What does John Kerry really believe in?

BitsBlog posts analysis of this article on FrontPageMagazine.com. The article details some of Theresa Heinz Kerry's charitable contributions as a window into what issues are really near and dear to the Kerry's hearts.

The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money. Tides does so, for a nominal fee. Drummond Pike told The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” That becomes understandable when one views the list of Tides grant recipients. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?

Here is the tip of the iceberg:

Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to fund the antiwar movement. These projects fueled such hysterical protest organizations as MoveOn.org, the website that recently featured two separate commercials portraying George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler. [emphasis mine]

According to FrontPage:

Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in 1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for the Left.

Read the article (and check out BitsBlog's analysis) to find out just how many organizations you love to hate are bankrolled by Heinz Kerry. You'll be amazed at just how many there are.

Comments

[Lisa Robinson]

I would like to know is (a possible) ruler for the U.S. a known Christian????

[Lisa Robinson]

I would like to know is (a possible) ruler for the U.S. a known Christian????

[Lisa Robinson]

I would like to know is (a possible) ruler for the U.S. a known Christian????

[Lisa Robinson]

I would like to know is (a possible) ruler for the U.S. a known Christian????

[Laer Pearce]

Tides Foundation also funds many of the most hysterical ecologist radical groups: terrorist groups that burn down homes and businesses that offend their worldview, eco-isolationist groups that want no human interface with nature and advocate depopulating vast parts of America so it can return to the wild.

Question: Who do you think will be the better regulator, Bush or Kerry? Second question: Who will certainly be the better over-regulator?

[Womangirl]

In Response to the spammer who asked if Kerry was Christian. In so many words, I would say no.

the Leftist Paulist Center Kerry calls his "church" features a number of adherents of the liberation philosophy, which played a pivotal role in the Marxist uprisings in El Salvador and Nicaragua back in the late 1970s and 1980s.
A number of far-left Jesuits are regular speakers at the Center, which lately has featured classes on "Tapas Acupuncture" techniques and a series of lectures of how best to remove the Church hierarchy in order to evolve the Catholic Church into a nontraditional democracy.

[Meg Eason]

Honestly, you lost a lot of points with me in particular when you started quoting the frontpage magazine. I hadnt heard of it, so I went, and it took about thirty seconds to see it for what it is- a clearly right skewed and totally partisan propoganda page, guarenteed to only present one side of the facts. I respected your ideas far more when you tried to back them up with credible news and information sources like the BLS and CNN. When I refute your facts and rebut them I keep it to credible sources. If you want to play like a grown up- do the same.

Best wishes,
Margaret

[Big mama T]

You little people are such fools. That is why you refuse to bow when I speak. You will get yours, you idiots. John & I know what is best for you peasants even though you do not. We long so for the good days, the European days of elegance when royalty was respected. Ants!!! Insects!!! Middle class riff-raff. You make fun of us because we do not pay taxes on my $3.2 billion in assets. You make fun of us because we pay the bare minimum of 0.983% in taxes on my $80M/yr income while I support a 30% tax on any family earning over $100,000. You ignorant scum. I suport the outsourcing of all the Heinz manufacturing plants and their thousands of jobs so that my income will grow even more while my husband tells you about all the bad outsourcing plotted by evil US corporations. Worship me and my waned beauty or I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!