From NWRO to ACORN to Media Matters

Reports of ACORN’s death have been greatly exaggerated. More than a dozen of the infamous group’s chapters have broken off and separately incorporated themselves in order to evade authorities.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was part political group, part crime syndicate, part terrorist organization. Much of the time it operated outside the legitimate political process, waging war against the framework of society. ACORN was in the business of subverting the American system, so what Americans on the undercover “pimp and pro” videos released in 2009 was just another day at the office for ACORN.

For ACORN, it was “anything goes”, from rude protests to crude intimidation and violence. The bigger, the louder, the more obnoxious, the more destructive, the better.

ACORN was born with Wade Rathke in place as its chief organizer, a position he held for almost 40 years until its supposed demise in 2009. In the late 1960s, Rathke was an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). He summed up ACORN’s approach to doing business in a single sentence: “One can almost taste the adrenaline when people take a crowbar to a door and pop it open to begin squatting.” ACORN leadership didn’t care if people got hurt or property was damaged: as long as the action advanced the cause it was fair game.

Sound familiar? It should. Think OCCUPY.

We now know that ACORN, rather than dissolving, simply novated into numerous “new” organizations, many with the same people in leadership positions. But, what about the NWRO?

Active from 1966 to 1975, NWRO grew out of the efforts of “Rules for Radicals” author Saul Alinsky and other veteran radical agitators such as Richard Andrew Cloward and Francis Fox Piven, who created and published the seminal article, “The Weight of the Poor”. The so-called Cloward-Piven Strategy called for activists to double America’s welfare rolls in order to destabilize the American system of government. Placing impossible demands on states and localities would force them to ask Congress for a guaranteed annual income scheme and thereby set in motion the transformation of America into a socialist state. Intimately involved in the affairs of NWRO, both Cloward and Piven acknowledged they “participated in discussions of strategy, fund-raising efforts, and in demonstrations.”

Let’s see … guaranteed income, child care programs, food stamps, low cost housing, government provided health care, hmmm … oh yes, government provided contraceptives (even if you can afford Georgetown Law School which assures you of a $160,000 first year starting salary upon graduation).

Seems we’ve come a long way since the early days of NWRO and ACORN.

Recently, the liberal blog and White House attack dog, Media Matters, has been intimidating private businesses into dropping their ads on Rush Limbaugh's popular radio show. A VERY Alinsky like tactic. It boasts of scaring off 45 of his advertisers since launching its drive last week, when Limbaugh apologized for using sexist terms to criticize the Georgetown College coed called by Democrats to testify in support of ObamaCare's coverage of birth control.

The group Media Matters acts like a lobbyist but is not registered as one. It operates in the shadows, outside congressional oversight and unaccountable to voters. This makes its collusion with the White House in the heat of a presidential race a serious matter worthy of investigation.

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See any common threads?

Approve of censorship and the willful destruction of another person and their livelihood because their views run contrary to liberal views and objectives? Ready to scrap our nation’s Declaration of Independence and our Constitution?

If so, vote for Obama in 2012.

Read ...The Real Story of ACORN

Read ... The Cloward-Piven Strategy