Mark Crispin Miller's Patriot Act: A Public Meditation

[Sweetpea]

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I just came from the show tonight and it was sold out. If you don't know him, he wrote the book "The Bush Dyslexicon". Though the show was entertaining and informative, he ended it with "It isn't good enough to watch anymore". Meaning we all need to get involved and fight back because he believes that Bush and co aren't planning on leaving anytime soon.
The part that was scary for me was the information about the Council for National Policy and there influence.


"COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY (CNP)

Founded 1981 by Tim LaHaye, T. Cullen Davis, Nelson Bunker Hunt.

The origins of the CNP are found in the nativist and reactionary circles of the Radical Right, including the John Birch Society. It is a secretive networking forum that was formed as a rightist alternative to the Council on Foreign Affairs (CFA), which was considered to be too left-wing. It brings together activists and wealthy funders to plan projects of mutual interest, focusing on foreign affairs. It enjoys a tax exempt status.

Executive Committee: Includes Holly Coors, Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, Oliver North and Reed Larson.

Tim LaHaye, Pres. `81/`82. A member of the Moral Majority and the Coalition on Revival (COR) Steering Committee.

Tom Ellis, Pres. `82/`83. A top political operative for Jesse Helms and past director of the Pioneer Fund, a racist organization which finances efforts to prove that African-Americans are genetically inferior to whites.

Succeeded by Nelson Bunker Hunt, Pat Robertson and Richard DeVos of the Amway Corp.

Board Members of CNP:

* Richard Shoff: Former KKK leader and supporter of the Conservative Caucus.

* Don McAlvany: A contributing editor to the John Birch Society's weekly, New American. Is involved in South African military and police groups to organize pressure to get the South African government to disavow the Alvor accords that ended warfare against Angola and SWAPO.

* James McClellan: An associate of Jesse Helms and Roger Pearson, who is active in repealing civil rights legislation.

* Ben Blackburn: Former US Congressman and past board chairman of Heritage Foundation. President of International Policy Forum (IPF), which among other functions provides political campaign training to members of Maranatha, the shepherding cult.

* R. J. Rushdoony: Ideological leader of the "Christian Reconstruction" movement, which advocates "dominion" political philosophy.

* Gary North: Son-in-law of Rushdoony.

* Don Wildmon: Member of the steering committee of COR.

* Phyllis Schlafly: Eagle Forum.

* Robert Grant: Chairman of Christian Voice (a Moon controlled organization) and chairman of American Freedom Coalition (a political front for the Unification network).

* Jerry Falwell: Leader of Moral Majority.

* Morton Blackwell: President of International Policy Forum (IPF), which trains right-wing conservatives around the world in New Right political techniques. IPF provides political training to members of Maranatha, the sheparding cult.

Past and present members in Houston

Ed Young, Pastor Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas.

Judge Paul Pressler, active in Houston, Texas GOP

Mike Richards, KSEV conservative talk radio personality, Houston, Texas"

[Stephanie]

1. Excellent!

So glad you saw it! Mark is a friend and I have seen many versions of this show. It is a real eye-opener. Anyone in NYC should see it. And it will be revived during the RNC convention, so reserve now!

[Stephanie]

2. I will kick

:kick:

[Sweetpea]

3. Yeh, I hope more people go to the show

And read his book.

[Sweetpea]

4. I kicked this so that if you live in NY or the surrounding area

or even if you know someone, tell them about it. He said they were going to film it and it try to get it on PBS.

[nostamj]

5. I definitely want to catch this...

and now that MY show is finally 'going up' I'll have a chance to.


Patriot Act: a Public Meditation is not a work of theatre but a provocative, funny, and scary exposé of threats to our American democracy and freedom. Media critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller (the author of books including "The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder" and the upcoming "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order") says there are powerful forces at work in our country, including the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Christian reconstructionists, and the federal government, that are undermining and erasing our fundamental liberties by their relentless contempt for democratic practice and free speech. In Patriot Act, Miller diagrams, pulls apart, and talks audiences through a multimedia presentation of a wealth of material drawn from official government reports, press conference transcripts, and news service material to evidence his case. The media only compounds the problem, according to Miller, by willfully abandoning their constitutional freedom and not reporting the contradictions, equivocations, and downright falsehoods uttered in interviews and press conferences, effectively giving these groups a free ride to say or do whatever they please. Each session of Patriot Act will be unique, as Miller constantly combs through new material to give an up-to-the-minute portrait of what is really going on in America, and audiences will be able to participate in a question and answer period with Miller. Political prestigidator Steve Cuiffo joins Mark Crispin Miller as The Assistant to provide an entertaining blend of political observations and good, old-fashioned sleight-of-hand magic.