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Simple. He has upset their cushy self-dealing Big Jefes, like that windbag, Jorge Schwartz.``I am basically there to--to make money. I cannot and donot look at the social consequences of--of what I do.''George Soros, commenting on being blamed for the financialcollapse of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and Russia.``He can move world financial markets simply by voicing anopinion or destabilize a government by buying and selling itscurrency . . . [W]hen he saw cracks in the Asia boom, hebegan selling the currency in Thailand. Traders in Hong Kongfollowed suit, triggering a financial crisis that plungedmuch of Asia into a depression. (``George Soros,'' 60 Minutesinterview transcript, December 20, 1998)``I don't feel guilty. Because I'm engaged in an amoralactivity which is not meant to have anything to do withguilt.'' '' 60 Minutes interviewtranscript, December 20, 1998)Soros Convicted of Insider-Trading, Ordered to Pay $2.8million. ``George Soros's bid to overturn an insider-tradingconviction has been rejected by France's highest appealscourt, ending the billionaire's fight to erase a legal stainon his 40-year investing career. The Court of Cassation, thetribunal of last resort in France, ended its review of aMarch 2005 judgment that Soros broke insider-trading lawswhen he bought Societe Generale SA shares in 1988 with theknowledge that the bank might be a takeover target. Soros hadbeen ordered to pay back 2.2 million euros ($2.8 million) ingains.'' (Gabriele Parussini, ``Soros Insider-TradingConviction Upheld by Paris Appeals Court,'' Bloomberg, June14, 2006)Soros: ``No Sense of Guilt'' for Confiscating Property fromJews in Nazi-occupied Budapest. ``But there was no sense thatI shouldn't be there, because that was--well, actually, in afunny way, it's just like in markets--that if I weren'tthere--of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would. . . be taking it away anyhow . . . whether I was there ornot, I was only a spectator, the property was being takenaway. So the--I had no role in taking away that property. SoI had no sense of guilt.'' (``George Soros,'' 60 Minutesinterview transcript, December 20, 1998)``When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros'father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in theDanube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowingthere were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to splithis family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed agovernment official to take 14-year-old George Soros in andswear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carrieda heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of HungarianJews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Sorosaccompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds,confiscating property from the Jews.(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragginglittle boy in line)KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of whathappened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over theirshoulders walking; crowd by a train)KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew . . .Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.KROFT: (Voiceover) . . . who escaped the Holocaust . . .(Vintage footage of women walking by train)Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.(Vintage footage of people getting on train)KROFT: (Voiceover) . . . by--by posing as a Christian.Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train;train door closing with people in boxcar)KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people getshipped off to the death camps.Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say thatthat's when my character was made.KROFT: In what way?Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One shouldunderstand and--and anticipate events and when--when one isthreatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, itwas a--a very personal experience of evil.KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with thisprotector of yours who swore that you were his adoptedgodson.Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation ofproperty from the Jews.Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.KROFT: I mean, that's--that sounds like an experience thatwould send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many,many years. Was it difficult?Mr. SOROS: Not--not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a childyou don't--you don't see the connection. But it was--itcreated no--no problem at all.KROFT: No feeling of guilt?Mr. SOROS: No.KROFT: For example that, ``I'm Jewish and here I am,watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. Ishould be there.'' None of that?Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c--I could be on the otherside or I could be the one from whom the thing is being takenaway. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there,because that was--well, actually, in a funny way, it's justlike in markets--that if I weren't there--of course, I wasn'tdoing it, but somebody else would--would--would be taking itaway anyhow. And it was the--whether I was there or not, Iwas only a spectator, the property was being taken away. Sothe--I had no role in taking away that property. So I hadno sense of guilt.'' (``George Soros,'' 60 Minutesinterview transcript, December 20, 1998).Soros Said That President Bush's Statements Remind Him ofNazi Slogans. `` `When I hear Bush say, `You're either withus or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans.' It conjuresup memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der FeindHort mit (`The enemy is listening'). `My experiences underNazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me,' he said in a softHungarian accent.' '' (Laura Blumenfeld, ``Soros's DeepPockets vs. Bush,'' The Washington Post, November 11, 2003).Soros Is the Primary Financier of Left-Wing Causes. Taxrecords of Soros' Open Society Institute show contributionsof: $4.41 million to the American Civil Liberties Union andits state affiliates; $500,000 to the Pro-Choice EducationProject to launch a (pro-abortion rights) ``public educationand media strategy;'' $100,000 to Catholics for a FreeChoice, an allegedly Catholic group that advocates forabortion rights; $100,000 to the Death Penalty InformationCenter, an organization that works against capitalpunishment; $100,000 to the Pennsylvania Coalition to SaveLives Now ``to support needle exchange programs,'' $80,000over three years to the Gay Straight Alliance Network, topromote ``a traveling photo documentary exhibit by lesbian,gay, transgender, queer and questioning youth;'' $35,000 tothe Abortion Access Project. (Jeff Johnson, ``George Soros''$30M Welfare Check,'' CNSNews.com, April 26, 2005).The Soros Prostitution Agenda. Open Society Institute(OSI), a foundation funded and controlled by George Soros,sued the United States Agency for International Development(USAID) ``over requirement that recipients of federal AIDSgrants pledge to oppose prostitution. The group would be thesecond charity to challenge the policy, which AIDS activistssay stigmatizes prostitutes and makes it harder to fight thedisease.'' In June 2006, Open Society Institute published astudy entitled ``Sex Workers Health and Rights: Where is theFunding?'' The report highlighted the role of OSI and variousSoros foundations, in financing ``a large number of sexworkers organizations'' and attacked the Bush Administrationpolicy for refusing to fund such groups. OSI received atleast $30 million between 1998 and 2003 from the federalgovernment, mostly from the State Department. (Wall StreetJournal, September 23, 2005; Open Society Institute webpages,http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/sharp/news/Soros Called the War on Drugs a ``Fantasy'' and MoreHarmful Than Drugs Themselves. ``Tilting the balance againstthe drug warriors side is a short piece by Howard Fineman onthe activities of George Soros. The billionaire financier,who calls the drug war `a fantasy' and says it does more harmto America than drugs themselves, has spent big money pushinghis position that we should treat drug abuse as a medicalproblem, not a criminal one.'Soros is Major Financier Behind Drug Legalization Groups.In 1994, Soros pledged $4 million over five years to theLindesmith Center, a pro-marijuana legalization think-tankthat merged with the Drug Policy Foundation to form the DrugPolicy Alliance, which supports legalization of marijuana for``medical'' purposes, repealing mandatory minimum sentencesfor drug offenses, ending imprisonment for drug possession.(Neil Hrab, ``George Soros' Social Agenda for America,''Capital Research Center's Foundation Watch, http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf)Soros Heavily Financed Drug Legalization Efforts ForMarijuana. ``And the award for best supporting role goes tobillionaire George Soros, the Daddy Warbucks of druglegalization. He doesn't reside in either state [Arizona orCalifornia], but he bankrolled both efforts. . . . Most moneyused to buy misleading TV ads for both referenda came fromout of state. In Arizona, as of the most recent reporting date (May 31), of $300,490 contributed tosupport Prop. 200, only $490 came from in state. Theremaining $300,000 came from out of state, $200,000 of itfrom the Drug Policy Foundation--a pet charity of GeorgeSoros'--and the other $100,000 came directly from Soroshimself.'' (Joseph A. Califano Jr., ``Pro-Drug Campaigns'Hidden Agenda,'' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 22, 1996)Soros Helped Finance a Pro-Marijuana Children's Book. ``Dr.Robert Newman, served on the Board of Directors for the DrugPolicy Foundation as early as 1997, and presently serves onthe board of directors with another minority witness, Rev.Edwin Sanders, of the Drug Policy Alliance (the new name ofthe Drug Policy Foundation since its merger with theaforementioned Lindesmith Center). The Drug Policy Alliancedescribes itself as ``the nation's leading organizationworking to end the war on drugs.''Along with its major donor George Soros, it helped produce “It's Just a Plant”, apromarijuana children's book.I will be very interested in learning from the witnesses today what they believe U.S.Government policy should be with respect to financing heroindistribution, safe-injection facilities, and how-to manualslike H Is For Heroin, published by the Harm ReductionCoalition, and children's books on smoking marijuana,produced with the help of the organization run by two of theminority's witnesses today.'' (Mark Souder, openingstatement, ``Harm Reduction or Harm Maintenance: Is ThereSuch a Thing as Safe Drug Abuse?'', hearing before theSubcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and HumanResources, February 16, 2005, http://www.dpna.org/resources/current/02-16-5c.htm; http://www.justaplant.com)Soros and Two Friends give $450,000 to ``take apart[California's] criminal justice system one step at a time.''``International financier George Soros and two other wealthydonors have contributed a total of $450,000 for a Novemberballot measure that would alter California's tough threestrikes sentencing law . . . The donation marks the thirdtime that this trio has backed criminal justice measuresin California. In 1996, the three gave money to passProposition 215, which sought to legalize marijuana formedical uses. In 2000, they supported the successfulProposition 36, which diverts drug offenders from prisonto treatment.'' (Bill Ainsworth, ``$450,000 to help try toweaken law,'' San Diego Union-Tribune, September 14,2004.)Soros Effort To Infiltrate the U.S. Conservative Movement.``The scheduled Friday CPAC event on ``A Conservative DrugPolicy'' was to feature a mini-debate between Ethan Nadelmannof the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Calvina Fay. The``moderator,'' hardly unbiased, was scheduled to be RobKampia of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). The Soros OpenSociety Institute has given the DPA millions of dollars,including $2.5 million in 2004 alone. MPP has been funded bySoros as well as Peter Lewis, chairman of the ProgressiveCorporation, who was arrested in New Zealand several yearsago after customs officers found marijuana in his luggage.Lewis, who gave $340,000 to MPP in 2004, is also a majorfunder of the ACLU.'' (Mark Souder, Congressional Record,insertion in the record of article by Cliff Kincaid, February8, 2006, http://reform.house.gov/CJDPHR/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=39349)Soros Support of Lynne Stewart, Lawyer to Terrorists.``George Soros funds many controversial projects, someextreme projects. One quick example is the $20,000 that wentfrom his Open Society Institute to the Lynne Stewart LegalCommittee. Lynne Stewart was the attorney who represented theblind sheik who was involved in the first bombing of theWorld Trade Centers and was later convicted for aiding andabetting his activities while in prison.'' (Peter Flaherty ofthe National Legal and Policy Center, O'Reilly Factor, May20, 2005, relying on Open Society Institute IRS Form 990filings. Byron York, ``Soros Funded Stewart Defense,''National Review, February 17, 2005.)Soros Attacks ``War on Terror,'' Compares BushAdministration to Nazis. Soros told an audience at theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace, ``We are workingwith a very false frame when we talk about a `war on terror,'and yet it is universally accepted.'' He added, ``PresidentBush is exploiting it even further ahead of these elections .. . I would voice my concerns about the similarities betweenthis administration and the Nazis and communist regimes.''(Monisha Bansal, ``Soros Slams Terror 'War,' Compares WhiteHouse to Nazis,'' CNSNews.com, September 15, 2006.)Soros To Encourage a U.S./Europe Split. ``Soros, theHungarian-American financier who has historically investedhis billions in encouraging democracy in eastern blockcountries, is turning his attention to Western Europe becausehe thinks the EU is failing. Soros is to invest hundreds ofmillions of dollars in foundations, the first of which willbe either in London or Paris.'' Soros: ``The practicalmessage for Europeans is that the world really needs a strongEuropean Union with a mission which is different to America'spriorities.'' (Rupert Stein, ``Soros lays foundations torestore EU purpose,'' The Scotsman, July 15, 2006.)____________________