October 7, 2011 7:05 AM
Occupy Wall Street: Marxism, Alinsky, Unions, Obama
Wow. Who would think we would one day have a President whose name fit comfortably in the string of words above?
In case you don't have a background in Marxism, Occupy Wall Street may be unfamiliar territory. But we are in dangerous times when community organizers like our now Community-Organizer-in-Chief are deluding impressionable young students into thinking that raising a ruckus on Wall Street and elsewhere will somehow translate into a compassionate outcome. I've heard these young people interviewed and they are completely illogical and inarticulate, driven by the same sort of angst radical leftists were driven by in the '60's. If only they would realize they would make more of a contribution by helping a child or a family in need, reading to a cancer-stricken kid in the hospital.
As it is, they are being used as pawns by our own American Alinskyites who may see these days of Obama's waning as time for their last ditch effort to bring revolution to America. Van Jones, who was one of Obama's czars is urging an American Fall, the equivalent of the Arab Spring.
What's shocking is that OUR PRESIDENT at a press conference yesterday has given them his sympathy and approval! In other words, he has allied himself with the radical fringe of our society who want to tear down capitalism/free enterprise and replace it with a Marxist system - with rulers like Obama at the top, of course.
They would like to keep this up for 13 months, maybe creating a crisis in order to cancel elections. I kid you not, it's been proposed.
And double shock: that the unions have now sent in their thugs to swell the numbers and possibly incite violence. I remember when unions were a noble institution, but no longer.
I picked up both the cartoon above and the piece below from Thoughts from a Conservative Mom. Go there for full coverage. Don't believe any of the soppy, sentimental romanticization of this embarrassing "movement" from the likes of Brian Williams. I
Obama's October revolution
Protesters aren't interested in solutions, just demonizing enemies of the people
by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
October 6, 2011President Obama's shock troops are marching in the streets. Occupy Wall Street - a movement composed of communists, anarchists, socialists and anti-globalization student radicals - is spreading. Protests have swelled in cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia. The protesters are gaining influence and numbers. A ragtag group of hippie students has turned into a potent political force.
Occupy Wall Street seeks to demonize big banks, large corporations and capitalism. Its goal is to overturn America's economic structure. The protesters are calling for wealth redistribution, fees on bank profits and massive tax increases on the rich. Many are demanding a socialist revolution - the confiscation of private property and nationalization of the economy. They are the heirs of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. Their aim is to impose the hammer and sickle upon America.
Leftist radicals, such as Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky, have endorsed the anti-capitalist movement. Both men have glorified authoritarian communist regimes - Fidel Castro's Cuba, Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and the old Soviet Union. Their hatred for America has found expression in the rabble on the streets of New York and Washington. Actress Roseanne Barr even has called for the return of the "guillotine." She wants bankers to be sent to "re-education camps," and if they still refuse to hand over their profits, they should be beheaded, she says. This is the language of revolutionary terror and Marxist violence.
Mr. Obama has said he "sympathizes" with the protesters - especially their anger at Wall Street and "fat-cat" bankers. For years, he has demonized billionaires and millionaires, jet owners and corporate America. His divisive, irresponsible rhetoric has laid the groundwork for Occupy Wall Street.
The White House connection is even deeper. The protest's main players all have ties to the Obama administration. Its primary organizer is former Obama "green-jobs czar" Van Jones. Mr. Jones is a self-avowed communist and follower of Saul Alinsky, the radical community organizer who also was Mr. Obama's intellectual mentor. Mr. Jones said October is the month of the long-awaited "progressive offensive" - the watershed moment when students, labor unions, socialists and civil rights activists coalesce into an anti-Tea Party to blunt Middle America's growing opposition to Mr. Obama.
Occupy Wall Street also is being supported by MoveOn.org. The group was one of the first to back Mr. Obama's presidential candidacy when he was still an obscure senator from Illinois. The protests are being funded by socialist billionaire George Soros - a key Obama ally. And the protesters are being joined by big labor, the administration's most powerful constituency.
Hence, Occupy Wall Street is not a spontaneous uprising of disenchanted citizens frustrated with corporate plutocracy and capitalist excess. Rather, it is a planned, manufactured attempt to prop up Mr. Obama's failed presidency. It is a page taken straight from the Alinsky playbook: Demonize bankers and businessmen in order to divert attention from the real source of our economic woes, Mr. Obama's policies.
The president inherited a recession, and he has deepened it. His out-of-control spending and trillion-dollar deficits have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. America's debt credit rating has been downgraded. Growth has slowed to less than 1 percent. Unemployment has risen above 9 percent. Inflation is rising as consumer confidence declines. Obamacare is strangling job creation and business investment. Mr. Obama has waged war upon the private sector. If those students are truly angry about joblessness and a bleak future, they should direct their fury at the president.
Read more at the Washington Times
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Comments
what a bunch of angry fascist bs you preach. the "radical leftists of the 60's" which you despise so much are a big part of the reason anyone would even give a woman like yourself the time of day (you l'il sweetheart you.) and i know that the equal rights movement is very hard for you fascists to appreciate, since so much of your nationalistic rage requires the scapegoating of one minority or another for the problems of our society. (You know, just like it was all the jews fault back in the 30's.) yeah- it couldn't possibly be that the corporations are at fault for any of that... of course not! we should be praising those pristine examples of american patriotism! not only are they generous enough to let us work for them for minimum wage, but their lobbyists help us to write our laws and they offer up such delicious servings of their propaganda...
tell you what megamommy dearest- why don't you take a bit of your own advice and help a child or a family in need, or a cancer-stricken patient? and not just by some flimsy gesture like reading to them, but actually caring enough about them to fight for their rights and prosperity against a corrupt system that they can't defeat on their own. try as you may to deny the fact, we are a UNITED people, and INTERDEPENDENCE is and always has been greater than independence.
Posted by: derek | October 7, 2011 4:39 PM
Dear Derek - your rant reveals how quick the Left - which poses as humanitarian and anti-bullying - is to judge/misjudge others.
You are so given to stereotypes. Anyone who doesn't think like you must be stupid, selfish, bigoted, etc.
If you were more than a drive-by sniper, you'd know that I was a 60s/70s radical leftist/organizer and one of the founding mothers of the Second Wave of feminism. How I came to my senses and began to live a more productive life is a long story.
But as far as my giving back, I have adopted three babies with Down syndrome and have been raising them for 16, 15 and 11 years. Two turned out to have autism also. One is Iranian/Mexican and one is Taiwanese.
As far as my education, I have a BA in Philosophy from San Francisco University (more liberal credentials) and a Montessori teaching certificate. I taught in inner city Washington DC, which is where I spent some of my growing up years as a poor white cracker girl.
So Derek, you see, people are generally more multidimensional than we give them credit for. They can be defined by their words and actions and how those two measure up. I am entitled to freedom of thought and speech, and I used those freedoms to listen to the people I've heard interviewed on Wall Street who seem to have only the vaguest idea why they're there and who seem to feel the world owes them the right to live off the hard work of other people.
The fact that I disagree with that does not make me narrow-minded or bigoted. In fact, I'd say it is people like you who are narrow-minded and bigoted. My opinions are also shaped by my direct experience with the left and understanding the rage and envy that drives it.
Actually Derek, it is a lot easier to go mill around the streets, acting out your discontent, than to begin investing in actual hands-on helping. Mother Teresa said, "We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
Posted by: Barbara | October 8, 2011 8:10 AM
Well said, Barbara. Well said.
Posted by: Sue from Buffalo | October 8, 2011 2:20 PM
Great response to Derek, Barbara. Though I doubt he'll ever return to see it, as it's obvious he's a drive-by troll who doesn't know a single thing about you.
I'll be in NYC in 12 days with my 12 year-old. Oh, joy.
Posted by: Marian | October 8, 2011 10:41 PM
