Monday, March 9, 2009

Jim Simpson on VCY's Crosstalk, 3pm ET,,,Noon PT, w/ Brannon Howse

Right after the turn of this afternoon's 3pm ET hour, Jim Simpson will continue his conversation with Brannon Howse, on the VCY America site. Links for streaming audio are at the top of this page:

http://vcyamerica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=90

He will also be featured on their radio stations and the conversation should also become available on archive. The topic will turn to what to do....

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Distribute This James Simpson Interview: Cloward-Piven, Obama-Pelosi; Intentional Destruction of American Economy & Freedom

"Obama is not over his head as some have claimed; he knows exactly what he is doing."
- Brannon Howse, of Christian Worldview Network, interviewer

This is essentially an email I sent yesterday. Please count it as if I sent it personally to you.

I am sending this to all in my personal email address files, whether liberal or conservative, personal or business address, far and near. Please, please do listen to this interview and please do forward -- to all you know -- as soon as convenient to you. (And who cares if they get redundant emails?) This is critically, gravely important. It may sound unbelievable or it may rock your world, but you need to know it. America needs to know it.

Jim Simpson is a former White House OMB economist who is now a trusted friend, who has also been interviewed on "The Awakening," which I co-host. His "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis" was, I believe, the most important article about the clear and present danger of America's demise, written before the election (an election between two apparently unqualified candidates, due to their not meeting natural born Citizen requirements)

Corroborating information is featured in Investigating Obama. I suggest looking into that here and clicking the links.

Please spread the word. Paul Revere and associates did, for you.
Arlen

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Friday, March 6, 2009

1. Destroying America, 2. FEMA Camps Built, 3. Detention Centers Bill,
4. Riot Gear Ordered

I.O. may add more to this posting. For now, it offers four items, excerpted.

1. Confused by Obama's planned obliteration of USA?
by Sher Zieve, 3/3/2009

Obama has been summarily — and by design — stripping the USA and the American people of its and their money. This is being accomplished via the inappropriately named "Stimulus Bills." The first of these bills was almost $800B. The second "stimulus bill" was passed with little to no reporting by Obama's bought and paid for mainstream press and is in the neighborhood of $500B. Who knows what the third one will bring? With regards to Obama's obliteration of the USA's wealth, Ben Stein appearing on Fox News over last weekend said he was confused. Ben can't be serious.

Obama and his adherents' want nothing less than to pilfer all of the assets of the USA — which they are now effectively accomplishing — and to strike down any existing freedoms in the country. With reference to their destruction of the First and Second Amendments, their assault on the US Constitution's Bill of Rights is well underway — and has been since Obama's POTUS campaign. He has already shown us his disdain for anyone who asks him penetrating questions and his proclivity toward shutting them up and denying them free speech. However, with regards to the Second Amendment, Obama's US Attorney General Eric Holder is now working to not only create almost unlimited regulations to gun ownership but, to make it so expensive that no one — except the Obama Secret Police — will be able to afford them. Holder is also attempting to force ammunition manufacturers into placing an identification number on each and every bullet.


2. The Possible Mastermind of a Police State in America
by Carl S. Parnell, Ed.D. 3/4/2009

There are many government-led events in the United States that would infer that America might be moving in an unconstitutional direction. If America’s leaders were secretly moving in an unconstitutional direction, what government agency would be responsible for masterminding the creation of a police state in the United States? The possible culprit would be the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But, most Americans know very little about the operations of FEMA, except for its disastrous operations in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. However, all Americans should know just how powerful an agency FEMA is. Of course, it is ironical that an agency created for safety and security of the homeland and to help people after natural disasters could be the very agency that might be responsible for denying Americans their freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. Of course, everything written in this article could just be a conspiracy theory. But, is it?

What are the main functions of FEMA? At present, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is incorporated into the recently established Department of Homeland Security. FEMA’s major job is to coordinate the activities of federal, state, and local agencies as they respond to hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and any other natural disaster. It finances the efforts to rebuild areas after natural disasters. Their job is to assist in the rebuilding of homes, businesses, and public buildings. FEMA also trains the many professional disaster relief workers, such as firemen and medical personnel. (1)


3. Detention Centers Bill HR645
posted by "guyrazer," 2/2009

Alcee Hastings was impeached by the US House of Representatives as a judge for perjury! What (sic) is he introducing legislation that intends to incarcerate Americans for expressing their First Amendment Rights!


4. U.S. Army To Buy $6 Million Of Riot Equipment
by Steve Wilson, 2/25/2009

The U.S. Army is to invest $6 million in riot equipment, a fact that has furthered fears that troops will be used inside the U.S. in order to quell any civil unrest resulting from the ongoing economic crisis.

The U.S. Army Contracting Agency, based at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has a post on the Federal Business Opportunities website, requesting the equipment and has received several notices of interest from potential vendors....

In our article yesterday we highlighted the fact that Urban warfare training drills are taking place across the country as top analysts as well as officials predict a potential “summer of rage” across Europe and America as civil unrest from the economic fallout builds.

Are such drills really for the purpose of preparing troops for foreign combat zones? Undoubtedly - but other factors indicate that the drills may very well also be aimed at preparing troops for dealing with mass civil unrest as the economic crisis worsens.

There’s no question that U.S. authorities have been closely observing riots that have toppled governments in Iceland and Latvia and also threatened to do so in several other European countries. The fact that they have contingency plans in place to deal with such scenarios should they unfold in America cannot be disputed.

Indeed, before a media exposé forced them into a denial, Northcom revealed that one of the duties of at least 20,000 active duty troops that are being placed inside the United States would be dealing with “civil unrest and crowd control”.

The U.S. Army War College in November released a white paper called Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development. The report warned that the military must be prepared for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.”

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.

"Let's be careful out there."
Wikipedia photo

Thursday, March 5, 2009

It's the Marxism, 'Stupid' - Not Really Difficult to Understand

Title mocks radical operative, James Carville's famous/infamous instruction to campaigners for Bill Clinton, "It's the economy, stupid."

This is a Marxist Insurrection

That is not meant rhetorically. This is real. Those who believe in American principles and ideals are their enemy -- and they are winning. Yes, this is a real war, planned extensively and being fought, cryptically but very heavily, against us.

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid -- they are all a part of a large, longstanding, intricately coordinated, and very highly funded movement of "progressives." That means they are Marxists. They are destroying America because they want to. That is exactly their plan. This has been laid out repeatedly in I.O.

What a Marxist insurrection does:


1. Destroys the "middle class" a.k.a., "capitalists," a.k.a., "bourgeoisie" -- (free, self reliant people, able to invest) leaving only the two-level socialist/fascist model of elites and "proletariat," the dependent slaves of the state -- they are doing that.

2. Builds the armies of the "proletariat" and turns them against the dwindling "capitalists" instead of themselves, once again by making them dependent upon government -- they are doing that.

Do you understand?

If so, please comment, if you have ideas about how we can get Americans to take their blinders off.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Obama's Intentional Destruction of America

Long title: Jim Cramer Learning, But Shorts Obama's Intentional Destruction of America

On Monday 3/2, Jim Cramer plead to the as yet unsubstantiated Obama "administration" to realize they are destroying the free American economy. He refers to his prior comment that Obama is Leninist.

"I just want some sign that Obama realizes, the market is totally falling apart, and that his agenda has a big hand in that happening."


Cramer speaks of "government mandated wealth destruction" and describes it in commendable detail. But still, does he recognize that the destruction of a free United States of America is exactly and intentionally what the movement to which Obama gives a face, is bringing about? Apparently, not.

Do you realize it, yet? If not, please read the following, layed out for you:
And did the White House regime respond with empathy for Americans' loss of their life-savings? No. See for yourself. Listen to the self-contradiction in the words. Listen to the stone cold Marxofascist determination for "change," away from free enterprise and toward the socialist two-class system, between those words.


Move over, Rush. Give Jim room. Make room for all, once called those who gain the "American dream."
ht: Poor Richard

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Eligibility Attorney Mario Apuzzo, of Kerchner v. Obama, Pelosi, etc. Makes the Airwaves Tonight

Update, 3/3, evening: The streaming audio has apparently failed to function. Did anyone listen? Please comment and give us a report, if you did.

Do you know anyone in the Florida panhandle vicinity who should tune in, AM-style? Anyone in the world who should hear it stream? Notified through Zapem:
Monday, March 2, 2009

1330 AM WEBY Radio N.W. Florida's Talk Radio Station - 7 PM EST Tuesday 3 Mar2009 - Kerchner v Obama - Case Update & Q&A

I am pleased to announce that the lead plaintiff in the 'Kerchner v Obama' case, Mr. Kerchner, and I will be on the WEBY radio station, 1330 AM on the dial, Tuesday evening, 3 Mar 2009, from 7 to 8 p.m. EST ... "Northwest Florida's Talk Radio Station". The show host will be Mike Bates.

As shown in their web page, with 25,000 watts of broadcasting power, the station covers the northwest panhandle area of Florida and further west over to Mobile AL of the Gulf Coast and inland. I will be providing an update for the case. Mr. Kerchner and I will then do Q&A with the host and via phone calls from the listening audience. Feel free to spread this announcement to people interested in this case. For more information on the station and dial in numbers and how to listen in via the internet see their webpage at: http://www.1330weby.com/

Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
You may also listen to an expanded interview with Apuzzo and client Charles Kerchner as Sentinel Radio's guests on "Let Freedom Ring, with John & Michelle," archived from their 2/19/2009 netcast, to stream or download.

After this broadcast, I.O. suggests we "stay tuned" with WEBY, to see what kind of flack they get for doing this broadcast, and from what sources.

Illegal Perks for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives in Iraq

While this is not about Barack Obama, per se, it is about the same ATF (a.k.a., ATFE, BATFE) which was known for their deft anti-civilian maneuvers at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and at Waco in 1993, that under the proto-Obama, Clinton administration. And Obama is the man who would be "Commander in Chief" and the head of all federal law enforcement now, right?

It hearkens one back to the stories of the SS gaining special perks to keep them motivated for their dirty jobs in and out of WWII Germany, from the top right down through agents such as fourteen year old George Soros, in Budapest. Perks are given out for reasons. What reasons does federal government have, for motivating ATF members with such excesses as these?
Soldier Of Fortune Magazine Exposes Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms And Explosives Corruption In Iraq

by Robert K. Brown

Editor and Publisher
Soldier of Fortune Magazine

This editorial was first published in the April 2009 edition of Soldier of Fortune Magazine.
It may be reprinted with the encouragement of its author.

NEED A DEFINITION FOR OBAMA’S CALL FOR “RESPONSIBILITY”

Amid the orderly transfer of power, our new Chief Executive has issued a call for responsibility. As is the case with most of his public statements, his meaning is not clear. However, if he means holding government officials accountable for their actions, a novel and great idea, it is something that we can all embrace. It is particularly true of those officials within agencies with a long and well documented history of abuses of entrusted powers. Somehow, ATFE comes to mind as the poster boy for irresponsibility and unaccountability.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Justice recently (December 2008) reported on “An Investigation of Overtime Payments to FBI and Other Department of Justice Employees Deployed to Iraq” during the period 2003 through 2008. The “other” employees in the title of the report included ATFE Special Agents as well as DEA Special Agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals.

ATFE Special Agents were deployed in Iraq on 90-day TDY assignments between 2003 and 2008. During that time, they were paid $4,175,731.00 in unauthorized and unlawful overtime pay.

continues...
Now an Obama administration and a Pelosi Congress would want to investigate this... wouldn't they?

Will they?
photo ht: Minnesota Chris

Monday, March 2, 2009

Tonight: Jill Stanek on Obama & Abortion + Sam Sewell on Obama & Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Feel free to email to friends and post in blogs, forums, and social networks

Tonight...


BARACK OBAMA,
ABORTION PUSHER,

NARCISSIST

JILL STANEK is the special guest on "The Awakening w/ Hanen & Arlen," on The Sentinel Radio Network, 3/2 at 9pm ET,,,6pm PT


BARACK OBAMA, the ABORTION PUSHER -- JILL STANEK, of the top pro-life blog, Pro-Life Pulse will tell us what Premier Obama and the Pelosi Politburo are doing to further the all-9-month abortion holocaust, worldwide. Jill is the former nurse who discovered infanticide in Illinois and lead the battle against Obama, to protect born alive infants.

then...

BARACK OBAMA, a PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSIST? -- That is the conclusion of authors Dr. Sam Vaknin and Ali Sina. This and other concerns about Obama's personality are discussed by SAM SEWELL, licensed psychotherapist.

Sam also hosts the TSRN program, "Call the Shrink" on Friday evenings. He studies Obama and the movement for a controlled society. Sam is also a former USN intelligence officer. I.O. highly recommends his expose' of the Alinsky/Cloward-Piven path of destruction, "How to Create a Crisis and Steal a Nation."

As you listen, join our chat room at www.tsrn.us/chat.
You may also call to ask questions, contribute suggestions or just listen, at 646-727-2652.
Also archived for later listening

Friday, February 27, 2009

'Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban' (ABC News)

With a Marxist operative regime in the White House and a Marxist "progressive" ruling over Congress, the threat of an "assault weapons" ban (by the "Attorney General" who sides with terrorists) should be like a bottle of ammonia thrust under America's nose.

America's founding fathers knew well the danger of state authoritarianism and that the Citizens' ownership and training in the concerted use of firepower equivalent to that carried by a national military was "necessary to the security of a free State." They also knew that attempts by a national power to confiscate the people's weaponry was an alarm for the people and their militias to heed the requirement to put that weaponry to use.

Now, a gun sales ban is once again being proffered. What should sovereign Americans do about it?

The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

PHOTO Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Obama administration will seek to reinstitute the assault weapons ban which expired in 2004 during the Bush administration.
Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Obama administration will seek to reinstitute the assault weapons ban which expired in 2004 during the Bush administration. (AP Photos/ABC News Graphic )

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.

Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.

"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S.

excerpted, article continues

And, how does the sale of a rifle between two Americans lead to the breakdown of order generated by Mexican criminals? Let us ask Mr. Holder, Ms. Pelosi, and Mr. Obama/Soetoro to draw that out for us, on a flow chart. They appear to have things pictured in reverse -- such is the way of the Marxist.

h/t: Carmen

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Mega Tax Money to ACORN: Marxism via 'Stimulus' or 'Reinvestment' Act

This was just received, via email from WorldNetDaily.com, posted without detailed analysis and your comments and pertinent contributions are very welcome.

Keep in mind I.O's warning: all the Obama/Pelosi regime has to do, to be successful neo-Marxists is to:

1. raise the armies of the proletariat (e.g., the ACORN hydra)
2. weaken the entrepreneurial, investing, middle class -- the bourgeoisie

In other words: institutionally "reinvest," i.e., rob those honestly working to stand on our own two feet and provide for our families and charity (according to Scripture and common sense) and give it to Obama's thug army. Note how even the formal name of this act, "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" is thematic with one of the acts which created the crisis it porports to solve, the "Community Reinvestment Act."

Beware of state "reinvestment" of your livelihood. Whenever you see "reinvestment," I.O. suggests you think "redistribution," i.e., Marxist insurrection.
The American Conservative Union

Dear Conservative Friends,

I almost can't believe it.


Liberal Democrats slipped into the so-called "Economic Stimulus" bill a provision to give millions, if not billions, of dollars to ACORN.

You remember ACORN, the ultra left wing group that has been accused of voter fraud and funneling millions of dollars in taxpayer money into liberal political activism.

ACU raised awareness about ACORN in the last election campaign. They were raided by FBI agents and investigated for falsifying thousands of voter registration records. We produced short documentary videos on ACORN; their ties to left wing groups, the Obama campaign paying them for voter turnout and other activities. Worse, we showed that ACORN was actually involved in the push for subprime loans and the mortgage meltdown that has driven down our economy. If you have not seen our short videos, you can see them here on our ACORN action page: http://www.conservative.org/acornaction.html

Now, the Democrats in Congress are trying to give ACORN millions - even billions - more of our taxpayer dollars.

[I.O.: fundraising appeal edited out]*

You may have read that the House passed a version of the so-called Stimulus Bill without any Republican votes. The Senate passed their version. The liberals who control the Congress worked out a deal to get a final bill to the President. With his signature on the bill we must be prepared to act in order to fight back against ACORN getting any of these funds.

We need to act on this issue now and we must be prepared to fight to stop the monies from actually being disbursed to ACORN.

House Republican Leader John Boehner raised the alarm when they discovered that buried in the first version of the then trillion dollar spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee was a provision for over 4 billion dollars to go to "neighborhood stabilization activities."


Instead of providing these funds just to state and local governments, the bills said funds can go to "States, units of general local government, and nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities."

Why did the Liberals who control U.S. House under Nancy Pelosi slip that language into the bill?

Because the "non-profit entities" are units of ACORN.


[I.O.: fundraising appeal edited out]*

Boehner noted that, "The House Democrats' trillion dollar spending bill also includes $1 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program." He then went on to point out that ACORN reports filed with the Office of Management and Budget shows that ACORN spent almost 1.6 million in federal taxpayer Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program funds from 2003 through 2007. Now they are going to come back for more.

Boehner's analysis also shows that ACORN has been awarded more than $53 million in taxpayer dollars over the last several years. This amount does not reflect the millions more ACORN has received in federal block grant funds awarded to state and local agencies which passed them on to ACORN.

[I.O.: fundraising appeal edited out]*

President Obama and the liberal Democrats in Congress have said that they want this trillion dollar stimulus bill to create jobs in America. What they haven't said is that this is becoming part of a political pay-off bill to reward their liberal friends with billions of dollars in taxpayer money.

What is sad is that our economic crisis was in part caused by these very same groups who are now seeking to get their hands on billions of dollars in taxpayer funds
.

As our video and other documentation pointed out, ACORN pressured lenders and regulatory agencies to promote subprime loans, a chief culprit in our economic collapse. In turn they received millions from the mortgage companies themselves and in turn Obama's friends at Fannie Mae reaped millions more in the process. And, it should be noted that Joe Biden's new Vice Presidential Chief of Staff is a former lobbyist for Fannie Mae.


Now, ACORN is set to receive funds from the stimulus package.

This has to end. The revolving door of political and financial interests that have led our country to economic collapse must be stopped. We must push back against this effort to give funds to a group that has shown it is directly involved in liberal political action and voter fraud.

We need your help to fight back. We want to flood Capitol Hill and the news media with petitions against these attempts to take our tax dollars and give them to left-wing advocacy groups. Please go here, now to sign our ACU ACORN Stimulus bill petition and support ACU on this critical endeavor to stop ACORN from ever receiving any of these funds..
[I.O.: fundraising appeal left in]*

Thank you for your help with this important effort to shine the light on efforts to give billions to ACORN.

Sincerely,
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Dennis Whitfield
Executive Vice President


P.S. President Barack Obama's campaign gave more than $800,000 to ACORN for voter turnout and in turn they were raided and investigated for voter fraud and now the liberals in Congress are trying to reward them with millions - even billions - in taxpayer funds. Please help us fight back now!
What members of Congress but traitors voted for this treason against the identifying and foundational principles of the United States of America?

* This is not posted as a recommendation of any particular fundraising entity over another. Some de-emphasizing by I.O.

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.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

How to Create a Crisis and Steal a Nation

I.O. emphatically recommends this insider account of just how the Alinsky and Cloward-Piven curses upon society have yielded bitter fruit for America -- in the welfare crisis, the current finance crisis, and in the coming federal spending catastrophe. It may seem a long story for a blog, but it is of imperative value, for understanding how our proud nation is about to be brought to its knees.

by Sam Sewell, The Steady Drip blog

Note: It will quickly be obvious to the reader why details have been obscured, omitted or fictionalized in this narrative of events that began nearly forty years ago.

Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

Even small children know how to get what they want by creating a crisis. Witness any “temper tantrum.” My wife and I teach parenting skills. One of our sayings which we recommend to parents when dealing with a child’s “crisis strategy” is: “Poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part. No, you can’t borrow $20 because you are broke, even if you did promise to take Betty Lou to the movies tonight.” The child did not get their way. A similar “No!” needs to be said to adult politicians who have created a crisis to get their way.

Another example; Paris taxi-drivers, in protest against a police demand that they take physical examinations, threatened to obey every traffic law to the letter—which would, they vowed, produce the greatest traffic jam Paris had ever seen. The Taxi drivers got their way.

Creating a crisis to get one’s way is a strategy as old as Moses calling down plagues upon Pharaoh and saying “Let my people go.”

To better understand the fascinating story below we need some background information. In the late 1960s a pair of college professors who thought they were original thinkers came up with something called the Cloward-Piven Strategy (CPS), a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. “Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited Chicago radical community organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration.”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 Judaeo-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.” Notice that Alinski might have heard about the Paris taxi drivers, and then gave their strategy a radical left twist.

Saul had a huge influence on radical left people of the day. Saul was the subject of Hillary Clinton's senior honors thesis at Wellesley College. “In early 1993, the White House requested that Wellesley not release the thesis to anyone. Wellesley complied, instituting a new rule that closed access to the thesis of any sitting U.S. president or first lady, a rule that in practice applied only to Rodham.” Alinski also strongly influenced a young Chicago “community organizer” named Barack Obama.

An old friend from my spooky past recently reminded me of his adventures back in the early 1970s. If you did not know that clergy are used for Intelligence and undercover missions you haven’t been paying attention to history. Believe it or not these decades old events, told by The Rev. Big Goon, help explain our present political and economic crisis.
Dear Aristotle the Hun

I’ve been doing some thinking that I thought I would share with you. My memories of the work I was doing when we knew each other at UMKC have really helped inform me about our present situation with our new President and the financial crisis.

I have visited “The Steady Drip” many times and I know your reputation for accurate research so you will find citations included to back up what I have to say. I noticed that on your blog you have expressed suspicions about the onset of the financial meltdown just in time to help Obama get elected. You also expressed suspicions about the most liberal President and Congress in the history of the nation conveniently coming into office at a time when the economy was so wounded that it might be possible to establish a socialist economic system. Just how “lucky” can these liberals get?

What I have to say may help you understand the dynamics but I doubt it will do away with your suspicions. Being suspicious is a job requirement for both Clergy and Intelligence work. I also know you are well connected to the Internet community and influential bloggers so you have my permission to use my comments as you see fit.

Here is my story: I arrived in Kansas City, Mo. in May of 1970, shortly after the first bombing done by a group of left wing radicals. I worked for the Western Diocese of the Episcopal Church which sponsored the St. Thomas Student Center at UMKC. Naming an Episcopal student center after “Doubting Thomas” was glaringly appropriate for a college campus in the early 70s No, your readers can not ask about my real employer. (As the old joke goes; “If I told you I would have to kill you.”)

The summer of 1970 in Kansas City was a really wild ride. In 1970 alone, an estimated 3,000 bombings and 50,000 bomb threats occurred in the United States, and Kansas City was not left out of the chaos. One of my assignments was to look into the activities of a group of radicals who, after they were arrested, became melodramatically known as “the Kansas City Four.” They were really bungling, small time radicals. A legal case from those days survives on the Internet.

It was arranged for the FBI to contact known radicals in the community and ask them questions about me. My “case officer” posed as a state employee, so my monthly meetings with him were open and aroused no suspicion. I was warmly accepted by the radical community, and even spent some time living at a place operated by young radicals called the Ecstatic Umbrella, until I found more permanent housing.

The Second Presbyterian Church at 52nd and Oak owned an apartment building, and one of the Kansas City bombers lived in that building. As well as doing my job as a campus chaplain, I became a youth pastor at Second Presbyterian, and took an apartment in their building. I must admit that I was very uncomfortable living in the same building with a LSD using, grass smoking, alcoholic who I knew was making bombs in his bedroom.

By the time I entered UMKC in the fall as a graduate student, my cover was already firmly established. To put a cinch knot on my cover story, I also became the Chaplain of the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. I still experience a gratifying chuckle over how perfectly, easily, and quickly I had infiltrated the radical community in KC. It wasn’t that hard. Almost everyone was doing acid and grass. Every weekend there was a wild carnival of hippy, stoner, radical, love-child young people in Volker Park. Contact was easy. I won my status in the counter-culture community with nothing more than a prank. I purchased a case of dish washing liquid, and in the dark of night I poured the entire case into the Plaza fountain. My accomplices were very impressed with my boldness and it made the front page of the Kansas City Star.

I had a different name then. I was called Rev. Big Goon. It should be noted here that I physically resemble a great silver back gorilla, although my knuckles don’t drag on the ground. A local Kansas City undercover officer who had no idea who I was gave me that name. I saw it in a police report on activity in Volker Park. Years later I found out that my cover was so believable that I was on a list of dangerous radicals that Kansas City Chief of Police Clarence Kelly took with him when he was appointed as the Director of the FBI in 1973.

For me, the investigation of the Kansas City Four quickly fizzled. Other investigators uncovered the activities of the suspects, provided the evidence and they were arraigned in July of 1971. My last contact with that case was to arrange to be appointed as a Chaplain for the Jackson County jail, where I interviewed one of the suspects who was being held there as a federal prisoner awaiting trial.

The case was hugely overblown, in the way law enforcement and prosecutors will exaggerate to make their work seem to be more important and to advance their careers. One of them was more of a nut case than a criminal and he might have been the most dangerous because of his hatred and violence against “the system”. He is still alive, on the streets, and probably still dangerous.

I struck up a romantic involvement with a social worker from Chicago who was working for Family and Children’s Services, a state of Missouri agency. Her friends and contacts were a gold mine for my new mission. That is how I became involved with the Welfare Rights Organization (WRO) of Kansas City where I saw, first hand, how community activists applied the CPS theory in real life.

CPS and Saul Alinski were all the rage among left wing professors, activists, students and social workers. My social worker girl friend from Chicago knew all about Saul Alinski. CPS was a new idea seen as dazzlingly brilliant by social workers and other liberals. She introduced me to a radical community activist, also from Chicago, who was organizing poor black people who lived in Wayne Minor public housing. His name was Mark. Mark was also a clergyman. Mark introduced me to a powerfully charismatic black woman who was Executive Director of the Kansas City Welfare Rights Organization. There were several young white men and women who worked for the WRO. Mark taught me the ropes about how we were going to train these young “community organizers” and welfare recipients, so that they became effective foot soldiers for the left wing.

The socialist professors who devised the CPS: “The authors (Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven) noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level." Their article called for "cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy." Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of "a federal program of income redistribution," in the form of a guaranteed living income for all -- working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.”

Mark and I were part of that "cadres of aggressive organizers." We would go through the vast, dilapidated cavern of poverty called Wayne Minor with a list of all the entitlements offered by the State of Missouri. Each person we talked to became instantly “motivated” to apply for more welfare benefits. Before long, people began seeking us out at the WRO office. Outreach to the community wasn’t necessary. The community flocked to us. We would show them how to fill out application forms, and many times we filled out the forms for them.

When we had a large number of people ready to apply for new benefits, or additional benefits they had not known they were entitled to before our training, we arranged for busses to take our new recruits to the state office building. We had spent many hours training them as to what to do and what not to do. We told them it was ok to be loud, obnoxious, aggressive, but to never be physical or damage property. In other words, do everything you can do to be uncivil, but don’t get yourself arrested. We planned the event for a Friday and, of course, we called the media. Our “trainees” staged a class “A” media event for the television cameras. Our first “action” was a rousing success.

When we got to the WRO office Monday morning there were hundreds of people waiting to be “trained” in how to collect welfare. The part of the welfare system to feel the most heat right away was what the state called “intake.” Intake social workers were overwhelmed, intimidated, and routinely approved questionable benefits because of the stress they were experiencing. The state began a panicky search for new intake workers, and anybody with a BA degree was practically dragged off the street. Larger office space was arranged for the intake department. Mark and I were heroes to the radical community.

Since this was happening at the same time in St. Louis and other cities, Kitt Bond, then Auditor of State of Missouri, and soon-to-become Governor, asked for help. I was assigned to brief his representative about what was behind the welfare revolt.

As it turns out Mark, the community organizer from Chicago, and my social worker girl friend from Chicago were also friends with the Kansas City Four. Soon my primary mission was accomplished, and I went on to other projects, but I never forgot the effectiveness of creating a crisis to bring about radical change. I concluded that the WRO and the Alinski/CPS inspired radical community organizers were more of a danger to the nation than the Laurel and Hardy bombers.

I stopped doing Intelligence work, the years went by, and I began my career as a full time Pastor. Not long after I “went straight” I again ran into the CPS and Saul Alinsky. During the administration of George H. W. Bush I began hearing reports of loud, obnoxious, aggressive, poor people taking over bank lobbies and demanding that they be given mortgages. All this was happening because community activists, many from Chicago, were doing the same thing to banks that had been done to the state welfare offices back in Kansas City. The role of WRO was now filled by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).

Stan Kurtz of National Review comments on ACORN’S tactics. “While ACORN holds to NWRO’s radical economic framework and its confrontational 1960’s-style tactics, the targets and strategy have changed. ACORN prefers to fly under the national radar, organizing locally in liberal urban areas — where, Stern observes, (Sol Stern ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities.” local legislators and reporters are often “slow to grasp how radical ACORN’s positions really are.” ACORN’s new goals are municipal “living wage” laws targeting “big-box” stores like Wal-Mart, rolling back welfare reform, and regulating banks — efforts styled as combating “predatory lending.” Unfortunately, instead of helping workers, ACORN’s living-wage campaigns drive businesses out of the very neighborhoods where jobs are needed most. ACORN’s opposition to welfare reform only threatens to worsen the self-reinforcing cycle of urban poverty and family breakdown. Perhaps most mischievously, says Stern, ACORN uses banking regulations to pressure financial institutions into massive “donations” that it uses to finance supposedly non-partisan voter turn-out drives.”

Obama’s role as a radical community organizer and ACORN “leadership trainer” is well established. Kurtz continues: “ACORN’s tactics are famously “in your face.” Just think of Code Pink’s well-known operations (i.e. threatening to occupy congressional offices, interrupting the testimony of General David Petraeus) and you’ll get the idea. ACORN protesters have disrupted Federal Reserve hearings, but mostly deploy their aggressive tactics locally. Chicago is home to one of its strongest chapters, and ACORN has burst into a closed city council meeting there. ACORN protestors in Baltimore disrupted a bankers’ dinner and sent four busloads of profanity-screaming protestors against the mayor’s home, terrifying his wife and kids. Even a Baltimore city council member who generally supports ACORN said their intimidation tactics had crossed the line.”

It wouldn’t take a degree in economics to see what was going to happen. This time the Alinski/CPS pressure wasn’t aimed at the state of Missouri and Kitt Bond. By 1999 Fannie Mae came under pressure from the Clinton administration to expand mortgage loans to low and moderate income borrowers. At the same time, institutions in the primary mortgage market pressed Fannie Mae to ease credit requirements on the mortgages it was willing to purchase, enabling them to make loans to subprime borrowers at interest rates higher than conventional loans. Everybody knows how the problem escalated from there

Do you still have doubts about your suspicions that the financial crisis happened just in time to help Obama get elected? Do you still have doubts about your suspicions that there is something fishy about the financial crisis and the way Congress passed the trillion dollar “Reward Liberal Causes and Constituents Bill” without anyone actually reading it, because we had a “crisis”? See I told you that I wouldn’t be able to help your suspicious nature. J

The Rev. Big Goon

To emphasize Rev. Big Goon’s comments here is an absolutely brilliant piece by Jim Simpson that details the connection of Barack Obama to those who practice the Cloward-Piven strategy.
“Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis”

After reading Jim Simpson’s article you will more fully understand how CPS is connected to Barack Obama, and why Obama keeps using the word “crisis” in every speech he gives. I don’t know how to escape the conclusion that manufactured crisis is what clobbered the economy. Manufactured crisis is what made Obama President, and manufactured crisis is what drives his administration and his policies. There is a web site entitled, “Things I know are true but can’t prove”. Maybe I should send them an email.

Here is a part of the puzzle I think others have missed.

If an enemy of America were to pair the Cloward-Piven strategy to the principles of the new science of networks, it would be possible to target a hub in a system, create a crisis, and by causing that hub to fail, create a domino effect in other hubs and the rest of the system. See here:
A news release from UMass Amherst
and
Doug Simpson's weblog of research on the collision of law, networks and disruptive technologies
And a link to the most popular book on the subject Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan Watts

“Columbia Professor Duncan J. Watts builds on the work of mathematicians, physicists, biologists, sociologists, economists and others to advance the new science of networks. "Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age " brings a sociologist’s perspective to a field relevant to those dealing with complex systems and their robustness and fragility under stress. The science of networks has significance for those wrestling with current issues of law and public policy in a wide spectrum of applications including electric power grids, insurance markets and anti-terror measures.In 1999, Barabasi and Albert published a ground breaking paper "Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks." Science, 286, 509-512. (1999). This paper showed that certain connections in real world networks don't have a normal ("bell curve") distribution but rather follow a power law distribution. This means that there is an increased likelihood of extreme events in such "scale free" networks. As a result, in scale-free networks, as networks evolve, a few nodes will be "hubs" with an extraordinary number of connections. Barabasi and Albert also found that the evolution of these hubs depended on the combination of network growth and "preferential attachment" - the tendency for new nodes to connect to those already well connected (the "rich get richer" effect.)”

The major reason other political commentators have not addressed the issue of network science is that only mathematicians and scientists understand it. My feeble attempt at a “plain speak” translation is that all networks tend to form hubs that are connected to thousands of other networks, and more importantly, to other hubs. These hubs are vulnerable to a “created crisis” and when that happens the entire web collapses, be it the World Wide Web or the web of the U.S. economy.

National security experts are well aware of the vulnerability of network hubs and publish Network Vulnerability and Risk Assessment reports. This one is researched and published by DTIC Provider of DoD Technical Information to Support The Defense Community. One of the points to note is that: “Threats that originate inside the network tend to have the ability to exploit vulnerabilities in a serial form. This allows the attacker to traverse or "leap-frog" across the network to an advantageous position”. The most likely scenario would expect the attack to come from inside the network when we are looking at the financial network. I have read this risk assessment and it is too general to connect dots as to how a financial “crisis” might be timed and executed, but it is very clear that it can happen.

We know how leftist activists created a crisis and turned the mortgage lending business into a “mortgage welfare entitlement” lending policy. We know that the hub we know as “mortgage banking” failed, bringing down the rest of the economy with it. What we don’t know is how the failure was timed.

My guess is that the science of networks was used to tilt the election in Obama’s favor and damage the economy to such an extent that reshaping it along a socialist paradigm became possible.

One of my hopes in writing this article is to encourage real network scientists to take a look at my hypothesis. One friend who is a scientist at Amherst says I am on the right track, but that isn’t enough to make a definitive statement.

Remember all that talk about how savvy the Obama campaign was about using the Internet? Remember all those Internet CEO’s who were on the Obama team? Remember that George Soros, "the man who broke the Bank of England", the king of creating market and currency crisis, was on Obama’s team? Can you really imagine a likely scenario where these people do not know about network science and how to use a created crisis to get what they want?

We know for sure that a crisis was deliberately created with malice aforethought by enemies of our country and liberal politicians. They overtly said they would do it and they did. Many of these created events have damaged our nation since 1970. The culprits aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they did it. Decent Americans have trouble believing that people could deliberately do something so evil. That is how deliberately evil people pull the wool over the eyes of decent people.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. No black helicopters or deep throats. It isn’t hidden and it isn’t secret. It is easily visible for those who have eyes to see. Those radical socialists who used deliberately created crisis tactics were successful beyond their expectations. I am reminded of Osama Ben Laden’s pleasant surprise when he was informed about how successful the 9/11 attack had been. I imagine Obama shares Osama’s elation over his unlikely success.

Aristotle the Hun, the Reverend Big Goon, and Good Shepherd Sam
I.O. Epilogue ~

Look, all you who kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with sparks:
Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—
This you shall have from My hand:
You shall lie down in torment.

- Isaiah 50:11, NKJV
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.

photo of ACORN demonstrator "capitalizing" upon ACORN's sabatoge, from Wikipedia
hat tip for Scripture: Bobby Conner

Monday, February 23, 2009

Alan Keyes on 'The Awakening,' 8pm ET,,,5pm PT, Tonight; Obama a 'Communist' and 'Usurper'

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Tonight [2/24, now archived for your streaming or downloading]

ALAN KEYES is the special guest on "The Awakening w/ Hanen & Arlen," on The Sentinel Radio Network, 2/23 at 8pm ET,,,5pm PT


Why is Barack Obama not accountable to Americans and to the constitution? Alan Keyes is on the move, to get to the dregs and documentation on Obama (in)eligibility. Obama had his lawyer threaten him and Keyes does not flinch. In fact, he has just laid in on the line, calling Obama a communist and calling him out on his "presidency," as an "alleged usurper."



Hanen and Arlen will ask the pointed questions and let Dr. Keyes speak his mind. (Why would we stand in his way?)

Keyes will then be joined by Tom Hoefling, Chairman of America's Independent Party, and "The Awakening" panelists and callers.

As you listen, join our chat room at www.tsrn.us/chat.
If you cannot access online, you may call to listen, at 646-727-2652

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Activism: Prayer

Investigating Obama is not only about exploring the problem of the man who would be called "president" and the near-totalitarian movement behind his face. It is also about solutions. I believe that the most thorough solutions for the United States of America, as well as one's personal life, come from yielding to our Creator.

In a time of confusion, even among those who would purport to know God's voice, this email was offered and became posted on the Web. I now offer it to those readers of I.O. who are receptive to it: "Prayer Focus." Written in some haste, it may not be the easiest of reads.

I believe the prayer coalition of Intercessors for America taps the greatest, most essential, and most critical resource available. Additionally, I have been monitoring two prayer movemtents, which have been providing cautious suggestions for prayer activism: USRPN and Generals International, coordinated by Cindy Jacobs; and USAA, by Dutch Sheets. There are many others go-to guys who are instructive of what we may pray for -- especially the Word of God and His Holy Spirit, providing direction to each who yields himself. Be careful though! Your prayer may effect you, the most....

By the way, as you pray, please ask for the protection of ministries such as these and those who take part.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Hear Mario Apuzzo & Charles Kerchner, of Kerchner v. Obama, Thursday Evening, 8pm ET,,,5pm PT

Here is an important opportunity, for those following the eligibility challenges to Bogus POTUS Barack Obama, this notice by Mario Apuzzo, from his blog, A Place to Ask Questions To Get the Right Answers (I.O's emphasis):

BlogTalkRadio Let Freedom Ring Radio Show with John and Michelle - Thursday 19 Feb 09 - Kerchner v Obama Case Update & Q&A

Hi all,

I am pleased to announce that I and the lead plaintiff, Mr. Charles Kerchner, in the 'Kerchner et al v Obama et al' case, will be on the "Let Freedom Ring" radio show with the hosts John and Michelle on Thursday, 19 February 2009, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. EST. The show is on the BlogTalkRadio.com network which is broadcast via the internet. I will be providing an overview and update for the case. Mr. Kerchner and I will then take Q&A from the hosts John and Michelle and via phone calls from the listening audience. Feel free to spread this announcement to people interested in this case. I hope to hear from you on the radio show.










Here is the BlogTalkRadio.com URL link for this show:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Sentinel_Radio/2009/02/20/Let-Freedom-Ring-with-John-and-Michelle

Case Doc Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/11317148/

Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
Listen for yourself and you may find the most thorough case yet to be taken to federal court, to seek Obama's true status regarding the natural born Citizen requirement for our Commander in Chief. If you cannot listen live, the program will remain available as an archive.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

FBI Investigating 38+ Cases Related to Financial Crisis (ABC News)

Will these investigators be motivated to get to the depths of the financial crisis -- including Congress -- including the Cloward-Piven organization behind the revised Community Reinvestment Act? Keep in mind that naysayers of the CRA's impact ignore how this condoned the practice of giving out bad mortgages, overall. After all, what goes for Fannie-Mae "backed" mortgages to poor people in the inner city also goes in principle for unregulated mortgagers and their loans to others. "Fairness," after all....

That, not to mention the large mortgagers being sued (by Barack Obama and other ACORN lawyers) to make unjustified loans. I.O. is looking for the video of the man who said he was in a board meeting at a bank, when ACORN people broke into the room and encircled all at the table, standing silently behind them for awhile, then departing -- one of them being Barack Obama.

Initial excerpt from the recommended ABC News article:
Fraud 'Directly Related' to Financial Crisis Probed
FBI Agents Could be Reassigned from National Security Due to Booming Caseload
By Jason Ryan, Feb. 11, 2009

The FBI has opened investigations into more than 500 cases of alleged corporate fraud, including 38 that involve major firms and are "directly related" to the national economic crisis, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole told Congress today.

IMAGE: FBI - and Housing Crisis
FBI Says 38 Firms Directly Involved in Current Financial Crisis Could Expand to Over 100 firms Currently Over 500 Ongoing Corporate Fraud Investigations; TARP IG Warns of Fraud (ABC News Photo Illustration)

The surge in white-collar investigations is putting such a strain on the FBI that Pistole said the bureau is considering reassigning agents from national security, which has been the bureau's priority since the 9/11 attacks.

"The FBI has more than 530 open corporate fraud investigations, including 38 corporate fraud and financial institution matters directly related to the current financial crisis," Pistole told the Senate Judiciary Committee today.

The 38 companies, he said, "are significantly large companies, businesses everyone knows about but I cannot comment publicly."

Pistole's comments suggested widespread criminal activity among many of the nation's corporate giants.

"These are significantly large, similar to Enron," Pistole said. The number of firms under scrutiny could eventually top 100, as the investigations widen, he said.

Will this federal investigation flesh out all the criminals and scoundrels on and behind the scene, or will it be used to focus the spotlights away from Congress and the friends of Barack? Clue-1: just look for the words, "Congress" and "oversight." Clue-2: who is being targeted, but private enterprises, a.k.a., capitalists, a.k.a., bourgeosie?

One must believe there was oversight -- just not moral, ethical oversight. Then, what kind of oversight?

hat tip: Carmen the Journalist