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Daniel Imperato - Presidential Candidate 2008 (Libertarian Party); American Businessman; Chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplain's Association
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| Daniel Imperato (b. March 9, 1958, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American businessman, currently a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States in 2008. Imperato at one time also sought the Green Party and Reform Party nominations. A resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, the 2008 election is Imperato's first run for political office. Imperato's campaign literature describes him as an "independent Libertarian" and an "alternative candidate" for the Presidency. He is married and has one stepson. Early life Imperato grew up in Revere, Massachusetts. Daniel is the son of Paul "Sonny" Imperato and the late Mary C. Imperato. The Imperatos were originally immigrants from Italy. When promoting The Red Worm (A film he supposedly produced), Imperato claimed his family was descended from the Roman Emperor Nero. [1] While living in Boston, Massachusetts, Imperato played hockey and at one point was a semi-professional ice hockey player.[citation needed] Honors & Donations Imperato claims to currently be a Papal Knight [1] and a Knight of Malta [2]. Daniel Imperato also claims to be a knight of the Orden Bonaria[citation needed], and that he serves as the organization's United Nations representative.[citation needed] Imperato was a board member and headed up the Palm Beach, Florida branch office of the African Center Foundation. Imperato's website claims the organization is a United Nations non-governmental organization [3] but in reality only works with the United Nations Economic and Social Council [4]. Imperato also is a Chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplain's Association [5]. Imperato has also purchased several awards from the Republican Party. His campaign site while mentioning these "awards" (even though they in no way signify achievement) fails to mention that he paid for them [6].[citation needed] These awards include a 2004 NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council (an award which is purchased through a donation to the NRCC, see NRCC "award winners"), a Ronald Reagan Gold Medal Winner (purchased title through donation), and a 2007 recipient of the Order of Merit from the NRCC (purchased title through donation).[2] Campaign Imperato has participated in several candidate forums held by third parties. To date, Imperato has not secured the nomination of any political party. He has been vocal on many "culture war" issues, including keeping religious symbols, such as the Ten Commandments, and religious references, such as "In God We Trust", in American government. [3]. Imperato has appealed very strongly to the Hispanic community with a pro-immigration policy, and has been covered by many Hispanic media outlets. [4] In October 2007, Imperato spoke at the Hispanic Achievers Awards Banquet and the HAP Institute Forum on Energy Policy in Las Vegas, Nevada [5]Imperato has supported ballot access for third parties, meeting with the Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform Movement in Oklahoma. [6]. Imperato appeared in front of the Reform Party of the United States of America, for their consideration as their Presidential candidate in 2008, as reported in the Tampa Bay Sun, March 10, 2007. In addition, Imperato participated in a debate with other candidates at the Libertarian Party State Chairs Conference in Orlando on March 19, 2007. Imperato is touring the country visiting Libertarian Conventions in ten states. [7]. At the North Carolina convention Imperto claimed he had spent about $2 million of his own money on his campaign [7], but his FEC fileing showed this to be false, having personally contributed $33,000 of the $33,150 raised [8]. The Libertarian Nominating convention is scheduled for May 2008 and the Green Party Convention is scheduled for the Summer of 2008. Imperato has been placed on the ballot for the Libertarian Party Presidential primary election in California.[8] On July 10, 2007 He joined other candidates at the Independent Green Party of Virginia Presidential Debate at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., moderated by CBS newsman, and former host of Meet the Press, Marvin Kalb. [9] July 12-15, 2007 Imperato attended the Green Party national meeting in Reading, Pennsylvania. Imperato was among the ten candidates participating in a two hour forum before 200 Green Party delegates.[9] At the forum Imperato was highly criticized for his use of the Green Party election database on his website under the heading Independents Across America. The implication that Green candidates were independents, and his refusal to remove this section sealed his fate with the party, because in the words of one delegate "Imperato clearly demonstrated his true colors and lack of interest in helping to grow the party".[citation needed] On July 13th, Imperato attended the opening of the new Green Party office in Washington, D.C. Speaking to assembled Greens. |
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| Working the field, part V — Imperato September 22, 2007 — wickle Daniel J. Imperato I am always intrigued by the Libertarian Party and its candidates and positions. Daniel Imperato is particularly fascinating. I do think that he has done an especially wise thing — reaching out to other “third parties” in order to help them all have access to ballots. He even addressed the Green Party in July of 2007 on the subject of ballot access. [...] He is a Knight of Malta, a Papal Knight, and has apparently been made recently Grand Prior of the Orden Bonaria… which is certainly something not on most candidates’ resumes. |
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| Affiliations and Memberships: * Youth Mentor * Ordained as a chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplains Association * U.N. Representative and Knight of the Orden Bonaria * Member, Papal Knight and Knight of Malta * Recipient, NRCC Businessman of the Year Award * Recipient, Ronald Reagan Gold Medal * Honorary Chairman of the National Republican Congregational Committee (NRCC) Business Advisory Council, 2004 |
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Roberto Alejos Arzú - Guatemalan Sugar Industrialist; Rightwing Anti-Communist Revolutionary; CIA Asset; Leader of SMOM Guatemala
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| OTHER COUP D'ETATS In 1965 HEMMING was involved with Roberto Alejos Arzu in an attempt to overthrow the Government of Guatemala. [CIA Intell. Information Cable IN 74057 10.16.65] The CIA reported that in April 1965 "Roberto Alejos Arzu, Guatemalan millionaire who resided in Miami Beach, Florida, planned the overthrow of the Government of Guatemala in the Spring of 1965, using a group of Cuban emigres he had recruited for the operation. On May 4, 1965, Alejos and Luis Sierra Lopez, military leader of the group, were apprehended and their arms cache seized by United States Government officials. There have been several reports on Alejos' recent involvement in another attempt to overthrow the Guatemalan Government. On October 13, 1965, Armando Medina Montes de Oca, a member of Roberto Alejos Arzu's abortive plot to overthrow the Guatemalan Government in the Spring of 1965, said that the pilot who flew Roberto Alejos to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, a short time ago [October 13, 1965] was GERALD PATRICK HEMMING. The aircraft landed at Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, where it remained for about two weeks. HEMMING is now in Miami. (Field Comment: HEMMING, an American soldier-of-fortune and United States Marine, has been engaged in Cuban revolutionary activities for about five years. HEMMING, leader of INTERPEN, a guerilla group, was most recently involved in the recruitment of Cuban emigres with guerilla warfare experience who would be willing to fight the Communist guerillas in the Dominican Republic on behalf of General Antonio Imbert Barrera. It is believed this plan never materialized.) Medina intends to give this information to the new Guatemalan Consul General in Miami, hoping that this will sharpen his interest in Alejos. (Field Comment: It was recently reported that Medina accepted an offer of $30,000 to deliver Alejos safely to Guatemalan authorities)." [CIA IN 74057 - 10.16.65 - Source: "A Cuban emigre, former member of a Cuban Commando Group, who is no longer associated with activists. Source is regarded as reliable, and previous reporting from him has proved to be accurate."] HEMMING told this researcher: "We were going to overthrow Montenegro. He was cutting deal with the guerrillas. Alejos didn't like it. He wouldn't let Cuban exiles launch raids against Castro. He eventually got ousted." Before the 1980 election Alejos complained that "most of the elements in the State Department are probably pro-Communist...either Mr. Carter is a totally incapable president or he is definitely a pro-communist element." [Jay Marshall, The Iran-Contra Connection] |
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| Alejos Arzú An important theme in the history of the Knights of Malta is its support to the central american counter-revolution through personages such as the Guatemalan Roberto Alejos Arzú, and of private institutions like the Amicares Foundation. Alejos Arzú has had a long career right-wing activist: 'In 1959, the powerful sugar industrialist Roberto Alejos Arzú, put at the disposal to the Central Intelligence Agency U.S. (CIA) his extensive farm The Helvetia at which Cuban troops and anti-castro mercenaries were to be trained.' 'Of those lands, located in the western part of Retalhuleu, they left toward Port Heads, Nicaragua, from which the would be failure Bay of Pigs invasion was launched...’. Roberto Alejos Arzú is an uncle of Alvaro Arzú Wilson, who in the 90s was president of Guatemala and also a brother of Mercy Arzú, founder of the pro-life group Family of Americas. Alejos was one of the characters who two decades ago was important in approaching the conservative government of Reagan, from the start of his campaign. Previously, Alejos had complained that 'The majority of the elements of the State Department probably were pro-communist who were using appeal to human rights as an argument to promote the socialization of these areas. We have arrived to the point of fearing the State Department more than the communist infiltration. Carter is either a completely incompetent president or is downright communistic'. In April of 1980, Alejos sought sponsorship during a meeting with members of Young Americans for Freedom, the Foundation Heritage, Moral Majority, Young Republicans National Federation, the American Conservative Union and Conservative Digest. During the adminstration of Reagan, Alejos established good contacts with congressmen and officials of the State Department U.S. and even Reagan himself, who did not hesitate to support a government that was anti-communistic. Alejos has been also one of the leaders of the Knights of Malta in Central America. In December 27, 1984, the Washington Post reported that according to Alejos, ambassador of the Knights of Malta in Honduras, the private foundation called AmeriCares together with the Knights of Malta channeled more than 14 million dollars of medical aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in the two previous years, and that in Honduras a part of those funds was destined for the Indian miskitos who supported the contras. In Honduras, AmeriCares began officially its operations in 1985, being diplomatically connected to, and supported by the Knights of Malta. 'As in the Central American remainder, in Honduras AmeriCares worked very close with the Knights of Malta. They support military civic actions and counterrevolutionary programs, but also provide supplies to the Department of Health for clinics in the country'. In Guatemala a part of the funds mentioned was distributed among the armed forces, like part of a program of relocation by means of 'model villages'. According to Alejos, ‘..... the Guatemalan army sends medicines of AmeriCares to the people of the model villages along the border with Mexico'. Besides, the Association of the Air Command, of Fort Walton Beach, said to have used installations of the Knights of Malta in El Salvador. The retired general H. C. Aderholt, leader of the group of 1500 members affirmed that the command sent food and medicines to the Knights and that jointly 'we gave good support to the Salvadorian air command'. According to Aderholt, the association mentioned has distributed to El Salvador 4,5 million in food and well-proportioned medicines by the Christian Broadcasting Network and World Medical Relief. In turn, Russ Bellant, in the Detroit Metro Times of October 9, 1985, stated that Aderholt claimed that the Christian Broadcasting Network of Pat Robertson had given the Knights of Malta 2 million dollars for operations in Central America. The American magnate J. Peter Grace, of the Knights of Malta, has said that he initiated the medical shipments to Central America in 1983 based on the notion that AmeriCares and the Knights worked together in the region. Grace presided the American Institute for Free Work Development (AIFLD), an organization linked to the CIA, and was also member of the American Committee of Liberation of the Bolshevism, a group also linked to the CIA, and that helped ex-officials of the Nazi intelligence to escape from the pursuit. At the beginning of the 90s, Marvin Bush, son of the president Bush sr, accompanied the second shipment of AmeriCares to Nicaragua. The cargo was received by Roberto Alejos, in the capacity of representative of the Knights of Malta. Prescott Bush jr, uncle of the current president Bush, is member of the Knights of Malta, and of the executive counsel of AmeriCares. As it has been mentioned, member of the Knights of Malta William Simon belonged also to the national counsel of Prodemca, an organization that along with the Knights has been involved in the support for the contras and to other groups of anti-sandinista opposition in Nicaragua. It suits to add that in Mexico, after the earthquake of 1985, AmeriCares did an air shipment of more than 1.5 million in medical equipment. As in other countries, its work has been supported by the Knights of Malta, whose president has been José Muddy Chávez, a character who at the end of the 90s, like the president of the Red Cross, was publicly opposed to the distribution and use of condoms. The organization SHARE distributed in Mexico vaccines of Americares that had been rejected in Philippines, as 'unnecessary and potentially dangerous'. |
http://www.argenpress.info/notaold.asp?num=017096 (translated by http://ets.freetranslation.com/ and subsequently polished up by yours truly)
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| The delegation led by Generals Graham and Singlaub to Guatemala in 1979 was hosted by plantation owner Roberto Alejos, the Guatemalan codirector of the Knights of Malta, an ultraconservative lay Catholic organization. Alejos also allowed the CIA to use his farm to train brigadistas for the Bay of Pigs invasion. (41) |
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| The Knights of Malta is closely allied with Covenant House's Central American activities. AmeriCares consigns its shipments to the Knights and the Knights deliver it to Covenant House operations. Roberto Alejos, the leading figure of the Knights of Malta in Guatemala and the group's ambassador to Honduras, has played an important role in Covenant House's development in Central America. He was considered to be the link to numerous donations, many of them anonymous, that Covenant House received from moneyed people around Central America.(12) Alejos, linked to William Simon and J. Peter Grace through the Knights, has a history of anticommunist activities and once ran as a rightwing candidate for president of Guatemala. He was described by author Jean-Marie Simon as "a thug in a business suit," and has been connected with the CIA and the contra aid network. When queried about Alejos connection with Covenant House, Jean-Marie Simon said, "its like having Idi Amin on the board of Amnesty International."(12) |
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