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IBD: The George Soros Threat To Democracy

From the great editors at the Investor Business Daily:

The Soros Threat To Democracy

George Soros is known for funding groups such as http://MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire’s backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency.

How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely “NASA whistleblower” standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute, which gave him “legal and media advice”?

That’s right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros’ flagship “philanthropy,” by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI’s “politicization of science” program.

That may have meant that Hansen had media flacks help him get on the evening news to push his agenda and lawyers pressuring officials to let him spout his supposedly “censored” spiel for weeks in the name of advancing the global warming agenda.

Hansen even succeeded, with public pressure from his nightly news performances, in forcing NASA to change its media policies to his advantage. Had Hansen’s OSI-funding been known, the public might have viewed the whole production differently. The outcome could have been different.

That’s not the only case. Didn’t the mainstream media report that 2006’s vast immigration rallies across the country began as a spontaneous uprising of 2 million angry Mexican-flag waving illegal immigrants demanding U.S. citizenship in Los Angeles, egged on only by a local Spanish-language radio announcer?

Turns out that wasn’t what happened, either. Soros’ OSI had money-muscle there, too, through its $17 million Justice Fund. The fund lists 19 projects in 2006. One was vaguely described involvement in the immigration rallies. Another project funded illegal immigrant activist groups for subsequent court cases.

So what looked like a wildfire grassroots movement really was a manipulation from OSI’s glassy Manhattan offices. The public had no way of knowing until the release of OSI’s 2006 annual report.

Meanwhile, OSI cash backed terrorist-friendly court rulings, too.

Do people know last year’s Supreme Court ruling abolishing special military commissions for terrorists at Guantanamo was a Soros project? OSI gave support to Georgetown lawyers in 2006 to win Hamdan v. Rumsfeld — for the terrorists.

OSI also gave cash to other radicals who pressured the Transportation Security Administration to scrap a program called “Secure Flight,” which matched flight passenger lists with terrorist names. It gave more cash to other left-wing lawyers who persuaded a Texas judge to block cell phone tracking of terrorists.

They trumpeted this as a victory for civil liberties. Feel safer?

It’s all part of the $74 million OSI spent on “U.S. Programs” in 2006 to “shape policy.” Who knows what revelations 2007’s report will bring around events now in the news?

OSI isn’t the only secretive organization that Soros funds. OSI partners with the Tides Foundation, which funnels cash from wealthy donors who may not want it known that their cash goes to fringe groups engaged in “direct action” — also known as eco-terrorism.

On the political front, Soros has a great influence in a secretive organization called “Democracy Alliance” whose idea of democracy seems to be government controlled solely of Democrats…

This article points out some details we had remarked on before, in addition to some new connections never previously noted.

This is part of IBD’s very informative George Soros & MoveOn.org series.

But honestly, how can one man be allowed to wield so much political power? A man we know almost nothing about?

(Except that he helped the Nazis in his youth and is a wanted criminal in France.)

Where are our investigative reporters? Where is our watchdog media?

In Mr. Soros’s pocket?

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 at 11:46 am. You can leave a response.

13 Responses to “IBD: The George Soros Threat To Democracy”

  1. SG
    September 26th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    Rush Limbaugh is reading this as we speak.

  2. wardmama4
    September 26th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    The msm is probably on his payroll - between Soros and Clinton - it is amazing anything other than Paris Hilton, OJ and Bash Bush is ever printed in any ‘news’ paper in America. Ever.

  3. 1sttofight
    September 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    Gee, Reckon the MSM can be bought?

    It has been done before, For example,

    If Joe Kennedy had one area of expertise, it was manipulating the media. Long before spin doctors and political gurus talked of “packaging” presidential candidates, Joe shaped Jack’s image more effectively than any Madison Avenue executive. “We’re going to sell Jack like soap flakes,” Joe said.
    - In fact, Joe routinely paid off publishers as well as public officials to get what he wanted. Thomas Winship, the editor of the Boston Globe, recalled that Joe routinely “gave cases of Haig & Haig Pinch Bottle Scotch to press people - to people at the Globe, to political writers, and to a lot of people in Washington.”
    - Joe sent expensive jewelry to female columnists, a confidant said, and gave cash to others. “He distributed a substantial amount to journalists,” the confidant said. In addition, “Reporters took consulting assignments. Some of these guys were pretty amenable to consulting fees and gifts.” Columnists, especially, were “for sale” - not to mention politicians. For such purposes, Joe always kept large stashes of cash.
    - Joe’s friend and confidant Frank Morrissey recalled that Joe had once called him to Hyannis Port to help him move $1 million in cash from the basement of his home. “A big northeast storm was coming up, and the old man was afraid a lot of the cash would get wet,” Morrissey said.

  4. texaspsue
    September 26th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    If you want to get a broad scope of how Soros is entwined in the media and politics Worldwide, Google “The Soros Foundation”.

    I know a couple of people that work for him in Russia, Rwanda, The Hague, etc. I never could figure out exactly what they did. Something about collecting donations for unspecified projects, it reminded me of a big “pyramid scheme”. I’m just saying….?

  5. texaspsue
    September 27th, 2007 at 11:06 am

    Fox’s, “American Newsroom” had a story on today, about “The Soros Foundation” and their network around the World. It’s about time this is exposed!!!!

  6. SG
    September 27th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    A somewhat related article, from (lo) three years ago:

    American Thinker: The ‘Real Voice’ Is George Soros
    http://www.americanthinker.com.....soros.html

  7. Lipstick on a PIAPS
    September 27th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Is it just me or do ya think this is how Max Weinberg, “Conan O’Brian Show”, will look like when he becomes old and bitter?

  8. texaspsue
    September 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    Wasn’t he charged in France for insider trading for $2 million a couple of years ago? He and his lawyers basically filed an appeal and are ignoring the whole situation. It must be nice to be KING.

  9. SG
    September 28th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    From (the highly biased) Wikipedia:

    George Soros

    Insider trading charges

    In 1988, he was asked to join a takeover attempt of the French bank Société Générale. He declined to participate in the bid, but did later buy a number of shares in the company. French authorities began an investigation in 1989, and in 2002 a French court ruled that it was insider trading as defined under French securities laws and fined him $2 million which was the amount that he made using the insider information.

    Punitive damages were not sought because of the delay in bringing the case to trial. Soros denied any wrongdoing and said news of the takeover was public knowledge.

    His insider trading conviction was upheld by the highest court in France on June 14, 2006. In December, 2006 he appealled to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that the 14 year delay in bringing the case to trial precluded a fair hearing.

    http://tinyurl.com/4q5an

    Of course this means he was tried and convicted. But you’d never know if from the way they put it.

  10. SG
    September 28th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    Lest we forget, from Byron York at National Review:

    Soros Funded Stewart Defense

    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.

    http://tinyurl.com/wztf2

    That’s right. Your tax dollars went to defending this terrorist helper.

  11. 1sttofight
    September 28th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    There is an outstanding arrest warrant for him in France as we speak.

  12. Sharps Rifle
    September 28th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    The sickening thing is that his money and organizations will continue to threaten our sovereignty, liberty and culture for decades after he becomes worm food.

  13. texaspsue
    September 28th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    SG & 1st…thanks for the info. I had heard a blip of the “insider trading/ France” story on the BBC news, a while back and then I never heard another word about it.


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