On a nationally syndicated radio program, an adviser to the president of the United States sent out a clarion call to "start a [militant] resistance movement".
During the 2008 Presidential campaign Barack Obama told audiences, 'Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself".
Alright then, let the judging commence.
Via Jack Coleman at NewsBusters:
Here's a clip of Gerard making a pitch for this on Ed Schultz's radio show Monday and actually making Schultz sound reasonable by comparison…
GERARD: You're damn right Wall Street occupiers speak for us. They do in Pittsburgh, they do in Chicago, they do in Oakland, they do in San Francisco, they do all across the country. And I think what we need is, we need more militancy.
SCHULTZ: What does that mean, more militancy?
GERARD: I think we've got to start a resistance movement. If Wall Street occupation doesn't get the message, I think we've got to start blocking bridges and doing that kind of stuff. This doesn't have to be this way. The economy doesn't have to be this way. It's being put this way because the Wall Streeters are getting their way.
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Then we lost the House 'cause the House got blamed for what the Senate didn't do and now we got a bunch of right-wing nutjobs running the House of Representatives. And in the last period of time, what do we got now, almost two years, a year and a half, that the only thing they've done is bring forward social bills, they haven't brought forward one jobs bill, not one jobs bill, Ed, not one>> jobs bill<< and that's what they ran on.
And no wonder people are occupying. We oughta be doing more than occupying parks. We oughta start occupying bridges. We start oughta occupying the banks places themselves. I mean, I just think that this is nuts.
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And as mentioned per the title; Leo Gerard is an adviser to Obama.
To be more precise, Gerard is a member of the:
Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN)
H/T ConservativeByte who points out the close proximity of the timeline between Gerard's call for more militancy and the Occupy Oakland riots.:
Three days before an Occupy Oakland protest turned violent, United Steelworkers international president Leo Gerard, an adviser to President Obama, called for "more militancy" in Occupy movements across the U.S.
Obama, we've got your number. Always have. If not for the slobbering, sycophantic media you would not even of had a first term as POTUS, let alone be in any position to campaign for a second…
Given that Alinsky acknowledged that the only thing that worked against communism was McCarthy's purge, it's time for a new McCarthy purge.
Indeed.
Also see:
#OccupyOakland's Actions Speak Louder Than The "Peaceful Protest" 'Outside Agitators' Propaganda
#OccupyOakland General Strike: This is What #OccupyWallStreet Anarchy Looks Like [Photos]
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