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.
As pointed out in the source, this is as strong a connection between the Democratic Party and Stewart as anything claimed about the Swiftboat Veterans. But on the other hand, is the Democratic Party really an independent organization or just a front for people with the same political agenda as Soros?
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I didn’t read this Slate article beyond the subhead, “Adult Impersonators at the Model UN, and the Perils of ‘Exceeding Your Brief’,” but it led me to wonder… If a member of the Model UN molested little kids, just like they do in the real UN, what would be the criminal charge that they wouldn’t imagine themselves subject to? And isn’t “exceeding one’s briefs” a particularly unfortunate turn of phrase?
I can’t wait for the next step, a fight between conservatives and liberals over whether descriptions of the actual activities of UN controlled forces are appropriate for children. “But Mom, why can’t I talk about that? It’s what real UN peace keepers do!”
WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail.
What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.
“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”
Imagine that - violence begets violence! I’m waiting for the first complaints about how the evil oil traders created this cycle of violence.