Follow the money - #1

There are a number of people protesting President Bush's use of 9-11 imagery in his advertisements for the Presidential Campaign. 9-11 was a terrorist attack on the United States that killed over 3,000 innocent people and I think that it is very much a political event and not a criminal one. It is what served to change our national policy when dealing with the terrorists who hide under the cloak of "fundamental" Islam. The organization that seems to be behind all of these people is a group called Peaceful Tomorrows. If you visit their website, you will see this: bq. 9/11 Families & Firefighters Call on Bush Campaign To Withdraw Ads Using WTC Imagery September 11th Family members of victims killed at the World Trade Center and New York City firefighters met in New York City today to renounce the Bush campaign’s use of 9/11 imagery in their newest campaign advertisements. Those assembled called on the Bush campaign to withdraw these ads from the airwaves. And more: bq. "To use these images of a scene of destruction and murder in a political campaign is inappropriate at best, and politicians from across the spectrum should know that there is bipartisan opposition among 9/11 families to this type of offensive exploitation," said Andrew Rice, who lost his brother in the World Trade Center bombing. It gets interesting if you turn to the Contribution page and see that the force behind Peaceful Tomorrows is the Tides Center. Literally. You are asked to make checks payable to: 'Peaceful Tomorrows/Tides Center'. The Tides Center is a 501(c) non-profit that channels donations anonymously into about 350 "projects" ranging from Indymedia to Peaceful Tomorrows. Some of the major contributors to Tides include the wife of Presidential hopeful J. F. Kerry - Theresa Heinz Kerry. She has given over Four Million Dollars to the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania (her family is from Pittsburgh). About a month ago, Front Page Magazine did a very detailed article on Theresa's contributions to the Radical Left. Other recipients of Tides money are MoveOn.Org (which did the videos comparing Bush to Hitler), the International Action Center which has supported Slobodan Milosevic and Kim Jong-Il and was force behind International ANSWER (readers may remember that ANSWER has been revealed to be a Marxist/Communist organization) Nasty piece of work...