Who's really behind this lawsuit?
“With funding for the initial phase of the litigation
provided by the Open Society Institute and the Irene Diamond
Fund, the NAACP will be represented in this case…”
- The Honorable Kweisi Mfume, 7/12/99 Keynote Speech, 90th
NAACP Annual Meeting
“Foundations have helped drive a surge of anti-gun
initiatives:
The Joyce Foundations… has handed out $13.2 million
in grants to 55 organizations working on gun issues since
1993… Among the grant recipients are the Washington-based
Ceasefire Inc., the Violence Policy Center, Physicians for
social Responsibility and the Educations Fund to End Handgun
Violence…Soros… established the Center on Crime,
Communities and Culture in 1996… It has dispensed $13
million, with its most notable contribution the money put
into the Brooklyn lawsuit.”
- David B. Ottaway, The Washington Post, 5/19/99
The Legal Action Project, Brady Center to Prevent
Gun Violence
“With the Project's lawyers among its counsel, the
NAACP seeks a court order that would force these companies
to end practices that allow guns to flow easily into criminal
hands.”
- www.gunlawsuits.org/features
The Violence Policy Center & the Coalition
to Stop Gun Violence
Attorneys from these two vehemently anti-gun groups are directly
involved in the NAACP’s lawsuit. Matthew Nosanchuk,
a former Clinton Justice Department employee and well-known
anti-gun crusader, is taking depositions for the plaintiff
in this case. Nosanchuk now works for the Violence Policy
Center.
Americans for Gun Safety
Americans
for Gun Safety (AGS), founded by Andrew McKelvey, is a
project of both the Tsunami Fund and the Tides Center (both
are non-profit organizations), and claims to be a bipartisan
organization with a centrist perspective on gun control.
That facade quickly vanishes once you realize that Tsunami
and Tides are ultra-liberal foundations and that Jonathan
Cowan, who runs AGS for McKelvey, was Chief of Staff to former
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, the
self-professed anti-gun point man for the Clinton administration.
The facade further vanishes when you discover that Ed Hill,
Elisa Barnes' paralegal on the Hamilton case, now works for
AGS and is in New York helping Barnes with the NAACP trial.
AGS claims to support gun rights, but support of these anti-gun,
politically motivated, liberal-financed, frivolous lawsuits
is inconsistent with support for the individual right to keep
and bear arms. Americans for Gun Safety’s true colors
shine through.
The Open Society Institute
The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund received
a multi-year grant during the year 2000 from the Open Society
Institute. While they do not list the exact dollar figure,
they acknowledge that the amount of the grant is between $100,000
to $499,999.
The Open Society Institute is part of the Soros network,
a group of organizations created by George Soros, a Hungarian
born financier. Soros has recently been convicted of insider
trading by a French court.
NAACP attorney Elisa Barnes received $300,000 from Soros
for her work on the Hamilton case.
The Irene Diamond Fund
“I think guns should just be banned.”
- Irene Diamond to Allan R. Clyde, during an interview
for the March/April 1998 issue of Foundations News &
Commentary
The Funders’ Collaborative For Gun Violence
Prevention
Another organization that falls under the Soros umbrella
and is funding the NAACP lawsuit is The Funders’ Collaborative
For Gun Violence Prevention. It receives funding from the
Open Society Institute, The Irene Diamond Fund and “other”
private donors.
- www.soros.org
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