Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka

From today's Front Page Magazine:

Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka

By Matthew Vadum

[Editor's note: The following is the second installment of FrontPage's new series, "Union Gangsters." In this profile, award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum unmasks Big Labor kingpin Richard Trumka, whose dirty agitation tactics have earned him the moniker "thug-in-chief." To read about union consigliere Craig Becker, click here.]

Richard Trumka is a thug’s thug, and a crafty one at that.

The AFL-CIO boss believes the end justifies the means. Breaking the law is acceptable if it advances the cause. Unions should “forget about the law; this is about more than that,” he said at the “Future of Unions” roundtable in Detroit on April 7.

Like many union leaders, occasionally the slippery Trumka pretends to like capitalism. He supports vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, not because he actually believes in them, but because his members work in industries that depend on their enforcement. Turning a blind eye to the manufacture of counterfeit machine parts could put union members out of work.

But unlike most high-profile leftists, Trumka doesn’t even make an effort to conceal his radicalism. “Being called a socialist is a step up for me,” he told Bloomberg News in June. In 1994, Trumka proudly accepted the Eugene Debs Award named after the five-time presidential candidate and labor organizer who founded the Socialist Party of America.

As an AFL-CIO executive, Trumka helped to create “Union Summer,” a program for training young people as organizers and political activists. Participants were made to recite a pledge called “Working Class Commitment” that included the Marxist idea “that we [union workers] produce the world’s wealth … [and] will end all oppression.”

Trumka, a mine worker-cum-lawyer, admits he got involved in “the labor movement not because I wanted to negotiate wages,” but “because I saw it as a vehicle to do massive social change to include lots of people.” As he’s climbed the ranks of AFL-CIO leadership, Trumka has moved away from his modest roots. His 2011 compensation package at AFL-CIO totaled $293,750, according to LM-2 disclosure forms on file with the U.S. Department of Labor. Trumka apparently lives in a four-bathroom house assessed at $747,650 in Rockville, MD, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

He helped to turn the AFL-CIO away from boosting wages and improving working conditions. Now, the labor federation focuses on recruiting government workers who benefit from higher tax rates and bigger government, a growing constituency within the Democratic Party. The federation also blackmails employers by generating adverse publicity, harassing investors, and linking arms with the media and radical activists.

While at the helm of the AFL-CIO, Trumka helped repeal a longtime rule that banned Communists and fellow-travelers from leadership positions in the organization and its unions. The move to open the previously patriotic union to subversives delighted the Communist Party USA. “The radical shift in both leadership and policy is a very positive, even historic change,” CPUSA National Chairman Gus Hall said in 1996.

Day of Poseurs

From today's Front Page Magazine:

Day of Poseurs

By Matthew Vadum

The US Day of Rage protest on Wall Street has been largely nonviolent so far, so organizers now appear to be trying to use political theatrics to recruit more activists to their anti-capitalist cause.

They are falsely accusing the New York City Police Department of using violent tactics against them.

The mass demonstration that began September 17 is still in progress. It comes months after ACORN founder Wade Rathke proclaimed an “anti-banking jihad” and SEIU schemer Stephen Lerner vowed to “bring down the stock market” through a campaign of disruption.

According to reports, about 5,000 people showed up initially, well under the 20,000 organizers had expected. Although organizers must be disappointed by the low turnout, they appear to be trying to salvage the event by baiting and taunting police. These radicals know that videos showing angry demonstrators confronting law enforcement are helpful in recruiting new activists.

After being relatively well behaved in the beginning, in recent days activists have been practically begging the NYPD to arrest them. A few activists have received a face full of pepper spray after disobeying directions from the police.

On Saturday about 80 activists managed to get themselves arrested. They claimed that police used brutal tactics against them and posted video footage on YouTube as proof, but the videos don’t seem to show much in the way of excessive force. There is footage of police grabbing hold of activists forcefully and in some cases throwing those resisting arrest to the ground, but it’s relatively tame stuff.

While all this supposed police brutality was going on, the police themselves were filming the activities, presumably so they can testify against themselves in court.

Vadum on Roger Hedgecock Show at 7:20 p.m. ET (4:20 p.m. PT) Tonight

The time could change but right now I'm scheduled to do a segment on the "Roger Hedgecock Show" at 7:20 Eastern tonight.

We'll be talking about how ACORN and other radical left-wing groups would be eligible for up to $15 billion in federal funding if President Obama’s new economic stimulus package becomes law.

Note that the key word here is "eligible." ACORN and other leftist groups won't get all the money because they will have to compete with state and local governments. But it's a crime that any of these terrible groups will be eligible for any taxpayer dollars.

It's time for America to stop subsidizing its own destruction.

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Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Soros Stooge Terry Krepel Can't Stop Lying About ACORN and My Research

Terry Krepel, a whiny, petty, undistinguished former journalist, now makes a living writing drivel. The sloppy Media Matters for America writer has published yet another nearly fact-free attack on an article that cites my investigative journalism.

The article Krepel criticizes was published Sept. 19 by WND.com. The WND report states that President Obama's so-called jobs bill contains $15 billion for a program called "Project Rebuild."

According to the article, "The funds would go to state and local governments and to 'qualified nonprofit organizations' to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed properties."

Krepel claims "ACORN no longer exists" because "it filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last December." In fact, ACORN, the shell corporation that ran the ACORN network of 370-plus affiliates filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2010 -- on Election Day to be precise.

The question of whether the shell corporation still exists is more complicated than Krepel suggests. I am not certain that the bankruptcy case has been finalized by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Brooklyn, New York, where it was initiated. Such cases can take years to be completed. The more complex the case, the longer it can take. Is the shell corporation still considered to exist if the case is still in progress? I'm not certain. Neither is Krepel. When I covered the bankruptcy beat in a previous journalism job I was led to believe an entity in bankruptcy continued to exist until the bankruptcy petition was discharged.

Quite apart from the above esoteric legal point, ACORN continues to exist. As I have written again and again, ACORN instructed its state chapters to formally incorporate themselves under assumed names in order to carry on the work of ACORN. In other words, the ongoing criminal enterprise known as ACORN continues to function, albeit with a modified organizational structure.

Many of the chapters have already incorporated themselves under new names. New York ACORN became New York Communities for Change. California ACORN became Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. Florida ACORN became Organize Now. Texas ACORN became Texas Organizing Project, and so on and so on and so on.

As I explain in my book Subversion Inc., ACORN official Nathan Henderson-James explained some time ago that this was the game plan. Pro-ACORN author John Atlas said the same thing in his book Seeds of Change. ACORN's final national chief organizer Bertha Lewis has also said the same thing. The "new" groups are ACORN. They are run largely by the same ACORN staffers in the same ACORN offices. They are ACORN.

Krepel claims "WND offers no evidence that the money is specifically earmarked for ACORN." On this small point he's correct. The article does not even claim that the federal funding is specifically earmarked for ACORN. The article is chock full of qualifiers (e.g. "contains as much as $15 billion in payoffs for radical left-wing groups such as ACORN"; "The funds would go to state and local governments and to "qualified nonprofit organizations";) that make it clear that ACORN could obtain some of the funding.

Krepel writes that "no evidence is offered that 'qualified nonprofit organizations' with a conservative viewpoint are automatically disqualifed from receiving money." Again, on this small point Krepel is correct but the issue he raises is not relevant to the article which is not about conservative organizations. In any event, there are very few conservative nonprofits that receive federal funding.

Krepel protests a passage in the article which states that ACORN Housing (which legally changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America or AHCOA) is affiliated with ACORN. He cites a sloppy, error-ridden report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that declares that AHCOA is not an affiliate of ACORN.

As I've written repeatedly, I reject that GAO report and apparently so does WND. In fact the Obama administration also apparently rejected the GAO report when it quite properly withheld a $461,086 grant from AHCOA in January of this year.

None of this will matter to Krepel. He'll keep on lying (even though he's not good at it). It's his job.

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Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Flashback: Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans

Here's a link to an interesting piece at Big Journalism by Lee Stranahan. It's about the vicious propaganda film Better This World which falsely depicts American hero Brandon Darby as a co-conspirator in a plot to attack the 2008 GOP convention with Molotov cocktails. The goal of the two actual conspirators, David Guy McKay and Bradley Neil Crowder, was to kill Republicans. These two would-be murderers accused Darby of making them do it but the accusation was wholly rejected by the judge who heard the criminal case.

I was the first to report almost a year ago that this wretched pro-terrorist film was financially supported by taxpayers and George Soros. I also wrote about the film and the terrorist plot in my book Subversion Inc. ACORN founder Wade Rathke made it clear he supports the terrorists and wanted their murderous plot to succeed.

Below is the article I wrote last October that was published by Big Hollywood. It is telling that the Soros-funded Media Matters for America, which eagerly pounces whenever I write something even mildly controversial, has not published a word about my articles on Better This World and Brandon Darby. I wonder why.

Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans

By Matthew Vadum

Radical philanthropist George Soros is bankrolling a documentary that celebrates left-wing terrorists who plotted to napalm Republicans at the 2008 GOP convention in Minnesota. Even worse, you too are bankrolling the film through your taxes.

You can be sure that if right-wing terrorists were plotting to attack the Democratic National Convention, whoever foiled that conspiracy would be immortalized in film, literature and song as a savior of democracy.



“If you flip the equation around and it had been a group of conservatives threatening to use force to prevent those on the Left from meeting, everyone would expect the government to infiltrate them and they would also expect the FBI to stop them and charge them with crimes,” said Brandon Darby, who helped the FBI thwart the planned attack.

A trailer for the left-wing film Better This World suggests that it depicts David Guy McKay and Bradley Neil Crowder as idealistic activists who, according to the official blurb, “set out to prove the strength of their political convictions to themselves and their mentor.” (Note: There was a functioning trailer when I wrote this post a few days ago, but it no longer appears to be working. -MV) In fact McKay and Crowder are convicted domestic terrorists who manufactured instruments of death calculated to inflict maximum pain and bodily harm on people whose political views they disagreed with.

The movie attacks a true American hero, Brandon Darby, who undermined the conspiracy by alerting the FBI. Filmmakers Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega twist the facts to argue that Darby, a former revolutionary activist, manipulated McKay and Crowder into becoming would-be mass murderers.

It’s an easily disproved lie.

During sentencing, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis went out of his way to make a specific legal finding that McKay obstructed justice by falsely accusing Darby of inducing him to manufacture the incendiary devices.
McKay and Crowder had made homemade riot shields and were ready to use them in St. Paul to help demonstrators block streets near the Xcel Energy Center. The goal was to shut down the democratic process by preventing GOP delegates from participating in the convention. The shields were discovered and confiscated.

Vadum on TV at 5 ET, Sun News Network's show The Source

I'll be on the Sun News Network in Canada at 5 p.m. Eastern offering thoughts on the Republican presidential candidates' debate last night.

The show is called "The Source."

Live streaming online is available here.

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Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Union Gangsters: Craig Becker

(originally posted at Front Page Magazine)

Union Gangsters: Craig Becker

By Matthew Vadum

In the past year, America has witnessed the true face of organized labor and the thuggery and mob tactics that typify it. This behavior is no less than what national labor union figureheads have been promoting for decades — but in truth, they desire to see much worse. These fixtures of the Democratic political machine commonly push their followers into committing acts of criminality and brutish intimidation, while inciting hatred toward union enemies and free-market capitalism. Greed and an obsession with power have spawned a syndicalist culture that bears a striking resemblance to another well-known crooked subculture: that of organized crime. Frontpage’s new series of articles, “Union Gangsters,” will illuminate these very commonalities. Below, investigative reporter Matthew Vadum provides our first profile, featuring Craig Becker, Big Labor consigliere and Obama appointee.

There are union thugs and then there are those who try to give union thugs intellectual respectability.

Labor radical Craig Becker, now a member of the powerful National Labor Relations Board, is not a union thug per se. He’s more of a consigliere to union thugs.

In the spirit of Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky, Becker supports doing whatever needs to be done in order to advance the cause. Lying, cheating, and using violence are all fair game.

Becker advocates a strange, authoritarian version of syndicalism in which no one would have the right not to join a union; individuals would only get to choose which union to join. This labor fascist believes that “employers should have no role in the unionization process,” according to Brian Johnson, former executive director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom.

Free market capitalism is an impediment to social justice in Becker’s eyes. In a 1987 Harvard Law Review article, he explained how Big Labor should shiv industry.

“The right to engage in concerted activity that is enshrined in the Wagner Act – even when construed in strictly contractual terms – implicitly entails legal restraint of the freedom of capital,” he wrote. “What threatens to eviscerate labor’s collective legal rights, therefore, is less the common law principle of individual liberty than the mobility of capital, which courts have held immune from popular control.”

Of course there is no such thing as a collective right. Rights are possessed only by individuals, at least in the Anglo-American legal tradition. Becker would overthrow all of that in order to move the ball forward for unions, giving collective bargaining units the power to dictate to employers.

“If you cut through all the academic speak here, in effect, what he’s saying is collective bargaining and the Wagner Act doesn’t set up a system of collective bargaining. It sets up a guaranteed outcome,” according to Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government. “What he’s saying here is labor unions can’t possibly succeed unless you guarantee their success. In his reading of the law, any notion of workers who choose to collectively bargain sitting down with their employer and working out a deal is gone.”

Although leftists like Becker talk a good game about democracy, they don’t support it in the unionization process. Desperate to boost the anemic ranks of union members in the private sector, they support the thuggish “card check” method. Currently, workers vote in a federally supervised secret-ballot election, but under card check, if more than 50 percent of employees at a particular facility sign a card, the government certifies the union without a proper vote. Union goons would be free to intimidate workers into signing the cards, which is just fine by organized labor (and President Obama). Labor leaders would be delighted if the NLRB would simply abolish secret ballots by administrative fiat.

Becker would love to oblige them.

Becker may have played a role in drafting a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) manual that explained how union organizers could intimidate businesses into taking away the secret ballot from workers. The “Contract Campaign Manual” surfaced during a racketeering lawsuit filed against SEIU by the food and facilities management company Sodexo Inc. The company alleged that SEIU ran an “illegal campaign of extortion.”

Obama’s HUD Has Given $730,000 to ACORN This Year Alone. What’s Another $15 Billion More for Alinsky Groups?

(cross-posted at Big Government)


President Obama has given ACORN $729,849 so far this year and billions more in federal cash may be in the pipeline.

The president’s new economic stimulus package, the so-called “jobs bill,” contains as much as $15 billion for radical left-wing groups such as ACORN (his former employer). Obama has been using his presidential bully pulpit to demand that Republicans in Congress “pass this bill,” even though there is no bill yet. Despite all the rhetoric, the proposed “American Jobs Act of 2011” apparently hasn’t even been introduced in Congress.

Meanwhile, longtime ACORN ally Shaun Donovan, who heads Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has been showering ACORN with your tax dollars. The money has gone to Affordable Housing Centers of America Inc. (AHCOA), which is the new name for ACORN Housing. Like a con artist trying to escape his past, ACORN Housing legally changed its name last year.


ACORN Housing grew out of crime: trespassing and breaking and entering. It emerged from a 1982 squatting campaign in which ACORN built a squatters’ tent city behind the White House. Rampaging ACORN activists routinely break in and illegally occupy property already owned by others – and your tax dollars subsidize this criminal activity, as I write in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

HUD’s grants to AHCOA this year come despite a congressional ban on funding ACORN. Although the same longtime ACORN loyalists remain in charge of the massive housing conglomerate, HUD disingenuously claims that AHCOA has no ties to the ACORN network, relying on a slipshod, superficial legal memo written by someone who didn’t apparently understand how ACORN operates. And the mainstream media routinely let HUD get away with this kind of sleight-of-hand.

The most recent grant is dated Sept. 2. HUD gave $350,030 to AHCOA in Philadelphia for “housing counseling.”

In August HUD gave $300,000 to AHCOA’s head office in Chicago. The money is also designated for housing counseling.

Although the government’s USAspending.gov database identifies the grant recipient as “Affordable Housing Corp. of America,” its DUNS number (965998347) is registered to AHCOA. DUNS numbers enable nonprofit groups to apply for federal grants. Since 2003 the federal government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has required federal grant applicants to obtain DUNS numbers. DUNS stands for Data Universal Numbering System.

HUD issued a $79,819 grant to AHCOA’s Miama, Florida office in March for a left-wing political agitation and indoctrination program known as the “Education and Outreach Initiative.”

AHCOA in San Antonio, Texas, will receive an undisclosed percentage of a $619,696 federal grant from the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) program. NFMC is administered by the congressionally funded nonprofit NeighborWorks.

When it was known as ACORN Housing, AHCOA was notorious for transferring funds to the most political branches of the ACORN network.

The Sorry State of Immigration

Here's a new article of mine in Front Page Magazine.

The Sorry State of Immigration

By Matthew Vadum

The conventional wisdom among conservatives is that if President Obama wins a second term, things on the immigration policy front will become worse. But it’s difficult to see how the situation could become much worse when the state of immigration in the US today is in chaos and disarray, with no foreseeable political will to fix it.
Republicans are much more divided on immigration than Democrats. Many pro-business GOPers support lax immigration enforcement and full or partial amnesty for illegal aliens already in the country. Rank-and-file Republicans and Tea Party supporters tend to take a harder line on immigration, favoring more aggressive enforcement of existing laws. They want illegals deported.
And decades of liberal immigration policies have taken their toll on border-state politicians. Even GOP governors have felt the need to run to the left on immigration issues at election time.
A case in point is the leading Republican contender for the presidency, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose stance on immigration isn’t much different than Obama’s.
Some of Perry’s policy positions as a governor are almost the mirror image of Obama’s. In 2001 Perry implemented a Lone Star State version of national Democrats’ proposed DREAM Act in Texas. It gave students with three years residency in Texas in-state tuition rates.
In one important respect it is an apples-and-oranges comparison. Obama favors giving illegal aliens a so-called path to citizenship. Perry doesn’t — and couldn’t — because immigration and naturalization are federal matters.
Nonetheless Perry’s similarity to Obama on this hot-button issue is already making some segments of the Tea Party movement uncomfortable with the otherwise appealing candidate.
Perry has assured conservatives that his support for the Texas-style DREAM Act was a one-shot deal and that he won’t enact similar legislation at the federal level.
But the point is arguably moot.
Obama’s recently unveiled federal DREAM Act-by-fiat provides relief from deportation using criteria that largely mirror the proposed federal DREAM Act. Like all amnesties it rewards lawbreaking and serves as a flashing green light to would-be illegal immigrants, inviting them to jump the queue. Amnesties beget amnesties. Each one increases the likelihood that another immigration amnesty will follow in the future – and so on and so on and so on.

WND on President Obama's Jobs for Community Organizers bill

WND has a new story up about President Obama's Jobs for Community Organizers bill.

Read it here.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

VIDEO: Vadum on Fox discussing Obama's Jobs for Community Organizers Bill

I was on Fox Business ("Follow the Money" with Eric Bolling) on Sept. 16.

We talked about President Obama's new "jobs bill" which offers payoffs to ACORN and other radical left-wing groups.

Here is the video clip:

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Radical Rage: Marxist Mob Plans to Occupy Wall Street

My latest article from today's Front Page Magazine:

Radical Rage: Marxist Mob Plans to Occupy Wall Street

By Matthew Vadum (Front Page Magazine, Sept. 16, 2011)

The artwork associated with a political movement says a lot about that movement.


The US Day of Rage’s Twitter feed features a photo of a defaced ten-dollar bill. Someone has added black hair and a Hitler moustache to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, whom Congress honored in 1999 as “the man who more than any other designed the Government of the United States.”


The Founders as Nazis: that’s what the leftists who plan to occupy Wall Street tomorrow think of the American experiment. It’s not as if the media-savvy organizers of the US Day of Rage don’t understand the significance of the Founders. The event’s website constantly invokes the name of Publius, the pseudonym that Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay shared as they wrote The Federalist Papers.

Organizers of the event swear up and down that the mass protest will be nonviolent in nature. This raises the question of why they named their event after the original “Days of Rage” that took place in Chicago in 1969. That tumultuous year, members of what was later to become known as the Weather Underground provoked four days of riots and demonstrations against The System.


The September 17 protest comes months after ACORN founder Wade Rathke wrote of an “anti-banking jihad” and SEIU operative Stephen Lerner promised to “bring down the stock market” through a campaign of disruption. Sociologist Abby Scher said she was bullish on the potential of Lerner’s plan to cause massive upheaval. “As Frances Fox Piven and [Richard] Cloward taught us … poor peoples’ movements are successful when they create conditions of ungovernability. And then you win victories.”


It’s not entirely clear what will transpire in Lower Manhattan, but don’t believe US Day of Rage organizers when they say their event will not turn violent. They claim they are “fighting a war for the soul of our nation, its people.”


At the event Saturday, organizers vow to conduct a “horizontal mesh protest” by occupying public spaces on Wall Street itself and throughout the “entire island of Manhattan.”


Echoing radical lawyer William Kunstler’s infamous observation that the police can be “an army of occupation,” the US Day of Rage website makes it clear that members of the New York Police Department are the enemy. “Citizens have been prevented from exercising their right to peaceable assembly in New York City because the force established to serve and protect civil society, the NYPD, has become a counter-intel paramilitary force.”


At the Manhattan-wide protest, which will be accompanied by companion protests in Portland, OR, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin, Texas, legal observers from the pro-communist National Lawyers Guild will be available.


The guild helpfully advises would-be demonstrators not to cooperate with members of the NYPD’s intelligence division or with any police officers. Participants should arrive “with legal contact information written on your wrist or ankle; there is no guarantee that information written on paper will be accessible in the event of arrest.”

According to Adbusters, the Noam Chomsky-friendly magazine that regards capitalism as a disease and consumer advertising as mental pollution, 20,000 radicals, union members, and others are expected to occupy Wall Street. “Hacktivists,” who use computers and computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends, are also expected to participate tomorrow.

Obama’s ‘Jobs Bill’ Makes ACORN Eligible for $15 Billion in Taxpayer Money

Here's the top of my new (and inaugural) piece at Pajamas Media today:

ACORN and other radical left-wing groups would be eligible for up to $15 billion in federal funding if President Obama’s new economic stimulus package becomes law.
 Now that public polling shows Americans are realizing that economic stimulus programs don’t work, the Obama administration is calling the latest round of futile stimulus a “jobs bill.” In a sense it really is a jobs bill: a jobs bill for Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers. [...]

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

More nonsense and lies from Salon's Alex Pareene

Believe it or not Rachel Maddow lookalike Alex Pareene of Salon isn't quite as dimwitted as his writing suggests.

He seems to grasp the issues but like Brad Friedman and a gazillion other left-wingers Pareene doesn't give a farthing's cuss about ballot box integrity. The former Wonkette writer (yes, Wonkette, the thinking person's Perez Hilton) demonizes anybody who dares to suggest that people should have to prove who they are when they show up at polling stations to vote.

Pareene vermiculated over to his computer keyboard earlier today to attack the esteemed election law scholar Hans von Spakovsky for daring to suggest there may be improprieties in the special election tomorrow in New York's 9th congressional district.

Pareene mocks von Spakovsky for citing an old example of  voter fraud from 1982 in a paper, as if no voter fraud has occurred since then. Horrors! In fact voter fraud, or as Democrats call it -- "getting out the vote," is a routine occurrence.

As I reported in the Daily Caller, Lessadolla Sowers was convicted earlier this year on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers, a member of the Tunica County, Miss., NAACP Executive Committee, received five-year concurrent prison terms for each of the 10 counts. John Fund's book, Stealing Elections, contains plenty more examples of voter fraud.

And like the rest of the brain-damaged commenters who seem to believe this writer wants to bar the poor from voting, Pareene resorts to lies and distortions to attack my work. He claims I wrote that voter fraud " is a phony threat hyped by Republican operatives in order to whip up support for rules making it more difficult for poor people, minorities, and other traditional Democratic constituencies to vote."

Complete BS but that's what professional voter fraud deniers like Pareene do.




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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

VIDEO: Vadum vs Thom Hartmann on "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American"

I was on top-rated  progressive talk radio host Thom Hartmann's TV program on Wednesday.

We discussed my apparently controversial American Thinker op-ed "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American" which explains the Cloward-Piven Strategy as applied to the electoral system.

Here is the video clip:





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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.