Article about Soros at CS Monitor....absolutely hits Bush hard.

[madfloridian]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0825/p11s01-ussc.html
Mr Soros Goes to Washington

SNIP..."One of the first jobs he found when he arrived in London from Budapest in 1947, practically penniless and speaking little English, was as a traveling salesman. The young George Soros would try to sell little knickknacks to tobacconists - unsuccessfully, as he now recalls. Often, he couldn't even find parking. His girlfriend left him because he seemed to have no future. He missed his parents. It rained incessantly."

SNIP..."Soros supported Howard Dean in the early days, and now endorses John Kerry - albeit tepidly: "I am advocating a certain role for the US in the world, not necessarily the one Senator Kerry takes," he says.

But the majority of his millions of dollars in contributions has gone toward supporting various left-leaning 527 groups, such as America Coming Together (ACT) or MoveOn.org, which are getting out the vote, putting out advertising, and framing the alternative message to Bush's."

SNIP...."His crusade against what he considers the greatest impediment to an "open society" in his adopted home began, he recalls, right after Sept. 11, when the president started speaking in terms of "us" and "them" and "with us" or "against us." "These are the things I had heard before in Nazi Germany and Communist Hungary," he says. "I became alarmed at the suppression of critical debate."

Just after the attacks, he began writing his latest book, "The Bubble of American Supremacy," published in December 2003, in which he states, "This is not the America I chose as my home," and argues that the US has fallen into the hands "of a group of extremists whose strong sense of mission is matched only by their false sense of certitude."

[Zorra]

1. "These are the things I had heard before in Nazi Germany and Communist

Hungary".

George Soros gets it.

He's seen it before.

[madfloridian]

2. There is a book I would like to have: "They Thought They were Free"

From "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. (A tale of Germany in
1933)

"" You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental
things. One had no time."

"Those," I said, "are the words of my friend the baker. "One had no time to
think. There was so much going on." "Your friend the baker was right," said
my colleague. "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into
being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for
people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your "little
men", your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned
men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things
and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful,
fundamental things to think about - we were decent people - and kept us so
busy with continuous changes and "crises" and so fascinated, yes,
fascinated, by the machinations of the "national enemies", without and
within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were
growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we
were grateful. Who wants to think?"" End quote.

Summary at a website:
In They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, Milton Mayer wrote about how the German people kept believing they were still free while the Nazis were tightening their control and extending their power over every facet of life. At first people refused to see the obvious, because the infringements on their freedom were coming in small steps. Each of those small steps, on its own, seemed to be no big deal, nothing to rebel against. But by the time you could no longer ignore the big picture, it was too late. “Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing) . . . You remember everything now, and your heart breaks.
Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.” Remember, all the people had to do for all that to happen was--nothing.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/hambidge/hambidge2.html

[Hekate]

3. Relentlessness -- coming at us from all sides --

That's how I've felt about the Bush regime for most of the last four years. I can't keep up, and I don't know how anyone can, because it's not just one or two issues it's about everything I believe in being eroded All At Once, with no respite.

Molly Ivins ended one of her recent articles: "This is how it begins."

God bless Soros, a billionaire with a conscience and the memory of hard times.

Hekate

[madfloridian]

4. Relentless and happening faster now.

As they fear they might lose, they are pushing things through almost secretly.