ICYMI: Billionaire George Soros Spent $33MILLION Bankrolling Ferguson Demonstrators To Create 'Echo Chamber' And Drive National Protests
 |
Protestors march and hold their fists aloft as they march
during ongoing demonstrations in reaction to the shooting
of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 16, 2014.
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson) / rt.com
|
Liberal billionaire George Soros donated $33million to social justice organizations which helped turn events in Ferguson from a local protest into a national flashpoint.
The handouts, revealed in tax filings from Soros's private foundation, were given to dozens of different groups which weighed in on the crisis.
Organizers from professional groups in Washington, D.C., and New York were bussed into the Missouri town to co-ordinate messaging and lobby to news media to cover events using the billionaire's funding.
The flood of donations were uncovered in an analysis of the latest tax return by Soros's Open Society Foundations by the Washington Times.
The cash was reportedly funneled into keeping up numbers of protesters in the community over a period of months by bringing in outside activists.
Meanwhile papers from think tanks were disseminated to bring in extra coverage of the civil unrest, also linked to the police killings of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Tamir Rice, 12, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Outlets which covered the research, and the movements themselves, included one, Colorlines, which Soros himself has funded.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk
Follow Larry Elder on Twitter
"Like" Larry Elder on Facebook
