Dear Anonymous:
You've shown real courage posting an anonymous accusation.
The Center has a small grant from the Open Society Institute to study security policy, because I personally have been recognized for my expertise in analyzing federal surveillance law and history by national security policymakers in this country. OSI does not provide general support for CMD's operations.
Furthermore, although people like you have bought into Glenn Beck's scurrilous attempts to malign Mr. Soros, the fact is that OSI is not backrolling a propaganda campaign through its donations, unlike the Kochs.
In my opinion, Beck and his backers have targeted Mr. Soros in order to feed this little talking point to easily duped fools like you, because they know how extensive the Koch investment is in the right-wing disinformation machine. And, so they need to manufacture the idea that there is a counter-weight behind the Democrats and so it's all a wash, even though it is not.
They're not equivalent. The Kochs are behind documented misinformation campaigns about energy policy and a host of other issues.
You've probably been spoon-fed the lies they have funded.
Or perhaps you even work for one of the Kochs' web of groups or the party apparatus they fund. Why don't you reveal both who you really work for and who you get your talking points from? I'll bet one or the other traces back to the Kochs.
On the other hand, unlike you and unlike Americans for Prosperity and its ilk, the Center actually does disclose its major donors and supporters.
So, what I find a little funny is that either you are dupe or you are a cog in the machine they've built. It'd be really funny, if it weren't so sad for you and the people you are trying to mislead by your comment.
I stand by my report 100%.
What took off with one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, Ronald (McDonald) Reagan, was a very carefully planned attack (I call it a war)on the Middle-class by the richest Americans (Plutocrats.) Reagan initiated the war by attacking the Air Traffic Controllers Union. The Labor Dept. listed "air traffic controller" as the most stressful job in our country. So, when the Air Traffic Controllers Union threatened a strike to force the government (FAA) to lessen the stress and danger of mistakes and to get state-of-the-art computers, Reagan jumped in to stop it. I worked in corporate America for 31 years and I saw this campaign against unions and the Middle-class take off in the early part of Reagan's first term. The factory owners pitted one factory union against another. The factory that lost got closed down and moved to non-union southern states. Then, the factory got moved to Mexico, China, etc. The only unionized factories that survived were ones the owners couldn't move to foreign countries because the foreign workers couldn't produce a high quality product. The Hoover Company (formerly of North Canton, Ohio), discovered that when it opened a plant in Mexico and the stuff coming out was grossly inferior in quality to the Ohio plant. So, Larry Hoover, who had controlling interest in the Hoover Company, sold it in 1982 (think Reagan era) to Chicago Pacific and it ended up in Hong Kong (Dirt Devil.) It followed the Plutocrat plan to the letter.
The bottom line is this. The last honest Republican president was Dwight Eisenhower and it should be remembered that he warned against the take-over of our country by the MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! Ever since, there has been an escalating war on the Middle-class by a tiny group of people we should be calling PLUTOCRATS. They are simply enormously rich people who want to control our country by the nature of their wealth. Just look at the concentration of wealth in the U.S. in the last 20 years (check out the Forbes 400 last year) and you will see that the U.S. is already, in many ways, a Plutocracy. Before the rise of the Middle-class after WWII, the U.S. was absolutely a Plutocracy. Think Henry Ford, the Duponts, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Carnegie, etc. The newer Plutocrats are the current Bush family, Rupert Murdock and the Koch brothers.
This article is exactly the truth and I commend CMD for its work in exposing the Plutocratic war on America. Middle-class Americans had better wake-up fast (as is happening in Wisconsin and other states), before the Plutocrats slam the door on a democratic America. The Plutocrats might as well change the spelling to AMERIKA.
Now we see the results of the unspeakably foolish SCOTUS decision to allow unlimited, unseen campaign funding from unknown entities. This decision should be rescinded, and Thomas and Scalia ought to recuse themselves from this unConstitutional foolishness. Time for the United States to start acting more like Egypt.
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