AMERICA UNDER SIEGE - a Guest Commentary in Local Paper

AMERICA UNDER SIEGE - my latest Guest Commentary published by my local liberal newspaper:  Feel free to send it on to YOUR newspapers just as it is, or with changes you make.  Spread it far and wide, for conservatives just don't know this history!

 

   In the 1960s, radical Columbia University professors, Cloward and Piven, wrote the The Cloward and Piven Strategy, detailing how to force “political change through orchestrated crisis, seeking to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, stressing the system, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.”

Remember now the rule of Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."

   The welfare system was the first target of the Cloward and Piven strategy, using violent demonstrations to achieve desired results. In NYC one of every three people ended up on the welfare rolls, sending the city into bankruptcy and turning welfare from a limited-time expectancy into a lifetime entitlement. The drain on local resources persists indefinitely, just as planned.

In 1970 ACORN was established – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has been responsible for widespread criminal activity countrywide.  As divulged by Townhall, they successfully used the following Cloward-Piven Strategy to get more Democrat voters:

 1. Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise and help them vote, multiple times if possible.

2. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.

3. Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards.

           ACORN also has its imprint on the current mortgage crisis as well as efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens for a permanent Democrat voting bloc.

   Rules for Radicals, written by Saul Alinsky in 1989, became the go-to book for those interested in fomenting progressive revolution. With the intent to create a crisis, Progressives use some of the “rules”:  “Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It, and Polarize It.” Remember their treatment of President Bush as well as others. Remember these rules while reading current events.

Then along came Barack Hussein Obama, almost out of nowhere. Having been deeply influenced in childhood by his mentor (self-proclaimed Communist Frank Marshall Davis); employed as a Community Organizer and attorney for ACORN; befriending unrepentant, bomb-throwing Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers; and maturing in the thugocracy which is Chicago politics, Obama is uniquely qualified to sell his Hope and Change mantra.  Who could be against that? Those interested in reading the full story can go to: http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

Obama openly campaigned for “fundamental change” for America, and Michelle Obama proclaimed: “Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."  I agree with the President that words, indeed, do matter.

Our country is being fundamentally changed as promised: bail-outs; government take-over of private companies; the breaking of legal contracts; stimulus spending mostly on government jobs; widely unpopular government healthcare; unemployment compensation now reaching almost two years; higher taxes; plans for a VAT tax and a Cap & Tax tax; promotion of amnesty for illegal aliens before border security; federal lawsuits against states; failure to urgently stop an oil spill crisis; dropping prosecution of blatant Black Panther intimidation at voting centers;  and tasking NASA to make Muslims feel better about their historic contribution to science, among others.

It really doesn't matter if this is coincidental - or if it demonstrates the above strategies in action.  Either way, our country is in great crisis!  And only we can end it - with our votes!

Below are websites which impart this information.

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
http://www.thefoxnation.com/nasa/2010/07/06/obamas-new-mission-nasa-make-muslims-feel-good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKfwz3NnSlY
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4383/2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2410091/posts