Saturday Politics : Are Obama Operatives Forming a 'Shadow Government' under his OFA Organization?

Saturday Politics is sometimes about former Presidents. • • • THE ROOTS OF OBAMA'S SHADOW GOVERNMENT. On Thursday, Accuracy in Media published an article by its editor Roger Aronoff, who is also a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. The article sets out a case for former President Barack Obama doing something no other former US President has ever done -- he is, according to Aronoff, setting up "a shadow apparatus...just a couple of miles from the White House, and brought along his top advisor, Valerie Jarrett, who has reportedly moved into the Obama’s new home. Obama is continuing to influence Washington, DC, and nationwide politics through the mobilization of tens of thousands of volunteers under the umbrella of Organizing for Action (OFA). Oddly, on Twitter, Obama continues to identify himself as President, rather than as a former President." • Scott S. Powell wrote in American Thinker that Obama’s group, OFA, has been organizing with the Soros-linked "Indivisible," and ¨Powell also calls the Obama political organization "a shadow government, for the explicit purpose of sabotaging his successor -- duly elected President Donald Trump.” Powell writes : “The modus operandi of OFA comes right out of Obama’s support and sympathy for Marxism and his background as a left-wing community organizer. It’s a combination of agitation and propaganda -- much like old-style Soviet agitprop, and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.” • "Agitprop " was a bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in charge of agitation and propaganda on behalf of Communism. Agitprop sought to spread its propaganda by means of popular media, such as TV and films.Today, the term 'agitprop' is used more generically to refer to any form of mass media, such as a television program or film, that tries to influence opinion through political propaganda, especially of a Communist nature. • The Alinsky "Rules of Radicals" is a pragmatic set of guidelines published in 1971 by radical Communist activist and writer Saul D. Alinsky shortly before his death. It was meant to be a handbook for community organizers seeking a radical change in society. Alinsky wrote that the organizer’s objective is to demonize those who stand in the way of his designs for change because : “Men will act when they are convinced that their cause is 100 per cent on the side of the angels and that the opposition [is] 100 per cent on the side of the devil.” The organizer “knows that there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree." Elaborating on this theme, Alinsky wrote that in “charging that so-and-so is a racist bastard and then diluting” this “with qualifying remarks such as ‘He is a good churchgoing man, generous to charity, and a good husband,’” one convicts oneself of “political idiocy” -- the winning strategy is to “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” • We certainly recognize Obama in that description of the radical "organizer." And, we should note that Hillary Clinton used the Reveille for Radicals -- a prior Alinsky book -- as her senior thesis at Wellesley College. Hillary kept in contact with Alinsky in college, and while in law school, she wrote him a letter claiming that she missed corresponding with him. The letter began, “Dear Saul, When is that new book [Rules for Radicals] coming out -- or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation? I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people,” -- she added, a reference to Alinsky’s 1946 book on his theories of community organizing. David Brock, in his 1996 biography, "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," called Hillary "Alinsky's daughter." That may be right. • • • SOROS AND "INDIVISIBLE." Aronoff states that the current "Indivisible" is another guide for radicals that stresses "tactics designed to thwart the democratic process. One Louisiana chapter, Indivisible Acadiana, run by James Proctor, attempted to override the input of district residents at a local town hall organized by Senator Bill Cassidy. According to Breitbart, local radio station KPEL captured audio of Proctor saying : “Game plan number one is to fill as many seats as we can, right? If it’s all of us in there and the poor people of Breaux Bridge are sitting behind us, well then tough luck for them. If we can arrange it so he doesn’t hear one sympathetic question -- great. That only magnifies our impact.” In other words, the protestors want to drown out local residents’ voices in favor of pushing a radical agenda. • The tactics in "Indivisible" are similar to those in Rules for Radicals, as quoted by Paul Sperry in the New York Post : “The [Indivisible] manual...advises protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms, and ‘grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit together....Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions. This will help reinforce the impression of broad consensus. It also urges them to ask hostile’ questions -- while keeping a firm hold on the mic -- and loudly boo the GOP politician if he isn’t giving you real answers.’” • Obama's OFA endorses similar tactics. According to Powell : “A week before the town halls started, OFA released its ‘Congressional Recess Toolkit,’ a training manual for activists and demonstrators, invoking them to go in groups and get to meeting halls early and ‘spread out...throughout the front half of the room, [which] will make the perception of broad consensus a reality for your member of Congress.’” Powell says : “So perception drives fake news which is intended to drive reality.” One goal is to feed video to the liberal media that fits the Obama / mainstream media narrative that Trump has no mandate and is opposed by the public. • And, unlike Alinsky, George Soros has the financial clout to pay protesters and to provide them with travel arrangements, printed signs and other tools. • • • BIRD-DOGGING. Aronoff compares the Soros "Indivisible" scheme to the tactics called “bird-dogging” that Project Veritas connected to Democratic operative Robert Creamer. Creamer is a convicted felon and the husband of Democratic congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. Aronoff points out that Creamer visited the Obama White House 340 times, including 45 visits with Obama himself. As an indication of Obama priorities, Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director of two years, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, never met once with Obama. Breitbart describes the Creamer tactic : “Creamer was exposed by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas as the key figure in a complex scheme involving a tactic called ‘bird-dogging,’ which involved planting trained activists at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies and other Republican events. The activists were trained to provoke members of the audience into reacting violently, and to provide footage to the media.” • Representative Louie Gohmert and many others have argued that some of the protesters are being paid to disrupt town halls. Gohmert says : “Unfortunately, at this time there are groups from the more violent strains of the leftist ideology, some even being paid, who are preying on public town halls to wreak havoc and threaten public safety.” The media always reports that there is no evidence town hall protestors are being paid. • But, according to a 20-minute documentary by Trevor Loudon, “America Under Siege : Civil War 2017,” Scott Foval, National Field Director for Americans United for Change, said, “I’m saying we have mentally ill people, that we pay to do s–t, make no mistake.” Similarly, Foval said, “The campaign pays DNC [Democratic National Committee], DNC pays Democracy Partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval Group, the Foval Group goes and executes the s–t on the ground.” [And who pays Americans United for Change?? It is funded by MoveOn -- the Soros flagship organization -- and the labor movement.] But, caught in the act so to speak, when the video of Foval bragging about hiring homeless and mentally ill people to bird-dog Trump rallies went viral on social media, Americans United for Change fired him. • Here is how Hillary fits into Foval's bird-dogging. Hillary Clinton openly coordinates with a Super PAC, Correct the Record. Correct the Record shares office space with 13 separate organizations, all of which are chaired by David Brock, Hillary's close advisor and money man. The President of Correct the Record, Brad Woodhouse, is also the President of Americans United for Change. Americans United for Change is located just two floors below David Brock’s Conglomerate. Scott Foval, the Political Director for Americans United for Change claims to receive marching orders to rig elections from his boss, Brad Woodhouse. It is all a very neat fit and we might be excused for wondering whether Hillary was involved in bird-dogging Trump. • • • DEAR READERS, it is unrealistic to assume that all of the organized anti-Trump protesters are unpaid. Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the Capital Research Center, has noted that “At least three of the group’s [Indivisible’s] five principals...have ties to organizations funded by George Soros.” Sperry of the New York Post states : “He’s [Obama is] working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular ‘America First’ agenda." • The media continue to obsess about the Russians, and the influence they may have exerted during the presidential campaign because that fits their Progressive Democrat agenda of destroying President Trump and his presidency so that, through some distorted notion of American constitutional democracy, their idol Obama can return to the White House. If the mainstream media had any journalistic integrity, reporters would, instead of trying to crush Trump, begin a serious investigation of Obama’s continued political influence over organized protests meant to undermine Trump. Loudon says in his documentary that the protests are being organized by members of the Workers World Party and Freedom Road Socialist Organization. If the press wants to investigate subversion, it should refocus its sights on these organizations, as well as on Americans Organizing for Action and MoveOn, not fake news claims about Russian influence and Trump ties to Putin. • In any case, claiming that Trump and Putin are"pals" is becoming harder, even for the mainstream media, now that two Kremlin-sponsored media outlets have begun to turn on the new American President. In the past few days, both Sputnik and Russia Today have published articles slamming the current state of the US under President Trump. International experts say it’s proof that this scandal was never what it looked like. Former White House NSC official Andrew Weiss told Politico : “The Russian government is savoring the severe damage to America’s international image as a result of the tumultuous first weeks of the Trump administration’s tenure. The original Russian state-controlled media fixation on Trump was that he was this destroying angel who would damage the established monopoly of two leading US political parties and lead a crusade against ‘bankrupt’ American elites.” This closely matches what the US intelligence community was saying last October, when the general belief was that Putin was solely interested in sowing division and chaos when he ordered the cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee. Since then, however, the Democrats have blown past that assessment to allege that Trump is guilty of nothing less than treason, having colluded with the Russians in a conspiracy against the US democratic system. Politico -- hardly a pro- Trump outlet -- notes that Russian coverage of Trump himself took a more critical turn almost immediately after his inauguration. “Trump Draws Noticeably Smaller Inauguration Crowd Than Predecessor,” Sputnik headlined on January 21. Other stories in various Russian outlets have spotlighted Trump’s dismal poll numbers, criticized his immigration crackdown, and even made fun of his handshake. Russian television has replayed Saturday Night Live sketches spoofing Trump. It would not be surprising if Russia’s ultimate goal turned out to be Trump’s impeachment. They want to see the American government collapse in a storm of partisan finger-pointing -- a scenario they can then use to tell their own citizens that the West’s love for democracy is misguided. And by chasing down and highlighting every fake news story -- whether coming from the intelligence community or the Obama organization is not yet clear -- about Flynn and Sessions meetings with the Russian ambassador, the Democrats and the American media are probably playing right into Putin’s hands. And at the end of the day, perhaps that is their goal -- to upset constitutional government and replace it with a resurrected Obama monarchy.