Posted on 07/16/2004 5:55:38 PM PDT by Richard Poe
Edited on 07/20/2004 7:45:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
IF YOU ENJOYED the election crisis of 2000, youre going to love what Democrat leaders are cooking up for November.
"George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party," charges Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson. (2) Some might dismiss Miss Iverson's comment as hyberbole. However, Soros' massive soft-money contributions have indisputably given him power over Democrat strategy. The billionaire currency trader now busies himself instructing Democrats in a new and dangerous style of political brinkmanship -- new to Americans, at least. Soros' relish for Byzantine intrigue and reckless power grabs may strike some Americans as novel. However, it follows a long -- if not exactly honored -- tradition endemic to the blood-drenched soil of Central Europe whence Mr. Soros springs.
Consider, for example, a recent proposal by Congressional Democrats to bring in UN monitors to police our upcoming election. "We are deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy," wrote Democrat Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas in a July 1 letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Indiana Republican Steve Buyer barely managed to short-circuit Johnson's proposal last Thursday by cutting off her cash flow. Buyer added an amendment to a pending foreign aid bill, blocking any U.S. official from using the designated funds for UN election monitors. Buyer's move infuriated Rep. Corinne Brown (D-Fla.). She charged that Republicans "stole the election" in 2000, telling Buyer, "I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d'etat. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again." (3) When the Buyer Amendment came up for a vote, House Democrats voted overwhelmingly -- by a ratio of 5 to 1 -- to keep the door open for UN election monitors. An astonishing 161 representatives -- all Democrats -- voted against Buyer's proposal. The measure passed by a slim 243-161. Only 33 Democrats broke with their party to support Buyer's amendment. (4) Never before have U.S. lawmakers sought so openly, and in such great numbers, to allow foreign intervention in a U.S. election. Equally exotic, from an American standpoint, are the antics of a group called "National People's Action" (NPA) -- whom syndicated pundit Michelle Malkin describes as a taxpayer-funded "left-wing goon squad." NPA provides muscle for Democrat dirty work. In exchange, it receives public funding from a host of government agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Of this multiracial, Chicago-based "neighborhood advocacy" network, Malkin writes: "The group engages in what it calls `direct action' -- publicizing the home addresses of business and government leaders it wants to shake down and then busing in protesters and schoolchildren (using public school buses) to invade the private property of their victims and intimidate their families." (5) In March, about 800 NPA thugs surrounded the Washington home of Bush strategist Karl Rove, demanding rights for illegal aliens. They knocked on Rove's door, pounded on his windows and chanted angrily in Spanish and English, driving Rove's children to tears. The mob dispersed only after Rove agreed to parley with its leaders. (6) In the age of Soros, mainstream Democrats have embraced NPA's thuggish tactics. The group's sudden emergence as a force in U.S. politics calls to mind the elevation of similar groups overseas, where Soros often bankrolls street radicals with a zest for physical confrontation. Readers should note that NPA receives funding from the Tides Foundation -- an institution to which Soros contributes generously (more than $13 million between 1997 and 2003). (7)
The Human Rights Racket Born in Hungary in 1930, Soros came of age under Nazi and Soviet occupation. He built his fortune wheeling and dealing in lawless nations, where money buys pliant rulers and topples disobedient ones with equal facility. In his writings and interviews, Soros boasts openly of subverting governments in Croatia, Slovakia, Yugoslavia and the Republic of Georgia. (8) Now, like a big-game hunter facing retirement, the 73-year-old Soros seeks the ultimate trophy to crown his mantel the head of George W. Bush on a pike. "America under Bush is a danger to the world," Soros told the Washington Post in a November 11, 2003 interview. Ousting Bush, said Soros, "is the central focus of my life... a matter of life and death." (9) Soros had earlier told the Post, "I believe deeply in the values of an open society. For the past 15 years I have focused my energies on fighting for these values abroad. Now I am doing it in the United States." (10) Experienced Soros watchers have learned to greet such sermons with a cynical yawn. As British journalist Neil Clark notes in the leftwing journal New Statesman: "[S]oros deems a society `open' not if it respects human rights and basic freedoms, but if it is `open' for him and his associates to make money. And, indeed, Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise `open.' In Kosovo, for example, he has invested $50m in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and other minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5bn. He thus copied a pattern he has deployed to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe: of advocating `shock therapy' and `economic reform,' then swooping in with his associates to buy valuable state assets at knockdown prices." (11) In my article, "George Soros' Coup" in the May 2004 issue of NewsMax Magazine, I noted that Soros has good reason, at this time, to believe that a Democrat regime might prove more "open" to his way of doing business than would George W. Bush. But that is another issue. Whatever Soros really means by the term "open society," Americans would be well-advised to familiarize themselves with the dangerous lengths to which he has often gone to establish it.
Velvet Revolution Everyone knows that Soros has poured millions into Democrat coffers this election season. Yet there is more to Soros' strategy than mere largesse. Soros helped bankroll the 1989 coup d'etat that catapulted dissident playwright Vaclav Havel to the presidency of the Czech Republic. The relatively bloodless uprising acquired the nickname "Velvet Revolution." To this day, people throughout the former Soviet bloc use the term "velvet revolution" to denote Soros-sponsored coups. (12) Defenders of Soros paint his velvet putsches as benevolent, arguing that Soros has freed millions from tin-pot despots such as Slobodan Milosevic. Maybe so. But President Bush is no Milosevic, and the USA no Yugoslavia. Mr. Soros brand of help is neither welcome nor appropriate here. How exactly does one perpetrate a velvet revolution anyway? The seven-step strategy Soros used against Milosevic provides an instructive blueprint.
The deposed president was arrested and packed off to Holland for trial. Many readers will be surprised to learn that, after three years of deliberations, the International Criminal Court in The Hague has yet to produce conclusive evidence that Milosevic committed war crimes. (26) Neil Clark notes that the case against Milosevic relies largely on dubious allegations ginned up by the Soros-funded Human Rights Watch. (27) Scandalously, the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia (ICTY) is itself awash in Soros money. Writing in the leftwing journal The New Statesman, Clark reports that the Tribunal which complained in 1994 that it lacked sufficient funds to prosecute Balkan war crimes now thrives on contributions from George Soros, Time-Warner and Disney, among others. (28) Thats right. Time-Warner and Disney. Whod have thought it?
October Surprise In view of the catastrophes Mr. Soros has inflicted on so many foreign lands, his sudden rise to prominence in U.S. politics deserves closer inspection. Bellicose charges of vote-rigging and calls for UN intervention such as we have heard lately from high-ranking Democrats fall strangely on American ears. Yet, for George Soros, such overheated rhetoric constitutes business as usual. The Democrat strategy taking shape in America this year strongly resembles a "velvet revolution" in the making. Every piece of the puzzle has fallen into place. Only the exact time and nature of the final provocation -- the signal for action -- remains unknown. Curiously, Hillary Clinton told the New York Posts Cindy Adams on March 30 that an October Surprise would likely decide the 2004 election. "It will be outside forces something unforeseen that suddenly happens that tilts the election one way or the other," she predicted, with an odd note of certainty. (29) Was Hillary just guessing? Or does she know something we dont? In the remaining installments of this three-part series, we will examine further evidence that Velvet Revolution may be brewing among the Party of the Left.
============================================= 1. Amy Westfeldt, "Billionaire Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is - Toward Ousting Bush," Associated Press, New York, 10 June 2004 ============================================= Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and cyberjournalist. He is a contributing editor for NewsMax Magazine and NewsMax.com, and runs his own blog at RichardPoe.com. Poe's new book is Hillary's Secret War. His previous book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control, is now available in paperback.
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Hungary is not now and never was a part of the Balkans.Since Soros is from Hungary,one can not call the Balkans "his homeland". Small quibble,but an otherwise interesting article.
Thanks for the ping. I have but two words for Soros:MENYA PACULBA!
He appears to be getting a performing monkey show. In all seriousness, I'm getting the same drift that you are. These tired pathetic Goering like queens like Kerry must be receiving handsome remuneration to interrupt their champagne and escargot for grubby American politics. Kerry's voting record is the true measure of qwhat he thinks of his job.
During the 2000 election we called them FIFTH COLUMNISTS,so a return to that term might also be well worth doing.
Then,there are the gullible,the UNAPPEASEABLES,the purists,and the fringers,who flit from FR to LP to FU and who knows what other sites.Useful idiots all.
The rest of us must not,MUST NOT,takes this lying down.We must fight;get out into the real world and do whatever we are able to help re-elect President Bush.
:-)
How about Fifth Columnist Trolls?
'(Soros)having bought control of the Democratic Party,'
Michael.SF responds:
This is the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that has caused me to stop using Newsmax as a credible source. A more realistic phrase would have been:"Soros has used his vast wealth to gain a significant role of leadership within certain Democratic circles, Moveon.org, being one example."
Dear Michael.SF:
I can well understand why you might consider the second statement less "inflammatory" than the first. However, I can assure you that the first is the more accurate of the two.
"Inflammatory" is not always synonymous with "wrong," nor is "understated" always synonymous with "correct."
FReegards...
Soros is getting divorced, fwiw.
I look forward to Poe's 'Parts two and three threads' to see how he continues his connection to the election.
George Soros and America's
Coming Election Crisis
(A Three-Part Series)
The Democrats' Digital Brownshirts ( Part 2)
WILL THE REAL digital brownshirts
please stand up? More...
Per Papa Soros, George's job was telling fellow Jews where and when they were required to report for deportation.
There were other stories on the web over the years that he also helped the Nazis locate the fortunes of local Jews. Unfortunately, an awful lot of such info has disappeared and I don't remember what the sources were in order to evaluate their credibility.
I've often wondered where he got the seed money for his great fortune which has never invented, produced, or created anything. The fortune was made by manipulating markets which you can't do without a sizeable stake. I'd like to know where that stake came from...
That's good too! :-)
I told this man only does this for himself. Why hasn't he been charged with treason? Others more notorious than he have been taken down.
Thank you!
I do find it so amusing that the Democrats agitated for campaign finance reform, get it, and then whore themselves out to the world richest people.
Thank you for your response to my comments.
In my opinion, the biggest threat facing the direction of this country, for the future, is represented by the philosophy of the Clinton's and those who agree with them. The danger, in my mind, is that the true beliefs of the Clinton's is shielded from all but a very few. Bill, for example, governed as a 'moderate' out of survival, not out of desire. Hillary embodies this same deceit.
George Soros, on the other hand, is more honest regarding his true feelings and the direction in which he wants the country to go. I am sure we would both agree that any politician who publicly espoused the philosophy of George Soros would be unelectable to national office and only in a select few states could that philosopy rise to the level of the Senate.
Although George Soro's, simply because of his vast wealth, is able to yield power, I do not believe that he is more powerful then the Clinton's. The Clinton's will distance themselves from him publicly, while seeking and appreciating his money privately. But no decision is made by the DNC w/o the Clinton's approval, even if it is just a tacit approval.
Hungary is not now and never was a part of the Balkans. Since Soros is from Hungary, one cannot call the Balkans "his homeland."
Whoops! You're right, of course. I will correct the error. Many thanks for bringing it to my attention.
It was a glaring flaw,in an otherwise well written and researched piece.I don't mean to be petty,but it needed to be said by someone "friendly" to you. :-)
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