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Kerry's wife supports
U.S. radicals, jihadists
Teresa Heinz lavishes millions on abortionists, defenders of terror, homosexual extremists


If John Kerry becomes president, the first lady will have a track record of support for the causes of radical, anti-American groups – including Islamists, terrorist-defense law firms, abortionists and homosexual activists – that, by comparison, would make much of the country nostalgic for the days of Hillary Clinton, a study of her philanthropy patterns by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin concludes.

One of heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry's favorite charities is the Tides Foundation, a 28-year-old grant-making institution that funds to the tune of hundreds of millions radical groups that, among other things, protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq, demand open U.S. borders, provide the legal defense of suspected terrorists and promote the spread of Islamist ideology in the U.S.

Heinz Kerry, worth an estimated three-quarters of a billion dollars, working through the Howard Heinz Endowment, oversaw the donation of more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation between 1995 and 2001, reports G2 Bulletin, a premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WorldNetDaily.

While John Kerry criticizes the way President Bush has conducted the war in Iraq, he actually cast a Senate vote to support it. Yet, Tides' Iraq Peace Fund and Peace Studies Fund supports the War Resisters League and Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark actually offered to defend Saddam Hussein. His center also sponsored International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice, both of which were run by long-time communist revolutionaries.

The Democratic Justice Fund, created through the efforts of Tides and George Soros, seeks to ease U.S. restrictions on Muslim immigration from countries designated by the State Department as “terrorist nations.” Tides also supports the Council for American Islamic Relations, a group that bills itself as a “Muslim civil rights group,” but one whose leaders have links to the terrorist group Hamas.

CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.” Community Affairs Director Bassem K. 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 jihadist activities. CAIR has defended terrorist fronts posing as “charities” – some of which have beem shut down by the Bush administration.

Tides supports the National Lawyers Guild, which began as a Communist Party front. Last October, Lynne Stewart, an indicted terrorist NLG lawyer, gave a rousing closing speech at the organization's convention. Stewart was arrested for helping her client, convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terrorist cells in Egypt.

"And modern heroes, dare I mention?" she said. "Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel and Nelson Mandela and John Brown, Che Guevara, who reminds us, 'At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.' Our quests like theirs are to shake the very foundations of the continents."

Heinz Kerry not only serves as chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment, she also sits on the board of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment.

The Earth Island Institute is a recipient of Heinz cash. Three days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America by Islamists, the group published a statement on its website rationalizing the terrorist actions. Under the headline, "U.S. Responds to Terrorist Attacks with Self-Righteous Arrogance," the statement explained that the destruction of the World Trade Center, the crash at the Pentagon, the four airline hijackings and the 3,000 Americans killed "was not an 'attack on all American people,'" but "an act of anger, desperation and indignation."

On the record, the Tides Foundation says it has worked since 1976 for "positive social change. We put resources and people together –strengthening community-based nonprofit organizations and the progressive movement through innovative grant-making. We define 'progressive' as creating a positive impact on people's lives in ways that honor and promote human rights, justice, and a healthy, sustainable environment."

For a fee, the group protects the anonymity of donors by directing tax-deductible contributions to specific groups.

One of Tides principal concerns, according to its annual report for 2001-2002 is mobilizing against the death penalty – always a polarizing issue during elections.

"At a particularly conservative time in national politics, the United States seems to be awakening to the economic and racial biases of the criminal justice system," the report said. "Public support for the death penalty is the lowest it has been since 1981, and the anti-death penalty movement is gaining momentum. To support this growing movement, Tides Foundation launched the Death Penalty Mobilization Fund, which supports progressive coalition building and collaboration at the local, regional and national levels among groups working to reform the death penalty and to abolish capital punishment."

Another initiative was to promote groups pushing "living-wage organizing."

"More than 56 local ordinances mandating a living wage have already passed across the country," the report said.

Tides points out the "economic justice movement" has received only limited funding from other foundations.

Local, state and national groups promoting abortion on demand are supported by Tides. They include Planned Parenthood chapters, the National Abortion Rights Action League and Abortion Access Project.

Homosexual activist organizations, including some of the most extreme, such as ACT-UP, have received Tides funds.

In addition to its support of the National Lawyers Guild, Tides supports many branches of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Institute for Policy Studies, founded by Robert Borosage, a political mentor of Hillary Clinton.

In addition to its support of CAIR, Tides supports the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Arab American Action Network.

A group called "Barrio Warriors" is also a recipient of Tides grants. This race-conscious Hispanic organization calls for the "liberation of Aztlan," the American southwest, including California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

Tides supports a variety of gun control groups, controversial needle exchange programs, euthanasia and assisted suicide organizations.

Don't be surprised if some of the tax-deductible donations by Tides results in political endorsements of Heinz Kerry's husband this year. The League of Conservation Voters, the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars from Tides, has already endorsed John Kerry for president, despite its non-partisan billing. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and People for the American Way are two other regular recipients of big dollars.

So well-endowed is Tides, last year it gave $8.5 million to the Rockefeller Family Fund.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37244

Wow X, sorry, but how can you completely ignore the content of the post? That's like saying, yeah, your Jewish, and the holocaust and all, but who gives a rat's ass? If the woman is a lunatic, then she’s a crazy b!tch., let’s call a spade a spade, ok?

Robby,I was being facetious. BTW the NY Times will endorse John Kerry,so I guess that makes them terrorists as well. X

NY Times? Terrorists? No just a total mouthpiece for the DNC! GTO, we agree twice in one day! Dayum!

Even an accused terrorist has the right to legal representation in the USA.

There have been lots of people released from death row, proven innocent by DNA tests that were not available when they were on trial. How many innocent people have been put to death because the technology wasn't available to prove them innocent?

What is wrong with any organization that fights discrimination? Isn't discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin still illegal in the USA?

Last I heard, protesting war is still legal in the USA. Haven't our soldiers fought and died to protect the right of free speech?

So basically, this lady is contributing money to make sure that more people can excercise their basic rights in the USA. Sounds like a nice lady to me.

There have been lots of people released from death row, proven innocent by DNA tests that were not available when they were on trial. How many innocent people have been put to death because the technology wasn't available to prove them innocent?
-----They weren't caught armed in a combat zone, in another country. Why do we think the US Constitution protects those who are not, have not and never will be inside the jurisdiction of the US Civil Code?

What is wrong with any organization that fights discrimination? Isn't discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin still illegal in the USA?
------nothing, but NONE of these people are IN the USA!

Last I heard, protesting war is still legal in the USA. Haven't our soldiers fought and died to protect the right of free speech?
------Last I heard, I WAS fighting to protect free speech. Am I not free to say I think that providing support for people who confuse a fight with a tyrannical regime with something about oil?


So basically, this lady is contributing money to make sure that more people can excercise their basic rights in the USA. Sounds like a nice lady to me.
-----Except the terrorists are NOT in the USA, and I personally resent someone financially underwriting a campaign designed to bring about a premature end to a conflict before there is a decisive victory. In this case a decisive victory means giving the Iraqi people the best opportunity to establish a thriving democracy in the region. Seeing a successful, free Iraq will show the other countries in the area that instead of fighting the US, they can better their own lot, and resorting to terrorism, or backing those that do, is counterproductive. If we abandon the effort now, the likes of Al Queda will take power, and use the ensuing confusion to sow hatred against the US, and bring up whole new generations of terrorists. This is NOT who I want as the First Lady, anymore than I want Hanoi John as the Chief Executive!

I didn't know that if you supported the Islam faith, that you were a terrorist. So its okay to spread the Christian faith in the US, but not the Islam faith. Does that mean I should go tell my parents that they are being anti-american when they try to spread their Buddhist faith?

ignorance is bliss.

choner

what CW said.


spin spin spin do the liberal spin spin spin.

I see your problem, you have a lack of drug experience, and I would recommend a strict diet of no sleep, cocaine, lsd and hard liquor. Also try viewing some movies involving whisky and gorillas. You seem unsure of yourself and your surroundings. To be a true American radical one must walk a very thin line of radical liberal views but not step into the pit fall of communism and anti Americanism which many do, and those evil bastards should be deported. The 60’s dream has been polluted by thoughts such as yours. Learn to swim before you try to surf the wave.


You are clearly a victim of liberal media brainwashing. Your thoughts are not your own, but you believe that they are. You are doomed.

Thank you for proving my point.

How would you feel about the patriot act if one of your family members, though innocent, was locked up indefinately with legal representation?
********First, I NEVER said I was in total agreement with everything the Bush administation has done! I do NOT think the USA Patriot Act (the whole thing is an acronym, so you really have to add the USA, but, not surprisingly, it does not stand for United Sates of America!) was or is, or ever will be a good idea. I DO think Bush is a basically honest man, I believe his motives are just (misguided, but just) but I also KNOW that it is only a matter of time before we get another Clinton, or Nixon (note I hit BOTH major parties, I'm not being partisan) who will abuse the powers contained in this Act with great enthusiasm, and little if any remorse! My argument is that the people who are against the war effort are misguided, uninformed, and easily led astray. lets just look at a few of the arguments used:
1) the war is all about oil!-- OK is the price of a gallon of gas down around a buck? buck and a quarter? Has Iraq pulled out of OPEC? Have we claimed it as a 51st state? If the answer is no, then the oil still belongs to the Iraqis they still sell it at market value, set by OPECs production controls, and nothing we've done could have EVER had ANY effect on the price of oil! But tell that cockamamie line of malarkey to the gullible, and you have a noisy crowd, railing at the administation in righteous indignation! And WHO, ultimately would benefit from an early withdrawal? The very terrorists we are trying to root out!, If we withdraw before there is a strong democratic government in Iraq, power will be seized by the strongest faction in the area (the strongest there right now are the Shia, who are pretty well controlled by Iran, and the Baathist resistance, who are mostly propped up and supprted by Al Queda now. Afganistan all over! Unless we stay the course and finish what we went there for! YOU say there is freedom of speech, I never said these poor fools couldn't say whatever they wanted! I said it was suspect why someone would financially support that kind of effort. Effectively making a minority sound like less of a minority, and convincing many that if that many people think it's wrong, it must be! WE WERE ATTACKED! WE LOST 3000 CITIZENS IN ONE DAY! We have the right the duty and the responsibility to hunt down every last one of the people who sponsor, aid, and abet that kind of attack and wipe them from the face of the planet! The gullible have the freedom of speech? YES! ABSOLUTLY! But, do you think I do??????? you seem to think that if I voice my opinion, I'm against the rights of my fellow American! NO I'M NOT!
I'm against trying to apply US Constitutional Law to an Arab, fighting our forces in Afghanistan, and being held in that wonderful garden spot of Democracy, CUBA! Don't tell me that US Armed Forces have to start acting like police! Not until you muster a sac big enough to pick up a rifle and take your spot on the line! Until then, allow ME to have enough freedom of speech to say these people are bordering on treasonous! When John Kerry caved in to Vietnamese demands on the Human Rights issues, and the POW accountability issues, his cousin got a $900 Billion contract to refurbish port facilities in Viet Nam, I wonder what contract is being let out now?

Never thought I would see myself agreeing with gtoman on anything but I am glad to see this info posted. If you wnat to see the true face of the democratic party just review the crazy court rulings of late. The democratic motto should be "if we can't get the people to vote for our cause we'll find a lunatic judge that does", or "if the people vote for something we don't like we'll find a lunatic judge to reverse it". Keep voting for democrats if you want the judicial branch of the government to rule the country.

Here's the website for the Heinz Endowments. Take a look for yourselves. To think that Teresa Heinz Kerry could control the words and actions of any person in the many organizations that receive grants from the endowments is nonsense. To extend that to John Kerry is insane.

http://www.heinz.org/index.asp?loc=home