The Kemp/Lieberman connection: Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

[femmedem]

I was wondering why Jack Kemp was planning on stumping for Lieberman in CT. It turns out Kemp is on the board of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Lieberman is a Distinguished Advisor.

The other FDD board members are Steve Forbes and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Its president is Clifford May. It was co-founded by Richard Perle. Gingrich is another Distinguished Advisor, as is James Woolsey. Other advisors include William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Zell Miller--and Senator Charles Schumer of the DSCC, whose membership in this organization perhaps explains his tepid-at-best endorsement of Lamont.

You can read about the FDD’s mission, history and impact here:

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1475

This group frightens me. I think they’re going to raise buckets of money for Lieberman. And they’re going all out against Lamont. Here’s an excerpt from Clifford May’s spin on Lamont’s primary win, from the National Review :
<snip>

What’s worse is that Lamont and his supporters believe
America deserves defeat. They don’t say it the way
Ward Churchill does but you can read it between the
lines. They claim it will not be them or the U.S. that
is defeated; only Bush and the hated neocons will be
vanquished by the forces formerly led by Saddam
Hussein and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That is akin to a
passenger on a ship saying that when the vessels
sinks, only the captain and crew will drown.

So this is a bad day for America, too. There was a
time when Americans united against their enemies. But
our enemies in this war have been allowed to divide
us. Bush may deserve some of the blame for that. But
disunity has been the goal of the
Lamont/Sharpton/Jackson/Murtha/Soros/Sheehan/Moore/Kos
wing of the Democratic party., the wing that triumphed
last night in Connecticut.

<snip>

My head is spinning trying to digest what this group is and how they might influence the election. But I repeat: they scare me.

[Skidmore]

1. Lieberman (N-Neocon)

[whistle]

2. Right, another neoconservative PNAC fascistic think tank....

<snip>

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism.

FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary philanthropists and policymakers to engage in the worldwide war of ideas and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and Militant Islamism.

FDD uniquely combines policy research, democracy training, strategic communications, and investigative journalism. We focus our efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the war of ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, and in the policy community, at home and abroad.

<more to to list of board members and advisors>

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/about_FDD/about_FDD.htm

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3. Yes. Check out their take on the UN:

This is from the link I posted above:

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FDD regards the United Nations as threat to world peace and freedom. In the April 2006 issue of Commentary, one of the leading outlets of neoconservative opinion, FDD's Claudia Rosett writes: “ The United Nations was founded as a forum of governments. As we had ample occasion to learn over the decades, this arrangement presented quite enough problems of its own. Now the UN, in contravention of its own charter, is rapidly evolving into something larger, more corporate, and more menacing: a predatory, undemocratic, unaccountable, and self-serving vehicle for global government. Like the Soviet Union of old, the UN is unwieldy, gross, inefficient, and incompetent; it is also so configured as to reach deep into the national politics of its member states and, by sheer weight and persistence, to force at least some of the worst of its agenda upon all of us.”

According to Rossett, “There will never be enough John Boltons to counter all of this—not that it was easy to come up with even one.”

<snip>

I live in CT and am wondering if I should write a LTTE including this quote, and asking what LIeberman's response is.

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4. this needs to go out to the Lamont people

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[peacetalksforall]

5. Give me the bad news - which other neocon democrats belong to this

organization. I'll brace myself.

This does explain Schumer. I hope he will never run for President unless he converts officially.

How did the Rebpulican Party invade the Democratic Party to the point of winning so many Democrats? Or did some smell the stolen money slush funds?

[femmedem]

7. Donna Brazile. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. That bunch promoting Democracy is the the Mafia promoting Law & Order.

Old Cold Warriors longing for the good old days of assasinations, subversion of governments that we didn't like, fixing elections, paying off dictators, hiring mercenaries, and all of the other "patriotic" things they did while slaughtering millions while promoting "democracy".

[JHB]

8. This is the same bunch...

...-- partly in spirit but in a few cases the very same people -- who told the biggest scare'em stories about Soviet military capabilities; who demanded, got, and spread for political gain the CIA's 70's "Plan B" exercise, which again turned out to be paranoid delusions of what the Soviets could do, but was circulated around conservative political circles to drum up support and justification for the Reagan arms buldup.

These people have a 30-year track record of bein lauded as brilliant while getting the fundamental situation absolutely wrong. And that point needs to be repeated again and again.

[femmedem]

9. I'm pretty new here and still just beginning to learn about this.

I've got to run for work now but if you can send any links, I'd be grateful. Or just what to google to do my own research.

I do live in CT and I will spread the word far and wide, once I understand what I'm talking about. .

[JHB]

10. Googleing "Team b" and "CIA" is a good start

Which provides a long list.

This one's a pretty good overview:
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=140711

Also try www.consortiumnews.com. You can search that site for "Team B" and come up with a number of articles, though most aren't about Team B itself, but mentions it in the context of other covert shennanigans from the 80s to now.

[femmedem]

11. Thank you. n/t