"I strongly believe that they should close the border to Mexico. On one condition, which is you close it not only to people but to resources. If you say you want to close it to people but not resources, what you're saying, one thing, is that you're a racist asshole, but another thing you're saying is - I don't want you but I want the coffee that's grown on the land that used to be yours.

Why is this migration taking place? It's not taking place because suddenly a bunch of people from Guatemala decide they want to take an eco-tour of the strawberry fields in the San Joaquin valley. It's because their communities are being destroyed through the theft of the land. If you don't want these people moving up here then don't steal those people's lands, pretty simple solution."


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Richard M. Dolan studied at Alfred University and Oxford University before completing his graduate work in history at the University of Rochester, where he was a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship. Dolan studied U.S. Cold War strategy, Soviet history and culture, and international diplomacy. He has written about "conspiracy" in the following way:

The very label serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue.

The United States comprises large organizations - corporations, bureaucracies, "interest groups," and the like - which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. "Conspiracy," in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe.

Anyone who has lived in a repressive society knows that official manipulation of the truth occurs daily. But societies have their many and their few. In all times and all places, it is the few who rule, and the few who exert dominant influence over what we may call official culture. - All elites take care to manipulate public information to maintain existing structures of power. It's an old game.

America is nominally a republic and free society, but in reality an empire and oligarchy, vaguely aware of its own oppression, within and without. I have used the term "national security state" to describe its structures of power. It is a convenient way to express the military and intelligence communities, as well as the worlds that feed upon them, such as defense contractors and other underground, nebulous entities. Its fundamental traits are secrecy, wealth, independence, power, and duplicity.

"Somebody is keeping this administration alive for some reason."

There are lots of somebodys and lots of reasons.

A lot of the usual suspects - powerful nations and wannabees and most other smaller countries - want the United States and their henchmen to self destruct in their post second world war ongoing take over/control/own the world ambition/long campaign. But to self destruct in a way that doesn't hurt badly, let alone destroy, also, the usual suspects.

It's gotten really complicated.

It's not news that the biosphere is being overwhelmed. Everybody reading this has got uncounted quadrillions of synthetic molecules woven into their bodies, doing no one knows what, and here comes the DU. The acquifers on which billions now depend are being depleted, the oceans are being fished out, and so on.

So the previously rather simple historical Herodotus game of at least having the patience to let the threatening beast die, for all threatening beasts eventually die, and doing what one can to speed up the process without getting badly injured, and getting a chance to pick at the carcass, has to be juggled along with moving toward a global human presence that is in some reasonable harmony with the planet, slamming on the brakes on global warming (carbon-based combustion and methane), and making the transition to clean renewable decentralized energy (and obviously a whole bunch more besides).

For many countries and people holding American dollars and investments in the United States, a sudden collapse of the US dollar and economy will hurt. So the game is on to ease out of harms way. Incremental withdrawal of support and a reduction of one's loot held in American dollars.

The somebody also includes the American people, the Supreme Court, and Congress, the military, the secret service, the CIA and so on.

Many regimes rely on the United States for their continued existence/hold on power, or fear the US's ability to covertly or overtly do them damage, so they support the US with a support that is about as sincere and profound as hooker for pimp.

An additional wild card thrown into the mess is that leading members of the particular bunch now in nominal political power in the United States are criminally insane. That does not mean that they are not clever at certain games, even diabolically brilliant at times, but it does mean that patience with them is not adequate. Criminally insane people with creepy itchy fingers on the nuclear trigger, and who have implemented policy and attitudinal changes that facilitate the use of nuclear weapons against utterly innocent people, need to be removed from office as quickly as possible.

A momentum for impeachment is building and to support this big time may very well be the single most important job.
But it is also critically important not to mistake removing the lunatics who have taken over the asylum for curing the rest of the inmates.

There appears to be a rapid escalation of the recognition that these jerks are not just skilled liars holding power for a few years and doing some horrible damage, but rather, coming at this point in human history, potentially mega-catastrophic.

Here's a link to remember:
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/torture-and-task-force-121.html

WAR MAKING 101 - A USER'S MANUAL
Stephen Lendman

March 23, 2006

I've lived through seven decades and can remember the late 1930s before WW II began. In fact, I began my formal education in kindergarten within days of when Hitler sent his Wehrmacht across the Polish border in an act of illegal aggression and began that near six year horror. I was too young to understand it then, and I can barely remember that fateful "first Pearl Harbor" on December 7, 1941. Franklin Roosevelt wanted in on that fight and did all he could to goad the Japanese to attack us. He knew with enough prodding they would, and when it came, we knew about when and where it would happen. We were ready to mobilize and join the battle, we did it, and nothing's been the same since.

FDR at least took the country to war as the Constitution says we must. On December 11,1941 he asked the Congress to make that declaration against Japan and also Nazi Germany in response to Hitler's declaring it against us. It was the last time a US Congress would ever use the constitutional authority it alone is allowed in Article I, Section 8 of that sacred document. The Founding Fathers thought that authority so important they codified it. They believed that on what is the single most important issue a nation ever faces, that awesome power should never placed in the hands of a single person. They wanted only the Legislative Branch to have it and only exercise it after careful, deliberative debate. That Branch still has it if it so wishes, but for the last 65 years it decided in its infinite indifference to abrogate it's authority and allow the President to usurp it and use it at his pleasure and choice. We've seen the result - a mess without end. We've had war after war after endless war (including the ones fought by others we encouraged and financed plus all the CIA covert mischief and abuse) with no end in sight and in every instance since WW II against designated "enemies" that never threatened or attacked us or had any intention to. Doing that by direct intervention based on no provocation, as we have, is called illegal aggression, which is exactly the crime the Nazis were tried for at Nuremburg. In the words of the Tribunal: "To initiate a war of aggression....is not only an international crime, it is the supreme crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." The worst of those found guilty in that Tribunal were hanged. Think any of our leaders will ever meet the same fate as they should, of course? Fat chance, even though the worst of ours are as guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity as were the worst Nazis.

THE RESULT OF THE CONGRESS SCRAPPING THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY IT ALONE HAS

Here's one definition of a dictator or at least one practicing to become one. It's a head of state able to decide alone with unchallengeable authority whether or not to take a nation to war for any reason. Here's an add-on to that definition. If a leader does it for any reason other than to respond to an attack by another nation or clear evidence an attack is coming, that leader is also a war criminal. Noam Chomsky believes every US president since WW II was and is a war criminal. Ditto, so do I.

This essay will concentrate on the current "war criminal in charge." With some background for the historically uneducated, I'll then fast forward to the present and take you into the heart of the beast we better get to know well and quickly before it eats us alive. I'll lay out what I call a war maker's manual, step by step or rule by rule, from when we were new at this ugly business and still learning to the present. Ready? Here we go.

I can't match the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu who wrote his masterful Art of War 2400 years ago and won't even try. But I've seen the modern day script played out enough times and think I've gotten the hang of it now. First, some basic rules:

A. Get the language right. It's not enough to say Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or Venezuela are threats to our national security. We have to say or imply it's the new Hitler Saddam, the "crazed Arabs and mullahs" running Iran (sorry - they're Persians, not Arabs, and only changed the country's name to Iran in 1934......you can call them "crazed Arabs" though, who'll know the difference besides the Iranians), the demonic Taliban who beat up on defenseless women, or the "demagogue" Hugo Chavez "awash in oil money and trying to destroy democracy and destabilize the region"........he happens to have the most vibrant democracy in the Western Hemisphere and is selling the country's oil at a discount to poor nations and poor US communities in need. Think Exxon-Mobil would do that?Now you're getting it.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m21865

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."

~ Frank Zappa, 1977

I came across a few comments today. Before posting them let me suggest to you that you cannot possibly underestimate how sodden the American Dream is and with that how utterly contrived is the American Way of Life. Now what that has produced is artifact people who are thoroughly dispirited, atomized and all in all ineffectual. Caricature nation. These Peace Marches do at times seem to have a festival like atmosphere about them. We are permanently mediated so feel little for our own circumstances let alone empathetic for our brothers and sisters in Mesopotamia.

Where is the fire and soul in the Anti-War movement? Perhaps its been doused by ipods, cellphones and assassinations.

Now three quotes from people I don't know:
"As a US AID Refugee Advisor in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, I saw these atrocities on a regular bases. GI's carried photos about in plastic pouches of atrocities they'd committed and posed for. One of the most popular was a GI holding a servered head by the hair in either hand with a lit cigarette in either hand. It was the smug smile on the GI's face that was most disconcerting.

Then there were the barbacue runs. Napalm drops on defenseless villages. Burning everyone alive. Oh, we Americans are a nice people. Giving candy to children and then shooting them."

And This:
"I am absolutely outraged at the killing of these children. In England, for such a crime by a civilian, natural life sentence would be mandatory. If you are a member of the armed services, you can do what you like, I have heard testimony from a former national services member that shootings of civilian household members in Northern Ireland, including children, went unreported and unpunished, these incidents never having come under any form of proper legal scrutiny due to 'd' notice enforcement (complete ban on publication). In regard to this, please refer to the draconian nature of the English influence over Northern Ireland as elucidated in a book called 'A Fatal Shore'. What sickens me most is the utter cowardice of the British and American people to physically march on their respective houses of representatives and take these criminals and insist on genuine court proceedings to imprison them (at the very least, but execution is too soft an option for these evil souls). Churchill had the tanks on the streets in London many years ago against a popular uprising. A human wave approach on the houses of representatives, without armaments, nonviolent, to physically oust these so called representatives, and the subsequent and inevitable totalitarian military response would easily demonstrate that these 'leaders' are prepared to kill majority representatives of their own electorate in order to maintain 'government for the benefit of the government and not for the people'. Surely some troops and police could be appealed to, and turn against their masters.
'Demonstrations', 'petitions', and the like are impotent and futile orchestrations often designed by agents provocateurs (I have had this confirmed by a senior official in the British establishment) for the dual purposes only of satisfying a vague public concern that 'someone' is doing something', and that such efforts are entirely ineffectual. Such a small sacrifice resulting from more sincere approaches would surely then serve to wake up the people that we are now in the grip of a primarily parasitic influence. The members of government involved are not truly bothered about the 'horrific' losses of life they daily publish in their newspapers to create a screen of ink to whip up hysteria over extremely localised, daily killings in domestic incidents, killings by released mental patients etc., they only desire to bombard the mental faculties of the electorate with information which is entirely irrelevant to them, till their attention span and critical faculties are uselessly expended and entirely exhausted, so that no one even dreams of searching out sites on the internet concerning birth defects in children resulting from depleted uranium. Just imagine some politician scattering depleted uranium in America or England near children and those who are about to procreate, and, witnessing the horrendous birth defects and fatal cancers produced by their actions, with repeat effects anticipated for another 4.6 billion years. Then, say, we are bringing freedom and democracy. Of course, if you are the government, it is ok, and we are physically scared to do anything, (been beaten up by the police recently?) but if it were to be an individual perpetrating these inconceivably sadistic, extremely distressing and horrific acts whilst not being 'authorised' as a government employee, he would of course be sentenced to natural (whole) life sentence in a top security mental hospital like Broadmoor, or Rampton, and be utterly torn to pieces for decades in the national media. Just what is the fear we feel that disables us from coordinating together to remove these criminally insane psychopaths from power? Let us look deep inside ourselves. Perhaps it was the damage from thiomersal in our vaccinations, the fluoride in our water and toothpaste, or maybe the aspartame in our cola, or the TV and media propaganda hypnosis? Why are we all dying spiritually?. Is is time for a little more than just chanting and walking on demos? Think about it please."

And this:
" To the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Africa, South America and many more, whose peoples endured sufferring from exploitations of coveted resources, and tests of weapons/tactics of mass destruction, I, as an American, do deeply and sincerely apologize for what has been done. I promise that I shall do all in my power to end these atrocities, bring the criminals and liars to justice, and to see that reparations are made.

In 1968, as my brother and I were enlisting in the Marines, my father told us of an old warriors saying...
"Shed no tears for the fallen soldier, for if you come to kill, you must be ready and willing to die should that be your fate." He then brought out that old flag that draped the coffin of his brother, a Marine, killed in WWII in the Pacific. He told us that we represent the people of America and to carry ourselves in a manner of respect so that the sacrifice of his brother and so many more like him would not be dishonored.

The "great statesman" Henry Kissinger revealed a most sinister aspect of American foreign policy when he said...
"Depopulation of third world countries should be a highest priority, as the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals, especially from undeveloped countries.
Kissinger also said, in the presence of General Alexander Haig, that "Military men are DUMB, STUPID ANIMALS, to be used as pawns for US foreign policy."

The oil consumption of the US military is as much as the entire country of Greece. When the oil stops, so does the military. The military Industrial Complex knows this and is trying to secure the worlds oil supply as it is essential to their goal of FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE.

If those who profit from war and the misery of others spent their money for peace this could be a better world for all people.
Thank you."

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Foreign_Policy/GlobalRollbackNetwork.html

Surveillance is in these days. Total Info. Total Watchdog. Total Control. Welcome to Panopticon World. It's More Than Your County Survey.

How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move

http://www.spychips.com/

Police state USA and Big Brother's most cool tool

By Amy Worthington

03/01/06 "Idaho Observer" -- -- Senate Minority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) calls this Congress the "most corrupt" in history.1 U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) often uses the term "police state" to describe our national state of affairs. George Bush is making the most expansive claims to unbridled power since America’s War for Independence, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT).2 Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who proved Bush lied to launch us into war with Iraq, says "fascist forces have seized control of the levers of power."3 Americans are being told that their Republic has become a fascist police state—they just need ears to hear.

In a fascist police state, the dictator secures his power with support from private corporations which are given special privileges and, thus, benefit from doing business with dictators. Continuously bribed by 28,000 corporate lobbyists in D.C.,4 Congress is doing its part to build a fascist state in America.

During President Bush’s recent State of the Union speech, these tainted legislators perpetually rose to their feet to applaud the spewing of what a New York Times editorial called "misleading analogies, propaganda slogans and false choices."5 Their bootlicking recalls a by-gone Soviet era when endless rows of robotic Central Party members applauded the likes of Stalin to ensure their next breath of oxygen.

Passing the fascist laws they never read

After passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, Rep. Paul told Insight Magazine that the 2,200-page bill was not made available to Congress to read before the vote.6 So the most corrupt Congress in history rubber stamped the most fascist legislation they had never read. Our constitution enumerates inalienable rights that are emphatically restated in the first 10 amendments commonly known as "The Bill of Rights." Under the Patriot Act, the "right" to free speech, peaceable assembly and security in one’s person, papers and effects have been relegated to "privileges" that government can take away at any time. Patriot Act authority has suspended the right to due process and a prompt and public trial; it even cancelled protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Agents serving the fascist state can freely wire-tap our phones, enter our homes/offices, search and seize without warrant and detain us indefinitely without charges—ostensibly to keep America safe.



Digital Angel: Fascist Big Brother’s most cool tool

Passive ID subdermal chips are the "good news" compared to grotesque ACTIVE implant chips also developed by ADS. The implantable Digital Angel is a grotesque communication device that can continually relay information wirelessly to either ground stations or to satellite systems.96 Developed to be a true tracking chip like the bulky radio ankle bracelets locked onto prisoners, it is tiny enough to be implanted into human flesh. The Angel has a built-in GPS receiver and a wireless transceiver. In December, 2004, ADS signed an agreement with the satellite telecommunications company ORBCOMM. Such collusion will one day turn implanted citizens into walking radio beacons, trackable by satellite.97

Digital Angel is the ultimate in totalitarian control, to date Big Fascist Brother’s most "cool tool."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12121.htm

Exception-Based Reporting - Reducing Offender Management Time
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Many other systems may offer the ability to set up GPS inclusion zones or exclusion zones, but do NOT integrate automatic notification when GPS zone violations occur, rather only offer notification when curfew or RF proximity violations occur with home base stations. These other systems add more work of reviewing the tracking maps for every offender to verify compliance to their location while under GPS supervision. These other systems limit a correction agencies ability to grow their GPS programs due to the excessive program management time.

iSECUREtrac's fully functional exception-based automated violation notification system eliminates the need for an agency to constantly check or review an offender's whereabouts, but rather allows an officer to receive pertinent violation information and to review location history information on an as-needed basis. Offenders who are in compliance shouldn't require the same amount of personal supervision that non-compliant offenders require. Exception-based reporting enables agency personnel to identify offenders who require higher degrees of supervision and to respond appropriately. Exception-based reporting has made iSECUREtrac's system integral to any agency that wants to best utilize a corrections officer's time in managing his/her offender caseload.

http://www.isecuretrac.com/tn24_p.asp

Watch What You Say
By Tim Shorrock, The Nation. Posted March 9, 2006.

Two months after the New York Times revealed that the Bush Administration ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless surveillance of American citizens, only three corporations--AT&T, Sprint and MCI--have been identified by the media as cooperating. If the reports in the Times and other newspapers are true, these companies have allowed the NSA to intercept thousands of telephone calls, fax messages and e-mails without warrants from a special oversight court established by Congress under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Some companies, according to the same reports, have given the NSA a direct hookup to their huge databases of communications records. The NSA, using the same supercomputers that analyze foreign communications, sifts through this data for key words and phrases that could indicate communication to or from suspected terrorists or terrorist sympathizers and then tracks those individuals and their ever-widening circle of associates. "This is the US version of Echelon," says Albert Gidari, a prominent telecommunications attorney in Seattle, referring to a massive eavesdropping program run by the NSA and its English-speaking counterparts that created a huge controversy in Europe in the late 1990s.

So far, a handful of Democratic lawmakers--Representative John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and Senators Edward Kennedy and Russell Feingold--have attempted to obtain information from companies involved in the domestic surveillance program. But they've largely been rebuffed. Further details about the highly classified program are likely to emerge as the Electronic Frontier Foundation pursues a lawsuit, filed January 31, against AT&T for violating privacy laws by giving the NSA direct access to its telephone records database and Internet transaction logs. On February 16 a federal judge gave the Bush Administration until March 8 to turn over a list of internal documents related to two other lawsuits, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, seeking an injunction to end the program.

Despite the President's rigorous defense of the program, no company has dared to admit its cooperation publicly. Their reticence is understandable: The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of the government officials who leaked the NSA story to the Times, and many constitutional scholars and a few lawmakers believe the program is both illegal and unconstitutional. And the companies may be embarrassed at being caught--particularly AT&T, which spent millions advertising its global services during the Winter Olympics. "It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it," says Bruce Schneier, the founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, a California consulting firm.

Corporations have been cooperating with the NSA for half a century. What's different now is that they appear to be helping the NSA deploy its awesome computing and data-mining powers inside the United States in direct contravention of US law, which specifically bans the agency from collecting information from US citizens living inside the United States. "They wouldn't touch US persons before unless they had a FISA warrant," says a former national security official who read NSA intercepts as part of his work for the State Department and the Pentagon.

This is happening at a time when both the military and its spy agencies are more dependent on the private sector than ever before, and an increasing number of companies are involved. In the 1970s, when Congress acted to stop domestic spying programs like Operation Shamrock, in which the NSA monitored overseas telegrams and phone calls, the communications industry was in its infancy. "It was basically Western Union for cables, and AT&T for the telephone," says James Bamford, who revealed the existence of the NSA in his famous book The Puzzle Palace and is a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit. "It's much more complicated now." In fact, today's global telecom market includes dozens of companies that compete with AT&T, Sprint and MCI for telephone and mobile services, as well as scores of Internet service providers like Google, Yahoo! and AOL that offer e-mail, Internet and voice connections to customers around the world. They are served by multinational conglomerates like Apollo, Flag Atlantic and Global Crossing, which own and operate the global system of undersea fiber-optic cables that link the United States to the rest of the world. Any one of them could be among the companies contacted by intelligence officials when President Bush issued his 2002 executive order to obtain surveillance without FISA approval.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/33334/

Thank You for Waiting. Now Watch What You SAy.

Citizens for America



Lehrman and Hume were able to attract major rightwing funders such as Joseph Coors and Ivan Boesky. Many backers of CFA come from the Fortune 500, including the heads of such corporations as Atlantic-Richfield, Shell Oil, Chase Manhattan, Dr. Pepper, W. R. Grace, Amway, and Northrup. (16) Ultra rightwing Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, Texas financier T. Boone Pickens, and Reagan "kitchen cabinet" members Holmes Tuttle and Earle Jorgensen have also contributed to CFA. (19) The J. E. and L. E. Mabee Fdn donated $20,000 in 1985, and in 1986 the Starr Fdn donated $50,000. (9,10) CFA's 1986 budget was $1. 8 million. (16)



CFA produced slick anticommunist publications targeting the Sandinista government which were distributed to interested audiences along with materials of the State Department, the Defense Department, Heritage Foundation, and the Senate Republican Policy Committee. The group also sponsored a major public relations campaign for the Nicaraguan contras, including a 1985 national tour of contra leaders to 200 congressional districts and a barrage of pro-contra aid radio and newspaper ads in 1986. (16,23) CFA worked closely with Oliver North in North's contra supply efforts."Abramoff and CFA were assigned responsibility for organizing briefings by contra speakers, telephone-trees 'to targeted congressional offices encouraging them to vote for aid to the freedom fighters in Nicaragua'." (Interior quotes are from a declassified "NSC Intelligence Document," Exhibit OLN-217). (24)



The Washington Post reported that Oliver North has been very close to Jack Abramoff and the CFA. North helped CFA select the contra leaders for the 1985 speaking tour. (25)



Principals:

Donald Devine, chairman in 1990. (1) Lewis E. Lehrman, co-founder and president. (2) Dr. Robert H. Krieble, Louisiana State Representative Louis "Woody" Jenkins, and Jack Hume were also co-founders of Citizens for America. (16,25) Marc L. Holtzman was executive director until 1984 when he was replaced by Jack Abramoff. (2,25) Andres Bougolubov is either the current or former executive director. (2)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cfa.php#P2519...

Lewis E. Lehrman

Project for the New American Century: Board of Directors
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Co-Chairman

Highlights & Quotes

Lehrman is a former drugstore executive turned conservative economic theorist turned Heritage Foundation big wig. He helped found Citizens for America, which was formed in 1983 by various conservative heavy hitters such as Holly Coors (the wife of Joseph Coors) to promote conservative causes. According to GroupWatch, CFA “worked closely with Oliver North in North's Contra supply efforts,” organizing briefings by Contra speakers that targeted congressional offices and encouraged congressional members to vote Contra aid. CFA was also the principal U.S. sponsor for a 1985 meeting of anticommunist ‘freedom fighters’ held in Angola. This conference produced at least three memoranda -- one from speechwriter Dana Rohrabacher to White House communications director Patrick Buchanan, one from Buchanan to National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, and one from National Security Council staffer Walter Raymond to McFarlane. The memos discussed whether the president should send a personal message to the Angola meeting via Lehrman and whether Rohrabacher should attend the meeting. The conference was considered instrumental in pressuring the Reagan administration to authorize a $15 million aid package for UNITA in 1986. The conference also exerted pressure on the U.S. Congress and public to support the Nicaraguan Contras and the guerrillas in Afghanistan.” (5)

Citizens for America: Co-Founder and President (5)
American Enterprise Institute: Board of Trustees (2)
Morgan Library: Board of Trustees (2)
Manhattan Institute: Board of Trustees (2)
Heritage Foundation: Board of Trustees (2)
Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College: Co-Founder (3)
Yale University Council: Chairman, Committee on Humanities (2)
Conservative Network (5)
Council for National Policy (6)
Democratic International: Organizer of insurgent leaders in Angola, 1985 (7)
Republican and Conservative Party: Candidate for New York Governor, 1982 (1)

Corporate Connections/Business Interests
L.E. Lehrman & Co.: Chairman (1)
Gerson Lehrman Group: Board of Directors (2)
Ten Squared Investment Fund: Founder (1)
Lehrman, Bell, Mueller, & Cannon (financial forecasting firm) (3)
Morgan Stanley Asset Management (Morgan Stanley & Co.): Managing Director and CEO, 1988-?; Senior Adviser and Director, 1987-1988 (1)
Arbusto Energy (George W. Bush’s Texas oil business): Partner, 1979 (4)
Rite Aid: President, 1968-1977 (1)
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1263