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Billionaire George Soros has often been criticized by many different commutators, ranging from his support of various organizations to his views on anti-Semitism.

Criticism of funding

George Soros has often been accused of helping to fund 'smear sites' like Moveon.org and Media Matters, according to Bill O'Reilly, National Review, and other groups. Soros has financially supported Tides Foundation, donating over twenty millions dollars to the group since 2001 and has donated millions to Move On. That foundation has donated money to Media Matters for America, a group highly critical of O'Reilly.

O'Reilly has claimed that Soros's goal "is to buy a presidential election. — By that I mean find and fund a candidate who will tacitly do what he or she is told to do."

In September 2002 Soros's Open Society Institute gave $20,000 to the Defense Committee of lawyer Lynne Stewart who defended terrorists in court and was sentenced to 28 months in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy".

'Tax evading'

George Soros has heavily been criticized for avoiding to pay taxes in the United States. Soros moved his headquarters to the Caribbean tax haven 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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (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.

2004 Presidential Elections in the United States

George Soros has personally expressed a strong disliking of President Bush. In 2004 he stated defeating Bush was "the central focus of my life," and "a matter of life and death." 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.

Support for drug legalization

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. 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 trading of drugs and provides drugs and drug paraphernalia to addicts. Soros has contributed to the passing of thirteen drug legalization laws in nine different states.

References

1. ^ "Buying Political Power". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
2. ^ "The World According to Soros". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
3. "Soros Funded Stewarts Defense". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
4. "Terrorist Supporting Lawyer, Lynne Stewart, Gets Slap On The Wrist". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
5. "George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
6. "The sorry tale of George Soros". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
7. "The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
8. ^ "Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
9. "George Soros's Long Strange Trip". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
10. "The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power". Retrieved 2007-10-04.
11. "George Soros - Drug Legalization". Retrieved 2007-10-04.

External Links

• http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040705/alterman
• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html