Over the long Memorial Day Weekend I discovered something that alarmed me, but it didn't totally surprise me. I suspected all along that something "fishy" was happening during all of the protests in Ferguson, Staten Island, Baltimore and other places. I found it hard to believe that people who actually lived in these communities where buildings and stores were being burned and looted were the same people who took to the streets every day and night to protest.
The majority of afflicted communities are majority minority with high unemployment (and Barack Obama being president has not helped them one iota), but I still found it hard to believe that people who lived in these places were out protesting all day. I told myself, even with unemployment high, many must have jobs to go to. And, in the wee hours of the morning they should be home fast asleep so they could wake-up at sun-up refreshed and ready for work. They simply didn't have time to be protesting.
So here is my big discovery. Billionaire and ultra-liberal George Soros is behind a funding scheme to pay rowdy mobs to turn out for demonstrations in places like Ferguson and Baltimore. He is a supporter of a lot of spurious activities linked to radical ideas that liberals champion and hold dear. For years Soros has sponsored several shady groups, among them is Media Matters, the Tides Foundation, the Open Society, the Gamaliel Foundation, Organization for Black Struggle and an outfit known as MORE; Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (which is a successor and an offshoot of the bankrupt and discredited ACORN). These organizations are entwined with others including the Hands- up Foundation, and Black Lives Matter, which was founded to assist in rabble-rousing during the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman farce in Florida a couple of years ago.
I really wish I could understand what motivates Soros. Undoubtedly he is a bright person and he's made a lot of money. He's well known as a ruthless currency trader having made billions by nearly ruining the British Pound in 1992. In fact he was known as "the man who broke the Bank of England." Since then he has been involved in numerous liberal causes and he spent $33 million funding these organizations and the scurrilous activities mentioned above, plus countless others. What I don't understand is what he gets out of it. How does he profit from sponsoring rabble-rousing and turmoil, especially in the black communities where he directs his resources to create unrest, turning it into riots and looting? I just don't understand it, but he must get something out of it.
My sources for today's column include The Washington Times, Newsmax.com, and The Daily Mail. According to these sources, more than 5,000 people were recruited and paid to travel from Boston, North Carolina, Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York, Chicago and other places as a 'Rent-A-Mob" to stir-up trouble in Ferguson and other unsuspecting communities around the country.
More Hillary troubles
Hillary lied to us -- again. She told us that she used only one email address while she was at the State Department. That was a lie. Now we know that she had at least three different email addresses. How do we know that? A Romanian hacker infiltrated Sydney Blumenthal's email account a few years back and he posted some of the emails between Sydney and Hillary on line. Her additional email address was also disclosed in the posting
The Clinton Foundation must amend its tax returns -- again. Seems that whoever is in charge forgot to report about $26 million the foundation received from foreign sources and other groups for speeches given by Bill and Hillary. Last week The Wall Street Journal blasted the foundation with these words:
"The Clinton foundation is not and never has been a charity. Bill and Hillary created it in 2001 as a vehicle to assist their continuing political ambitions .... it is a fundraising network and a jobs program for Clinton political operatives."
I opine, you decide.
-- Willie Williams is a Siloam Springs resident. He can be reached at [email protected]. The opinions expressed are those of the author.
Editorial on 05/27/2015