Artist, blogger and founder of satirical ThePeoplesCube.com, Oleg Atbashian, writes:
Recent actions from Obama reminded me of a ploy Stalin used on Western entrepreneurs, which in itself is an illustrative morality play contrasting the differences between socialism and capitalism.
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” Barack Obama told the CEOs of the world’s most powerful financial institutions on March 27 ... he wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He interrupted them by saying, “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”
In Obama’s code language, the word “pitchforks” means “a vigorous campaign of threats and intimidation perpetrated by Obama-sponsored ACORN and union activists in conjunction with theatrical outrage from government officials, amplified by the complicit media, and coordinated from one political center, which has now moved to the White House.”
The words “public” and “the people” denote “an appearance of broad popular movement created by a small but highly organized band of professional pitchfork operators (ACORN) who rely on the government funding and the media’s eagerness to present their deliberately planned actions and pre-fabricated messages as heartfelt and spontaneous.”
In compliance with Orwellian logic, Obama’s “Newspeak” not only redefines existing meanings, it also abolishes ranges of “Oldspeak” meanings such as property, markets, competition, capitalism, political opposition, and the rule of law. The latter is perhaps the most important ingredient missing in his new “pitchfork” formula, signaling that law is now being replaced with mob rule.
In a balanced society, an angry mob is never a part of the equation. But if the goal is to throw a capitalist society off balance in order to change it, an angry mob is the ticket. Anger is known to be the easiest and the most effective tool of crowd manipulation. Angry mobs cancel out the rule of law. Infusing anger into a community and turning it into an angry mob, canceling out the rule of law, and changing the balance in a society — this is what community organizers do for a living.
Community organizers were instrumental in forcing banks to give subprime loans to unqualified minority borrowers by using the “pitchforks” tactics — protesting in front of the banks, camping on the lawns of the bankers’ family houses, intimidating families, and suing in courts. After the bankers were sufficiently roughed up, a community organizer would show up at their office to “negotiate” the bank’s surrender in the form of bad loans and money for community organizations that pay community organizers for their “services.”
Once a community organizer gains control of the media and the government, the next logical step is to turn the entire nation into a mob and set them against businesses, while offering the latter government “protection.” The subsequent takeover of the economy leaves the future society reduced to the two basic elements: an authoritarian government and a compliant mob. This may be an ideal arrangement for a community organizer, but it’s a direct opposite of what the Founding Fathers had intended.
Most Americans will probably associate this trend with the protection racket that was rampant in Chicago in the 1930s. It follows the same pattern: the mob, in conjunction with the unions, would organize strikes and protests, do physical damage, and intimidate business owners. Then a mob representative would meet with the owner and offer “protection” by saying “I’m the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
Curiously enough, at about the same time, a similar drama was unfolding halfway across the world in the Eastern Siberia — only this time the role of the mob was played by a government that claimed to act in the interests of the workers. And while the mobsters were motivated by greed and used the workers simply to milk the capitalists, a workers’ government, motivated by the common good morality, used the workers for something much more sinister and immoral.
Nikolai Bukharin, a former community organizer in charge of industrial development, came up with an idea to infuse some capitalism and lease Siberian mines to British mining companies. The plan was approved by Stalin.
[A series of organized strikes and riots ensued, forcing concession after concession from the mining companies. The British min owners complained to the government.]
Bukharin, on behalf of the party and the government, answered that he had no power over the unions. This was not a capitalist country where governments oppressed their workers. This was a workers’ state, ruled by the workers who were getting angry at capitalist exploitation, and the government had to obey their will. Long story short, and not necessarily in these words, the gist of the message was that the BritShould American's tolerate Obama's use of angry mobs to extort from private business?
"It appears that the ultimate manifestation of the “common good” principle is an absolute power of the state." BINGO!
Manipulating "The Angry Mob' is what his community organizing was all about. Alinsky would be proud.
Very good post! I'm gonna save this one.
If you haven't seen this, you need to.
http://www.butasforme.com/2009/04/05/dic…
No, this is simply a group of cliches and talking points written together in a way to hit neocon talking points.
I wish people would have faith in their own thoughts instead of relying on pundits to think for them. Honestly, we all have a valid opinion and should use them.
Edit: You seem like a smart guy who can synthesize information. I'd love to know what you think of after reading this after article.Should American's tolerate Obama's use of angry mobs to extort from private business?
History repeats--and obama will end up like hitler--no worries mate.
It is the end result of corrupt men...like obama.
Yes. And thanks so much for giving us your interpretation of the news as well as history.Should American's tolerate Obama's use of angry mobs to extort from private business?
this is just more of what has been perpetrated in so many small towns across america.
i can attest to the fact that it works. those who don't pay attention and don't know the history of such organized anarchy immediately assume the anger is indicative of justifiable grievances.
...and so it goes.
this will not stop until conservatives get equally angry and even then, we're going to need to be armed w/ more than a pitchfork.
thank you for being so enlightened and for attempting to enlighten others, but unfortunately, you can rest assured, those on the left are not interested in following the trail.
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