Posted on 10/16/2006 3:22:36 PM PDT by veronica
The anti-Bush billionaire supported lawyer who aided terrorists.
Billionaire financier George Soros, whose opposition to President Bush's conduct of the war on terror caused him to pour millions of dollars into the effort to defeat the president, made a substantial donation to the defense fund for radical lawyer Lynne Stewart, who last week was found guilty of giving aid to Islamic terrorists.
According to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service, Soros's foundation, the Open Society Institute, or OSI, gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee.
In filings with the IRS, foundation officials wrote that the purpose of the contribution was "to conduct a public education campaign around the broad civil rights implications of Lynne Stewart's indictment."
Answering questions by e-mail, Amy Weil, a spokeswoman for the Open Society Institute, said the foundation contributed to Stewart's fund because "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."
Stewart's legal troubles stemmed from her defense of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, sometimes known as the Blind Sheikh. Rahman led an Egyptian-based terrorist organization known as the Islamic Group.
In 1996, Rahman was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the first attack on the World Trade Center, in 1993, and for his part in failed plots to blow up the United Nations building and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York.
After his conviction, Rahman's followers threatened a series of terrorist attacks against American targets unless he were released. In 1998, the U.S. government reportedly had intelligence that Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were plotting to hijack aircraft in the United States in order to demand freedom for Rahman and other convicted terrorists.
Because of those threats, the government issued a special order that the imprisoned Rahman not be allowed to communicate with his followers, to prevent his inciting them to further violence. He was allowed to communicate only with his wife and with his lawyers, who were not allowed to relay his wishes to his followers.
Stewart promised to abide by those rules. But at her trial, the government produced evidence showing that Stewart and two codefendants on a number of occasions used their privileged access to Rahman to help transmit Rahman's orders to his followers in the Islamic Group.
On February 10, Stewart was convicted on two counts of providing material aid to terrorists and three counts of lying to federal investigators. She is planning to appeal.
Before the verdict, officials of the Open Society Institute characterized Stewart's work as that of a "human rights defender." In an October 2004 speech in Norway, Gara LaMarche, head of OSI programs in the United States, said, "The right to counsel, and its erosion in the United States since September 11, strikes with particular force at the role of human rights defenders. One troubling trend has been the arrest and prosecution of lawyers and other defenders as 'material witnesses' to terrorism. These include Lynne Stewart, attorney for Sheik Abdel Rahman..."
At one point, Stewart's Defense Committee website, lynnestewart.org, bore the notation, "This website is made possible by the generous support of the Open Society Institute."
Amy Weil told National Review that while the Institute initially underwrote Stewart's defense, the foundation's commitment was not open-ended. "More recently, OSI was asked for additional funding and we turned down that request," she said.
Great point!
And I'm not just saying that because you are my cousin. :)
Yeah and as lenient as it was, it sounds like Soros paid for her sentence too.
I sent Cavuto an E mail after that interview and asked him when he started interviewing convicted felons. Up to that point, I thought Cavuto had credibility.
People are so stupid and have no idea how dangerous and evil Soros is and how a vote for the demoncrats is like a vote for evil.
Cavuto, one of the many weird sheeple.
Goldfinger + Blofeld = Soros.
the donation should be taxable income
I have a question....is he an American citizen? If not, how does he get away with this s**t?
What a freakin' creep.
I was very disappointed in him and felt O'Reilly really put it back into his face about the interview, Cavuto tried to cover up, but I think OR hit a nerve... the next night OR got email saying he was being "mean" in his comments about Soros.
Liberals support terrorists and their lawyers
I'm seeing a Champaign Ad here
I forgot to ping Grampa Dave to this!
Propinquity--
And I am of the belief that celebrity turns everything it touches into something bad--it just takes longer with some people. Sort of like what happens to every Repub Senator we send--he gets a sense of Lord Wisdom and Mercy and starts patronizing, condescending, and otherwise acting like an ass.
>>>Amazing how he seems to be financing evil wherever he goes.<<<
George Soros is a secular Jew, as is Schumer, Feinstein and Lautenberg. Seldom will you find anyone in the world more evil than a secular Jew. Everything they do is in opposition to God.
For a good understanding of secular Jews, read Rabbi Daniel Lapin's book, "America's Real War". The following is part of a review:
"Countering the rampant chillul Hashem and widespread misconception that liberal Jews somehow speak for Judaism (chapter forty-four, "The Redefining of Judaism"), Rabbi Lapin demonstrates that a true Jewish outlook is infinitely closer to that upheld by the conservative wing of the Republican Party." - http://robtshepherd.tripod.com/real-war.html
No surprise here at Sorry's hand in this.
If the GOP doesn't make an issue of this in some crafty ads then they're STOOPID!
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