Chicago's Stealth Hate-America # 2 of 2

Chicago’s Stealth Hate-America Network # 2 of 2
cinops be gone Thursday, September 18, 2008
We conclude with the article in National Review. Sept. 1st issue by Stanley Kurtz titled Senator Stealth – How to advance the radical causes when no one is looking. Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. P. 33-34

He (Jacobsen) recounts being present at the Pentagon “to fast and vigil with a group of religious resisters against the madness of nuclear build-up and militarism generated in that place” and is horrified when he sees that many in the American military actually think of themselves as Christians. For Jacobsen, this means that the church has “aligned itself with oppressive forces and crucified its Lord anew.”

Jacobsen has a low opinion of the food pantries, homeless shelters, and walk-a-thons that make up so much religious charitable activity in the United States. All that charity, says Jacobsen, tends to suppress the truth that the system itself is designed to benefit the prosperous and keep the poor down…
“Most churches do not operate on the basis of healthy agitation,” he says, but instead “on the basis of manipulation, authoritarianism, or guilt-tripping.”

The solution, says Jacobsen, is community organizing: “Metropolitan organizing offers a chance to end the warfare against the poor and to heal the divisions of class and race that separate this sick society.” Militant mass action …fueled by righteous anger, he maintains, offers authentic community, and therefore “the possibility of fulfillment in a vacuous society.”… Jacobsen invokes the communal property and absence of private ownership that prevailed among early Christians as a possible model….

These, then, are the beliefs at the spiritual heart of the Gamaliel Foundation’s community organizing effort. They show clear echoes of Jeremiah Wright’s and James Cone’s black-liberation theology and it’s evident that Obama has an affinity for organizations that embody this point of view. But a question arises. Gamaliel’s goal is to build church-based coalitions capable of wielding power on behalf of the poor. These congregation-based organizations are supposed to counterbalance and undercut America’s oppressive power structures. Yet if most American Christians are deluded servants of a sinful and oppressive system, how can they be molded into a majority coalition for change? Given the privatistic, insular, and individualistic character of American culture, theological frankness might backfire and drive away potential allies, exactly as happened with Reverend Wright. THUS ARISES THE NEED FOR STEALTH….

Although Gamaliel and ACORN have significantly different tactics and styles, Rutgers political scientist Heidi Swarts notes that their political goals and ideologies are broadly similar. Both groups press the state for redistribution. The tactics of Gamaliel and ACORN have bee shaped in a “post Alinsky” era of welfare reform and conservative resurgence, posing a severe challenge to those who wish to expand the welfare state. The answer these activists have hit upon, says Swarts, is to work incrementally in urban areas, while deliberately downplaying the far-left ideology that stands behind their carefully targeted campaigns. …

P.S, Instead of teaching the poor how to fish and get them out of poverty, they want to use the poor to get into power, as a base for permanent power. Ghk

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.