Posted on 02/17/2005 9:38:03 AM PST by areafiftyone
The Democratic Party's wealthiest backer made a substantial contribution to the legal defense fund of New York City attorney Lynn Stewart, who was convicted last week of providing material aid to terrorists and lying to federal investigators while representing jailed terrorist kingpin, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
"According to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service, George Soros's foundation, the Open Society Institute, or OSI, gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee," reports the National Review Online's Byron York.
Amy Weil, a spokeswoman for Soros's Open Society Institute, told York that her boss contributed to the convicted terror lawyer because "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."
An avowed critic of President Bush, Soros gave $23 million to Democratic Party groups like MoveOn.org in a bid to defeat him in last year's election. In a 2003 interview with the Washington Post, the Hungarian-born billionaire said living in George Bush's America reminded him of life during the Nazi occupation.
The revelation that a top Democrat donor was funding a convicted terrorist aider and abettor gives added ammunition to New York Republican Party Chairman Stephen Minarik, who blasted the Democrats on Monday, saying "they can be accurately called the party of Barbara Boxer, Lynne Stewart and Howard Dean."
DNC chief Dean rejected the comparison with Stewart, calling it "character assassination," and demanded that Minarik apologize. Minarik issued a statement Wednesday saying "it is not the Republican Party's problem that these far-left activists have made their home in the Democratic party."
The GOP chief's comments made even some of his fellow Republicans uncomfortable, but it light or York's report, his criticism now seems downright prescient.
Stewart's Defense Committee website, lynnestewart.org, confirmed the 2002 Soros contribution, with a message noting at the time: "This website is made possible by the generous support of the Open Society Institute."
The message was removed after requests for further Soros aid were turned down, York said.
Stewart's client Rahman is currently serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, and for his part in failed plots to blow up the United Nations building and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York.
SOREASS = EVIL
I'm just glad that McCain-Feingold finally got the money out of politics.
BTW, The New York Observer checked with the NY Board of Elections: Al Queda agent/traitor Lynne Stewart IS A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT (to all of you following Howard Dean's drama quuen antics).
BTW, The New York Observer checked with the NY Board of Elections: Al Queda agent/traitor Lynne Stewart IS A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT (to all of you following Howard Dean's drama quuen antics).
this is a BIG DEAL
Soros is beyond evil. He supports democrats, since it is said that the Clintons gave him CIA financial inside information on foreign currencies, allowing to "speculate" and make his billions.
I KNEW IT! What about her husband, Ralph Poynter?
You know, I would have figured, with the party options in New York, that she wouldn't have been registered as a Democrat. I knew the Dems would look stupid on this issue and wouldn't want us to look closely at this. I KNEW IT!
Another losing cause. Keep it up.
When will the Democratic Party be labeled as a Terrorist Group! Why mess around with these traitors that support the enemies of the United States! Is this or is this not Sedetion?!! They hide behind the Constitution they HATE!
Bump!
http://www.soros.org/grants/research/detail.php?id=324
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Year Awarded: 2002
Amount Awarded: $20,000
Grant Term: 6 mos.
Program: US Programs
Purpose: To conduct a public education campaign around the broad civil rights
implications of Lynne Stewart's indictment.
Location: New York, NY 10013 United States
And you were telling me they din't make erections during elections being bought off by Georgie Porgie Puddin an Pie!!! The classic example of a Billionaire Pissant!!!
Cross linking morning posting: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345147/posts
Follow-up on FR regarding Howard Dean's overt (and easily disprovable.... what a moron!) lies about the party affiliation of Lynne Stewart:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345040/posts?page=7#7
I'm sure if you dig deep enough, anyone could easily find that Soros funded Stalin, Hitler, Hannibal Lecter, Iran, North Korea, the Dixie Chicks & the operation that removed Bill's testicles & placed 'em firmly in Teddy Kennedy's hands...
Soros is living proof that any wealthy Demo has sh-t for brains.
Yah, just what I was about to say.
Anybody surprised? Raise your hand!
Didn't think so.
BTW, the DUmmies are outraged that they are being compared to Lynne Stewart and terrorists. Quite a few of them are openly supporting Stewart. The fact Stewart is a registered RAT and the Soros-DNC-MoveOn-ANSWER-Stewart connections conclusively support Minarik's claims.
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