Posted on 11/23/2009 1:32:52 AM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact.
In September of last year, American Thinker published my article, Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Part of a series, it connected then presidential candidate Barack Obama to individuals and organizations practicing a malevolent strategy for destroying our economy and our system of government. Since then the story of that strategy has found its way across the blogosphere, onto the airwaves of radio stations across the country, the Glenn Beck television show, Bill O'Reilly and now Mark Levin.
The methodology is known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and we can all be grateful to David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks for originally exposing and explaining it to us. He describes it as:
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two lifelong members of Democratic Socialists of America and taught sociology at Columbia University (Piven later went on to City University of New York). In a May, 1966 Nation magazine article titled "The Weight of the Poor," they outlined their strategy, proposing to use grassroots radical organizations to push ever more strident demands for public services at all levels of government.
The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces ... for major economic reform at the national level."
They implemented the Strategy by creating a succession of radical organizations but most notably the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), with the help of veteran organizer Wade Rathke. Their crowning achievement was the "Motor Voter" act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 with Cloward and Piven standing behind him.
As we now know, ACORN was one of the chief drivers of high-risk mortgage lending that eventually led to the financial crisis. But the Motor Voter law was another component of the strategy. It created vast vulnerabilities in our electoral system which ACORN then exploited.
ACORN's vote registration scandals throughout the U.S. are predictable fallout.
The Motor Voter law has also been used to open another vulnerability in the system: the registration of vast numbers of illegal aliens, who then vote reliably Democrat. Herein lies the real reason Democrats are so anxious for open borders, security be damned.
It should be clear to anyone with a mind and two eyes that this president and this Congress do not have our interests at heart. They are implementing this strategy on an unprecedented scale by flooding America with a tidal wave of poisonous initiatives, orders, regulations and laws. As Rahm Emmanuel said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
The real goal of "healthcare" legislation, the real goal of "cap and trade," the real goal of "stimulus" is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to government control. Do not be deluded by the propaganda. These initiatives are vehicles for change. They are not goals in and of themselves, except in their ability to deliver power, and will make matters much worse, for that is their design.
This time, in addition to overwhelming the government with demands for services, Obama and the Democrats are overwhelming political opposition to their plans with a flood of apocalyptic legislation. Their ultimate goal is to leave us so discouraged, demoralized and exhausted that we throw our hands up in defeat. As Barney Frank said "the middle class will be too distracted to fight."
These people are our enemies. They don't use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and bush wars across the globe, and the Nazis we faced in World War II.
It is time we fully internalized and digested this fact, with all its ugly ramifications. These people have violated countless laws, and could be prosecuted, had we the political power. Not only are their policies unconstitutional, but deliberately so - the goal being to make the Constitution irrelevant. Their spending is off the charts and will drive us into hyperinflation, but could be rescinded, had we the political power. These policies are toxic, but could be stopped and reversed, had we the political power. Their ideologies are poisonous, but could be exposed for what they are, with long jail sentences as an object lesson, had we the political power.
Every single citizen who cares about this country should be spending every minute of his/her spare time lobbying, organizing, writing and planning. Fight every initiative they launch. It is all destructive. If we are to root out this evil, it is critical that in 2010 we win competent, principled leaders willing to defend our constitution and our country. Otherwise the malevolent cabal that occupies the seat of government today will become too entrenched.
After that all bets are off.
Excellent article.
Cloward-Piven, Alinsky, Marx, Kensian Economics, Mao, and Mother Teresa. The truly evil plans Obama has. They will end up in total collapse and failure. Planned destruction.
Mother Teresa advocated personal responsibility to assist the less fortunate, never mandated Government take over.
But Anita Dunn summed up the Obammunist philosoph. A combination of Mao and Mother Teresa. Benevolent Totalitarian Communism. This is the true way they think. Communism only fails because THEY were not in charge.
My apologies.
No problem.
Just adding a link to your thread.
Nice summary by the author that many of us have seen for a while. What really tipped me off, besides the people Obama and his ilk associate with and the words that actually came out of his and their mouths, was the statement about not wasting a crisis.
These people in the administration can be classified as domestic enemies of The Constitution. Nearly all of them. There are many Republicans who are complicit in their activities, but that is more craven than purposeful.
Thanks for finding and posting this.
Intelligent men and women have avoided believing it, because the ramifications are so stark and so horrific. Minds and hearts quail at the full import.
But it's the only thing that makes the equation tally up.
Those who speak of incompetence by the Obama faction are still in denial.
It matters little how capable the driver might be after the vehicle has left the roadway and is hurtling off a 500 foot cliff.
This all took place while Conservatives in America slept or fought each other......now a giant is in place to change our government and the giant must be stopped NOW.
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Outstanding essay, exposing the real Traitor-In-Chief.
There are simply words or phrases to express the disdain I have for these people. They became selfish and greedy, losing all touch with the lives of those who sent them to DC trusting they would be good, conservative, faithful stewards of what so many Americans have fought and died and sacrificed to protect. Instead they became a part of the enemy within, including John McCain and his infamous Gang of Fourteen.
I have more dislike for these RINO’s than I do for the Lefties who simply acted like they have always acted. I feel severely betrayed. Well, like my Mom used to say, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on ME.
Sadly I'm convinced the only thing that will bring about change is the collapse of the system of government at every level. It won't be pretty when the huge percentage of voters who live on the public dole find they spigot is dry.
It is time we started treating them as such. Instead of whistling past the graveyard of our Republic in the hope that we can talk or vote our way out of this.
John Locke wrote about Social Contract and why Social Contracts end.
When the executive power of a government devolves into tyranny, such as by dissolving the legislature and therefore denying the people the ability to make laws for their own preservation, then the resulting tyrant puts himself into a State of Nature, and specifically into a state of war with the people, and they then have the same right to self-defense as they had before making a compact to establish society in the first place. In other words, the justification of the authority of the executive component of government is the protection of the people’s property and well-being, so when such protection is no longer present, or when the king becomes a tyrant and acts against the interests of the people, they have a right, if not an outright obligation, to resist his authority. The social compact can be dissolved and the process to create political society begun anew. (Locke’s philosophy)
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