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George Soros Funds Free Press Thuggery (And Other Good News) [Updated]

It's a good life, having idiots hate you.*

Sorry for the goof up, folks. When I transferred this one into the browser I lost my links. The dangers of posting before bed. I’ve re-added them now.

That’s a pretty good way to describe recent actions from George Soros-paid front groups like Free Press and their band of modern day Bolsheviks.

The Obama Administration’s effort to expand federal “neutrality” regulation over the Internet really illustrates, and drives the wedge into, the growing rift in the Democratic Party. Earlier this month, the FCC voted 3-2 (All Democratic appointees voting “yes”) on a proposal that would for the first time have the federal government regulate the Internet. Republicans opposed the proposal and plenty of thoughtful (or worried) Democrats do, too.

Democrats are critical of Republican opponents, of course, but what’s fascinating (at least in the way slow-motion car crashes are fascinating) are the increasingly brutal attacks Soros-sponsored front groups are making against other Democrats.

  • Take the Communications Workers of America. With 700,000 members and a track record of intense support for Democrats, you might think they would be spared the wrath from Soros’ henchmen. Nope. CWA’s apostasy was to raise a concern that their members’ jobs might be at risk from net neutrality regulations. For that, Free Press evidently dispatched Art Brodsky at Soros-funded Public Knowledge to accuse the union leadership of being “ever-turncoat.”
  • Meanwhile, two-dozen civil rights groups (including NAACP, LULAC and other well-established Democratic supporters) raised concerns about Net neutrality slowing down broadband deployment in poor neighborhoods. That unleashed the fury of Free Press who dispatched James Rucker, another Free Press acolyte who called the groups a sell-out to the cause of equality.
  • In March, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and US Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy Philip Verveer pointed out that US government control of the Internet would make it very difficult for diplomats to tell other countries (like China and Iran?) that they should not try to control the Internet. Net neutrality regulations, he said, “could be employed as a pretext or as an excuse for undertaking public policy activities that we would disagree with pretty profoundly.” In response to those comments by an Obama appointee, Democrats thought carefully about what they were doing. No, I’m kidding. Actually, Harold Feld at Public Knowledge penned a venomous piece on HuffingtonPost.com in which he attacked Verveer for being too stupid to understand that he was parroting “Republican attack bullets.”

The list of these public knifings by Free Press and their fellow travelers against anyone who crosses them could go on and on. They’re not making friends. They’re hunting heretics.

This is great.

As the late Lee Atwater used to counsel, when your enemy is committing suicide, don’t interfere. More than most political issues, Net neutrality is exposing the rifts in the Obama coalition. Union members and minority groups evidently don’t take kindly to the Chablis-and-Volvo revolutionaries telling them to move to the back of Obama’s bus.

Their elitist thuggery is getting more vicious with every passing week – only it’s not against Republicans, it’s against their fellow Democrats.

Free Press’ desire to “remove brick by brick the entire capitalist system itself” seems anachronistic and silly, but their single-minded, militaristic focus on media revolution and contemptuous disregard for the opinions of fellow liberals and Democrats who might disagree is downright dangerous… to Democrats.

Conservatives should count our blessings in this ensuing bloodbath. Free Press is doing our work for us – destroying any remaining semblance of cohesion in the Democrat coalition. Their internecine napalm smells like…. victory!

A funny final thought: On Soros’ website, his foundation touts its commitment to creating more “vibrant and tolerant” communities. Maybe that happens after the revolution.

* Credit to Wondermark for the subtitle. Love that line.

COMMENTS

  • Adjoran

    They should look into Soros and just how he made his money. We know he made a good bit from currency speculation, but most seems to come from “banking interests” in the Caymans and other secretive third-world money havens. Is there all that much profit in Certificates of Deposit, or has he enriched himself by money laundering for drug kingpins, to the point of fomenting rebellion and revolution in this hemisphere to keep his profits coming?

    I don’t know, but I’d loooooove to find out.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I’m not really big on the government deciding who has too much money.

    He does enough funding of politics to keep us busy researching that. :-)

  • america1st

    . . . might be a large infusion of yuan and/or rubles ?? To this day, the careful way in which bozo’s background has been hidden makes me wonder if there is not some puppeteer (s?) hostile to this nation which could be discerned by a careful examination of the history. I would not be at all surprised if this was true of soros.

  • Scope

    I don’t care how much money he makes or has, but, I do care about how he is spending that money to try to destroy the US. He has a history of meddling in other countries economies. At his age, the US is his last country to conquer. It is impossible that he is not involved in many dirty deeds, he just buys his way out of any investigations. When he croaks, we ought to bury his carcass under Gitmo, where all terrorists should be.

  • marshmom

    They have to *stick together* to succeed. I’m surprised they don’t push that as required reading for the progressive world just like Rules for Radicals.
    It’s fun to watch from our side though. Let’s hope they DON’T read the paper.

  • elrayb

    will be a big part of the answer. If we can uncover where the MONEY is coming from and then follow the trail and have it lead to Soros and some other big players we can connect them to seditious activity and then we can expose them completely and maybe even arrest them for attempting to overthrow our government.
    We can then shut off the funding and confiscate the funds to pay oof our debt.

  • archer52

    Steven’s coverage of the Internet issue is critical. If you want to “blind” a society like ours, cutting off the free flow of information that we have all gotten so used to would stun and cripple us. Obama knows this and has commented on it, Chavez knows this and as done something about it. We are on the same path.

    Soros hates America as much as he desires to be the richest man in history. To accomplish his goal he must both cripple our economic and superpower status and he is doing just that, like he has done to Europe in large part.

    My buddy, a MENSA bright, economically trained, former police detective and not one for buying into conspiracies, especially in economic situations, is now on my beat up and worn “Soros is behind this” bandwagon. I think he has realized that even though I may be jokingly accused of being paranoid on occasion, I may have actually stumbled onto something. Soros is intent on putting “his” people in critical positions in OUR government, and has done so quite effectively. (Have you noticed that for about twenty years we keep seeing his face in the background shot of every leftist candidate the Democrats put up? It is like a bad sci-fi movie about vampires or immortals. I’m half expecting to see Soros’s face standing in the background of the Russian Czar family photo circa the 1800′s and then again in the background of Sherman’s command staff in the Civil War.)

    Soros uses their greed and their fears to manipulate their behavior. Controlling the net, controlling what we do every day and assume we can do tomorrow is key to controlling us.

    Like I said, just because you may be paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

  • http://www.laborunionreport.combrand/brhttp://www.laborunionreport.blogspot.com LaborUnionReport

    Can you steer me to the source for this?…

    Take the Communications Workers of America. With 700,000 members and a track record of intense support for Democrats, you might think they would be spared the wrath from Soros? henchmen. Nope. CWA?s apostasy was to raise a concern that their members? jobs might be at risk from net neutrality regulations. For that, Free Press evidently dispatched Art Brodsky at Soros-funded Public Knowledge to accuse the union leadership of being ?ever-turncoat.?

    If you could help, it would be much appreciated. :)

  • Woo_girl

    has been connecting a lot of dots this week, he’s been calling it Crime, Inc. Today is his Founding Father’s day, but if you want to catch more of it, it will continue next week. It’s all so very scary and you’re right, Soros is behind all of it.

  • Locked and Loaded

    Class warfare among socialists — rich!

  • emartin

    like me is now a frequent visitor at RedState. The Soros’ funded Obots poisoned the open-disagreement process in Democrat-land. Those of us who favored HRClinton’s stances and policies over Obama’s were deemed spawn of the devil and attacked with viciousness. The whole process opened my eyes to the hypocrisy and flawed foundations of the Democratic party. I am a wiser citizen and voter now. I will never again consider myself a Democrat. I have Soros’ obots to thank for that.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I’ve re-added. Hope that helps.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    We’ve become inundated and lax with the whole dissent is a form of patriotism from the left who shield their goals behind that sort of claim. The problem is the goals of the left are the utter overthrow of the US – the destruction of capitalism – the removal of all of our rights under the Constitution and absolute power to tell everyone how to live and what to think. It is a war against the US in particular and the older remnants of Western civilization.

    The one thing that the O and his kind fear would be someone like Palin appointing an Attorney General who might start investigating all the fraud, corruption and treason committed by the left.

    Soros has been committing acts of sedition through funding incitement and funding those who are actively trying to *bring down* the US. He should be prosecuted for it.

    Just my 2 cents.

  • mbecker908

    I believe you have to be a US Citizen to be charged with those.