Our Republican state lawmakers would be wise to understand Democratic leaders' mounting pressure to break and vote for a state income tax increase. By scanning the Internet, it's easy to see how purple t-shirted Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are bullying and threatening lawmakers and taxpayers not only here in Illinois, but other financially-stressed states.
Last week's arrests at the Capitol of protesting SEIU workers and their sympathetic taxpayer-funded activists were simply following successful manipulative strategy advocated by two Columbia University sociologists -- Frances Fox Cloward and Richard Andrew Piven -- that literally broke New York City's welfare system in 1975. A May 5, 2009 American Thinker piece explains in part:
Cloward-Piven instructed activists that if a crisis did not exist, promote or manufacture one by exaggerating a benign or unthreatening predicament. In doing so, contrived commotion would serve as a tool to convince the masses of their urgent need for rescue. In order to achieve the ultimate goal, students were encouraged to stress the social system to the breaking point, which would quash capitalism and institute socialism through a massive infusion of government intervention.
Cloward-Piven repeatedly cited Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, in all their work. Marxism advocates were taught by Cloward-Piven to, "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." Never failing to remind their apprentices that, "...when pressed...human agencies inevitably fall short...the system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then is used to discredit it altogether." The definitive goal: "... replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one."
Indeed, a 50 percent income tax increase will not suffice the demands of those in Illinois who need more to feed their out-of-control requirements. The ultimate goal of the Cloward-Piven strategy is to break Illinois' capitalist-based economic system by pressing more and more on law-based promises that have accumulated over the years, one feel-good program after another, that economic panic sets in, and system overhaul is necessary.
Let the Illinois media foolishly speculate on who will blink first, the Democrats or the Republicans. That's exactly what is needed for the Cloward-Piven strategy to work in our Illinois Capitol over the next two weeks. Expect the heat to be turned up more, and expect to see the strength of Republican lawmakers' spines.
Sure, this may sound like a far-fetched leftwing conspiracy, but the dreaded powerful SEIU bully is directly connected to ACORN-esque public manipulation groups. These heartless manipulators are using handicapped children and helpless senior citizens as pawns and shields to wield extortionist-like powers over kind-hearted and caring taxpayers. Their tactics emulate loathsome Al-Queda tactics, and Illinois lawmakers must not acquiese.
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