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Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left?
Well, prowling around at freeprepublic, I came across this frontpagemag article claiming that Heinz Kerry funds all sorts of far left organizations. Well as a hardcore far lefty myself, I was really interested, especially since I have not been able to detect anything particularly far left about Kerry. Having an influential and superrich First Lady would just interest the hell of me. Reading through the article, it seems that they do have some financial specifics. What do you guys think: is she a real lefty? (Obligatory warning: frontpagemag is a hardcore right wing website).


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Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left:

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Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in 1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates.

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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 Commnist 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 – convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman – communicate with his terrorist cells in Egypt. In her speech, Stewart said she and her NLG comrades were carrying on a proud tradition of their forebears, past and present:
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The Tides Foundation has funded the Ruckus Society, a group of anarchist Greens who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots. The Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania, established in Pittsburgh with Heinz Family funds, advocates for environmentalist measures that have helped put holes in the Rust Belt’s economy.
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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 Moyers' 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 administration's 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 America's 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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More here:

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=12187
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Well, the article does mention Bill Moyers, and if Kerry Heinz is funding orgs that feed into Moyers's PBS show NOW, then that is great, because right Moyers on PBS's NOW is a solitary PILLAR of the left on TV.

I actually happened upon this article at FR, and you can read some of the typically idiotic freeper comments on this article here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078280/posts

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Anything Freepers don't like...

I almost automatically like. Conversely, Freepers eat merde. I don't like that. ;-)

[alcuno]

2. It's going to be really hard for them to attack a woman whose

husband died in a plane crash. freerepublic would attack my grandmother; I'm talking mainstream media.