BFF's: Obama, ACORN and Alinsky

Here's a brief video of Stanley Kurtz expanding on his excellent expose' in The NY Post of Obama's ties to ACORN, the radical group that was undeniably a major contributor to the current financial meltdown. They and other groups like LaRaza bludgeoned lenders with the Community Reinvestment Act and bogus charges of racism in order to intimidate them into making loans to unqualified borrowers. All this was done with the tacit approval and support of Democrats using the threat of ruin by government force for those who didn't comply.

This potential collapse of the financial system has more to do with a larger strategy of the radical left than many realize. ACORN and Obama are both disciples of Saul Alinsky, the radical psychopath and godfather of civil agitation who also counted Hillary Clinton and other leftists as followers .

This breakdown and ACORN's involvement contains disturbing elements of the CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY, which seeks to force "political change through orchestrated crisis.":

"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 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.

"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."

Investors Business Daily has some good additional reading on this subject HERE and HERE and HERE. More also from The American Thinker.