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James O’Keefe, ACORN “Pimp”, And Youth For Western Civilization

Posted January 28, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.

The arrest of James O’Keefe at Mary Landrieu’s offices this week, revealed a connection to a leading anti-immigrant training ground. O’Keefe was a product of the rightwing Leadership Institute, which was also crucial to the founding of Youth For Western Civilization. Politico reveals the Leadership Institute’s role in training and funding young far-right activists willing to break the normal rules of politics.
Accroding to Politico:
Founded in 1979 by veteran Republican activist Morton Blackwell, the Leadership Institute has worked with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove and Grover Norquist. The group raked in $6.6 million in 2008, according to its most recent publicly available IRS filings, which doesn’t list donors.
“What we teach is to use creative and imaginative ways to make your points, to reveal what we think is political correctness run amuck, liberal hypocrisy and double standards” on left-leaning college campuses, said Sutton, who supervised O’Keefe at the institute…
Sutton said the Institute suggested to O’Keefe that he ask Rutgers officials to banish the breakfast cereal Lucky Charms from campus dining halls because it was offensive to Irish American students. O’Keefe took the advice a step further and video recorded the meeting, posting it on YouTube, which Sutton said was an example of him pushing the envelope.
Sutton said it seems likely that Basel and Dai [who were arrested with O’Keefe] likely met O’Keefe after he graduated and began working at the Leadership Institute, traveling the country training college students on how to employ similar techniques.
Last month, Youth for Western Civilization, which bills itself as America’s Rightwing Youth Movement, completed training on anti-immigrant politics at the Youth Leadership School, owned and operated by the Leadership Instittue.
The confrontational tactics of the Youth For Western Civilization are likely to intensify as the immigration debate heats up this year. We know where they got their battle plans from.

Tags : hate watch, leadership institute, o'keefe, youth for western civilization

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