RepubliCons : One Big Happy Family, Part %$*&#

Jason Kenney spokesthingey AlyKhan "pee on the carpet" Velshi is an interesting fellow in his own right.
So outrageous was his debut on Channel Four News to explain why Canada is banning British MP and Viva Palestina! leader George Galloway from entering Canada, I thought I'd look him up.

Here he is in 2006 fondly reminiscing about his days at the American Enterprise Institute :

"Ambassador Kirkpatrick, until fairly recently, was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where I interned last year, and her office was only a few steps away from my bay on the 11th floor. She later went on to help found the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies."

And then the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies went on to employ Alykhan Velshi ... along with Clifford May, Richard Perle, Newt Gingrich, William Kristol, James Woolsey, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Ledeen, Gary Bauer ... You get the idea ... if you signed the PNAC letter, you're in.

Here he is at FDD touting a 2007 article he co-wrote for National Review Online - "The law and terrorist charities" :

"There is, however, a compelling basis for a government ban on any assistance — even self-described humanitarian aid — to terrorists. Because terrorist organizations are not known as models of corporate transparency, there is no way of knowing whether a terrorist entity’s humanitarian arm is funneling money to its militant one."

Gosh, isn't that just what his new boss Jason Kenney thought he was up to two days ago when he stripped federal funds to the Canadian Arab Foundation for providing language training to new immigrants and the Canadian Islamic Congress for providing sensitivity training sessions to the Canadian Air Transportation Security Authority? [h/t Stageleft]

Do the Cons get all their ideas from ex-American Enterprise Institute interns?

Be sure to drop our Minister of Multiculturalism a line and tell him what you think : Kenney.J@parl.gc.ca or minister@cic.gc.ca.
Libby Davies and Olivia Chow have already done so.

Courtesy of L-Girl, there's Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62965075809 and a petition.

Cross-posted from Creekside