Posted on 05/30/2005 5:44:26 PM PDT by wagglebee
Several dozen supporters of Georgia's ex-president Zviad Gamsakhurdia have thrown eggs at a car in which visiting U.S. businessman and philanthropist, Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros was traveling, Interfax news agency reported.
The incident took place on Monday after Soros walked out of the Marriott hotel in downtown Tbilisi and got into his car. Gamsakhurdia's supporters, who were chanting slogans criticizing Soros, began throwing eggs at the departing car.
The protestors accused Soros of involvement in the "Rose revolution" in 2003, which helped Georgia's current authorities, including the President Mikhail Saakashvili, come to power. They promised to hold more actions.
Soros, who arrived in Tbilisi on Saturday, is meeting Saakashvili at the moment.
Before the beginning of his visit Georgian opposition Labor Party Leader Shalva Natelashvili said his supporters had prepared a "surprise" for Soros, more "civilized", "refined", "unexpected, but quite unpleasant", than "throwing eggs".
The Laborites, however, have not kept their promise yet.
Soros, the head of the Development Foundation in his name, has been actively supporting democratic movements in Eastern Europe and his foundation has succeeded in precipitating changes in Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine. Several post-Soviet states have even declared him persona non grata.
"If anyone has followed this guy's life it's pretty clear that in 5 years,he'll be moving on to something else.
Like a dirt nap if we're lucky.
Yes the MSM will report that a raving moderate and all around good guy was attacked by a bunch of fring right wing extremists........
This is identical to the agenda of the Democratic Party leadership:
"A place for everybody, everybody in his/her place."
I met some of the OSI guys when I was in Hungry, we (my class) stopped by Central European University (which he basically founded).
It was a weird group, but in essence, they know one thing clearly, he is nuts.
They talk well of him, but in private, they think he's pretty much lost it with his "messiah complex".
He is also not known for long term thinking, and moves from one cause to another.
The OSI guys (the ones I met) over there, were actually big supporters of Free Market principles and believed that a big government (or activist government or strong centralized government) was an enemy to the beliefs of an "open society".
Bizarre guy, and no one takes his "philosophy" junk seriously, even Paul Krugman, who is nice to him, and usually says positive things about, has also hinted that Soros isn't exactly trustworthy in some writings noting him. Interestling, he held a debate with him once.....and lost.
Let's hope they start throwing something a bit more powerful than rotten eggs at that evildoer.
Whoa...hope you didn't tell them anything important. I wouldn't trust them. Much like the demonRATs, they are probably trained to smile and lie through their teeth.
Some time ago I found an article where he said he would own the USA. Wish I had saved it. I think that was the strategery of his "investment" into the '04 election. Had "it" won, Soros would have owned him.
Soros was on the right side in Georgia, but this couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
Too bad it doesn't happen here in the U.S., for the right reasons.
Uh huh.
They started out pretty pro soros but after awhile, they (sheepishly) admit that he is a bit of a kook, who has a nasty habit of getting more involved with things which he doesn't understand.
His ego and messiah complex needs to be brought under control.
Its pretty clear a couple of them think he really is mentally ill.
Interestingly enough, his family (based on what he told them) has a history of mental illness.
His drawing of comparissons between himself and others (Karl Popper, Neitzche, etc) suggest some serious disconnects with reality.
He really has some weird ideas, of both himself, the world, and various other things, that are definatly signs that the guy ain't right and is getting worse.
Just a couple? I think he's mentally ill and I hardly know him. lol
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