Pressure from above and below

Socialism not working as planned? Big government spending not sparking the economy like you thought? The American people pushing back after having socialized health care rammed down their throats? People angry that the most “transparent administration in history” isn’t so transparent after all? People just a little testy over the government created housing bust?

Who ya gonna call?

Call Rent-A-Mob.

Far from being a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, the Occupy Wall Street movement is actually the brain child of our old pal Van Jones, the former discredited green jobs czar under the Transparent Chosen One.

This is the old pressure-from-above and pressure-from-below ruse that worked so well in once free countries that came to embrace communism.

Here’s the idea: Start multiple “spontaneous” uprisings with rent-a-mob groups and make sure the dozen or so throngs of protesters get lots of media coverage. That’s pressure from below.

Now introduce simultaneous legislation in Congress or other ruling elitist establishments to combat the “problem.” That’s the pressure from above. Or as I like to say, “Government creates the problem and then offers the solution ... and the solution is always bigger government.”

Van Jones actually admitted that this whole thing was well planned. In a post dated Sept. 29 on realclearpolitics.com Jones states, “We are going to build a progressive counterbalance to the Tea Party. Hold onto your hats. We’re going to have an October offensive.”

Considering that the term “progressive” is newspeak for communist, what we have here, folks, are communist agit-props mobbing the streets.

Jeff Lonigro

St. Charles