Does President Obama approve of the SEIU/ACORN-led economic
terrorism campaign that is now directed at JPMorgan Chase?
It seems like a reasonable question to ask. SEIU is President
Obama’s favorite union and ACORN is his favorite community
organizing outfit.
The campaign, engineered by SEIU board member Stephen Lerner, is
designed, in Lerner’s words, “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.”
According to White House visitor logs, “Stephen Lerner”
paid four visits to the Obama White House. On two of those
visits he apparently met with then-White House political director
Patrick Gaspard, a former executive vice president at the militant
SEIU Local 1199. Gaspard, a longtime ACORN operative and
Alinskyite, is now executive director of the DNC where he oversees
the odious Organizing for America project.
I wonder what they talked about. Hmmmm.
Obama has named SEIU officials to senior posts in his
administration, including former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker whom
Obama sleazily recess-appointed to the National Labor Relations
Board. Becker is a kind of fascist, or more precisely, a
syndicalist. He thinks no one should have the right not to
join a union: people should only get to choose which union to join.
(Incidentally, Becker lied
to a congressional committee when he denied having ties to
ACORN.)
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.”
Not coincidentally, Obama has had a falling out with JPMorgan
Chase. Although some once described the bank’s chairman Jamie Dimon
as “Obama’s favorite banker,” their
bromance is on the rocks now that Obama habitually demonizes
bankers as “fat cats.”
The SEIU/ACORN war against JPMorgan Chase has recently kicked
into high gear.
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 subversive
scheme.
To recap what I wrote earlier this week, Lerner’s plan echoes
the infamous Cloward-Piven Strategy of orchestrated crisis (which I
write about in my new book Subversion Inc.). He urges
crippling attacks against the banks to bring them to their knees.
He calls upon “under water” homeowners facing foreclosure to refuse
to leave their homes. “If you could double [the number of
homeowners refusing to leave their homes], you would … put banks
on the edge of insolvency again.”
Small-c communist Frances Fox Piven
said the same thing last year. She urged delinquent mortgage
holders to stay in their homes for as long as possible without
paying in order to bring the system crashing down. She told
videographer Kyle Olson:
But if millions of people … refuse to go along with
foreclosure proceedings, and refuse to pay off those mortgages that
are under water, that will be enormous pressure on the banks. And
if they do it in the form of a social movement, if they do it with
pride and audacity, if they do it with a sense of
self-righteousness, the political leaders of this country will not
be able to round them up.
Lerner’s plan calls for banks that don’t pay their “fair share”
in taxes or that refuse to slash interest rates and forgive
mortgage principal to be targeted. It also calls for state and
local governments to stop doing business with such banks.
If you’re a radical socialist like Obama, what’s there not to
love about the plan?
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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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