The most difficult aspect of being aware of the prevailing
ideological dangers of our time is to be left devoid of fellowship with
Christians who share my concerns. As a result of age and health issues I wake
often to meditate on what the Lord would have me to do given so many others seem
either unaware or unwilling to take up their Cross as this illiberal
authoritarian attack has now become the focus of even the legacy media. Churches
are being burned, synagogues are being attacked, Jews and Christians have become
targets of hatred and mischaracterization by our own government. So, I awake in
the “Midnight Watches” to pray and intercede for the Almighty to deliver us
from this wicked assault on our civil liberties, peace, order, and good government.
Keeping watch on the “Midnight Watches” refers to the practice of meditating on
the Scriptures during the night watches. In biblical times, the night was
divided into three or four watches, each lasting about three to four hours.
Here are a few relevant scriptures referring to being God’s watchmen:
Psalm 119:148: My eyes anticipate the watches of night,
that I may meditate on Your word.
Psalm 63:6: When I remember You on my bed, I think of You
through the watches of the night.
Mark 13:35-37: Watch therefore, for you do not know when
the master of the house is coming— in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing
of the rooster, or in the morning.
These verses highlight the significance of the night
watches referred to in the Bible and the practice of meditating on God’s word
during these hours. It’s a time of reflection, prayer, and anticipation of
God’s promises. My prayers include His promise to expose and defeat the Trudeau
government's illiberal and ungodly plan. “What is his plan?’ you ask. Let me
lay that out in brutal clarity:
The prevailing socio-economic chaos is deliberate. Our
leaders are malignant Marxofascists who fully intend to collapse what little remains
of free market capitalism to install complete state control over our natural
resources, the means of production, and the distribution of goods and services.
We all know where that will lead, not being able to buy or sell without the
mark of the beast they are intent on creating!
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined
in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and wife
Frances Fox Piven.
It is the strategy of forcing political change leading to
societal collapse through orchestrated crises. The "Cloward-Piven
Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the
government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, amassing massive
unpayable national debt, and other methods such as unfettered immigration thus
pushing society into crisis and economic collapse by overwhelming the system.
Cloward and Piven were both professors at the Columbia
University School of Social Work. The strategy was outlined in a May 1966
article in the liberal magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor:
A Strategy to End Poverty".
Cloward and Piven's article is focused on forcing the
Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of
the United States Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They
stated that full enrollment of those eligible for welfare "would produce
bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and
state governments" that would: "...deepen existing divisions among
elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle
class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid
a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic
administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty
that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts
and local revenue dilemmas."
They further wrote:
The ultimate objective of this strategy – to
wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income – will be
questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic
mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national
programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.
Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote that
Cloward and Piven "proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare
system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would
ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed
annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their
rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in
effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy."
But how and through whom did these ideas infect
Columbia University?
According to my web search results, some of the
professors from the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism who went to teach at
Columbia University were **Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse,
Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Pollock, Leo Lowenthal, and Eric Fromm**¹². They
moved to the United States in 1934 after the Nazis forced the closure of their
original institute in Frankfurt, Germany¹². They were influential in developing
critical theory, a philosophical and sociological movement that aimed to
critique and emancipate modern society¹..
Source: Conversation with Bing, 1/28/2024
(1) Frankfurt
School and Critical Theory - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/critical-theory-frankfurt-school/.
(2) Frankfurt School -
Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School.
(3) The Birth Of Cultural
Marxism: How The "Frankfurt School" Changed America. https://needtoknow.news/2017/04/birth-cultural-marxism-frankfurt-school-changed-america/.
(4) The Birth Of Cultural
Marxism: How The "Frankfurt School" Changed .... https://bwcentral.org/2016/08/the-birth-of-cultural-marxism-how-the-frankfurt-school-changed-america/.
(5) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School.
More about Cloward and Piven from https://uncoverdc.com/2020/07/01/the-plan/
“These two Sixties radicals were professors at
Columbia University and likewise proponents of the Frankfurt School. They
developed the Marxist strategy of “overloading the system” to precipitate a
crisis that only the federal government could solve. Does that sound familiar
given the Chicom virus lock-downs and the unchecked rioting that is ongoing in
Democrat-run cities and states?
Richard Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven
wrote about collapsing the U.S. economy and how they planned to do it in an
article they co-authored in the 1960s called "Mobilizing the Poor: How it
Could Be Done." Later, it was published in the left-wing magazine The
Nation, under the title "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End
Poverty." This strategy came to bear their namesake as the Cloward - Piven
Strategy.
Cloward and Piven believed in
"change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots
of Los Angeles in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined
the best way to bring the kind of Saul Alinsky-type social change to America.
"In their estimation, it was to overwhelm the system and bring about the
fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible
demands and bring on economic collapse."
Following its publication, liberal activists
like Barack Obama were attracted to the so-called "crisis strategy"
or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called, and were eager
to put it into effect.
Barack Obama was a direct descendant of these
radical groups. He was, (and is) a Marxist at heart who did everything he could
as president to undermine and destroy our constitutional Republic. In one
sense, Obama is among the most – perhaps even THE most – successful presidents
in US history. He promised to fundamentally change America and given what we
see happening all around us today, it would be extremely difficult to argue
that he has not done that. He was and is a “community organizer” in the mold of
Saul Alinsky; that is exactly how he started his career. He was and is a
proponent of “undermining from within” and “exploiting crises to advance a
political agenda” – just as the Frankfurt School, Alinksy, Cloward, and Piven
argued.
OFA/Antifa/BLM
These groups are the political heirs of the
aforementioned radicals. They are not “indigenous”; they are well-funded by
left-wing billionaires and foreign governments, all of whom seek the
destruction of America. And they are executing “The Plan.”
The ostensibly non-violent “community
organizing” arm of the Democrat National Committee during the Obama years was
“Organizing for America,” which is suspiciously similar to a predecessor
community activist organization called ACORN in membership and motivation. It
has now morphed into “Organizing for Action” after Obama left office. Is there
overlap between members of OFA and Antifa? Since 2017, OFA has subsequently
been transformed into the umbrella activist organization that provided many of
the “street organizers” who have planned and executed Antifa’s non-spontaneous
riots in American cities over the past month.
Antifa — “anti-fascist” — is not a single
organization per se. Rather, it is a loose network of groups and individuals
who coordinate their "anti-racist activism" on an ad hoc basis in
different areas both within and outside the United States. Its political
objectives align perfectly with the goals of the left-wing of the Democrat
Party – and with Obama in particular. Antifa is the current manifestation of
the activist authoritarian Left in America, seeking to suppress any dissenting
political speech on college campuses and in the streets and using the
tried-and-true Alinksy tactics of personal confrontation to put pressure on
political opponents”.
So, as I keep the midnight watch and pray as an intercessor
throughout the day, I remind the faithful that they too might consider keeping
these watches with me. I so often hear pastors and teachers, evangelists and deacons
avoiding these facts like the plague that these facts clearly demonstrate is coming.
So often in the past the Church had it within its power to end totalitarian tyranny
yet simply went long to get along.
The Deputy Prime MInister Minister Chrystia Freeland knew
for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief
editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the
Second World War.
From our friend Dr. Mark Milke https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/on-castros-death-a-look-at-fidel-and-pierre-and-justin/
:
“Back in the summer of 2006, Pierre Trudeau’s youngest son,
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau wrote a fawning happy 80th birthday column in the
Toronto Star in praise of then Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The piece included tributes such as how the
revolutionary leader was a “great adventurer…a great scientific mind,” someone
whose “intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. ”
Castro, Trudeau claimed, was “an expert on genetics, on
automobile combustion engines, on stock markets, on everything.” Alexandre pressed upon his readers to analyze
Castro in “psychoanalytical terms”, to think of Cubans as children and Castro
their father. Trudeau then fondly recalled his late brother, Michel, who when
they were young kids complained to their mother that he had fewer friends than
his brothers. Margaret Trudeau replied that unlike his brothers, Michel “had
the greatest friend of all: he had Fidel.”
Shortly after Trudeau’s column appeared, I interviewed a
naturalized Australian, Luis Garcia, who with his parents had left Cuba in
1971, when Garcia was 12 years old. Given they asked to leave—one must make
such requests in communist dictatorships— the Garcias were labelled “gusanos”
(counter-revolutionaries). Luis’ father was then forced to work for three years
in the sugar cane fields in service to the communist revolution, government,
and dictator from whom they wished to flee. Garcia told me when he initially
read Alexandre’s comments he thought it was parody. He then realized Alexandre
Trudeau was earnestly serious.
I thought of Alexandre Trudeau’s fawning 2006 tribute
recently given it was 10 years ago this month that Fidel Castro resigned. (By
coincidence, I was in Cuba the day Castro stepped down. Not being a fan of
tyrants, I toasted his resignation in a Varadero bar with a friend who broke
his Lent fast from alcohol to join me.) But the anniversary also brings to mind
Alexandre Trudeau’s brother—the prime minister, and his weird, fantasy belief
that another autocracy, China, is somehow efficient on economic and environmental
matters. That belief helps explain his relentless pursuit of a free trade deal
with a country whose economic model, while improving, is best described as
crony capitalism and whose environmental practices would never be tolerated by
citizens in a liberal democracy.
Having a soft spot for tyrants prompts multiple blind
spots, whether on democracy, the economy or, more recently, on the environment.
All have been on display in the Trudeau family’s ongoing infatuation with
tyrannies and autocracies. in the comments from Alexandre, Margaret and Justin
Trudeau. We see evidence of the Trudeau family’s long love affair with the
world’s autocrats and tyrants. But the
problem started with Pierre.”
And as for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault in an article
by Matthew Lau: entitled “Steven Guilbeault,
'policymaker of the year,' is killing economic growth” https://www.saultstar.com/opinion/steven-guilbeault-policy-maker-year-killing-economic-growth
“Environment minister shackling economy with new rules for
clean fuels and electricity and caps on oil and gas emissions
The Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute has named
Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of environment and climate change, its 2023
policymaker of the year. “Ruthless, reckless and damaging,” the cover of the
latest issue of MLI’s Inside Policy magazine calls him, announcing its choice.”’
My conclusions:
If Canada hasn’t become the posterchild for the ultimate
example of the Cloward-Piven Strategy being put into practice I defy anyone to
find a clearer or more perfect example of Marxofascist oppression which has
come after our faith, our families and our property to turn the Dominion of
Canada into a Cultural Marxist hellhole rife with fascistic control of our resource
riches, an obscene grip on what people are permitted to think and say, replete
with a legacy media who are paid to lie to the Canadian public about what I
have easily demonstrated is the government’s actual agenda. We have lost our
social glue because we have lost our love of God. Beulah Land refers to the people
of God being married to the land to keep it inviolable and Godly, while the majority
of Canadians have become married to belief in a godless ideology which whenever
it has been tested resulted in economic ruin, persecution of the kind we are now
witnessing of Jews and Christians and collapsing social values. A common
identity as Christian nation has been rendered impossible by fools who are
flooding this nation with people who will never share what was once instantly identifiable
as the Canadian identity. And the church sleeps on. Just yesterday I reached
out to a local pastor offering to help him and his fellowship develop a better
understanding of this crisis and was told by him that he couldn’t sign into YouTube.
Seriously, can’t sign into YouTube is your reason for not reading or watching
my blog and vodcast Pastor? A not very believable excuse for not joining me in
prayer on the night watches!
No comments:
Post a Comment