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The Capitol Skyline Hotel has chickened out. Never mind what I said about staying there if you ever go to DC.
Here is the sequence of events as I understand them. The first hotel canceled. Then a second canceled. Then a third hotel was arranged, but it was supposed to be kept secret only to be released a day or two before the conference. But the hotel somehow leaked out and the third hotel wussed out as well. Finally, the Capitol Skyline was arranged but has now chickened out.
I became aware of the situation after the second hotel canceled. When I first read about it my immediate thought was don’t schedule it at a hotel. Schedule it at some sort of public venue that can’t discriminate.
From what I can tell the organization primarily behind this anti-AmRen jihad is R.E.A.L. headed by the cartoonish Jeffrey Imm. I know Ed Sebesta, Morris Dees, Heidi Beirich, and Mark Potok always come off as caricatures of PC thought enforcers, but Jeffry Imm really takes the cake. Even Cultural Marxist guru Herbert Marcuse would be embarrassed by this guys ham-handed attempts at right-think enforcement. “Love is More Powerful Than Hate – Love Wins.” Really? What? Are we in third grade?
Bede on 18 Feb 2010 at 6:10 am #
An interesting article on the turn of events:
http://www.vdare.com/hart/100216_anarcho_tyranny.htm
Weaver on 18 Feb 2010 at 3:41 pm #
Love wins if you’ve got the mass media on your side.
Seems like a venue could be located outside DC.
American Renaissance Conference canceled from death threats to hotels « Old Atlantic Lighthouse on 18 Feb 2010 at 6:22 pm #
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Jeffrey on 18 Feb 2010 at 6:53 pm #
We urge you to Choose Love, Not Hate.
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/02/american-renaissance-conference-canceled-again/
Some have accused us of “lovemongering” to defend our human rights. Our human rights compass is based on our love for our fellow human beings. We reject all threats and hate against our fellow human beings, including threats against those who promote hatred. Those who are misguided by hate are also our fellow human beings. We seek to get those who hate to put such hate behind them, and rejoin us in the consensus of human rights and dignity in our family of humanity. Hate will never stop hate. Hate and threats of violence are always wrong. While we may reject the ideas or ideologies of certain groups, we must not reject their members as our fellow human beings, no matter how reprehensible their ideas or actions may be. We must challenge hate with our love for our shared human rights of equality, liberty, and dignity. It is also our responsibility to Choose Love, not Hate.
If we are going to reach the undiscovered country of universal human rights for all, we must make hate our past, never our future.
Over the past year, R.E.A.L. has made it clear that we stand in support of both equality and liberty. That is the very name of our group, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.). We don’t believe that we can be responsible for human equality and allow racial supremacism and racial hate to go unchallenged. We are an all-volunteer organization. Like such volunteer organizations, we have finite resources, and much as we might like, we cannot be everywhere and address every cause. But we have made every effort to address issues of national and even international impact on our fellow human beings. We are not simply a “hate-buster” group, but we offer an alternative of love and hope, based on our larger consensus on our shared universal human rights of equality, liberty, and dignity – for all.
Some have asked us, “why do you care?”
R.E.A.L. exists to answer that question with the answer “because we must care.”
There is no threat against equality, liberty, and human dignity that affects just some of us – of one race, one gender, one ethnicity, one religion. A threat against our universal human rights of equality, liberty, and dignity is not just a threat against one of us – it is a threat against all of us. That is the consensus that we have that we must mobilize to action.
Certainly if a white American like R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm can’t stand up to the ideological threat of white supremacism, who can? Isn’t white supremacism a problem that white Americans are responsible to address? To white Americans, we tell you – this is your identity group, this is YOUR problem. Don’t look to just the victims of white supremacism for the solution. We are all part of the solution by being consistently responsible for our shared equality, liberty, and dignity. Hate hurts us all. Rejecting hate is of our shared responsibility.
Choose Love, Not Hate.
Bede on 18 Feb 2010 at 7:29 pm #
The MO of the left here seems to be: “If you cannot defeat them via argumentation, intimidate them via death threats!”
Can you imagine what would happen if someone tried to cancel via death threats an NAACP or La Raza conference? There would be nonstop outrage in the media; the national guard would be called in to guarantee the security of the conference.
Bede on 18 Feb 2010 at 7:57 pm #
N.B. While we would be well within our rights to censor the puerile comment above by Jeffrey Imm, we, unlike Imm, believe in protected freedoms of speech and association, and, more importantly in this instance, we believe in the free exchange of ideas, so thus we let the comment remain.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 18 Feb 2010 at 9:47 pm #
Jeffrey,
I probably shouldn’t put this on the Internet, but — can I buy some of what you’re smoking? It must be some gooooood stuff.
pb on 19 Feb 2010 at 7:26 am #
Once again the ends justify the means, eh?
Bruce on 19 Feb 2010 at 11:14 am #
As Peter Brimelow put it:
“The core of conservativism, it seems to me, is this recognition and acceptance of the elemental emotions. Conservatism understands that it is futile to debate the feelings of the mother for her child—or such human instincts as the bonds of tribe, nation, even race. Of course, all are painfully vulnerable to deconstruction by rationalistic intellectuals—but not, ultimately, to destruction. These commitments are Jungian rather than Freudian, not irrational but arational—beyond the reach of reason.
Leftists often say that conservatives are motivated by “hate,” because its recognizing these loyalties tacitly implies, by definition, that these loyalties have limits. But the truth is that conservatism is motivated by love.”
http://www.vdare.com/pb/051018_reagan_conservative.htm
Many of us are also motivated by fear & concern which flows from love or our posterity. But the left will never admit that we have any motivation besides “hate.” They won’t admit that we have non-hateful motivations and then try to show us the error of our ways. Easier to impugn the character of the person you disagree with.
BTW, AMREN is not “white supremacist.”
JW on 19 Feb 2010 at 11:31 am #
Thanks for writing about this. It truly is an absolute disgrace that American Renaissance can’t even hold a small conference at a hotel without receiving death threats and intimidation from multicult loons.
Patroon on 19 Feb 2010 at 6:31 pm #
So if I broke up a meeting of the NAACP, issue its leaders death threats and threatened hotel owners that hosted the meeting, am I not doing the same thing these Marxist thugs are?
Or would that be considered “racism”?
Next week they’ll be doing a book burning with Taylor’s and Brimelow’s works throw in the fire.
Weaver on 25 Feb 2010 at 7:42 am #
American Renaissance Foe Imm Operates A ‘Psychic Reading’ Scam
Wow. That’s who closed the AmRen meeting.
Weaver on 28 Feb 2010 at 2:27 am #
Taylor discusses the issue on Russia Today
rhayat1 on 21 Mar 2010 at 4:10 am #
Here are some videos of the smaller conference that did take place:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jewamongyou?feature=mhw4#p/u/16/RUZF1c2pTxE