Posted on 07/16/2004 5:55:38 PM PDT by Richard Poe
Edited on 07/20/2004 7:45:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
IF YOU ENJOYED the election crisis of 2000, youre going to love what Democrat leaders are cooking up for November.
"George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party," charges Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson. (2) Some might dismiss Miss Iverson's comment as hyberbole. However, Soros' massive soft-money contributions have indisputably given him power over Democrat strategy. The billionaire currency trader now busies himself instructing Democrats in a new and dangerous style of political brinkmanship -- new to Americans, at least. Soros' relish for Byzantine intrigue and reckless power grabs may strike some Americans as novel. However, it follows a long -- if not exactly honored -- tradition endemic to the blood-drenched soil of Central Europe whence Mr. Soros springs.
Consider, for example, a recent proposal by Congressional Democrats to bring in UN monitors to police our upcoming election. "We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy," wrote Democrat Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas in a July 1 letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Indiana Republican Steve Buyer barely managed to short-circuit Johnson's proposal last Thursday by cutting off her cash flow. Buyer added an amendment to a pending foreign aid bill, blocking any U.S. official from using the designated funds for UN election monitors. Buyer's move infuriated Rep. Corinne Brown (D-Fla.). She charged that Republicans "stole the election" in 2000, telling Buyer, "I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d'etat. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again." (3) When the Buyer Amendment came up for a vote, House Democrats voted overwhelmingly -- by a ratio of 5 to 1 -- to keep the door open for UN election monitors. An astonishing 161 representatives -- all Democrats -- voted against Buyer's proposal. The measure passed by a slim 243-161. Only 33 Democrats broke with their party to support Buyer's amendment. (4) Never before have U.S. lawmakers sought so openly, and in such great numbers, to allow foreign intervention in a U.S. election. Equally exotic, from an American standpoint, are the antics of a group called "National People's Action" (NPA) -- whom syndicated pundit Michelle Malkin describes as a taxpayer-funded "left-wing goon squad." NPA provides muscle for Democrat dirty work. In exchange, it receives public funding from a host of government agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Of this multiracial, Chicago-based "neighborhood advocacy" network, Malkin writes: "The group engages in what it calls `direct action' -- publicizing the home addresses of business and government leaders it wants to shake down and then busing in protesters and schoolchildren (using public school buses) to invade the private property of their victims and intimidate their families." (5) In March, about 800 NPA thugs surrounded the Washington home of Bush strategist Karl Rove, demanding rights for illegal aliens. They knocked on Rove's door, pounded on his windows and chanted angrily in Spanish and English, driving Rove's children to tears. The mob dispersed only after Rove agreed to parley with its leaders. (6) In the age of Soros, mainstream Democrats have embraced NPA's thuggish tactics. The group's sudden emergence as a force in U.S. politics calls to mind the elevation of similar groups overseas, where Soros often bankrolls street radicals with a zest for physical confrontation. Readers should note that NPA receives funding from the Tides Foundation -- an institution to which Soros contributes generously (more than $13 million between 1997 and 2003). (7)
The Human Rights Racket Born in Hungary in 1930, Soros came of age under Nazi and Soviet occupation. He built his fortune wheeling and dealing in lawless nations, where money buys pliant rulers and topples disobedient ones with equal facility. In his writings and interviews, Soros boasts openly of subverting governments in Croatia, Slovakia, Yugoslavia and the Republic of Georgia. (8) Now, like a big-game hunter facing retirement, the 73-year-old Soros seeks the ultimate trophy to crown his mantel the head of George W. Bush on a pike. "America under Bush is a danger to the world," Soros told the Washington Post in a November 11, 2003 interview. Ousting Bush, said Soros, "is the central focus of my life... a matter of life and death." (9) Soros had earlier told the Post, "I believe deeply in the values of an open society. For the past 15 years I have focused my energies on fighting for these values abroad. Now I am doing it in the United States." (10) Experienced Soros watchers have learned to greet such sermons with a cynical yawn. As British journalist Neil Clark notes in the leftwing journal New Statesman: "[S]oros deems a society `open' not if it respects human rights and basic freedoms, but if it is `open' for him and his associates to make money. And, indeed, Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise `open.' In Kosovo, for example, he has invested $50m in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and other minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5bn. He thus copied a pattern he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe: of advocating `shock therapy' and `economic reform,' then swooping in with his associates to buy valuable state assets at knockdown prices." (11) In my article, "George Soros' Coup" in the May 2004 issue of NewsMax Magazine, I noted that Soros has good reason, at this time, to believe that a Democrat regime might prove more "open" to his way of doing business than would George W. Bush. But that is another issue. Whatever Soros really means by the term "open society," Americans would be well-advised to familiarize themselves with the dangerous lengths to which he has often gone to establish it.
Velvet Revolution Everyone knows that Soros has poured millions into Democrat coffers this election season. Yet there is more to Soros' strategy than mere largesse. Soros helped bankroll the 1989 coup d'etat that catapulted dissident playwright Vaclav Havel to the presidency of the Czech Republic. The relatively bloodless uprising acquired the nickname "Velvet Revolution." To this day, people throughout the former Soviet bloc use the term "velvet revolution" to denote Soros-sponsored coups. (12) Defenders of Soros paint his velvet putsches as benevolent, arguing that Soros has freed millions from tin-pot despots such as Slobodan Milosevic. Maybe so. But President Bush is no Milosevic, and the USA no Yugoslavia. Mr. Soros brand of help is neither welcome nor appropriate here. How exactly does one perpetrate a velvet revolution anyway? The seven-step strategy Soros used against Milosevic provides an instructive blueprint.
The deposed president was arrested and packed off to Holland for trial. Many readers will be surprised to learn that, after three years of deliberations, the International Criminal Court in The Hague has yet to produce conclusive evidence that Milosevic committed war crimes. (26) Neil Clark notes that the case against Milosevic relies largely on dubious allegations ginned up by the Soros-funded Human Rights Watch. (27) Scandalously, the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia (ICTY) is itself awash in Soros money. Writing in the leftwing journal The New Statesman, Clark reports that the Tribunal which complained in 1994 that it lacked sufficient funds to prosecute Balkan war crimes now thrives on contributions from George Soros, Time-Warner and Disney, among others. (28) Thats right. Time-Warner and Disney. Whod have thought it?
October Surprise In view of the catastrophes Mr. Soros has inflicted on so many foreign lands, his sudden rise to prominence in U.S. politics deserves closer inspection. Bellicose charges of vote-rigging and calls for UN intervention such as we have heard lately from high-ranking Democrats fall strangely on American ears. Yet, for George Soros, such overheated rhetoric constitutes business as usual. The Democrat strategy taking shape in America this year strongly resembles a "velvet revolution" in the making. Every piece of the puzzle has fallen into place. Only the exact time and nature of the final provocation -- the signal for action -- remains unknown. Curiously, Hillary Clinton told the New York Posts Cindy Adams on March 30 that an October Surprise would likely decide the 2004 election. "It will be outside forces something unforeseen that suddenly happens that tilts the election one way or the other," she predicted, with an odd note of certainty. (29) Was Hillary just guessing? Or does she know something we dont? In the remaining installments of this three-part series, we will examine further evidence that Velvet Revolution may be brewing among the Party of the Left.
============================================= 1. Amy Westfeldt, "Billionaire Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is - Toward Ousting Bush," Associated Press, New York, 10 June 2004 ============================================= Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and cyberjournalist. He is a contributing editor for NewsMax Magazine and NewsMax.com, and runs his own blog at RichardPoe.com. Poe's new book is Hillary's Secret War. His previous book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control, is now available in paperback.
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" Astonishingly, 161 representatives -- all Democrats -- voted against Buyer's proposal. The final tally was 243-161. Only 33 Democrats broke with their party to support Buyer's measure."
All 161 should be tried for treason, removed from office for derelection of office (not representing their AMERICAN constituents).
My disgust for the leftists and the 'Rat party grows by leaps and bounds on a daily basis.
Blessings, Bobo
Thanks for the ping!
"How dare the NPA publish the private contact info of their opponents. How dare they show up at their opponents' private residences and actually trespass on those properties.
I don't disagree with anything you said, but I think you need to reconsider your phraseology. "How dare they..." sounds an awful lot like a way out loon of a former VP!
"Curiously, Hillary Clinton told the New York Posts Cindy Adams on March 30 that an October Surprise would likely decide the 2004 election. "It will be outside forces something unforeseen that suddenly happens that tilts the election one way or the other," she predicted, with an odd note of certainty. (28)"
This scares me more than anything else they can do. Not having her speak, then through the behind-the-scenes-powers-that-be have her introducing Billy Boy. She is dangerous.
This is truly an evil and self-absorbed man...
We are in a propaganda war with these idiots and they are not happy about being challenged on it.
Beware, let no man deceive you!
MUST READ PING
Ping to #20
soros = blofeld
BUMPING FOR LATER READ . .
That was Noam Chomsky
A nutcase radical Commie that sez the USA is a facist invader and thief and baby-bombing killer nation
All this from Noam Chomsky as he enjoys the freedoms and liberties and protection guaranteed only by our US military
That stupid girl's father is a lying Socialist
First thing he did was say "I'm non-partisan and an Independent voter".
Seminar garbage.
He has voted left wing period.
"Non-judgemental"
"Look at both sides...." he said!
Did his daughter want to look at "both sides" with Sean Hannity?
Note the girl's name:
"Mikala"
Gorbi?
Don't waste valuable airtime with these assholes--you aren't going to change them.
As Holmes said, "Probe him where you will he is false."
They took up 45 minutes today and thirty yesterday--not too shabby.
Rush would have given them 2-5 minutes and the listeners would have known they were radical nutcases.
The girl lied today denying she said certain things yesterday.
On Sean's taped playback she and her father still denied her statements, sayning Sean hurried, harrassed, and twisted her statements.
Sounded like apologists for WWII NAZIS and the Japanese to me!
Tossed around the fascist label, then said it was only "the USA government" she said.
Send these two creeps to Cuba.
Sean is naive about many things and not the most astute and often quite a "social" appeaser.
Check out his statements on illegal aliens.
Check out his own hiring policies as a contractor years back.
Clinton and GW both had people disqualified for cabinet level posts because of the same thing, but on a much smaller scale than Sean did as a professional contractor.
SS, INS, and IRS records would doom Sean for any cabinet position and probably any elected national office too.
"Was it a good thing that we took out the Nazis?"
"I don't know. It's not black and white."
When she said that, he should have pulled the trap door.
Sean thinks he will "Hannitize" people.
After getting angry calls and emails he insisted he had to devote time to the calls from Mikayla and Daddy Jerry because it was "so important".
He has no historical perspective to know the New Soviet Man is an old concept, that Eric Hoffer's True Believer is an antique.
His man on the street homosexual ballet boys yesterday did not know who we fought to win our independence.
They were 17 and 23 respectively--enough with the spending on "education" already.
And enough with derailing the second most popular conservative radio talk show to accomodate lying leftists.
Oh and "Jerry" tried to disqualify Sean from commenting as Sean "hadn't raised a teenager".
Hey, Jerry, that's two of you.
According to Kerry and Terry Mc and the Kerry backers Jerry cannot discuss wars or the military either.
He never served......
Kerry spent less time in a combat area than a raw recruit spends in basic and advanced.
Great, great stuff as always. Thankyou, Richard!
Excellent point. As I've been preaching on this forum, the Balkanization of American politics ----dividing Americans into "hyphenates" -----is detrimental to democracy.
These "hyphenates" bring "tribal" culture to the political table that is a distraction to the concept of one nation democracy, and is redolent with the whiff of anti-Americanism.
In the divide and conquer process, politicians segregate hyphenates, creating voting blocs. The politicians promise hyphenates the moon and the stars and do it on our dime.
American taxpayers are not only burdened with supporting these hyphenated "tribes" but have to contend with watching the very foundations of our republic weakened in the process.
Internationalist Soros should get out of the business of American politics and leave it to "we, the preople," where it belongs.
Well, I agree with you on the first accusation in this article---the one about the dems running into the arms of the UN. It does not show how Soros is linked to it.
Dear Vision Thing:
You raise a good question.
What reason can I offer for evoking the name of George Soros in connection with the 161 Democrat Congressmen who voted Thursday to leave the door open for UN intervention in our election?
You rightly observe that I have no smoking gun -- no tell-tale memo, for instance, bearing Soros' signature, ordering Democrats to vote on this measure.
In all likelihood, no such memo exists. And even if it did, the mass media would explain it away as glibly as they did Senator Rockefeller's equally damning memo. How then can we assess the possibility that Mr. Soros may or may not have played a role in Thursday's outrage?
Allow me to explain. I hold Soros responsible for two reasons:
Reason #1: Soros has become de facto leader of the Democrat Party, by virtue of his lavish campaign spending. Organizational science teaches us that institutions take on the character of their leaders. Moreover, the ethics of leadership hold any leader morally and practically responsible for the actions of his subordinates. Period.
Before our eyes, the Democrat Party has acquired a markedly more radical character than it has shown in past years. This change has coincided precisely with Soros' ascension to the status of unofficial party leader.
The fact that 161 Democrat Congressmen voted in favor of UN intervention is a singular event, of enormous magnitude -- a move that Democrat lawmakers would have been unlikely to make without high-level sanction. Who in today's Democrat Party has the authority to approve such a move? Ted Kennedy? Terry McAuliffe? Harold Ickes? Tom Daschle? Hillary Clinton? I think not.
Only Soros wields such authority now. He is the boss -- the man with the plan. For that reason, it is more than reasonable to at least consider the possibility that Thursday's vote bore his stamp of approval.
Reason #2: More importantly, Soros has stated on several occasions that he intends to effect "regime change" in the USA, using similar tactics to those which have proved successful for him in other countries. I recommend that you study the methods Soros has used overseas. He seldom deviates from his playbook.
Sevry's soothing reassurances notwithstanding, the fact remains that whenever Mr. Soros engages in political struggle, he never -- I repeat, never -- limits his activity to such ineffectual gestures as purchasing airtime for candidates or underwriting talkfests such as the Democratic Convention. Mr. Soros plays hardball, and he plays for keeps.
In his arrogance, Mr. Soros has taken few pains to conceal his intentions regarding our upcoming election. Perhaps he considers discretion unnecessary among a people as trusting and unused to Machiavellian intrigue as Americans. Perhaps he believes that we are too innocent to understand him, too complacent to stop him, no matter how openly he states his intentions.
Perhaps Mr. Soros believes that we will simply freeze like the proverbial deer in the headlights when he makes his move, unable to believe or comprehend the enormity of his usurpations.
God grant that Mr. Soros is wrong. God grant that, for all our indolence and luxury, some tiny spark still burns in our bellies from the fires of 1776.
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