Reply #9: Some thoughts and ideas.

[NightTrain]

> According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of
> WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4
> million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what
> does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money? They support
> numerous anti-war groups,

What, exactly, is wrong with supporting anti-war groups?

> including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has
> offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.

Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein because Clark believes that every defendant, no matter how heinous, has the right to be represented by an attorney in a criminal trial held in the United States. It's in our Bill of Rights. Perhaps you've heard of that particular document?

> They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the
> Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros.

Kindly provide evidence to support your claim that Soros is a hatemonger. Does the accusation have anything to do with his opposition to the repeal of the estate tax?

> The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim
> immigration from "terrorist" states.

Oh, I get it! Soros is a hatemonger because he doesn't believe that a person should be discriminated against simply because of his religious faith. And when the religion in question is Islam, that automatically makes George Soros anti-semitic and therefore a hatemonger.

> They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose
> leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group,
> Hamas.

Evidence, please?

> They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist
> front during the Cold War era.

That's an awfully simplistic depiction of the NLG! It was, in fact, organized during the Red Scare to defend American citizens victimized by Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, because the American Bar Association refused to defend those people.


> One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for
> helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with
> terror cells in Egypt.

The "terror cells" are Rahman's friends and relatives in his homeland. :eyes:

> He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center
> bombing.

And he's in a U.S. prison, which means that he has rights under both U.S. law and the Constitution. Lynne Stewart has worked to secure those rights for Rahman because good old Uncle Sam had taken them away!

> They support Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights
> Action League, and the Abortion Action Project.

So? Is it against the law to be pro-choice? Granted, it may very well become illegal if Bush/Cheney get four more years, but it ain't that way yet, pal!

> They support the most violent of all homosexual action groups, ACT
> -UP.

Evidence of ACT-UP's violence, please?

Though I don't claim to be an expert on this group, I do know that
back in the early '90s, ACT-UP New Haven (Connecticut) went into
that city's ghettos and slums to distribute fresh needles to drug
addicts. They considered it an act of compassion, not violence.

> They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose > primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, > and Texas to Mexico.

Once again: where is the proof to back up your assertion? I personally am unfamiliar with the Barrio Warriors, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, particularly if they've earned the wrath of the right-wing-fuckwad contingent.



Anyway, I hope that helps you out. Let the asshole who sent you that piece of shit have it and have it good!