keyes is sometimes referred to as "Ambassador Keyes," the title is misleading since he only served as the U.S. ambassador to the UN Economic and Social Council, not as ambassador to the UN or as an ambassador to a country.

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Biographical_information">1 Biographical information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Political_involvement">2 Political involvement</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Electoral_candidacies">2.1 Electoral candidacies</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Political_activities">2.2 Political activities</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Influences">3 Influences</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Related_SourceWatch_resources">4 Related SourceWatch resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#Sources">5 Sources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Keyes#External_links">6 External links</a></li>

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<h2>Biographical information</h2>

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<li>Undergraduate Education: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>/<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></li>

<li>Graduate Education: PhD in Government from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>.</li>

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<h2>Political involvement</h2>

<h3>Electoral candidacies</h3>

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<li>U.S. Senate (Republican) in Maryland 1988 LOST; Campaign Manager: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Kristol" title="William Kristol">William Kristol</a></li>

<li>U.S. Senate (Republican) in Maryland 1992 LOST</li>

<li>U.S. Senate (Republican) in Illinois 2004 LOST</li>

<li>U.S. president (Republican) in 1996 and 2000</li>

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<h3>Political activities</h3>

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<li>Keyes was part of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s National Security Team in the capacity of unofficial advisor.</li>

<li>Positions in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reagan_administration" title="Reagan administration">Reagan administration</a>. In his words:</li>

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<dd>"I was mostly in foreign policy. Well, altogether, I guess, in foreign policy, in those days. I was part of the Policy Planning Staff, during the early years of the administration, served at the United Nations as an Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeane_Kirkpatrick" title="Jeane Kirkpatrick" class="mw-redirect">Jeane Kirkpatrick</a> was the perm rep and I sat on ECOSOC, and also represented the U.S. in the General Assembly Budget Committee and the Economic and Social Committees. I then went to be Assistant Secretary of State, overseeing our participation in the whole UN and international organizations system, and was also briefly part of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Security_Council" title="National Security Council" class="mw-redirect">National Security Council</a> staff. So I covered a number of areas in foreign policy and national security policy." <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/99_09_09cspan.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/99_09_09cspan.htm" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></dd>

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<li>Keyes was president of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste" title="Citizens Against Government Waste">Citizens Against Government Waste</a> from 1989 to 1991</li>

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<h2>Influences</h2>

C-SPAN <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/99_09_09cspan.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/99_09_09cspan.htm" rel="nofollow">Interview</a> (September 9, 1999):

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<dd>Q: Along the way, greatest influences among your teachers?</dd>

<dd>Keyes: I think that, without any doubt, the greatest influence among my teachers was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allan_Bloom" title="Allan Bloom">Allan Bloom</a>, who was a professor at Cornell when I started there, went to the University of Toronto. I think ended his life and career at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, was well known as the author of a book called The Closing of the American Mind, which enjoyed some popularity a few years ago. Without doubt, Allan Bloom was, in terms of my academic and intellectual formation, the most important teacher I had.</dd>

<dd>Q: Can you explain why?</dd>

<dd>Keyes: I think because, in a way that ended up, really, capturing my both interest and serious thought, he understood the moral foundations of politics – at least the importance of those moral foundations. And instead of approaching a political life and the questions that we are involved with in politics and morality, as is often popular these days, as if it is all somehow a consequence of material relationships, he took seriously what had been the view of societies and eras before our own, which saw a self-subsistent basis for moral things, and therefore for political life, and which took that seriously, going all the way back to ancient times with Plato and Aristotle and others. And I just felt, and still deeply believe, that there is more truth in that than in those approaches that try to reduce human things to some kind of sum of the material forces that operate upon us as material beings.</dd>

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<h2>Related SourceWatch resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leading_African-American_conservatives" title="Leading African-American conservatives">Leading African-American conservatives</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=RenewAmerica" title="RenewAmerica">RenewAmerica</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.realchange.org/keyes.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.realchange.org/keyes.htm" rel="nofollow">Alan Keyes' Skeleton Closet</a>, RealChange.org. Includes links to primary source documents.</li>

<li>Collection of his speeches, debates, quotes etc: <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/index.htm" rel="nofollow">RenewAmerica.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.electionspeak.com/Presidential-Candidates/Alan-Keyes/" class="external text" title="http://www.electionspeak.com/Presidential-Candidates/Alan-Keyes/" rel="nofollow">Republican Alan Keyes</a>, ElectionSpeak.com, Presidential Election Campaign Videos.</li>

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Black America's Political Action Committee (BAMPAC) supports conservative policies and African-American candidates. Its name misleadingly suggests that it represents the point of view of African-Americans, but in fact opinion polls and voting patterns show that the vast majority of African-Americans disagree with BAMPAC's political positions.

BAMPAC claims to be nonpartisan, but its IRS tax statement explicitly states that its mission is to elect Republicans.[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:Citation_needed" title="SourceWatch:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]

PR affiliations include <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bruce_Eberle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bruce Eberle (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bruce Eberle</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tarrance_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tarrance Group (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tarrance Group</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>.[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SourceWatch:Citation_needed" title="SourceWatch:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]

Black America's PAC is a member of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Internet_Freedom_Coalition" title="Internet Freedom Coalition" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Internet Freedom Coalition</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Liberty" title="Institute for Liberty" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Institute for Liberty</a> which states that the internet should be "free of government interference".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black_America%27s_PAC#cite_note-IFC-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black_America%27s_PAC#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black_America%27s_PAC#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black_America%27s_PAC#External_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3.3 External resources</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Williams" title="Alvin Williams" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alvin Williams</a>, President & CEO</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ambassador <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alan_Keyes" title="Alan Keyes" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alan Keyes</a>, Founder and Chairman of the Board</li>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jackie_Cissell" title="Jackie Cissell" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jackie Cissell</a> (The Quandt Group),</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_C._Cleveland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William C. Cleveland (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">William C. Cleveland</a> (former City Council member and Vice Mayor, Alexandria VA),</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marlo_Lewis" title="Marlo Lewis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Marlo Lewis</a> (Senior Fellow, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>),</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amy_Moritz_Ridenour" title="Amy Moritz Ridenour" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Amy Moritz Ridenour</a> (President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>),</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Williams" title="Alvin Williams" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alvin Williams</a> (President and CEO; co-founder, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BAMPAC" title="BAMPAC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">BAMPAC</a>)</li>

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Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.bampac.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">http://www.bampac.org/</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">political action committee</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-IFC-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Black_America%27s_PAC#cite_ref-IFC_1-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://internetfreedomcoalition.org/about.asp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Internet Freedom Coalition"</a>, accessed September 2009.</li>

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Black America's Political Action Committee (BAMPAC)— founded and chaired by <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=16726">Alan Keyes</a>— is the nation's largest minority political action committee and among the top 25 well-funded PAC's in the country. Although self-described as non-partisan, BAMPAC has historically benefited only Republican candidates who strictly adhere to its right-wing policies, such as supporting anti-abortion legislation, public school vouchers, the privatization of Social Security, and tax cuts.

Black America's Political Action Committee

2029 P Street NW Suite 202

Washington, DC 20036

Website: <a href="http://www.bampac.org">www.bampac.org</a>

President & CEO: Alvin Williams

Founder and Chairman of the Board: Ambassador Alan Keyes

Board Members: Jackie Cissell (The Quandt Group), William C. Cleveland (former City Councilmember and Vice Mayor, Alexandria VA), Dr. Mario Lewis (Senior Fellow, <a href="http://www.cei.org/">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>), Amy Moritz Ridenour (President, <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>), Alvin Williams (President and CEO; co-founder, BAMPAC)

Finances: $1,617,000 (2004 total revenues)

Publications: BAMPAC Bulletin

Media: President Alvin Williams is often featured as a BAMPAC spokesperson in The New York Times, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and has appeared on ABC's Nightline, MSNBC's Equal Time, and BET's News with Ed Gordon.

Incorporated: 1994

<h3>Purpose</h3>

BAMPAC was created to specifically mobilize and garner "support for African-American candidates generally who advocate a common sense approach in resolving the important issues facing America in the 21st century." BAMPAC is instrumental in garnering financial support for candidates via grants or direct and assisted contributions. It is one of the nation's largest political action committees, and is the largest minority PAC in the country.

<h3>Activities</h3>

BAMPAC provides funding and resources to conservative candidates running for political offices at all levels of government. According to SourceWatch.org, [BAMPAC's] name misleadingly suggests that it represents the point of view of African-Americans, but in fact, opinion polls and voting patterns show that the vast majority of African-Americans disagree with BAMPAC's political positions. BAMPAC claims to be nonpartisan, but its IRS tax statement explicitly states that its mission is to elect "Republicans." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BAMPAC">Black America's PAC - SourceWatch</a>

<h3>Current/Past Members/Staff</h3>

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<li>BAMPAC's former Political Director, Robert L. Trayham, II, moved on from his position at BAMPAC to work for Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, and is currently the Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Communications for the Senate Republican Conference.</li>

<li>In 2004, BAMPAC Chairman Alan Keyes was defeated by Illinois state Senator Barak Obama for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. In 2005, Keyes recommended the nomination of Judge Roy Moore to the United States Supreme Court, on the basis that he is a strong believer in God and a strict constitutionalist. (Judge Moore resigned his position at the Alabama Supreme Court because he refused to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court demand that he take down a replica of the Ten Commandments.) Alan Keyes is also a regular speaker at right-wing anti-gay rallies throughout the country.</li>

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<h3>Issue Advocacy</h3>

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<li>Supports school choice in the form of vouchers, charter schools, public-private alliances, and home-schooling.</li>

<li>Advocates tax cuts and other financial incentives for entrepreneurs and businesses to increase development in neglected and rural areas.</li>

<li>BAMPAC is 'pro-life' and condemns government-subsidized abortions; the PAC is in absolute opposition to partial-birth abortions.</li>

<li>BAMPAC advocates the privatization of Social Security, a program which it claims has a "disproportionately detrimental affect on African-American families, especially males."</li>

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<h3>Funding</h3>

BAMPAC's donor base has grown to over 137,000 donors, generating more than $1,000,000 in direct and assisted contributions to candidates.

<h3>History</h3>

BAMPAC is the largest minority PAC and ranks among the top 25 PACS among 45,000 PACs in the United States.

<h3>Quotes</h3>

Alan Keyes on on the Republican Party

In 1992, according to the Washington Post, as Republican nominee in Maryland's U.S. Senate contest that year, Keyes denounced the national leadership of his party as racist, saying senior GOP officials had ignored or disparaged his campaign because he is black. GOP leaders "basically are sending the message that beyond a certain level blacks need not apply," Keyes said. "If I can work out in the fields, I think I ought to be allowed to come into the house for dinner."

–Washington Post, "GOP Hopeful Says Party Is Racist," August 14, 1992

Keyes on Moderate Republicans

"On all the matters that touch upon the critical moral issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger is on the evil side. This is a fact. A mere list of the positions he supports is enough to make this plain: abortion as a 'right,' cloning of human beings, governmental classification of citizens by race, public benefits for sexual partners outside of marriage, disrespect for property rights against environmental extremism, repudiation of the right to bear arms - no more need be said to show that this candidate is wrong where human decency, human rights and human responsibility bear directly on political issues."

–WorldNetDaily, "Arnold's corruption of Republican Party," October 6, 2003

Keyes on Black Leaders

" I think part of it is that the Black leadership, the vocal ones that the media concentrates on, are all bought-and-sold, step-and-fetch-its of depravity for the Democratic party."

–People For the American Way Foundation, "Eyewitness Report from the C-PAC Conference," February 21, 1999

"I think it would be a terrible shame to abandon the fate of America or the black community to the likes of people who are speaking as Julian Bond has spoken, but more importantly, the likes of people who have supported policies that have destroyed the black family, that support abortion, which is committing genocide against black people in this country with devastating demographic results that we have already seen in the course of the last census."

–Hannity and Colmes, "Interview with Alan Keyes," July 12, 2004

Keyes on Reproductive Choice

"The violation on [sic] innocent human life is the same whether you commit terrorism or commit abortion."

–People For the American Way Foundation, "The Vocabulary of Terror: Anti-abortion politics since 9/11," April 10, 2002

"I will never again cast a vote for an individual I in conscience believe to be pro-choice, pro-abortion, not pro-life. Based on the confession of his heart in New Hampshire, when John McCain told us clearly that he would tell his daughter it was her choice — and every woman is somebody's daughter, so if you tell the daughters of America it's their choice, you're pro-choice. He is pro- choice, he is not pro-life. I will not support a pro-choice, pro- abortion candidate."

–Republican Presidential Debate, March 2, 2002

Keyes on Homosexuality

"Hitler and his supporters were Satanists and homosexuals. That's just a true statement." He added that, "The notion that is involved in homosexuality, the unbridled sort of satisfaction of human passions" leads to "'totalitarianism,' 'Nazism,' and 'communism.'"

–People For the American Way Foundation, "Hostile Climate 1997," p.26

Keyes on Equal Rights for Gay Americans

"It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. We must oppose it in the military. We must oppose it in marriage. We must oppose it if the fundamental institution of our civilization is to survive. Those unwilling to face that fact and playing games with this issue are doing so irresponsibly at the price of America's moral foundations."

–Republican Presidential Debate, January 6, 2000

Keyes on Hate Crimes Legislation

"The whole push with respect to hate crimes legislation is an effort to create a body of law that allows the government to coerce opinions, and to punish people because of their opinions. In this particular case, the opinion that is going to be punished is the opinion that homosexuality is immoral and against the laws of God. That opinion is now going to become a crime. And this whole push with respect to hate crimes is an effort to establish that agenda."

–WorldNetDaily, "The Trouble with 'Hate Crimes'," October 16, 1998

Keyes on the Courts and Prayer in Public Schools

"If they tell us that we cannot pray in the classroom, we should pray. If they tell us that we cannot pray in the hallways, we should pray. If they tell us that we cannot pray at graduation ceremonies, we should pray. Because what they are doing fundamentally violates probably the most important of our God-given rights, which is the right to appeal for aid to our Almighty God."

–Renew America, "<a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/keyes/issues.htm">Alan Keyes on the Issues</a>"

Keyes on Taxes

"The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. ... Only abolition of the income tax will restore the basic American principle that our income is both our own money and our own private business not the government's."

–Renew America, "<a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/keyes/issues.htm">Alan Keyes on the Issues</a>"

Keyes on the Democratic Party

"Democrats are going to have to go on record standing against the marriage-based family, standing for the continued annihilation of new generations of young black babies through the promotion of abortion in the black community. This is devastating, the truth is going to be told."

–Hannity and Colmes, "Interview with Alan Keyes," July 12, 2004

Keyes on Affirmative Action

"Moreover, preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country. It is merely another government patronage program that secures money and jobs for the few people who benefit from it, and breeds resentment in the many who do not. It divides us as a people, and draws attention away from the moral and family breakdown that is the chief cause of the despair and misery in which too many of our fellow citizens struggle to live decently."

–Renew America, "<a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/keyes/issues.htm">Alan Keyes on the Issues</a>"

Keyes on Jews and Anti-Semitism

"The tragic and violent clashes between blacks and Jews are unhappily not the product of a unique and isolated set of circumstances. I believe that, unwittingly, Jewish supporters of the government-dominated welfare state approach to the economic and social problems of the black community helped to create the mentality that now produces anger and anti-Semitism in black neighborhoods."

–Alan Keyes, "Our Character, Our Future," May 2, 1996, p. 48-50

Keyes on the First Amendment and Separation of Church and State

"[The Founding Fathers] put an amendment in the Constitution with … wording intended to tell the Congress and thereby the national government that the whole business of religious belief, that whole business of any regime, any attitude to be imparted through law, that it was none of the federal government's business.

"Now, that still gives rise to the possibility. Some folks don't want to see it. There might be states in which they require a religious test or oath of office. There might be states in which they have established churches, where subventions are given to schools and so forth to teach the Bible. There might be places where you and I might disagree with the religion some folks wanted to put in place over their communities. But guess what the Founders believed? They believed that people in their states and localities had the right to live under institutions they would put together to govern themselves according to their faith."

–Roy Moore Rally, Montgomery, Alabama, August 16, 2003

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Agenda 21, the 1992 United Nations plan for sustainable development that was signed by the leaders of 178 of the world’s 196 countries, is not binding and has no power to force any action at all. Nevertheless, in the hands of a dedicated cadre of far-right conspiracy theorists, it has been depicted as a key step in a secret plan to destroy property rights, redistribute wealth and, ultimately, force the United States and other countries in a tyrannical, one-world government in which bicycle paths and wildlife refuges will be vastly more important than human beings. What follows are brief portraits of 11 of the leading anti-Agenda 21 groups and their leaders.

The American Policy Center, which focuses on “environmental policy and its effect on private property rights” and “the United Nations and its effect on American national sovereignty,” was founded by Tom DeWeese in 1988. DeWeese was one of the very first on the radical right, if not the first, to attack the UN’s Agenda 21 plan, starting almost immediately after its adoption at the 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil.

DeWeese doesn’t mince words. He has described Agenda 21 as a “blueprint to turn your community into a little soviet,” pushed along by “a hoard [sic] of non-governmental organizations” that pressure elected officials to endorse the plan and enforce it through “non-elected boards, councils and regional governments.” “It all means locking away land, resources, higher prices, sacrifice and shortages and is based on the age old socialist scheme of redistribution of wealth,” he adds.

“It sounds so friendly. So meaningful. So urgent,” DeWeese wrote in a 2009 report. “But the devastation to our liberty and way of life is the same as if Lenin ordered it.” The plan, he adds, is a “complete agenda of control” that has been “wrapped in a green blanket, scaring us with horror stories about the destruction of the environment — and so we are now throwing our liberties on the bonfire like a good old fashioned book burning — all in the name of protecting the planet.”

For years, DeWeese’s center was the chief sponsor of “Freedom 21,” an annual conference of opponents of the plan that have attracted well-known right-wing extremists like Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum (see below); Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media; Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily; Michael Shaw of Freedom Advocates (see below); and Michael Coffman of Environmental Perspectives Inc. (see below).

DeWeese, who has been close to a number of those in the Tea Party movement, offers an array of videos on his website backing up his contentions, along with DeWeese essays with titles like “‘Sustainable Development’: The Evil Facing America” and “Putting Bicycles Ahead of People.” His center also publishes “The DeWeese Report,” occasional special reports, and legislative updates.

The Constitution Party was founded in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party by the late Howard Phillips, who ran for president three times without ever gaining more than 0.19% of the vote. It is an essentially theocratic party, saying that its goal “is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.” It opposes almost all immigration, abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and the federal income tax.

The party, which at one point absorbed the American Independent Party (the vehicle for segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s own 1968 run for the presidency), is also very much against U.S. participation in international institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, as well as foreign aid.

So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, in 2012, the group took a position on Agenda 21 that described it as “a comprehensive plan of utopian environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control.” The resolution went on to say the plan was being “covertly advanced in local communities” and would attack private ownership of homes, farms and cars “as destructive to the environment.”

It also described Agenda 21 as leading to “socialist/communist redistribution of wealth” — words almost identical to those used by the Republican National Committee, which also denounced Agenda 21 in its own January 2012 resolution.

The plan has been repeatedly denounced at the local level by the Constitution Party as well. Bernie De Castro, the party’s Florida chairman, said: “Agenda 21 is the most dangerous threat to America’s sovereignty that is coming at us like a whirlwind and yet so few Americans are aware of this diabolical threat to them and their families.” The Hollywood, Fla., chapter invited Rosa Koire of Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 (see below) to speak at its June 2012 meeting.

The party’s Arizona chapter recently produced its own resolution on the plan: “We call for a return to the states and to the people all lands which are held by the federal government without authorization by the Constitution.” And its Allegheny County, Pa., chapter urged its members to attend a March 2012 presentation by the conspiracy-minded John Birch Society (see below) on Agenda 21.

Richard Mack, who won fame on the far right for successfully challenging some aspects of the Brady gun control bill in the 1990s, formed the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Assocation (CSPOA) in 2011 with the goal of uniting law enforcement officers to defend the Constitution with “an emphasis on State Sovereignty and local autonomy.” As a practical matter, that means Mack has pushed the baseless theory that local sheriffs can nullify federal laws.

That antagonism to centralized power made the tough-talking Mack, who was once the public relations director for the extremist group Gun Owners of America, a natural adherent to ideas about the supposedly nefarious nature of Agenda 21. In fact, at the CSPOA’s first annual convention, held in January 2012 in Las Vegas, Mack hosted Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center (see above), who spoke to the gathering on “Agenda 21 & the International Redistribution of Wealth.”

Joining DeWeese in his criticism of the UN plan were three sheriffs: Glenn Palmer of Grant County, Ore.; Gill Gilbertson of Josephine County, Ore.; and Jon Lopey of Siskiyou County, Calif. The sheriffs reiterated complaints, fairly common in the West, about the large proportion of land controlled by the federal government and logging, mineral extraction and grazing rights on public lands, and related them to Agenda 21 and its alleged attack on private property rights in America.

“This land is our land,” said Gilbertson. “Feds have no jurisdiction!”

The CSPOA’s interest in killing Agenda 21 was not limited to that convention. In June 2013, the organization held a similar session during its second annual conference. It was headlined “Nullify Now: Expose and Reject NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a number of emergency detention measures disliked by many on both right and left]/Agenda 21.” Among the presenters for the session were Michael Coffman of Environmental Perspectives Inc. (see below) and Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center (see above).

The Declaration Alliance was founded in 1996 by three-time presidential candidate and former U.S. Foreign Service officer Alan Keyes, a protégé of President Reagan who has moved further and further to the right over the years. The Alliance says it is dedicated to the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, but focuses heavily on gun rights, the “right to life” (Keyes opposes abortion in virtually all cases), and the repeal of the federal income tax.

Over the years, Keyes has adopted a whole series of highly controversial positions, saying that Jesus Christ would not have voted for Barack Obama, who he called a “radical communist” with a forged birth certificate; that homosexuality is nothing more than “selfish hedonism”; that state-sanctioned prayer should be allowed in public schools; that evolution is a false theory; and, during a stint as a U.S. ambassador at the United Nations, that he did not support the UN.

Keyes first came out against Agenda 21 in a 2011 blog post that charged that the government was allowing the UN to take over American treasures by designating them World Heritage Sites. He returned to the plan in an alarming 2012 fundraising letter: “Enemies who hate America, despise liberty, and want the United States transformed … into socialism, are relentlessly advancing a seditious new plan — Agenda 21 — to make our nation a vassal of the United Nations.” He went on to say that it was “the most aggressive and ambitious attack on our nation to be put forward by the UN one-worlders” and theorized that it would result in the confiscation of farms, the end of private property and a ban on private ownership of cars.

Kirk MacKenzie, a business adviser and former broker, formed Defend Rural America at an October 2011 meeting in Yreka, Calif., held to fight American Indians and environmentalists who wanted to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River to help bring back the once-thriving salmon population. Although the group did not win that battle —the dams’ removal now seems likely — MacKenzie said the meeting had established a “new standard for grassroots activism.”

The organization is not solely focused on Agenda 21, although sustainable development and its alleged perils are discussed. Nita Still, a Montague, Calif., anti-Agenda 21 activist has pilloried the plan in searing terms on MacKenzie’s site, saying it “means the destruction of our lives” at the hands of “the Soulless Ones,” by which she seems to mean globalist environmentalists who believe in planning.

Sustainability, she writes, will mean taking “55% of the land for flora, fauna, rivers, streams and wetlands because they are Persons with Rights … thousands of new housing, stacked upon each other in the Bay Area because the rural areas will be herded down the road to urbanism and their population decimated.”

Still has a particularly conspiracist bent, taking on many of the bogeymen of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement in her rants about Agenda 21. She says the plan reflects “the desires of the Illuminati and the Committee of 300, plus the Club of Rome, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, The Skull and Bones or the Order 322 and the Trilateral Commission” and more.

“They have planned for the whole world to have 90% of the population murdered by abortion and aborting life by disease, famine, wars, wrecking of the economy, industry, technology, giving vaccines and medicines which cause disease and a slow death,” she writes. She adds in her essay that proponents “can also manipulate the weather and cause earthquakes [and] volcanic eruptions.”

The planners, she said, are “more concerned with animals and the environment over human beings.” She adds that the “United Nations is a front for all that is happening in our lives,” aided by a group of international bankers.

The vast majority of opponents of Agenda 21 come from the right, mostly the far right. But in the case of Rosa Koire (pronounced CORE-ee), a self-described lesbian feminist and longtime forensic commercial real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain evaluation, the criticism is ostensibly coming from the left.

Not that it’s very easy to tell.

The main difference between Koire, who runs the Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 website and is executive director of the closely linked Post Sustainability Institute, is that she says the UN wants to “erect Communitarianism” — as opposed to socialism, or communism — “as the dominant form of world governance.” Communitarianism is a system of cooperative groups that practice some communist principles but are generally less centralized than historic communist states. She also claims that the Democratic Party has been hijacked by socialists.

After that, Koire sounds like most Agenda 21 fearmongers. “[Y]our local government is in the process of controlling where and how you live, what you eat, what your children learn, and what laws you will live under.” She also says on her website that the Agenda 21 plan means “to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world.”

Koire authored a 2011 book, Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21, where she says the plan aims “to protect the rights of future generations and all species against the potential crimes of the present.” She says “the rights of the individual are called selfish and those who would fight for them [are] slurred as immoral.”

Like right-wing critics, she sees the plan as aiming to create regional governmental bodies (such as the European Union) as merely “an interim stop on the road to globalization” that will eventually lead to a one-world government.

The Eagle Forum was formed in 1975 by conservative anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, who created it out of the remnants of her Stop ERA group, which opposed the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The group has long been involved in a wide array of highly conservative causes, many of them having to do with with women and the family — opposition to abortion, sex education in public schools, working mothers and feminism in general. It also favors English as our official language, assimilation of immigrants, and the right to bear arms. Finally, it opposes international oversight by the United Nations.

In that vein, the Eagle Forum came out relatively recently against Agenda 21, forming the Agenda 21 Task Force to lead the battle. The forum says Agenda 21 seeks to destroy “the morals of our nation,” diminish the role of parents, boost communist values, and, ultimately, turn America into a communistic state.

The UN, the group says, wants to impose taxes to build a huge operating fund that will, in the end, help turn the organization into a “de facto world government.”

The Eagle Forum hosted a conference on Agenda 21 in Sacramento, Calif., in 2012. Speakers included Michael Coffman of Environmental Perspectives Inc. (see below), Michael Shaw of Freedom Advocates (see below) and several sheriffs.

Cathie Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum, wrote in a 2012 newsletter that “Agenda 21 DENIES the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantee of property rights and DISAGREES with America’s Founders that fee men operating within free markets are the best stewards of the earth.” “Americans are at a crossroads,” she added. “In November, we must replace all elected officials who support Agenda 21 with those who choose FREEDOM.”

Michael Coffman founded Environmental Perspectives Inc. in 1992 as an “educational-research organization” that aimed “to sound a warning to America and the Christian church of serious threats to our freedom.” More specifically, the group focuses on the dangers of “insidious property rights infringements.”

“The effort on the part of the international community to create a world government and religion has far reaching implications,” the group says on its website. “Our goal is to help people understand the consequences to them and our nation if our politics are driven by a belief that big government is the answer to everything and that nature is god and humans are destroying it.”

Coffman has written several books on related subjects: Environmental Perspectives: The Dawn of Aquarius or the Twilight of a New Dark Age; Saviors of the Earth: The Politics and Religion of the Environmental Movement; The Birth of World Government; and Dreamkillers, “a fast-paced novel that provides the horrifying saga of how a town in Maine savaged a sick widow in order to take her land by using smart growth regulations.” He has also produced several similar DVDs, including “Global Warming: Emerging Science and Understanding,” which claims to explain “that man literally cannot be causing global warming.”

Coffman also offers copies of a DVD entitled “Endgame” produced by Alex Jones, America’s leading conspiracy theorist. According to Coffman’s blurb, it “penetrates the history of the global elite’s effort to create world government.”

Originally called Freedom 21 Santa Cruz, Freedom Advocates was founded in 2000 by Michael Shaw, who says he had earlier participated in the Local Agenda 21 program run by Santa Cruz County, Calif., during the 1990s.

Shaw’s group focuses on the idea that Agenda 21 “is being implemented on the local level in order to establish a collectivist world government.” It claims that under the plan, “political recognition of inalienable rights is denied.”

Shaw was long a regular at the “Freedom 21” conferences hosted by Tom DeWeese’s American Policy Center (see above), attending in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

“Environmentalism is not about saving nature,” Shaw said at the 2008 conference. “It’s about a revolutionary coup in America. It is to establish global governance and abandon the principles of natural law.” He predicted that sustainable development policies will require a “police state” and ultimately “turn America into a globally governed homeland where humans are treated as biological resources.”

In 2012, Shaw appeared on the propaganda video “Behold a Pale Horse,” which featured far-right country singer Charlie Daniels. “America is in peril,” Shaw said in fairly typical remarks. “A globalist regime has begun undertaking a transformation of what is America.” Later, he got down to specifics.

“The only way this is going to be defeated is to understand the nature of what has enveloped our country,” he said, adding that Agenda 21, along with its many other nefarious aspects, calls for an 85% reduction in the population.

The Heritage Foundation, created in 1973 by three arch-conservatives discontented with President Richard Nixon’s embrace of big government, grew over the decades to the point that The New York Times once labeled it “the Parthenon of the conservative metropolis.” Since former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) took over from leader Edwin Feulner in April 2013, it has grown more conservative still.

The group says in its mission statement that it was founded to “formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.” Starting in 2011, it began to take on Agenda 21 as well.

That year, it described the UN plan as being part of a vast power grab. It has also described how zoning policies related to the plan “limited real estate development to higher-cost homes in order to ‘price out’ moderate-income households, which included a disproportionate share of minorities.” It warned that the plan’s unwelcome effects were being felt at the local as well as national levels.

A paper published by the foundation in 2011, authored by Wendell Cox, Ronald D. Utt and Brett D. Schaefer, warned that Agenda 21 advocates “work to impose land use regulations that would force Americans into denser living arrangements, curtail freedom of choice in housing … and compel people to pay more for their houses and give up their cars” for public transportation and bikes.

Shortly after founding the John Birch Society (JBS) in 1958, wealthy businessman Robert Welch set the tone for his archconservative organization for decades to come when he accused his fellow Republican, President Dwight Eisenhower, of being a commie patsy. By the early 1960s, JBS, the grouchy grandpa of the far right, was also attacking the United Nations as a den of socialists, communists and insiders plotting to take over America.

So it should come as no surprise that these days the Birchers are at the head of the paranoid parade marching against Agenda 21, the non-binding UN resolution passed and signed by more than 170 world leaders, including another American Republican president, George H.W. Bush.

“Agenda 21 seeks for the government to curtail your freedom of travel as you please, own a gas-powered car, live in suburbs or rural areas, and raise a family,” the society charges on its website. “Furthermore, it would eliminate your private property rights through eminent domain.”

“Choose Freedom,” the website declares. “Stop Agenda 21.”

From its headquarters in Appleton, Wis., about two miles from where the remains of serial libeler and Sen. Joseph McCarthy are buried, the society produces slick anti-Agenda 21 pamphlets and DVDs, shipping them to JBS chapters and supporters across the country. The society also relies on staffers like Hal Shurtleff to get the anti-Agenda 21 word out.

An Army veteran and father of five, Shurtleff is the indefatigable field director of the Birch Society on the East Coast. Since 2011, not long after JBS began its anti-Agenda 21 crusade in earnest, Shurtleff has conducted more than 70 presentations in public libraries, rec center basements and hotel conference rooms about the perils to freedom of Agenda 21.

From California to Maine, other JBS chapter leaders have been doing the same.

“We have established a good network of freedom activists who know how to identify Agenda 21 initiatives,” Shurtleff says. “We use Facebook, social media and E-mails. There are dozens of Facebook pages dedicated to Agenda 21 as well as hundreds of Tea Party type groups.”

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