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The Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America

With the help of the Internet, wealthy donors, and willfully ignorant newspapers and television networks, dangerous “hate” organizations are growing powerful in the world of politics. They aim to distort facts to push their own ideological agenda – usually at the expense of ethics, integrity, and morals. Unfortunately, these groups are propagandizing millions of Americans because biased newspapers, magazines, and cable news networks are knowingly treating the information these organizations spoon feed them as fact.

Hatred knows no ideology, and there are groups like this on both sides of the political spectrum. They may not share the same dogma, but what they do have in common is their unwillingness to bend in their strictly biased view of the world.

Based on their effectiveness of disseminating propaganda, here are the ten most dangerous organizations in America:

10) Think Progress

When you and I think about progress, we think about securing our borders, fighting terrorism, and making the Bush tax cuts permanent. The progressive organization Think Progress, however, has something different in mind – the unrelenting bashing of everything Right is the way to progress in America. Think Progress is comprised of your standard progressive hypocrites who follow the mantra “state falsities enough until people think they’re facts.”

They believe in “vast Right wing conspiracies”. According to Think Progress, the Right is engaged in a massive “disinformation campaign” on the “manmade” global warming issue, and is upset that the Right has criticized Al Gore’s Nobel Prize win. Ironically, it’s Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that has been accused by the scientific community of being misleading, incorrect and pushing disinformation. But, like many issues the Left holds near and dear, if you point out the falsities in Gore’s phony research, you hate the environment.

9) Muslim Student Association

Call me crazy, but as a Jew, I am very nervous about organizations that would like to see death to Israel. It’s just a personal preference of mine that Israel be left to… I don’t know… survive? That is why the Muslim Student Association (MSA) made the list. As Discover the Networks reports:

On October 22, 2000, Ahmed Shama, then-president of the UCLA Muslim Students’ Association, led a crowd of demonstrators at the Israeli consulate in chants of “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!”

MSA is a group that supports radical Islam that calls for the death of Jews, the wiping out of the United States, raises money for Hamas, and has many other ties to terrorist organizations.

8) CodePINK

CodePINK is a “women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.” While that makes our hearts flutter, CodePINK is nothing more than a far- Left group of loony, hypocritical women who don’t seem to care about the lack of women’s rights in Iraq or Iran. These people want peace at all costs – all costs to the U.S included.

They pretend to care about our troops, but in reality they frequently use them as a way to attack conservative politicians and thinkers with whom they disagree. They accuse President Bush of treating our troops as “toys,” but also spend their resources defacing military recruitment offices and implying our recruiters are “assassins” (that sure is support for our troops, isn’t it?).

7) American Civil Liberties Union, National

Sure, I will admit that sometimes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is on the right side of the law, particularly local ACLU chapters (their support for the “Bong Hits for Jesus” case was spot-on). It is their national organization, which frequently uses far Left interpretations of the Constitution to give unheard-of rights to terrorists that makes them such a dangerous organization. And despite their far-out ideas, the media loves the ACLU, giving them airtime to push their agenda on us.

6) Family Research Council

The Family Research Council is a far-Right organization that oftentimes does not contribute positively to debates, but takes hard lined stances on issues to the point where they simply don’t seem reasonable. I have no problem with religious organizations taking respectful stances on controversial issues, but FRC routinely goes too far. We know they are against homosexuality, but to bolster their cause they even criticize monogamous homosexual relationships as being unhealthy. Similarly, on the case of media decency, the FRC takes a firm stand that the FCC should have more power to censor what the group deems indecent, rather than stressing on parental responsibility to prevent children from watching certain television shows.

I believe in a lot of what the FRC preaches but when they needlessly go too far, it does them – and the nation – a tremendous disservice.

5) Center for American Progress

This liberal think tank does far less thinking than it does smearing and misleading. The Center for American Progress supports driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, refers to critics who oppose illegal immigrants as “racists,” and suggests conservative SCOTUS Justices are somehow plotting to create a conservative America.

4) League of the South

It’s hard to believe a group like this still exists. The League of the South is a sexist and racist group of Southerners who call for the cessation of the South. They believe the household should be run by the male and according to the book “Terrorism and Organized Hate Crime,” “Founder Michael Hill, a former college professor, called blacks ‘a deadly and compliant underclass.’” The goal of this group is to create a South where they will withhold “support from all institutions and objects of American mass culture that are antithetical to our beliefs and heritage.” In other words, diversity of thought will not be tolerated: you either support them, or you don’t.

3) MoveOn.org

Whenever there is a patriot who happens to support a conservative viewpoint, MoveOn.org is there to smear. Whenever a conservative pundit can be taken wildly out of context to sound racist, stupid, sexist, MoveOn.org will be there to smear. Whenever a far Left Democrat needs some extra bullying because they are losing a political debate, MoveOn.org will be there to smear.

MoveOn.org, a far Left anti-war, anti-Republican organization, became a political player not because of their campaigns (which have resoundingly failed), but because of their well-to-do contributors and support from liberal leaders and liberal celebrities. While they have little effect on elections or policies, they are powerful because they are not only in bed with so many liberal leaders, but they do the liberals’ dirty work for them. Here are two notable failed campaigns by MoveOn.org:

- After attacking Gen. David Petraeus in a New York Times advertisement, there was a loud outcry from the Right and the Left, leading to a House resolution condemning that kind of smear tactic.

- MoveOn.org candidate Ned Lamont lost the general election to Independent Joe Lieberman.

2) Universities and Colleges

Anyone familiar with my column at Family Security Matters knows my thoughts on the Left’s stranglehold on American colleges and universities. Unfortunately, many professors use the various organizations on this list as a part of their curriculum, often selectively ignoring facts that don’t support their far-Left agenda.

1) Media Matters for America

You’re unlikely to find a more dishonest machine than Media Matters. Their entire operation involves listening to conservative talk radio and television commentators, taking anything out of context that they can, and running the host through the mud. They are professional smear merchants who routinely attack Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Neil Cavuto.

Media Matters is virulently anti-free speech when the speech involved is conservative in nature. The organization actively issues directives to its readers to contact Rush Limbaugh Show affiliates to try to boot him off the air for the “phony soldiers” comment that organizations like Media Matters willfully took out of context.

Media does matter for America – which is why you should steer clear of the astoundingly inaccurate and unethical Media Matters for America.

SOURCE: Family Security Matters

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2 comments to The Ten Most Dangerous Organizations in America

  • Wow, finally I can actually have a voice, and I invite the Lefties, such as moveon.org to e-mail me. I am a Vietnam Veteran, and these people and Organizations go back even before the onset of WWII, well not these actual Orginzations, but those who think like them. What I am really appauled about is the fact that Millions of Americans claim to be Christians and I for one cannot judge them one way or the other, but suffice it to say, we have let the Left dismantal all that we as Americans held dear close to our hearts, such the Pledge of Allegience, Prayer, in our Schools, the Ten Commandments displayed at our Courthouses across this great Nation of ours. When are we as a collective Christian, God fearing, Peoples going to stand up and say enough is enough ! I am tired of the George Soroses and the like trampling on our Morals, morays, ethics, our values. I for one would love nothing more than to personally kick him back to Greece, or wherever he came from. Anyway, I am glad that I now have a forum to vent. Keep on keeping on !

  • Mike Bock

    This list is ridiculous.

    The person who compiled this list is named Jason Rantz, a twenty-five year old, and, according to his bio, evidently, is trying to establish himself in radio as a voice of the right wing — in the style, say, of Rush Limbaugh or Neil Bortz.

    Before now, I’d never heard of Family Security Matters (FSM), the organization that posted Rantz’s list. Right Web describes FSM as, “a rightist advocacy outfit based in Washington, DC, closely connected to other hardline outfits through overlapping board members.” Right Web also says, FSM has been criticized for misleadingly portraying itself as a nonpartisan organization, with the modest goal of providing “Americans like us the tools to become involved citizens and powerful defenders of our homes, our families, and our communities.” But, according to Right Web, “lurking underneath this carefully crafted image is a radical agenda that is wholly partisan in its support for right-wing Republicans.”

    Most outrageous of the articles posted by FSM, often popping up in my Google search, is an August 2007 article by a person identified as a contributing editor to FSM, Philip Atkinson, who advocated in his post, “Conquering the Drawbacks of Democracy,” that President Bush should use nuclear weapons and should establish himself as a dictator. Read more here http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3368

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