Economic Terrorism: Former SEIU Official Caught On Tape Advocating "Destabilization" of Nation's Economy In Order To Spur Redistributionist Socialism

This is, of course, Cloward-Piven.

The tapes are at Beck's The Blaze. Gee, I wonder what he'll be talking about today.

Here's Business Insider digesting the tapes.

The former SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, spoke in a closed session at a Pace University forum last weekend.

The Blaze procured what appears to be a tape of Lerner's remarks. Many Americans will undoubtely sympathize with and support them. Still, the "destabilization" plan is startling in its specificity, especially coming so close on the heels of the financial crisis.

Question: Would the media feel the need to inject this "sympathy" caveat into a report of a plan to destabilize the country coming from the right? Of course not. They always feel the need to push the idea that the left has the right ideas in its heart, even if you disagree about the details of execution.

Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore--the redistribution of wealth and the return of "$17 trillion" stolen from the middle class by Wall Street--is to "destabilize the country."

Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated "strike" on mortgage, student loan, and local government debt payments--thus bringing the banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans. This destabilization and turmoil, Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.

Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase in early May, with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.

Lerner also says explicitly that, although the attack will benefit labor unions, it cannot be seen as being organized by them. It must therefore be run by community organizations.

Business Insider notes Lerner was forced out of SEIU last year for spending millions pursuing some kind of plan that looked a lot like this.

But you know who's scary? The Tea Party, man.

posted by Ace at 04:16 PM

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