10 Conservative organizations that have been the most detrimental to human and civil rights

[ck4829]

(Be honest, but gentle, with me. This is my first real thing I've written in a long time.)

I've based just how detrimental it is based on:
Connections to massacres
Trying to cover up massacres
Suppressing human and civil rights
Being chummy with dictators
Illegal activities
Trying to cover up illegal activities
Opposition to peace and/or wanting the perpetuation of warfare

Here's the list:

10. Free Enterprise Fund - After DeLay was indicted, this group led the charge in trying to smear Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor in the case

9. Free Congress Foundation - This group actively rejected detente and arms control

8. Family Research Institute - Hate group led by discredited researcher Paul Cameron, but being discredited doesn't stop homophobes from using his research in an effort to suppress freedom for GLBT people

7. Clear Channel Communications - After 9/11, they blacklisted several songs and groups. They also led pro-war rallies leading up to the invasion of Iraq

6. Traditional Values Coalition - Suspected of trying to throw balloons filled with urine at people at a rally and also connected to the suppression of GLBT people

5. Progress for America - Made ads supportive of the invasion of Iraq

4. American Enterprise Institute - The brains behind Bush's escalation of the forces in Iraq

3. Accuracy in Media - Our first truly bad group, tried to cover up the El Mozote Massacre by accusing the people who exposed it as having political motives for doing so, it turned out however that a thousand men, women, and children were indeed brutally murdered by a death squad in El Salvador, they also supported the Pinochet regime

2. Heritage Foundation - Supported UNITA, the Contras, and some religious fanatics in Afghanistan in their struggle against the USSR (That never came back and hit us, right?)

1. Republican Party - All these abuses would not have been possible without the aid of the Republican Party

[AlCzervik]

1. i'm really glad you included Free congress because many have never heard of them and their lunatic

leader.

[mmonk]

2. Good list.

You ought to buy ad space in newspapers and produce it there.

[benddem]

3. how about

the Hoover institute. Guess you can't have all of them in the top ten but they are bad.

[billbuckhead]

4. Nuts Ruining America

When a man is in trouble or in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed. So I feel really good."
<http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/04/17/861/12140>

[Initech]

5. Another thing to add about Clear Channel: They own the rights to Limbaugh.

And O'Reilly. And Hannity. And every other republican shill who brainwashes the masses and allows them (and these other groups you mentioned) to get away with all the evil shit that they do.

Otherwise, good stuff.

[Ron Green]

6. Upon today's news maybe AIPAC would make the cut.

[Warpy]

7. Couple of alternative ideas

Eagle Forum, founded as a backlash to all the civil rights progress of the 60s, they've fought laws that protect women, laws that protect children, and laws that protect the environment. Phylis Schlafly is their mentor, nuff said. Plus, Dobson is one of their darlings.

Concerned Women for America, a mostly male run right wing organization with a few women shills that is allergic to civil rights and reproductive freedom. Founded by Beverly LaHaye (whose husband Timothy is famous for those silly "Left Behind" books). They're basically the Dominionist and Christian Reconstructionist political arm.

These are much worse than #5 and #6 because they've been doing evil things to our civil liberties for years; the Eagle Forum for decades.

Throwing urine at people may be reprehensible, but it's small potatoes compared to the damage these two groups have done. Likewise, supporting the war doesn't compare.

I strongly suggest reconsidering #5 and #6 if you want to restrict the number. These people are far worse. The others are spot on.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22376

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3152

[muntrv]

8. And these are the top 10 groups to draft into the army, since they have

permanent hard ons for war.:evilgrin:

[Bronyraurus]

9. Clear Channel did not blacklist any songs or groups after 9/11.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. They just provided a lits of songs...

that people shouldn't play. Because it'd be "inappropriate." Nudge nudge, wink wink.

Sounds like blacklisting to me.

[Bronyraurus]

11. They didn't.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/radio.htm

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Read it again.

They did provide a list, and told people it was inappropriate to play it.

[Bronyraurus]

19. What article are you reading?

A single program director at a single CC radio station compiled the list and forwarded it around as a suggestion. Clear Channel as a corporate body did nothing of the sort and didn't ratify the PD's actions. He acted alone and was promptly ignored.

[Bronyraurus]

13. Let me guess

You won't admit that you're wrong.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. Don't forget the Federalist Society

the real group od 'activist judges' who groom candidates for the bench who belive in unconstitutional crap like 'the unitary executive"

[philly_bob]

17. Federalist Society replaced American Bar Assn. for vetting judges /nt

[lpbk2713]

14. Add to the list the Supreme Court

A detrimental conservative outfit if there ever was one.

[Sammy Pepys]

16. Er...I'm not sure Clear Channel has done enough...

..to warrant being on that list, at least in terms of the example you cite.

Club For Growth: major conservative fundraising machine.

[ComerPerro]

18. Add "Progress for America" to the list of most Ironic names, as well