No peace from Gorbachev

Funded-by-Americans, former Soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev thumbs his nose at American authority. On Wednesday, Gorbachev will award a prize, through the international foundation he founded and operates, to a man expelled from the United States only last September.

The singer once known as Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, was nabbed and expelled from the U.S. after authorities diverted his London-to-Washington flight to Maine to remove him, on suspicion of ties to terrorism.

On Wednesday, Islam, who converted to Islam in the 1970s, will be handed the Man for Peace award in Rome, where he’ll be feted by Gorbachev and Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni. . . . .

You may quote me - "Gorby will be back." I've been saying this for about 14 years.

From the article:

The Gorbachev Foundation operates from American soil with offices at the historic Presidio, overlooking the Golden Bridge. Indeed, the Foundation was bought and paid for with American dollars that pre-funded a non-profit nucleus for the Gorbachev Foundation then called the Tamalplais Institute.

And it all went down even before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev’s mad money to set up shop in America was courtesy of a fund-raising dinner at the posh New York Waldorf-Astoria, attended by Henry Kissinger, representatives of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Ford Foundation and the Pew and Mellon Foundations, who ponied up a tidy $3.5 million for start-up funds.

The fact that Gorbachev has never renounced Communism hasn’t deterred him from conducting business in the United States. His having won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Peace has long eclipsed suspicion of Gorbachev’s motives.

The former Soviet leader, who also heads up Green Cross International, does activism these days.

"So, which irrelevant pop moron from the 1970's does Gorby honor next: Keith Carradine, Leo Sayer, or Donovan?"

Unless any of them are donating money to terrorist organizations, I doubt Gorbachev will honor any of them like he did cultist Cat Stevens.

Cat Stevens agreed with the Iraniah fatwa against Salman Rushdie. On the official website, he addresses this controversy by claiming that he did no such thing, and directs visitors to his FAQ. In the FAQ he supports the fatwa. This is typical of Moslem terrorists everywhere. Gorby should be put on trial for crimes against humanity, with Cat Stevens (**** his other adopted name) as his codefendant.

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