01-31-2010
Permalink
Atlas Shrugs
|
Subject: Obama Continues to Organize his Youth Army!
|
This is important folks, so pay attention!
|
|
Pamela Geller is reporting on her website,
Atlas Shrugs, that the group, Organizing for
America (OFA), which you find at the tellingly named website
www.barackobama.com, has been sending out internship
application packets, to be distributed to school children across
the country, enlisting their support:
"OFA is launching a national internship program connecting
students all over the country with our organization on the ground
— working to make the change we fought so hard for in 2008 a
reality in 2010 and beyond"
Got that! Obama is using the public school system as a means to
recruit an army of youth organizers specifically focused on the
upcoming 2010 elections. And he is proposing that the schools
extend classroom credit to the students for their participation!
This "internship" is nothing more than a ten-week, socialist,
youth army, propaganda, indoctrination program. Let's look at some
of the highlights:
Week 1: Introductory Training
Training includes: "Mobilizing to Win On the Issues (issue
advocacy)", "OFA Health Care Campaign Overview", and
"Health Care Service Project"
Suggested Reading: "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky,
and "The New Organizers" by Zack Exley
Week 2: What is Organizing?: Building Relationships and
Organization
Purpose: "To understand basic voter contact tactics and the
importance of confirming calls"
Suggested Reading: "Dreams of my Father" by Barack Obama
Week 3: What is Organizing?: The Power of Good Data and Reporting
Potential Actions: "Use reporting to track follow-up actions
around the health care campaign"
Week 4: Strategizing for Effective Change
"Intern program concentrates on developing an effective strategy
to influence change. Effective community organizing is strategic,
and requires a clear analysis of power structures, community
assets, and opportunities for influence."
Suggested Reading: "Stir It UP: Lessons in Community Organizing
and Advocacy" by Rinku Sen, and "Politics the Wellstone Way:
How to Elect Candidates and Win on the Issues" by
Wellstone Action
Week 5: Developing Leadership
Potential Action: "Help train new Community Organizers /
Neighborhood Team Leaders or Help Identify and Test"
Week 6: Managing Events
Discussion: "You just found out that Vice President Biden is
coming to your turf in one week to do a healthcare-focused town
hall event. What role would the following departments play and
what actions would they need to take in order to fulfill their
responsibilities, keeping in mind all three components of a
successful event (pre, during, and post)"
Week 7: Building Coalitions
Purpose: "What coalitions in your community exist that are
working for health care, energy and education reform"
Suggested Reading: "A Strategic Approach to Collective Action:
Looking for Agencies in Socialist-Movement Choices" by
James M. Jasper
Week 8: Working with the Media
"Program will introduce participants to effective strategies
in dealing with the media. Sharing OFA's message — both
in general and around health care specifically — is key
to our success. By sharing our message with the larger community,
we can influence public opinion and move legislators in support
of our policies."
Week 9: Utilizing New Media
Recommended Reading: "Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle"
by Zack Exley
Week 10: Celebration, Evaluation & the Long Haul of Change
Purpose: "Many of these Interns will be considering a future
career in organizing and we also want them to leave the program
encouraged to continue as organizers."
Potential Action: "Have Intern agree to participate in a
December conference call with OFA headquarters (and ideally a
special guest). During the call, we can unveil our larger
strategy for student and youth strategy [sic] in the
states. After the call, we will follow up with specific contacts
for each participant so that they can get immediately get
[sic] plugged in to OFA's efforts within their communities."
See Pamela Geller's website for photocopies of the entire document
which she obtained from a concerned parent whose son had received
it in his government class.
As the agenda outline makes clear, the purpose of this "training" is
to create a student army that continues the President's push for
passage of his health care, energy and education reform legislation.
And if you believe that this would only affect students who have
already developed a deep commitment to political activism, then you
haven't been paying attention. As I have reported here in depth,
through its Service-Learning program, the government is imposing
mandatory community service requirements upon students of all ages,
making this a necessity for them to graduate each year. Faced
with meeting this onerous new obligation, every student must waste
their time looking for some form of labor that is acceptable to their
school. Then their teachers dangle this "opportunity" in their
faces, telling them it will not only fulfill their community service
requirement, but will earn them class credit as well. Just another
masterful example of the government employing the carrot-and-stick
approach in order to force people to do its bidding.
And who pays for all of this? Why you, the taxpayer. As I reported
here and here,
for their 2010 budget, the Obama administration has handed over $1.149
billion dollars to the Corporation for National & Community Service,
which then uses that money in the form of grants, to entice school
districts to impose Service-Learning programs upon their students.
So, once again, the government is using your own money against you,
to undermine your liberty.
Another interesting thing to notice in the OFA Internship document is
the proposed reading list, which is nothing less than primer for the
progressive left. And notice that, despite a year's worth of serious
criticism on this point from many commentators, Obama is still proudly
reading from the play book of Saul Alinsky, the radical who wrote, in
typical Marxist class-warfare fashion:
"The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how
to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the
Have-Nots on how to take it away."
Well, there you have it. For Obama, this is nothing less than an all
out war for power and control — not just over your health care,
or the economy — but control over your very life. With the push
for mandatory national service for all Americans currently winding its
way through Congress in the form of H.R. 1444,
we are rapidly moving towards the fulfillment of Rahm Emanuel's dream of
having the government impose its idea of "basic training and
understanding" upon each of us, making sure that we learn the
"universal sense of service" that will "give
Americans, once again, a sense of what they are to be American".
Translated: "If you don't agree with Barack, then your simply not an
American ... and we plan to fix that!"
The final thing to be learned from this document is just how organized
these "community organizers" actually are. They have developed a well
thought out, highly structured program to implement their agenda and
they are following through with their plans. And with Obama in the
White House, they now have access to considerable funds — your
funds — which they can use to achieve significant results.
If they are not stopped, in the long run they will certainly achieve
their purpose. Therefore, it is imperative that we act in opposition
to end this nightmare. We must continue to attack on every new front,
chopping off each tentacle until they have no more to extend. And
then we will lop off the head and put an end to this nightmare.
The chickens are all coming home to roost. Everyone who cares about
the future of this country, whether you have children in school or not,
needs to take action agains this abomination. Get in touch with your
local schools and find out where they stand on the matter of
Service-Learning programs and determine whether they have received
these OFA Internship forms, and if so, whether they passing them out
to the students. If you are a parent in the PTA, raise these issues
with other parents and organize protests over the transformation of
our government schools from nominal places of education into socialist
indoctrination camps. And everyone should be loudly protesting against
Obama's totalitarian tactics of attempting to create a youth brigade
to serve his overt political agenda. If this doesn't qualify as
clearly illegal activity, and if people don't rise up in a storm of
protest, then I truly fear for the future of this country.
[Thanks to Jackie Smith for bringing this article
to my attention and to Pamela Geller for breaking the story.]
|
