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The 9-11 Hypocrisy

Written March 7th, 2004

Once again Democrats have attempted to stifle free speech. This time they are hypocritically accusing President Bush of "politicizing" 9-11, when in reality it is partisan Democrats and anti-Bush activists who have been politicizing 9-11 all along. When you dig into the people and organizations behind the anti-Bush propaganda you find the Democrats and Communists standing shoulder-to-shoulder in opposition to President Bush and the United States of America.

One of the primary sponsors of the anti-Bush "outrage" campaign is "Peaceful Tomorrows", a group dedicated to stopping military responses to terrorism and other threats to national security. One of the principals of Peaceful Tomorrows, Colleen Kelly, has been politicizing 9-11 for quite a while, claiming that since her brother died on that day she has some sort of special dispensation to determine who gets to say what about that day. Kelly has been an outspoken critic of President Bush and United States foreign policy, yet is represented by liberals (in and out of the media) simply as a non-partisan "victim of 9-11".

From its inception, Peaceful Tomorrows has blamed the United States for 9-11:

There was no justification for what happened on Sept. 11, but we need to look at the reasons why this happened, we need to look at our foreign policies. —Daniel Jones, a Peaceful Tomorrows organizer and husband of Colleen Kelly.
Criticism of the United States has not stopped there. Peaceful Tomorrows has criticized the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and tried to focus attention on alleged victims of United States military operations instead of the hard-won freedom for millions of people in those two countries.

The problems with Peaceful Tomorrows do not stop there, however. This organization receives millions in funding from two very unlikely sources: the United States government and the Democrat Presidential candidate.

That is right, not only does this group, which criticizes the United States government, receive Federal funding, but it is also being bankrolled by John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry! As Peaceful Tomorrows states on its own site: "Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization." The Tides Center is a leftist clearinghouse that receives money from Teresa Heinz Kerry:

A December 2003 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review detailed the financial relationship between the Tides Center and the charitable foundation controlled by Mrs. Heinz Kerry:
"Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations ­ the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment—chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry."

According to the Tribune-Review, Mrs. Heinz Kerry funneled millions of dollars into the parent group of Peaceful Tomorrows:

"Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania," the paper revealed.
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The Federal government also funds the Tides Center, to the tune of $8,000,000 in taxpayer money. This money—your money—flowed into the Tides Center in the form of federal grants made by eight different agencies between 1997 and 2001 alone. You can just imagine the headlines in the liberal media if President Bush's wife was bankrolling anti-Democrat ads, and if they were also using Federal grant money to do it! Why is the liberal press silent on this issue? You already know the answer: they are willing participants in the cover-up and disinformation campaign.

In addition, Peaceful Tomorrows is helped by "Fellowship of Reconciliation", yet another leftist organization agitating against the United States and President Bush. This group was one of the many "useful fool" organizations that supported calls for a nuclear "freeze" with the Soviet Union, which would have cemented a lead in nuclear weapons for the Soviets. The Fellowship partners with such groups as the Communist Party, USA to work against the interests of the United States and Israel. Peaceful Tomorrows openly thanks the Fellowship for helping it get started: "Many thanks to our initial fiscal sponsor The Fellowship of Reconciliation for helping us get started!"

The truth could not be worse for the Democrats. They have politicized 9-11 for their own gain, they have partnered with Communist groups and other anti-American groups in order to achieve their goals and they have used the funding of a Democrat candidate's family to attack that candidates opponent, a clear violation of campaign financing laws.

The liberal media will certainly not publish this information unless they are forced to. If you are disgusted by this latest attack on America by Democrats, then you need to forward this article to every news source and every political official you can. Only our collective voices will expose this attack on America.

If you want the real feelings of America and 9-11, look no further than the open letter of support written by the families of victims of 9-11.

[I]n reality it is partisan Democrats and anti-Bush activists who have been politicizing 9-11



Kelly has been an outspoken critic of President Bush and United States foreign policy



The Tides Center is a leftist clearinghouse that receives money from Teresa Heinz Kerry



[T]hey have partnered with Communist groups and other anti-American groups in order to achieve their goals




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