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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Thank you for posting this information in a coherent manner. My files are all over the map! Soros has injected himself into American, indeed world, life.... from birth until death and everything in between.
Tracking the layering and obfuscation of his involvement is a monumental task. His 'Open Society' is a spider's web of deceit.
I don't know what a "Moby Troll" is Dave, but if You point one out I'll help you nuke em...
I got a e-mail NewsMax piece on this very subject and they seem to claim that their source is a long-time Cheney friend and a long-time adviser to the Bush-Cheney team. So, NewsMax wants Cheney out as well and are making suggestions for possible candidates.
I would rather Bush lose than him replace Dick Cheney (unless, God forbid, Cheney does have a health problem that prevents him). The one, and only, scenario that I can see is VP Cheney running with the President, be re-elected, and then the big "IF" he develops heart problems or any other difficulties, then step down and let the President pick another VP. Any other scenario to me is unacceptable.
George Soros and MoveOn.org His Plan to Defeat George Bush: Part II Capital Research Center Foundation Watch
Thanks for the ping!
The unmitigated gall of this rank opportunist.
We have got to determine how Soros' insinuation into our political process will enrich him.
What kind of covert deal does he have with the Johns?
Thanks.
"I don't know what a "Moby Troll" is Dave, but if You point one out I'll help you nuke em..."
Moby deeply embedden Trolls on Free Republic are the ones who claim to be the only true conservatives. They are apparently paid to stab GW in the back with all of their replies or posts.
I will ping you the next time one shows up.
Keep the faith!
Great data.
Have you pinged backhoe to see if he has indexed this.
Thanks.
You're welcome! As you know, there is more and I hope FReepers keep this thread bumped by posting info they have.
Thanks! I have now. :)
Ping to backhoe.
This is the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that has caused me to stop using Newsmax as a credible source.
A more realistic phrase would have been:
"Soros has used his vast wealth to gain a significant role of leadership within certain Democratic circles, Moveon.org, being one example"
I think I've posted all I have on him, but I can bump ! :^)
Thanks!
The great thing about Backhoe's indexes, the freepers who find this data are credited for finding it.
Its obvious that the vacuum of rich elite donors to the left caused by so many going to jail or their companies going broke has been filled by $oreA$$. He is in control of the DNC and who runs for their top offices. al Queery loves the UN and will turn over our Republic to the UN if elected.
al Queery is Pro UN and would enable $oreA$$ to install the UN as controller of this country with Bill Clinton as the head of the UN if al Queery is elected.
Then, we can kiss our military power goodbye, our elections goodbye and our lives as Americans.
If al Querry the Soros Manchurian candidate is elected, our country will be just part of the UN and no longer an independent republic. UN troops will monitor all of our phoney elections to insure that conservative votes don't count.
"I think I've posted all I have on him, but I can bump ! :^)"
I hope I saw and filed it all!
Many FReepers have bits and pieces of the Soros puzzle. I look forward to Poe's 'Parts two and three threads' to see how he continues his connection to the election.
You're welcome!
Backhoe's files are great! If he has an index on a topic, it is listed at the top of my file.
Sami Al-Arian and Minaret of Freedom Institute
Links, Minaret of Freedom Institute
... Abu Salah Home Page. Sami al-Arian's web site. ... Open Society "Independent foundations,programs created and supported by philanthropist George Soros to foster ...
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No, that weas Noam Chomsky, another left wing whacko..
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