Newly created ACORN front groups across America have signed on
to SEIU’s economic terrorism and sabotage campaign. ACORN, long
associated with President Obama, is participating in the disruptive
campaign through its newly renamed state chapters. Mortgage and
student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and
who knows what else are all on the agenda.
I reported on the emergence of the “new” ACORN
groups in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN
Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American
Taxpayers. Although ACORN filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy last
Election Day, its state chapters have been quietly restructuring
under assumed names. Mortgage bubble generator ACORN Housing
changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America while
ACORN’s vote fraud factory Project Vote continues operating out of
ACORN’s old Washington, D.C. office.
The subversive plan hatched by Stephen Lerner, an international
board member of the radical Service Employees International Union,
aims to destroy the nation’s financial system. Lerner is
influential in leftist organizing circles and has reportedly
visited the Obama White House at least four times.
After Greeks rioted over austerity measures, the stock market
fell, Lerner observed. “The folks that control this country care
about one thing: how the stock market does; how the bond market
does; and what their bonus is.”
Lerner said a strategy was needed that addressed the following
questions: “How do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring
down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability … to
be rich?” It is important “to politically isolate them,
economically isolate them and disrupt them,” he said.
JPMorgan Chase is the first target of SEIU and its longtime
allies at ACORN. Other Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups
nationwide are participating in the effort, including the
Alinsky-founded Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), National
People’s Action (NPA), PICO National Network, and Alliance for a
Just Society, according to ChaseHomeFinanceSux.com.
Amusingly, the latter website highlights an
article called “Jamie Dimon is Running ‘A House of Ill Repute.’” As
Big Government readers are aware, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles
captured ACORN workers on undercover videos giving helpful advice
on establishing a house of ill repute, an old-fashioned expression
for a brothel.
Earlier this year Lerner
said that after consulting his allies he decided that
JPMorgan Chase would be “a really good company to hate.” If
leftists really believe capitalism is in a “transformative stage,”
they “need to confront this in a serious way and develop a real
ability to put a boot in the wheel.” Said Lerner
… we really are trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for
capital, for how corporations operate … there are actually
extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to
destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a
movement.
Echoing the infamous Cloward-Piven Strategy of orchestrated
crisis, Lerner said a nationwide mortgage strike would be a
nightmare for Wall Street. He noted that 25 percent of homeowners
now own a home worth less than they paid for it. Of those “under
water” homeowners, 10 percent “are now in strategic default,
meaning they’re refusing to pay but they’re staying in their
homes.” The homeowners, who figured out it might take lenders a
year to foreclose on their mortgages and evict them, should be
urged to stay put. “If you could double that number, you would …
put banks on the edge of insolvency again.”
Lerner said banks that don’t pay their “fair share” in taxes or
refuse to slash interest rates and partially forgive mortgage
principal are being targeted. He also called for state and local
governments to stop doing business with banks that refuse to become
de facto relief agencies by redistributing their own wealth to
homeowners who made dumb investment decisions.
ACORN’s newly renamed chapters in New York (New York Communities for
Change), California (Alliance of Californians for
Community Empowerment), Missouri (Missourians Organizing for
Reform and Empowerment), and Washington state (Organization
United for Reform) make no secret about their participation in
the scheme.
NYCC claims JPMorgan Chase’s foreclosures policies are unfair.
The group takes
credit for the town of Hempstead in Nassau County, N.Y.,
“closing the Chase Account and moving $12.5 millions in tax payer
dollars out of the pockets of the greedy Wall Street Bankers who
caused the finanical [sic] crisis!” NYCC is pressuring other
municipalities in the state, including Albany, to do the same. The
group claims “NYCC members in almost 40 cities, villages and
counties have emailed their elected officials to demand the local
government stop doing business with Chase.”
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
(ACCE) boasts that 22
activists were arrested protesting foreclosures outside a Chase
office in Los Angeles. “These banks are terrorists,” said Peggy
Mears. “They terrorize us by threatening to take our homes.”
In South L.A., ACCE and SEIU held
a mock trial outside a Chase office. ACCE organizer Evelyn
Gutierrez said her group targeted Chase because it lent money to
poor people, which is exactly what ACORN pressured it to do in
recent decades.
ACCE wants the bank to “forgive” all the principal borrowed,
said JPMorgan Chase spokesman Gary Kischner. “We’ve done over one
million loan modifications and we’ve had outreach events like the
one we did at the Convention Center in January.”
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), led by
veteran ACORN organizer Jeff Ordower, jumped on the anti-Chase
bandwagon last year, leading
an assault on a Chase office in the suburbs of St.
Louis.
Organization United for Reform (OUR) led
a protest outside the Chase branch in Marysville,
Washington. OUR demanded that Chase give part of a $1.4 billion tax
refund to the local school district. Chase spokesman Darcy
Donahoe-Wilmot pointed out that the bank already gave more than
$11.4 million to nonprofits in the state last year.
It should be noted that SEIU’s Lerner isn’t the first to
advocate using in-your-face tactics. George Goehl explained
how to murder the American Dream at the “America’s Future Now!”
conference last summer in Washington, D.C.
“The banking crisis is the next big thing,” said Goehl,
executive director of Chicago-based National People’s Action. “The
banking crisis is the way to build a big economic justice movement
in this country.”
The crisis presents “a once in a lifetime opportunity as
progressives to engage millions of Americans in a big conversation
around serious economic restructuring,” he said, “not around eking
out some victories around the margins, not about making life a
little less worse for people, but about big time transformative
change.”
“People are ready to move to the streets, some because they’re
angry, some because they want justice right now, and some because
they’re tired of hearing about the tea party coming out.”
SEIU and ACORN heeded Goehl’s call.
* * * * *
America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to
help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN
and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical
leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul
Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any
means to do it.
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