Petition declares George Soros a 'terrorist'

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A petition demanding billionaire investor George Soros be declared a “domestic terrorist” has obtained over 100,000 signatures – enough to force the Trump administration to issue a formal response.

Posted in the “We the People” section of the White House website on August 20, it took less than two weeks to reach the threshold. The deadline to do so was September 19.

Soros, the world’s most notorious short seller, is famous for attacking currencies. In 1992, he went after the British pound. In 1997 he was blamed for destroying the Thai and Malaysian economies, and turned his attention to attacking Hong Kong markets.

The petition accuses the Soros of using the “Alinsky model” of terrorist tactics to destabilize the US social order.

Saul Alinsky was a Chicago-based community organizer who wrote the infamous “Rules for Radicals,” a book meant to be a guide to aid leftists in the violent overthrow of the US government.

George Soros, billionaire and founder of Soros Fund Management, pauses during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on January 19, 2017. /VCG Photo

Here’s the petition’s full text:

Whereas George Soros has willfully and on an ongoing basis attempted to destabilize and otherwise commit acts of sedition against the United States and its citizens, has created and funded dozens (and probably hundreds) of discrete organizations whose sole purpose is to apply Alinsky model terrorist tactics to facilitate the collapse of the systems and Constitutional government of the United State, and has developed unhealthy and undue influence over the entire Democrat Party and a large portion of the US Federal government, the DOJ should immediately declare George Soros and all of his organizations and staff members to be domestic terrorists, and have all of his personal an organizational wealth and assets seized under Civil Asset Forfeiture law.

Soros has reportedly funded organizations and projects that have been criticized for their radical tactics. His Open Society Foundation, along with USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, have been accused of fomenting revolutions to install US-friendly governments from Serbia, in 2000, to Ukraine, in 2014 and Macedonia in 2017.

The 100,000 signatures garnered within one month marks the threshold required for the Trump administration to be forced into making a formal response.

Reports, however, suggest that the White House has left almost a dozen petitions unanswered since Donald Trump took office in February, and is considering shutting the service down.

Several in the queue include an unanswered petition seeking the immediate release of Trump’s tax returns, which is currently the most popular with over 1.1 million signatures, and another asking the president to formally recognize the Antifa anti-fascist movement as a terrorist group.

Hungarian government poster portraying George Soros and saying "Don't let George Soros have the last laugh" is seen at a tram stop in Budapest, Hungary on July 6, 2017. /VCG Photo

Soros's beef with Trump

Soros, 87, supported Trump’s rival during the 2016 race, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and previously described the current president as a “con artist and would-be dictator.”

He lost nearly 1 billion US dollars after the stock market surged following Donald Trump's unexpected Nov. 8 election victory, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Soros' hedge fund, Soros Fund Management, manages about 30 billion US dollars for Soros and his family.

"Soros had found himself between the hammer and the anvil. Trump holds a grudge against him for financing Clinton's presidential campaign, while the Democrats accuse him of failing all the pre-election work of the Democratic Party. Hence, Soros is in quite a complicated position," Alexander Gusev, a political scientist and director of the Institute for Strategic Planning, told Sputnik.

Gusev further explained that given Trump's attitude towards Soros, he will probably set it in motion.

Terrorism is a very serious accusation in the US, meaning either a life sentence or capital punishment.