SOROS NOW MESSING WITH CANADIAN MEDIA: EZRA LEVANT
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Moral hollowness at work
Billionaire George Soros has made a living wrecking the lives of others. Now he
wants to mess with Canadians
By EZRA LEVANT, QMI AGENCY
Last Updated: September 5, 2010 12:02am
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George Schwartz was born in Hungary in 1930 — not the luckiest time and place to
be born a Jew.
George’s father Theodore tried to change the family’s fortunes by changing their
name to something less Jewish-sounding. It didn’t help. And soon war came.
When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In
two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.
To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.
First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the
Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews
every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were
willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.
Theodore hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at
the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official
confiscate property from Jews.
By collaborating with the Nazis, George survived the Holocaust. He turned on
other Jews to spare himself.
George moved to London after the war and then to New York, where he became a
stockbroker. He’s rich now. Forbes magazine says he’s the 35th richest man in
the world. Maybe you’ve heard of him. He goes by the name his father invented:
George Soros.
How does Soros feel about what he did as a teenager? Has it kept him up at
night?
Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked him that. Was it difficult? “Not at all,†Soros
answered.
“No feeling of guilt?†asked Kroft. “No,†said Soros. “There was no sense that I
shouldn’t be there. If I wasn’t doing it, somebody else would be taking it away
anyhow. Whether I was there or not. So I had no sense of guilt.â€
A Nazi would steal the Jews’ property anyways. So why not him?
That moral hollowness has shaped Soros’ life. He’s a rabid critic of capitalism,
but in 1992 when he saw a chance, he speculated against the British pound,
causing it to crash, devastating retirement savings for millions of Britons.
Soros pocketed $1.1 billion for himself. If he didn’t do it, someone else would,
right?
In 2002, Soros was convicted of insider trading in France, and fined millions of
dollars. He admitted buying the shares, but denied it was a crime.
Last year, when he made $3.3 billion off the banking collapse, he called the
world’s financial crisis “the culmination of my life’s work.â€
This is a man who boasted he offered to help his mother commit suicide.
Apparently he didn’t see enough death in Hungary.
Soros is a sociopath. But he’s a sociopath with $14 billion, and he likes to
spend it on politics.
Sometimes his gifts are large, like the $24 million he spent in 2004, trying to
defeat George W. Bush. Sometimes they’re small, like $20,000 to a woman
convicted of helping terrorists.
Now Soros has turned his attention to Canada.
One of his front groups, called Avaaz, is lobbying to stop Sun Media’s license
for a TV news channel. Soros doesn’t know anything about Canada — Avaaz called
the Sun newspapers the “Suncor newspapers†— but we’re his latest toy.
Avaaz is sending a petition to Canada’s TV regulator, the CRTC, claiming that
thousands of Canadians want to censor the Sun and keep it off the air.
The petition is a fraud — it’s an Internet petition, and anyone can sign anyone
else up without their permission. Fake names are permitted, and so are foreign
citizens. And the whole campaign is run out of New York.
Do you think Soros should determine what you can watch on TV? Do you think that
decision should be made in New York? Is our freedom of speech just another
trinket for him to buy and sell?
Hasn’t Soros silenced enough voices in his life?
Fight back.
Visit www.suntvnews.ca.
— Read Levant’s blog
at ezralevant.com
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