Posted on 10/08/2006 6:31:16 PM PDT by DaveTesla
Funding the War Against the War on Terror By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | October 6, 2006
While battling the murderous scourge of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, the United States simultaneously faces a most formidable foe within its own borders. Determined, well organized, and immensely wealthy, this enemy pours untold sums of money into the coffers of organizations dedicated to ensuring America’s defeat in that war. Yet few Americans are even remotely familiar with this foe, whose benign sounding name -- Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) -- gives no hint of the potential national catastrophe that its policies encourage.
Established in 1999, PSFG is an unincorporated association of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways: (a) by characterizing the United States as an evil, militaristic, oppressive nation that exploits vulverable populations all over the globe; (b) by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions; (c) by depicting America's military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and immoral; (d) by steadfastly defending the civil rights and liberties of terrorists whose ultimate aim is to facilitate the annihilation of not only the United States, but all of Western civilization; and (e) by striving to eradicate America's national borders and institute a system of mass, unregulated migration into and out of the United States -- thereby rendering all distinctions between legal and illegal immigrants anachronistic, and making it much easier for aspiring terrorists to enter our country.
Asserting that the U.S. budget allocates too much money to the military and too little to social welfare programs, PSFG directs its philanthropy toward organizations that seek to address the "root causes" of war and violence -- causes which it characterizes as: poverty, ethnic and religious differences, "social injustices," and competition for natural resources. The main source of these "root causes," says PSFG, is the United States, where social, economic, and religious injustices allegedly abound.
A key member of PSFG’s steering committee is Cora Weiss, currently the president of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, a PSFG member. The daughter of Faberge millionaire Samuel Rubin, Weiss established her reputation as a far leftist during the Vietnam War, when she participated in the psychological warfare conducted by the Vietcong against U.S. prisoners of war who were being held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." At that time, Weiss was a leader of Women Strike for Peace, an organization that, according to a Congressional study, “enjoyed the complete support of the Communist Party." As co-director of the "Committee for Liaison with the Families," Weiss, who knew the names of many American prisoners, told their relatives that if they would actively join the anti-war movement and speak out against U.S. policies, they might be able to win the release of the POWs. (None of the families accepted that arrangement.) Weiss made one trip to Hanoi by invitation and returned to the U.S. with two American POWs. Upon her return, she told the press that Hanoi's jails were "immaculate," and that American prisoners were well fed and cared for. When the two aforementioned POWs objected to her cheerful portrayal of North Vietnamese prison conditions, Weiss replied that one of the two was a "war criminal." After the war, Weiss worked on behalf of Vietnam's admission to the United Nations, and later served as chairwoman of the committee celebrating that country's actual admission.
In 1978 Weiss was invited by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to direct the Disarmament Program at New York’s Riverside Church. Riverside's program was a leader in supporting the USSR-backed nuclear freeze campaign that would have consolidated Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe. While at Riverside, Weiss co-organized a massive1982 disarmament rally in New York City, where a coalition of communist organizations convened to condemn American militarism. In 1983 Weiss was a delegate to a U.S.-Soviet disarmament conference, where she mingled with fellow delegates who, like her, had supported the Communist regime in North Vietnam and the Marxist revolutions in Africa and Central America.
Does anyone know where the DNC has the anti-war on terror "death mom," Cindy Sheehan locked up? I'd like to send her a "Congratulations on Your Incarceration" card.
The more 'benign' the foundation name the more devious its motives.
Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation
Open Society Institute George Soros
The Beneficiaries
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
American Civil Liberties Union
Physicians for Social Responsibility
American Friends Service Committee
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
Women's Action for New Directions
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
Center for Constitutional Rights
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
Pax Christi Such are the goals and worldviews of those organizations which benefit from the philanthropy of the Peace and Security Funders Group. They are united by the contempt they feel for the
Thanks, Dave. Checking your links. Could be here awhile. :)
Here is a map.
It takes about 2 minutes to load.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Thinkmap%20SDK%202.5%20Standard%20Edition/webapp/TM-1VER/index.asp?keyword=Ford%20Foundation
I've been to the site a few times, but never noticed a map. Thanks!
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