[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 14 (Wednesday, February 8, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E94-E95]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   GEORGE SOROS' INFILTRATION OF CPAC

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                          HON. MARK E. SOUDER

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 8, 2006

  Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, George Soros, the radical liberal financier 
who dedicated himself to defeating President George W. Bush in the last 
election, has taken a lesson from Jack Abramoff.
  As much of Abramoff's pernicious lobbying technique has come to 
light, we've seen how he was adept at manipulating certain conservative 
organizations to pursue a decidedly anti-conservative agenda, namely 
the promotion of gambling. By working hand in hand with the Traditional 
Values Coalition, TVC, for example, he was able in 2000 to undermine 
conservatives' best effort to outlaw on-line gambling. Proxy 
organizations played a fundamental role in Abramoff's strategy.
  Since 1974, the American Conservative Union has held the Conservative 
Political Action Conference, or CPAC, which is billed as a 3-day 
meeting for thousands of conservative activists and leaders to discuss 
current issues and policies and set the agenda for the future.

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I myself have addressed the conference in the past.
  One can imagine a conservative's surprise to read on the CPAC 2006 
agenda that a representative of the Marijuana Policy Project, MPP, is 
slated to moderate--yes, moderate--a panel Friday discussing drug 
policy. For those who are unacquainted with it, the pro-marijuana MPP 
has been funded by Soros in the past. Also represented on the panel is 
the Drug Policy Alliance, which is Soros' principal pro-drug arm. 
Incidentally, the moderator himself is a convicted drug dealer.
  What on earth were the CPAC organizers thinking? Why would the 
American Conservative Union allow extremist liberals like George Soros 
and Peter Lewis--who is responsible for most of MPP's funding--to 
access a meeting of conservatives? And, in exactly whose estimation 
would there be balance in a debate moderated by the MPP?
  Thanks to Accuracy in Media Report Editor Cliff Kincaid, these are 
just a few of the questions that the CPAC organizers now face. I'd like 
to submit into the Record his article of February 7, 2006, entitled 
``Soros Infiltrates Conservative Movement.'' In exchange for a 
donation, is this 32-year-old conservative conference turning itself 
into a Soros proxy organization just like Abramoff's TVC?
  Over the last number of months, we've been surprised to learn how one 
such as Abramoff was able to exploit conservatives for his own 
purposes. Surely in this environment we can't miss seeing it when it's 
happening once again.

                 [From Accuracy in Media, Feb. 7, 2006]

                Soros Infiltrates Conservative Movement

                           (By Cliff Kincaid)

       Calvina Fay of the Drug Free America Foundation has pulled 
     out as a speaker at the Conservative Political Action 
     Conference (CPAC), which begins in Washington, D.C., on 
     Thursday, because a ``mini-debate'' she was scheduled to 
     appear in had been stacked against her. As it now stands, the 
     event will feature two advocates of drug legalization, both 
     of them funded by leftist billionaire and anti-Bush activist 
     George Soros.
       Having put most of the left-wing political movement and 
     many liberal Democrats on his payroll, it is apparent that 
     Soros is now working to manipulate the conservative movement. 
     It is surprising that CPAC is facilitating his scheme.
       A convicted inside trader who specializes in manipulating 
     the currencies of the nations of the world, Soros is usually 
     depicted as a ``philanthropist'' who believes in an ``Open 
     Society.'' Hence, the name of his major funding mechanism, 
     the Open Society Institute. In the Soros view, of course, an 
     ``open society'' means encouraging behavior that undermines 
     the traditional values and culture of America. This is hardly 
     ``conservative.''
       In addition to promoting drug legalization, his causes 
     include open borders, gay rights, abortion rights, opposition 
     to the death penalty, lighter sentences for criminals, and 
     assisted suicide. He tried almost single-handedly to buy the 
     White House for Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential 
     election by spending over $20 million on controversial 
     ``527'' organizations promoting his candidacy. On foreign 
     policy issues, Soros is a big backer of the U.N. and opposes 
     the Bush Administration's war in Iraq and handling of the war 
     on terrorism.
       The scheduled Friday CPAC event on ``A Conservative Drug 
     Policy'' was to feature a mini-debate between Ethan Nadelmann 
     of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Calvina Fay. The 
     ``moderator,'' hardly unbiased, was scheduled to be Rob 
     Kampia of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). The Soros Open 
     Society Institute has given the DPA millions of dollars, 
     including $2.5 million in 2004 alone. MPP has been funded by 
     Soros as well as Peter Lewis, chairman of the Progressive 
     Corporation, who was arrested in New Zealand several years 
     ago after customs officers found marijuana in his luggage. 
     Lewis, who gave $340,000 to MPP in 2004, is also a major 
     funder of the ACLU.
       Court documents show that Kampia himself was convicted in 
     1989 and sentenced to prison for possessing and intending to 
     distribute marijuana.
       While paying thousands of dollars to appear at a 
     conservative conference, MPP is selling $500 tickets to a 
     March 30 fundraising ``party'' at the Playboy Mansion. 
     Playboy founder Hugh Hefner provided the seed money for the 
     drug legalization movement, which is now underwritten mostly 
     by Soros and Lewis.
       ``Playmates will be available to give tours of the mansion 
     grounds as you enjoy great music and comedy in one of 
     America's most renowned settings,'' says MPP's website. A 
     member of the ``host committee'' for the Playboy event is 
     Tommy Chong, who participated in pro-marijuana movies as part 
     of the ``Cheech and Chong'' team and served nine months in 
     prison for selling drug paraphernalia. You won't need an NSA 
     surveillance program to know what's going on in the 
     Playboy Mansion on March 30.
       When Calvina Fay saw that the CPAC ``debate'' had been 
     stacked against her, she pulled out. However, her group will 
     still have a booth at CPAC. So will the Drug Policy Alliance. 
     Later in the day, after the ``debate,'' Kampia's MPP will 
     host an event for all CPAC attendees and guests on why the 
     war on drugs should not target marijuana users. It is not 
     known if Playmates will appear.
       The Drug Policy Alliance also participated in CPAC last 
     year, boasting that Executive Director Nadelmann was ``well-
     received'' and ``appeared on several conservative radio shows 
     coinciding with the conference.''
       This is troubling because DPA and MPP are part of a major 
     deception campaign to convince people that marijuana is 
     harmless or even has medical benefits. Accuracy in Media last 
     year disclosed the existence of documentary evidence that the 
     ``medical marijuana'' movement is a fraud that exploits sick 
     people. Video footage of a pro-marijuana event showed Ed 
     Rosenthal, formerly of High Times magazine, speaking to 
     dozens of marijuana activists. ``With all the talk about 
     medical marijuana, I have to tell you that I also use 
     marijuana medically (laughter),'' he says. ``I have a latent 
     glaucoma, which has never been diagnosed (more laughter). And 
     the reason why it has never been diagnosed is because I've 
     been treating it (laughter). . . But there is a reason why I 
     do use it. And that is because I like to get high. (cheers, 
     applause). Marijuana is fun.''
       Another video excerpt showed Richard Cowan, former director 
     of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana 
     Laws, saying that ``The key to it [legalization] is medical 
     access because once you have hundreds of thousands of people 
     using marijuana medically under medical supervision the whole 
     scam is going to be blown. . . Once there's medical access 
     and if we continue to do what we have to do--and we will--
     then we'll get full legalization.'' Not surprisingly, a 
     Federal investigation of ``medical marijuana'' clubs and 
     dispensaries in California has found they had been used as a 
     cover for drug dealing and money laundering.
       At the same time, evidence of a connection between 
     marijuana and mental illness continues to mount. The 
     influence of marijuana figures in the sensational murder case 
     of Colin Roger Cotting, a 16-year-old in Alaska who allegedly 
     raped his stepmother, beat her to death with a baseball bat, 
     and stuffed her in a freezer. The murder resulted from a 
     dispute when Cotting was confronted by his stepmother about 
     his marijuana use. Cotting told police that he was too stoned 
     on marijuana to remember what had happened.
       In a case that received national attention, Joseph Smith, 
     the convicted killer of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, tried to 
     blame his criminal behavior on using drugs, including cocaine 
     and marijuana.
       British newspapers are now covering a sensational case of 
     ``cannabis psychosis,'' involving a music producer, Lisa 
     Voice, who ``was viciously assaulted in her home by a family 
     friend who had been made psychotic by the drug,'' as the 
     London Sunday Times noted. She suffered a broken jaw, broken 
     nose, collapsed lung, and eye injuries, and has already had 
     11 medical operations to rebuild her face and head. The 
     attacker had been smoking marijuana since the age of 15 and 
     believed he was getting subliminal messages from television.
       In Britain, penalties for the use and possession of 
     marijuana had been lowered after the drug had been 
     reclassified. But Dr. Shahrokh Mireskandari, lawyer for Lisa 
     Voice, was quoted in the Sunday Times as saying, ``Let 
     government ministers who say cannabis is a harmless drug come 
     and explain that decision to Mrs. Voice and her many doctors. 
     Cannabis should never have been reclassified and people such 
     as Mrs. Voice now face a lifetime of pain because of the 
     dangers of this drug.''
       So why is CPAC giving Nadelmann, Kampia and their ilk a 
     platform?

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