Monday, January 19th, is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. King taught us to live a life of service, and he led by example. He once said:
"If you want to be important -- wonderful. If you want to be recognized -- wonderful. If you want to be great -- wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness."
Barack and I will be volunteering in Washington, D.C., our new home. I hope you'll join us by taking part in this national call to service in your community:
It will take ordinary citizens working together with a common purpose to get this country back on track. This national day of service is an important first step in our continuing commitment.
Now is the time to remind all Americans what ordinary people can accomplish when we stand together.
Thank you,
Michelle Obama
I find it interesting that Michelle, who is "volunteering" in Washington, is clearly in charge of the organizing effort.
Has anyone asked, "what are the Obama's organizing for?"
Has anyone asked, "how long have they been organizing?"
The Obama's have been organizing and training a political cadre since 1993 in their nonprofit group, "Public Allies," modeled after Alinsky's "people’s organizations,"
"People's Organizations" were to be composed largely of discontented individuals who believed that society was replete with injustices that prevented them from being able to live satisfying lives (). Such organizations, Alinsky advised, ought not be imported from the outside into a community, but rather should be staffed by locals who, with some guidance from trained radical organizers, could set their own agendas.
Right now, there are fifteen fully-staffed and populated community chapters, operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama, and they've got a ton of money -- more than $75 million -- and an impressive list of donors. Naturally, they also receive grants from federal, state and municipal sources. Their mission is to produce "community organizers." Their process is repeatable -- continually producing more community organizers.
During the campaign, Obama also ran, at the state level, a "national program for social change," called "Camp Obama." Here is their sign-up page -- you too can be a "Deputy Field Organizer."
The Obama campaign's website promised that "you'll get the kind of experience that Barack got as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago," and "Camp Obama is your chance to step up and become a leader in 'this movement'."
Movement? What movement? The Obama's keep using that word.
The Movement is populated by thousands of apparatchiks and growing. They answer to Obama -- in the "community." These are people who are perceived of as leaders.
These "organizers" have constituencies that can be mobilized, at the touch of a button, into political actions to influence public opinion and the political process -- real visual stuff that Obama's friends in the media will have on 24/7.
In addition to these shock troops, Obama has an army of 13 million-plus in his political database that Obama is actively expanding. This pool of Internet-savvy people can be used to promote or attack any issue. Obama can get tons of emotional emails, phone calls and letters on any target.
Remember, in September, when Chicago radio station WGN-AM twice came under attack from the Obama Campaign for offering airtime to a controversial author. As the result of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters, the Tribune-owned station was flooded with phone calls and e-mails about an hour before an Aug. 27 interview with Stanley Kurtz, a conservative writer who examined Obama’s ties to former 1960's radical William Ayers.
The phone calls effectively shut the station down.
And, remember this?
On July 2nd, 2008, Obama spoke in Colorado Springs and hit themes of national service, foreign policy, and national security. In that vein, Obama proposed a rather extraordinary idea -- that the US should spend as much money on a civilian national security force as it does on the military. (video)
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
What color shirts will they wear?
Has anyone asked, “what are the Obama’s organizing for?”
“It’s clear that Obama recognizes the power that his email list, which boasts more than 13 million names, represents in American politics and is working to ensure it stays within the control of a small group who are charged with protecting the Obama brand.”
From this article:
Obama Announces “Organizing for America”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166448/
Sturmabteilung? They were Hitler's personal army inside the Nazi party. When they were no longer useful, and got too big for their lederhosen, Hitler had the SS wipe them out as the new group's first order of business.
Horrendous and terrifying BTTT.