BR visit promotes earned-income credit for families By DAMIANE RICKS Advocate staff writer Published: Mar 20, 2006
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1. The Secretary of State of Ohio Jennifer Brunner filed a request in the Supreme Court relating to the underlying claim in her state that there has been voter registration fraud…with ties to the work of ACORN in registering voters.
2. A group — the Service Employees International Union [SEIU] — filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court asking the Supreme Court to rule with the Secretary of State of Ohio (and essentially asking for a ruling that would be favorable to ACORN in that it would “call off the dogs.”)
3. I thought it curious that SEIU would file an amicus brief for Brunner and did some quick research …and now I need more indepth research (which is where YOU come in.) According to my quick research..the same person who started ACORN, started SIEU. His name is Wade Rathke. So then I wondered, who is Wade Rathke?
4. I did some really quick research and learned that Rathke was a member of the anti war group SDS. This is where YOU come in again. If you know 60’s history, you know that the Weather Underground was an offshoot of SDS. There was some disagreement in the late 60’s and members of the SDS - Bill Ayers and his wife - left and formed/ joined the Weather Underground.
So now I am wondering: do Rathke and Ayers know each other (from SDS / Weather Underground days)? what is the connection now, if any, between them? between ACORN and SEIU? between them and Senator Obama?
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With regard to the Marxist Onada’s mysterious “birth certificate”: The bottom line is that if you’re a dem, and more importantly black, the US Constitution is merely an inconvenient piece of paper if it proscribes a particular behavior or sets rules governing things like presidential eligibility.
Awesome research.
I’m not ready to count out the possibility the invisible “birth certificate” will yet rear its ugly head before Nov. 4. The second law suit that was submitted earlier this week may finally kick things off top dead center. Just have to see.
In the meantime I remain optimistic that the Marxist Onada will be defeated. I think the McCain ticket is ahead as we speak. The large number of dem gaffs committed over the past week and a half indicates to me there is a lot of worried people in the Marxist Onada camp. And I think it is spilling over to the US House and Senate races. May even be affecting state races.
Don’t want to get too exuberant here, but we have not seen the Joe the Plumber fall out in the polls yet. Nor has McCain unleashed his ad assault for the last 2-3 weeks of the campaign.
1n 1965, William (Bill) Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are inspired by Saul Alinsky of Chicago’s radical political philosophy that is spelled out in his book “Rules for Radicals”. They join the leftist political group called the New Party and another leftist political group called Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that has just been founded at Michigan State University.
In the mid-1960s, Columbia Sociology Professor Richard A. Cloward and his wife, Francis Fox Piven, are also inspired by the radical political philosophy of Saul Alinsky. Based on nformation in Saul Alinsky’s book, “Rules for Radicals”, Cloward & Piven devise a powerful strategy that hinges on creating social class warfare to force America’s capitalistic democratic republic to CHANGE into a totalitarian socialist state.
In 1966, in an effort to put their strategy for socio-political change into action, Cloward & Piven
establish the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO).
In 1967, Cloward & Piven recruit a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and follower of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, George A. Wiley, to run National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). Wiley hired Wade Rathke. The NWRO confrontations, sit-ins, and boycotts were highly successful.
From 1968-1969, As head of an SDS regional group, the “Jesse James Gang”, Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy. The group Ayers headed in Detroit, MI became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS. “During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year 1969. Ayers became a roommate of Terry Robinson who would later be killed while making a bomb. In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.
In 1969, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (who would later become his wife) co-found the Weathermen domestic terrorist group. The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM’s Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a “white fighting force” to be allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” and other “anti-colonial” movements to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.”
From 1968-1969, as head of an SDS regional group, the “Jesse James Gang”, Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy. The group Ayers headed in Detroit, MI became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS. “During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year 1969. Ayers became a roommate of Terry Robinson who would later be killed while making a bomb. In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.
In 1970, Wiley passes the mantle at NWRO to community organizers, Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado. They expand the NWRO into the Arkansas Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and later into the national Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Maude Hurd has been National President of ACORN since 1990. Both Wiley and Rathke were influenced by Chicago’s radical activist Saul Alinsky and by the strategies set forth in his books, Reveille for Radicals (1964) and Rules for Radicals (1971). Disruption, intimidation, physical abuse, and ability to adapt to shifting political events are mainstays of the Alinsky rules and his end-justifies-the-means mentality. Rathke had been active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), known for its violence, and in the domestic terrorist group, the Weathermen, which bombed government offices. William Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, Chicago friends of Obama, also were members of SDS and the Weathermen. ACORN’s hidden agenda is to change the form of the U.S. government from a republic to a socialist oligarchy, using class warfare and the aid of radical liberals within the Democrat Party. This hidden agenda explains why the liberal newsmedia go mute on Obama’s ACORN ties.
Cloward and Piven were joined over the years by nouveau billionaires led by George Soros. Through his Democracy Alliance, they funded ACORN and Soros groups such as America Votes and Center for Community Change. This is likely to be where Obama got his “change” message. We now have a better idea of what kind of “change” Obama has in mind.
By advocating massive, no-holds-barred ACORN voter registration campaigns, Cloward & Piven sought a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. that would re-distribute the nation’s wealth and lead to a totalitarian socialist state. Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly newsmedia to force a redistribution of the nation’s wealth.
In 1970, Ayers is called “a national leader of the Weatherman organization and “one of the chief theoreticians of the Weathermen” and he participates in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters. In a townhouse explosion in Greenwich Village, Weatherman member Ted Gold, Ayers’ close friend Terry Robbins, and Ayers’ girlfriend, Diana Oughton, were killed when a nail bomb (an anti-personnel device) they were assembling exploded. The bomb they had been assembling was meant to be set off at a military dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey. Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson survived the blast. Ayers was not facing criminal charges at the time, but the federal government later filed charges against him.
In 1970, Ayers, Dohrn, and several other Weathermen associates “go underground”. While underground, Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn marry and the two remained fugitives together, changing identities, jobs and locations.
In 1971, Bill Ayers and other Weathermen bomb the United States Capitol building.
In 1972, Bill Ayers and other Weathermen bomb the Pentagon. Because of a water leak caused by the Pentagon bombing, aerial bombardments during the Vietnam War had to be halted for several days. According to Ayers, “Although the bomb that rocked the Pentagon was itsy-bitsy - weighing close to two pounds - it caused ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ of damage. The operation cost under $500, and no one was killed or even hurt.” The Weathermen also set five bombs around a judges’ home while his family of five was in the home sleeping. A fire ensued, but the family got out in time thanks to a neighbor who removed one of the bombs from beneath the gas tank of the family car.
From 1970-1974, the radical Weather Underground Organization claimed responsibility for a dozen bombings.
In June 1974, the Weather Underground released a 151-page volume titled Prairie Fire, which stated: “We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men underground in the United States.” The Weatherman leadership, including Bill Ayers, pushed for a radical reformulation of sexual relations under the slogan “Smash Monogamy”.
In 1975, when New York City was forced into bankruptcy as a result of overloading the welfare rolls with massive numbers of poor people, New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani called the Cloward-Piven Strategy “an effort at economic sabotage.” Nevertheless, the strategy worked and led to ACORN’s Project Vote.
In 1975, after losing 3 “weathermen” terrrorists in a bomb-making accident and being that they are now on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, Ayers & Dohrn “go underground”. While under assumed identities, they continue to call the shots on the radical terrorist actions of what is now known as the Weather Underground Organization (WUO).
In 1975, when New York City was forced into bankruptcy as a result of overloading the welfare rolls with massive numbers of poor people, New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani called the Cloward-Piven Strategy “an effort at economic sabotage.” Nevertheless, the strategy worked and led to ACORN’s Project Vote.
Through the years, ACORN portrays itself as a democratic organization whose decisions are made by its thousands of member families. But history indicates that only one family really controls ACORN: the Rathkes. For all of the members it claims to represent, and for all of the organizations it maintains, ACORN is the family business founded by Wade Rathke and run with help from his wife, his brother, and at least one child. Dale Rathke is Wade’s brother. One former employee of Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 100, which is one of two unions run by Rathke and the ACORN empire, described Dale as the “financial guru” of the organization. He is the signator to official documents for dozens of ACORN entities.
From 1985-1988, Barack works in Chicago as a community organizer for $10,000/year and $2,000 to buy a used car. Having been hired by Gerald (Jerry) Kellman, a social activist who recruited him, Obama takes a staff (community organizer) position with the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a position made possible by a grant from the Woods Fund of Chicago, a “philanthropic” foundation whose Board Ayers and Obama will soon serve together on. The DCP community organizers work with churches (like Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity Church) to organize job training and other programs for poor and working-class residents of the Roseland and Altgeld Gardens public housing projects on the city’s industrial far South Side. Obama also organizes workers who had lost their jobs due to the steel mill and factory closings. Perhaps Obama’s most confrontational effort was to pressure city authorities to remove asbestos from the apartments in 1986. When the on-site manager didn’t take action, Obama nudged the residents into confronting city housing officials in two angry public meetings.
In 1987, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Ayers, graduates with an M.A. AND an Ed.D. in Education and Curriculum from the Teacher’s College of Columbia University in New York City and moves back to Chicago.
In 1987, Michelle Robinson (Obama) takes a position as a summer associate in the Sidley & Austin Law Firm in New York City. While there, she works with and gets to know unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn, (wife of Bill Ayers), who is a paralegal in the same firm.
[A plausible scenario for how Ayers and Obama meet is the following] In the fall of 1987,
Obama working in his role of community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) is introduced to unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, while both of them are “working” the same side of the Chicago Teacher’s Union Strike of 1987. Ayers is quoted as saying, that he and Obama met “at a luncheon meeting about school reform.”
In 1987, Ayers forms a new organization called the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (ABCs). to push for Illinois legislature approval of Local School Councils (LSCs). Obama in his role of community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) also works hard to push for legislative approval of Ayers’ Local School Council (LSC) proposal. Ayers would later Chair the ABCs.
From 1987-1992, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Ayers, is employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Evaluation, at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
In 1988, Barack Obama joins Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Later that year, Obama moves to Boston, MA to attend Harvard Law School.
In 1989, Barack Obama takes a position as a summer intern in the Sidley & Austin Law Firm in Chicago and the junior associate who is put in charge of overseeing his work is Michelle Robinson (Obama). Barack is introduced to Michelle by her coworker, friend, and unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn, who is a paralegal with the same firm.
In 1990, Barack is named President of the Harvard Law Review and spends his time in that position writing his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father”.
In 1991, Barack graduates with a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
In 1992, Barack moves back to Chicago and the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright marries Barrack Obama and Michelle Robinson (Obama).
From 1992-1995, Obama takes a position as a civil rights lawyer with the Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland Law Firm in Chicago.
From 1993-2002, Obama serves on the board of the Woods Fund with unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers.
From 1992-1996, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Ayers, is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Evaluation, at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
According to Ayers’ CV, all grants he received were obtained for the support of the Small Schools Workshop and/or the Chicago Forum for School Change at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with him as co-director, or principal investigator.
In 1991-1992, Ayers receives a grant from the MacArthur Foundation for $150,000.
In 1992, Obama took time off from his work at the Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland Law Firm in Chicago to direct Project Vote (a subsidiary of ACORN) which was run out of the Chicago ACORN offices. It is a very lucrative voter registration drive and Obama’s efforts, in large part, get Senator Alice Palmer elected. Palmer is supported by the leftist New Party and Students for a Democratic Society. Because of Project Vote’s immense success, Obama is asked by the head of ACORN in Chicago, Madeleine Talbot, to train all of her community organizer leaders in his (Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals”) organizing methods.
In 1992-1993, unrepentent domestic terrorist and educator who promotes radical curriculum changes in public school education, Ayers, receives grants totaling $410,205 from the Dreihaus Foundation ($10,000), Community Trust ($40,000), Coalition of Essential Schools ($61,205), Joyce Foundation ($74,500), and the MacArthur Foundation ($225,000).
In 1993-1994, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $128,761 from the Wieboldt Foundation ($5,000), Schott Foundation ($7,000), New Prospects ($5,000, $5,000), Relations Foundation ($7,000, $10,000), McDougal Foundation ($10,000), and Joyce Foundation ($79,761).
From 1994-2002, Barack Obama serves as Director of the Board of the Joyce Foundation in Chicago for a yearly salary of $70,000/year.
From 1999-2001, Both Barack Obama and Ayers were members of the board of an “anti-poverty” foundation called the Woods Fund in Chicago.
1995-1999, Barack Obama serves as the founding Chairman of the Board for a philanthropic organization that unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, secured the grant funding for and set up called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).
1995-2000, Ayers serves as Co-chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s Chicago School Reform Collaborative (CSRC), a second operating entity of the CAC.
1995-2000, Ayers serves as Co-chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s Consortium of Chicago Schools Research (CCSR), a third operating entity of the CAC.
In 1995, Ayers gave an interview in which he characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small ‘c’ communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams.”
In 1994, the Cloward-Piven Strategy and ACORN were major factors in passage of the “Motor-Voter” Act of 1994 which opened a can of worms.
In 1995, Obama represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois over enforcement of federal law (Motor Voter Law of 1994) involving voter registration issues for low-income people, according to the Associated Press.
In 1994-1995, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $832,705 from the Wieboldt Foundation ($10,000), Joyce Foundation ($88,000), the MacArthur Foundation ($100,000, $224,000), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).
In 1995-1996, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $9,346,680 from the Relations Foundation ($15,000), Reader’s Digest ($19,274), Woods Fund ($20,000), MacDougal Foundation ($25,000), Joyce Foundation ($88,000), and MacArthur Foundation ($100,000, $290,406), the Annenberg Challenge ($175,000), Chicago Public Schools ($414,000), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).
In November 1995, Obama is “tapped” by outgoing Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer to run for her seat. Obama launches his political career in elected office for a seat in the Illinois State Senate by holding his first “meet-n-greet: fundraiser in the Hyde Park home of unrepentant domestic terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Obama is supported by the leftist New Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Democratic Party in the Illinois State Senate race.
From 1996-2002, Barack Obama serves as a Senator for the State of Illinois.
In 1996-1997, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $9,599,826 from Reader’s Digest ($19,274), the Joyce Foundation ($88,000, 112,333), MacArthur Foundation ($275,000), Chicago Public Schools Goals 2000 ($45,219), Chicago Annenberg Challenge ($260,000), Chicago Public Schools ($600,000), and the Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).
In 1997, unrepentant domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers (former aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley),
is named Chicago’s “Citizen of the Year” for his work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).
In 1998, Ayers’s brother, John Ayers, was head of an organization in Chicago called Leadership for Quality Education, a charter-school and small-school advocacy group. That year, Obama and Bill Ayers CAC gave Leadership for Quality Education an $85,000 grant. Leadership for Quality Education says its four main goals are accountability, charter schools, small schools, and principal training.
The Grassroots School Improvement, a group operated by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), received $350,000 from CAC between 1998-2002.
In 1998, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge gave $65,000 to ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement project
In 1997-1998, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $8,331,607 from Reader’s Digest ($19,274), the Joyce Foundation ($112,333), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).
In 1998-1999, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $8,331,607 from Reader’s Digest ($19,274), the Joyce Foundation ($112,333), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).
In 1999, Obama and Ayers at CAC gave ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement project $135,000.
1999-2002, Obama serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), a “philanthropic” organization that Bill Ayers secured the funding for and serves as the grantwriter and co-chair of its two operational arms.
In 1999-2000, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $8,227,274 from Bright Futures Venture ($8,000), Reader’s Digest ($19,274), and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as co-founder and grant writer ($8,200,000).
From 1999-2004, Barack Obama and Ayers live within a few blocks of each other in the trendy Hyde Park section of Chicago, and move in the same liberal-progressive sociopolitical circles.
In 2000, Ayers gave an interview to The New York Times [published Sept. 11, 2001] on the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Fugitive Days. The reporter quoted him as saying “I don’t regret setting bombs” and “I feel we didn’t do enough”, and, when asked if he would “do it all again” as saying “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Ayers has not denied the quotes.
In 2000, Obama and Ayers at CAC gave ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement project $100,000.
In 2000, the Cloward-Piven Strategy attempts to bring about “change” by using Internal Revenue Service concepts that include tax-cuts to sugarcoat concurrent increases in collateral taxes on Medicare, sales, luxury, gas, user, licensing, property, employment. On the horizon are proposed taxes led by the Obama-sponsored Global Poverty Act that would tax every U.S. man, woman, and child $2,500 for a total of $845 billion to help the United Nations eliminate global poverty. The goal remains the same, to re-distribute the wealth of the nation.
In 2000, Barack Obama runs for the U. S. Congress and loses.
On Jan. 20, 2001, Outgoing President, Bill Clinton, commutes the sentences of two convicted members of the domestic terrorist group that founded and led by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,, Linda Sue Evans and Susan Rosenberg.
In 2000-2001, unrepentent domestic terrorist and early childhood educator, Ayers, receives grants totaling $75,000 from Dreihaus ($20,000), Fry Foundation ($20,000), and Woods Fund ($35,0000).
In 2001, Ayers told an interviewer for the Chicago Tribune, “We [the Weathermen] weren’t terrorists. The reason we weren’t terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States.”
On April 2, 2001, William Ayers makes an individual contribution of $200 to Obama’s “Friends of Barack Obama” re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate.
In 2001, Ayers publishes his memoir on his days in the domestic terrorist group, “Fugitive Days: A Memoir.” (Beacon Press).
In 2001, Obama and Ayers at CAC gave ACORN’s Grassroots School Improvement $50,000.
In 2003-2004, Obama runs for the U.S. Senate with support from the New Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Democratic Party and wins.
In 2005, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers [accompanied by his wife and fellow terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn], gives a presentation in Venezuela to Hugo Chavez and other government officials on the importance of Ayers’ brand of educating the young to the success of Hugo Chavez’ Marxist Bolivarian Revolution.
In 2006, Ayers, Dohrn, and Jeff Jones publish “Sing A Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-74” (Seven Stories Press).
In 2006, David Horowitz argues that U.S. universities are permeated by what he believes is anti-Americanism and a left-wing biasand publishes a book entitled The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Bill Ayers is one of the academics featured as being very dangerous in Horowitz’ book.
In 2006, unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers [accompanied by his wife and fellow terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn], gives a presentation in Venezuela to Hugo Chavez and other government officials on the importance of Ayers’ brand of educating the young to the success of Hugo Chavez’ Marxist Bolivarian Revolution.
In 2006, Obama announces his run for the U.S. Presidency on the Democratic ticket.
In 2007, Obama travels to Kenya on the taxpayer’s dime to endorse his cousin, Raila Odinga’s, bid for the Presidency in Kenya. Odinga, who is well known to be Marxist and a very dangerous man, is seen being endorsed by his American cousin, a sitting U.S. Senator, while he campaigns throughout Kenya. The cousin Odinga loses and unleashes weeks of pillaging, burning, and genocide of people of his opponent’s tribe until his rival who won the election by a slim margin concedes and agrees to give Odinga the title of Prime Minister. There is widespread rioting. Hundreds of Christian churches are burned to the ground. An estimated one thousand people are killed.
In Nov. of 2007, Barack Obama makes a speech at ACORN’s annual convention and says, “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.” — Barack Obama
In 2008, the Obama presidential campaign paid $800,000 to an ACORN subsidiary, called Citizen Service, Inc., to operate “get out the vote” efforts, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The Federal Election Commission found that, during the Ohio Democratic primary, the Obama presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to a subsidiary of ACORN, Citizens Services Inc. (CSI). The payment apparently was for get-out-the-vote activities rather than the reported “polling, candidate advance work, and staging events”. The exact payment to CSI was for $832, 598.29 to cover services between February 25 and March 17, 2008. Although ACORN has pled to various charges of voter fraud, it continues today enrolling large numbers of voters, some legitimate and others not so much. ACORN tee shirts are visible at Obama rallies.
In 2008, Obama wins the Democratic party’s nomination for President and names veteran U.S. Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.
On April 11th 2008, Obama addresses a private fundraiser in San Francisco and claims that people in the Midwest cling to guns and God. In 1971, Saul Alinsky’s, in his last book “Rules for Radicals”, postures that people ‘cling to fixed illusionary points that they feel are meaningful- clinging to guns and religion, a false patriotism.’ Once again we see the specter of Karl Marx when he said, in 1842, “Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes” and is often referred to as “religion is the opiate of the masses.” Further - “A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the words of Norman Thomas, Socialist, Pacifist and six time presidential candidate, “The American People will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name ‘Liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist Program until one day America will be a Socialist Nation without knowing what happened.
In 2008 Wade Rathke and his brother, who admitted to embezzling nearly a million dollars from ACORN, made their departure from the ACORN. Wade Rathke’s son William Rathke remains ACORN’s head community organizer.
On April 16, 2008 when asked about Ayers at the ABC Primary Debate in Philadelphia, Obama said, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense…”
On April 27, 2008, Obama continued his lies about his true relationship with Bill Ayers when Obama appeared on Fox News Sunday and repeated the claim that, “Mr. Ayers is a 60 plus year old individual who lives in my neighborhood…”
ACORN chapters across the nation unleash Obama’s version of an election with massive voter fraud in 13 states (all battleground states coincidentally, NOT) including Ohio.
Are the dots between Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, ACORN here connected well enough for you?
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ACORN, as a private organization, is not required to publicize its activities, donors, expenditures, members, or myriad of front organizations. ACORN is a membership organization with an estimated 175,000 member families in the United States and up to 500,000 member families worldwide paying at least $120 per year. With a budget of $100 million or more, ACORN employs about a thousand people. Money flows in to ACORN coffers from the federal government, including the present Bush Administration, and from such foundations as Heinz, Annie E. Casey, Open Society Institute, Ben and Jerry’s, as well as from the Woods Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, on whose boards Obama sat in Chicago.
Among the ACORN subsidiaries and satellites are the ACORN Institute, Project Vote, Service Employees International Union–Local 100, WalMart Alliance for Reform Now, ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC), Living Wage Resource Center, ACORN Law on the Web, KABF Radio, KRON Radio, Site Fighters, the quarterly journal Social Policy, Financial Justice Center, New York’s Working Families Party, Precinct Action League (PAL), Citizens Services Inc., Katrina Survivors Association, Citizens Counseling, Inc., and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice.
ACORN & Its Subsidiaries (2006)
385 Palmetto Street Housing Fund Corporation
4415 San Jacinto Street Corporation
ACORN
Acorn 2004 Housing Development
Fund Corporation
Acorn 2005 Housing Development
FUND CORPORATION
ACORN Associates
ACORN Beneficial Association
ACORN BeverlyY LLC
ACORN Campaign Services
ACORN Campaign To Raise The Minimum Wage
ACORN Center for Housing, Inc
ACORN Children’s Beneficial Association
ACORN Community Land Association
ACORN Community Land Association of IL.
ACORN Community Land Association of LA
ACORN Community Land Association of PA
ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center
ACORN Cultural Trust
ACORN Dumont-Snediker Housing
Development Fund Corporation
ACORN Fair Housing
ACORN Fund
ACORN Housing Corporation
ACORN Housing Corporation of IL
ACORN Housing Corporation of MO
ACORN Housing Corporation of PA
ACORN Institute
ACORN Law For Education, Representation, And Training
ACORN Management Corporation
ACORN National Broadcasting Network
ACORN Services
ACORN Television In Action For Communities
ACORN Tenant Union Training And Organizing Project
ACORN Tenants Union
Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
Agape Broadcasting Foundation Inc
American Environmental Justice Project Inc
American Home Childcare Providers Association
American Institute for Social Justice
Arizona ACORN Housing Corporation
Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation
Association for the Rights of Citizens Inc
Associated Regional Maintenance Systems
Austin Organizing and Support Center
Baltimore Organizing and Support Center
Boston Organizing and Support Center
Broad Street Corporation
California Community Network
Chicago Organizing and Support Center Chief Organizer Fund
Child Care Providers for Action Franklin
Citizens Action Research Project
Citizens Campaign for Work, Living Wage & Labor Peace
Citizens Consulting, Inc
Citizens Campaign for Finance Reform
Citizens for Future Progress
Colorado ACORN Housing Corporation
Crescent City Broadcasting Corporation
Desert Rose Homes LLC
Dumont Avenue Housing Development Fund
Elysian Fields Corporation, Inc
Elysian Fields Partnership
Fifteenth Street Corporation
Floridians For All PAC
Franklin ACORN Housing
Greenville Community Charter School Inc
Greenwell Springs Corporation
Hospitality Hotel and Restaurant Organizing Council (HOTROC)
Houston Organizing And Support Center
KABF Radio
KNON Radio
Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center Inc
Living Wage Resource Center
Louisiana ACORN Fair Housing
Massachusetts ACORN Housing Corporation
Metro Technical Institute
Missouri Tax Justice Research Project
Montana Radio Network
Mott Haven ACORN Housing
Development Fund Corporation
Mutual Housing Association of New York Inc
National Center for Jobs & Justice
New Mexico Organizing and Support Center
New Orleans Community Housing Organization
New York ACORN Housing Company Inc
New York Agency for Community Affairs Inc
New York Organizing and Support Center Organizers Forum
Pennsylvania Institute for Community Affairs
People’s Equipment Resource Corporation
Phoenix Organizing And Support Center
Project Vote
SEIU Local 100
SEIU Local 880
Service Workers Action Team
Shreveport Community Television Site Fighters
Sixth Avenue Corporation Social Policy
Southern Training Center
St. Louis Organizing And Support Center
St. Louis Tax Reform Group
Student Minimum Wage Action Campaign
Texas ACORN Housing Corporation Inc
Wal-Mart Workers Association
Wal-Mart Association for Reform Now
Working Families Association
Isn’t the SEIU the same union that’s behind the baycott of Wal-Mart?
I believe that they are also behind the Democratic Party’s opposition to free trade with Colombia. So maybe the DNC is a lackey for the SEIU.
Tree: Are you going to send the link to this page back to Greta?
Complainers: Why are you all down on Greta? She asks for help from us and we help. If she picks up one or more of these leads and uses her influence to investigate further (calls a contact, asks them to go on the air, etc.), what’s the harm? This is smart journalism. Don’t you see how valuable it makes the average person?
Besides, aren’t we on the same side? Sheesh!
SEIU gave $65 million in an attempt to defeat Pres. Bush in 2004.
These 60’s radicals are getting close to taking ovewr this country.
I’m reading the information available on the net in these posts and I sit here is abject shock that we are about to elect the candidate that the terrorists and communists SUPPORT for president.
I've noticed that lately. Maybe its because she's from the Midwest and she's sick and tired of the insulting and condescending comments from the Elite. Isn't she from Michigan?
Sources say: “The Democratic Party has done to African Americans what the KKK could only dream of.” I'm not sure if my sources are correct but I thought I'd post it here.
“exactly. he and his wife are just less successful Timothy McVeighs”
ACORN, McVeigh, Al Quaida. You think these folks could be in cahoots? They all seem to have the same objective. Enslave Joe the Plumber in a dictatorial hell.
“...Rathke began his career as an organizer for the NWRO (National Welfare Rights Organization) in Springfield, Massachusetts, under the direction of George Wiley....”
I wonder if this group has any connectin to the Wiley college textbook publishers. www.wiley.com
“There are plenty of things I would like to print in the newspaper about Obama, but I can’t.
Without rock-solid proof, I can’t. Sure, there are lot of suspicious things, but I am not going to write an article about it.”
I think you should re-read Times v. Sullivan and then go for it!!!
This may open a can of Whooopaaas on the media. If the cowardly talking heads begin to understand that THEY are next (just after Joe the Plumber and Greta) they may come to their senses about The O. Look what happened to all of those “new” journalists when the Soviet Union collapsed. They are all gone now. Promote the O then disappear in to the revolution. The media are useful idiots.
John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced today that he was supporting John McCain for president.
Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her family through out the primary season, complained of sexism, and said the Democratic Party is "being taken over by the moveon.org types" in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.com's Tammy Haddad.
If Hillary were the nominee, things would be different. OTOH, I'm glad Greta and hubbie are on our side these days.
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After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. Speaking a few days later at an assembly of revolutionary student movements at Columbia University, Dohrn reported that the Vietnamese communists she met in Budapest were working with US GIs in Saigon, attempting to obtain military information.
As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he “left the room to cry.” He said, “I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast....”
In January 1969, at the request of the Cubans and the Vietnamese, Dohrn assembled another SDS delegation to travel to Havana to plan what the Chicago Sun-Times called an “antiwar campaign during an eight-day seminar with representatives of Hanoi and the Viet Cong.”
Dohrn became a key planner in the founding of the Venceremos Brigades. Ostensibly a “solidarity” program for US leftists to visit and support Castro’s Cuba, the group was actually organized by Cuban intelligence as a covert attack on US security.
Cuban secret police offered the “brigadistas” money, advice and logistical support. Some Americans were also given guerrilla warfare training and instructed in the use of weapons and explosives.
While they were in Cuba, Huynh Van Ba, a representative of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) advised his American allies to “look for the person who fights hardest against the cops.” Dohrn stayed in telephone contact with Ba after returning home.”
Man... talk about a bunch of delusional crazy people living and working in the shadows of the normal world. How can this rag-tag bunch of fools be so close to capturing the GOVERNMENT of the United States of America? It's like the Hitler Youth all grown up and still dreaming of some sort of Utopian wonderland. If they succeed, I doubt they would have ANY ability to govern anything. They've lived in delusional anarchy all of their spoiled brat lives. This is a F*cking joke, right?
Tip of the iceberg. ACORN is the platform for an international government. Castro and Chavez are public. Its a global network seeking new “states” in a new world governance system. That's why Kenya is getting money. There's more. Been happening under our noses since the 1930’s. This may be the big day!
Weather Underground Bill Ayers, “over throwing the Capitalist System, and put in something more humane”
Have you seen the somewhat sympathetic documentary?
Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group’s path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago’s streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison.
Greta’s husband is John P Coale, a DC based trial attorney.
His name isn’t a household word. It’s just that they are well known in their circles.
Legal, political actitivism, DC etc.
And of course, Greta, in the media.
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