READ IT AND WEEP: The Obama Strategy, Documented at Discoverthenetworks.org, Guide to the Political Left
This is the article from http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967
There we have it:
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Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, 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.
Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.
In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.
The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. 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."
Their article called for "cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy." Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of "a federal program of income redistribution," in the form of a guaranteed living income for all -- working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.
This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements -- mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown -- providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory.
Cloward and Piven recruited a militant black organizer named George Wiley to lead their new movement. In the summer of 1967, Wiley founded the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). His tactics closely followed the recommendations set out in Cloward and Piven's article. His followers invaded welfare offices across the United States -- often violently -- bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law "entitled" them. By 1969, NWRO claimed a dues-paying membership of 22,500 families, with 523 chapters across the nation.
Regarding Wiley's tactics, The New York Times commented on September 27, 1970, "There have been sit-ins in legislative chambers, including a United States Senate committee hearing, mass demonstrations of several thousand welfare recipients, school boycotts, picket lines, mounted police, tear gas, arrests - and, on occasion, rock-throwing, smashed glass doors, overturned desks, scattered papers and ripped-out phones."These methods proved effective. "The flooding succeeded beyond Wiley's wildest dreams," writes Sol Stern in the City Journal. "From 1965 to 1974, the number of single-parent households on welfare soared from 4.3 million to 10.8 million, despite mostly flush economic times. By the early 1970s, one person was on the welfare rolls in New York City for every two working in the city's private economy."As a direct result of its massive welfare spending, New York City was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1975. The entire state of New York nearly went down with it. The Cloward-Piven strategy had proved its effectiveness.
The Cloward-Piven strategy depended on surprise. Once society recovered from the initial shock, the backlash began. New York's welfare crisis horrified America, giving rise to a reform movement which culminated in "the end of welfare as we know it" -- the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which imposed time limits on federal welfare, along with strict eligibility and work requirements. Both Cloward and Piven attended the White House signing of the bill as guests of President Clinton.
Most Americans to this day have never heard of Cloward and Piven. But New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attempted to expose them in the late 1990s. As his drive for welfare reform gained momentum, Giuliani accused the militant scholars by name, citing their 1966 manifesto as evidence that they had engaged in deliberate economic sabotage. "This wasn't an accident," Giuliani charged in a 1997 speech. "It wasn't an atmospheric thing, it wasn't supernatural. This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare."
Cloward and Piven never again revealed their intentions as candidly as they had in their 1966 article. Even so, their activism in subsequent years continued to rely on the tactic of overloading the system. When the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to other sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.
In 1982, partisans of the Cloward-Piven strategy founded a new "voting rights movement," which purported to take up the unfinished work of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Like ACORN, the organization that spear-headed this campaign, the new "voting rights" movement was led by veterans of George Wiley's welfare rights crusade. Its flagship organizations were Project Vote and Human SERVE, both founded in 1982. Project Vote is an ACORN front group, launched by former NWRO organizer and ACORN co-founder Zach Polett. Human SERVE was founded by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, along with a former NWRO organizer named Hulbert James.
All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.
The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.
Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for some of the Left's most ambitious campaigns.
There we have it:
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Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, 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.
Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.
In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.
The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. 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."
Their article called for "cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy." Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of "a federal program of income redistribution," in the form of a guaranteed living income for all -- working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.
This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements -- mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown -- providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory.
Cloward and Piven recruited a militant black organizer named George Wiley to lead their new movement. In the summer of 1967, Wiley founded the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). His tactics closely followed the recommendations set out in Cloward and Piven's article. His followers invaded welfare offices across the United States -- often violently -- bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law "entitled" them. By 1969, NWRO claimed a dues-paying membership of 22,500 families, with 523 chapters across the nation.
Regarding Wiley's tactics, The New York Times commented on September 27, 1970, "There have been sit-ins in legislative chambers, including a United States Senate committee hearing, mass demonstrations of several thousand welfare recipients, school boycotts, picket lines, mounted police, tear gas, arrests - and, on occasion, rock-throwing, smashed glass doors, overturned desks, scattered papers and ripped-out phones."These methods proved effective. "The flooding succeeded beyond Wiley's wildest dreams," writes Sol Stern in the City Journal. "From 1965 to 1974, the number of single-parent households on welfare soared from 4.3 million to 10.8 million, despite mostly flush economic times. By the early 1970s, one person was on the welfare rolls in New York City for every two working in the city's private economy."As a direct result of its massive welfare spending, New York City was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1975. The entire state of New York nearly went down with it. The Cloward-Piven strategy had proved its effectiveness.
The Cloward-Piven strategy depended on surprise. Once society recovered from the initial shock, the backlash began. New York's welfare crisis horrified America, giving rise to a reform movement which culminated in "the end of welfare as we know it" -- the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which imposed time limits on federal welfare, along with strict eligibility and work requirements. Both Cloward and Piven attended the White House signing of the bill as guests of President Clinton.
Most Americans to this day have never heard of Cloward and Piven. But New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attempted to expose them in the late 1990s. As his drive for welfare reform gained momentum, Giuliani accused the militant scholars by name, citing their 1966 manifesto as evidence that they had engaged in deliberate economic sabotage. "This wasn't an accident," Giuliani charged in a 1997 speech. "It wasn't an atmospheric thing, it wasn't supernatural. This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare."
Cloward and Piven never again revealed their intentions as candidly as they had in their 1966 article. Even so, their activism in subsequent years continued to rely on the tactic of overloading the system. When the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to other sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.
In 1982, partisans of the Cloward-Piven strategy founded a new "voting rights movement," which purported to take up the unfinished work of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Like ACORN, the organization that spear-headed this campaign, the new "voting rights" movement was led by veterans of George Wiley's welfare rights crusade. Its flagship organizations were Project Vote and Human SERVE, both founded in 1982. Project Vote is an ACORN front group, launched by former NWRO organizer and ACORN co-founder Zach Polett. Human SERVE was founded by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, along with a former NWRO organizer named Hulbert James.
All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.
The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.
Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for some of the Left's most ambitious campaigns.
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Jim Simpson, who was a White House budget analyst under Ronald Reagan, has written a series of three articles (so far) providing extensive detail about Obama's background in communism/socialism and his ties to radicals. If you were alarmed by the material in "Discover the Networks," you will really be concerned if you read these:
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy ...
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III -- print copy
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Yep. You're right. I'm concerned!
It is just so hard to accept that our media has failed us so utterly and vastly. NONE of this was reported in the mainstream and here we are, left to defend ourselves in the aftermath with so many of our numbers still hitting the snooze button.
THANK YOU for sending me this. I will use it. I'm doing brochures for Tax Day, and there is so much information it won't be hard to come up with the text!
American Daughter said:Jim Simpson, who was a White House budget analyst under Ronald Reagan, has written a series of three articles (so far) providing extensive detail about Obama's background in communism/socialism and his ties to radicals. If you were alarmed by the material in "Discover the Networks," you will really be concerned if you read these:
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy ...
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III -- print copy
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Jim is one of our writers. He also has his own Blogger blog called Truth & Consequences. Please share the articles as widely as possible. What is most important is to get these facts to as many folk as possible. In fact, I wish I had an army of people to leave the links in forums all over the web. It takes all my time just to kept the site going.
If a Republican candidate for president had had that baggage, you can bet the media would have been all over it. Remember the forged Texas Air National Guard (TANG) memos and Dan Rather? Or the way they tried to hang Bush because he might have had a DUI citation? And yet nothing about hanging out with two Weathermen (Ayers and Dohrn) who had blown up policemen and gotten off on a technicality. In fact, when Obama first ran for office, he launched his campaign at their house.
BTW, to understand why I do the work for the site, if you have time read Expressing Freedom.
The Cold Warrior said:Where did you find this originally to put up on your site?? Great stuff, I hope you don't mind I forwarded the link to all my friends. I think we should post it permanently somewhere on this sight so everyone has access to it, I though I knew most all there was about the man, I knew maybe 1/2 of what was in those post, and I'll bet that is far more than most. I would be honored if you'd let me add you as a friend. Keep up the great work, I loved your site.
American Daughter said:Jim Simpson, who was a White House budget analyst under Ronald Reagan, has written a series of three articles (so far) providing extensive detail about Obama's background in communism/socialism and his ties to radicals. If you were alarmed by the material in "Discover the Networks," you will really be concerned if you read these:
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy ...
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III -- print copy
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Clearly your family is "cut from the same cloth." I am much farther down the path of life, cannot go to meetings and marches anymore. So now I am a keyboard warrior only. Glad to have you as a "friend" here at the Patriotic Resistance.
The Cold Warrior said:That is a great page, my brother Mark and I did a lot of walking through our family cemetaries in Western NC, and Eastern Tenn. I don't have a single line in my family that wasn't here before 1820, not a single one. Several were here in the 1640's. Many of them took land in the Mountains as war bounty from the Rev. War., many decendents of those wound up being basically subsistance farmers by the civil war time. Many were drafted into the conf. army, but they were Americans, many of them crossed the border at the Cumberland Gap and joined the Union. There are only two headstones in the Turkey Creek Church Cemetary with GAR on them and they are both my relatives. Their families went through hell, for what they did, but their grandfathers had fought in the Revolution to win their freedom, and none of them had any slave or anything of that sort. Heck many of the slaves on the larger estates had better clothes an stuff than they did. Watching movies like Cold Mountain kind of give you a little taste of how bad it was. Two other branches were in Eastern SC and NC and those did fight in the Rev and for the CSA. But yes, I fully understand about what it feels like to see the freedoms that our forefathers helped concieve of and fight for and defend time and time again, some of my family had been here for 350 years, (not counting the intermarriages with Cherokees up in the mountains) as many did happen. While some other of my forfathers volunteered and drove (most of) them out on the trail of tears in 1839. But anyway, every time I see these freedoms being taken away I can feel my forefathers in my blood yelling not to let this happen, how can you give up these rights so easily??? I also served in the Army for 12 years all throught the Reagan years and Bush the elder, couldn't stomach watching what Clinton attempted to do to the military and got out. My oldest son recently joined the Army Reserves.
I am very sorry that you had to go through being threatened, it's never easy standing up for what is right, but it is it's own reward in knowing that you did it regardless of the cost or risk. I left my family at my own expense (we never could really afford it) to go and survey for eMi (engineering Ministries international), they have volunteer engineers, architects, and surveyors who go where any Christian organization has a real need, and will design and draw up complete project plans, and cost projections so the organization can raise the funds to build them. I went to India in '04 for a Christian girls school and orphanage project, Ghana in '05 for a large scale irrigation, farming project for several Presbyterian villages. Cambodia in '06 for a Christian University project, (in the jungle in an area where they are still finding landmines). On each of those projects I sweated 24/7 in unbelievable heat and humidity, bugs, lack of clean water, and nasty local cuisine, BUT they were some of the happiest times of my life because I knew I was doing what I was supposed to be doing (I really felt it was God's will), as neither of the projects could proceed as they were going to have no surveyor if I didn't go. Sometimes we have to sacrifice to get that sense of fulfillment, that I think we all need, at least every once in a while, where you know you are making a difference for the good guys. God Bless, I gotta get some work done.
American Daughter said:Jim is one of our writers. He also has his own Blogger blog called Truth & Consequences. Please share the articles as widely as possible. What is most important is to get these facts to as many folk as possible. In fact, I wish I had an army of people to leave the links in forums all over the web. It takes all my time just to kept the site going.
If a Republican candidate for president had had that baggage, you can bet the media would have been all over it. Remember the forged Texas Air National Guard (TANG) memos and Dan Rather? Or the way they tried to hang Bush because he might have had a DUI citation? And yet nothing about hanging out with two Weathermen (Ayers and Dohrn) who had blown up policemen and gotten off on a technicality. In fact, when Obama first ran for office, he launched his campaign at their house.
BTW, to understand why I do the work for the site, if you have time read Expressing Freedom.
The Cold Warrior said:
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I just e-mailed the articles and all above mentioned links to my conservative friends. Thanks for the info.
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Jim is one of our writers. He also has his own Blogger blog called Truth & Consequences.
These three are the only articles in Jim's Cloward-Piven series so far. They have been widely copied on other blogs, but the originals are at Truth & Consequences and American Daughter. Print copies are available from links on the cover page of American Daughter -- www.americandaughter.com
There is another article you may be interested in, which goes into more depth about the association with Ayers and Dohrn -- William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Barack Obama. This shows Obama's relationship to the domestic terrorists of the sixties. At the end of this article are links to copies of the four manifestos put out by the Weathermen, which we have on our servers.
Also on our servers, we have copies of Michelle Obama's college thesis, which shows her opposition to white folk. We also have the rules for black people put out by the Obamas' church, which they subscribed to until cleaning up their act for the campaign.
streetsweeper said:American Daughter? Are there more parts to Cloward-Plevin you can post or the site it is located?
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Well, apparently "Read It and Weep" was the exact right choice of words. (Funny, I am a children's book author and former food writer. I have never really thought of myself as a 'political' writer.)
After further reading "Expressing Freedom" and the post from Cold Warrior, I wept.
The Cold Warrior said:That is a great page, my brother Mark and I did a lot of walking through our family cemetaries in Western NC, and Eastern Tenn. I don't have a single line in my family that wasn't here before 1820, not a single one. Several were here in the 1640's. Many of them took land in the Mountains as war bounty from the Rev. War., many decendents of those wound up being basically subsistance farmers by the civil war time. Many were drafted into the conf. army, but they were Americans, many of them crossed the border at the Cumberland Gap and joined the Union. There are only two headstones in the Turkey Creek Church Cemetary with GAR on them and they are both my relatives. Their families went through hell, for what they did, but their grandfathers had fought in the Revolution to win their freedom, and none of them had any slave or anything of that sort. Heck many of the slaves on the larger estates had better clothes an stuff than they did. Watching movies like Cold Mountain kind of give you a little taste of how bad it was. Two other branches were in Eastern SC and NC and those did fight in the Rev and for the CSA. But yes, I fully understand about what it feels like to see the freedoms that our forefathers helped concieve of and fight for and defend time and time again, some of my family had been here for 350 years, (not counting the intermarriages with Cherokees up in the mountains) as many did happen. While some other of my forfathers volunteered and drove (most of) them out on the trail of tears in 1839. But anyway, every time I see these freedoms being taken away I can feel my forefathers in my blood yelling not to let this happen, how can you give up these rights so easily??? I also served in the Army for 12 years all throught the Reagan years and Bush the elder, couldn't stomach watching what Clinton attempted to do to the military and got out. My oldest son recently joined the Army Reserves.
I am very sorry that you had to go through being threatened, it's never easy standing up for what is right, but it is it's own reward in knowing that you did it regardless of the cost or risk. I left my family at my own expense (we never could really afford it) to go and survey for eMi (engineering Ministries international), they have volunteer engineers, architects, and surveyors who go where any Christian organization has a real need, and will design and draw up complete project plans, and cost projections so the organization can raise the funds to build them. I went to India in '04 for a Christian girls school and orphanage project, Ghana in '05 for a large scale irrigation, farming project for several Presbyterian villages. Cambodia in '06 for a Christian University project, (in the jungle in an area where they are still finding landmines). On each of those projects I sweated 24/7 in unbelievable heat and humidity, bugs, lack of clean water, and nasty local cuisine, BUT they were some of the happiest times of my life because I knew I was doing what I was supposed to be doing (I really felt it was God's will), as neither of the projects could proceed as they were going to have no surveyor if I didn't go. Sometimes we have to sacrifice to get that sense of fulfillment, that I think we all need, at least every once in a while, where you know you are making a difference for the good guys. God Bless, I gotta get some work done.
American Daughter said:Jim is one of our writers. He also has his own Blogger blog called Truth & Consequences. Please share the articles as widely as possible. What is most important is to get these facts to as many folk as possible. In fact, I wish I had an army of people to leave the links in forums all over the web. It takes all my time just to kept the site going.
If a Republican candidate for president had had that baggage, you can bet the media would have been all over it. Remember the forged Texas Air National Guard (TANG) memos and Dan Rather? Or the way they tried to hang Bush because he might have had a DUI citation? And yet nothing about hanging out with two Weathermen (Ayers and Dohrn) who had blown up policemen and gotten off on a technicality. In fact, when Obama first ran for office, he launched his campaign at their house.
BTW, to understand why I do the work for the site, if you have time read Expressing Freedom.
The Cold Warrior said:
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THANK YOU! This series is the most enlightenment to the HOW and WHY that I have ever read. How prophetic as these were written BEFORE Obama was elected. I can not see any positive results ever coming from this administration. As I have feared for some time now, the day is coming where we each will have to do whatever we can for ourselves and our families. I hope many are prepared and we can meet "on the other side". Thank you for posting.
Glenn
American Daughter said:Jim Simpson, who was a White House budget analyst under Ronald Reagan, has written a series of three articles (so far) providing extensive detail about Obama's background in communism/socialism and his ties to radicals. If you were alarmed by the material in "Discover the Networks," you will really be concerned if you read these:
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy ...
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II -- print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III -- print copy
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Permalink Reply by Brae of VA, Coordinator VA D8 on -
Emmanuel is also taking his frame of reference from Dr. Robert Pastor. Pastor was pushing during Bush's terms for a North American Union, and the use of the Amero as the currency. He was applying tenents proposed by a guy named Monnet (not the painter) in historic France;s history. Anyway, it was my contention that the reason Bush was against illegal immigration, was that he and V. Fox were trying to implement the NAU. When Obama was running I saw him as one in the same as Bush in this matter. Only now I think the narcissic Obama, wants a world order, and he as President. An expansion of the NAU.
Here is an article to explain Pastor's beliefs.
WND Exclusive THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
North American Union leader
says merger just crisis away
Leading intellectual force behind effort toward EU-style unity looks at future
Posted: December 15, 2006
1:00 am Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
American University Professor Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP – launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe.
In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled "Toward a North American Community," which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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At American University in Washington, D.C., Pastor directs the Center for North American Studies where he teaches a course entitled "North America: A Union, A Community, or Just Three Nations?" As WND previously has reported, Pastor is on the board of the North American Forum on Integration, the NAFI, a non-profit organization that annually holds a mock trilateral parliament for 100 selected students drawn from 10 universities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Pastor had published an interview in Spanish in the Oct. 24 issue of Poder y Negocios. He told the magazine crises can force decisions that otherwise would not be made.
"The 9/11 crisis made Canada and the United States redefine the protection of their borders," Pastor explained. "The debt crisis in Mexico forced the government to adapt a new economic model. The crises oblige the governments to make difficult decisions."
This was the first time WND had found a major intellectual leader behind the push to integrate North America suggesting that a crisis of 9-11 proportions might be just what was needed to advance the process toward establishing a North American Union and the amero. WND reached Pastor in his office at American University and conducted a telephone interview to make sure the Spanish publication accurately reflected his views.
He affirmed the Spanish interview represents his thinking.
"What I'm saying is that a crisis is an event which can force democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that will be required to create a North American Community," he said. "It's not that I want another 9/11 crisis, but having a crisis would force decisions that otherwise might not get made."
Pastor noted, for example that "Europeans, facing the crisis of two World Wars, turned to the European Community as a means to prevent war and advance their economic interests."
"The United States turned to the Marshall Plan when faced with the crisis of Western Europe falling into the hands of communism," he said. "So, I'm not advocating, or encouraging, or wanting a crisis, I'm only saying that in order to take important initiatives, sometimes one manner in which this occurs is when there is a crisis to which leaders need to respond."
Pastor told WND he lamented that the leadership of the three North American countries is not positioned to make the type of tough decisions needed to advance a North American Community agenda.
In his interview with Poder y Negocios, he argued, "Canada has a minority government and Mexico will soon have a minority government that will be confronted with what amounts to an uprising that we hope will be peaceful. The United States has a lame duck president whose principle preoccupation is the war in Iraq and instability in the Middle East."
Pastor further told WND Mexico's Fox made a tactical mistake by laying out an overly ambitious agenda to integrate with the United States.
"President Bush then took on the issue of illegal immigration, and it proved to be much more difficult than anticipated," he said. In the absence of strong North American leadership, is a crisis the way greater North American integration can be expected to happen?
"There are alternatives to a crisis for getting a major decision adopted by the president and by the congress," Pastor responded. "But what I am saying is that we lack the kind of North American leadership we need. Our founding fathers created a system of governance that was not designed to be efficient but was designed to protect freedom. Therefore, you created checks and balances that did protect freedom but also made it difficult to move forward on important issues."
Pastor was asked what North American leaders would need to do to move toward integration.
"We need to form a customs union to move North American integration to a new level," Pastor argued. "A customs union would eliminate rules of origin on the border and agree to a common external tariff. This would not be easy but not as difficult as NAFTA was, and it would lead to efficiencies in our economies and in the end contribute to a better standard of living for all parties."
Pastor also called for a North American Investment Fund to invest in Mexico's infrastructure.
"If we had a North American Investment Fund," Pastor explained, "over the long term, you would narrow the income gap between Mexico and the U.S."
WND previously reported Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, dropped his support for legislation (S. 3622) he introduced in the 109th Congress to create a North American Investment Fund after WND pointed out the proposed law would advance an important part of Pastor's agenda to create a North American Community.
Pastor was careful to distinguish that his proposals were designed to create a North American Community and that he never has proposed to create a North American Union as an EU-style regional government.
"What I am recommending is a series of functional steps that are more than incremental," Pastor admitted. "Each of the proposals I have laid out represent more than just small steps. But it doesn't represent a leap toward a North American Union, or even to some confederation of any kind. I don't think either is plausible, necessary, or even helpful to contemplate at this stage."
The idea seems to be to put new structures in place that change the look of the landscape. WND pointed out to Pastor that this step-by-step approach is the same approach taken to create the European Union. The memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the architect of European unity, finally disclosed he had used a strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to form a European Union would never succeed if it were openly disclosed.
Pastor was asked if he thought a North American Union was a bad idea.
"No," he replied. "I don't think a political union of North America is an inherently bad idea, nor do I think it is a good idea for North America right now. I teach a course at American University in which I look at the different options for political integration of North America, and I put the options before the students."
Then why is a North American Union a bad idea right now?
"The reason the political integration is not a good idea at this stage now, perhaps never, is because of people like yourself who immediately begin to fear that their sense of America could disappear," Pastor responded. "Somehow, if you're fearful that America's sovereignty will disappear, you won't even take small steps forward. You just get mired in the status quo. The problem is that the world is moving very rapidly, and you can't stay competitive if you don't move."
Pastor did not reject the idea that a North American Union could form, but only after further continental economic integration and the development of a North American Community in which people are able to think as citizens of North America.
Is China the winner in the NAFTA super-corridors being planned for North America?
"If you define trade in zero-sum terms, China may be the winner in the transportation corridors," Pastor conceded. "But even in zero-sum terms, consumers benefit from the increasing imports that give them more choice and give them more quality. In the final analysis, we are all consumers."
Pastor affirmed he favors globalism.
"I believe," he explained to WND, "that globalization is a net plus for the world economy, for the middle class, and for all people."
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Evidence of Voter Fraud by ACORN
ACORN Whistleblowers Produce Shocking Testimony on Capitol Hill
by Connie Hair
03/23/2009
Late last week, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, called for a hearing to investigate ACORN. You read that right. At a Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties subcommittee hearing entitled “Lessons Learned from the 2008 Election” last Thursday, witness testimony not only drew Conyers to the subcommittee hearing but events led to Conyers strongly urging that subcommittee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) conduct a full hearing on ACORN, calling allegations made at the hearing “serious.”
The shocking testimony that began the chain of events came from Pennsylvania attorney Heather Heidelbaugh, who in October of last year represented “a candidate, voters and the Republican State Committee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania” seeking a preliminary injunction against ACORN and the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The complaint alleged violations of the election code, fraud and misrepresentation, and violations of equal protection and due process.
Heidelbaugh brought with her to the hearing ACORN whistleblowers, including Anita MonCrief, a former Washington, D.C., ACORN employee who came forward to testify last October in the Pennsylvania case. MonCrief, a Democrat who voted for and still supports President Obama, made allegations including the exposure of Obama maxed-out donor lists illegally shared with ACORN, allegations of illegal intermingling of non-profit employees between ACORN and Project Vote, and the use of intimidation tactics and training methods to skirt regulations, among many other assertions.
Testimony also revealed ACORN’s unofficial “Muscle for the Money” program directed at fundraising from corporations. Allegations were made of payments from Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to ACORN's D.C office to harass The Carlyle Group and specifically David Rubenstein, a founder of the company. Even though ACORN D.C. had no interest in The Carlyle Group, they were allegedly paid by SEIU to go break up a banquet and protest at Rubenstein’s house.
It was called “Muscle for the Money” because they would go “intimidate people and protest.” Targets of the protests included Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, and Money Mart among others, testimony revealed. The apparent purpose was to get money from the targeted entities for ACORN.
Perhaps the most controversial accusation revealed by whistleblower testimony was the scheme by which ACORN and Project Vote are paid by foundations per voter registered and the submission of copies of actual voter registration cards to the foundations, which is a violation of federal law.
I spoke with whistleblower Anita MonCrief at the hearing. “ACORN itself is sometimes paid by foundations per registration and, in some case,s they would send copies of the voter registration cards straight to the funder,” MonCrief said. “Workers are improperly trained. … They are trained to never ask, ‘Are you registered to vote?’ because if the person says ‘Yes,’ they have to move on. They ask, ‘Did you vote in the last election,’ and if the person says ‘No,’ they register them again. This is how they duplicate registrations and flood the offices.”
When these allegations began to surface in hearing testimony, Conyers suddenly appeared at the subcommittee hearing and asked to be recognized, saying that he was “… unaware that this was a hearing on ACORN.” Conyers probed those assembled, asking if any representatives of ACORN were present to defend the organization. Conyers called the accusations made against ACORN a “pretty serious matter.” When no one from ACORN came forth, he asked subcommittee chairman Nadler to hold a hearing on ACORN so the organization could defend itself, to which a shocked Nadler replied, “I’ll take it under advisement.”
Conyers pressed the matter, saying, “I think that it would be something that would be worth our time. We've never had one person representing ACORN before the committee. ... I think in all fairness we ought to really examine it.” An exasperated Nadler said he would hold a hearing when he had “credible allegations of misconduct.”
Nadler abruptly dismissed the panel shortly thereafter.
“I would encourage chairman Conyers in his call for a hearing and investigation into ACORN,” Heidelbaugh told HUMAN EVENTS in the hallway outside of the hearing. “The Judiciary Committee has oversight of the voting system in America, and ACORN is interfering in it in a large, large way. The federal government in some cases is providing the funding for that interference.”
I also spoke with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a member of the House Judiciary Committee as well as the Constitution subcommittee, who questioned Heidelbaugh during the hearing.
“We’re about to appropriate even more money, and we’ve already appropriated some money that may very well be directed to ACORN,” Gohmert said. “If we know that an organization is guilty of fraud, and we provide them the money and the wherewithal to continue the fraud, then we are accessories to fraud. The only difference between us and a criminal is that we have the ability to pass laws that say even though we’re criminals we’re doing our criminal work legally. It doesn’t make it moral, it doesn’t make it ethical, it just makes it legal to say we can be accessories to fraud by providing the money.”
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As often as possible I ask the following of my Liberal friends:
If liberals are the majority in the bastions of Liberalism like New Orleans, New York, Detroit or Los Angeles, and they are so smart with regards to government and business, then why after all of these decades and decades of having political control, and the majority, haven't they created the environmentally friendly, OSHA safe, globally competitive industries, paying high corporate taxes, with the great paying jobs, having top notch benefits like health care, vacations, sick days, and life insurance, for the poor, thus lifting them out of poverty and allowing them the freedom to have family and honor?
Why aren't our great cities and whole States shining examples of what Liberals can do?
When pressed to explain why the Left does not provide what they demand of others they invariably exit the discussion.
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