Activists Marshall Against Foreign Election Monitors

[Nambe]

Mich News,com

Washington, DC –The American Policy Center, an activist think tank, is marshalling a demand that the State Department and the White House immediately withdraw their invitation to a European organization to monitor US elections in November.

“Despite the efforts of thirteen Democrat members of Congress and the U.S. State Department to invite the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the November 2nd elections, both the White House and State Department have been silent about the threat this poses to the sovereignty of the nation and its electoral process,” said Tom DeWeese, president of the Center. “We call on both the White House and the State Department to formally withdraw this invitation.” ..

[benddem]

1. all the more reason

we should have the monitors

[AZCat]

2. "American Policy Center"? Hmmm...

Here's their home page.

And here's a disinfopedia entry on them.

Here's the "About Us" page from their web site:
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Statement of Purpose

President Tom DeWeese
Board of Advisors
2003 Annual Report

The American Policy Center (APC), located in suburban Washington, D.C., is a privately funded, nonprofit, 501 c (4), tax-exempt grassroots action and education foundation dedicated to the promotion of free enterprise and limited government regulations over commerce and individuals.

APC believes that the free market, through its inherent system of checks and balances, including private ownership of property, is the best method yet devised for creating individual wealth, full employment, goods and services, and protecting the natural environment.

APC?s approach to establishing free market policy is rooted in the conviction that a well-informed American public is the best guarantee that U.S. policy will be guided by a keen awareness of the complexity of world politics and America?s role in it.

To these ends, the American Policy Center has developed a wide range of programs designed to enhance national awareness of crucial global and domestic developments. In particular, APC focuses on the issues of environmental policy and its effect on private property rights; national federal computer data banks and their effect on individual privacy rights; the United Nations and its effect on American national sovereignty; and federal education policy and its effect on local schools and parental rights.

To promote its positions, APC publishes two publications, The DeWeese Report and the Insider?s Report. Both are available through subscription. In addition, APC principals regularly appear on radio and television talk shows, and speak publicly before local and national conferences.

The American Policy Center is one of the nation?s leading grassroots activist organizations. Its action alert system, Sledgehammer, mobilizes thousands of activists through fax and e-mail when legislative action is required. Regular legislative updates are issued bi-weekly through the APC Newswire.

As a result of its legislative activity, contributions to the American Policy Center are not tax-deductible. APC is funded primarily from small, individual contributions of its supporters and occasional grants from private foundations and businesses. APC does not accept government grants of any kind.

For more information write:

American Policy Center
50A South 3rd Street
Warrenton, VA 20186

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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Their "Liberty Links" Page links to both FreeRepublic and the Eagle Forum, among others. I guess that says a lot right there.

[librechik]

3. an "activist think tank?"--make that militantly Right Wing non-think tank

WTF???

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. OSCE already has monitored US elections...

...specifically the 2002 mid-terms in Florida.

[AspenRose]

5. What are you afraid of?

Innocent people have nothing to hide.