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Here's a report on the antienvironment organization "American Policy Center" and its leader Tom DeWeese. This group keeps its funding sources secret, but if it's like other antienvironment groups it's funded by the ultra-wealthy owners of timber, real estate, chemical, etc., companies, who don't want any government regulations interfering with their destruction of the planet for profit. For example, it claims that global warming is a myth. http://www.clearproject.org/reports_apc.html CLEAR PROFILE: AMERICAN POLICY CENTER 13873 Park Center Road, Suite 316. Herndon, Virginia 20171 Phone - 703-925-0881 o Fax- 703-925-0991 Web Site - www.americanpolicy.org Email- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compiled 1998 Overview: Established 1988, formerly the Foreign Policy Centre. Lobbied Congress for aid to "freedom fighters" in Angola and Nicaragua and opposes returning control of Panama Canal to Panama. Main areas of activity include opposition to US involvement in the United Nations and "Outcome Based Education." Promotes a hard right view on limited government with frequent reliance on conspiracy theory and sensationalistic fund raising letters. The American Policy Center is a 501(c)4 tax-exempt organization. APC is affiliated the 501(c)3 American Policy Foundation which provides "research and educational services" to APC, 501(c)3 Putting Liberty First, and the for-profit DeWeese Company. APC claims to be able to "reach up to one million activists in a matter of hours" through its action alert system. DeWeese claims 350 talk radio shows are members of the alert system, and claims to reach thousands more through the APC website. (fundraising letter, March 1998) Claims three million people are reached by direct mail campaigns, "delivering the facts on the radical environmental agenda as well as the lates outrages from the United Nations." (Insider's report, January 1998). Publications have quoted Michael Coffman and Henry Lamb at length, included their writings. APC networks with groups like Lamb and Coffman's Sovereignty International and Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. (also March 1998 fund raising letter). Demand US get out of th UN. General preoccupation with a United Nations take-over of the US, with repeated ridiculous statements such as "I have warned that the U.N. land grab of sovereign U.S. soil could put 50% of our nation off-limits to human activity." (Fundraising letter, February 1997). Every Insider's Report, mailed monthly, is accompanied by a "desperate " or "urgent" fundraising plea. Key Personnel: o Tom DeWeese. President. Long history of direct mail fundraising schemes, still carried out by DeWeese Company. Serves on the executive committee of Chuck "Rent a Riot" Cushman's Grassroots ESA Coalition, which opposes the Endangered Species Act, and is on the advisory council of Sovereignty International. o Steve Symms. Chairman, Board of Advisors. Former U.S .Senator. UN conspiracy whack ball. o Kathleen Marquardt. Vice President. Formerly of Putting People First, then Putting Liberty First, an organization now subsumed by APC o Bonner Cohen. Member, Board of Advisors. EPA Watch. worked with DeWeese since the 1980s. o Arnold Beichman. Member, Board of Advisors. Hoover Institution (APC Wrote " Institute".) o Andrew J. Gatsis. Member, Board of Advisors. JBS member, UN conspiracy guy, basic freak. o Willard Pearson. Currently listed as member of Board of Advisors. Deceased since 1996? o Phillip Abbott Luce. Member, Board of Advisors. Another right wing extremist. Advocated deported Arab-Americans in the 1980's, accusing them forming a secret terrorist organization. Highlights: Blocked statehood for the District of Columbia by gathering 10,000 signatures (1996?) . Co-sponsor of Conservative Political Action Conference in 1994. Financial supporter of Bonner Cohen's EPA Watch publication. In 1995 the American Policy Foundation awarded research grants to employee Bonner Cohen, and to Wise Use group Stewards of the Range. (Right Guide 1998). Called for December 5, 1997 "Strike for Liberty", a loosely organized event to protest the Kyoto Treaty. (It included a call for all talk radio shows to play "Proud to be an American" followed by the Star Spangled Banner). Though Alan Caruba of the National Anxiety Center was in charge of the publicity, a Lexis Nexis search yielded zero press accounts of the strike. Caruba, whose organization is a "clearinghouse for information about media driven scare campaigns" has also been a contributor to the Insider's report. Opposed the American Heritage River Initiative as "one of the greatest federal land grabs of all time." (Insider's Report, May 1998) called global warming a "hare-brained theory" (Insider's Report, Spring 1992). Perpetuated idea "from a reliable source" that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski "has been a member of Earth First! for two years. He may well have been their most successful monkeywrencher." (Insider's ReportAugust 1996) The FBI has found no connection between Earth First and the Unabomber (WSJ 3/2/99). Has called the National Religious Partnership for the Environment a "UN-front group of anti-Christian, earth-worshipping pagans.." for their efforts to enlist congregations to support the Kyoto treaty and supporting the movement for a Christian ethic of environmental stewardship. (APC Sledgehammer, September 1998). On another occasion, DeWeese stated that t the NRPE promotes "earth-worshipping paganism that many times borders on actual Devil worship." and urged readers to contact the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, and other Christian Right organizations. (APC. October 22, 1998). Participation in the anti-environmental "Wise Use" movement Member of ECO Member of Alliance for America Supporter of Chuck Cushman's property rights vote index, 93/94- 97/98 Member Grassroots ESA Coalition- DeWeese is on the executive committee. Notable Quotes: "With globalists like Bill Clinton helping them, the UN is on the very threshold of controlling the United States of America. They don't need UN soldiers patrolling our streets, or UN flags flying over our Capitol. You won't seen that happening. They just need the power of international treaties to dictate American policies." -Tom DeWeese, APC Fundraising Letter, March 1998. "Kofi Annan is cut from the same cloth as Boutros-Ghali. Both men stand for the same ideals and goals: mainly a one-world government controlled by the U.N.- -APC Fundraising letter, February 1997. "There is no scientific evidence to conclude that there is any such thing as a 'greenhouse effect' which is supposedly causing a global warming... There is no hole in the ozone layer. In fact, true scientific data is indicating that the Ozone , in many cases, is actually getting thicker, not thinner.... There is no acid rain crisis. " -Insider's Report, "APC Takes on Environmental Terrorists" Spring 1992. "The real reason the global warming theory fits so well into the plans of radical environmentalists is that it focuses attention on coal, oil and auto producers. And these have been the targets of every Leftist attack since Marx first put his fateful pen to paper." -Tom DeWeese, Insider's Report, Spring 1992. "Starting at kindergarten your children are going to be used as free labor for homeless shelters, soup kitchens and the Sierra Club. That's how they will learn character and become good American citizens. And when the grow up, they will work for free in government-owned industry. This is where the federally-driven restructuring of our nation is headed. It's at the very root of the purpose of Goals 2000 and School-to-Work." -Tom DeWeese, Insider's Report, September 1997. "The CAREERS ACT will provide the framework to use school classrooms as little more than indoctrination centers to assure that the radical ideas of sustainable development are developed by the citizenry." -APC Urgent Action Alert, April 12, 1996. "I just can't believe that a majority of our countrymen want America to stay in the UN when we are so dangerously close to a U.N. -controlled one-world government... The choice we face now is between living under the U.N. Charter of under the Constitution of these sovereign United States. A choice between celebrating U.N. Day (October 24) every year or our Independence Day (July 4th)." -APC fundraising letter, 1997 "1997 America's Poll: What to do about the United Nations." "Frankly, since the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge, a great number of Americans have been growing afraid of their government... Occasionally we hear reports that an American base has been transformed into a German, Russian or UN training center...those who ask questions are simply tagged as 'nuts'... Vast areas of American lands are being placed off limits, many times taken from landowners in the name of some environmental regulation... Black helicopters, the Chinese in Long Beach, election fraud, UN land grabs, the New World Order- these are all reasons Americans have grown to fear their own government and its elected officials who don't seem to take notice of these threats. Certainly some of these things are just rumors, misunderstandings, or just plain unfounded fears. But enough have been proven true to give credibility to much of the rest. People are paranoid - with good reason." -Tom DeWeese, Insider's Report, April 1998. "This is not environmentalism we are hearing about -- it is politics, the politics of elites, it is the politics of socialism under a banner of green. These people are condemning private property, free enterprise, technology and western culture. And they are using the environment as a sledge hammer to destroy each of these concepts that we Americans hold dear." -Kathleen Marquardt, "Envioronmentalism: Return to Eden or Ticket to Hell?" APC publication, no date. "You rarely hear of it. No elected official raises an eyebrow. The media makes no mention. But power is slowly slipping away from your elected representatives. In much the same way Mao Tse-tung had his Red Guards, so the UN has its NGOs [Non-Government Organizations] They may well be your masters of tomorrow, and you don't even know who or what they are... Americans must begin to understand that the debate over environmental issues really isn't about clean air and water. It is about power. those who lead the American environmental movement, teamed with the United Nations are the worst jackals the world has seen since Hitler and Lenin." -"The U.N.'s Dirty Little Secret" , unattributed, undated. APC web site. Funding: Grants, fundraising. Sources unknown. Publications: DeWeese Report (monthly), Insider Report (monthly) and the EPA Watch (bi-monthly). On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:54:12AM -0500, William Bacon wrote: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:56:43 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [JBirch] URGENT ALERT! Vote on Heritage Area land grab WEDNESDAY! >----- Original Message ----- >From: "APCalert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:38 PM >Subject: URGENT ALERT! Vote on Heritage Area land grab WEDNESDAY! >*********Sledgehammer********* > ACTION ALERT >www.americanpolicy.org >From the American Policy Center, Tom DeWeese, President >American Policy Center >50A South Third St., Suite 2 >Warrenton, VA 20186 >540-341-8911 >FAX: 540-341-8917 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >October 27, 2003 >Action Alert! Action Alert! >*** It's CRUNCH TIME! Your URGENT HELP NEEDED to STOP Heritage Area LAND >GRAB! >This is it. >Hold back NOTHING! >The following four Heritage Areas will be voted up or down on Wednesday, >October 29th, in the House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks: > >- H.R. 280: "The National Aviation Heritage Area" sponsored by Rep. David >Hobson (R-OH) > >-H.R. 1862: "The Oil Region National Heritage Area" sponsored by Rep. John >Peterson (R-PA) > >-H.R. 1618: "The Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area" sponsored by >Denise Majette (D-GA) > >-H.R. 1594: "The St. Croix National Heritage Area" sponsored by Rep. Donna >Christensen (D-Virgin Islands) > >If property rights advocates fail to rise up in protest RIGHT NOW and oppose >these four Heritage Areas, YOU CAN EXPECT EVERY TOWN AND EVERY COMMUNITY IN >THE UNITED STATES TO BE SWALLOWED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE'S HERITAGE >AREA PROGRAM. > >Heritage Areas must be stopped! >Heritage Areas are de facto federal zoning. >Federal money for Heritage Areas is administered through the National Park >Service to preservation groups and other green minions who are directed to >preserve everything within the Heritage Area that is relevant to the >Heritage Area. In other words, the Park Service teams up with local greens >to take away YOUR private property rights. >Once an area becomes a Heritage Area, local control over zoning and land use >is lost forever. (To read more on the dangers of Heritage Areas, go to: >http://www.americanpolicy.org/prop/natl-landgrab.htm >FOLLOW THE ACTION TO TAKE BELOW. >AGAIN, this is CRITICAL. 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