Crack-pot Detroit Socialist Explains His, Unions’ Agenda for Soviet States of America

Militant socialists were out in full force Thursday, March 4th, for a “Day of Action to Defend Public Education.”  The nationwide event was organized by fringe, left-wing groups like Michigan’s “By Any Means Necessary,” Ohio-organized “Community Organizing Center for Mother Earth,” Los Angeles-based “County Peace and Freedom Party,” the “League for the Revolutionary Party” of New York, and North Carolina’s “Destroy Industry.”

In Detroit, a chap representing the Che Guevara-loving, Mumia Abu-Jamal-supporting “FIST Youth” educated a crowd of about two dozen about the virtues of socialism.  He also lectured on the Soviet Union, its roots and the glory days when the “people’s council” made all of the important decisions.

Strangely, that’s not the Soviet Union I learned about in public school.  I was taught about a ruthless nation that annihilated the United States.  I learned about a Soviet Union that starved its people and constructed drab buildings while its leaders lived the high life. (Well, that last part I had to find out on my own.)

But that’s enough of my take on the socialist rally in Detroit.  You can enjoy the history lesson for yourself.

I respect this guy - he represents the strain of socialism that lays it all out for America to ponder.  That’s more than I can say for our current leaders, who couch their true beliefss in poll-tested phrases and flowery language.

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Tags: American Federation of Teachers, By Any Means Necessary, Detroit, FIST Youth, National Day of Action
Posted Mar 7th 2010 at 11:07 am in Big Labor, Education, Uncategorized | 84898174 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/03/07/crack-pot-detroit-socialist-explains-his-unions-agenda-for-soviet-states-of-america/Crack-pot+Detroit+Socialist+Explains+His%2C+Unions%27+Agenda+for+Soviet+States+of+America2010-03-07+19%3A07%3A39Kyle+Olson

Our Time for Choosing

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.  We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

Ronald Reagan spoke these words some forty-six years ago in his famous “A Time for Choosing” speech.  Tragically, today in America it appears the time for choosing is fast passing. As each day goes by our debt grows more untenable; our security more imperiled; our economy more shackled; our government more tyrannical.

These are symptoms of an America that has chosen the wrong path.  We lost our way on the road to civilization, veering onto the road to serfdom. Our plight is the result of a hundred-plus year campaign by the socialist sophists to slowly but surely undermine the bedrock principles on which we had built our strength.

While the ends of a nation are peace, prosperity and culture, from our founding there was a dichotomy of opinion as to how best to achieve these ends.  It was not merely a matter of state versus federal or small versus big government.  Rather, at its core the split rested and continues to rest upon embracing liberty or embracing tyranny.

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Tags: Cold War, Constitution, founding fathers, Frédéric Bastiat, Islamism
Posted Feb 15th 2010 at 5:51 am in Congress, Culture, Featured Story, History, Justice/Legal, Politics, Tea Party, federal spending | 74866151 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amellon/2010/02/15/our-time-for-choosing/Our+Time+for+Choosing2010-02-15+13%3A51%3A50Andrew+Mellon

Your Neighbor Hearts Socialism

… at least that’s what the latest Gallup numbers would suggest: “Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans”

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Posted Feb 5th 2010 at 11:59 am in Politics, Tea Party | 70086318 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bjacobson/2010/02/05/your-neighbor-hearts-socialism/Your+Neighbor+Hearts+Socialism2010-02-05+19%3A59%3A45Bret+Jacobson

The Tea Party’s Focus: Elections

For the Tea Party movement, 2009 was about coming together, meeting our brothers and sisters in arms, and standing athwart socialism, yelling, “Stop!”  It worked. President Obama entered office promising socialized medicine, card check, and cap and trade all before the August recess.  He went 0 for 3 thanks a grassroots uprising that came together like spattered quicksilver.

In our desire to fix things, we also launched a lot of legislative initiatives.  These initiatives included various sovereignty amendments in the states, petitions for Constitutional Conventions, petitions for redress of grievances, petitions of right, and state laws exempting states from any national healthcare legislation.  Each of these was a bold and important step, and such laws, amendments, and petitions should continue.  Next year.

Let’s not fool ourselves. While the Tea Party movement has been very effective, it has been effective only when focused on a very narrow set of compelling causes.  Our quick responses to card check and cap and trade convinced the White House to suspend those initiatives until we weren’t looking. Our overwhelming attack on ObamaCare took the last bit of energy and time from each Tea Party patriot.  We left it all on the field.

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Tags: august town halls, cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, government health care, leftist policies
Posted Feb 4th 2010 at 7:13 am in Tea Party | 6969888 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bhennessy/2010/02/04/the-tea-partys-focus-elections/The+Tea+Party%27s+Focus%3A+Elections2010-02-04+15%3A13%3A01Bill+Hennessy

SEIU’s Secret Weapon: If Obama’s Plan Fails, Brandish the Shareholder Resolution

We saw their fury throughout 2009:  “Capitalism is Dead”, “Kill the Corporation”, “Bust Up Big Banks”, “Greed Kills”, “Bank of America, Bad for America”.  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) led an all-out assault on Wall Street – and on capitalism and corporations – coining words and phrases that have since become common staples in the vocabulary of the bank-bashing craze.  That fury hit a fever pitch last March when word of the AIG bonuses went public.  It was the SEIU out in front of the protests, at AIG offices, and bussing protestors to the homes of AIG executives.

The months that followed saw more of the same.  In April, SEIU hailed the ousting of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner.  That same week, it stepped up its battleplan with the Mother of all Corporate Campaigns against Ken Lewis, Bank of America CEO and Chairman – complete with videos, rolling billboards, smear sites, petition drives, letter campaigns, media blitzes and more, while it placed equal attention on Bank of America, forcing the company to respond with a $40 million image boosting campaign of television and print ads.

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Tags: ACORN, AIG, Andy Stern, bailouts, Bank of America
Posted Jan 27th 2010 at 12:43 pm in ACORN, Big Labor | 65850102 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/01/27/seius-secret-weapon-if-obamas-plan-fails-brandish-the-shareholder-resolution/SEIU%E2%80%99s+Secret+Weapon%3A+If+Obama%E2%80%99s+Plan+Fails%2C+Brandish+the+Shareholder+Resolution2010-01-27+20%3A43%3A59Liberty+Chick

Obama’s Jobs Summit: The Invisible Hand of SEIU and ACORN

As President Obama concludes his first jobs summit, almost a year into his presidency, the nature of the guest list hints at a deliberate initiative that’s been underway for over 15 years – and it’s not one of the obvious presumptions that most would make.  Notice that of the list of leaders invited, the majority are labor union leaders, leaders of businesses with government contracts, or leaders of businesses that operate on partial public funding.  There is a common element across most of the businesses represented:  in one capacity or another, even if they are private sector businesses, most on the list benefit from some form of public money.

There is a legal precedent over 15 years old that is the pervasive push behind such a premise, one that was the product of ACORN and labor union coalitions.  And judging by Change to Win / SEIU’s Anna Burger’s plan for today’s jobs summit, it’s evident that this precedent is in play as we speak.

It’s no coincidence that in the wake of America’s economic crisis, some lawmakers have been pushing for infusions of public funds into the private sector.  No, we’re not just talking bank and insurance company bailouts. We’re talking about tax credit and incentive programs, health care reform proposals, green jobs programs, energy efficiency initiatives,  and even real estate development companies.  As the conservative accusations of socialism have begun to sink in with progressive leaders -especially with union leaders, who are especially sensitive to being perceived as public spenders – the language has been changing.  Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” doesn’t sound so scary when it’s wrapped in the glove of words like “co-ops” and “public-private partnerships” and “national service”, which are now quickly being mainstreamed into the rhetoric.

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Tags: ACORN, adam smith, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, capitalism
Posted Dec 4th 2009 at 11:03 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Economics, News, Obama, Politics | 4069064 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2009/12/04/obamas-jobs-summit-the-invisible-hand-of-seiu-and-acorn/Obama%27s+Jobs+Summit%3A+The+Invisible+Hand+of+SEIU+and+ACORN2009-12-04+18%3A03%3A12Liberty+Chick

Giving Thanks For The Internet

Tis the season to be thankful, and this year one thing stands out as something to be particularly grateful for…the Internet.

Thanks to the Internet, and the Army of Davids it has empowered, the mainstream media no longer possess a strangle hold on information. They no longer get to decide what we know about the people and organizations that effect our daily lives.

In direct terms, this means that when SEIU thugs beat up a black conservative at a health care town hall meeting, the whole world gets to see it via the internet.

And when those thugs are outed as Health Care for America (HCAN) coordinated responders to criticism of Obamacare, the whole world can take it upon themselves to learn about HCAN, using Google and other fabulous tools of the internet.

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Tags: Citizen Action, communism, DSA, HCAN, Heather Booth
Posted Nov 26th 2009 at 8:16 pm in Big Labor, Culture, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 3750644 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2009/11/26/giving-thanks-for-the-internet/Giving+Thanks+For+The+Internet2009-11-27+03%3A16%3A32Andrew++Marcus

‘One Voice Against Socialism’ Inspires Movement

Janet Allquist, 68, said she has always been faithful about voting but was never active in politics — until six months ago.  That’s when she had an epiphany and decided to leave John, her husband of 48 years, for life on the road as a political activist.

Luckily for John, a retired Marine Corps pilot, she didn’t go far.  Instead, she launched a one-woman protest campaign and became what she called “one voice against socialism” at the intersection of Highways K and N in her hometown of O’Fallon, Mo.

What motivated Allquist, a retired McDonnell-Douglas secretary, to become political?  She said it was, and still is, the future of her three children and 11 grandchildren — including one with Autism — whose photos appear like wallpaper on the doors of her side-by-side refrigerator.

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Tags: Barack Obama, political activism, public option, socialism, Tea Parties
Posted Oct 28th 2009 at 7:30 am in Healthcare, Obama, Tea Party | 2136651 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2009/10/28/one-voice-against-socialism-inspires-movement/%27One+Voice+Against+Socialism%27+Inspires+Movement2009-10-28+14%3A30%3A25Bob+McCarty

Lessons From Chairman Mao

There is something tragic in man’s nature that an ideology which has been the scourge of the 20^th century, inflicting misery and death upon hundreds of millions, still has so many adherents. China recently celebrated the 60^th anniversary of its Communist Party. Although communism’s horror show continues to enslave a large portion the world’s population, many in our county are still sympathetic to this cancer. Its track record bears repeating, particularly to students, whose naïveté and inexperience leave them susceptible to dangerous belief systems.

Also in need of a primer on communism’s track record are those in the United States Congress who continue to support and appease communist dictators and tyrants like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. For example, in April of 2009, key representatives of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Castro. “It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Rush (D-Ill.). According to Representative Richardson (D-Long Beach), Castro knew her name and district. “He looked right into my eyes and he said, ‘How can we help? How can we help President Obama?’” On second thought, these minds have already been irreversibly poisoned. It’s better their constituents should hear the story of Communist China.

The People’s Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949 and the charismatic Mao Zedong, exposed to Marxism as a student at Peking University, was its leader. Mao’s cult of personality produced slavish devotion and enabled him to be seen as a visionary. Mao sought to fundamentally remake Chinese society. Dutiful to communist dogma, he needed someone to blame for society’s problems, and fomented class hatred. Mao insisted that the peasants were kept poor because landowners and small farmers had taken what was rightfully theirs. Mao demonized those farmers who held more land than he deemed acceptable. He confiscated the land and promised it to the peasants. Part of Mao’s plan for “land reform” was to select at least one landlord, and usually several, in virtually every village for public execution. Political opponents were at first ridiculed, then simply eliminated. So far, Mao’s strategy was akin to his Soviet counterparts but Mao took it a step further. Not only did he confiscate the land; he actually made the people property of the state. Family life and traditions, personal property, privacy, personal initiative and individual freedom, were utterly destroyed for around one-seventh of mankind.

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Tags: Anita Dunn Van Jones, Berlin Wall, Bobby Rush, Carol Browner, communism
Posted Oct 16th 2009 at 11:12 am in Culture, History, News, Obama | 17150112 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dfreeman/2009/10/16/lessons-from-chairman-mao/Lessons+From+Chairman+Mao2009-10-16+18%3A12%3A59Dan+Freeman