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Lynne


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The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" was mentioned in another post and is a key Obama strategy.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967


"Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis"

"First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, 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."

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"The authors 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.

This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements -- mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown -- providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory."

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It was tried before, I only hope we can defeat this again. Thank god for the elderly, we have good memories.

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And who else do we know is a follower of Alinsky? Obama's supports just want to NOT Believe what they have done to our wonderful country.  There is an old phrase; "If you can't dazzle them with your Brilliance, blind them with your Bullsh**.  The majority of the Democrats are still blinded by the Bullsh**evileye


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The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 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.


-- Edited by thebword on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 01:07:52 PM

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The Cloward-Piven strategy depended on surprise. Once society recovered from the initial shock, the backlash began.New York's welfare crisis horrified America, giving rise to a reform movement which culminated in "the end of welfare as we know it" -- the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which imposed time limits on federal welfare, along with strict eligibility and work requirements. Both Cloward and Piven attended the White House signing of the bill as guests of President Clinton.

Most Americans to this day have never heard of Cloward and Piven. But New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attempted to expose them in the late 1990s. As his drive for welfare reform gained momentum, Giuliani accused the militant scholars by name, citing their 1966 manifesto as evidence that they had engaged in deliberate economic sabotage. "This wasn't an accident," Giuliani charged in a 1997 speech. "It wasn't an atmospheric thing, it wasn't supernatural. This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare."

Cloward and Piven never again revealed their intentions as candidly as they had in their 1966 article. Even so, their activism in subsequent years continued to rely on the tactic of overloading the system. When the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to other sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.

In 1982, partisans of the Cloward-Piven strategy founded a new "voting rights movement," which purported to take up the unfinished work of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Like ACORN, the organization that spear-headed this campaign, the new "voting rights" movement was led by veterans of George Wiley's welfare rights crusade. Its flagship organizations were Project Voteand Human SERVE, both founded in 1982. Project Vote is an ACORN front group, launched by former NWRO organizer and ACORN co-founder Zach Polett. Human SERVE was founded by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, along with a former NWRO organizer named Hulbert James.

All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead  wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented  levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.

The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.

Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for some of the Left's most ambitious campaigns.


-- Edited by thebword on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 01:07:11 PM

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Perhaps we take all these college educated Socialists and force them to live on welfare.  Perhaps then they will understand what in the world they are sentencing poor people to.  Perhaps after we give them welfare we tell them that they can never again work, never again own a car or home, or get married.  We can give them $300 a month cash, another $300 in food stamps and then spend years insulting them we can call them welfare queens and question rather or not they have the right to breed. 

That is what Welfare was like before 1996 and personally I don't ever want it to go back.



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It's amazing isn't it? Repeatedly our pols have created crises in order to further their own goals - while ignoring the very real crises, the threats to our well-being and way of life. Increasingly, I am hearing parents of college students comment on the socialist philosophy being pushed on their kids. Teaching "diversity" is a requirement of some accrediting boards. On it's face, this is a good idea, but under the very broad of "diversity", the lesson is often about redistribution of wealth.

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The thing is the true radical never did make it through college, they were defeated and went home to Momma. The Elite think they are one big family, but they don't have no MOMMA nor a DADDY, they can't go home.

-- Edited by Building 4112 on Thursday 27th of August 2009 12:33:40 AM

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discoverthenetworks is one of the places I love to go. I read and re-read this entire subject. I wonder, would we have ever had a racial problem in this country if it wasn't for politicians? Maybe we would, but would it have been so intense as reported?

Some of our legislation, organizations have preyed on the poor, to keep them poor. Very few tools have been developed to actually give a leg up, but rather it was easier to hate those that have success. And "take" from them is rightful.

I don't know all of the answers, but it's not our government. We have to help and take care of each other. That's what America is all about. True we get lost in our everyday work and obligations, but I always have room to help someone.

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