Tom DeWeese
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Tom DeWeese is the founder of the American Policy Center and publisher of The DeWeese Report.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Newark, Ohio, he became involved in political organizations from 1968 to 1977. He was a printer until 1974, when he was a candidate for the Ohio Legislature. He worked for two Ohio newspapers as an editor from 1978 to 1980. He began working as a campaign manager in 1980 and made connections in Maine and New Hampshire.
He relocated to Washington DC in 1982 and began working for several national policy organizations as a fund-raising public relations consultant. He began The DeWeese Company in 1985 and since then has been its president. He also founded American Policy Center in 1988 as a way to express his opinion about foreign policy. At the time he was concerned about Latin America and Africa. He became involved with property rights and began fighting against "intrusive environmental regulations"[1]
His fight for property rights has spread beyond the United States; he also promotes American national sovereignty from United Nation policies that he views as intrusive. Currently, he is still actively involved in the APC and promotes privacy rights. In addition to APC literature and opinion columns, he publishes The DeWeese Report which consists of his commentary on political issues. He and his wife, Carolyn DeWeese, own and operate [2]
[edit] Political views
DeWeese is a conservative who promotes constitutional rights and disapproves of intrusive government regulations.
"Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, property rights and back-to-basics education. For over thirty years he has fought against government oppression."[3]
Although he is a conservative he does not support Bush. He does not consider the administration to be truly conservative and wrote an article entitled "Is Bush A conservative?"[4] expressing these views.
[edit] Current initiatives
He regards the global warming theory as a "hoax" that was created for political agendas.
"Catastrophic "Human-Caused" Global Warming has become a euphemism for a political agenda. It has become a religion run by fanatics reminiscent of the leaders of the darkest days of the Inquisition that nearly destroyed civil society only a few hundred years ago. We are not to question the great god of Catastrophic Global Warming. Those who do are separated from civil society and labeled as heretics."[5]
He believes that the United Nations is a wasteful "criminal enterprise".
"The UN was wrong from its very beginning and wrong now because it has always sought to interfere with national sovereignty rather than to provide a unique forum to help keep the peace. That is why the UN is a dead loss. It should be tossed on the trash heap of history so that we may start over and create an honest enterprise that seeks to help nations, not eradicate them."[6]
He believes that Eminent Domain and growing immigration is a growing threat to property rights that must be intercepted.
"All Americans must fully understand the impact of the Supreme Court Kelo ruling and that now, there is no private property in the United States and no home is safe from the threat of bulldozers. Above all, Americans must understand what it means to live under the threat of Eminent Domain." [7]
This is one of his latest initiatives. He believes that the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)[1] is the first step to creating what he refers to as the North American Union. He states in a recent mail campaign:
"They are creating a European Union in America. You and I must move immediately to stop them - or lose our nation forever... If we don't stop the North American Union, all will be lost. Issues like property rights, privacy rights, illegal immigration, voluntary prayer will all be lost at one time."[8]
In the campaign he also asks for donations and states that Congress does not know about the North American Union.
[edit] References
- ^ ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Tom DeWeese
- ^ Freedom21.com
- ^ http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/bio.asp?authid=deweeset
- ^ Tom DeWeese - Is Bush A Conservative?
- ^ DeWeese, Tom. "Global Warming: The Other Side of the Story" Capitalist Magazine May 19, 2006.
- ^ DeWeese, Tom. "Opening Statement by Tom DeWeese Before the Cambridge Union Society Cambridge University", October 26, 2006.
- ^ DeWeese, Tom. "Living under the threat of Eminent Domain" MichNews.com October 14, 2005.
- ^ DeWeese, Tom. "Urgent Message from the American Policy Center" Letter sponsored by American Policy Center. Received May, 17 2007.
