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February 10, 2005, radical New York City lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, defrauding the United States, and making false statements.
    A jury found that Ms. Stewart had smuggled messages from her jailed client—Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman—to his Islamic terrorist supporters in Egypt. As you may remember, Rahman is the blind Muslim cleric who was convicted of plotting to blow up the United Nations and planning the first bombing of the World Trade Center, among other things. He had also urged his followers to kill all Jews. Rahman is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado.
    Anyway, the sixty-six-year-old Stewart, who had openly advocated violence in the past, is now a convicted felon essentially for helping her pal Rahman. And guess who paid some of her legal bills: George Soros’s Open Society Institute. Nice. One footnote: Both Soros and Stewart come from Jewish backgrounds, which is peculiar in light of their support for radical Islamists who want to re-create the Holocaust.
    Continuing to operate pretty much under the radar, Soros has cemented his alliance with another billionaire, seventy-year-old Peter Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Insurance Corporation. These guys are working feverishly to ensure that the secular-progressive battalions are supplied with plenty of resources and firepower by which to pursue their global foreign-policy strategy and radical domestic agenda. Their primary attack vehicle is the far-left Web site MoveOn.org, which routinely slanders and smears perceived opposition. With MoveOn as a conduit, Soros and Lewis funnel money to other smear Websites that target individuals in the media and politics for personal attacks. This is a nasty, nasty business and one that is constantly “evolving.”

    Peter Lewis, another major funder of S-P causes.
    Even with the MoveOn hatchet machine in good fighting trim, both Soros and Lewis realize that they must reach beyond the Internet to move the S-P movement ahead, so they have mustered various elite media people to carry their water. Aforementioned
New York Times
columnists Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, and Bob Herbert have all referenced far-left Web site postings in complimentary terms in their articles. Harvard pundit Alan Dershowitz used Internet smear material in a Los Angeles debate.
New York Daily News
entertainment columnist Jack Matthews and the paper’s vicious gossip writers routinely use smear items fed to them by radical-left guttersnipes.
Dallas Morning News
columnist Macarena Hernandez and
Denver Post
columnist Cindy Rodriguez used information from Web sites under their bylines (Ms. Rodriguez was subsequently embarrassed by corrections printed by her employer). In fact, the far-left Internet smear merchants have solid access to the so-called elite media, something the far-right Internet bloggers will never have.
    And these Internet guttersnipes will turn on their own in a heartbeat, as
Washington Post
ombudsman Deborah Howell found out in January 2006. Ms. Howell made the mistake of pointing out that indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff funneled money to Democrats as well as Republicans. Even though that is true according to prosecutors, the far-left smear merchants organized a personal attack campaign against Ms. Howell. The result: The
Post
had to shut down its Web site after Howell was inundated with obscene threats. George Soros must be very proud.
    But give S-P general Soros some credit for strategy. In just a few short years, he has developed a defamation pipeline that can instantly injure anyone in the United States. He has also used organizations like the NAACP and, ironically, the Anti-Defamation League to do his bidding, as both organizations have used quotes from far-left Web sites he has funded.
    To sum up, Soros is a smart, ruthless ideologue who will stop at nothing to advance the secular-progressive offensive. He has no scruples,