LAFFERTY DETAINED BY STATE DEPARTMENT
Washington D.C. (December 15th, 2011) -- Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) president Andrea Lafferty was targeted and detained by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security personnel this Wednesday during the closing event capping the three day closed-door conference advancing the implementation of U.N. Resolution 16/18.
"For weeks we have been asking whether the true aims of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and U.N. Resolution 16/18 would be used to apply "old fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming" to chill and coerce those critical of the Islamist agenda," said Lafferty.
"Hillary Clinton was as good as her word," said Lafferty.
Lafferty was circled by several members of Secretary Clinton's staff before being approached by a member of the security detail, demanding Lafferty follow him. When asked why she was being removed from the reception hall, the security detail announced that a phone call had identified Lafferty as a "security threat" to Secretary Clinton.
"I was shocked and angry at the pressure and shameful intimidation tactics our State Department put on, even to the point of identifying me as a threat to Hillary Clinton."
Secretary Clinton in a June 2011 conference in Istanbul, Turkey remarked how certain comments from those concerned about Islamic fanaticism have been deemed as "incendiary" and looked to sympathize with efforts that would criminalize certain speech that is "an incitement to imminent violence."
"This language -- "incitement to imminent violence" -- has been used time and time again to close events here in the United States concerning the impact of Islamic shariah law, detain law-abiding Christians elsewhere, and now even target and detain as security threats people from State Department events," said Lafferty.
"The very restriction on free speech the UN Resolution was pushing is exactly what they used against me," said Lafferty.
"I had warned previously how members of the U.S. State Department and Hillary Clinton have pointedly remarked that part of the implementation of U.N. Resolution 16/18 will be an effort to utilize "techniques of peer pressure and shaming" to silence critics of Islamic shariah," said Lafferty. "Little did I realize how quickly Clinton and her Islamist friends were set to make examples out of law-abiding Americans."
