[Roundtable] An unintentional conspiracy?

[Jefferis Peterson]

You have to wonder sometimes whether the leaders of the banking system and
the government are just idiots or are being played.  While great conspiracy
theories point to the "Illuminati," the Trilateral commission, the Council
on Foreign Relations and the IMF, usually the major problem with the
conspiracy theories is that they give the "leaders" too much credit for
intelligence and forethought. Usually what appears to be conspiracy is just
the natural confluence of short-sighted  people acting naturally in greed
and their own self-interest, using corporate interests and power to
influence governments in order to expand capitalist markets or to rig the
system for profits.   However, if you look to the philosophy of George
Soros, there is plenty of fodder to feed the fears of conspiracy theorists.
Soros, with plenty of money and power, has almost single handedly destroyed
the UK Pound, had a hand in the collapse of the Thai Bhat (
http://www.businessweek.com/1998/51/b3609052.htm), and has bet against the
US Dollar. He also seeks to influence elections in the US to accomplish his
utopian goal of an end to US Nationalism and of Christian and other
religious influences in the world of politics. A Jew by birth, he renounces
Judaism and Israel, and considers religion an obstacle to world government,
world peace, and profits.  He is just one player among many. But, if there
are a group of people with sufficient resources acting simultaneously,
holding a similar world view with a similar economic interest, it would
appear to be conspiracy, even if it is not, and yet the outcome of their
concerted actions would produce the same result as an intentional
conspiracy.   

However, I ran across the following article today that suggests that the
destruction of capital through massive government debt may be part of a
socialist agenda that has many adherents. And the plan may be succeeding.
You decide if it is an intentional conspiracy or just the chaos and
confusion of an entire society putting self-interest above the welfare of
the whole.  And I mean by ³welfare of the whole,²  a recognition that for
the society as a whole to prosper, it may require sacrifice on my part and
not getting all my needs met by the government...

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October 15, 2008, Washington Times
By Robert Chandler

There is plenty blame to go around for the financial crash. Yet, there is a
distinct odor of the shadowy Cloward-Piven strategy as the taproot of
abusive practices that triggered the crisis. The strategy's goal is to bring
about the fall of capitalism by overloading and undermining government
bureaucracy. 

Its supporting tactics include flooding government with impossible demands
until it slowly cranks to a stop; overloading electoral systems with
successive tidal waves of new voters, many of them bogus; shaking down
banks, politicians in Congress, and the Department of Housing and Urban
Development for affirmative-action borrowing; and, now, pulling down the
national financial system by demanding exotic, subprime mortgages for
low-income Americans with little hope of repaying their loans. These toxic
mortgages are an important source of the foul smell engulfing the entire
financial bailout. 

Developed in the mid-1960s by two Columbia University sociologists, Andrew
Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, much of their strategy was drawn from Saul
Alinsky, Chicago's notorious revolutionary Marxist community organizer. The
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) succeeded the
National Welfare Rights Organization in the execution of the Cloward-Piven
grand tactics of using the poor as cannon fodder to tear down the capitalist
system. It was low-income, mostly black and Hispanic people, who were used
by ACORN guerrillas to take subprime toxic mortgages.

An Obama campaign dispatch on October 6 had the right perspective in
observing that "the backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption
that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like any
other major financial crisis of our time." True enough.

The root causes for the 2008 financial panic were sown some 40 years ago
when the Institute for Policy Studies, the notorious "Think Tank of the
Left," held socialist seminars geared toward undermining the American
capitalist system. Beginning in 1964 and continuing to the present day, the
Institute for Policy Studies has used seminars especially scoped to
influence congressmen and their assistants to support the "progressive,"
that is to say "socialist," viewpoint. A 1969 "Housing and Property"
seminar, hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies, for example, treated
Capitol Hill denizens to mind-stretching leftism. Bringing together speakers
from big-city tenants councils, neighborhood legal services, FHA insurance,
savings-and-loans entities, and the Shannon and Luchs Realty Company, the
Institute for Policy Studies "plinked" the first domino that led to the
current crisis. 

At about the same time that the Institute for Policy Studies was holding the
1969 "Housing and Property" seminars, it was also conducting "Experimental
Education" seminars in January-April 1969, for federal legislators and their
aides that included Bill Ayers, an Obama confidant and Weatherman terrorist,
as a guest speaker. According to the Senate Subcommittee on Investigation,
4,330 bombings occurred in the United States, about nine a day, from January
1969 to April 1970.

The socialist test case for using society's poor and disadvantaged people as
sacrificial "shock troops," in accordance with the Cloward-Piven strategy,
was demonstrated in 1975, when new prospective welfare recipients flooded
New York City with payment demands, bankrupting the government. As a
consequence, New York state also teetered on the edge of financial collapse
when the federal government stepped in with a bailout rescue.

The 2008 financial crisis has all of the earmarks of a Cloward-Piven
strategy assault against the capitalist system. Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics
and Public Policy Center recently explained that "community organizers" (1)
"intimidate banks into making high risk loans to customers with poor
credit," (2) "occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies, and
confront executives at their homes," and, through these thuggish tactics,
(3) compel "financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions dollars in
mortgages to low-credit customers." "In other words," Mr. Kurtz explained
during a presentation at the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for
Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, "community organizers help to undermine
America's economy by pushing the banking system into a sink-hole of bad
loans." 

A key element of the contemporary crisis certainly reflects many years of a
"backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption" cited by the Obama
camp. But much of the associated backwardness and deception were secretly
peddled by the Institute for Policy Studies. Its war against the financial
system used improvised non-ethical devices (INEDs) designed to destroy
capitalism and support Mr. Obama. One of those roadside INEDs was the
Cloward-Piven strategy.

Robert Chandler is a retired Air Force colonel and former strategist for the
White House, the Departments of State, Defense, Energy and Justice, and the
CIA. 


October 15, 2008, Washington Times
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