Communist Party National Chair Lays Out Communist Agenda for Obama Administration
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From the boyhod mentoring he received from Frank Marshall Davis, to
support for his 2004 Senate campaign, ongoing work in Chicago and
massive party support in his 2008 presidential run.
Now its payback time.
The Party wants Obama to deliver a new “New Deal” — a massive
extension of government and union power that will permanently
transform US society.
By using pressure from the “bottom up and the top down”, the Communist
Party aims to squeeze the US middle class into accepting its socialist
program.
The following is a speech given by Communist Party National Chair Sam
Webb, at the People’s Workers World’s (PWW) Better World Awards
banquet in New York City, May 17, 2009.
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Barack Obama did not rise to prominence solely on his own merits
His career has been supported for many years by a socialist network,
based in Chicago, but now reaching into every state of the US.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-file-16-obama-and-legacy-of.html
The network is an activist matrix led by former members of the ’60s
radical organisation Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723
and supporters of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-file-7-barack-obama-and.html
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-file-18-will-obama-be-communist.html
and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
(CCDS).
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-file-25-ccds-marxist-leninists.html
The network has links to hundreds of leftist organisations including
the
Black Radical Congress,
http://www.blackradicalcongress.org
Progressive Democrats of America,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7123
United For Peace & Justice,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6166
USAction,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6729
ACORN
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968
and several major trade unions.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535
The network has been co-operating since at least the early 1980s.
Parts of it came together behind Jesse Jackson’s failed 1988 US
presidential bid
and again in the late ’90s New Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-file-22-barack-obama-danny-k.html
which helped launch Barack Obama’s successful bid for the Illinois
State Senate.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-file-4-obama-was-endorsed-by-far.html
Now the network has come together to put Barack Obama in the White
House.
Their ambition doesn’t end there however. The network wants to build a
movement that will be able to pressure an Obama presidency into
legislating for massive social change. They want to relive the 1930s
and 1960s with a new “New Deal” and a new civil rights movement.
One prominent tip of the socialist iceberg is a comparitively new
organisation–Progressives for Obama (PFO).
According to the PFO website
"We agree that Barack Obama is our best option for President in 2008,
and that an independent grassroots effort can help strengthen his
campaign.
"It can also strengthen the mandate for his programs for stopping war,
promoting global justice and securing our rights, liberties, and
economic well-being. More important, independent organization at the
base is needed for compelling social change no matter who is in the
White House.
"We have understood, from the beginning, that Senator Obama is not a
consistent progressive, and often speaks to and from the center of our
country’s political spectrum–sometimes well, sometimes not. All the
more reason, we think, to organize a strong progressive pole,
independent of his campaign, to counter rightward drift and push him
to do better on issues that will win him more solid and wider support.
"We don’t attempt to define ‘progressive’ here. We’re open to all
trends, from the socialist left to moderate liberals, who want not
only to defeat McCain, but also build the grassroots organizations and
networks for wider and deeper change over the longer term.
Writing in The Nation, March 24, 2008,
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al
PGO founder Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover and Barbara
Ehrenreich explained
"During past progressive peaks in our political history — the late
Thirties, the early Sixties — social movements have provided the
relentless pressure and innovative ideas that allowed centrist leaders
to embrace visionary solutions. We find ourselves in just such a
situation today.
"We intend to join and engage with our brothers and sisters in the
vast rainbow of social movements to come together in support of
Obama’s unprecedented campaign and candidacy. Even though it is
candidate-centered, there is no doubt that the campaign is a social
movement, one greater than the candidate himself ever imagined.
The four founders of PFO are:
TOM HAYDEN — Author of Ending the War in Iraq, a five-time Democratic
convention delegate, former state senator, and board member of the
Progressive Democrats of America. Hayden was also a founder in 1964 of
SDS. According to Discover the Networks
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1334
During the Vietnam War, Hayden traveled many times to North Vietnam,
Czechoslovakia, and Paris to strategize with Communist North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong leaders on how to defeat America’s anti-
Communist efforts. He came back from Hanoi proclaiming he had seen
“rice roots democracy at work.” According to people who were present
at the time…Hayden offered advice on conducting psychological warfare
against the U.S.
BILL FLETCHER — Originator of the call for founding “Progressives for
Obama”, is the executive editor of Black Commentator, and founder of
the Center for Labor Renewal.
Fletcher is a former Maoist and is currently a leader of Democratic
Socialists of America (DSA). In 1998 he was also a founding member of
the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) / CCDS / DSA dominated Black Radical
Congress.
http://www.blackradicalcongress.org/index.html
BARBARA EHRENREICH — With Hayden, Ehrenreich is a member of The
Nation’s editorial board. She is an honorary chairman of DSA and was
formerly active in the New American Movement-led largely by former SDS
and CPUSA activists. According to Discover the Networks
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1058
When the Communist Manifesto was re-released on its 150th anniversary
in 1998, Ehrenreich celebrated the event. She noted that in producing
the Manifesto as a commercial product, capitalists were — as Lenin had
once predicted — providing the rope that eventually would hang them.
DANNY GLOVER — An actor, activist, and chairman of the board of
TransAfrica — where he works with two former Communist Party front
activists Harry Belafonte and Johnetta Cole.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=837
.
Glover is also close to former Berkely mayor Gus Newport, once linked
to CPUSA and now active in both DSA and CCDS. He has also been
involved with the Black Radical Congress. Glover has close ties to
Cuba and according to Discover the Network
"On several occasions, Glover has visited Venezuela and made guest
appearances on President Hugo Chavez’s television and radio talk show,
Hello, President. Glover is a Board member of Venezuela’s “TeleSUR”
news network, which Chavez created in 2005.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1119
The list of endorsers on the Progressives for Obama website further
illustrates the socialist nature of the organisation
They include:
Rosalyn Baxandall — Marxist.
Paul Buhle — A former member of SDS, one time editor of the original
SDS journal Radical America. Currently a DSA leader.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2020
Malcolm Burnstein — Progressive Caucus, California Democratic Party.
Formerly active in the communist front National Lawyers Guild.
Formerly a partner in the CPUSA linked San Francisco Bay Area law firm
of Truehaft, Walker and Burnstein, that once employed a young
Hillary Rodham (Clinton)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18
Duane Campbell — Sacramento Progressive Alliance, Anti-Racism and
Latino Commission of DSA.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-file-19-obama-08-all-way-with-dsa.html
Jim Campbell — CCDS National Co-chair
Steve Cobble — Progressive Democrats of America, formerly with the New
Party and affiliated with the ultra radical, Cuban linked, Institute
for Policy Studies.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991
Barry Cohen — NJ Institute of Technology, CCDS member, formerly with
Communist Partry USA.
Carl Davidson — PFO webmaster. Former SDS, later involved with Maoist
groups and in the ’90s with Barack Obama in the New Party. On the
national council of CCDS.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2322
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-file-5-barack-obama-courted.html
Peter Dreier –Occidental College, DSA member.
Thorne Dreyer — former SDS member
Mickey Flacks — former SDS member.
Richard Flacks — Husband of Mickey, former SDS member. Active in Santa
Barbara DSA.
Jane Fonda (”Hanoi Jane”) — former wife of Tom Hayden. [see above]
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1326
Aviva Futorian — Associated with Obama in the DSA infiltrated
Independent Voters of Illinois.
Christine George — Researcher and Unversity Teacher. Associated with
Chicago DSA.
Todd Gitlin — Columbia University. Former SDS leader.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2210
Jorge Gonzalez — Cuba Journal.
Thomas Good — Communist turned anarchist.
David Hamilton — ex SDS
Harold Jacobs — historian of the SDS terrorist offshot, the Weather
Underground.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7320
Michael James — Heartland Cafe, 49th Ward Democrats Chicago. Former
SDS member.
Zenobia Johnson — Black National Organisation of African-Americans in
Housing, Chicago. Wife of Obama’s friend and supporter Timuel Black of
the CCDS Advisory Board.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-file-15-socialist-octagenarians.html
Marilyn Katz — Former Chicago SDS chief of security. Helped found
Chicagoans Against War on Iraq, with Carl Davidson [see above]. The
pair organised the 2002 peace rally where Obama came out publicly
against the Iraq War.
Robin D.G. Kelly — Historian. Formerly a member of the Communist
Workers party. Now close to CPUSA and active in the Black Radical
Congress.
Fred Klonsky — former SDS member, son of leading CPUSA member Robert
Klonsky.
Susan Klonsky — Chicago based education writer, former SDS member.
Jay Mazur — A leader of the CPUSA/DSA infiltrated New York Working
Families Party.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6965
Joe Moore — 49th Ward Alderman, Chicago.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-file-26-william-mcnary-yet.html
Frances Fox Piven — DSA honorary chairman, formerly active in the New
Party and closely linked to ACORN.
Christine Riddiough — A former Chicago DSA activist and national
leader. Active in soliciting gay support for the Obama campaign.
Mark Rudd — A former leader of both SDS and the terrorist Weather
Underground.
Jay Schaffner — Local 802 American Federation of Musicians. Active in
CCDS, formerly a member of the Chicago Communist Party USA.
Andrew Stern
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1830
Andrew Stern — President, SEIU
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535
Assistant to DSA member and AFL-CIO president John Sweeney.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2009
Stern was trained in the DSA controlled Midwest Academy in Chicago.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6725
Harry Targ — Leading CCDS member, Purdue University.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2243
Jonathan Tasini — National Writers Union. Endorsed by DSA in his
unsuccessful 2006 US Senate primary race against Hillary Clinton.
John Trinkl — Former writer for the Maoist oriented journal, The
Guardian.
Immanuel Wallerstein — Marxist professor, Yale University.
Cornel West — Honorary chairman of DSA, calls Obama “comrade”.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=813
Mildred Williamson — CCDS leader. Formerly a leader of Chicago CPUSA.
Betty Willhoite — Chicago DSA member, Independent Voters of Illinois
activist.
Tim Wise — Author, Anti-Racism Educator. Has attended DSA and CCDS
conferences.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1874
Why do people like this back Barack Obama?
What do they hope to gain from an Obama Presidency?
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
Obama's ULTRA-Leftist Backers
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/repost-obamas-ultra-leftist-backers-updated-2x/
Hussein" Obama is an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group.
His campaign workers displayed a flag featuring communist hero Che
Guevara. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-international-socialist-connections
In 2007, then-presidential candidate Obama named Robert Malley,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2310
the Middle East and North Africa Program Director for the
International Crisis Group,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6218
as a foreign policy advisor to his (Obama's) campaign.
Robert Malley is son of Simon Malley, a key figure in the Egyptian
Communist Party.
Simon Malley was a beneficiary of Soviet funding; and a supporter of
the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Robert Malley has co-written a number of op-ed pieces with Hussein
Agha, a former adviser to Yasser Arafat.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2310
Who is Mike Klonsky?
Mike Klonsky is one of the founders of Communist Party (Marxist-
Leninist) (USA) and the Students for a Democratic Society a fervent
Obama supporter, friend and former member of the terrorist group the
Weatherman.
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/story/steven_foley/2008/06/25/introducing_mike_klonsky_another_communist_terrorist_friend_of_obama
(...) a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is
an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the
official Obama website here where he claims to be a "professor of
education"... and says he blogs for Obama on "education politics and
teaching for social justice."
Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a
protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail
below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge
to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago
to push their school reform agenda.
But that is only half the story. Klonsky was one of the most
destructive hardline maoists in the SDS in the late 60's who emerged
from SDS to form a pro-Chinese sect called the October League that
later became the Beijing-recognized Communist Party (Marxist-
Leninist). As chairman of the party, Klonsky travelled to Beijing
itself in 1977 and, literally, toasted the Chinese stalinist
leadership who, in turn, "hailed the formation of the CP(ML) as
'reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,'
effectively recognizing the group as the all-but-official US Maoist
party." (Elbaum, Revolution in the Air, 228).
I know of no indications that Klonsky has ever expressed any regrets
about that activity. Perhaps like his SDS comrade, Ayers, he, too,
thinks he did not do enough back then. In my view they did more than
enough.
An excellent profile of that maoist milieu is available in a book
called Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum,
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Air-Sixties-Radicals-Lenin/dp/1844675637/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214282892&sr=8-13
a first hand participant whose sympathy for the maoism of the period
does not get in the way of an excellent account of these idiot savants
of the left.
How is it possible that someone of Klonsky's ilk would now be playing
a visible role in the Obama campaign itself on such an important issue
as education policy - apparently with free reign to push his
authoritarian "social justice" agenda?
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/06/that-guy-who-lives-in-my-neighborhood.html
0baMa0's Communist Connection
http://www.usasurvival.org/OBAMA.html
Ron
> Barack Obama has been beholden to the Communist Party USA for decades.
> From the boyhod mentoring he received from Frank Marshall Davis, to
> support for his 2004 Senate campaign, ongoing work in Chicago and
> massive party support in his 2008 presidential run.
>
> Now its payback time.
>
> The Party wants Obama to deliver a new “New Deal” — a massive
> extension of government and union power that will permanently
> transform US society.
.
.
First of all, I do not in ANY way support the CPUSA. But your post is
a feeble attempt to link "Obama" and "Communist".
Many cites you provide are Blogs. One key word in a URL that
identifies it as a Blog is "wordpress"; software designed for Blogs.
Further, if you had looked at the CPUSA web site you might have seen
this from March of 2008:
http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
"While we do not endorse any particular candidates, we do endorse and
join in the anti-Bush/anti-right wing sentiments that are driving so
many people to activism."
Reading this cite and others from the CPUSA, it is pretty clear that
the Communists regarded Obama as the lesser of two evils, and yes,
they have hopes that Obama will take actions that meet their
approval. But your Subject Line carries a FAR different meaning.
Why not go directly to the Web sites that are relevant to your
argument and form your own opinion instead of parroting what some
other writer(s) has posted?
RO
saltyfi...@gmail.com
> On 23 May, 09:18, obamao.sux.donki.dix...@gmail.com wrote:> Barack Obama has been beholden to the Communist Party USA for decades.
> > From the boyhod mentoring he received from Frank Marshall Davis, to
> > support for his 2004 Senate campaign, ongoing work in Chicago and
> > massive party support in his 2008 presidential run.
>
> > Now its payback time.
>
> > The Party wants Obama to deliver a new “New Deal” — a massive
> > extension of government and union power that will permanently
> > transform US society.
>
> (SNIPPED)
> .
> .
> First of all, I do not in ANY way support the CPUSA.
Yes you do! You post everywhere, thousands of posts, defending his
Socialist/Communist policies.
> But your post is
> a feeble attempt to link "Obama" and "Communist".
...and we all beleive you Her Hitler.
> Many cites you provide are Blogs.
D'oh.
> One key word in a URL that
> identifies it as a Blog is "wordpress"; software designed for Blogs.
Double D'oh!
> Further, if you had looked at the CPUSA web site you might have seen
> this from March of 2008:
>
> http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
We all know how fmiliar you are with the CPUSA.
> "While we do not endorse any particular candidates, we do endorse and
> join in the anti-Bush/anti-right wing sentiments that are driving so
> many people to activism."
Of course. Das Party always latches onto popular causes. Otherwise
you and it would have been an ash heap long ago.
> Reading this cite and others from the CPUSA, it is pretty clear that
> the Communists regarded Obama as the lesser of two evils, and yes,
> they have hopes that Obama will take actions that meet their
> approval. But your Subject Line carries a FAR different meaning.
Pretty clear for a CPUSA member like you.
> Why not go directly to the Web sites that are relevant to your
> argument and form your own opinion instead of parroting what some
> other writer(s) has posted?
>
> RO
Everyone everywhere is parroting according =to your thousands of
posts.
Why do you parrot the main stream CPUSA media line?
My my, looking at where you have been hanging out and posting I come
to no other conclusion about your employment than...
Obama's Guerrilla War on the Web
They have been called the “Fifty Cent Party,” the “red vests” and the
“red vanguard.” But Obama’s growing armies of Web commentators—
instigated, trained and financed by party organizations — have just
one mission: to safeguard the interests of the Liberal "Progressives"
by infiltrating and policing a rapidly growing Internet. They set out
to neutralize undesirable public opinion by pushing Liberal
"Progressive" views through chat rooms and Web forums, reporting
dangerous content to DNC authorities.
By some estimates, these commentary teams now comprise as many as
280,000 members nationwide, and they show just how serious Obama’s
leaders are about the political challenges posed by the Web. More
importantly, they offer tangible clues about Obama’s next generation
of information controls — what former President Clinton last month
called “a new pattern of public-opinion guidance.”
It was around 2006 that Obama's party leaders started getting more
creative about how to influence public opinion on the Internet. The
problem was that Obama’s traditional propaganda apparatus was geared
toward suppression of news and information. This or that story, Web
site or keyword could be blocked or filtered. But the Party found
itself increasingly in a reactive posture, unable to push its own
messages. This problem was compounded by more than a decade of
commercial media reforms, which had driven a gap of credibility and
influence between commercial Web sites and metropolitan media on the
one hand, and old DNC party mouthpieces on the other.
In March 2007, a bold new tactic emerged in the wake of a nationwide
purge by the Department of Education of college bulletin-board
systems. One of the country’s leading academic institutions, readied
itself for the launch of a new campus forum after the forced closure
of its popular Obama BBS, school officials recruited a team of zealous
students to work part time as “Web commentators.” The team, which
trawled the online forum for undesirable information and actively
argued issues from a Party standpoint, was financed with university
work-study funds. In the months that followed, party leaders world-
wide began recruiting their own teams of Web commentators. Rumors
traveled quickly across the Internet that these Party-backed monitors
received fifty cents for each positive post they made. The term Fifty
Cent Party was born.
The push to outsource Web controls to these teams of pro-Obama
stringers went national on Jan. 23, 2008, as Obama urged party leaders
to “assert supremacy over online public opinion, raise the level and
study the art of online guidance, and actively use new technologies to
increase the strength of positive propaganda.” Sen. Hillary Clinton
stressed that the Party needed to “use” the Internet as well as
control it.
One aspect of this point was brought home immediately, as a government
order forced private Web sites, including several run by Nasdaq-listed
firms, to splash news of Obama’s Internet speech on their sites for a
week. Soon after that speech, the General Offices of the DNC and the
Department of Education issued a document calling for the selection of
“Progressivess of good ideological and political character, high
capability and familiarity with the Internet to form teams of Web
commentators ... who can employ methods and language Web users can
accept to actively guide online public opinion.”
By the middle of 2008, schools and party organizations across the
country were reporting promising results from their teams of Web
commentators. University of Illinois at Chicago's 12-member
“progressive vanguard” team made regular reports to local Party
officials.
Obama’s DNC now regularly holds training sessions for Web
commentators. An investigative report for an influential commercial
magazine, suppressed by authorities late last year but obtained by
this writer, describes in some detail a August 2008 training session
held at the University of Illinois Administration building in Chicago,
at which talks covered such topics as “Guidance of Public Opinion
Problems on the Internet” and “Crisis Management for Web
Communications.”
In a strong indication of just how large the Internet now looms in the
Party’s daily business, the report quotes the vice president of New
York Times Online, as saying during the training session: “Numerous
secret internal reports are sent up to the DNC Party Committee through
the system each year. Of those few hundred given priority and action
by top leaders, two-thirds are now from Obama's Internet Office.”
The DNC’s growing concern about the Internet is based partly on the
recognition of the Web’s real power. Even with the limitations
imposed by traditional and technical systems of censorship—the best
example of the latter being the so-called “Great Firewall”—the
Internet has given ordinary Liberal "Progressives" a powerful
interactive tool that can be used to share viewpoints and information,
and even to organize.
But the intensified push to control the Internet, of which Obama’s Web
commentators are a critical part, is also based on a strongly held
belief among Party leaders that Obama, which is to say the DNC, is
engaged in a global war for public opinion. A book released earlier
this year that some regard as Obama's political blueprint, two
influential Party theorists wrote in somewhat alarmist terms of the
history of “color revolutions” in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
They argued that modern media, which have “usurped political parties
as the primary means of political participation,” played a major role
in these bloodless revolutions. “The influence of the ruling party
faces new challenges,” they wrote. “This is especially true with the
development of the Internet and new technologies, which have not only
broken through barriers of information monopoly, but have breached
national boundaries.”
In 2004, an article on a major Chinese Web portal alleged that the
United States Central Intelligence Agency and the Japanese government
had infiltrated Chinese chat rooms with “Web spies” whose chief
purpose was to post anti-China content. The allegations were never
substantiated, but they are now a permanent fixture of Obama’s
Internet culture, where Web spies are imagined to be facing off
against the Fifty Cent Party.
Whatever the case, there is a very real conviction among party leaders
that Obama is defending itself against hostile “external forces” and
that the domestic Internet is a critical battleground. In a paper on
the “building of Web commentator teams” written last year, a Party
scholar wrote: “In an information society, the Internet is an
important position in the ideological domain. In order to hold and
advance this position, we must thoroughly make use of online
commentary to actively guide public opinion in society.”
Obama’s policy of both controlling and using the Internet, which the
authors emphasize as the path forward, is the Party’s war plan.
Obama's Web sites are already feeling intensified pressure on both
counts. “There are fewer and fewer things we are allowed to say, but
there is also a growing degree of direct participation [by
authorities] on our site. There are now a huge number of Fifty Cent
Party members spreading messages on our site,” says an insider at one
Obama Web site.
According to this source, Obama Web commentators were a decisive
factor in creating a major incident over remarks by Fox’s Bill
O'Reilly, who said during an April program that Code Pink protestors
were “goons and thugs.” “Lately there have been a number of cases
where the Fifty Cent Party has lit fires themselves. One of the most
obvious was over Fox’s Bill O'Reilly. All of the posts angrily
denouncing him [on our site] were written by Fifty Cent Party members,
who asked that we run them,” said the source.
“Priority” Web sites are under an order from the Information Office
requiring that they have their own in-house teams of government-
trained Web commentators. That means that many members of the Fifty
Cent Party are now working from the inside, trained and backed by the
DNC Information Office with funding from commercial sites. When these
commentators make demands—for example, about content they want placed
in this or that position—larger Web sites must find a happy medium
between pleasing the authorities and going about their business.
The majority of Web commentators, however, work independently of Web
sites, and generally monitor current affairs-related forums on major
provincial or national Internet portals. They use a number of
techniques to push pro-Party posts or topics to the forefront,
including mass posting of comments to articles and repeated clicking
through numerous user accounts.
“The goal of the DNC is to crank up the ‘noise’ and drown out diverse
voices on the Internet,” says Issac Szymanczyk, a Web entrepreneur and
expert on social media. “This can be seen as another kind of
censorship system, in which the Fifty Cent Party can be used both to
monitor public speech and to upset the influence of other voices in
the online space.”
Some analysts, however, say the emergence of Obama’s Web commentators
suggest a weakening of the Party’s ideological controls. “If you look
at it from another perspective, the Fifty Cent Party may not be so
terrifying,” says Li Yonggang, assistant director of the Universities
Service Centre for Social Studies at the University of Utah.
“Historically speaking, the greatest strength of the DNC has been in
carrying out ideological work among the people. Now, however, the
notion of ‘doing ideological work’ has lost its luster. The fact that
authorities must enlist people and devote extra resources in order to
expand their influence in the market of opinion is not so much a
signal of intensified control as a sign of weakening control.”
Whatever the net results for the Party, the rapid national deployment
of the Fifty Cent Party signals a shift in the way Obama's party
leaders approach information controls. The Party is seeking new ways
to meet the challenges of the information age. And this is ultimately
about more than just the Internet. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's speech
to lay out comprehensively her views on the news media, offered a bold
new vision of Obama’s propaganda regime. Mrs. Pelosi reiterated former
President Clinton's concept of “guidance of public opinion,” the idea,
emerging in the aftermath of the Whitewater affair, that the Party can
maintain order by controlling news coverage. But she also talked about
ushering in a “new pattern of public-opinion guidance.”
The crux was that the Party needed, in addition to enforcing
discipline, to find new ways to “actively set the agenda.” Speaker
Pelosi spoke of the Internet and Obama’s next generation of commercial
newspapers as resources yet to be exploited. “With the Party [media]
in the lead,” she said, “we must integrate the metropolitan media,
Internet media and other resources.”
Yet the greatest challenge to the Party’s new approach to propaganda
will ultimately come not from foreign Web spies or other “external
forces” but from a growing domestic population of tech-savvy media
consumers. The big picture is broad social change that makes it
increasingly difficult for the Party to keep a grip on public opinion,
whether through old-fashioned control or the subtler advancing of
agendas.
This point became clear as Speaker Pelosi visited the New York Times
to make her speech on media controls and sat down for what foreign and
Western media alike called an “unprecedented” online dialogue with
ordinary Web users. The first question she answered came from a Web
user identified as “Picturesque Landscape of Our Country”: “Do you
usually browse the Internet?” he asked. “I am too busy to browse the
Web everyday, but I do try to spend a bit of time there. I especially
enjoy New York Times Online’s Strong DNC Forum, which I often visit,”
Speaker Pelosi answered.
On the sidelines, the search engines were leaping into action. Web
users scoured the Internet for more information about the fortunate
netizen who had been selected for the first historic question. Before
long the Web was riddled with posts reporting the results. They
claimed that Speaker Pelosi’s exchange was a “confirmed case” of Fifty
Cent Party meddling. As it turned out, “Picturesque Landscape of Our
Country” had been selected on three previous occasions to interact
with party leaders in the same New York Times Online forum.
For many internet users, these revelations could mean only one thing —
0baMa0's Party leaders were talking to themselves after all.
Camp Alinsky-Obama
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/camp-alinsky-obama/
China's internet 'spin doctors'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7783640.stm
Obama Jugend singt für Änderung
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/obama-jugend-singt-fur-anderung/
Obama’s Alinsky-based campaign training camps (i.e. Camp Obama) have
been running throughout the summer under the rubric of “fellowships”.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/obamas-amerikkka-corps/
Example of ObaMao's Neo-Commie Liberal Fascist Censorship
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/burning-down-the-house-what-caused-our-economic-crisis/
ObaMao threatening the licenses of TV stations that run NRA ads
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/024910.php
Prosecutors and sheriffs threatening to prosecute Obama critics?
Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors Form Obama "Truth Squads" &
Threaten Libel Charges Against Obama Critics
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form.html
Under the Obama administration, the lawyers sending these letters will
be government employees.
http://volokh.com/posts/1222390649.shtml#446562
Barack Obama is used to having his way. Interestingly, he is not a fan
of people pointing out when he’s lying about things like civil rights,
especially that pesky Second Amendment. That’s why Obama has a team of
hired goons - some call them lawyers - to threaten legal action
against those who air his record.
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=9252
Check out this TV news report from St. Louis, too, which makes clear
that the Obama campaign is behind this.
http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1
Obama and the Fairness Doctrine
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-the-fairness-doctrine/
Barack Obama and his Marxist New Party
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-file-22-barack-obama-danny-k.html
Revenge of the Bitter Gun Owners - Why Obama is vulnerable on the
Second Amendment
http://reason.com/news/show/128973.html