Posted on 10/31/2006 7:02:48 AM PST by 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.
I'm sure you are right. He is an evil man.
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Strange, that makes his father sound like a decent guy, so what happened with junior? Or is the bio a fake?
You forgot: JEWISH Nazi sympathizer, no remorse, no guilt.
Both ultimately take the POV that Jews are to blame for anti-semitism because Jews are so - Jewish! Soros is on the record as saying that Israel's "aggressive" policies are to blame for anti-semitism. Mel Gibson thinks he "probably" went on his drunken anti-semitic tirade because Jews dared question his film on Jesus. Da' Jews made 'em do it! The most shocking of Soros' statements is "someone was going to exploit the Jews - it might as well have been me." What a credo, one he still lives by.
On the other side of the spectrum is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ashamed of father's Nazi affiliation, he has expressed outrage, contrition, and in deed also reached out the Jewish community via his relationship with the Wiesenthal Center. It takes a very big man to walk that path, and Arnold walks the walk.
That it wasn’t an act necessitated by the threat to his survival, simply a choice. Were it the former he’d acknowledge the evil nature of those he acted in concert with, as does the Pope.
Soros reminds me of Mel Gibson. A stubborn refusal to accept his deepest moral failings, and therefore an unwillingness to change them.
Soros is richer. Mel is a Hollywood “outsider”. They likely agree on many things.
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