Center for Vigilant Freedom - Revision history

David: /* Affiliations */

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Melissa Jones at 10:18, 3 March 2015

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Melissa Jones: /* Early contacts */ typo

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Early contacts: typo

Melissa Jones: /* Organisation: A Network of Networks */

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Organisation: A Network of Networks

Tom Griffin: /* Affiliations */

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Tom Griffin: /* Organisation: A Network of Networks */

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Organisation: A Network of Networks

Tom Griffin: /* Early contacts */

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Early contacts

Tom Griffin: /* Transatlantic contacts */

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Transatlantic contacts

Tom Griffin: /* Center for Vigilant Freedom established= */

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Center for Vigilant Freedom established=

Tom Griffin: /* Origins: The 910 Group */

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 *[[910 Group]] - CVF citizens network
 *[[International Civil Liberties Alliance]] CVF project
 ==People==

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−	According to its website, the [[Center for Vigilant Freedom]] (CVF) was founded in September 2006 with 28 members in the "910 Group", its citizens' network.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080102015101/http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/index.html CVF News], Center for Vigilant Freedom, via the Internet Archive, accessed 19 September 2009.</ref>	+	According to its website, the [[Center for Vigilant Freedom]] (CVF) was founded in September 2006 with 28 members in the [[910 Group]], its citizens' network.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080102015101/http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/index.html CVF News], Center for Vigilant Freedom, via the Internet Archive, accessed 19 September 2009.</ref>

	CVF claims to be a 'fast-growing international citizen's network' with a mission to 'to protect liberty, counter sharia laws that oppose human rights, and defeat terrorist and extremist ideologies.'<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080102015101/http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/index.html CVF News], Center for Vigilant Freedom, via the Internet Archive, accessed 19 September 2009.</ref>		CVF claims to be a 'fast-growing international citizen's network' with a mission to 'to protect liberty, counter sharia laws that oppose human rights, and defeat terrorist and extremist ideologies.'<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080102015101/http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/index.html CVF News], Center for Vigilant Freedom, via the Internet Archive, accessed 19 September 2009.</ref>

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 In January 2007, the CVF attempted to make contact with [[Stop the Islamification of Denmark]], although it initially contacted the rival [[ Den Danske Forening]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/freedom-of-speech-if-nobody-complains.html Freedom of Speech — If Nobody Complains], Gates of Vienna, 16 January 2007.</ref>
-Also that month, Baron Boissey and Christine Brim visited May's Congressman, [[Virgil Goode]], along with [[Gary Olds]] and [[Martin Mawyer]] of the [[Christian Action Network]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/visit-with-virgil-goode.html A Visit With Virgil Goode], Gates of Vienna, 24 January 2007.</ref>
+Also that month, Baron Bodissey and Christine Brim visited May's Congressman, [[Virgil Goode]], along with [[Gary Olds]] and [[Martin Mawyer]] of the [[Christian Action Network]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/visit-with-virgil-goode.html A Visit With Virgil Goode], Gates of Vienna, 24 January 2007.</ref>
 Members of the 910 Group attended a London debate between [[Ken Livingstone]] and [[Daniel Pipes]] on 20 January 2007, and videoed the exchange.<ref>[http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/daniel-pipes-vs-red-ken.html Daniel Pipes vs. Red Ken], Gates of Vienna, 28 January 2007.</ref>

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 ::The group’s intent is to gather together a lot of the strands of the counter-jihad and anti-PC resistance, in order to form a decentralized “network of networks” with a global reach. No board of directors. No hierarchy of command. It’s simply an affiliation of like-minded people, sharing information and planning proactively to reframe the concept of the current war and rise up to help defend the West.<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/synergy-and-synchronicity.html Synergy and Synchronicity], Gates of Vienna, 8 October 2006.</ref>
-An October 2006 blogpost by former 910 Group participant 'Abu Nopal' quoted similar ideas attributed to 'Christine', presumably [[Christine Brim]]:
+An October 2006 blogpost by former 910 Group participant '[[Abu Nopal]]' quoted similar ideas attributed to 'Christine', presumably [[Christine Brim]]:
 ::  what I think is happening is an “open source” movement in public diplomacy – sort of like the open source software movement of the last decade, where developers decided to work together, on the Internet, voluntarily, to improve software (Linux OS resulted from open source software development).

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	The 'network facilitation' role attributed to the [[Center for Vigilant Freedom]] and [[International Civil Liberties Alliance]] ICLA) by Bodissey/May<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/05/slouching-towards-copenhagen.html Slouching Towards Copenhagen], 23 May 2009.</ref> is arguably evidence for a more hierarchical picture of the counterjihad movement. The CVF's structure is strikingly at odds with, Bodissey's original claim that the 910 Group would have "No board of directors."<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/synergy-and-synchronicity.html Synergy and Synchronicity], Gates of Vienna, 8 September 2006.</ref> So to is the fact that [[Christine Brim]], a key member of CVF and the ICLA is a senior officer of the [[Center for Security Policy]], a well-funded US conservative foundation.<ref>[http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/staff.xml Center Staff], Center for Security Policy, accessed 9 December 2009.</ref>		The 'network facilitation' role attributed to the [[Center for Vigilant Freedom]] and [[International Civil Liberties Alliance]] ICLA) by Bodissey/May<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/05/slouching-towards-copenhagen.html Slouching Towards Copenhagen], 23 May 2009.</ref> is arguably evidence for a more hierarchical picture of the counterjihad movement. The CVF's structure is strikingly at odds with, Bodissey's original claim that the 910 Group would have "No board of directors."<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/synergy-and-synchronicity.html Synergy and Synchronicity], Gates of Vienna, 8 September 2006.</ref> So to is the fact that [[Christine Brim]], a key member of CVF and the ICLA is a senior officer of the [[Center for Security Policy]], a well-funded US conservative foundation.<ref>[http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/staff.xml Center Staff], Center for Security Policy, accessed 9 December 2009.</ref>
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		+	==Britain==
		+	In a speech at Ground Zero on 31 March 2007, Christine Brim claimed:
		+	::Even as we meet, in London our British Vigilant Freedom Coalition is leading a rally to free the fifteen sailors and Marines kidnapped by the Iranian Republic Guard — we are putting feet on the street now.<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/03/vigilant-freedom-at-ground-zero.html Vigilant Freedom at Ground Zero], Gates of Vienna, 31 March 2007.</ref>

	==Affiliations==		==Affiliations==

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 New media and and an associated 'networked philosophy' have been central to the self-representations of the CVF and associated projects. In an early post on the [[910 Group]], [[Edward S May|Baron Bodissey]] stated:
-::The group’s intent is to gather together a lot of the strands of the counter-jihad and anti-PC resistance, in order to form a decentralized “network of networks” with a global reach. No board of directors. No hierarchy of command. It’s simply an affiliation of like-minded people, sharing information and planning proactively to reframe the concept of the current war and rise up to help defend the West.<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/synergy-and-synchronicity.html Synergy and Synchronicity], Gates of Vienna, 8 September 2006.</ref>
+::The group’s intent is to gather together a lot of the strands of the counter-jihad and anti-PC resistance, in order to form a decentralized “network of networks” with a global reach. No board of directors. No hierarchy of command. It’s simply an affiliation of like-minded people, sharing information and planning proactively to reframe the concept of the current war and rise up to help defend the West.<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/10/synergy-and-synchronicity.html Synergy and Synchronicity], Gates of Vienna, 8 October 2006.</ref>
 An October 2006 blogpost by former 910 Group participant 'Abu Nopal' quoted similar ideas attributed to 'Christine', presumably [[Christine Brim]]:

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	Also that month, Baron Boissey and Christine Brim visited May's Congressman, [[Virgil Goode]], along with [[Gary Olds]] and [[Martin Mawyer]] of the [[Christian Action Network]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/visit-with-virgil-goode.html A Visit With Virgil Goode], Gates of Vienna, 24 January 2007.</ref>		Also that month, Baron Boissey and Christine Brim visited May's Congressman, [[Virgil Goode]], along with [[Gary Olds]] and [[Martin Mawyer]] of the [[Christian Action Network]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/visit-with-virgil-goode.html A Visit With Virgil Goode], Gates of Vienna, 24 January 2007.</ref>
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		+	Members of the 910 Group attended a London debate between [[Ken Livingstone]] and [[Daniel Pipes]] on 20 January 2007, and videoed the exchange.<ref>[http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/daniel-pipes-vs-red-ken.html Daniel Pipes vs. Red Ken], Gates of Vienna, 28 January 2007.</ref>

	===CounterJihad Summit Copenhagen 2007===		===CounterJihad Summit Copenhagen 2007===

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 Center for Vigilant Freedom was set up as a non-stock incorporated company, Center for Vigilant Freedom Incorporated, on 1 March 2007 under Corporation ID number 0670082-7. The registration agent for the company was Christine Brim. <ref>[http://s0302.vita.virginia.gov/servlet/resqportal/resqportal?&rqs_custom_dir=scccisp1 Clerk's Information System], Virginia State Corporation Commission, accessed 14 December 2008.</ref>
-===Transatlantic contacts===
+===Early contacts===
 In January 2007, the CVF attempted to make contact with [[Stop the Islamification of Denmark]], although it initially contacted the rival [[ Den Danske Forening]].<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/freedom-of-speech-if-nobody-complains.html Freedom of Speech — If Nobody Complains], Gates of Vienna, 16 January 2007.</ref>
 ===CounterJihad Summit Copenhagen 2007===

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 On 27 November 2006, members of the [[910 Group]] met in Northern Virginia with conservatives [[Jack Wheeler]] and [[Steve Baldwin]] of the [[Council for National Policy]] to discuss plans for an "infrastructure to combat Islamofascism" modelled on cold war anti-communism.<ref>Baron Bodissey, [http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/11/coalition-to-preserve-civilization.html The Coalition to Preserve Civilization], Gates of Vienna, 30 November 2006.</ref>
-===Center for Vigilant Freedom established====
+===Center for Vigilant Freedom established===
 The website of the Center for Vigilant Freedom (which now redirects to the rebranded [[International Civil Liberties Alliance]]) was registered on 12 December 2006, also by [[Christine Brim]]. Brim gave an email address at the Envoy Group, a private consultancy company based in her home town of Fairfax, Virginia. <ref>[[Media:VigilantFreedom.org Whois Record.pdf|Copy of Who is record for VigilantFreedom.org]], from Domain Tool, 4 June 2009</ref> According to the Jigsaw Contacts Database, Brim is the owner and CEO of the company. <ref>Jigsaw Contacts Database, accessed via Lexis Nexis, 4 June 2009 12:00:23</ref> According to Zoom Information Inc, the President of Envoy Group is/was Dr. [[Thomas Blau]] (the information is current as of 30 May 2005). The contact details given for Blau included a now defunct page on the website of George Mason University. <ref>Zoom People Information, accessed via Lexis Nexis, 4 June 2009 12:05:16</ref> [[Thomas Blau]] now works at the [[National Defence University]]. <ref>[[Media:Dr Tom Blau biography Screengrab.JPG|Screengrab]] of Thomas Blau's biography from the [[National Defence University]], created 4 June 2009</ref>