Obama's Permanent Protest - Matthew Vadum

by Matthew Vadum

Why the rise in rioting and civil unrest under Obama is no coincidence, but part of the plan.

After making America poorer, weaker, less free, more race-obsessed and balkanized throughout his tumultuous presidency, Barack Obama is gearing up to use his two tax-exempt nonprofits to continue attacking what remains of the republic's civil society after he leaves office in 14 months.

Obama's presidency "has been pockmarked by rioting, looting and protests," as he "encouraged the nonstop civil unrest exhausting the nation," writes the Hoover Institution's Paul Sperry. Obama and his "army of social justice bullies" are going to make things worse before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.

Our indefatigable Community Organizer-in-Chief is planning to use Organizing for Action (OfA) and the Barack Obama Foundation to continue punishing America for its imaginary sins and to promote manufactured controversies long after he leaves the White House.

Chicago-based OfA has trained "more than 10,000 leftist organizers, who, in turn, are training more than 2 million youths in [Saul] Alinsky street tactics," according to Sperry. This "army of social justice bullies" will carry on Obama's campaign to fundamentally transform America. 

OfA is a less violent version of Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts, or of the government-supported goon squads that Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and Cuba's Castro brothers use to harass and intimidate their domestic opponents. OfA units brought muscle to the 2011-12 fight in Wisconsin over that state's out-of-control government labor unions. OfA has bludgeoned Democrats that Obama deemed insufficiently left-wing, especially red-state congressional Democrats who had been wavering on the issue of Obamacare.

OfA’s activism relies heavily on the Internet and draws its inspiration from MoveOn, which developed a successful model for meet-up activism and point-and-click fundraising. Today, the campaigns waged by OfA and MoveOn often overlap. Sometimes both groups produce mass e-mails that arrive in members’ e-mail boxes within minutes of each other.

OfA, however, is only part of the picture.

Obama's presidential foundation -- which hopes to raise $1 billion, roughly double what was raised for the George W. Bush library -- may end up eclipsing OfA as a locus of destructive, nihilistic, antisocial activism in the post-Obama era. Obama intends to use his foundation, based at the planned Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side, to continue wreaking havoc in America and around the globe. 

A "scaled down" version of OfA will reportedly reside at the Barack Obama Foundation whose website states ominously, "As President Obama has said, the change we seek will take longer than one presidency." Obama's "historic candidacy was never simply about winning an office; it was about building a movement to tackle challenges that would define a generation. This work will live on in the Obama Foundation, which will inspire citizens across the globe to better their communities, their countries, and their world."

But at least until the foundation is fully operational, Organizing for Action will remain Obama's primary nonprofit vehicle for subjecting the American people to the community organizer-style terrorism that got him where he is today.

Sperry notes that OfA holds "organizing summits" on college campuses and uses social media to "mobilize flash mobs against 'biased cops,' 'climate-change deniers,' 'Wall Street predators' and 'gun extremists.'" It organizes rallies against conservative opponents of same-sex marriage, expanded LGBT rights, abortion, and amnesty for illegal aliens.

During the nationwide battle over Obamacare, OfA sent out a mass email attacking the good faith of opponents. Those who questioned the wisdom of Obamacare weren't Americans who sincerely disagreed with the president, but "Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.”

Just yesterday OfA executive director Sara El-Amine bombarded her fellow Obama zombies with an email attacking as flat-earthers courageous lawmakers like Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) who, unlike the global warmists, actually believe in science. OfA also sends out creepy emails every year urging supporters to celebrate Obama's birthday.

OfA was created because the White House could not lawfully use the 13 million e-mail addresses that the campaign compiled in 2008. The Democratic National Committee set up the allegedly grassroots movement as an in-house project to continue to proselytize on Obama’s behalf between elections. It was previously called Organizing for America but that name was jettisoned, probably because it sounded too pro-American.

Organizing for Action is a 501c4 nonprofit "social welfare" organization formed in January 2013. Because a 501c4 is allowed to be more political than a standard 501c3 nonprofit, donations to it are not tax-deductible (though, like a 501c3, its operations are not subject to taxation). At the end of 2013 it reported $26 million in total revenue, 197 employees, and 27,282 volunteers.

OfA uses the same domain name as Obama's campaign, www.barackobama.com, and runs something it calls the Community Organizing Institute which conducts "documentary film screenings, panel discussions and receptions with distinguished guests."

Obama has also used taxpayer money to train "hundreds of thousands of junior agitators through AmeriCorps, a Clinton youth program he’s dramatically expanded," Sperry writes, "and through My Brother’s Keeper, the 'racial justice' initiative he launched in the wake of the 2012 death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin." 

Obama openly supports the violent Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements, which are "coordinating activities with nonprofit ACORN clones, who are being secretly bankrolled through Justice Department subprime settlement funds extracted from banks."

Sperry laments that 

Obama is leaving behind a generation of militant jerks — collectively known as his “family” — to continue to proliferate protests and militate against everything and nothing. These irritating, self-absorbed, belligerent brats will “hands-up, don’t shoot” themselves into every cobwebbed corner of society, and the liberal media will give them the national bullhorn to amplify their hatred every time.

Chronic social irritation can do lasting damage to the fabric of a nation. By falsely accusing people of racism ... or sexism ... or homophobia ... or Islamophobia — or whatever other “ism” or phobia they come up with next — these agitators are creating angst and hatred in people’s hearts that wasn’t there previously.

Which is precisely the point.

Happy Americans have no interest in fundamentally transforming the nation.


Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of the book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

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