FOX: ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Lusts to Overthrow the Capitalist System
On his TV show yesterday, Glenn Beck spotlighted a fascinating interview that ACORNcracked.com editor Kyle Olson conducted with Wade Rathke, the disgraced founder of ACORN, an organization that has been implicated in massive voter fraud, money laundering, and racketeering.
Olson visited Rathke’s book signing in New Orleans to get the footage (click on the image above to watch the interview). The book is Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families, in which Rathke serves up some community-organizing war stories, and offers his thoughts on the future of organizing.
As noted in the American Spectator, Rathke is a pioneer of the so-called welfare rights movement that aims to get as many Americans as possible onto the welfare rolls. He devotes an entire chapter of his book to what he calls “The ‘Maximum Eligible Participation’ Solution.” It is a strategy for orchestrated crisis that savvy leftist groups across America are likely to embrace.
Rathke confirms in Olson’s footage (during what appears to be a book talk) that he is pursuing this strategy that calls for all Americans eligible for welfare payments to demand every penny to which the law “entitles” them. He urges people to “make sure that other people in the community” are actually getting their due from the government.
The Maximum Eligible Participation Solution is just the old Cloward-Piven Strategy in new clothes. This strategy, which aimed at radical social and political change, was articulated by Marxist university professors Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in a 1966 Nation article, “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” The two academics called for “a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls” in an effort to overwhelm the system. [Italics in original.]
Rathke writes in his book, “it is hard to believe that we cannot assemble the troops to mount a campaign for maximum eligible participation that harvests the opportunities and dollars already available if we could achieve full utilization of existing programs.”
As I noted previously, Rathke has also said that technology should be utilized to make it as easy as possible for people to claim welfare benefits.
Here is a link to the segment from yesterday’s “Glenn Beck Program.”
Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite. Trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation, Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked closely with ACORN and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network.
Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer.
That Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share an Alinskyite background tells us two things. First, they are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system. Second, they will go to any length to conceal their Marxist radicalism from the public and they have the mainstream media to cover for them.
That is the Saul Alinsky method. And that is today’s Democratic Party.
Snake Hunters Sez,
George Soros Again! His Shadow Dances in Europe (See Postmodern Villain Post) and here in the U.S.A., after he spent huge amounts to nominate and elect Barack H. Obama in February, 2008. Now that same shadow “puppeteer” pulls the strings at A.C.O.R.N. (Whew, Stinko!) reb
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HAHAHAHA! “What is this little thing here?”
“It’s a camera.”
HAHAHAHAH!
Let’s hope the Big Embezzlers soon end up in the clink!