Pam Geller, unwelcome at CPAC Welcome at DaTechGuy on DaRadio

You have ene­mies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for some­thing, some­time in your life.

Win­ston Churchill

Years from now if they’re suc­cess­ful and they have con­trol of this coun­try, there will be no free meet­ing, there will be no free speech, there will be no free­dom expres­sion and guess what you will have been com­plicit in this because you were too much of a cow­ard to take a stand

Allen West at Pam Geller’s event CPAC 2010

One of my first mem­o­ries of my first CPAC in 2010 sit­ting being in the lobby and notic­ing a par­tic­u­lar fellow.

He seemed to be watch­ing every­thing, notic­ing every sin­gle per­son walk­ing by, every move­ment peo­ple made. It didn’t take long for him to notice me notic­ing him and I approached him to ask him a few ques­tions. He declined.

I pre­sumed he was either event secu­rity or hotel secu­rity and filed him away for future reference.

A few days later due to unforseen cir­cum­stances I found myself late to the stand­ing room only Pam Geller’s CPAC event. It would be my intro­duc­tion to Col Allen West who the entire coun­try and Con­ser­v­a­tive Move­ment would know soon.

While Allen West impressed me Simon Deng shocked me when he told the crowd of his life in slav­ery in Africa in the 21^st Cen­tury. I inter­viewed him with Bar­bara Espin­soa later

as the event was wind­ing down, and I was copy­ing my files to my lap­top I looked around and noticed that same fel­low I saw before escort­ing Pam out of the venue, real­iz­ing he wasn’t secu­rity for the event or the hotel, but secu­rity for Pam.

That’s when I under­stood exactly what Pam Geller does and what she risks.

I would see that same man again at Pam Geller’s CPAC 2011 event with Ground Zero fam­i­lies and was aston­ished to hear about NY city coun­selors who were will­ing to be pri­vately with the ⁹⁄₁₁ fam­i­lies but afraid to be pub­licly with them.

I noticed some­thing inter­est­ing:

This event was sched­uled at the same time as a Ron Paul event directly across of it. I don’t think this was a coin­ci­dence. Pamela fear­less­ness in speak­ing openly about things that oth­ers would like to for­get makes some uncomfortable

A year later I would see that man again as I squeezed my way into Pam packed CPAC 2012 event and I noticed another oddity

When I finally fig­ured out where the McK­in­ney Room was I had to talk my way into it because there was sim­ply no room and I only come in wide body.

There is no sin­gle room at the Wind­ham harder to find than the McKin­ley room it was as if CPAC was doing it’s best to hide Pam’s event but it was still over­flow­ing and amaz­ing. I also met J Chris­t­ian Adams for the first time.

Funny how so many of these peo­ple end up at PJ Media.

Well this year CPAC has moved to a new loca­tion and it would seem it is sim­ply not pos­si­ble to hide Pam’s event or counter pro­gram Pam’s event so they’ve decided to sim­ply exclude her.

This year, I applied to speak and was ignored. I tried to get a room for an AFDI event, “The War on Free Speech,” and was ignored. So, for the first time in five years, I won’t be at CPAC. Last year Suhail Khan bragged out loud that he (and his other oper­a­tives) had suc­cess­fully kept Robert Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He went so far as to warn peo­ple not to attend our events or read our books.

This has sparked jus­ti­fi­able out­rage In one respect this is a tes­ta­ment to the effec­tive­ness of what Pam does.

Think about this for a moment: A sin­gle woman has for a decade fought a fight that oth­ers have refused to make:

How easy would it be for her to just give in?

How sim­ple would it be to pocket the Saudi money?

Now easy would it be to just go silent?

How nice would it be, to be invited to the parties?

How pleas­ant would it be to no longer be insulted or called a bigot?

How relax­ing would it be to have the great and the pow­er­ful not use the full weight of their strength to silence her.

How nice would it be to be able to travel with­out that bodyguard?

A lot of peo­ple talk about being held down, about being oppressed, about tak­ing risks for free­dom, in real­ity very few peo­ple actu­ally take phys­i­cal risks to fight for free­dom. Pam Geller does.

This is the price Pam Geller has paid to pro­tect every sin­gle damn one of us. How do you repay a debt like that?

Well this Sat­ur­day I had Robert Spencer sched­uled for my show to talk about his exclu­sion from the Worces­ter Catholic Men’s Con­fer­ence, Pam Geller is going to join him on the show to make her case. Tune in at Noon EST on FTR Radio or the Money Mat­ters Radio Net­work AM 1390 Ply­mouth, WBNW 1120 Con­cord or 970 WESO in Southbridge.

In clos­ing the words I said after view­ing a Pam Geller event for the first time at CPAC remains true today:

This is the sin­gle most impor­tant issue fac­ing this nation and if it is ignored we will suf­fer for it and deservedly so. I can’t say enough about the courage and ded­i­ca­tion of Ms. Geller. She is an inter­na­tional treasure!

When we are dead and gone if there is any jus­tice in the word she will be remem­bered for this.

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It’s Mon­day. Last weeks short pay­check is over, Sunday’s empty cof­fers are done and it’s a new week and a new attempt to find those 15 peo­ple will­ing to kick in $20 for that elu­sive paycheck.

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Final thought: Why do I get the feel­ing if this post cel­e­brated Pam’s exclu­sion from CPAC rather than attack­ing it, I’d never have to worry about that $300 a week again? Per­haps I could sell the blog to Cur­rent TV and retire.