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With Matt Drudgeâs recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam âbrothers,â the senatorâs presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed â financially â with the radical Left. Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a âcharityâ established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?
The Anti-War Movement
Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to fund the antiwar movement. These projects fueled such hysterical protest organizations as MoveOn.org... and Indymedia received $376,000 from the Tides Foundation. The Institute for Global Communications which during the 1990s was the leading provider of web technology to the radical Left, links to ârecommended sitesâ such as the War Resisters League (a group whose purpose is enabling peaceniks to refuse to pay taxes) and the leftist American Friends Service Committee. Most disturbing is the link to Ramsey Clarkâs International Action Center, which has supported Slobodan Milosevic and North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il. The IAC is the force behind International ANSWER, which sponsored the major antiwar (and anti-Bush) rallies before the invasion of Iraq. When ANSWER was outed as a Communist organization, United for Peace and Justice, headed by longtime Communist Party member Leslie Cagan was created as a "moderate" alternative. UFPJ is also a Tides grant recipient.The Tides-funded âA Better Way Project,â which opposed war in Iraq, also coordinated efforts of United for Peace and Justice and the Win Without War Coalition. The celebrity-laden Win Without War Coalition, along with the Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann Foundation, ran full-page ads in the New York Times opposing the War on Terrorism. This will not be the last overlapping of far-Left causes.
The Islamist Front
Immediately after 9/11, Tides formed a â9/11 Fundâ to advocate a âpeaceful national responseâ to the opening salvos of war. Part of the half-million dollars in grants the 9/11 ... The Foundation replaced the 9/11 Fund with the âDemocratic Justice Fund,â which was established with the aid of George Soros' Open Society Institute. (Currency speculator and pro-drug advocate Soros is, like Teresa Heinz Kerry, a major contributor to Tides, having donated more than $7 million.) The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States, particularly from countries designated by the State Department as âterrorist nations.â
Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American Islamic Relations. Ostensibly a âMuslim civil rights group,â ...many CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorism. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, âI am a supporter of the Hamas movement.â Community Affairs Director Bassem Khafagi has been arrested for visa and bank fraud. Randall Royer, a Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning jihad. CAIR has defended terrorist âcharitiesâ shut down by the Bush administration. Every few months some CAIR campus official is arrested for aiding and abetting terrorism.
The Legal Matrix
The Tides Foundation has funded a number of the pillars of the radical legal establishment. Chief among these is the National Lawyers Guild, which began as a Communist front organization and is proud of its lineage. At its recent convention last October, the concluding speaker was Lynne Stewart, an indicted terrorist NLG lawyer arrested for helping her client â convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman â communicate with his terrorist cells in Egypt. More recently, the NLG has endorsed the March 20 call to End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine & Everywhereâ organized by International ANSWER, and has posted a petition for âPost-Conviction Reliefâ for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Tidesâ Peace Strategies Fund has funneled money to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The CCR was stablished by Sixties radical William Kunstler, defender of the Chicago 8, and Arthur Kinoy. The two also had plans to establish a new Communist Party. Executive Director Ron Daniels has been honored by the Communist Party USA for his work. Daniels also has a long and cordial relationship with racist, anti-Semitic âpoet laureateâ Amiri Baraka. Since 9/11, CCR has channeled its efforts into fighting every effective Homeland Security measure. ...CCR has also defended Lynne Stewartâs âinnocenceâ in aiding Sheikh Rahmanâs Islamic Jihad.
Tides also funds the Alliance for Justice, a group dedicated to stopping Bush judicial appointees (a cause John Kerry can agree wholeheartedly endorse). Other Tides grants have gone to the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the Asian Law Caucus... and ...the Ruckus Society, a group of anarchist Greens who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots and Greenpeace is a well-known Tides grant recipient.
Lest one think only Tidesâ money is going to radicals, not funds directly controlled by Teresa Heinz Kerry, remember that Heinz money has repeatedly found its way to the Earth Island Institute. On September 14, 2001, the Instituteâs website bore the headline âU.S. Responds to Terrorist Attacks with Self-Righteous Arrogance.â
Heinz family philanthropic funds have also had some dubious effects on the presidential race. The League of Conservation Voters has recently endorsed John Kerryâs presidential campaign. The Heinz Family Foundation gave LCV at least $20,000 and donated almost $250,000 to a member of the LCV board.
Perhaps this circular rotation of cash and endorsements should not surprise anyone. The grant-making institutions of the Left and their feverish recipients ultimately form an amorphous, leftist entity. One never needs to search very far to find connections between a leftist foundation and extreme advocacy groups. Teresa Heinz Kerry, George Soros, Bill Moyers and the Ford Foundation fund the Tides Foundation/Center; Tides funds the National Lawyers Guild, CAIR, MoveOn.org and United for Peace and Justice; those organizations then unite in fluid coalitions to protest against their common political enemies (Republicans). Ultimately, their representatives end up on Bill Moyersâ PBS programs or active within the Democratic campaigns of their fundraisers. Between now and the election, these organizations will run constant interference for the Democratic presidential nominee (presumably Kerry himself): they will march en masse against the Bush administration again and again; they will file more lawsuits against the administrationâs Homeland Security measures, decry any effective response to terrorism, claim the United States is guilty of slaughtering Iraqi civilians and petition leftist judges to open Americaâs borders to Islamist terrorists. After they help his election, President Kerry will be indebted to them. And then they will insist he begin implementing their political agenda.
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