Soros blasts Hastert over drug allegation (crybaby Soros says his "character's" defamed)

THE HILL ^ | 9/1/04 | Jonathan E. Kaplan

[Liz]

Billionaire demands public apology from the House Speaker

George Soros, the billionaire financier who has given millions of dollars to liberal and Democratic-leaning advocacy groups, launched a blistering counterattack on Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) yesterday, saying he should be “ashamed” of allegations he made Sunday.

Hastert had suggested that Soros’s wealth came from criminals, and in a letter Soros challenged the Speaker to substantiate his claims or publicly apologize.

In a tartly worded demand faxed to Hastert, Soros wrote: “Your recent comments implying that I am receiving funds from drug cartels are not only untrue, but also deeply offensive. You do a discredit to yourself and to the dignity of your office by engaging in these dishonest smear tactics. You should be ashamed.

“I must respectfully insist that you either substantiate these claims — which you cannot do because they are false — or publicly apologize for attempting to defame my character and damage my reputation.”

The spat began in an interview on Fox News with anchor Chris Wallace, in which Hastert said, “You know, I don’t know where George Soros gets his money. I don’t know where — if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from. …”

Asked if Soros had earned money from drug cartels, Hastert added, “Well, that’s what he’s been for a number years — George Soros has been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he’s got a lot of ancillary interests out there. … I’m saying I don’t know where groups — could be people who support this type of thing. I’m saying we don’t know.”

Soros, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, earned billions from investments and currency speculation. In 1992, he bet $10 billion that the British central bank would devalue the pound. The gamble paid off and Soros earned $650 million that year. Soros Fund Management LLC was hammered in the late 1990s and Soros has since retired, although he remains chairman.

In 1993, he started the Open Society Institute, which promotes democracy in Eastern Europe and around the world. He began funding programs to reform the U.S. justice system several years later. As part of that effort, he has funded marijuana-legalization referendums in California and Arizona. Besides the Open Society Institute, Soros is also a major contributor to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based operation that monitors violence in global hot spots.

But he is most widely known in this election season as a big contributor to MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank, and America Coming Together, a so-called 527 political outfit that is exempt from limits on campaign contributions.

John Feehery, a spokesman for Hastert, said, “George Soros has an agenda. He supports the legalization of drugs, and the statement stands. [Hastert] has been fighting Soros on this for years because it is a character flaw. The Speaker thinks legalizing drugs is wrong.”

Soros was unavailable for comment.

Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) say that no company official in Soros’s investment fund is involved in a criminal proceeding or a party to a civil proceeding.

Feehery cited no evidence and would not comment on whether Hastert would ask law enforcement to investigate.

Soros told The Washington Post last year: “America, under Bush, is a danger to the world. … And I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.”

Conservatives have sought to discredit Soros by attacking his foreign and Jewish roots and his support of liberal causes, and by saying that his currency speculation actually hurt the very people he claims to want to help.

“No other single person represents the symbol and the substance of globalism more than this Hungarian-born descendant of Shylock. He is the embodiment of the Merchant from Venice,” wrote GOPAC, an organization that helps elect GOP candidates, on its website last year.

In William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” Shylock was the Jewish banker whose venality would not stop him from cutting human flesh to repay loans.

Tony Blankley, the editorial-page editor of The Washington Times, said Soros is “a robber baron, he’s a pirate capitalist, and he’s a reckless man” in an interview on Fox News.

Democrats were quick to criticize Hastert’s latest suggestion. “That’s totally absurd. It fits a pattern of simply throwing out whatever slander occurs to them,” the Republicans, said Matt Bennett, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee in New York. “This is what the Republican leadership does. They lie about people.”

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[Liz]

(Yawn). Soros a member of a Nazi organization? So what else is new? Soros' only loyalty is to his bank account (snore).

[Grampa Dave]

Only the rats scream "Defamation!" when the truth about them is present.

[Liz]

Truth to them is like holding up a cross in front of a vampire.......they scream and writhe with rage (you gotta watch those old Christopher Lee movies on AMC to know what I mean---LOL).

[Grampa Dave]

Throw some Holy Water on them, spray them with Garlic oil and Touch them with the Cross.

Then be ready to drive the wooden stake where their heart would be if they had one.

[Liz]

Sounds good to me. I'll go to Home Depot later to get a couple stakes (LOL).

[Grampa Dave]

Wooden Fence Posts with a sharp point, and a good sledge hammer should work.

[Liz]

Wait a sec....gotta put that on the list.

Let's see I need garlic, Holy Water, and a nice, big crucifix.........

[Grampa Dave]

Don't forgent the wooden fence posts with a nice sharp point and a small sledge hammer to pound the posts home.

[Liz]

No problem. I won't forget.

[DTA]

To get better understanding how Soros network operates, follow the trail of Mabel Wisse Smit, Director of Soros director of the Open Society Institute in Brussels , Belgium who married a Dutch prince.

All is there: deception, gun running, drugs. But check the official bio first:

"...During her studies she had several trainee jobs, among others at the Secretary of the United Nations in New York, at Shell in Malaysia, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague and at the ABN-AMRO Bank in Barcelona. Early 1994 Mabel founded the European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans, a non-gouvernmental organisation that aims for peace, democracy and stability at the Balkans. She was its managing director until 1997. Since 1997 she is managing director of the Open Society Institute in Brussels, Belgium. This institute represents the Soros Foundations Network in Europe, that contributes to stimulate democracy, human rights and promotion of the independent constitutional state. In 1995 Mabel was one of the co-founders of the Dutch Foundation War Child, that helps children in war areas, and she was at the board of the foundation for about four years."

What the bio does not mention is that she was a key person in gun running operation with Adnan Kasshogi and Soros agent of influece in drug legalisation in Europe.

For gun running connection, check this: Mabel Wisse and War Child - gun running for philantropic cause

Link aboove is a must read ! Gun running is more profitable than drug running.

For drug connection, check this:

MABEL AND MIKE: DUTCH ROYAL BRIDE IN PLOT WITH BRITISH DEPUTY DRUGS CZAR

[Grampa Dave]

Good stuff.

Please ping me whenever you post something about $oreA$$.

[Liz]

OK, will do.

[7thson]

He's an anarchist with money! All he wants is to destroy while he builds himself up. I say, let Hastert and Soros wrestle and whoever wins, winner take all! Since Soros likes to go big - as an earlier article posted reported - let's ask him to go for all the marbles.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!!

The Soros Threat

The Capitalist Threat
(1997 article by Soros)

SOROS SNACKING ON SIDE DISHES
(Soros the Adulterer)

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[MeekOneGOP]

Asked if Soros had earned money from drug cartels, Hastert added, “Well, that’s what he’s been for a number years — George Soros has been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he’s got a lot of ancillary interests out there. … I’m saying I don’t know where groups — could be people who support this type of thing. I’m saying we don’t know.”

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John Feehery, a spokesman for Hastert, said, “George Soros has an agenda. He supports the legalization of drugs, and the statement stands. [Hastert] has been fighting Soros on this for years because it is a character flaw. The Speaker thinks legalizing drugs is wrong.”

Man, this ar$ehole has given almost $20 MILLION to MoveOn.org. He is HUNGARIAN and should not be able to try to influence U.S. elections.

Thanks, McCain ! Great job !

I hope they repeal/revamp CFR. NO foreigners should be able to do this.

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Gore's Statement "No Controlling Legal Authority"

[hchutch]

This assumes that George Soros has character to defame. And that is an unproven assumption.

[MeekOneGOP]

Has Soros been lobbying here to get drugs legalized ??

Anybody ??

[jer33 3]

Friday, May 14, 2004. Page 3. Moscow Times

No More Jail Terms for Drug Possession

By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer

Under a new law that came into effect this week, drug users can possess a greatly increased amount of an illegal substance -- for instance, 20 grams of marijuana or 1.5 grams of cocaine -- without the risk of being thrown in jail.

The law has been criticized by the Federal Anti-Drug Service, which says it hampers the battle against drugs, but praised by those who work to rehabilitate drug addicts, who predict more addicts will now seek help.

President Vladimir Putin signed an amendment to the Criminal Code in December stipulating that possession of no more than 10 times the amount of a "single dose" would now be considered an administrative infraction rather than a criminal offense. Punishment would be a fine of no more than 40,000 rubles ($1,380) or community service.

It then took five months to hammer out what would be considered the single dose of various drugs.

Ten times the amount of a single dose, as set in the government resolution that came into effect Wednesday, is 20 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of hashish, mescaline or opium, 1.5 grams of cocaine, 1 gram of heroin or methamphetamine, and 0.003 grams of LSD.

Anyone caught in possession of these amounts or less cannot legally be detained, a spokeswoman for the Moscow branch of the Federal Anti-Drug Service said. Instead, a report will be filed and the fine will be determined by a court.

This is a major change. Under the old standards, someone caught with 0.1 grams of marijuana, for instance, could be punished by incarceration.

Foreigners, even those with deep pockets, should still take the new law seriously, however. Yelena Zhigayeva, a lawyer at the Moscow law firm Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner, said that by law foreigners who violate Russian drug laws, even if it is only an administrative infraction, can be expelled from the country or denied re-entry.

Alexander Mikhailov, deputy head of the Federal Anti-Drug Service, was indignant about the resolution.

"The heroin dose is normal for a chronic drug user, but for a regular person it's nonetheless a dose of potassium cyanide," Mikhailov was quoted as saying in Kommersant on Thursday. "We were categorically against it, but the Justice Ministry simply went crazy chasing its European standards.

"Now drug addicts have the right to run around with their pockets full of marijuana, and we can't even detain them."

A spokesman for the Federal Anti-Drug Service was more diplomatic. "It's the law, and we are required to abide by it and enforce it," he said by telephone.

The amounts for single doses were recommended by a group formed by the State Duma's Legislative Committee that included representatives from the Health, Justice and Interior ministries, the FSB and several NGOs.

Lev Levinson, head of New Drug Policy, an advocacy group for drug law reform, was the coordinator of the group. "This is a brave, humane law," Levinson said. "Now that police will stop persecuting users, they can start focusing on real threats like large-scale drug trafficking."

Vitaly Zhumagaliyev, head of the Moscow bureau of Harm Reduction, which works to rehabilitate drug addicts, said the new law will provide a boost to his organization's activities.