The Movement
Monday, January 19th, is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. King taught us to live a life of service, and he led by example. He once said: “If you want to be important — wonderful. If you want to be recognized — wonderful. If you want to be great — wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.”
Barack and I will be volunteering in Washington, D.C., our new home.
I hope you’ll join us by taking part in this national call to service in your community: It will take ordinary citizens working together with a common purpose to get this country back on track. This national day of service is an important first step in our continuing commitment.
Now is the time to remind all Americans what ordinary people can accomplish when we stand together.
Thank you,
Michelle Obama
I find it interesting that Michelle, who is “volunteering” in Washington, is clearly in charge of the organizing effort.
Has anyone asked, “what are the Obamas organizing for?”
Has anyone asked, “how long have they been organizing?”
The Obamas have been organizing and training a political cadre since 1993 in their nonprofit group, “Public Allies,” modeled after Alinsky’s “people’s organizations,”
“People’s Organizations” were to be composed largely of discontented individuals who believed that society was replete with injustices that prevented them from being able to live satisfying lives. Such organizations, Alinsky advised, ought not be imported from the outside into a community, but rather should be staffed by locals who, with some guidance from trained radical organizers, could set their own agendas.There are fifteen fully-staffed and populated community chapters, operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama, and they’ve got a ton of money — more than $75 million — and an impressive list of donors. Naturally, they also receive grants from federal, state and municipal sources.
During the campaign, the Obamas also ran, at the state level, a “national program for social change,” called “Camp Obama,” and there were no marshmallows at Camp Obama. Here is their sign-up page, it’s still there — you too can be a “Deputy Field Organizer.”
The Obama campaign’s website promised that “you’ll get the kind of experience that Barack got as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago,” and “Camp Obama is your chance to step up and become a leader in ‘this movement’.”
Movement? What movement? The Obama’s keep using that word.
Public Allies and Camp Obama were and are Alinsky training programs
designed to build a core group of “community organizers” dedicated to “social change” in their communities. Now that the Obama’s are preparing to enter the White House, they continue to organize.
The Obama’s are building their own political army. There will be tens of thousands of them answering to Obama and their charter will be to bring about “Change.”
Remember this?
On July 2nd, 2008, Obama spoke in Colorado Springs and hit themes of national service, foreign policy, and national security. In that vein, Obama proposed a rather extraordinary idea — that the US should spend as much money on a civilian national security force as it does on the military. (video)
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
And what color shirts will they wear?
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/05/the-obamas-and-their-public-allies/
About the Obamas and Public Allies:
Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, “Universal Voluntary Public Service.” (Rahm Emanuel writes about this very topic in his book, “The Plan“)
Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they’ll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of “social change.”
The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn’t seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year “community leadership” positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They’ll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats.
In exchange, they’ll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.
But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about “social change” through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul “The Red” Alinsky.
“Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities,” Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for “justice” and “equality” in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington. “I get to practice being an activist,” and get paid for it, gushed Cincinnati recruit Amy Vincent.
Public Allies promotes “diversity and inclusion,” a program paper says. More than 70% of its recruits are “people of color.” When they’re not protesting, they’re staffing AIDS clinics, handing out condoms, bailing criminals out of jail and helping illegal aliens and the homeless obtain food stamps and other welfare.
Public Allies brags that more than 80% of graduates have continued working in nonprofit or government jobs. It’s training the “next generation of nonprofit leaders” — future “social entrepreneurs.”
The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. “Don’t go into corporate America,” Michelle has exhorted youth. “Work for the community. Be social workers.” Shun the “money culture,” Barack added. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”
Read more here:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700
The government now funds about half of Public Allies’ expenses through Clinton’s AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military, he said.
The gall of it: The Obamas want to create a boot camp for radicals who hate the military — and stick American taxpayers with the bill.
