Whos really exploiting 9/11>>

[PatPatriot]

The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz
various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04


Posted on 03/05/2004 12:23:38 PM PST by dead


“Peaceful Tomorrows” is being portrayed as an independent group of relatives of victims of the 911 attacks. They are getting a lot of press claiming to be outraged over the new Bush ads.

Call me insensitive if you like, but I wonder if this outrage could possibly be a tad overblown, and more likely attributable to the millions and millions of dollars this group has received from endowments chaired by Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry.

According to their own contribution page, “Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.”

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Review, “Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania.” (The Heinz Endowments have teamed up with a secretive left-wing group)

The money that flows into The Tides also flows out. They have given grants totaling $489,000 to the Iraq Peace Fund, who used that money to fund the anti-war marches and media costs of 27 groups, including MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

Other Tides Center projects include The Youth Gender Project, which seeks to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults."

They also shoveled $200,000 towards The Ruckus Society - founded in 1995 to train activists in violent protest against biotechnology, globalization and the World Bank. It incited property destruction in the Seattle riots of 1999 and Washington, D.C., the following year.

Now, if you really want to get mad, you should also know that $8,000,000 in taxpayer money flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001.

 

[xpanda]

Don't you just hate it when special interest groups overlap with politics?

 

[PatPatriot]

Are we being a little sarcastic?? naughty,naughty.

The dems though are famous for this,always the victim,republicans always the villian.

 

[codeworks]

so their money is going to groups that help remove republicans. Looks good to me. All legal. Big deal. Good for them. Smart group of people. We need these groups to watch these neo cons.

Dems would have shown those ads but in my perfect world I would have not had them aired.

Mr 150 million dollar campaign war chest is going to win anyway

 

[wilheim]

Jimmy Breslin






March 6, 2004

In his first campaign commercial, George Bush reached down and molested the dead.

But this only in keeping with both Bushes. George Bush, Sr., had the badge of officer Eddie Byrne, who was gunned down in South Jamaica, and he stood up at Christ the King High School in Middle Village and held it up and said he would have this badge on him forever. Some chance. Bush then led high school girls into insane cheers for the death penalty.

Now, right off, this second George Bush came up with the badge of a Port Authority cop, George Howard, who died. He was from Hicksville. His mother gave Bush the son's badge. When Bush came back to the trade center a year later, he reached into his pocket and whipped out that badge and he had a tear in his eye. What makes it worse is that this George W. Bush acts like he's entitled to treat the remains of a dead man like a souvenir. Now he shows a commercial with dead bodies, or body parts, covered with an American flag being taken through the smoke and flames of the world trade center attack. It caused people who had lost family members in the attack to complain about using the dead or parts thereof being used for a politician's gain.

"Bush is afraid to let us see the dead being brought back from Iraq," one fire fighter said yesterday.

The ad is nothing more than another George W. Bush fraud. First, arriving at the trade center, he was led by a flunkey to a retired fire fighter, Bob Beckwith, who had come down three days after the attack to take a look. Bush's flacks had Beckwith stand on a destroyed fire engine and Bush came up next to him and Bush put an arm around him and, two heroes, Bush called out "we're tough" to the television cameras.

He had all he wanted out of the place. A picture.

You all saw Bush play dress-up and land on the aircraft carrier and stand there, the helmet under his arm just like an Ace from the top of a bloody sky. The aircraft carrier had to be turned around so the skyline of San Diego wouldn't be seen.

Now he has his world trade center commercial out there and a lot of decent people regard it as an insult.

Right away, Rudolph Giuliani came out to defend him to the death. He said the commercial was true and right to put on because it was "appropriate." He was a nobody as a mayor and in one day he became a hero. This sudden career, this door opening to a room of gold, all started for Rudolph Giuliani when his indestructible bunker in World Trade Center building blew up. He had personally selected it, high in the sky, and with tons of diesel fuel to give emergency power.

And Guiliani walks on. He walks from his bunker, up Barclay Street and went on television. Went on and announced his heroism and then came back every hour or so until he became a star, a great figure, a national hero, the mayor who saved New York.

Most of this comes from these dazed Pekingese of the Press. As this was being written on Friday night, the television announcers kept saying that Martha Stewart would go to a country club federal prison. The fools. Try any jail on any day. At five o'clock, you can't go home. Giuliani was a hero with these news people. He did not pick up a piece of steel or help carry one of the injured off.

He made the trade center his private cathedral. Police commanders were terrified of letting you in. There was only Rudy, who flew his stars, Opra and the like, down to see it. Now he says a Bush ad is "appropriate."

That's Giuliani's word. As the mayor, he had a detective driving one of his girl friends out of the Gracie Mansion driveway while another detective was arriving with another girl friend and was waved off to prevent a domestic riot.

All the while upstairs there were his wife. and children.

Giuliani then showed appropriate behavior by walking in a parade on Fifth Avenue with his girl friend and all the while his children could sit and watch him on television.

How marvelous! It was appropriate to humiliate his children, and now it is appropriate to molest the dead.

Giuliani also had a flunkey, Bernard Kerik, rush on television and say, so earnestly, that the Bush commerical was appropriate. Kerik was a Giuliani campaign chauffeur who became police commissioner. How marvelous! At the world trade center, Kerik was in the back of his car dictating the last part of a book that was going to appear under his name. It had him writhing with delicious excitement. It was about his mother being a prostitute.

"That's what's going to make me all the money," he told a friend of mine.

That is only the start of the Bush campaign. He has plenty of money and unlimited personal cheapness.

 

[PatPatriot]

I guess FDR should never used pearlharbor as a basis for reelection....The only reason the dems are bitching is because they can't use it...but at every turn they use 9/11 against Bush.
the hypocriscy is sickening...when these "family members" read democrat talking points when complaining about the ads is laughable and beyond pathetic.

 

[codeworks]

Pat -

What I do not understand is the attack happened under GW's watch and he uses it for an ad saying how great he is.

What is the average IQ of an American .... my guess 100

 

[PatPatriot]

Have you seen the ads???

The first time it was attacked it was under Clinton...NOTHING WAS DONE.
USS Cole..Clinton nothing was done.
But Clinton did hog tie the CIA and FBI.

It happened under Bushes watch he is doing something about it....its fair game...there is also a letter coming out od thousands of victims families signitures coming out in favor of those ads...htis is something you WON'T see in the NYTIMES....By the way anybody with an iota of common sense would say that those ads were tastfully done.

 

[noital]

I am sure we will see on the fair and slanted channel, and you do have some sense ,exactly one little iota.

 

[wilheim]

Only a drunk and a pothead could think using the images would not cause the uproar that has erupted over the ads. Not long after the 9-11 tragedy, Bush promised to not exploit the event for political purposes. But, as usual, he lied, just like he lied about the reasons for invading Iraq and about having proof of a connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.Bush is a man with no shame, no compassion and no sensitivity for the feelings of others. Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of his desire to hold on to the Presidency and he doesn’t give a damn who gets hurt as long as he keeps the job. The lackeys who support Bush and defend his every move claim the Democrats would do the same thing if Al Gore were President. Perhaps so, but that is a tired, shallow argument, the same groundless defense that Bill Clinton used to defend some of his actions.Such insensitive, cynical political stunts are wrong, period, and offering lame excuses like “the other side would do it too” show George W. Bush is no better than the feeble excuse for a human being that preceded him in the White House.Bill Clinton is a despicable man, a whorehound who brought disgrace to the office of the Presidency. George W. Bush is equally despicable, a power-mad despot who brought disgrace to the image and credibility of the United States.Now Bush dishonors the memories of more than 3,000 Americans who died in the worst terrorist attack ever launched against this country. Bush’s minions claim the ads showcase his leadership. What leadership? An economy in the crapper? Millions of Americans out of work? Hundreds of Americans dead in a war waged under false pretenses? Billions wasted in a war against Iraq while Osama bin Laden, the man behind the death of more than 3,000 Americans remains at large? A goose-stepping attorney general who tramples on the privacy and rights of Americans and uses the Constitution to wipe his ass after he craps on all our freedoms? The memory of Americans who died on 9-11 deserves better. America deserves better. America deserves far more than four more years of lies, deceit and mismanagement by George W. Bush and the idiots who follow him.

[This message was edited by wilheim on March 07, 2004 at 12:53 AM.]

 

[jimbutorac]

Wil,

Add to that his compelete mismanagement of budget and ill-advised tax breaks to the rich and you have most incompetent president ever.

But what can you expect when the guy prior to becoming president has no international political experience and took a surplus in Texas and turned it into largest deficit in state histroy ever? And of course his military experience whereby he dodged the draft by having strings pulled so he could get in Guard ahead of more qalified candidates, avoid duty and get out early?

I cerainly take no pleasure whatsoever in saying this, but next week, two to three lower income to middle class young soldiers will pay the ultimate price in Iraq for his deceit and incompetence.

Imagine the outrage by Limaugh, Hannity and all Republican alcolytes if Dems ran an ad showing flag-draped coffins coming home from Iraq...Christ, you'd never hear the end of it. But that won't happen cause Bush Administration won't allow the homecomings of the deceased to be photographed.

 

[MuskymanSports]

Perhaps it might have been MORE appropriate
if in the commercial, Bush showed pictures of these families each receiving their $1.5 to $3 million dollar checks of OUR tax money for the deathes of their loved ones.......Or maybe show pictures of the families of soldiers killed in IRAG receiving their measly $10,000 checks from the government. And wasn't it these VERY people that immediately adopted the slogan
"Let us NEVER forget???"


Maybe someone can explain why the lives of the people killed in the WTC disaster are work 150-300 time MORE than the lives of the brave men and women in the military who died defending freeedom.