Sharlet says Stupak was "a Family-assigned mentor to one of my brothers at Ivanwald"

[Shallah Kali]

Stupak denies knowledge of connections to mysterious ‘C Street’ house he lives in
'I don’t know what you’re talking about, Family and all this other stuff.'
http://michiganmessenger.com/23484/stupak-denies-knowledge-of-connections-to-mysterious-c-street-house

Sharlet said that Stupak’s denial of any knowledge of The Family or its activities is false. “When I lived with The Family at Ivanwald, a house for younger men being groomed for leadership, I was told that Stupak was a regular visitor to the Cedars,” Sharlet said. The Cedars is yet another compound owned by The Family, one that hosts weekly prayer events led by former Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese.

Sharlet said that Stupak had much greater involvement with the group than he is admitting, noting that the congressman was “a Family-assigned mentor to one of my brothers at Ivanwald.” That Ivanwald resident, Sharlet said, “regularly left for what he and others described as mentoring sessions.”

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“The bottom line here is that Stupak is either being dishonest or confessing dangerous ignorance,” Sharlet said. “The house’s function has been public knowledge since the {Associated Press} wrote about it 7 years ago. Multiple mainstream media outlets have reported on the house’s role as in effect, a lobby in all but name, led by a man who is on video and audio record citing the leadership lessons of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.”

Sharlet’s book describes The Family as a kind of shadow multi-national government, operating in secret through small prayer groups called “cells” and modeled after the organization of mafia and terrorist groups. Doug Coe, the leader of the group, frequently refers to the leadership lessons of Hitler and the example of the mafia as a model for how the group operates.

How far-reaching is The Family’s influence? David Kuo, a high-ranking official in the Bush administration who oversaw the White House’s office of faith-based initiatives, wrote in a recent book: “The Fellowship’s reach into governments around the world is almost impossible to overstate or even grasp.”

More info on the family linked here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=340921&mesg_id=340921

Jeff Sharlet's book can be read in part at google books here: http://books.google.com/books?id=NVmcx-8zdGEC

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hold it to some this is just a stupid Conspiracy Theory... after all

conspiracies, (in the legal sense) could never ever be real.

:sarcasm:

The more that comes out the more we should pay attention and shine a light on them.

[xchrom]

2. +1

[global1]

3. Why Do I Think About The Tom Cruise Movie 'Eyes Wide Shut' When I Hear Of The Family & The C-Street.

house. The image that this group "The Family" conjures up in my mind is that of the mansion that Cruise sneaks into that appears to be some sort of secret society. Wealthy and powerful men - having their way with the women - disguised in capes and masks. Has anybody else had this image?