Chilling (Soros’ behavior during the Holocaust)

The American Thinker ^ | 10-31-06 | Thomas Lifton

[veronica]

Chilling

That’s the only word for the glimpse into the mind of George Soros provided by Steve Croft of 60 Minutes in an interview broadcast last night. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light does an excellent job of highlighting and commenting on a partial transcript of the interview, concerning Soros’ behavior during the Holocaust in Hungary, when he was a 14 year old Jewish boy posing as a Christian.

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that’s—that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Not-not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t you don’t see the connection. But it was it created no-no problem at all.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.’ None of that?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c--I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was--well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets--that if I weren't there--of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would--would--would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the--whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the--I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt..

Of course most of us here are already aware of Mr. Soros’ highly questionable actions during the Nazi occupation. (Though the public at large undoubtedly has a different perspective, if they know anything about his earlier days at all.)

But the statements he made in this interview to my mind are quite chilling. He forgives himself everything. He says that if he hadn’t done it somebody else would have.

All of which would seem to indicate that Mr. Soros has no conscience. A lack of conscience is said to be a common symptom of sociopaths.

[juliej]

The man even looks evil.

[juliej]

YES - WHICH IS WHY WE MUST STOP THEM!

[JennysCool]

Ian Fleming could not have created a more sinister arch-villain than Soros.

"He's quite mad, you know."

[Rurudyne]

George Soros isn't as casual about it all as he may seem: elsewhere I read that he describes himself as a "critical thinker" almost in the same sentence that he disparages the human capacity for reason.

Without reason all that is left of "critical thinking" is being critical, a knee-jerk skeptic who well fits the mold for what C.S.Lewis called a "trousered ape."

I would suggest that Soros is deeply, profoundly disillusioned––possibly to the point of entertaining insanity. That he easily absolves himself and others who do as he did (or worse) even while he holds ordinary, reasonably moral people in contempt is a fair evidence that he is a sociopath of this sort.

So he may say he has no guilt ... but it may be more accurate to say he is beyond guilt and that his own presumed goodness is (or should be) self evident––at least in his own little world.

Which fits him in well with a whole generation of Europeans and Americans plagued with Persons who presume their "goodness" (often defined as a function of "tolerance") because they KNOW that all the normal people are really the evil ones.

[Tuba Guy]

The teen-aged Soros turned in Jews to the nazis for a bounty.

I learned of this ten years ago and it has never been denied.

[GOPJ]

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was--well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets--that if I weren't there--of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would--would--would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the--whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away.

Sounds like he "was just following orders" maybe he could turn on the ovens in the camps too... Yep, sociopath. All the excuses and no moral doubts...

[Lee'sGhost]

"Hmm... I kind of wonder if the Christopher Plummer character in Spike Lee's Inside Man was maybe based a little bit on Soros?"

I wouldn't know. I never watch movies made by racists.

[Lee'sGhost]

This guy was alive during the holocaust?

Isn't his time about up?

[Esther Ruth]

Not a sociopath, just a plain ol arrogant nazi.

[dennisw]

George Soros is the biggest shame of the Jewish people. He generates tons of anti-Semitism. Despicable!

[DainBramage]

Spell his name backwards and it spells soroS.

[griswold3]

Nazi sympathizers, no remorse no guilt.

[torchthemummy]

The fact that not only did he commit such acts and has no reservations about his actions is chilling enough. To actually loudly and clearly admits this in an interview, particuarly just before an election, leaves no doubt that this guy has no soul.

Richard Mellon Scaife was always derided for supporting a myriad of conservative causes but there is nothing in his resume that could draw such a charge as can be made against Soros. And yet the left will gladly look the other way as long as Soros plays Sugar Daddy.

Try telling a liberal that Soros was not only one of the original investors in the Carlyle Group (I may be wrong but I believe he still is) or that he purposely crashed the Malaysian economy and profited in the billions while millions suffered and expect hemming an hawwing or cries of "Liar!" or a change in subject.

Calling the MSM. Can only leave a voice message.

[TomSmedley]

A similar case comes to mind -- child molesting pervert who made the movie Chinatown, the ultimate hymn to nihilism --- ROMAN POLANSKI (i knew the name would come to mind sooner or later!) was a survivor of Auschwitz, who took away from the experience a conviction that life is ultimately meaningless. (BTW -- assimilating Jews normally change their names. George's dad was an Esperantist, and the family name he adopted is the future tense of the Esperanto verb "to soar.")

[Sans-Culotte]

I wouldn't know. I never watch movies made by racists.

I normally do not either. Can't remember the last time I saw "Spike Lee Joint". It was recommended to me as "a movie you cannot tell was directed by Spike Lee". I rented it, and agree with that description. It was an effective thiller, though of the "one shot" variety. Once you see how the twist ending works out, it has little replay value.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Get real. There are no restrictions which would affect anyone but idiots.

Completely irrelevant to this issue in any case.

[montag813]

And it was the--whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the--I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt..

This thing is a monster.

[shrinkermd]

Perhaps. But he may be a "self-loving" creep who sees nothing in the world except himself and his desires.

If the world is all about you, joining in on the persecution of the Jews even though you are Jewish makes sense. He has no real group or class conscience. Only what is best for him.

The rest of his efforts are just competitive efforts to prove his essential emptiness wrong. A strong competitor he also competes for moral superiority.

If he wasn't rich or controlling we could find out what he really is from either of his two x wives.

[Texas Chilli]

Communism serves Soros perfectly. There is not shame in erraticating Christians and Jews as enemies of the State he wishes to create. He uses the market as a financial means to the end -Global communism. Since he is a communist, he is on the right side of history no matter what he does.