Posted on 02/17/2005 6:38:50 AM PST by MisterRepublican
Billionaire financier George Soros, whose opposition to President Bush's conduct of the war on terror caused him to pour millions of dollars into the effort to defeat the president, made a substantial donation to the defense fund for radical lawyer Lynne Stewart, who last week was found guilty of giving aid to Islamic terrorists.
According to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service, Soros's foundation, the Open Society Institute, or OSI, gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee.
In filings with the IRS, foundation officials wrote that the purpose of the contribution was "to conduct a public education campaign around the broad civil rights implications of Lynne Stewart's indictment."
Answering questions by e-mail, Amy Weil, a spokeswoman for the Open Society Institute, said the foundation contributed to Stewart's fund because "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."
Stewart's legal troubles stemmed from her defense of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, sometimes known as the Blind Sheikh. Rahman led an Egyptian-based terrorist organization known as the Islamic Group.
In 1996, Rahman was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the first attack on the World Trade Center, in 1993, and for his part in failed plots to blow up the United Nations building and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York.
After his conviction, Rahman's followers threatened a series of terrorist attacks against American targets unless he were released. In 1998, the U.S. government reportedly had intelligence that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were plotting to hijack aircraft in the United States in order to demand freedom for Rahman and other convicted terrorists.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The more they speak, the more they show what side they're on, the easier it is for Joe Public to understand this and make our job easier to dirve them from power.
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The defense of Lynne Stewart is in the same category as the "Free Mumia" movement.
Thanks for the ping!
Cross linking NewsMax article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1345312/posts
"So now Howard Dean, George Soros, Howard Wolfson and a littany of other crybaby democrats should all apologize to NY GOP Chairman Steve Minarik, who has the facts.The GOP Chairman is not accountable to the democrats of this state until they register as republicans. Mr. Wolfson shouldn't lecture us on what our leadership should or shouldn't do. Remember, Lynne Stewart is a registered Democrat. You own her, not us."
EXACTLY!!!
An "I nominate for this for 'informative post of the day' BUMP"!!!
Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movements Communist Connections
Legal support for the [Dewey Canyon III] protestors was provided by Ramsey Clark212, who had previously assisted the protestors who disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention213 and was now representing several other Communist front groups.214 (Clark and another VVAW lawyer, Peter Weiss,215 would soon join the National Lawyers Guild, the legal bulwark of the Communist Party,216 in defending the Communist terrorist group the Baader-Meinhof Gang.217)
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Upon returning to the US, the [VVAW] delegation was met by William Kunstler, a lawyer who specialized in defending Communist and terrorist clients (including Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing).243
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The FBIs surveillance of the VVAW had alerted the White House to the VVAWs plans for the Republican National Convention, and the White House assigned the FBI and CIA to take pre-emptive action. In May 1972, the FBI had learned that the McGovern campaign had lent the VVAW a station wagon to do a barnstorming tour of college campuses.289 In June, as part of what would become known as the Watergate break-ins, members of Nixons re-election committee with links to the CIA were arrested after they broke into Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters seeking, among other things, evidence of links between the DNCheaded by Ted Kennedys associate Larry OBrien and the VVAW.290 Then early in July on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, where the VVAW was planning to lobby and speak with Democratic politicians, the FBI served subpoenas on Scott Camil and 22 other VVAW members involved in planning the convention activities. 8 of these would ultimately be indicted for conspiring to incite a riot and become known as the Gainesville Eight.291 Their defense would be provided by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a legal center linked to Communist lawyers William Kunstler and Peter Weiss.292 Jane Fonda helped raise money for the defense fund.293
>>>Marc Rich
He is the one that is suppose to be testify about the Clinton's fund raising 'creativeness', right?
Soros should be investigated.
Soros is also the number one funder of the drug legalization movement and all those pro-marijuana websites.
Soros supported a convicted terrorist's assistant and communist.See what I mean?
And in addition to John Kerry, he also supported Stewart.
You win the rhetorical "WHAP!" award of the day.
LOL! Yep--very "creative"!
Will do. Your summary is very good and understandable. Thanks
Soros funding terrorist lover ping
Also see posts 32 and 49 this thread, sorry for the second ping
What a lot of research you have all done! I am more than impressed.
David Horowitz launched a new web site the other day which shows links between financieers, the media, politicians, etc. I saw Soros's name on his web site. It's unlikely he has the level of detail that you have come up with, but I thought you might be interested in reviewing his web site as it relates to Soros and his connections.
The link to an article that describes his web site is here and the link to the web site itself is in the first sentence of the article.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1343541/posts?page=1
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