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{{Attribution history|George Soros}} |
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Billionaire ] has often been criticized by many different commutators, ranging from his support of various organizations to his views on ]. He has been criticized from individuals like ], ], ] and groups such as ] and ]. |
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== Criticism of funding == |
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George Soros has often been accused of helping to fund 'smear sites' like ] and Media Matters, according to ], ], and other groups.<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref name="soros2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dsouza200410190831.asp |title=The World According to Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros has financially supported ], donating over twenty millions dollars to the group since 2001 and has donated millions to ].<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> That foundation has donated money to ], a group highly critical of O'Reilly. |
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O'Reilly has claimed that Soros's goal "is to buy a presidential election... find and fund a candidate who will tacitly do what he or she is told to do."<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> |
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In September 2002 Soros's Open Society Institute gave $20,000 to the Defense Committee of lawyer ] who defended terrorists in court and was sentenced to 28 months in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200502170843.asp |title=Soros Funded Stewarts Defense |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2006/10/16/terrorist-supporting-lawyer-lynne-stewart-gets-slap-on-the-wrist/ |title=Terrorist Supporting Lawyer, Lynne Stewart, Gets Slap On The Wrist |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_4_57/ai_n13487687 |title=A New York jury found Lynne Stewart guilty on all of the counts against her |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> |
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== Criticism of 'tax evading' == |
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George Soros has heavily been criticized for avoiding to pay taxes in the United States.<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros moved his headquarters to the tax free Caribbean country of Curacao, which is outside of the supervision of the United States Government. The Netherlands Antilles has repeatedly been cited by the Task Force on Money Laundering of the ] (OECD) as one of the world's most important centers for laundering illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic. It is a possession of the Netherlands. <ref name="taxes">{{cite web|url=http://www.freedomdomain.com/soros01.html |title=George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref name="jewishreview">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/mason_soros.php3 |title=The sorry tale of George Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref name="questions">{{Cite web|url=http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/engdahl-soros.html |title=The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/23/35240603.pdf |title=OECD Investment Policy Reviews, Netherland Antilles |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> |
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== ] in the United States == |
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George Soros has personally expressed a strong disliking of ].<ref name="soros2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dsouza200410190831.asp |title=The World According to Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> In 2004 he stated defeating Bush was "the central focus of my life," and "a matter of life and death."<ref name="soros3">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer|title=Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> He also said "America, under Bush, is a danger to the world." He donated more then 15.5 million in an attempt to defeat Bush in 2004.<ref name="soros3">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer|title=Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> |
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== Support for ] == |
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George Soros has donated millions of dollars towards organizations advocating the legalization of drugs in the United States and has been called the "Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization" by Joseph Califano Jr. of Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russbaker.com/The%20Nation%20-%20George%20Soro's%20Long%20Strange%20Trip.htm |title=George Soros's Long Strange Trip |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> He calls the legalization a "harms reduction" and criminal activity associated with the use of drugs will supposedly be reduced if the US government takes over the ] and provides drugs and drug paraphernalia to addicts.<ref name="acc">{{cite web|url=http://www.aim.org/special_report/A2089_0_8_0_C/ |title=The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros has contributed to the passing of thirteen drug legalization laws in nine different states.<ref name="states">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/gsoros.html |title=George Soros - Drug Legalization |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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== External Links == |
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