Divest Terror breakthrough? Or a bait-and switch? :: CSP

Since August 2004, public pension funds across the United States have, with few exceptions, steadfastly refused to participate in an effort to deny terrorist-sponsoring states the wherewithal such regimes use to support attacks on Americans, here and abroad.   In fact, since the Center for Security Policy first unveiled its Divest Terror initiative in that month with the publication of its landmark report The Terror Investments of the Fifty States, a number of these funds have: gone to considerable lengths to attack the Center and its allies in this fight; worked tirelessly to defeat legislation aimed at taking state and local pension funds' portfolios terror-free; and otherwise striven to insulate this country's enemies from any financial pressure that legislators, pension fund beneficiaries or taxpayer-underwriters might try to impose.

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