Reply #81: It's important to know the people behind the organizations [View All]

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One reason the right has been able to operate so effectively is that they do so from behind the cover of hundreds of different organizations, many of them with innocuous-sounding names that often that conceal their true purposes.

For example, who would think there was anything wrong with "Americans for Fair Taxation" or "Citizens Against Government Waste"? But both of these are extremist anti-tax and anti-government groups. And who would suspect that something as respectable as the "National Center for Public Policy Research" could be in the business of scamming senior citizens?

There are even worse examples, like the American Civil Rights Organization, which is dedicated to opposing affirmative action. The United Seniors Association, the 60 Plus Association, and the Senior Coalition are all fronts for the drug companies. Students for Academic Freedom is devoted to shutting out liberal opinions on campus.

If you Google on the names of these organizationss, you see them described over and over as non-partisan, or as independent study groups. It can take real digging to find out who their officers and backers are and what they actually stand for.

But the names of people can't be covered over in the same way. "Americans for Tax Reform" or "American Shareholders Association" may not mean much, but say "Grover Norquist" and most of us immediately know him as the guy who wants to shrink government down to the point where he can drown it in the bathtub.

Then add in that Norquist was a leader of the College Republican National Committee in the early 80's, at the same time as Jack Abramoff -- that Abramoff is a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, which is scamming senior citizens -- and that the College Republican National Committee is now also scamming seniors, using the same direct-mail solicitation firm as the National Center for Public Policy Research. At that point, a meaningful pattern begins to emerge.

This is why Bozos began this thread with names like Gary Jarmin, the Ridenours, and Jack Abramoff. These are some of the people behind the anonymous organizations, and their names are the ones we really need to know. Anonymity is their greatest strength, because most Americans would not agree with their true agenda if they knew what it was. Therefore, we must deprive them of that anonymity.