Over the past few days the right-of-center* digital ink news sources have been all over this story and it is now pretty widely reported that George Soros, Bill Gates, via the leftist/socialist TIDES CENTER FOUNDATION 'charity' are the major income sources and organizers of the Pro-HAMAS terrorist rallies. There are clearly other charities involved.
At a minimum, at least these semi-mainstream, but clearly right leaning, are covering this in various ways:
- Breitbart
- Washington Free Beacon
- Just The News
- Washington Examiner
- Newsmax
- Off the Press
- Zero Hedge
This is an interesting angle on the story . . one that involves potential prosecution. Full story at the Free Beacon link:
The anti-Israel activists who attempted to blockade a U.S. military ship bound for Israel belong to a subsidiary of a top left-wing dark money group. Experts say their potentially illegal actions could put that group at risk of losing its nonprofit status.
freebeacon.com
. . . The Arab Resource and Organizing Center organized a "direct action" protest in the Port of Tacoma in Washington, in an effort to stop the MV Cape Orlando from leaving port to aid the Jewish state. The Arab Resource and Organizing Center is a "fiscal sponsorship" of the Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) and one of the largest left-wing dark money organizations in the country. That means there is no legal distinction between the Tides Center and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center—employees of the latter are employees of the former.
That could pose a problem for the Tides Center, which creates pop-up groups to advance progressive causes. Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the Arab Resource and Organizing Center's protest. If the government charges the group with a crime, they could have grounds to strip the Tides Center of its nonprofit status.
"If criminal conduct is ultimately proven, that would not be consistent with an entity's charitable mission under the tax code—and consequently would challenge its tax status," said Elliot Berke, an attorney and nonprofit expert.
A revocation of the Tides Center’s nonprofit status would leave the organization essentially unable to raise money, a damaging outcome for the progressive movement. Such an outcome is unlikely from just one incident, experts say, but pushing legal limits could eventually leave investigators little choice. The attorney general of the District of Columbia last month issued subpoenas to several dark money behemoths, including the New Venture Fund, over accusations that they skirted federal regulations for how a nonprofit should operate.
With more than half a billion dollars under management, the Tides Center can quickly deploy its vast army of fiscal sponsorships at a whim. The Washington Free Beacon reported that a primary organizer of recent anti-Israel demonstrations, the Adalah Justice Project, is another Tides fiscal sponsorship. . . .
NOW, I am NOT a lawyer, but I've employed plenty of them during my career and have been know to be "that guy" who actually pushed one of my legal teams to successfully pursue the legal team of a guy who was unjustly suing me, to the point that we bankrupted his legal firm. So being the jerk in the room when it comes to this type of crap, I would suggest that the statute of limitations on potential crimes like this is typically 5 years.
5 years. Think about that. Crimes committed under a liberal administration, could easily, be prosecuted under a more common sense administration, should the Dept of Justice leadership change.
Now we also know that the DOJ used factual recognition and AI to track down the far more peaceful Jan 6 protesters. One may wonder why so many of these students are wearing head scarves, hoodies and face masks. Yet even with that, many can still be seen with masks down in various footage, so . . .
Hmmm... that could be interesting.