Allen photographed with white supremecist surfaces

[Chimichurri]

(Got link via Rawstory.)
In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags--a booth operated by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC's newsletter, the Citizens Informer.



http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060911&s=george_allen

I'd say - stick a fork in him. He's done.

[notadmblnd]

1. this one?

Allen is the young dark haired fella, I assume?

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Not necessarily.

They're the CCC not the KKK. To them that's a big difference.

[LostinVA]

3. To THEM, but not to others -- it is very much the Klan for non "rednecks"

ie businessmen and those with college degrees.

[nashville_brook]

4. lets hope that people actaually understand what the CCC is

"just looks like a bunch of old men with Charelton Heston." like, if CH is involved, it can't be all thaaaaaat baaaaad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens

The Council of Conservative Citizens (abbreviated CCC or CofCC) is a controversialAmerican paleoconservative political organization that supports European, Southern, andcaucasian heritage and opposes multiculturalism. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and its most active chapter is in Mississippi. Other states with active chapters include Florida,Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia,Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and New York. Sporadic CofCC activities occur in other parts of the country as well. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the Council of Conservative Citizens a racist organization. <1>


Its executive committee is made up of Gordon Lee Baum, Bill Lord, and Tom Dover. The 16 member board of directors includes Leonard Wilson, Sam Dickson, and AJ Barker. Lester Maddox, the late former segregationist governor of Georgia, was a charter member of the CCC. His last public appearance, before his death, was at the 2002 CCC National Conference. Other notable charter members include Major Bob Paterson, first Provost Marshall for the American sector of Berlin, and John Rarick, a conservative former congressman who left the Democrats to form a third party.


CCC CEO, is St. Louis attorney Gordon L. Baum, Esq. Baum has received the highest state award from three states. He is an honorary colonel in Georgia and Alabama, as well a "Fellow Traveler" in Arkansas. Baum founded the St. Louis Citizens Council when he was 16 years old. He has appeared on the Jesse Jackson show, Bill O'Reilly, and others.

[nashville_brook]

5. the CCC in their own words...

"Each of the three major races plays a distinct role in history. . . . The whites were the creators of civilization, the yellows its sustainers and copyists, the blacks its destroyers.” (www.cofcc.org, 12/98)


“Is it racist to say that it is legally and morally wrong for government to force a mixing of the races to produce a mongrel?" (Citizens Informer, Spring/97)


Abraham Lincoln was "surely the most evil American in history," and Martin Luther King was a "depraved miscreant.” (www.cofcc.org, 12/98)


"Western civilization with all its might and glory would never have achieved its greatness without the directing hand of God and the creative genius of the white race. Any effort to destroy the race by a mixture of black blood is an effort to destroy Western civilization itself." (Citizens Informer, Fall/94)


"Our liberal establishment is using the media of television to promote racial intimacy and miscegenation…. All of the news teams on the major networks have black and white newscasters of opposite sexes." (Citizens Informer, Fall/98)


"The Jews' motto is 'never forget, and never forgive.' One can't agree with the way they've turned spite into welfare billions for themselves, but the 'never forget' part is very sound." (Citizens Informer, Winter/97)


"The presence of even one white person with our interests foremost in his mind is simply unacceptable to the issues-obsessed conservative race traitors. Texas Governor George Bush and his brother Jeb in Florida have manifested their self-hatred by embracing Hispanics ahead of whites. Somehow we must find a way to relieve whites of their self-hatred." ("Open Letter to White People,” www.cofcc.org, 12/98)


"If we want to live, white Americans must begin today to lay the foundations of our future and our children's future.... Start today, fellow white Americans. Look at the faces around you: Find the faces like yours, and see them as your brothers and sisters. Find the fair-skinned babies and see them as your children." ("A Call to White Americans," www.cofcc.org, 12/98)

[yellowcanine]

6. What kind of a tie does the old fart next to Allen have on? Almost looks

like three KKK hoods at the bottom - might be my imagination run wild.

[nashville_brook]

7. some CCC history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens

The CCC was founded in 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia and is now headquartered in St. Louis,Missouri. The CCC was formed by various leaders of the old White Citizens' Council, which was a network of racist organizations in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Gordon Lee Baum is the current national leader.


In 1998, several members of the CCC attended an event hosted by Jean-Marie Le Pen'sFront National party. The delegation from the CCC presented Le Pen a Confederate flag; which had been flown over the South Carolina state capitol building.<6>


The CCC became involved in national politics during the late 1990s when it was discovered by journalists and researchers that many right-wing politicians, including Bob Barr, had belonged to or spoken at CCC functions, saying later in Barr's case that he found the groups' racial views to be "repugnant" and had not realized the nature of the group when he agreed to attend, had either attended the group's meetings, corresponded with its leaders, and/or spoken favorably of it. Subsequently it was found that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lotthad also spoken at a CCC meeting. In the ensuing controversy the CCC was denounced by the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Jim Nicholson, for holding "racist views". Other national and state politicians who have given speeches or attended CCC meetings include former Senator Jesse Helms, and former governors H. Guy Hunt ofAlabama and Kirk Fordice of Mississippi. (Former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt also attended event of the organization's St. Louis predecessor the "Metro-South Citizens Council" shortly before the name chan

[Straight Shooter]

8. Did Allen "find Jesus" after this photo was taken?

If so, then all is forgiven.

:sarcasm: