Watcher’s Council - The Council Has Spoken 08.16.13

JoshuaPundit on Aug 16 2013: Alea iacta est… The Council Has Spoken!, the votes have been cast, and we have the results  for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”  ― Ronald Reagan

“The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”  ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.”  ― Jerry Agar

This week’s winner, The Noisy Room’s Capsizing the Republic – Cloward and Piven on the Southern Border is a look at the illegal immigration issue from an interesting standpoint – as a tool of a Cloward-Piven strategy to destroy the American Republic. Here’s a slice:

Glenn Beck pointed out last week that we, as a nation, are being ruled by 535 people in the Congress – 535 politicians are forcing 350 million into accepting Amnesty and the majority don’t want it. Why are we letting this happen? When will enough be enough and we stop the insanity? Essentially, they are erasing our borders and overwhelming our Republic with illegal aliens. It’s an invasion that is being invited in by treasonous individuals on both sides of the political aisle who stand to gain from the destruction of America, the plundering and redistribution of our resources, and the subjugation of the freest society the world has ever known. Why would they do it? The answer is as old as time itself: money and power.

In a clever plan that was communist in its inception and by its design, the Cloward and Piven Strategy has been used successfully in regards to Amnesty. David Horowitz of Discover the Networks defined it succinctly:

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.

And that is exactly what Amnesty will do and in fact, is already doing here in America. Now, due to a loophole, a literal flood of so-called “asylum seekers” are surging across the border, overwhelming the border authorities, while using predetermined code words that will get them protection here in the US:

See Video: Loophole: People are being told to use “key words” to cross border

And this has been on the rise recently. From Gateway Pundit:

A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mexico border in to the United States.

Immigrants are being taught to use “key words and phrases” to be allowed to enter and stay in the country.

Just this past Monday, Border Patrol agents say about 200 people came through the Otay Crossing claiming a quote: “credible fear” of the drug cartels.

So many were doing this that they had to close down the processing center and move the overflow by vans to another station.

“They are being told if they come across the border, when they come up to the border and they say certain words, they will be allowed into the country,” said a person who did not want to be identified on camera. “We are being overwhelmed.”

Pete Nunez, former U.S. Attorney and immigration expert says, “This will swamp the system.”

In our non-Council category, the winner was Mark Steyn  with Know Thine Enemy submitted by The Noisy Room. It’s Steyn at his best examining the Major Nidal Hassan military trial and what it says about the state of our western society. Do read it.

OK, here are this week’s full results. Only The Mellow Jihadi was unable to vote this week, but was not subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty.:

Council Winners

• *First place with 3 votes! The Noisy Room – Capsizing the Republic – Cloward and Piven on the Southern Border
• Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Liberty’s Spirit – These are the times that try men’s souls..
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room - Of Norway, petrodollars, free education, etc.
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit - The Celebration Of The Rattlesnakes
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Simply Jews - Apple vs Samsung: he said, she said, so what will Obama do now?
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 vote – VA Right! - ObamaCare Intent Revealed – Single Payer Ultimate Goal and Why Our Current (old) System Was Better
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – The Mellow Jihadi - For the love of Ginger
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Nice Deb – Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment – Missouri Represents
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – The Razor – You Know Your Cause is Lost When Your Action Plan Includes Disrupting Funerals
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Right Planet – Florida State Capitol Displays Mural of George Zimmerman Shooting Trayvon Martin
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Political Commentator – Conservatives, Tea Party and GOP: Can we find some way to get along just a little bit?

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Mark Steyn - Know Thine Enemy submitted by The Noisy Room
• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Daniel Schwammenthal/WSJ – The Mufti Of Berlin  submitted by The Watcher
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – War On The Rocks – The Wrong Debate: Reflections On Counterinsurgency   submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Third place *t*  with 1 1/3 votes -Walid Shoebat - Does Jailed Brotherhood leader have goods on Obama? submitted by The Right Planet
• Third place *t*  with 1 1/3 votes – David Gerstman/Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - Does John Kerry worry about a Palestine that reveres such monsters as the murderer of Nissim Toledano? submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Third place *t*  with 1 1/3 votes - Blazing Cat Fur – Toronto Masjid Conducting Prison Da’wah Throughout North America Hates You, Your Society, Your Religion & High Heels submitted by Simply Jews
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Techdirt.com – Jennifer Hoelzer’s Insider’s View Of The Administration’s Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote  - John Sexton, The Conversation – Lois Lerner Discusses Political Pressure on the IRS in 2010 submitted by Nice Deb
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Jewish Review Of Books – What Jesus Wasn’t: Zealot   submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote-Patterico’s Pontifications – Pelosi’s Faux and Feigned Outrage  submitted by Rhymes With Right
• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Walter Williams – Black Self-Sabotage submitted by The Watcher
• Fifth place with 1/3 vote -EAG News – Father of molested student talks about his outrage toward seven teachers who supported the rapist   submitted by VA Right!

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Introducing Sarah
• The Pirate’s Cove – Yet Another Obama-Backed “Green” Company Close To Bankruptcy

Forum: Do you think the House will pass some version of amnesty for Illegal aliens? Why Or Why not?

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‘U.S. Day of Rage’ Being Orchestrated for ‘Worldwide Democracy’ (think pseudo-anarchist, neo-Marxist, globalist)

Alert: Anyone Noticing the call for US Day of Rage on September 17th? (vanity)
8/10/11 | 30Moves

I just noticed on Twitter and Facebook that the Left is calling for a US Day of Rage on September 17th.

The Twitter #s are: #USDOR, #occupywallstreet, #revolution

Facebook: Occupy Wall St. or US Day of Rage

They invite people to occupy Wall Street and DC and State Capitals.

Publius is Very Unhappy! Bring your tents! Wall Street belongs to us! Demand the the top 2% pay their fair share!

Lots of tweets but the Facebook pages are low volume.

In addition, there is a group of Muslim activists that are pushing this and in England for the rioters to overthrow the government. -  UK: Islamists call on the Internet to support rioters

My question to them would be: then what?

Gulag Bound

European Revolution

We thought this would be happening, now didn’t we?!?

 

A movement is suddenly springing up from nowhere (ah-huh) to take on the free enterprise, “capitalist” system. In America, they are especially targeting Wall Street, a place still somewhat constitutionally sovereign to the U.S.A. and not thoroughly controlled yet by authoritarian global collectivism.

That is a Wall Street which has already been damaged by the Cloward-Piven orchestrated mortgage meltdown and stemming from that was assailed by the protorevolutionary Obama-Peloisi-Reid government, which brought boa constrictor regulation — by “reform” with loopholes wide enough to fit Brinks trucks for large and coordinated hedge fund manipulators, and which shielded a Securities & Exchange Commission gone dark from the kinds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiries that uncovered Bernie Madoff. Cloward-Piven government, indeed.

A “U.S. Day of Rage” is scheduled to start an “Occupy Wall Street” camp-out on “17/9/2011″ (which would denote orchestration by those who use the British means of writing dates). And as with the “Arab Spring,” much of the organizing is being done through social media, especially super-popular Facebook and Twitter.

Immediately upon clicking links, one finds it to be the America-targeting element of a worldwide movement, especially popular by the looks of it, in Old Europe. Again, that is no surprise to those who have looked into the updated mode of Marxist revolution stemming from the Gramsci and Trotsky schools and historically, even the days before Marx and Engels. Revolutionary proponents likes to hide behind the non-American ideal of democracy(as in permanent rule of the proletariat majority, forget about a republic) along with nebulous and mysterious anarchistic labelling.

From the U.S. Day of Rage “About” page:

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European Revolution

Take the Square

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Occupy Wall Street

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AnonymousIRC

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The term “Day(s) of Rage” is the product of Chicago’s Weathermen, led by Obama workmate Bill Ayers and cohabitants.

This Day of Rage speaks of non-violence, yet plays up the violent terrorism of the current rioting proceeding in Great Britain.

This entry in GulagBound.com will be updated, so we may bring you the news immediately and fill it out as we go.

h/t to Terresa The Noisy Room  and  h/t: CFHeather  and Jean Stoner

Related: UK-Based Extremists’ Group Plot to Overthrow Pakistan Gov’t

Bernays' Ideas on Propaganda Continue to Haunt Americans - The Cattle verses the Ranchers

When Americans see the bizarre responses of the mainstream media and the progressive politicians to tragedies such as the Tucson shootings — for instance, the proposal to ban rhetoric or symbols perceived to be violent — many wonder how the country has come to this strange place where elitists are moving to gain control at the expense of individual liberties. Perhaps one need not look past the Woodrow Wilson administration for the answer.

Today’s politicians and progressives seem to have taken some notes right out of the works of Edward Bernays, President Wilson’s propaganda master. The author of books such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) — both of which were heavily utilized by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels — Bernays has been accredited with manipulating public opinion about such varied subjects as World War I, smoking, and even bacon. He has been dubbed the “Father of Spin” and the “Godfather of modern public relations” because of his extraordinary ability to alter public opinion. 

What today's politicians seem to share with Bernays is the mentality that they are in fact members of an elite class, and that it is their sole responsibility to manipulate the huddled and often confused masses.

For example, Bernays declared in Public Opinion:

Ours must be a leadership democracy, administered by the "intelligent minority" who know how to regiment and guide the masses. The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialized class whose personal interests reach beyond the locality.

He also indicated:

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.

According to Bernays’ daughter, Ann,

Democracy to my father was a wonderful concept, but I don’t think he felt that all those publics out there had reliable judgment. That they very easily might vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing. So they had to be guided from above. It’s enlightened despotism.

Similarly, in his January 11 appearance on Tom Hartman’s liberal talk radio show, progressive thinker John Dean, former Nixon counsel, commented:

What the studies show, the empirical studies over — almost, you know, well over a half a century of studying this issue — they really show that about 25 percent of a given population easily follows into the authoritarian personality-types.

These are people who, as I said, like to be told how to think [and] what to do. Some of them who were more aggressive in their personality want to jump out in front and say, "Follow me." But they will follow their leader until they get their turn. And they look upon others who don’t see the world as they do as outsiders.

[These people] are very susceptible to the direction they get from their leaders.

That's why I think it's very irresponsible (or at least dangerous) for the Palins, the Becks, the O'Reillys and the people who feed this violent atmosphere, they should realize ... the people they're dealing with. They're smart enough to look at this information and know indeed they can provoke this kind of behavior.

Likewise, Obama’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein has indicated that the presence of too many choices can be confusing to the American people. In describing the premise of his book, Nudge, he virtually claimed that the American people were too ignorant to make proper decisions:

We think there is a little Homer Simpson in all of us. Sometimes we have self-control problems, sometimes we’re impulsive. In these circumstances, both public and private institutions, without coercing, can make our lives a lot better.

According to Sunstein, once that reality is accepted, Americans can be “manipulated.”

Joe Klein of Time magazine noted, “It is very difficult to thrive in an increasingly competitive world if you’re a nation of dodos.”

Congressman John Dingle (D-Mich.) has discussed the difficulties of trying to control the people:

The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck has dubbed this the "rancher/cow" mentality: The progressives view themselves as the ranchers, and the average Americans as the cows — incapable of formulating their own thoughts and willing to be herded into a fenced area.

TheDailyBeck2 Video: “Rancher/Cow Mentality”

Show Description: (credit glennbeck.com)  -  Note: Tonight is Glenn’s two year anniversary at Fox News.

Glenn opened up the show the CNN clip of John King saying they are trying to avoid using language like “crosshairs”.

Glenn opened the TV by talking about how stupid CNN must think its listeners are. Glenn played the video of CNN host John King apologizing for using everyday language in a news report. Glenn talked more about it on radio today (LINK), but let’s just say that Glenn said that if CNN felt like they needed to apologize for casually using the word “crosshair”, then Warner Brothers should apologize for having cartoon coyotes drop pianos on road runners.

As Glenn put it, as you squelch language and questioning you stifle creativity and problem solving. You have to push the edges in order to make progress (not progressive progress), and you have to be allowed to fail.

Glenn also pointed out that freedom of speech is important because it exposes your character. For example, Glenn would rather people use terms he finds offensive so that he can know not to interact with them. They have low character.

How does this tie in with Edward Bernays? Well, Bernays believed that people were motivated by animal instincts. And so does Francis Fox Piven. Glenn played a series of clips showing Francis Fox Piven applying Bernays and Freud’s philosophies to modern society and the Tea Party.

Video: Insidious & Scary: Frances Fox Piven Answers Glenn Beck

So what does the whole rancher/cow designation mean? The way Glenn explained it, Progressives believe that as “ranchers” they have a responsibility to guide the people in the “herd”. They use the aggression, self-preservation, sex, and security. Glenn believes that Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud, Francis Fox Piven, and Cass Sunstein are all guided by this rancher/cow philosophy. But this viewpoint is the opposite of the Founder’s beliefs.

So how does this tie into E4? Glenn promised he would tie everything back to the enlightenment, education, empowerment, and entrepreneurial themes. Glenn showed how the rancher/herd philosophy could affect education. Glenn played several clips, the most outrageous of which showed John Kerry say that without an education you end up in Iraq. Glenn also showed quotes from Woodrow Wilson, who said that the aim of the university is to make students unlike their fathers.

The Progressive elite doesn’t believe in educating the “herd”, but rather keeping them in the lower caste in which they reside. Wouldn’t it be better if they tried to empower and educate the herd rather than giving them money and entitlements so they won’t ask questions.

Glenn also talked about Obama’s regulation reform that was issued through Executive Order. But something was missed. “Equity, human dignity, fairness, and distributive impacts” can be taken into account in regulations. The result, more of the “fence surrounding the cattle can be filled in.

Links to stories and information used in tonight’s program:

INSULT SOT MONTAGE
JOE BIDEN, SEPT. 15, 2008, FLAT ROCK, MICHIGAN

* All this stuff about how different Barack Obama is, they’re not just used to somebody really smart. They’re just not used to somebody who’s really well educated.

JOHN KERRY SOT, Oct 2006

* You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

PRES. BILL CLINTON, SEPT. 26, 2010

* so far, they’ve gathered up about everybody for this Tea Party but the Mad Hatter and Alice in Wonderland will give it to them, I think

ED RENDELL 60 MINUTES

* You guys don’t get that. (Stahl off cam: I do get that) You’re idiots. You’re simpletons if you don’t get that.

INSULT QUOTES  -  PRES OBAMA

* (Rolling Stone, Oct. 2010) It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election… The idea that we’ve got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible.”

Beck contends that the elites have managed to make some headway in their power struggle by preying on the youth:

We used to be taught as kids ourselves that there was no such thing as a stupid question. We were encouraged to be curious.... You know who's protected to ask questions and say controversial things [today]? Not the students — they get downgraded for that. Only the elites. Only the ranchers. Only the professors.

For example, in September 2008, Joe Biden said this of Obama’s critics: "All this talk about how different Barack Obama is. They’re just not used to somebody really smart. They’re just not used to somebody who is really well-educated."

Similarly, liberal pundit Bill Maher observed of politicians’ efforts to sway public opinion on healthcare: "Members of Congress have recessed now so they can go home and listen to their constituents, an urge they should resist because their constituents don’t know anything.”

Such opinions explain why outspoken critics of presidential administrations are accused of hateful rhetoric. Questioning authority is a criminal activity.

Americans today are not encouraged to “question with boldness,” as Thomas Jefferson so artfully phrased it — that is, unless they are questioning the Constitution’s usefulness and whether it is an outdated document.

Preying upon impressionable minds was a notion President Woodrow Wilson embraced. He once asserted, "The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.”

It is the elitist mentality that allows billionaires such as George Soros and wealthy Americans such as Andy Stern to believe that they are above the very rules they would like to see imposed on the American people.

Similarly, former Vice President Al Gore, nearly 100 years after Edward Bernays, declared at a conference of young people in Washington, D.C.:

There are some things about our world that you know that older people don’t know. Why would that be? Well in a period of rapid change, the old assumptions sometimes just don’t work anymore because they’re out of date.

The belief that they are above the fray explains how liberals in Washington could propose banning violent symbols and rhetoric following the Tucson shootings, when these violent assertions have been made by their own man, President Barack Obama:

                “I’m ready to duel John McCain.” — Sept. 30, 2008

                “I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” — Sept. 17, 2008

                “… so I know whose ass to kick.” — June 8, 2010

                “We're going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill.” — Oct. 2010

                “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends.” — Oct. 2010

Likewise, it is their elitism that drives liberal politicians to implement a nanny state — one in which it is the responsibility of the federal government to see to the individual’s wants and needs. It is this attitude that fuels programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, and policies such as gun control. 

For example, the Obama administration has announced that it will be reviewing regulations for redundancies to ensure that agencies are operating smoothly. On the surface, the effort appears well-intentioned, except that once again, the President has circumvented Congress by issuing an executive order to carry out the process. Likewise, what is also mentioned in the executive order that has not been touted in the media is the following: “In weighing costs and benefits, for instance, agencies may now consider equity, human dignity, fairness and distributive impacts.”

Only elitists believe they have the right to make such determinations.

The key to Bernays’ ideas on propaganda is the notion that the masses must never know that they are being manipulated. Instead, they must believe that they themselves have conceived the ideas or have come to the very conclusions to which they were actually led by the leaders. Bernays declared:

In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion about anything. We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. [Emphasis added.]

Eliminate choices and oppose views of the masses. So much for the days of President George Washington, who asked to be met on the “battlefield of ideas.”

Perhaps that explains the concerted efforts to destroy conservative critics such as Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Sean Hannity, the John Birch Society, average patriotic American in the tea party and others.

The similarities between the progressive elitists of today and Edward Bernays are stark. It is becoming increasingly evident that Bernays’ ideas are taking form at the hands of the ruling elite in Washington.

Will Americans be the cattle or the ranchers?

Source: The New American

h/t to J. Stoner

Related:

Mind Control Theories and Techniques Used By Mass Media

Edward Bernays – From Bacon and Eggs to Mind Control

Global Elites Picked Obama Long Before Voters

Breaking Free of the Herd  -  The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

Watch the Other Hand part II: Dems, Media Blame Tea Party, Palin for Shooting; Shooter Linked to Leftwing Politics

Sunday, 09 Jan 2011 11:20 AM

As U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fights for her life after a mad gunman shot her on Saturday, some Democrats and major media have moved to pin the blame for her attack on the tea party movement and conservatives like Sarah Palin, despite the fact that the shooter was both deranged and fascinated by leftwing politics.

Giffords' Democratic colleague, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, told Mother Jones magazine within hours after the rampage that the “political tone and tenor” created by Palin and the tea party movement had set the stage for the shooting.

Grijalva said Palin's “apparatus” had put Giffords' and his own life at risk.

“Both Gabby and I were targeted in the apparatus in that cycle [saying] these people are ‘enemies.’” He added: “The Palin express better look at their tone and their tenor.”
The liberal New York Times was not far behind Grijalva, publishing a lead story headlined "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics."

The Times insuated that conservative criticism of President Barack Obama and his policies may have been at the root of this weekend's violence, noting "... it was hard to separate what had happened from the heated nature of the debate that has swirled around Mr. Obama and Democratic policies of the past two years."

The paper even suggested tea party criticisms of  Obama's healthcare plan, the debate over Arizona's new rules on police handling of illegal immigrants and even the fact Giffords was Jewish could have played a role. The Times also claimed that the fact Palin's political action committee had targeted Giffords for defeat may have played a role.
But tea party figures and conservatives have assailed such characterizations.

Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, noted on his website that  Giffords is “a liberal,” but added, “that does not matter now. No one should be a victim of violence because of their political beliefs.”

Indeed, the profile of the accused shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, that continues to emerge is that of a deranged young man whose mind was deeply distubred, but who also tinkered with both anarchist ideas and leftwing politics.

ABC News reported Saturday night that Loughner had identified among his favorite books "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and the fiction classic "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- hardly the reading list of a Palin supporter.

Other clues have emerged about Loughner's persona from Arizona press reports:

• He is "described by friends and former classmates as a loner, prone to dressing in black regalia of boots, trench coat and baggy pants even on the hottest days."
• He was removed from Pima Community College "for causing disruptions in classrooms and the library, college officials said. His dispute with college officials led him to post a bizarre YouTube video declaring the college illegal under the U.S. Constitution and culminated in his suspension from campus."
• His rants against the government that have surfaced on the Internet don't suggest he had a conservative perspective on big government. Instead Laughner's MySpace featured a photo "showing a close-up picture of an automatic handgun sitting atop a book or paper titled 'United States History.'" Another video shows a masked man burning the American flag.
• "I can't trust the current government because of fabrications," Loughner wrote in a YouTube slideshow. "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."
• Loughner suggests that he was rejected from entering the U.S. Army to which he applied because he was offered a "mini Bible" during the recruitment process, but that he declined to "write a belief on my Army application and the recruiter wrote on the application: None."

Source: Newsmax

Watch the Other Hand – Chaos Being Pushed on the Left and the Right – Part l

CPUSA – laying a Foundation for Revolt

Report: Giffords’ Gunman is ‘Left Wing,  Quite Liberal’ yet if true Cloward and Piven and Alinsky style the left almost immediately began attacking and blaming the tea party, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh

Palin, McCain, Boehner and Other Respond to Deadly Arizona Shooting

‘That’s Creep’: Geraldo Freaks Out on Suggestion Fox Is Responsible for Shooting  -  Geraldo and Al Sharpton, both leftists, went way off the deep end  (not shown in this video) on Geraldo’s show on Saturday night.  Al Sharpton is one of the most divisive speakers and leaders is the United States for the left, but always is the first to give the right the advice that he himself does not heed.

Some thoughts to remember as we are being bombarded by the leftist media bias: Columbine Remembered – What a great speech!  by the Father of a Columbine Victim.

Just this week Frances Fox Piven, surviving half of the infamous Progressive Cloward and Piven duo has said violence is okay if it’s a ‘big part of your strategy’, just as violence and chaos are a part of the Saul Alinsky’s tactics in his book and the Progressive Bible: Rules for Radicals.  Also, Uncovered: New Calls for the Updated Cloward-Piven Strategy to Overwhem America’s Financial System from Frances Fox Piven with SEIU and Berthe Lewis Coordination

The 13 Main Alinsky Tactics (Please Scroll Down for Newer Posts)

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

1. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
5. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
7. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
9. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
11. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
13. Keep the pressure on with different tactics, and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
15. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.THE OTHER HAND!!

Big Government: Frances Fox Piven Joins Board of Project Vote – What Could Go Wrong?

While ACORN has earned much of the scorn of the press and public in recent months, its voter registration arm, Project Vote, is actually the entity that has been conducting the questionable voter registration drives.

Project Vote has been accused of voter registrations fraud in more than a dozen states.  Its parent group ACORN, along with a staff member, are scheduled to be tried for fraud in Nevada in a matter of days. Recently, ACORN was nailed under the RICO Act in Ohio and ordered to never come back to the state.  More importantly, the settlement also said ACORN couldn’t simply morph into another organization and cause the same type of trouble in Ohio.

In short, Project Vote is at the root of ACORN’s voter registration fraud problems.

So as ACORN is transforming, Project Vote is transforming, too.  According to a new article in The Nation, Frances Fox Piven of “Cloward-Piven Strategy” fame, recently joined the Project Vote board of directors.

On their face, Piven’s views seem harmless – registering low-income people to vote is how it’s framed publicly.  But it was Piven’s strategy that served as the impetus for the creation of the National Welfare Rights Organization, led by the radical George Wiley.  Wiley had a young protégé, named Wade Rathke, who was eventually dispatched to Arkansas to establish a beachhead in the South for the social justice movement.  He founded, of course, ACORN.

The strategy put forward by Piven and Richard Cloward,  to overwhelm the welfare system in the late 60s and early 70s, bankrupted New York City.

It was Piven who suggested that people losing their homes to foreclosure should simply refuse to leave. ACORN had been following this strategy to a T with its Home Defenders program.

And now Piven is going to have a direct influence over the policy and direction of Project Vote.

Perhaps Piven’s strategy of overwhelming the system will now be applied to registering people to vote.  As we saw in Indiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and many other states, Project Vote created chaos for elections workers to sift through.  With Piven now guiding this ship, her success at overwhelming the welfare system will now be applied to voter registration.  What could possibly go wrong?

by Kyle Olson

Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery (Or Demise)

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

 Cloward/Piven Strategy

Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals

Liberal Fascism

American Progressivism

Barack Obama’s Helter-Skelter, Insane Clown Posse, Alinsky Plans to ‘Deconstruct’ America

by Andrew Breitbart

After 14 months of committing 100% to health care reform, the day after the signing of the Health Care bill was to mark the Democratic Party’s new primary concern: destroy the uprising, annihilate by all means necessary, the Tea Party movement.

The first sign that a plan was in place was the ham-fisted, high-camp posturing of the most controversial members of the Democratic caucus walking through the peaceful but animated “Tea Party” demonstrators on Capitol Hill. There is no reason for these elected officials to walk above ground through the media circus amid their ideological foes. The natural route is the tunnels between the House office buildings and the Capitol. By crafting a highly symbolic walk of the Congressional Black Caucus through the majority white crowd, the Democratic Party was looking to provoke a negative reaction. They didn’t get it. So they made it up.

The proof that the N-word wasn’t said once, let alone 15 times, as Rep. Andre Carson claimed, is that soon thereafter — even though the press dutifully reported it as truth — Nancy Pelosi followed the alleged hate fest, which allegedly included someone spitting, by walking through the crowd with a gavel in hand and a shit-eating grin on her face. Had the incidents reported by the Congressional Black Caucus actually occurred the Capitol Police would have been negligent to allow the least popular person to that crowd – the Speaker – to put herself in harm’s way.

That crowd was a sea of new-media equipment. Not only were tens of thousands people armed with handicams, BlackBerrys and iPods, so also was the mainstream media there, covering every inch of the event. Why did not one mainstream media outlet raise the specter that perhaps a video would exist to prove the events occurred? I am still dealing with the same press telling me we didn’t prove that ACORN was aiding and abetting criminal activity because we “did not provide enough audio and video evidence.” (Insert laugh track.) Is there not a blatant double standard at play here? Nancy Pelosi tipped her hand that race was a central part of her strategy. She invoked the Civil Rights Act and compared it with the universally reviled health care bill. Her caucus is doubling down on the civil-rights rhetoric. There are no coincidences.

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Source: Big Governement

The Week In International Affairs… - Updated

Barack Obama Drops the Missile Defense Shielf that Protects Poland & the Czech Republic From Russia on the 70th Anniversary of…

Russia thanks Comrad 0bama for dissing Poland on the 70th anniversary of the Russian invasion… (Audacity of Hypocrisy)

HMMMM… Do you think it might have something to do with the pressure from Putin? So the question is why? Is Obama that weak or is he that anti-America and the West?? You be the judge!

Obama Scrapping Missile Defense Shield in Europe

The Obama administration is shelving a European missile defense plan that has been a major irritant in relations with Russia, a U.S. ally said Thursday. The Pentagon confirmed a "major adjustment" is planned. Jan Fischer, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, one of two countries where the system was to be built, told reporters that Obama phoned him overnight to say "his government is pulling out of plans to build a missile defense radar on Czech territory."

Also:
Obama's Comments in April Regarding Missile Defense

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An Iranian surface-to-surface Sejil 2 missile is seen in front of a banner featuring Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The words on the banner read, "We are alive and we are warriors." (Reuters)

Obama Defends Decision to Shelve European Missile Shield

President Obama defended a decision to shelve plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, saying the new plan will provide "stronger, smarter and swifter" defenses against Iran, which recent intelligence suggests is developing short- and medium-range missiles.

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Atomic Watchdog: Iran Can Build Nukes

A secret report from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog warns that Iran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is developing a missile system to carry it -- an assessment that could call into question the Obama administration's claim on Thursday that the biggest threat from Iran comes from its short- and medium-range missiles.

Just hours after President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that they were shelving plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe because of Iran's shift in strategy, the Associated Press revealed details of the secret report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It says Iran has "sufficient information" to build a bomb.

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Ex-CIA Chiefs Decry Holder Interrogator Probe in Letter to Obama

Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday urged President Obama to reverse Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to hold a criminal investigation of CIA interrogators who used enhanced techniques on detainees

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Greta Van Susteren travelled to Honduras Yesterday…

An e-mail from Honduras…

Hello Greta,

On behalf of all Hondurans that support and defend our Constitution I would like to take the time in thanking you for interviewing President Micheletti. We've been trying so hard for the American people to hear us out about the true facts of what happened and what is going on in our beloved country. I would also like to say that what President Micheletti stated on your show is 100% accurate.

Sec Hillary Clinton and President Obama have been working hard to reinstate Zelaya, but as Micheletti stated, Zelaya was like a brother to Hugo Chavez and the goal was probably to execute a takeover like what has happened in Venezuela. The question here, I guess, is are Clinton and Obama completely misinformed, or is this just part of Obama’s radical ant-American, anti-freedom agenda??

Zelaya violated our Constitution and broke the law. He was no longer president when he was arrested. It's time for the people of the world to know truly what is going on and hopefully this interview is a great start for us in fulfilling that purpose. Zelaya is giving this noble country a very bad image and rep. We Hondurans feel embarrassed and ashamed for all the lies he's been telling in every single interview or speech he gets to make. We pray to God that the elections being held in November will finally put an end to all of this and we hope that the true Americans will recognize our newly elected president arising from those legitimate elections.

One million thanks again for everything. Honduras hopes you're well and God bless!

Another Email…

Greta: You asked if President and Secretary Clinton had made a mistake in supporting the ousted Honduran president. You may be certain that no 'mistake' was made. They will continue to support socialist/Marxist leaders wherever they are found. A violation of the Honduran Constitution? OK. So what? The end-game of our current administration is to violate our own Constitution and write their own.

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Michael Scheuer Ph.D,former CIA Attorney and author of “Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq”, said today on the O’Reilly Factor that CIA waterboarding and questionable interrogation methods stopped an attack on in the U.S. and in the U.K., but as usual with all the transparency and after releasing information that makes us and our troops less safe…. the verification of this information is still classified. He said that “the United States is definitely less safe than it was 2-years ago!!!”

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Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin ties

(AP Photo/Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)

Reuters reports an interesting nugget in the wake of President Barack Obama's decision to grant Vladimir Putin his wish and kill the Eastern European missile shield:

Shortly after the pullback on the shield program was announced, Russia's government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world's largest private equity firms. GE also owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and is in line for the contract to manage all heath records if ObamaCare (any of the present bills being considered) passes, giving the government total access to your health information and history as well as your bank account. They also are inline to receive huge Cap and Trade Contracts if that bill passes. The GE Combine will make Enron look like kindergartners play!

General Electric may be the company with the closest ties to the Obama administration (if not, GE is second only to Goldman Sachs), and here we see the company benefiting from an abrupt foreign policy change made by President Obama. But GE isn't the only company benefiting. Reuters paints the broader picture:

"U.S. companies have arguably lost out to some European companies in joint ventures, and better diplomacy will likely improve the chances for investors in the strategic sectors of the Russian economy," said Carlo Gallo, senior Russia analyst at London-based consultancy Control Risks.

‘Special Report’ Panel on Missile Defense Reversal

GE CEO Jeff Immelt sits on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and GE owns MSNBC, the network famously friendly to Obama.

How many allies did we offend? How many enemies did we please

Is This The Hope and Change You Voted For… And Can Believe In?

DOMESTIC TERRORISM…

NYC Stadiums Targeted?Man questioned in alleged terrorist plot reportedly had research on sports stadiums on his computer

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Sean Hannity Travels to California's Fields – From Country’s Bread Basket to Grapes of Wrath Dust Bowl Over 2” Minnow – Turn On the Water

Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity travelled to the Valley to help bring national attention to the on-going water crisis.

Water activists say after nearly a dozen marches and protests, it’s time to try something different, so on Thursday (today), Hannity will broadcast his national show from a dry, dirt field west of the Fresno/Kings County line.

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9/11 Was only a week ago - Honoring 9/11 – God Bless America

9/12’s March on Washington was barely reported… - Final Count of attendees Using Helicopter Mapping: 1.7 Million – DC Fire Department # - 70,000

Between: Huge ACORN Scandal and the Beginning of Investigations and Funding Cuts - Mainstream Media Ignored Story Until They Couldn’t Any Longer – New Under Cover Video – Beck and O’Reilly Spark Investigation

Today 9/20.09, After Much Rhetoric, Obama Filled the Air Waves with ObamaCare Rhetoric and Nobody was Listening… News Outlets asked about Afghanistan and ACORN instead.

Feeling Overwhelmed??? That Is the Idea… Part of the Cloward-Piven.com & Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals) Strategies… Overwhelm the System Until It Collapses Onto Itself

More ACORN Scandals and More Facts About White House Radical Connections… at Hand. Will the Mainstream media cover them?

Posted: Knowledge Creates Power & the Daily Thought Pad – Visit Both Daily for up to date and past information!!

The Goal…

If you haven’t already seen this… Please watch all the videos.

The Goal - Collapse the System Onto Itself…

The info is verifiable on-line… and by many of these people’s own words on tape and film and their own writings… speeches and books. However, the administration scrubs as much as they can from the Internet… and Mark Lloyd the FCC Diversity will limit all our access and quiet decent if we let him… He has said himself and idolizes Hugo Chavez.

The Mainstream Media is Missing the Real Picture… Because They Want to Be or Are In the Bag

There is a Tree of Revolution

Seg1- The Tree of Revolution Branches to the Federal Government

Seg2 - Jeff Jones and Bill Ayres Wanted to Create Marxist Revolution – Video

• Cloward-Piven.com
• American Progressivism
• Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Mode...

Seg3- Van Jones Friend Valerie Jarrett Calls Obama 'Family' – Video

Where Is Michelle? Hanging With Cronie Valerie Jarrett

Seg4- The Old News Media Is Disappearing in Favor of Internet – Video

FCC Diversity Officer (Czar) Plans to Shut Down Free Speech ?

Seg5- AWESOME SEGMENT Pelosi Cries, Milk, Twinkies, and Cool Aid! – Video

Queen Nancy Going Nutsy… Again, And Clueless

Seg6- After Missile Removal GM CEO Going To Russia To Make Deals – Video

• Barrack Obama Drops the Missile Defense Shield that Protects Poland & the Czech Republic From Russia on the 70th Anniversary of…
• Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin ties
• The Shadow Party – George Soros, Hillary Clinton…
• Culture of Corruption
• Rules for Radicals

What Can I Do?

All Aboard the Tea Party Express~

Healthcare Reform Foes Using Radical Alinsky's Tactics

Influential Chicago activist Saul Alinsky wrote the book on community organizing for the left.

Now in an ironic twist, opponents of President Barack Obama and the Democrats' healthcare reform plans are employing some of the very same tactics that Alinsky, who died in 1972, espoused in his work "Rules for Radicals."

As healthcare reform foes angrily confront lawmakers at town-hall meetings, The New York Times observed: "It is an irony of the current skirmishing about healthcare that those who could be considered Mr. Alinsky's sworn enemies — the groups, many industry sponsored, who are trying to shout down Congressional town hall meetings — have taken a page from his handbook on community organizing."

Among the Alinsky "trademarks" that the Times' Noam Cohen pointed to are "using spectacle to make up for lack of numbers," targeting an individual — in this case Obama — and "using ridicule to persuade the undecided."

As for complaints from Democrats about the reform opponents' sometimes belligerent tactics, Alinsky stated that "any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical."

The Internet availability of many town-hall confrontations would have won approval from Alinsky, who urged activists to seek media attention — in particular by challenging public officials on camera.

The boisterous disruption of the meetings by reform foes also jibes with Alinsky's tactics. He advised organizers to "raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does."

Among the many community organizers influenced by Alinsky, the most prominent today is — Barack Obama. He learned and taught Alinsky's methods for community organizing while working for the Developing Communities Project in Chicago.

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To find out how to participate in the Tea Party Express events across the country, CLICK HERE. But be prepared to be called part of a right-wing organized mob!!

The Tea Party Express is meeting up with events and tea parties along its 7000+ mile route from Sacramento to Washington D.C.where people are protesting local issues, ObamaCare, taxes, government spending, stimulus, and the list goes on.

The Tea Party Express will end up in Washington D.C. to meet up with and take part in the National Tax Payer March on 9/12. Glenn Beck was asked to MC the event, but has decided to cover it for Fox Cable News.

Check back daily for updates on the Expresses progress and coverage of National Tax March on 9.12.09. I guess this should count as patriotic service to our Country since President Obama signed a bill last April changing 9/11 from a day to remember the events of 9/11 to a National Day of Service backed by mostly liberal organizations including ACORN, Color of Change and the Apollo Alliance.

See you in Washington D.C. on 9/12 if you can there or along the way at a tea party event. If you can’t be in DC in person, watch Glenn on Fox Cable News live that day from the event.

Ask Marion

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 - HONOR IDEA

We have a little less than one month and counting to get the word out all across this great land and into every community in the United States of America.

THE PROGRAM:

On Friday, September 11th, 2009, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office, and store in the United States. Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on this eighth anniversary of one of our country's worst tragedies. We do this to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, friends, and loved ones who continue to endure the pain, and those who today are fighting at home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.

In the days, weeks and months following 9/11, our country was bathed in American flags as citizens mourned the incredible losses and stood shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism. Sadly, those flags have all but disappeared. Our patriotism pulled us through some tough times and it shouldn't take another attack to galvanize us in solidarity. Our American flag is the fabric of our country and together we can prevail over terrorism of all kinds

So, here's what we need you to do .

(1) Forward this email to everyone you know (at least 11 people). Take a moment to think back to how you felt on 9/11 and let those sentiments guide you.

(2) Fly an American flag of any size on 9/11. Honestly, Americans should fly the flag year-round, but if you don't, then at least make it a priority on this day.

Thank you for your participation.

God Bless You and God Bless America!

Posted: Knowledge Creates Power – Cross Posted: Daily Thought Pad

Related Resources:

• Fighting ObamaCare in the Spirit of Ted Kennedy
• Tea Parties Are Back – The Tea Party Express Makes Its Way to D.C. for 9/12
• Rules for Radicals