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PERSON PROFILEPaul M. WeyrichAccording to Political Research Associates (PRA), a think tank based in Cambridge, Mass. that tracks right-wing politics, Paul Weyrich is a "key strategist for the secular and religious right." One of Weyrich's positions is that the U.S. government should formally declare a war on drugs, so that suspected drug offenders could be treated as "prisoners of war," with no right to habeas corpus or trial, and could be held indefinitely, "until the war is over." One of Weyrich's advisors on eastern Europe, according to PRA, is a fellow named Laslo Pasztor, who "...served a prison term for his role as a functionary in a Hungarian pro-Nazi party, the Arrow Cross." [From an article by Scott Kerr, Shepherd Express, 5/19/94.] Weyrich is also a strong proponent of school choice. In 1993, according to PRA, he arranged for Milwaukee mayor John Norquist to give a speech entitled "School Choice: Education's Future" before a St. Louis meeting of the Council for National Policy, an organization that includes such right-wing luminaries as former Nixon Justice Department head Edwin Meese III, anti-E.R.A. leader Phyllis Schafly, Oliver North of "Contragate" fame and the conservative direct mail guru Richard Viguerie. Weyrich, by the way, is a local boy from Kenosha (WI). Runs the Free Congress Foundation (FCF). Weyrich is a strategist of the New Right. FCF evolved from the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress and Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, and was founded by Colorado beer magnate Joe Coors. Other groups affiliated with FCF include Free Congress Political Action Committee. Publishes Empowerment! See also Coalitions for America. --From Political Research Associates Paul Weyrich is a central figure in conservative circles who, as of May, 1994, had received more than $3 million in Bradley Foundation money. In 1973, Weyrich, along with right-wing brewery magnate Joseph Coors, established the Heritage Foundation, the country's preeminent conservative think tank, responsible for the policy papers that became the blueprint for such Reagan Administration policies as the Star Wars Defense Strategy, massive budget cuts and trickle-down economic theory.
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MORE LINKSBene Diction Paul Weyrich - changing the Canadian Public Ethic with dominionism“The people of Canada have become so liberal and hedonistic that the public ethic in the country immediately could not be reversed,” Weyrich says in an email analysis to allies. “It will take time. But with leadership it well may be possible to change the public ethic.”
Thomas B. Edsall Weyrich Assailed for Citing Jews in Christ's DeathPaul Weyrich, one of the founders of the contemporary conservative movement, has provoked a furor on both the right and left by writing an Easter commentary declaring that "Christ was crucified by the Jews."
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