Note: It will quickly be obvious to the reader why details have been obscured,
omitted or fictionalized in this narrative of events that began more than forty
years ago.
“Se non è vero, è ben trovato.” (roughly translated, “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story”)
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 his way. A similar “No!” needs to be said to adult politicians who have created a crisis to get their way.
“Se non è vero, è ben trovato.” (roughly translated, “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story”)
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 his 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 Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit
promise of the political social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short.
The system’s failure to “live up” to
its own 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, leftist
twist.
Saul Alinski 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.
Saul Alinski 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, as 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 the Obama presidency and the international and financial crisis he
created.
I
have visited your blog, “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 our 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. The leftists were convinced that they could engineer a
socialist takeover of the Unites States of America. 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, Missouri 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 70’s. 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 very 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.
I began the process of establishing my cover. 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.
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, Missouri 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 70’s. 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 very 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.
I began the process of establishing my cover. 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 an LSD using, grass
smoking, alcoholic whom 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 the radicals 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, which is why I still use a pseudonym as I write this account to you.
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 the radicals 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, which is why I still use a pseudonym as I write this account to you.
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.
The Cloward-Piven Strategy 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 Cloward-Piven Strategy 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,”
and therefore established a socialist revolution. 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 federal government and 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 or 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 by my intelligence supervisor 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 bungling “Four Stooges”
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, Sol Stern observes, 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.” It dawned on me, slowly but firmly, that
leftists don’t really care about black people at all – their goal is to damage
America even if it impoverishes black people.
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. Soon, 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 and that is why “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, was stated by Former Chief Of Staff of the Obama Administration Rahm Emanuel. Here’s a scary thought: since Hillary Clinton was an admirer of Saul Alinsky and very much aware of the strategy of creating a crisis to conquer a nation, what would have happened had she been elected president? Thank God someone, almost anyone other than Hillary was elected president.
“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 and that is why “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, was stated by Former Chief Of Staff of the Obama Administration Rahm Emanuel. Here’s a scary thought: since Hillary Clinton was an admirer of Saul Alinsky and very much aware of the strategy of creating a crisis to conquer a nation, what would have happened had she been elected president? Thank God someone, almost anyone other than Hillary was elected president.
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