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Posted: 11/23/09

Cloward-Piven Government
By James Simpson 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 "ClowardPiven 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 who 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, most notable among them 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 reliably vote Democrat. Herein lies the real reason Democrats are so anxious for open borders, security be damned.

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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 "health care" legislation, the real goal of "cap-and-trade," and the real goal of the "stimulus" is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to the government to 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. They 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 it could be rescinded, had we the political power. These policies are toxic, but they could be stopped and reversed, had we the political power. Their ideologies are poisonous, but they 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 or 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 elect competent, principled leaders willing to defend our Constitution and our country. Otherwise, the malevolent cabal that occupies the government today will become too entrenched. After that, all bets are off. Businessman and Examiner.com columnist Jim Simpson is a former White House staff economist and budget analyst. You may read more of his articles on his blog, Truth and Consequences. Distributed by www.worldviewweekend.com
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READER FEEDBACK
Ignorance is no excuse
Posted On: 12/02/09 09:40:33 AM Age 45, NV

You, sir, are truly an ignorant person. It shows in your rationalization of America's downfall. Stop drinking the California water! If only we could give your state to Mexico, since half your population is from there, and Florida to Cuba, America will be a much better place. You and your state are nothing more than a drain on the rest of us hard working Americans. You feel entitled to what I

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have worked so hard to attain. YOU are entitled to nothing! Now go smoke another joint and mellow out some more. Maybe you can come up with some more BS.

Which kind of capitalism?

Posted On: 11/24/09 06:45:40 PM Age 53, CA

I just stumbled onto this article and I have a lot of sympathy for it, but I wonder what kind of "capitalism" you are proposing that Obama wants to destroy? I have thought for years that the conservative movement has trouble reaching more people because it assumes that everyone understands what "free markets" really are. Many people are frightened of conservatism because they equate it with LAISSEZ-FAIRE capitalism, and the kind of capitalism that allows robber barons to get fabulously wealthy while workers struggle and the environment is destroyed. And instead of acknowledging and addressing those fears, conservatives simply hammer and label people as stupid for having them -- which doesn't win anybody over. Central bankers for example are certainly "capitalists" are they not? They LOVE foment, division, and war because they "profit" from both sides, and how much more "capitalist" can you be than that? And isn't Fox News run by an ubercapitalist, Rupert Murdoch, whose wealth allows him to control a lot of the propaganda that gets broadcast? See, people are mixed up about capitalism and are rightfully wary. What I see is that we have been being hypnotized into a trance -- see the pendulum? Left, right, left, right... Our problems aren't horizontal, they are vertical!! The elites at the top, whether left OR right, LOVE it when we fight each other because then we're distracted while they sit back and continue their control. Personally I think it's amazing and hopeful that Ron Paul and Bernie Saunders are collaborating on nailing the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul is a LIBERTARIAN, and Bernie Saunders is a SOCIALIST -- get it? We have been being fed LIES. Not all socialists are the same, any more than all capitalists are the same. The point is whether you have ELITE socialists like Stalin, or ELITE corporate capitalists like Murdoch or the Rockerfellers -- both of which are for control at the expense of the common folk. Horizontally, people of goodwill can air their differences and devise solutions to common problems, it's why we have a republic. Vertical oligarchy and plutocracy is the real enemy. If true conservatives refuse to nail the elite within the Republican party, then how can they expect the progressive populists within the Democratic party to do the same? It *is* happening nonetheless, but the pressure is on to keep fighting each other, right vs left and left vs right, so that we can be baited away from fighting for real freedom. Sell your soul
Posted On: 11/24/09 05:02:30 PM Age 59, CO

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Americans have sold their soul and joined in the rhetoric of D.C. politicians to negotiate what is being controlled by money as the temple changers. Socialistic America started with the Socialistic Security that has allowed government to tax almost every American. In the early 1900's only three percent paid income tax, until SS. Even the sixteenth Amendment did not allow this direct taxation for all as the court records show. Yet, allowable when one willing signs the contract of the SS. Just look at the end of the tax code book and research what the word employee means, or income. All laws have a reference of what words mean in relation to the law written. Most Americans will find out they are neither an employee or have income for taxation. Christians know that the money they have is God's and they are only stewards of it. So will you allow man(government) to steal it (volunteering for SS taxation)? Samuel Adams put it well, He who prefers wealth over freedom. Deserves neither wealth or freedom. charleydan

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GOOD ON YOU, Sir!

Posted On: 11/24/09 03:41:55 PM Age 47, HI

THANK YOU AND KEEP IT COMING. WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND AVAILABILITY OF THE TRUTH, THE UNITED STATES IS HISTORY. Revolution

Posted On: 11/24/09 08:56:14 AM

Age 62, MI

I believe that as a result of the Obama Administrations policys and the questionable Czars and cabinet appointments he has made, not to mention his association with the Reverend Wright and the "Black Liberation Theology" teachings, plus the Terroist Bill Aryes, he is willfully steering America into Socialism. Americans will either revolt or do nothing while our Freedoms are stripped away one at a time. In our day the words of John F. Kennedy never rang more true. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable",JFK.

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