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Simpson: Democrats Call for “Truth and Reconciliation”

by Jim Simpson

The Obama administration has moved forward with lighting speed to impose its agenda upon us before anyone can mount an effective opposition. This has obviously been planned for a long time. That we have been so poorly served by our duly elected politicians, especially three Senate Republicans and virtually the entire Democrat Party, is discouraging beyond words.

Unless some of these people get a serious dose of moral integrity overnight, Obama's massive spending bill will become law, and the beginning of the end of our great nation will hove into sight.

It is now becoming apparent that a large proportion of the bill is nothing more than a massive collection of earmarks (although I told you that would happen a few weeks ago.) But it is different in that the lengths they have gone to hide the authorship of those earmarks are unprecedented.

Usually earmarks have the lawmaker's name attached to them, but not in this bill. You have to really search to find the person behind it. But that person is there, when you look hard enough.

There is the pathetic case of the $300 million "golfcart" earmark, only they call them "neighborhood electric vehicles." Is this the beginning of mandated green cars like the Pelosi GTxi?

Since these carts are produced in North Dakota and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, it seems obvious that he would be the source of this particular "stimulus." Or maybe he just happens to be from North Dakota?

Then there is the case of the $2 billion for a "near-zero emmissions power plant." The only place one of these was ever considered was, you guessed it, Illinois. But the project was abandoned due to the evolution of newer technologies.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich then tried to restart the project with a half-million dollar lobbying effort paid for by Illinois taxpayers. He's gone now, of course... But the entire Illinois delegation has apparently been trying to get this back on the burner too, so presto chango! There it is. An earmarked $2 billion waste of taxpayer dollars brought to you by No-Earmarks-Obama and the most ethical administration in history.

Where have we heard that before? Oh yes, Nancy Pelosi, who promised, upon ascending to the Speakership that her's would be "the most ethical Congress in history." She's trying to "save the planet" after all.

And before that? Oh yes, when Bill Clinton took office didn't he promise that his would be "the most ethical administration in history?"

Can't these guys come up with any new material? I would laugh if I didn't want to cry so much. But the thing is, they're not comedians. It is as if an enemy of the United States scoured the land for the most inept, arrogant, dishonest, self-serving, piggish scum they could find and then put them up for office because they knew these people would be like one-man wrecking crews.

Our enemies couldn't have done a better job if they had picked them themselves. Hmmm... Maybe they did.

But just when you thought the scum couldn't get much slimier, along comes Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) with the most contemptible bit of hubris in a week that has been overflowing with it. Back in the 1980s, Patrick Leahy had to resign from the Intelligence Committee after a series of classified leaks, one of which may have caused an undercover agent's death. As Discover The Networks relates:

During the mid-1980s, the heart of the Reagan administration, Leahy served as vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It was while in this position of power that he earned the nickname "Leahy the Leaker." According to a 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune report, in a 1985 television appearance Leahy disclosed classified information that one of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's telephone conversations had been intercepted. The information that Leahy revealed had been used in the operation to capture the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed American citizens, and the Union-Tribune claimed that Leahy's indiscretion may have cost the life of at least one of the Egyptian operatives involved in that operation.

There were other similar indescretions until he was finally forced off the committee.

The man should have been shot for treason. But instead we have him proposing a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" like South Africa had. That he of all people would suggest such a thing is a moral outrage.

Now, for anyone to implicitly compare the Bush administration to the Apartheid South African government is beyond belief, but to even think that every controversial issue was not exhaustively investigated during Bush's tenure is to simply be astonishingly forgetful or unconscionably ignorant of facts. But I don't think Leahy is ignorant of anything. The man knows exactly what he is doing.

Patrick Leahy and the entire Democrat Party need to take a deep breath. They have committed countless crimes over the past thirty years with almost complete impunity because of the help they get from the media, who either suppress the story, discredit it, or attack the storyteller. They have been further aided and abetted by a hapless Republican Party and a law enforcement establishment that is too timid or corrupt to go after these people.

The current administration likely got where it is through an extensive network of corrupt organizations and activities, and much of the crisis we face today was indeed manufactured by the Left.

However, I have resisted believing that the timing of the financial crisis - despite coming as it did almost immediately following the stunningly successful Republican Convention when John McCain secured a sizeable lead in the polls - was anything more than dumb luck for Obama.

A recent revelation in a C-SPAN interview, however, raises some interesting questions. Democratic Representative Paul Kanjorski (PA-11), Capital Market Subcommittee Chair in the US House of Representatives, recently revealed the following:

Here’s the facts, and we don’t even talk about these things. On Thursday [September 18] at about eleven o’clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion dollars was being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened up its window to help. They pumped a hundred and five billion dollars in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks...

Prior to this, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had just lost 800 points between September 15 and 17. Most of that was attributed to the failure of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch's emergency buyout, and a host of other bad financial news.

I have learned from an insider in the financial business that on September 18th, most of the money was pulled by institutional investors, pension funds and the like, in response to the mounting bad news. So it remains likely that the financial system's problems had just reached critical mass.

Still Lehman Brother's strong preference for the Democrat Party leaves one wondering. Could they have held off another month? Another three months? Did a Democrat Treasury Secretary take it upon himself to whisper in the ear of his friends at Lehman Brothers that "now is the time?"

During the election Real Clear Politics kept an interactive timeline in graphic form showing the ups and downs of the presidential candidates' poll numbers. Go to the RCP website here and scroll down the page to the graph. McCain enjoyed one of his few leads in the polls immediately following the Republican convention. But that lead began plummeting on the 15th. Obama jumped ahead 1.9 points on September 19th, the day after the run on the bank and his lead only increased after that.

These may be coincidences, but there is no doubt that the bad economic news was a great boon to Obama's candidacy. One thing is for certain. The Democrats were able to exploit this situation quickly, accusing Republicans of causing the crisis with their "free market, anti-regulatory policies."

Nothing could be further from the truth of course. Thirty years of Democrat efforts to turn banks into welfare housing financiers indisputably created this financial crisis, despite Republican attempts to rein them in. But as usual, Republicans were inexplicably inept in seizing upon this fact to put the blame where it has always belonged: with Democrats.

In any case, we have faced one outrage after another since Obama took office. One bait and switch after another. One lie camouflaged by a smile after another. One broken promise after another.

The economic "stimulus" plan is a vast earmark bill that will stimulate tons of political capital for all those Democrat legislators too gutless to put their names to it. And yes, it will even bring some jobs to those neighborhoods (while the rest of us flounder.) You will be certain to hear about all the prosperity and happy Kulaks, but about the downside, our loyal media will be deafeningly silent.

We have endeavored to expose some of the other horrible things in this monstrosity, like seniors being cut out of "age related" medical procedures, or $4.2 billion going to ACORN. We will doubtless discover others to our horror after the bill becomes law.

So we have about had it.

If the Left wants to keep attacking on issues they know to be utterly without merit, they must know they are pushing this country towards civil war. I think they have actually been spoiling for it. I think it is part and parcel of their crisis strategy. Either we completely capitulate to their overtly fraudulent accusations, to their wholesale theft of our economy, to their relentless character assassinations, to their criminalizing of policy differences, to their treasonous activities, to their shameless power grabs, or we fight.

Are they going to come to their senses, ever? Or will they carry this country to anarchy? For that’s where we are headed if this stuff doesn’t stop.

© Jim Simpson. Jim is author of I.O's Article of the Year, 2008, "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis," is a former White House staff economist and budget analyst under Reagan and Bush 41. His writings have been published in the Washington Times, FrontPage Magazine, Whistleblower Magazine, American Thinker, DefenseWatch, Soldier of Fortune, and others. His blog is Truth and Consequences.

Photo: Obama teaching communisty organizing, money funneling and politics of self interest, from Plum Bob Blog

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Fascist War Against America: Geithner Wants $1-Trillion More for Bank “Rescue” -- The Plan: Destroy the Free American Economy

There is still time to spread the word. Please contact your U.S. representative and senators. Contact governors' offices too, so they feel the heat. The "stimulus" bill is in conference and must again pass both houses of Congress.

You may want to send this page to your friends and family. I.O. and ally sites intend to list some of the many treacheries of this bogus "stimulus" and "bailout" funding, very soon. For now, please listen to Monday night's "The Awakening" broadcast, including Jim Simpson, who wrote "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis."

These Marxists/fascists do not want to stimulate the American economy. They want to destroy the American economy. They do not care how the money is spent. They want to total probably $4-Trillion of "emergency measures," to destroy the dollar, create hyperinflation, and make the majority of Americans dependent upon the Obama state, for their livelihoods.

Call, email, fax, mail, telegram. Do it now, please, to save the American republic.

Originally posted, Monday 2/9 in Investigating Obama --

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We humbly suggest you bring up this Bloomberg.com article in another window:

Stimulus Battle May Signal Tough Sell for Bank Rescue
By Matthew Benjamin, 2/8/2009

This is “Manufactured Crisis,” as you may have read in last election season’s revelationary article by Jim Simpson [who is interviewed in tonight's "Awakening" program, joining Philip Berg and Carmen], but that is now an understatement. It is becoming manufactured catastrophe — nationwide and worldwide. A free, American economy will not be able to survive without the dollar being driven down to the depths and all of our personal economies being hit with hyperinflation.

The global fascist manipulators (the friends of George Soros) have combined with America’s neo-Marxist (Cloward-Piven) movement, behind Barack Obama, to “go all in.” They have decided not to do this gradually. They are trying to bring America down within Obama’s (fictitious) first year of office, gambling they can bring the disaffected, destroyed, and panicked into America’s new, fascist “patronage” workforce. Add the mega-buildup of bossed union membership caused by “card-check,” and you have the proletariat masses eating out of the hands of the Fascist State of America. So is their plan.

Remember the Cloward-Piven and Saul Alinsky rules: cause “disruption” and then take advantage of people’s “self-interest” — in having a job with either the state or state controlled “private” industry.

This is a revolution against this nation right here, right now. It is stealth war and it is being waged against you and against me — massively.

This will be discussed in tonight’s “The Awakening, with Hanen & Arlen” tonight, 2/9, at 8pm ET…5pm PT. After the program, it is available via archive at the Sentinel Radio Network’s blogtalk site.

What are we going to do about it? Let us pray, plan, and do, effectively, together, the work of saving the American nation.

Please, also listen to the interview with Philip Berg in Hour 2, who is attempting to remove this fictitious "president" from office.

Chicago Precinct Worker Reveals Obama’s Organizing Plan

Can it be clearer? This is the patronage side of the neo-Marxist plan to build a new "Democrat" campaign army, Chicago style on steroids, to support the new fascist nation.

Learn more about it on tonight's "The Awakening, with Hanen & Arlen" We may have a special guest in the first hour. [We did: Jim Simpson.] The second hour's special guest: Philip J. Berg, the Obama eligibility challenger.

Thank you, my ol' Chicago neightbor, God bless you and wake up America with your help.

Obama Decrees: Massive Immigration of Hamas Refugees from Gaza?

I.O. offers the beginning of an article, "Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas ot Resettle in US," by Kim Priestap in Wizbangblog (2/7) and encourages you to read the rest. Take a look at that bulleted list. Did you know?

President Barack Obama has signed a presidential determination allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States. Sure, what can go wrong when we allow hundreds of thousands of people who have been, as Mark Steyn memorably described, "marinated" in a "sick death cult," who voted for Hamas, and 55% of whom support suicide bombings live here and at the American taxpayers' expense:

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims."

Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

Let's review some of Barack Obama's most recent actions since he was inaugurated a little more than two weeks ago:

• His first call to any head of state as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.
• His first one on one interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.
• He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.
• He ordered all overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
• He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and 9/11.
• Today we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to and live in the US at American taxpayer expense.

Anyone else seeing a pattern here?

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

Jim Simpson on the RINO 'Useful Idiot' Senators: Three People Have Just Ruined this Country

Despite the corrupted work of the foolish, this is not over. Please contact your senators and Republican senate leaders. Demand that final passage of this bill be filibustered and voted down.

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Excerpted from truly level-headed Jim Simpson, an I.O. ally (link placed by I.O.):

All it takes is a few... Republican Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter committed treason tonight. That’s right, out and out treason. They took it upon themselves, these three megalomaniacal, mindless, bloated egos, to spit in the face of the entire Republican Party, virtually the whole economics profession and 67 percent of the American people, to give Senate Democrats enough votes to pass Obama’s monstrous “stimulus” bill.

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!????

This bill will NOT stimulate the economy. This bill will NOT create new private sector jobs. This bill will NOT help our current situation. It will destroy this country. This bill is a PAYOFF to Obama’s corrupt supporters at ACORN and in the UNIONS, the rest is a laundry list of Democrat pork and pie-in-the-sky projects that will only bear fruit YEARS down the road, if at all!
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This bill is literally the worst legislation I have seen since I began paying attention to Congress over twenty years ago. And unless Republicans pull off a miracle in conference, this bill is a done deal.

And from me: just add "card check" and keep building extra-governmental armies including "Organizing for America," and the Marxofascist insurgency will have deeply taken root, to bleed this nation of its very sustenance and lay its half conscious body upon the operating table of the world's despot elite.

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Sam Sewell: State Sovereignty Movement

This may seem like an aside for I.O., but it may also be about ways for "the States... and the [P]eople" to defend ourselves against the political insurgency behind Obama's face -- including any unfunded mandates, which are apparently what have caused these initiatives.

by Sam Sewell

To round out our discussion on the State Sovereignty Movement from last night:

As things stand right now it looks like Oklahoma, Washington, Hawaii, Missouri, Arizona, New Hampshire, Georgia, California, Michigan and Montana will all definitely consider sovereignty bills this year. They may be joined by Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine and Pennsylvania where legislators have pledged to introduce similar bills. Twenty states standing up to the federal government and demanding a return to constitutional principles is a great start, but it remains to be seen whether legislatures and governors are brave enough or angry enough to follow through. As the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress push for more expansion of federal power and spending that may help provide the motivation needed for the sovereignty movement to take off.

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/02/state-sovereignty-movement-quietly.html

And here is the letter I forwarded to my Florida State Senator and Representative with the subject line “DITTO FROM ME!!”:

A message from Harry Riley to all members of Patriots For America - Florida on Constitutional Emergency!

To: The Honorable Brad Drake
State of Florida

Re: Declaration of Sovereignty

Dear Representative Drake,

My name is COL Harry Riley and I am a very concerned constituent of yours.

As you should be well aware, our Federal style of government has gotten completely out of control on everything from the "Stimulus Package(s)" to Mr. Obama's signing of the SCHIP Bill on Feb. 4, 2009. We are continuing to slide down this ever slippery slope of democracy to the extent that it has finally landed us in the deep valley of socialism. If we do not stop this downward spiral now, we will end up like other great nations in the past, with the inevitable outcome of ... communism. I for one will not let that happen, and I hope that you won't either.

Therefore, I am demanding that you, as my State Legislator, immediately - with or without help from other Legislators - fashion and present a Bill that Declares Florida Sovereignty from the Federal Government since they continue to ignore and dismantle the Constitution of the United States of America. This would enable an immediate return to the Jeffersonian principles of Government as well as that of the Tenth Amendment, that states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

I would like to encourage you that you would be in very good company when you submit, or yield, to the will of the people of Florida. Listed are some of the other states that have adopted, or have in committee, such a Bill: New Hampshire, Missouri, Arizona, Washington, Oklahoma, Montana, & Michigan. I would hope that you will not only see the legal, logical, moral, and the ethical reasoning behind such a Bill, but that you would also recall, and hide deep within your heart, the Founders dream and establishment of our great Republic. We must not, now or ever, relinquish their endeavors.

Visit Patriots For America - Florida at:
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/groups/group/show?id=2734278%3AGroup%3A1209

Originally posted by Sam in "comments" to preceding "The Awakening" post, February 6, 2009 2:26 PM. I recommend listening to his analysis of the sovereignty moves in the 2/5 TSRN blogtalkradio-cast; begins just a few minutes in. - AW

The Awakening, with Hanen & Arlen, Archived: Obama Ineligibility Update

Update 2/6, am: The program is now archived and available to stream or download, via the link just below. It went well, despite my palaver. A highlight of the first hour is Sam Sewell's analysis of the new state sovereignty initiatives. The second hour includes a very good discussion of the leading eligibility challenges to Barry Soetoro, a.k.a., Barack Obama, with MommaE joining Hanen at the Sentinel roundtable.
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The Awakening,
with Hanen & Arlen

Tonight (Thursday, 11pm ET,,,8pm PT)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Sentinel_Radio

call-in @ 646-727-2652


ObamaNation News to discuss, in our fight for freedom...

1. What havoc is wrought in the Socialist-Stimulus Bill?

What is in the Stimulus Bill(s) and what is its purpose?
How to contact your U.S. Senators and What might you say?
What is Jim DeMint's alternative, 'The American Option: a Jobs Plan that Works?"
"Obama Losing the Stimulus Message," Politico, 2/5

2. Why are states asserting their sovereignty all of a sudden? An American movement against a Marxofascist insurrection?

"States getting uppity - uppity yours federal criminal conspiracy"

Across the United States, it seems that States are suddenly intent on declaring their Sovereignty to the Federal Government. Specifically citing the 10th Amendment of our beloved Constitution, reminding our central government where the real power lies, and of the fact that the Federal Government's power is derived from the will of the States (and of the People) and even going as far as to state (in some cases) that the United States Government has been trampling our Constitution by acting outside of its enumerated powers specified in our founding document. The links below go to each State's recently-introduced actual piece of legislation.

New Hampshire, Washington, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma

The Steady Drip and Defend our Freedoms Foundation

3. Is a major military conflict with Obama beginning?

"Pentagon Brass Chafes at Obama's Iraq Pullout Plan," TSRN blog from Inter Press Service, Lebanon
"Judge Denies Executive Order at GITMO," War Crimes blog, 1/29

4. Obama's 'Muslim Outreach Initiative' -- "Not that there's anything wrong with that," but what does it mean, Barack-style?

Negotiating with Muslim nations before the inauguration, was he?

"Obama's Secret Meetings with Iran," Maggie's Journal blog, 2/4, by Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

And with Islamist imposers, before and during the campaign?

"Investigating Obama: Career Path Toward a Neo-Marxist Presidency", Arlen Williams, 11/2/2008

For whom was William Perry communicating with the the Iranian regime, last year, Bush or Obama?

"Ex-Defense chief met with Tehran aide; Perry talks reach highest level so far," Washington Times, 1/30

Just what did Obama tell the Muslim nations, immediately after his inauguration?

"S.U.B.M.I.S.S.I.O.N," Frank Gaffney, Jr., 2/5
"Barack Obama Meets Al-Arabiya for Interview: Transcript - Video," Maggie's Notebook, 1/26

5. Where do the 'natural born Citizen' challenges stand, now?

"Berg v. Obama - What's This? An Eligibility Case Examined on the Merits?," Investigating Obama, 2/4/2008
"Discussion2: Kerchner et. al. v. Obama et. al. - Discussion Thread #2," blog of Mario Apuzzo, Attorney, 2/4/2008
These and others listed in, "Eligiblity Lawsuits," The Right Side of Life, continually updated

6. Those pesky rumors, about the neo-Marxist messiah...

7. Or, what else do you want to talk about, tonight? 646-727-2652

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Berg v. Obama - What's This? An Eligibility Case Examined on the Merits?

Can it be? Which merits?

I.O. does not have time to examine this, right now (though it has begun to look for contributing investigative correspondents, or directly cross-posting bloggers). Instead, the following posts are suggested, where description and commentary are found:

Berg v. Obama: Clerk Orders Case Submitted to Merits Panel
The Right Side of Life, Tue, 2/3

Docket entries, Berg v. Obama Third Circuit Court of Appeals (SEND TO MERITS PANEL)
ecf.ca3.uscourts.gov, FreeRepublic.com, 2/3 - h/t: rxsid

Rumors Abound! Let's Keep Our Heads, Compatriots -- Updated 2/3: Obama's Organized Army

perspective, Arlen Williams

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore He says:

Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light.

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

- Ephesians 5:6-17, New King James Version

The times are changing and the rumors, they are a-flyin'. Among the NObama, Obamologist, and natural-born-Citizenist blogs, forums, and emails, people are passing it along that...

• The fix is in, at the Supreme Court -- and everywhere! That's what Larry the Policeman seems to have told us. Anyone in government lifting a finger to investigate Obama will have it chopped off. There is now nowhere to go, to show America that Bogus POTUS is an agent provocateur!

• Obama's big organizing effort will immediately be turned into a "civilian national security force," thug army, in every neighborhood!

• A large-scale "terrorist act" will be perpetrated against America by the powers that be behind Barry, giving him an excuse to declare martial law!

• Assets will be frozen in banks and once they are thawed, dollars will have turned to dimes -- or Ameros.

• Barack Obama's minions will be screening emails, forums, and blogs, to persecute the fact finders and whistle blowers!

• Those found to be disparaging "The One" will be herded into those FEMA camps, on those military bases!

• The anti-Christ, son of perdition, the beast, or the spirit of Adolph Stalin Tse-Tung, or "Bob" from Twin Peaks will be revealed between the ears of Barack -- and dogs and cats will start sleeping together and it will be m-a-s-s---h-y-s-t-e-r-i-a-!-!-!

• All, within the next few weeks!

Amidst all these rumors and anonymous throw-it-against-all-walls postings, where does the truth lie? Wait, can the "truth lie?" What does that even mean?! Who cares!? Grab the guns, ammo, plastic sheeting and let's start panicking! And don't forget the duct tape!

HOLD IT!

Please? Just... can we... hold it a sec? Take a deep breath and step away from the computers, everybody. (Okay... come back close enough to read, please.) Perhaps the biggest reason for us to keep our heads about all of this is, in some of it, there may be a kernel of truth. Or, an ACORN, sure. So, that is why we need to apply "the fruit of the Spirit" including "self control," a part of which is circumspection -- which means "looking all around" -- and putting things into context with good perspective. Let us take these rumors one by one and do just that. I will try to start us going. If you would like to take it from there, please post comment(s).

1. Larry the Policeman (posted 2/2). This post became a hot item after being posted in eligibility challenger Philip Berg's ObamaCrimes' forum, a few days ago now (typo's forgiven: forum post -- and emphasis is I.O's):

written by larry, January 25, 2009

I am a retired (25) police officer and spent 26 years in the United States Air force as a MSGT in charge of Training for the 482 Security Police Squadron. Was in Vietnam and also served in the Gulf War. For the last year I have been watching this site on a daily basis not believing that Barack Heussein Obama has become our president. I coach a High School softball team and everyone of my players had to porduce a birth certificate to be elgible to play through the state. I hate to say this, but we in a total crisis and something will happen if this man is allowed to continue to lead this once proud nation. I have never posted before but know many FBI, Secret Service Agents, CIA and many other Federal Agents who have told me they are not to discuus this issue about Obama or they will be terminated from employment. We all need to take a step back and pray that something will come out on all of these lawsuits. I spoke to the Supreme Court Justice in my state who advised that the US Supreme Court have been ordered to throw out any case that deal with the fraud President elect. May God Hlep us All

I.O. read through the numerous Larry Bishop (pseudonym) post and spoke with MommaE, who had spoken to Larry on the phone. Larry was vetted to a degree and MommaE says he checks out with her.

However, it was also noted by observers at Zapem that the Hatch Act prohibits or restricts federal employees' participation in election-related work and that it is common for government investigators to be warned not to do private work aside from their assigned duties. Witness the trouble Ohio Job & Family Services director, Helen Jones-Kelly caused herself for investigating "Joe The Plumber," Joseph Wurzelbacher -- all the more reason for internal memos! Does that explain all there is to explain, here? I.O. does not know.

As to the alleged tip-off by the state Supreme about the federal Supremes, one would want to know the exact words used, in what sentence(s), and in what context. It could have been an off the cuff remark said in conjecture, possibly which Larry read into. It could be the rantings of a drunken judge in a barroom. It could mean a number of things, only one of which is exactly what those words of the pseudonymous Larry relate on the face of it. I.O. requests that Larry ask MommaE to help to put him in touch with a lawyer, if he does not already have one, then to make a more detailed personal statement in writing, whether public or in cognito. Seriously. This allegation is about treason. It is hardly something to "post and ghost" about.

2. Obama's organized army (posted 2/3). Effectively, the man started this rumor himself, pushing "community organizing" and referring, during his campaign, to a "civilian national security force, that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded," as the United States military. The Obamacentric organizing has continued, through the transition and into this "presidency," with "Organizing for America," focusing on, among other things, policy advocacy for the socialism-stimulus bill.

Presently, they want Obama followers to hold house meetings, to sell their unprecedented socialist mega-pork plan, which feeds money to hugely burdensome statist programs while it funds socialist and illegal immigrant shadow party operations, ACORN and La Raza. The "stimulus bill" balloons our national debt, overburdening future taxpayers. Such tax burdens sap personal investment into our economy, put a vice-like squeeze upon church and charitable giving, and severely impose upon our general economic freedom and the opportunity to better our condition. Obama's ops serve their neo-Marxist spin by a video. You can sign up for it, here. Want to?

Is there reason to be concerned? Gravely concerned. Is this an unprecedented and fascistic attempt at manipulating the political process of America's Sovereign Citizens, in a top-down fashion? Yes. Is it a thug army? Only by a poetic usage of those words, may that now be. (Does that mean "yes?" You decide.) Is it a "civilian national security force?" No -- well -- at least not yet and by the context of any surfacing plans, or the potential reactions to such developments by Americans, that would not seem soon to come -- not by any conventional measure of political feasibility, at least. Just look at the backlash about ACORN during the campaign, though the mass media was loathe to admit the news. But, could some sort of national or regional crisis cause such a thing to occur? Possibly. Such things happen in nations, or nations would not lose their freedom.

I.O. suggests you call this massive Obama operation, of "organizing" Sovereign Americans and illegal immigrants, a massive, new plan aimed at corrupt, superparty political domination, with the potential for intimidation campaigns to follow. It is well on its way, with the ends not in sight. And as with the "ends," we do not know of the "means" to be applied in the near-term future. Call it "code Red," but not quite the physicians' "code blue." Or, by another well-known analogy, call it the organizing of the frogs in the kettle.

...continuing this as yet unfinished article, expediently -- AW

This post is going to get long.
Think I should add pictures. ;-)

Getting Alinskyed by Obama? Suggestion for Rush Limbaugh

Not feeling animated enough, this weekend? Here is something to help...

In the comments of the "Open Thread" begun last Monday, was noted the following, if I may be forgiven for quoting myself.

Barack Obama is making dishonest pronouncements and half-truths, and spelling out plans which bring America to more ruin. This, while trying to take advantage of his rhetoric and the very ruin, itself, to build his support base.

He aims to go from one destructive, deceitful measure to another, to another, in the process. He singles out Sean Hannity, then Rush Limbaugh, for triangulation points as he goes, to divide those who should be opposing him and standing up for righteousness. Generating support by means of a hate campaign against such an individual or group is a well known tactic that George Orwell warned about in 1984.

Obama takes advantage of the manipulated attention, even though he loses credibility with many, and has thus far succeeded in building his base.

We need to make sure that none of those we associate with, do the same.
(January 27, 2009 11:18 PM)

Limbaugh related Obama's Alinskyite strategy (Trotskyite, too) in this conversation with Mark Levin.


It is really a coordinated attack, including Obama, moveon.org, and the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committe, along with whatever other Marxofascist ops. More Americans are sensing that something is not quite right, not quite American about this man and the movement behind him.


So, what should Rush do about it?


I.O. has an idea for you, Rushbo. Not a natural born Citizen, o golden miked one. And that "birth certificate" he flashes was apparently not even good enough to allow Obama ownership of his of his own house.

Rush, everybody: if you are smart enough to want Obama to fail, are you smart enough to get the right information to the public and the courts, to remove this fraud from the fictitious and malevolent "presidency" by which he and his comrades in the media, parties, and government have conned America?

Big tummy, Rush. Got the guts in there?

Any Facebookers reading? Come see Fran and me in the group, "We, Too, Hope Obama Fails!"

credit the excellent photochopping of "potlatch" // h/t: Fran Eaton of Illinois Review

How Many Contacted the House Wednesday Morning, on the 'Stimulus' Bill?

What can we do, next?

I.O. cried...

• Bloggers and forum posters, please spread the word, ASAP.
• Call and click the email link below, to send to friends, with a note.
• Send to yourself, then copy it with a note to your contact lists.

And...

• Temporarily re-posted the alert from America's Right.

Along with...

• Senators' & representatives' addressses, telephone & fax numbers & email addresses
• Additional contact information, including staff of Senate & House leaders
  

And more, from...

• Captain's Quarters blog about how this is pay-to-play for the neo-Marxist operatives of ACORN and La Raza, to build their commissar base. Taxpayers pay, ACORN and La Raza play havoc upon a free America.

And, would you believe it? The Marxtimulus Bill still passed, in the "progressive," Pelosi led House of "Representatives." Please continue to wake up your family, friends, and neighbors, about the firestorm that has begun to burn. Urgently. And now, let us call our U.S. Senators -- and talk radio -- and write a letter to the editor.

This is a time of constant urgency in the City on a Hill. The enemy is inside the gates and in control of the tower. Yet, any faithful five of the Nine Wizards of SCOTUS may still thwart Barack Hussein Obama, the Witch King of ACORN, animated by the Eye of Soros.

Attorney, Mario Apuzzo on MommaE & the Radio Rebels

This is a re-post from the ...Ad for Obama Records blog. I listened to this broadcast, last weekend and join them in suggesting it. I.O. also suggests we find out more about Mario Apuzzo and his eligibility action, Kerchner v. Obama (also logged in TRSoL and documented here). Lead plaintiff, Charles Kerchner is also on the program. Let us learn more about Mr. Kerchner, too. I.O's blessings to all who stand up for the necessity of constitutional integrity.

The initial interview is with Stephen Pidgeon, attorney for the Broe v Reed eligibility case, apparently stalled at this moment, after being denied by the Washington state Supreme Court. Mr. Pidgeon has important announcements about the evils of proposed "hate crimes" legislation.

Momma E and the Radio Rebels talks to Attorney Mario Apuzzo

MommaE and Hillary talk radio show | Momma E and the Radio Rebels Politics And News At It's Best - Host MommaE: 1/23/2009 7:30 PM - 1 hr 30 min

Description:

Politics and current events with Momma E taking your calls and defending the truth. There will be an Attorney that will give us some updates on what he is going to do to continue the fight against Obama. I am going to keep the first Attorney's name quite until the Show. The last Guests will be the lead Plaintiff in the Kerchner v Obama case that was just filed on the 20th and his Attorney Mario Apuzzo!! Click here to listen.

More Analysis of the Obama Objectives for Long-Term Dominaton, via Manipulation of an Enlarged and Corrupted, Dependent Underclass

Jim Simpson's reflections and citations of a Newsmax article by David A. Patten follow. I.O. would remind, these references to his current "stimulus," etc. plans are made in conjunction with Obama's devastating tax plans, the largest pay-to-play scheme in American history: "tax credit" welfare to a perpetually dependent underclass base, which Obama seeks to build into his organized, proletariat army.

For "Blue," substitute the historic, "Red" (see Simpson's "B. O. and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis"). And more from Captain's Quarters blog about how this "stimulus bill" is pay-to-play for the neo-Marxist operatives of ACORN and La Raza, to build their commissar base. Taxpayers pay, ACORN and La Raza play havoc upon a free America.

by Jim Simpson, from his Truth & Consequences blog, 1/27/2009:

Obama's Blue Wall

Newsmax has put together an incisive analysis of how Obama and the Democrats plan to use "economic stimulus" monies to cement Democrat electoral gains, moving us further down the road toward one party rule. This is genuinely creepy. I have articulated that concern elsewhere, but no one has put it together in such stark terms. Here are a few examples:

Stimulating Democrats — Obama has estimated that 80 percent of the 4 million jobs that his stimulus package creates or saves will come from the private sector. But that still means 800,000 will be public sector jobs. This alone means Obama’s plan conveys “a partisan advantage,” says GOP leader Ken Blackwell. He points out that last year Virginia went Democratic for the first time since 1964. Obama won the Old Dominion by just 130,000 votes. Creating 800,000 new jobs “might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House,” Blackwell says.

Infrastructure Politics — Democrats, who so often tout the economic virtues of infrastructure projects, are continuing to build their party’s political infrastructure as well. One notable example is the Secretary of State (SOS) project. SOS, funded in part by George Soros, was created to seed state election bureaucracies nationwide with partisan activists, usually secretaries of state who are strategically positioned to influence the outcome of close recounts. The prize SOS pupil is Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who recently oversaw the recount that flipped the original result in the Gopher State from GOP Sen. Norm Coleman to Democrat Al Franken.

Boosting Hispanic Support — Obama carried the Hispanic vote by 67 percent, a key part of his victory. The $32.2 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) that Obama is expected to sign will provide health insurance for some 11 million children. The House version would cover hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants’ children, without the current five-year waiting period for eligibility. Along with a phased-in amnesty push that will likely begin with immigrants serving in the U.S. armed forces, this should solidify a Democratic constituency that, as recently as 2004, split its vote much more evenly with Republicans. William Gheen, president of the Raleigh, N.C.-based Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), tells Newsmax that amnesty would so indelibly alter the nation’s political balance that it would “destroy any future hopes for immigration enforcement or border security.”

Promoting Unions — Most union members vote Democratic, so one way to tilt the game in Democrats’ favor is to swell union ranks with more workers. That’s where card check comes in. Also called the Employee Free Choice Act, it would eliminate the confidential balloting in which workers now determine whether they want to be unionized. Even former liberal presidential candidate George McGovern warns that the measure could deny “freedom to many Americans,” as union toughs bully American workers into joining the unions, whether they want to or not.

There is much more, and it presents a grim picture. All the more reason Republicans must stonewall the Democrats' blatantly cynical, self-serving manipulation of the financial crisis to enrich themselves and cement their powerbase. America almost didn't survive Jimmy Carter. As I have written elsewhere, Obama is Carter on steriods. He and his fellow Democrats will bring this country to ruin. If there is any sense of self-preservation yet alive in the body politic, we'd better organize it and get moving.

The views and statements expressed by Investigating Obama contributors, and in quotations and citations, are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of Investigating Obama and Arlen Williams.

Re. 'The Democrats' Game Plan,' by Joseph Farah

As Jim Simpson has brought us up to speed with the immediate past history of the the neo-Marxist movement, as it proffers Barack Obama, Joseph Farah points a bright flashlight into the immediate future of an (illegitimate) Obama administration. See how he may plan his "rule," with his fellow travelers in Congress and the Courts, by means of the Democratic Party -- and some Republicans, to be sure.

Farah fleshes out four methods they are using, to attempt a lasting domination of an America in crisis. See if you find any solutions, or if you see the psychological operations performed on the public, instead. After all, Rahm Emanuel has reflected, "You never want a good crisis to go to waste."

You are invited to peruse his article and if you like, return with commentary. But first, have you prepared, by reading the Simpson article(s)?

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis, Part II Article of the Year, 2008

As originally posted in American Thinker, 9/28/2008 (updated in Whistleblower Magazine, 1/2009) this expose' flashed a floodlight upon the corruptors of the American republic, behind the form of Barack Obama. It may have also begun to explain the "mortgage meltdown," an economic crisis which propelled this spurious candidate into the presidential and constitutional crisis which we now suffer.

by Jim Simpson

America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again.

Despite the mass media news blackout, a series of books, talk radio and the blogosphere have managed to expose Barack Obama's connections to his radical mentors -- Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis and others. David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks.org have also contributed a wealth of information and have noted Obama's radical connections since the beginning.

Yet, no one to my knowledge has yet connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left. When seen together, the influences on Obama's life comprise a who's who of the radical leftist movement, and it becomes painfully apparent that not only is Obama a willing participant in that movement, he has spent most of his adult life deeply immersed in it.

But even this doesn't fully describe the extreme nature of this candidate. He can be tied directly to a malevolent overarching strategy that has motivated many, if not all, of the most destructive radical leftist organizations in the United States since the 1960s.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis

In an earlier post, I noted the liberal record of unmitigated legislative disasters, the latest of which is now being played out in the financial markets before our eyes. Before the 1994 Republican takeover, Democrats had sixty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress - with substantial majorities most of the time. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?

Why?

One of two things must be true. Either the Democrats are unfathomable idiots, who ignorantly pursue ever more destructive policies despite decades of contrary evidence, or they understand the consequences of their actions and relentlessly carry on anyway because they somehow benefit.

I submit to you they understand the consequences. For many it is simply a practical matter of eliciting votes from a targeted constituency at taxpayer expense; we lose a little, they gain a lot, and the politician keeps his job. But for others, the goal is more malevolent - the failure is deliberate. Don't laugh. This method not only has its proponents, it has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It describes their agenda, tactics, and long-term strategy.

The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation mgazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:

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.

Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:

"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-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. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org)

Newsmax rounds out the picture:

Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.

In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:

By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.

No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:

1. The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can.
2. The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits.
3. The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse.
   

Capitalizing on the racial unrest of the 1960s, Cloward and Piven saw the welfare system as their first target. They enlisted radical black activist George Wiley, who created the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) to implement the strategy. Wiley hired militant foot soldiers to storm welfare offices around the country, violently demanding their "rights." According to a City Journal article by Sol Stern, welfare rolls increased from 4.3 million to 10.8 million by the mid-1970s as a result, and in New York City, where the strategy had been particularly successful, "one person was on the welfare rolls... for every two working in the city's private economy."

According to another City Journal article titled "Compassion Gone Mad":

The movement's impact on New York City was jolting: welfare caseloads, already climbing 12 percent a year in the early sixties, rose by 50 percent during Lindsay's first two years; spending doubled... The city had 150,000 welfare cases in 1960; a decade later it had 1.5 million.

The vast expansion of welfare in New York City that came of the NWRO's Cloward-Piven tactics sent the city into bankruptcy in 1975. Rudy Giuliani cited Cloward and Piven by name as being responsible for "an effort at economic sabotage." He also credited Cloward-Piven with changing the cultural attitude toward welfare from that of a temporary expedient to a lifetime entitlement, an attitude which in-and-of-itself has caused perhaps the greatest damage of all.

Cloward and Piven looked at this strategy as a gold mine of opportunity. Within the newly organized groups, each offensive would find an ample pool of foot soldier recruits willing to advance its radical agenda at little or no pay, and expand its base of reliable voters, legal or otherwise. The radicals' threatening tactics also would accrue an intimidating reputation, providing a wealth of opportunities for extorting monetary and other concessions from the target organizations. In the meantime, successful offensives would create an ever increasing drag on society. As they gleefully observed:

Moreover, this kind of mass influence is cumulative because benefits are continuous. Once eligibility for basic food and rent grants is established, the drain on local resources persists indefinitely.

The next time you drive through one of the many blighted neighborhoods in our cities, or read of the astronomical crime, drug addiction, and out-of-wedlock birth rates, or consider the failed schools, strapped police and fire resources of every major city, remember Cloward and Piven's thrill that "...the drain on local resources persists indefinitely."

ACORN, the new tip of the Cloward-Piven spear

In 1970, one of George Wiley's protégés, Wade Rathke -- like Bill Ayers, a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -- was sent to found the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now. While NWRO had made a good start, it alone couldn't accomplish the Cloward-Piven goals. Rathke's group broadened the offensive to include a wide array of low income "rights." Shortly thereafter they changed "Arkansas" to "Association of" and ACORN went nationwide.

Today ACORN is involved in a wide array of activities, including housing, voting rights, illegal immigration and other issues. According to ACORN's website: "ACORN is the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low-and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country," It is perhaps the largest radical group in the U.S. and has been cited for widespread criminal activity on many fronts.

Voting

On voting rights, ACORN and its voter mobilization subsidiary, Project Vote, have been involved nationwide in efforts to grant felons the vote and lobbied heavily for the Motor Voter Act of 1993, a law allowing people to register at motor vehicle departments, schools, libraries and other public places. That law had been sought by Cloward and Piven since the early1980s and they were present, standing behind President Clinton at the signing ceremony.

ACORN's voter rights tactics follow the Cloward-Piven Strategy:

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.
   

In this effort, ACORN sets up registration sites all over the country and has been frequently cited for turning in fraudulent registrations, as well as destroying republican applications. In the 2004-2006 election cycles alone, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud in 12 states. It may have swung the election for one state governor.

ACORN's website brags: "Since 2004, ACORN has helped more than 1.7 million low- and moderate-income and minority citizens apply to register to vote." Project vote boasts 4 million. I wonder how many of them are dead? For the 2008 cycle, ACORN and Project Vote have pulled out all the stops. Given their furious nationwide effort, it is not inconceivable that this presidential race could be decided by fraudulent votes alone.

Barack Obama ran ACORN's Project Vote in Chicago and his highly successful voter registration drive was credited with getting the disgraced former Senator Carol Moseley-Braun elected. Newsmax reiterates Cloward and Piven's aspirations for ACORN's voter registration efforts:

By advocating massive, no-holds-barred voter registration campaigns, they [Cloward & Piven] sought a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. that would re-distribute the nation's wealth and lead to a totalitarian socialist state.

Illegal Immigration

As I have written elsewhere, the Radical Left's offensive to promote illegal immigration is "Cloward-Piven on steroids." ACORN is at the forefront of this movement as well, and was a leading organization among a broad coalition of radical groups, including Soros' Open Society Institute, the Service Employees International Union (ACORN founder Wade Rathke also runs a SEIU chapter), and others, that became the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. CCIR fortunately failed to gain passage for the 2007 illegal immigrant amnesty bill, but its goals have not changed.

The burden of illegal immigration on our already overstressed welfare system has been widely documented. Some towns in California have even been taken over by illegal immigrant drug cartels. The disease, crime and overcrowding brought by illegal immigrants places a heavy burden on every segment of society and every level of government, threatening to split this country apart at the seams. In the meantime, radical leftist efforts to grant illegal immigrants citizenship guarantee a huge pool of new democrat voters. With little border control, terrorists can also filter in.

Obama aided ACORN as their lead attorney in a successful suit he brought against the Illinois state government to implement the Motor Voter law there. The law had been resisted by Republican Governor Jim Edgars, who feared the law was an opening to widespread vote fraud.

His fears were warranted as the Motor Voter law has since been cited as a major opportunity for vote fraud, especially for illegal immigrants, even terrorists. According to the Wall Street Journal: "After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote..."

ACORN's dual offensives on voting and illegal immigration are handy complements. Both swell the voter rolls with reliable democrats while assaulting the country ACORN seeks to destroy with overwhelming new problems.

Mortgage Crisis

And now we have the mortgage crisis, which has sent a shock wave through Wall Street and panicked world financial markets like no other since the stock market crash of 1929. But this is a problem created in Washington long ago. It originated with the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), signed into law in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The CRA was Carter's answer to a grassroots activist movement started in Chicago, and forced banks to make loans to low income, high risk customers. PhD economist and former Texas Senator Phil Gramm has called it: "a vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks."

ACORN aggressively sought to expand loans to low income groups using the CRA as a whip. Economist Stan Leibowitz wrote in the New York Post:

In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of "redlining"-claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the original accusation.

In fact, minority mortgage applications were rejected more frequently than other applications-but the overwhelming reason wasn't racial discrimination, but simply that minorities tend to have weaker finances.

ACORN showed its colors again in 1991, by taking over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA. Obama represented ACORN in the Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 1994 suit against redlining. Most significant of all, ACORN was the driving force behind a 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton Administration that greatly expanded the CRA and laid the groundwork for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac borne financial crisis we now confront. Barack Obama was the attorney representing ACORN in this effort. With this new authority, ACORN used its subsidiary, ACORN Housing, to promote subprime loans more aggressively.

As a New York Post article describes it:

A 1995 strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to find ways to provide mortgages to their poorer communities. It also let community activists intervene at yearly bank reviews, shaking the banks down for large pots of money.

Banks that got poor reviews were punished; some saw their merger plans frustrated; others faced direct legal challenges by the Justice Department.

Flexible lending programs expanded even though they had higher default rates than loans with traditional standards. On the Web, you can still find CRA loans available via ACORN with "100 percent financing . . . no credit scores . . . undocumented income . . . even if you don't report it on your tax returns." Credit counseling is required, of course.

Ironically, an enthusiastic Fannie Mae Foundation report singled out one paragon of nondiscriminatory lending, which worked with community activists and followed "the most flexible underwriting criteria permitted." That lender's $1 billion commitment to low-income loans in 1992 had grown to $80 billion by 1999 and $600 billion by early 2003.

The lender they were speaking of was Countrywide, which specialized in subprime lending and had a working relationship with ACORN.

Investor's Business Daily added:

The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages. The changes came as radical "housing rights" groups led by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public-interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama. (Emphasis, mine.)

Since these loans were to be underwritten by the government sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the implicit government guarantee of those loans absolved lenders, mortgage bundlers and investors of any concern over the obvious risk. As Bloomberg reported: "It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit."

And if you think Washington policy makers cared about ACORN's negative influence, think again. Before this whole mess came down, a Democrat-sponsored bill on the table would have created an "Affordable Housing Trust Fund," granting ACORN access to approximately $500 million in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac revenues with little or no oversight.

Even now, unbelievably -- on the brink of national disaster -- Democrats have insisted ACORN benefit from bailout negotiations! Senator Lindsay Graham reported last night (9/25/08) in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of On the Record that Democrats want 20 percent of the bailout money to go to ACORN!

This entire fiasco represents perhaps the pinnacle of ACORN's efforts to advance the Cloward-Piven Strategy and is a stark demonstration of the power they wield in Washington.

Enter Barack Obama

In attempting to capture the significance of Barack Obama's Radical Left connections and his relation to the Cloward Piven strategy, I constructed following flow chart. It is by no means complete. There are simply too many radical individuals and organizations to include them all here. But these are perhaps the most significant.

The chart puts Barack Obama at the epicenter of an incestuous stew of American radical leftism. Not only are his connections significant, they practically define who he is. Taken together, they constitute a who's who of the American radical left, and guiding all is the Cloward-Piven strategy.

Conspicuous in their absence are any connections at all with any other group, moderate, or even mildly leftist. They are all radicals, firmly bedded in the anti-American, communist, socialist, radical leftist mesh.

Saul Alinsky

Most people are unaware that Barack Obama received his training in "community organizing" from Saul Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. But he did. In and of itself that marks his heritage and training as that of a radical activist. One really needs go no further. But we have.

Bill Ayers

Obama objects to being associated with SDS bomber Bill Ayers, claiming he is being smeared with "guilt by association." But they worked together at the Woods Fund. The Wall Street Journal added substantially to our knowledge by describing in great detail Obama's work over five years with SDS bomber Bill Ayers on the board of a non-profit, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, to push a radical agenda on public school children. As Stanley Kurtz states:

"...the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."

Also included in the mix is Theresa Heinz Kerry's favorite charity, the Tides Foundation. A partial list of Tides grants tells you all you need to know: ACLU, ACORN, Center for American Progress, Center for Constitutional Rights (a communist front,) CAIR, Earth Justice, Institute for Policy Studies (KGB spy nest), National Lawyers Guild (oldest communist front in U.S.), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and practically every other radical group there is. ACORN's Wade Rathke runs a Tides subsidiary, the Tides Center.

Carl Davidson and the New Party

We have heard about Bomber Bill, but we hear little about fellow SDS member Carl Davidson. According to Discover the Networks, Davidson was an early supporter of Barack Obama and a prominent member of Chicago's New Party, a synthesis of CPUSA members, Socialists, ACORN veterans and other radicals. Obama sought and received the New Party's endorsement, and they assisted with his campaign. The New Party also developed a strong relationship with ACORN. As an excellent article on the New Party observes: "Barack Obama knew what he was getting into and remains an ideal New Party candidate."

George Soros

The chart also suggests the reason for George Soros' fervent support of Obama. The President of his Open Society Institute is Aryeh Neier, founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As mentioned above, three other former SDS members had extensive contact with Obama: Bill Ayers, Carl Davidson and Wade Rathke. Surely Aryeh Neier would have heard from his former colleagues of the promising new politician. More to the point, Neier is firmly committed to supporting the hugely successful radical organization, ACORN, and would be certain back their favored candidate, Barack Obama.

ACORN

Obama has spent a large portion of his professional life working for ACORN or its subsidiaries, representing ACORN as a lawyer on some of its most critical issues, and training ACORN leaders. Stanley Kurtz's excellent National Review article, "Inside Obama's Acorn." also describes Obama's ACORN connection in detail. But I can't improve on Obama's own words:

I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career (emphasis added). Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work. - Barack Obama, Speech to ACORN, November 2007 (Courtesy Newsmax.)

In another excellent article on Obama's ACORN connections, Newsmax asks a nagging question:

It would be telling to know if Obama, during his years at Columbia, had occasion to meet Cloward and study the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

I ask you, is it possible ACORN would train Obama to take leadership positions within ACORN without telling him what he was training for? Is it possible ACORN would put Obama in leadership positions without clueing him into what his purpose was?? Is it possible that this most radical of organizations would put someone in charge of training its trainers, without him knowing what it was he was training them for?

As a community activist for ACORN; as a leadership trainer for ACORN; as a lead organizer for ACORN's Project Vote; as an attorney representing ACORN's successful efforts to impose Motor Voter regulations in Illinois; as ACORN's representative in lobbying for the expansion of high risk housing loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to the current crisis; as a recipient of their assistance in his political campaigns -- both with money and campaign workers; it is doubtful that he was unaware of ACORN's true goals. It is doubtful he was unaware of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Fast-forward to 2005 when an obsequious, servile and scraping Daniel Mudd, CEO of Fannie Mae spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus swearing in ceremony for newly-elected Illinois Senator, Barack Obama. Mudd called, the Congressional Black Caucus "our family" and "the conscience of Fannie Mae."

In 2005, Republicans sought to rein in Fannie and Freddie. Senator John McCain was at the forefront of that effort. But it failed due to an intense lobbying effort put forward by Fannie and Freddie.

In his few years as a U.S. senator, Obama has received campaign contributions of $126,349, from Fannie and Freddie, second only to the $165,400 received by Senator Chris Dodd, who has been getting donations from them since 1988. What makes Obama so special?

His closest advisers are a dirty laundry list of individuals at the heart of the financial crisis: former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson; Former Fannie Mae CEO and former Clinton Budget Director Frank Raines; and billionaire failed Superior Bank of Chicago Board Chair Penny Pritzker.

Johnson had to step down as adviser on Obama's V.P. search after this gem came out:

An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report^[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.^[2] A 2006 OFHEO report^[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson's compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.

Obama denies ties to Raines but the Washington Post calls him a member of "Obama's political circle." Raines and Johnson were fined $3 million by the Office of Federal Housing Oversight for their manipulation of Fannie books. The fine is small change however, compared to the $50 million Raines was able to obtain in improper bonuses as a result of juggling the books.

Most significantly, Penny Pritzker, the current Finance Chairperson of Obama's presidential campaign helped develop the complicated investment bundling of subprime securities at the heart of the meltdown. She did so in her position as shareholder and board chair of Superior Bank. The Bank failed in 2001, one of the largest in recent history, wiping out $50 million in uninsured life savings of approximately 1,400 customers. She was named in a RICO class action law suit but doesn't seem to have come out of it too badly.

As a young attorney in the 1990s, Barack Obama represented ACORN in Washington in their successful efforts to expand Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) authority. In addition to making it easier for ACORN groups to force banks into making risky loans, this also paved the way for banks like Superior to package mortgages as investments, and for the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to underwrite them. These changes created the conditions that ultimately lead to the current financial crisis.

Did they not know this would occur? Were these smart people, led by a Harvard graduate, unaware of the Econ 101 concept of moral hazard that would result from the government making implicit guarantees to underwrite private sector financial risk? They should have known that freeing the high-risk mortgage market of risk, calamity was sure to ensue. I think they did.

Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate, no matter how he describes himself, has been a radical activist for most of his political career. That activism has been in support of organizations and initiatives that at their heart seek to tear the pillars of this nation asunder in order to replace them with their demented socialist vision. Their influence has spread so far and so wide that despite their blatant culpability in the current financial crisis, they are able to manipulate Capital Hill politicians to cut them into $140 billion of the bailout pie!

God grant those few responsible yet remaining in Washington, DC the strength to prevent this massive fraud from occurring. God grant them the courage to stand up in the face of this Marxist tidal wave.

© Jim Simpson

After connecting the dots in this article, Mr Simpson soon filled in the colors with "Conspiracy of Lemmings; Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis, Part III," October, 2008. (Links to all the Manufactured Crisis articles.)

Jim Simpson is a former White House staff economist and budget analyst. His writings have been published in the Washington Times, FrontPage Magazine, Whistleblower Magazine, American Thinker, DefenseWatch, Soldier of Fortune, and others. His blog is Truth and Consequences.

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