Soros - Architect of the European Migrant Crisis?

[Hawkmoon]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/how-george-soros-singlehandedly-created-european-refugee-crisis-and-why

This is a very interesting article. I don't know anything about the site -- does anyone know if it's credible?

[Perd Hapley]

It's where my conspiracy cow-orker gets all his news. 

[Ron]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/how-george-soros-singlehandedly-created-european-refugee-crisis-and-why

This is a very interesting article. I don't know anything about the site -- does anyone know if it's credible?

I stumbled across them a few months ago.

They confirm a lot of my biases so I like them 

The writing seems to be of a much higher quality than sites like Breitbart etc.

[MechAg94]

I may have missed it.  While it said Soros certainly supports teh migrant "invasion", it didn't really say how he caused it beyond supporting open borders politicians.  Did he do something in Turkey and other countries to get those Muslim men to suddenly start entering Europe?

[Ron]

If you swing the doors wide open they will come.

[MechAg94]

If you swing the doors wide open they will come.

Agreed.  I just thought the article was big on claims and small on details regarding some parts.  It did gives some numbers, but not about everything.

[Scout26]

I may have missed it.  While it said Soros certainly supports teh migrant "invasion", it didn't really say how he caused it beyond supporting open borders politicians.  Did he do something in Turkey and other countries to get those Muslim men to suddenly start entering Europe?

In 2015, a Sky News reporter found “Migrant Handbooks” on the Greek island of Lesbos. It was later revealed that the handbooks, which are written in Arabic, had been given to refugees before crossing the Mediterranean by a group called “Welcome to the EU.”

[Hawkmoon]

I may have missed it.  While it said Soros certainly supports teh migrant "invasion", it didn't really say how he caused it beyond supporting open borders politicians.  Did he do something in Turkey and other countries to get those Muslim men to suddenly start entering Europe?

In 2015, a Sky News reporter found “Migrant Handbooks” on the Greek island of Lesbos. It was later revealed that the handbooks, which are written in Arabic, had been given to refugees before crossing the Mediterranean by a group called “Welcome to the EU.”

And:

Welcome to the EU is funded by—you guessed it—the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations being a Soros group.

[Perd Hapley]

So now it's a Lesbian conspiracy.

[RevDisk]

Classic case of 1+1=20 billion.

Soros supports a bunch of different social goals, by giving money to NGOs to hopefully shape policy or events. So do the Koch brothers, famously. And millions of other people to greater or lesser degrees. I certainly do when I donate the ACLU, EFF, NRA, etc.

Donating money to pro mass immigration groups is not being "the architect of the European Migrant Crisis". Firstly, folks have been illegally immigrating to Europe from Africa or the Middle East since about 35,000 BC. That's how people came to get to Europe. There have also been exoduses out of Europe as well. Trying to pin mass migrations on any one person other than a general, emperor or dictator is just plain silly.

[MechAg94]

Classic case of 1+1=20 billion.

Soros supports a bunch of different social goals, by giving money to NGOs to hopefully shape policy or events. So do the Koch brothers, famously. And millions of other people to greater or lesser degrees. I certainly do when I donate the ACLU, EFF, NRA, etc.

Donating money to pro mass immigration groups is not being "the architect of the European Migrant Crisis". Firstly, folks have been illegally immigrating to Europe from Africa or the Middle East since about 35,000 BC. That's how people came to get to Europe. There have also been exoduses out of Europe as well. Trying to pin mass migrations on any one person other than a general, emperor or dictator is just plain silly.

1.  Our donations to gun rights groups don't add up to much compared to the spending of someone like Bloomberg.  The NRA doesn't have political clout because of its money.  It is because of the number of members it has and its past track record of affecting elections.  In the US, money by itself only gets you so far if opposed by actual grass roots efforts.

2.  I agree that he is only one of probably a number of rich guys who support left wing politics.  He is one of the most well known. 

3.  I wouldn't say he was responsible for the crisis, but he is one of the backers of the politicians who are letting it happen with little resistance. 

Europe is what you get when you leave government to the aristocrats and don't pay attention. 

[freakazoid]

I keep hearing that he is funding a lot of these protest/riot movements.