The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz

various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

[dead]

“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

[madison10]

This is really BIG, this needs to be sent to all media outlets

Don't bother...the major media outlets are probably on the Heinz-Kerry dole, too. Certainly they are on the LIBERAL dole. Cynical, aren't I? The media disgusts me.

[finnman69]

bump

[wewillnotfail]

bump for later

[cyn]

Hi, Mia -- THANKS for the ping. I visited their website yesterday from another thread. It's FULL of anti-Bush ad complaints, but nothing on the pro-Kerry ads that have apparently been sent to the firefighters union.

Why are the families allowing themselves to be used in this fashion? What percentage of them have fallen for this line of thought, and are the rest totally incensed?

[jla]

^

[P.O.E.]

The Dems have been agitating for "group rights" for decades, which makes it possible for them to find a few people in that group to "speak for" the group. Best example is Jesse Jackson supposedly speaking for blacks (self-appointedly, I might add).

[jmstein7]

Fight back against this outrageous media bias!  Click HERE!!!

[HitmanLV]

People are just way too easily 'offended' these days. This transparent, mock offense is a problem.

[Gothmog]

Great work, thanks

[pgkdan]

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

Insensitive? I don't think so. Not only is this so-called outrage overblown, it's also manufactured, insincere and ruthlessly cynical. Had the complaints started a week or two from now they may have been a bit more believable. But the democraps couldn't wait that long...they thought they had a real winner here. So the spokespeople who had been lined up weeks ago, just waiting for the first hint of 9-11 to be mentioned, sprung like a coiled snake. The only problem is that they sprung before the ads that distressed them so had even run. The ads were due to start airing on Thursday and perky Katey Couric had her first "victim" on that morning, denouncing Bush right and left. The staging of this very disreputable affair is obvious even to the willfully blind.

[Doctor Raoul]

Great Post.

Kerry paying 911 survivors to complain is outragous.

[stanz]

I like your "57 varieties of hypocrisy." It will make great signs for future rallies.

[stanz]

I like your "57 varieties of hypocrisy." It will make great signs for future rallies.

[stanz]

Good post and great screen name.

[F16Fighter]

BUMP!

[FBD]

good one. I suspected these folks were democrat operatives.

Yesterday, Rush played the clips of two separate 9/11 victims spouses. Their comments sounded exactly...alike, and scripted.

ping to jmstein7: more Kerry stuff for your files!

[GEC]

Hey dead,

Where's the documentation for The Tides being connected to MoveOn.org? I've never been able to find it.

Also, if you know where the federal agencies and projects that got passed through to The Tides can be found, I would really appreciate it.

These people are Commie scum and need to be exposed.

[CyberAnt]

"Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001"

Do you have a list of the 8 different agencies. I have a campaign in mind.

[AuntB]

Thanks for the ping, Pod!! The nut doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?