"Outraged" 9/11 families are part of group headed by Teresa Heinz Kerry (as in wife of John Kerry)The "outraged" faces we've seen on television the past two days are more than they seem. Family members of 9/11 victims have been interviewed ad nauseum on television and in newspapers far and wide, complaining about the Bush Campaign's use of fleeting images of 9/11 to highlight the challenges faced by the Administration this term; and to call attention to the job they've done in meeting those challenges.
That would only make sense for a man who wants to be relected to the highest office in the land.
Among those 9/11 family members quoted in newspapers and in television interviews across the nation are people like Rita Lasar and Colleen Kelly. Both Lasar and Kelly are leaders of a group called September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which on it's surface sounds innocuous enough.
But when the connections are peeled away like the layers of an onion, the true picture emerges. Peaceful Tomorrows is one of several projects sponsored by the Tides Center of Pennsylvania.
Also innocent-sounding enough.
But who is the Tides Center? Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is none other than a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations -- the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment-- chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, heir to the Heinz food company fortune and wife of Democrat presidential contender Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
What makes the pairing with Tides troubling is that organization's secretive funneling of cash from private foundations -- such as Heinz, the Pew Charitable Trusts and many others -- to extreme left-wing activist groups whose interests include exclusion of humans from both public and private lands, anti-war protests, opposition to free trade, banning of firearms, abolition of the death penalty, unlimited abortion rights, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocacy, as well as and environmental extremism.Coincidence? I think not. And especially considering that we as the public aren't being let in on the nebulous connections and ulterior motives.
Most Americans aren't going to take the time -- or even know -- to connect the dots either.
"Oh, Johnny....you gots some 'splainin' t'do..."
I wouldn't hold my breath though. I don't trust the good Senator to be forthcoming with the truth in this matter.