Stop-Obama

Now some of you may be wondering from my previous post - “wait a minute, these R68 people are unrelated to Obama!”

So I will not begin to present my evidence for a strong and unambiguous relationship between R68 and Obama supporters. The few in the media (mostly Denver newspapers) who have written about R68, have either chosen to ignore this publicly accessible evidence, or as most journalism touching on Obama - can’t be bothered with even rudimentary research. The media certainly fail to see the links, and are not capable of estimating R68 turnout.

As I stated previously, no evidence of official Obama campaign input into R68 exists. What we do possess, is evidence of R68 output into the Obama campaign. A clear relationship exists between those preparing disruptions in Denver, and those who support Obama. This explains why the disruptions R68 plans in Denver, will be minimal if Obama is elected, and maximum if he is not.

While R68 organizers claim neutrality in the Democratic Contest- by their own irrational admissions - if Clinton secures the Party Nomination, they promise 50,000 protesters. If Obama gets the nod, anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 max.

“Barack is the one who’s been giving out hope to young Democrats,” said Glenn Spagnuolo, a leader of the group Re-create 68. “If that gets taken away by the superdelegates for Hillary, there’s going to be a lot of frustrated people.” [source]

If Hillary gets the nomination, we’re going to have very large numbers — a solid 50,000 people at every event,” said organizer Glenn Spagnuolo. [politico]

If Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic presidential nomination, street protests at the party’s national convention in Denver would number 50,000 people [source]
From my amateurish survey of R68’s organization forces, their alliances, and their activists, a Clinton victory would provide them with a minimum 50,000 protesters. The reasons are plenty, and include Code Pink.

Code Pink has declared that it will join R68 in Denver. Code Pink has anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 members of its own, and is led by Jodie Evans who has bundled $50,000 for Obama. Code Pink has declared that it

will participate in the demonstrations in order to focus attention on Democrats it believes haven’t done enough to stop the war in Iraq. [politico]

Translated from Pink speech: We bundle for Obama, are dedicated Clinton bashers, so if Obama doesn’t get the nod, we’ll be turning Red in Denver, joining R68 in the streets!Code Pink spends most of its active life hounding and harassing Hillary Clinton wherever she turns up. There is no more virulently anti-Clinton Democratic organization in the country, than Code Pink!

Code Pink, an anti-war group also known as Women for Peace, has been a perpetual thorn in the side of Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign even before it got into full swing. [the hill]

Code Pink has dedicated a website to their Detested Adversary, called Listen Hillary - which offers run-of-the-mill Axelrodian arguments against Clinton’s Iraq War record. By joining R68, Code Pink is not only legitimizing Anarchists preparing violence at the DNC, but Code Pink will have to pledge to the 12 R68 principles which require that any violence perpetrated by R68, is not challenged by coalition members!

Code Pink has joined R68 and is lending support a movement which is preparing for violence in Denver. Code Pink’s reason apperas to be limited to the Iraq war, as both R68’s and Code Pink insist they deplore

Clinton’s vote to authorize the Iraq war [source]

For an openly pro-Obama and virulently anti-Clinton organization, to join in an effort to recreate the malaise of Chicago’s 1968 Convention, amounts to extortion of the DNC; it is fascist, in its reliance on fear and violence.

R68 amounts to a strong-arming lf the DNC to submit the Party’s Nomination decision not to the party or its vote, but to a vocal, and militant fascist minority!

It’s as if Hamas regularly held rallies on Obama’s behalf, contributed to his campaign, and then threatened to participate in uprisings against the DNC if Obama doesn’t secure the nomination!

If Obama doesn’t distance himself from Code Pink’s move, and return some money to Code Pink, he is de facto encouraging violence on his campaign’s behalf at the DNC convention in August. The eventual implications of this, if violence does take place, could be criminal. Obama will go down in history books, as having nurtured the tension which would eventually explode in Denver.

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There is no reason to doubt that a Clinton nomination would bring the Color of Change (CoC) and National Action Network (NAN) out into the streets of America. Sharpton, who -unlike Farrakhan- had the brains to keeps his support for Obama quiet (unlike naive Obama-yups knows what associations mean), has been using NAN to aggressively spearhead the fight to disenfranchise Florida and Michigan, while together with the CoC he has been pressuring the Congressional Black Caucus to endorse Obama.

There is also no reason to doubt that Farrakhan’s NOI thugs, the New Black Panthers, and a few miscreants incited by Wright, will be called upon to add that last touch of flair, to truly Recreate the 1968 Chicago party, if Obama doesn’t get the nod.

Yet, these Black Rights groups are unlikely to find themselves at the forefront of any Denver activity. The initiative has already been taken over by R68, which will seek to involve these ethnic groups in its strategy, while maintaining overall control. If Black Groups do end up making it to Denver, their participation will very likely remain subservient to an already evolved R68 strategy of confrontation.
Traditionally, the NAACP organizes marches, rallies, sit-ins, and general protests. Same goes for NOI and Wright. R68 has a Very (very) different tradition. R68 is dominated by professional “Anarchist” elements with a more than a decade of experience of obstructive, illegal, and confrontational activity from Seattle to Prague.

Whatever support R68 manages from Black Empowerment organizations, will be used to promote an agenda of chaos, and disruption, not for peaceful protests. Presently, R68 is openly calling on eventual alliances with Black Power organizations, but its obstructionist strategy implies that such organizations will be seen as sources of manpower for confrontation with police, nothing more.

Unlike Code Pink - CoC, NAN, and NOI, are not declaring any intention to protest alongside R68. They remain under the illusions Obama will secure the nomination. What happens when his eventual loss takes place?

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The last, and potentially most powerful organizations which has yet to declare interest in R68, but is part of R68 networks and has been communicating a similarly militant message of confrontation for over half a year, is non other than MoveOn.

MoveOn, was behind the creation of the Color of Change (CoC), has involved both itself and the CoC, along with the League of Young Voters, in a gigantic coalition to indirectly promote Youth Participation, a message consistently appearing in R68’s main communication channel - the Guerrilla News Network “RedPill” publication!

So far, MoveOn has yet to formally endorse R68, but placing militant banners on R68’s flagship newspaper, is already a call to action. The message reads:

Nobody Is Going To Give You Anything, You Have to Take It

and sports this logo:

(You’ll see more baseball bats in my next post)

MoveOn boasts 3.2 million members, all being mobilized for Obama to whose campaign MoveOn has helped contribute millions, while enlisting nearly 600,000 extra supporters. Regardless of whether MoveOn chooses to officially endorse R68, or limits its participation to circulating messages conductive to R68’s designs, there is sufficient overlap in the activist base of both organizations to guarantee thousands of MoveOn members turning out in the streets of Denver.

One such overlap takes place at the highest level of R68. Larry Hales, one of the organizers of R68, is a prominent member of the International Action Center, which controls Troops Out Now and ANSWER, two non-profits regularly holding rallies with members from MoveOn, and Code Pink. This collaboration began in 2001, in opposition to the War in Afghanistan.

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What does all of this mean? It means that the potential for Obama led violence at the DNC in Denver is relatively high, and we are already seeing structural ties between R68 and Obama supporters. I doubt the DNC, Clinton, and Obama are not aware of these circumstances. Their refusal to react, can only be explained by fear. Since this fear is caused by the threat of violence, it amounts to extortion from the Obama camp.

So far, Code Pink remains the largest pro-Obama participant in R68, but MoveOn is on the fence, while CoC and similar African-American groups, may never officially join the R68 coalition, but their pro-Obama networks will no doubt be tapped for manpower and partake in any and all agitation. Since they will be harnessed by an R68 strategy of violence, and not vice versa, look for riots, not protests.

If Obama does not secure the Democratic Nomination, the possible turn-out for R68, is very, very high. The threat of violence increases directly in proportion with the role of the Super Delegates in selecting the Party Nominee.

R68 has explicitly pledged itself to interfere with delegate routes, and specifically with preventing Super Delegates with making it into the Convention.

50,000 protesters will be the minimum Denver can expect- provided no measures are taken to cut-off access to the city. Of these 5ok no more than 2000 can be experienced provocateurs, professional organizers who will make violence with the authorities their goal.

These fascist criminals, for that is the appropriate term, have a strategy in place, to which all participants will become victim. For Code Pink, or any other Obama group to associate, even distantly, with this gang of professional trouble-makers, is a direct threat to the Democratic Party, and a threat to “one man one vote.”

If Obama has a shred of decency and administrative qualities, he should be working furiously to disassociate himself from any associations with R68. The longer he fails to do so, the more he is implicating himself with a strategy of fear and extortion of the Delegate vote. If Obama fails to send a clear message to the Code Pinks, Colors of Change, and MoveOns, that R68 is out of bounds, he will be held directly accountable for any riots and confrontation at Denver, in August 24-28.

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