This is first in a series of articles about a husband and wife team,  Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, who penned the Cloward-Piven Strategy, the activist bible of the far left.  Both authors bridged the gap between political activism and scholarly pursuits.  

Richard A. Cloward, born in 1926, served in the Navy during WWII.  After his service he worked as a social worker in an army prison in Pennsylvania.   He believed in the Strain Theory of criminal behavior which looks at the ‘strain’ of negative relationships upon youth and its effects on delinquency.    With fellow sociologist, Lloyd Ohlin, Cloward wrote “Delinquency and Opportunity:  A Theory of Delinquent Gangs”  claiming that delinquency was a symptom of poverty and the lack of alterntive opportunities.  He argued that social programs in local communities would help youths keep out of gangs and avoid a life of crime. 

Frances Piven attended school in Chicago, and after getting her PHD, worked as a city planner in New York.    She is  known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism. Over the course of her career, she has served on the boards of the ACLU and the Democratic Socialists of America. 

In their book,  “Regulating the Poor” , Piven and Cloward argued that any advances the poor have made throughout history were directly proportional to their ability to disrupt institutions that depend upon their cooperation.  This belief is the basis from which their Cloward-Piven strategy would emerge.

 Piven studied voter registration and, together with Cloward, worked on the Motor Voter Bill, designed to increase voter registration.  In 1994, President Clinton signed the Voter Registration Act. which required state governments to allow for registration when a qualifying voter applied for or renewed their drivers license or applied for social services.  The intention of the legislation was to encourage greater access to voter registration for the citizens who needed further assistance registering to vote.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in Watts, where  police used batons to subdue a Black man suspected of drunk driving, they published an article entitied “The Weight of the Poor:  A strategy to End Poverty”.  In their aricle, they indicated that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor.  Rather than giving the poor government hand-outs, Cloward and Piven believed that activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system, which would, in turn, ignite a political and financial crisis…then the rest of the society would accept the demands of the poor.

I read this message from Jim Neidner, a talk show radio host, commenting on messages from the Ukraine…I’ve been hearing about this flu for weeks and believe it should be checked out.

FROM JIM NEIDNER RADIO SHOW:
Where is the Main Street Media America?

I have a friend Scarlett Rabalais, that has been doing extensive research for our radio show on the Ukraine virus and I got to tell you, it is downright freighting what she is finding.Scarlett has a hotel guest from the Ukraine, who staying in her hotel now, and they call home every few days for reports and have been advised by family members to not return. People are dropping like flies. Almost 2 million now infected, with 40-50 thousand a day becoming sick, yet the darn Press is still reporting it as H1N1 which only kills .01% who get it.The Ukraine virus, which is 3 strains, H5N1, that will self mutate, will kill 70% of the people who contact it. Many lawsuits are now being filed against Baxter for mass genocide attempts. She feels we need to alert and warn the American people to this deadly virus so at least they can prepare for its arrival.Scarlett, fully expect to see it hit the USA after Christmas toward the end of the year. Could this virus be Bio Engineered and released deliberately?

 Tune in our show for more details.

She believes the UN will declare Marshal Law and that will include the USA. If that happens we will be ordered to stay home and our boarders closed. Bye Bye tourism or voting again. Even papers in Russia, Poland, and England are still calling it the H1N1 which leads Scarlett to believe it is being played down until it takes hold beyond stopping it from killing millions worldwide.Scarlett and I believe we owe it to the American people to at least let you know what is happening and suggest that you prepare by stocking canned goods, water, buying face masks for your families with the most likelihood you will be needing this. There are also other things you can do to build your immunity system to help ward off the virus. Check with your doctor. She said she has never been as concerned for the people as she is now.

Here is her story, you will have to do your own research; don’t take our word for this. Be safe and pass this around just in case it could hit America and hit sooner than later.

Jim NeidnerNeidner’s Talk Radio
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With the help of  a generous $300 million gift to Louisiana, the Senate can now move forward to discuss and debate Healthcare Reform prior to vote.  Politicians, reporters and fellow Americans are talking about the details of the bill without seeing the big picture.   To me, it’s like discussing how you’re going to watch TV while your home is burning down.  This series of deficit-building programs, like the Stimulus Package, Cash for Clunkers, extended unemployment insurance as well as the Healthcare Insurance Reform Bill and the upcoming Cap & Trade are not designed to save our economy, but rather to destroy it.   Over the next 2 weeks, my blog will be about the far Left’s plan to push forward… towards a collapse of America’s economy to enact a redistribution of wealth.  

When Obama prepared for his Senate campaign, the strategy was developed in the living room of  terrorist and capitalism-hating Bill Ayers and his equally angry wife, Bernardine Dohrn.   The leader of the group was far left political activist, Alice Palmer,  who was a former official of a notorious Communist front group (so identified by the FBI), the U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, an international Soviet front.  This council was part of a larger organization working to undermine President Reagan’s arms buildup which played a major role in the downfall of the Soviet Union.  Palmer  introduced Obama to Illinois’ far left political activists.    Obama’s friends, mentors and peers seem to have similar feelings…that the United States is evil, and that change needs to take place.  Whether it’s Frank Davis, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Bill and Bernardine, or Van Jones…the message seems to remain the same, and change is their only direction.

 As far as I can tell,  implementation of change is  a three-prong approach…the first step is to fill the administration with supporters and non-vetted Czars that support the radical left views of Ayers, Obama, Jarrett and Pelosi.  Czars do not report to Congress and report only to Obama, himself.  Any orders can be fulfilled, and the Congress would never know.   Secondly, per the Saul Alinsky approach to community organizing, destroy your opponents.  We’ve seen and read hostile attacks repeatedly on President Bush and Vice President Cheney.  It seems to many that this trial of KSM in New York will actually be a trial of Bush and the CIA, another way to destroy their enemies.   Other conservatives, such as Limbaugh and Palin,  have also felt the vindictive venomous barbs.  Obama waged war against Fox News; however, he would not be interviewed by any of the more well-known hosts such as Hannity, O-Reilly or Beck.   The third part of this plan is implementation  of the Cloward-Piven strategy.  The CP Strategy seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse, such as bankruptcy.   We are continually overloading our government with higher deficits, higher unemployment and more domestic crises, like the NYC trial.  When our country weakens, Obama can implement the left’s dream of a redistribution of wealth.

I have no reason to believe this is not the plan.  It makes absolutely no sense to keep raising deficits…unless it’s for a particular purpose.  In addition, the most frequent visitor to the Whitehouse, as indicated by visitor logs, is Andy Stern, head of the SEIU, and foremost proponent of global distribution of wealth.   Please keep reading my blogs…as I expand on the strategies of Cloward-Piven.