A little info on George Soros...

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Since Mr. Soros is throwing lot of loot around trying to affect our elections, I figured I'd do a little research on Mr. Soros. One look at this fellow and it's self-evident the type of society he wants us to become.

Please pass this thread to people who are undecided because this is not the type of person we want influencing our elections. Let's help spend some of George Soros' money. ;D

Here's a link to a page dedicated to exposing George Soros:

www.citizensunited.org/counter-soros.html

A little info:

www.americandaily.com/article/4840

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The tide has turned. George Soros said he would spend all his Billions to defeat Bush and put his boy Kerry in the White House. And for a while their vicious smear ads were working. The President's ratings were down because many Americans simply believe anything they hear over and over, without stopping to wonder who was spending the tens of millions of dollars to run the ads.

Now a small group of courageous veterans has emerged to tell America the truth about Kerry. They were courageous in Viet Nam, and they are courageous today because they know that 85% of reporters are Kerry supporters. They knew they would be treated unfairly in the media because they had watched those same reporters lavish praise on Michael Moore's ridiculous Fahrenheit 9-11 pack of lies.

Because of their courage, millions of Americans are thinking twice about voting for the vain hypocrite John Kerry. They are starting to understand that he cannot claim to be a Viet Nam War Hero after admitting to Congress that he committed war crimes that were, in his own words, "…violations of the Geneva Conventions." They are starting to wonder why he is running for president instead of being prosecuted for the war crimes he has admitted to. And they are rightly questioning whether a man who betrayed his own comrades at arms can ever be trusted as Commander-in-Chief of the mightiest military in the world.

...another nugget of info:

www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=103

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As the anniversary of our country's founding approaches, it is important to understand not only what our country stands for but what is required to protect it. Recently, financier George Soros gave us his widely publicized view. His thesis is that the greatest danger to our freedom is the conviction that we can possess rational certainty. People who are certain of their beliefs, he thinks, are bound to force others to accept their views and thus become dictators.


The antidote to certainty and thereby to dictatorship, Soros claims, is the acknowledgment of man's fallibility, which he translates into skepticism, the doctrine that no one can be certain of anything. If only we would recognize the myth of certainty, and embrace an "open society" on faith -- he argues -- we would be free and prosperous.

Soros is not just wrong about the issue of certainty and dictatorship; his claim is the opposite of the truth. By renouncing reason and certainty, Soros is not barring the door to dictators but putting out a welcome mat for them. When reason is silent, the door is opened to dictators preaching its only alternative: irrational dogma -- and there is only one way to enforce dogma: through physical coercion. It is no accident that dictators need censorship and a secret police force to sustain their power; since they cannot appeal to reason, they must force people to obey through terror. Dictators' use of loaded guns is their open confession that their "syllogisms" are empty.

The rise of dictators is made possible by the poison of skepticism being swallowed by the dictators' "pro-freedom" opponents; a poison that Soros claims is the antidote. The destruction of freedom is not caused ultimately by young Hitlers eager for power, but by those "defenders" of freedom who lack the knowledge and confidence to defend it without compromise. In a conflict between a would-be dictator -- who says "I am destined to rule; the truth has been revealed to me, obey me" -- and the head of the opposing, "pro-freedom" party -- who says "I am not sure you're right, but I'm not sure I am right either" -- who is going to win? Cringing advocates of uncertainty are no match for thugs who are not uncertain -- of their desire to rule.

The key prerequisite to defending freedom is not doubt due to fallibility but confidence due to certainty -- certainty in the power of reason, not of mystical faith. Consider Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers of the United States; they were not quaking skeptics, but men of unwavering intellectual and moral conviction. They did not sign the "Hypothesis" of Independence. They were certain that man gained knowledge through reason and that all men possessed inalienable individual rights. And they risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor -- against seemingly impossible odds -- in the name of those convictions. The result was the freest, strongest, and most prosperous country in history.....

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www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=103

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It is true that man is fallible, in the sense that he can make errors. But it does not follow from this that man is doomed to eternal doubt. By the use of reason and logic, he has the power to validate his knowledge and to determine what he can be certain of and what he cannot. For example, since men possess free will, one cannot predict future human choices with certainty, such as what products General Motors will make in the year 2010. But one can be certain that if consumers are rational, and if GM makes poor quality cars at above-market prices, GM will lose money. Similarly, one cannot be certain of what political choices the U.S. will make in the next century, but one can be certain that if we do not choose capitalism, the country will slide into poverty and dictatorship.

The greatest danger to American freedom today is: George Soros or, more precisely, the doctrine he advocates. America's greatest enemies are its intellectuals who agree with Soros that we can know nothing, that all claims to knowledge are biases, that reason is rationalization, that rights are arbitrary, and that morality is just subjective whim. In the absence of firm principles to guide its future, our country will, in default, be ruled by gang warfare. The end of this road is not an "open society" but tyranny. To protect our freedom we need a society of men who stand tall and proud with full certainty in the principles of reason and rights -- men who say to potential dictators: We know you are wrong, so hands off.

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www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197284/posts

If MoveOn — and the Kerry camp — are suggesting that so-called "527" political groups should be judged by who gives them their money, then MoveOn has a lot for which to answer.

The group has taken millions from George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire investor who has proclaimed it his personal mission to save the world from four more years of George Bush.

This is the same Soros who declared that the 9/11 terror attacks would "not have changed the course of history for the worse if President Bush had not responded the way he did" — militarily.

MoveOn's sugar daddy, who says he wants to "puncture . . . the bubble of American supremacy," is none too subtle on his own political comparison.

"When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans," he has said — by which he means Adolf Hitler, not Gerhard Schroeder.

Soros should be entitled to spend his money any way he sees fit — not withstanding his paranoid delusions. The American people are smart enough to figure out the truth.

Certainly, they've begun to sort out John Kerry's war stories; we doubt very much that the Democrat's standing among veterans — indeed, with the electorate in general — is going to be helped by the latest Swift vet ad.

Truth will out, irrespective of federal campaign-finance "reform" — though Kerry's impatience with the Swifties would be much more credible if he denounced MoveOn as well.

Fat chance.

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OK, gang... this one is a must read...no skimming!

Get this, Mr. Soros says in his book parts of the Declaration of Independence probably should be revamped!

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www.intellectualconservative.com/article3072.html

Soros further reveals the anti-theistic nature of his Open Society in another alarming paragraph:

The Declaration of Independence may be taken as a pretty good approximation of the principles of an open society, but instead of claiming that those principles are self-evident, we ought to say that they are consistent with our fallibility. Could the recognition of our imperfect understanding serve to establish the open society as a desirable form of social organization? I believe it could, although there are formidable difficulties in the way. We must promote a belief in our own fallibility to the status that we normally confer on a belief in ultimate truth. But if ultimate truth is not attainable, how can we accept our fallibility as ultimate truth?

...this man would revamp our constitution. Hands off, jack***!!!

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If the gang has more interesting info on Mr. Soros, I'll take it.

If you participate in other forums...please pass this information along. I've done the hard part, just cut and paste.

Spend Mr. Soros' money!

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Oh, yeah, one more....

www.weaselteeth.com/

Thanks to Country Store, we now know that George Soros has his own blog. They've also linked to the text of a full-page ad Soros took out in the Jayson Blair Times, whining about the results of Gallup Polls.

Basically, Soros and MoveOn.org (where this ad is archived) have a problem with Gallup reporting a 14-point lead by Mr. Bush over the Poodle, while Gallup is also in charge of rounding up the audience for the Bush-Kerry "town meeting" on October 8. Poor George. All that money and people just don't want to grab some and stay bought.

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*Public education bump* ;D

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As a reminder to our moderate members, Mr. Soros is a big contributor to liberal 527's bent on changing our gov't.

It's time to stand up and fight off these foreign influences.