Why I Will Not Be Attending the American Freedom Alliance Dinner This Year

Over the past three weeks, I have been receiving emails, calls, and Facebook messages about the upcoming American Freedom Alliance (AFA) Dinner on May 21st.

Here is the flyer for the event,

I applaud the ideas and the reasons for AFA.

I think it is both necessary and proper, beneficial and essential, to re-educate Americans about liberty and the Common Law, Classical Liberal traditions of this country. I also believe that every able adult must teach their children, and other people's children, about the fundamental Judeo-Christian values and Western thought.

All of these previous principles are under attack in our country.

Avi Davis, the Founder of the American Freedom Alliance, was a larger-than-life kind of man. I met him briefly at the 2015 AFA awards dinner.

He passed away in March 2016, and the 2016 Dinner was held in honor of Beloved Avi.

Avi Davis, Fredeom Fighter (1958-2015)

At the same time, I was becoming more physically involved in fighting for Judeo-Christian values, in fighting for Western Culture. In my discussions with other activist leaders, I realized that many of these types of high-celebrity associations and meetings are more of an echo chamber than an army. Of course, there is nothing wrong with raising money to host seminars and discussions to make people aware of the unprecedented attacks against our way of life and our individual liberties.

But at the 2016 AFA dinner, I found the meeting somewhat boring. Then again, I imagine many people would find a gathering a little uninteresting if they were not receiving an award. Many of the speakers that year talked about who the Western World is facing decline and probably won't bounce back. Perhaps Avi's sudden passing contributed to the malaise in the room that night.

I ended up leaving a little earlier, especially when one of the attending members at the meeting, Gary Aminoff, pressured me to allow a liberal-leaning Republican to speak at the Beach Cities Republicans. It bothered me a little at first, but at the time I was not aware of the corruption eating away the Republican Party of Los Angeles County.

I was a little disheartened by everything, but also frustrated by the fact that I saw a lot of wealthy and well-connceted people at this event. What are they doing to advance the cause of fighting nihilism, socialism, secularism, and Islan?

Now comes the 2017 AFA event.

A very good friend of mine wanted me to be his VIP guest. I was looking forward to it.

But then I noticed the person whom they were honoring as a fighter for freedom of conscience:

Sorry, but David is no freedom fighter.

This man has bowed down to the Big Gay Hate Machine.

He is pro-gay marriage and pro-choice.

That is not liberty. This basis cannot be the strong foundation for a free society. I used to write for Truth Revolt, David Horowitz news center. It was a dud. They stopped paying their top-rated writers, including Ben Shapiro and Kurt Schlicter.

The new editor was very coy about the standards which Truth Revolt would abide by. I wrote articles going after what the destructive LGBT agenda was doing to our Western Culture, especially the attacks on biological evidence as well as natural rights.

They refused to print my articles. The editor even told me that Horowitz did not believe those fights were worth fighting. Unbelievable. I have little respect for this social liberal. He does not deserve the award. 

There is no liberty without life, and there is no liberty with inculcating principles in line with moral truth and theological revelation. Otherwise, liberty quickly devolves into license and then slavery to self. Liberty is all about the reduction and removal of arbitrary restraint, so much more than "do whatever you want." After all, choices lead to a limitation on choices, but those limitations should come as a result of free choice, not imposed will.

Then I noticed who sits on the board of the American Freedom Alliance:

Karen Siegemund is on the RPLAC Central Committee. I told her about what members of the 66th AD Central Committee were doing to the Beach Cities Republicans.

Nothing. It looks as if she went along with the same corrupted program. I was so disappointed.

And notice who is Chairman of the Board?

Our good friend Gary SCAM-inoff!

"Your charter is revoked because your fight for liberty and truth
makes us look bad!" (Are you coming to the AFA Dinner?)

Do I want to work with and fund a program which has such traitors and unjust persons?

Other people who have attended previous AFA dinners? This Aminoff guy, who has been threatening other conservative leaders, is the Chairman of the Board? I am already sick to my stomach.

Who else has been attending these AFA Dinners?

Mark Vafiades, another member of the corrupt RINO-PLAC executive committee who had the Beach Cities Republicans Charter revoked:

"Clubs that fight for liberty
will have their charters revoked!"
(Coming to the AFA Dinner?)

Reminder: The RPLAC Central Committee revoker the charter for the pro-Western, pro-Judeo-Christian values GOP club the Beach Cities Republicans earlier this year (January 13, 2017). Now they want to present to the world this unified front that they care about fighting for freedom and fundamental values?

I don't think so!

This is all wrong! This conflict is about so much more than personalities. The problem for me is the rank hypocrisy! They want to celebrate Western values, but the board members actively UNDERMINE the very thing they claim to celebrate!

Who needs this?!

And the corrosive connections between RINO-PLAC leaders and AFA only get tighter:

And:

They seem to be very close to easch other. Along the same street, within one block of each other.

More collusion, perhaps?

So, with that, ladies and gentleman, I will not be attending the 2017 AFA dinner. The fight for liberty, for Western culture, for Judeo-Christian values depends on earnest, principled leaders.

Here are the following reasons, in succinct order:

1. They are a social club more than an activist group dedicated to getting things done.
2. This year, the AFA is honoring the pro-LGBT David Horowitz, who in turn has actually been afraid to stand up to the destructive LGBT  Agenda, which despises Liberty, God, Biblical principles, and the Truth.
3. The current leadership and key attendees to these dinners are the same corrupt RPLAC members who revoked the charter for the freedom fighting Beach Cities Republicans.

Currently, Avi Davis' blessed legacy does not have such leadership and deserves better. Let's stand for truth and fight for what is right.

And let us not be afraid to call out the hatred, the falsehood, and the lies of those who are more interested in filling up their socia calendar rather than doing something good for God, for Country and for Constitution.

Thoughts on the American Freedom Alliance

Two years in a row, I have been invited to the American Freedom Alliance dinner in Los Angeles. This celebratory event recognizes men and women who have fought for the furtherance and survival of Western Civilization. Individual worth and local sovereignty, the pursuit of truth as paramount instead of power, and the respect for the Divine Creater and His objective justice: these values animate the life and worth of the entire world, and the manifold blessings of Western Civilization.

This year as well as last year, Larry Elder, the conservative radio host from KABC, hosted both events. His work to expand a respect for liberty and truth, at the expense of despotism and deception, influenced my understanding of free markets and free enterprise, spiritual authority working in  or temporal settings.

Essayist and comedian Evan Sayet served as the Master of Ceremonies the second time.

I loved attending both events.

Avi Davis, the founder of the American Freedom Alliance, was alive in 2015.

We commemorated his work this year, since he passed away so suddenly, so sadly.

Two well-connected conservatives had invited me to both events, to meet the allies, friends, and even the family members of that great man.

Both times, incredible conservatives were honored for their work defending Western Civilization. Academics who stood up to government collusion in the sciences. Journalists who challenged the lies of the status quo. Economists and social scientists who debunked the progressive myths of our modern area—all were welcomed with great fanfare.

I met some of them outside of that event, and learned about their fights against oppressive regimes and a suspect media working to suppress the truth. A lot of information passes from media to man, and back and forth. Some of the well-educated speakers feared the worst for Europe.

"It's too late," one of the speakers grimly determined.

I cannot agree with that. However, if men and women choose to content themselves with the slow demise of the world around them, then indeed Europe is lost, and so is America.

For the two times that I attended, I found a great deal to be happy about, notwithstanding the dour state of our world and the warring nations within.

Freedom fighters are winning. They embrace the divine love and truth of God.

Many Jewish people were present both times. I respect the traditions and values of our Judeo-Christian culture, and the Orthodox Jews in attendance reminded me to retain a grave reverence for the Jewish people and the values which they have affirmed in our society.

And yet, we need more than a set of standards. We need the power to allow them into our lives. We need more than the law. We need the grace, the loving, unconditional favor of CHRIST.

I am not afraid to write those words. We must not be afraid to speak those words. Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson of South Los Angeles (a well-regarded contact and spokesman for the American Freedom Alliance) reached out and rears boys to become men, even when their fathers have left them, or when they never knew their fathers to begin with.

These efforts, these alliances make all the difference. We cannot allow these victories to go unnoticed.

I also respected hearing about the deeper rot afflicting our culture. A perverse desire to remove distinctions has overtaken our leaders. Male and female should not mean anything. Right and wrong have no merit. Should life and death become a nullity, too?

Conservative Jewish columnist Dennis Prager recently wrote a thorough, probing article about the Left's vicious ambitions, which proved this strange desire. The Left wants to get rid of standards. The Left wants everything to have an equal end, or to have the same status, just as Adam and Eve wanted to be like God, to have life independent of the Creator, who later had to become their Redeemer.

These observations were well-received. I ponder them still.

Discussion is good. Celebration of all that makes Western Civilization wonderful, that is welcome.

But discussion is not enough.

We need action.

We need to confront the malefactors in our streets, in our city councils. As Jude wrote to the Church: "We must contend earnestly for the faith."

The wicked forces at work in our world will not be slayed with discussion. Their followers will understand once they are taught the truth from the error, from the lie, from the deception.

Those who thrive on the lies, who disseminate the falsehoods to bless themselves: they must be stopped.

Are we agitating against the corruption? Are we educating young people to care about the values of their elders?

The discussion groups, the seminars, the awards dinners will not save our culture.

To sit back and watch everything fall apart is not enough.

How many more dinners are people going to attend?

We need to raise funds to help individuals fight and win the culture wars.

The key word--win.

Western Civilization cannot die. It must win, or there is no civilization at all.

And we must fight--and we can fight, will fight--to ensure this victory.