Top SEIU activist Stephen Lerner called for a mass escalation of protests, strikes and civil disobedience to create crisis and revolution in America.
Lerner gave this speech at a recent “progressive” conference.
The Blaze reported:

In April Lerner wrote about revolution in a socialist journal.
Via Trevor Loudon:

Move into politicians’ offices to hold them accountable for the actions of the corporations that fund their campaigns and challenge them not to be apologists for Wall Street. Moving families that have lost their homes, jobs or benefits into the offices of politicians who received contributions from the offending corporation will highlight how big business buys politicians.

Use direct action and mass civil disobedience to occupy workplaces that are being shuttered and the corporate offices of companies that won’t invest in local communities to highlight what is wrong.

 

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  1. #1 September 20, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Happy Cloward Piven Day!!

    oh wait, that may be a tad premature, but not by much.. /s/

    ==

  2. #2 September 20, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Conservative Ken commented:

    This idiot will not fight he will send in the sheep while he hides. These fools do not want a real fight. One were we hit back.

  3. #3 September 20, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    patman commented:

    In the words of our dear leader, plus a little of my opinion thrown in : They bring a knife. I’ll bring an AR-15 with at least 10 rounds per a$$hole.

    Time to start taking these threats seriously.

  4. #4 September 20, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    shibumi commented:

    I’m in the Metro Detroit area, where unemployment is skyrocketing. However, people here are fat, happy, lazy and perfectly content to stay home and wait for their unemployment check and EBT cards. Sorry to disappoint him, but the liberals here aren’t interested in actually doing anything but staying on the dole.

  5. #5 September 20, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    Charles commented:

    “…we’re not going to convince the other side we’re right through intellectual argument”

    That’s correct; they can’t convince “the other side” because they don’t have an “intellectual argument”.

  6. #6 September 20, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    L.E. Liesner commented:

    Talk about home grown terrorist, Lerner is advocating an “American Jihad”, and where is the Department of Injustice, out covering up the scandals of this corrupt administration and of course keeping an eye on the Tea Party.

  7. #7 September 20, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    MrGoodWench commented:

    Moving families that have lost their homes, jobs or benefits into the offices of politicians who received contributions from the offending corporation will highlight how big business buys politicians.
    ——
    Hey I know a family of illegals, who no habla Englais, who lost their house to foreclosure.
    Can they move to Barney Frank’s house ? Pleeeeeeease ;-)
    I heard he likes to grow stuff in his basement , this family likes to do that too

  8. #8 September 20, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    USMC Thomas commented:

    This tool is a great recruiter for the Republican Party.
    Revolution on, FOOL!

  9. #9 September 20, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    rbosque commented:

    This guy should be arrested for sedition and treason. I thought instigating a rebellion was against the law.

  10. #10 September 20, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    DavidD commented:

    Wow. I can’t believe he would do this now rather than waiting until after Obama’s been voted out of office.

  11. #11 September 20, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Craig commented:

    Although the claims are real and genuine, this is not the way to go about it. Your corrupted government is only waiting for chaos to install and even bigger Police State. So avoid violence.

    The way to go, is to research and documente all the Wall Street corruption, and to gather the proofs and evidences and them challenge them thru Courts of Justice. That is of course if there are still uncorrupted courts in America. Not to sure about that.

  12. #12 September 20, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    MrGoodWench commented:

    Move into politicians’ offices to hold them accountable for the actions of the corporations that fund their campaigns and challenge them not to be apologists for Wall Street.
    +++++++
    I have my sleeping bag ready .
    When can I move into the WH to hold Obama accountable for actions of Comcast, GE, Google and GoldmanSux ?

  13. #13 September 20, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    martha commented:

    Is he planning to move people into Jeffrey Immelt’s office? How about GE’s “fair share” of taxes it never paid? How about all the jobs it moved to China?

  14. #14 September 20, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    Callipygian1 commented:

    Too bad those whacky rascals the Koch Brothers doesn’t finance a group of law-abiding citizens to go to the homes of these cretins and protest on their lawns… when the TV stations show up, a lucid, intelligent spokesperson lays out the message.

    Stephen Lerner, Richard Trumka, Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin…

  15. #15 September 20, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Beachbum commented:

    “… will highlight how big business buys politicians.”

    Actually this should read “… how ‘UNIONS’ buy politicians while threatening the American public and sponging off their tax dollars”.

  16. #16 September 20, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    Steve commented:

    Hammer cocked. Powder dry. Carry on!

  17. #17 September 20, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Craig commented:

    Beach Bum (#15)

    Both Unions and Big corporations buy politicians. You live in a very very corrupted country, that was hyjacked a long time ago by the Federal Reserve Banks. And both Parties are the same, on ly the name is different. Both are corrupted to the bones,

  18. #18 September 20, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    lynched1 commented:

    Remember his face.

  19. #19 September 20, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Valerie commented:

    We already have a crisis, and the Revolution is scheduled for November 8, 2012

  20. #20 September 20, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    jennifer commented:

    maybe this is all in Obama’s plans: mass civil unrest, martial law, Nov 2012 elections postponed…..

  21. #21 September 20, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    big L commented:

    Where does this duck-face live? How come he gets a pass< lerner? What is thedeal. How come thse union spox can make these threats that anyone else would be booked for?
    I worked with some people and it was possible that Westboro would be protesting. We were told that there could not even be the slightest touching of a Westboro protestor or we;d be arrested, thatthey'd press charges and would have attys there to intimidate the police.
    So how do these unions send out goons et al and not get the same treatment?

  22. #22 September 20, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    Truthcop commented:

    He should send his folks to occupy the Oval Office because Obama takes more money from Wall Street and big oil (BP) and GM and GE and the trial lawyers, on and on and on!
    He was just in NYC meeting with Wall Street “fat cats” at events that were $35,000 a plate!!!
    Why hasn’t anyone on wall street been indicted since Obama has been in office??
    Jail time??
    SEIU sicks Media Matters on conservatives, they call for civil disobedience against Republican’s.
    Yet let Obummer slide. Shameful!

  23. #23 September 20, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    Craig commented:

    “So how do these unions send out goons et al and not get the same treatment?” Big L (#21)

    They got the same treatment. The police bariccaded the streets around Wall Street. They couldn’t get in.

    And some people here applauded. Not realizing that when you applaud to someone losing his rights, that you will be the next one to lose your rights.

  24. #24 September 20, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    They said to themselves:

    “F**k it! Let’s bring the Cloward-Piven strategy out into the open, since pretty much nobody gives a s__t! They’re all watching Dancing with the Stars, professional sports, and the Cooking Channel anyway! We wore the citizens out over the past 10 years with Trooferism and the past 40 with a hundred other kook conspiracies. Now we can openly engage in our own! Especially since the press are mostly our whores, anyway!”

    Satan stalks the earth. More openly each day. More brazen each day.

  25. #25 September 20, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    kato commented:

    That’s right, you union parasites. Get off your butts and create some mayhem. Don’t expect your subprime errand boy to do all the work.

    (Note: Read William McGurn in today’s WSJ for more on the unions’ errand boy.)

  26. #26 September 20, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    Multitude commented:

    I take it this was properly reported to #AttackWatch and the DHS Stormtroopers are already invading the SEIU national headquarters…

  27. #27 September 20, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    does he mean we should occupy obama’s office, harry reid, nancy pelosi, barbara boxer, diane feinstein, frank lautenberg(aka the cadaver), chuch schumer, barney frank, because if he does, i’m all for it.

  28. #28 September 20, 2011 at 10:46 pm

    Redwine commented:

    Yet another union goon calls for insurrection. Just recently, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. called for an attack on Tea Party “SOBs”. Trumka has has said just as much. Now this union goon literally calls for disobeying the law and disrupting public order. They should be arrested and thrown into prison; but they won’t be. They walk arm and arm with the thugs of this supremely evil regime.

  29. #29 September 20, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    gus commented:

    This IS…OBAMA. Once Obama gets his candy ass handed to him next year, the riots will begin. Once the riots and burnings begin. Many LIBTARDS will die as a consequence of their own violence.

    Rest in Peace LIBTARDS.

  30. #30 September 20, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    Unbelievable commented:

    Just wear ACORN, SEIU and Obama shirts and march into GE’s, Soros’s, Buffet’s offices…

  31. #31 September 20, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    John commented:

    This is really going to make it a lot easier for the next president to do an air traffic controllers thingy on any government workers who listen to Lerner and decide to take it to the streets unemployment office for 99 weeks.

  32. #32 September 20, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    I wonder where this man lives? Shuoldnt his details be posted for all to see?

  33. #33 September 20, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    Elaine commented:

    Oh, come on. Is anyone really listening to this guy? I thought there were supposed to be ginormous protests all over the country on Saturday but if there were I sure didn’t hear about them. Seems to me that outside of Madison, Wis., just about every massive protest organized by liberals in the past year or so has turned out to be a bust.

  34. #34 September 21, 2011 at 12:13 am

    Perfected democrat commented:

    The unions take in billions of dollars in dues, but they never initiate the creation of businesses themselves… they are stunted juvenile-adolescent delinquents and blowhard hypocrites asking the business community to take all the risk and do all the work and groundwork in developing authentically competitive and thriving businesses; so they can just step into their shift work and benefit packages and grandstand how they are the most important part of the equation. Sorry you pathetic morons, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the customers are all more important individuals in the overall scheme of things, whether you like it or not. I’ts not for no reason that the current breakdown of the world economy is centered around socialist, deficit spending dependent governments and islamic regimes.

  35. #35 September 21, 2011 at 12:29 am

    Mikey commented:

    Are you guys beginning to see a pattern develop with Craig the Tool?
    His angst and anger are completely misdirected at the wrong parties.
    Me thinks a socialist college professor (or two) rearranged his grey matter, until his moral compass spun wildly due south.
    Tsk Tsk a shame.
    He seems like a smart fellow.
    We can only hope he grows up and out of his precociousness and directs his fervor against the persons and parties who really deserve it.
    Saul to Paul transformation as it were.
    One day (hopefully) he will realize his folly and cringe.
    Youth is wasted on the young!

  36. #36 September 21, 2011 at 12:39 am

    Ipso Facto commented:

    Please…bring it on!

    I can think of no better way to clarify exactly where the Democrats and the Unions stand.

  37. #37 September 21, 2011 at 12:41 am

    ExExZonie commented:

    Is this going to be a dud like the Day of Rage on Wall Street this year? Because it was boring.

  38. #38 September 21, 2011 at 2:00 am

    jerrylud commented:

    obamas goon hitlers goons hmmm any diff.?

  39. #39 September 21, 2011 at 4:16 am

    ohiochili commented:

    Mikey, I believe you give Craig too much credit. His knowledge and intelligence are far above us knuckle-draggers. How do we know this? He told us in a comment a few days ago when he was challenged. He has either isolated himself from reality, or he lives in another country because he always says “you people live an a country that…”. I don’t believe he will ever see the light. His thinking and ideas are far too superior to us to ever consider another point of view.

    Craig, please post photos or video links of police barricades holding back the masses of protestors on that GREAT DAY OF RAGE.

  40. #40 September 21, 2011 at 4:48 am

    ohiochili commented:

    Sedition. Pure and simple.

    In this hand, we have a 60′s wanna-be calling for revolution from the outside with the help of the unions. In the other hand, we have the messiah and his pals actually performing the revolution silently (and in many cases, not so silently) from the inside with the help of the unions. They are all doing their job of inciting the London-type violence right here. Why did Bloomberg come out and warn about riots? He knows the beginning of the culling of the liberal herd begins in 2012. He’s warning conservatives not to cut off the gravy train or the ‘folks’ who perceive themselves as have-nots will take forcefully from the evil rich what they feel is theirs.

    Doesn’t take a crystal ball to see very tough times ahead, but we have made it through worse.

  41. #41 September 21, 2011 at 5:13 am

    Evil Otto commented:

    These idiots don’t realize that their day is done. Nothing will come of this miserable, corrupt little union goon’s call for “mass civil disobedience,” just as nothing came of the “Day of Rage.” Every time they try to create another event like this and fail they lose more power and prestige.

  42. #43 September 21, 2011 at 5:59 am

    BurmaShave commented:

    I am not sure what this guy hopes to accomplish; but I am pretty sure that mass civil disobedience will help their man Obama get unelected next year.

    Hey, go for it, Stephen Lerner.

    Ever notice how Liberals are always calling themselves “smart”? (It’s really a code word among themselves: “smart” = liberal.) Man, this is really “smart.”

  43. #44 September 21, 2011 at 6:40 am

    Steve in TUlsa commented:

    More evidence that union goons are stupid. Obama and teh unions have destroyed the economy and they desperately blame everyone but their own actions.

  44. #46 September 21, 2011 at 7:34 am

    BarbaraS commented:

    Tell me again. When does sedition and/or treason kick in?

  45. #47 September 21, 2011 at 8:26 am

    RL commented:

    >#46 BarbaraS commented:

    >Tell me again. When does sedition and/or treason kick in?

    Well, that starts when normal people start defending themselves against the unions and other bamtards, who are exercising their more important rights to destroy everything they can get their dirty hands on….

  46. #48 September 21, 2011 at 9:53 am

    me commented:

    If Saul Alinsky and Woody Allen had a baby…

    Well, apparently they did…

  47. #49 September 21, 2011 at 10:13 am

    pill commented:

    Here in Madison County it makes one warm and fuzzy to see SEIU listed on a health care provider card..

  48. #50 September 21, 2011 at 10:27 am

    tom beebe st louis commented:

    I totally agree! We should invade the homes of every politician who puts special interests ahead of the general..excuse the term..welfare. That should include any who vote for something their campaign contributors want over something that’s right for the nation. Would Tea Partiers doing something like that be called “terrorists”? Of course. But Lerner, and Ayers, and Rev. Wright can say and do anything. They’re not terrorists. Must it come to this? The next election may well spell out the fate of the Republic. So put this on “AttackWatch”, Obama, and I have another place I’d suggest you put things.

  49. #51 September 21, 2011 at 10:30 am

    tom beebe st louis commented:

    Meanwhile note I sign on with my real name and location. Anybody expect they’ll come for me?

  50. #52 September 21, 2011 at 10:47 am

    Neal5x5 commented:

    The “Day of Rage” protest that Lerner wanted was such as total failure that it’s hard to believe he’d show his face. A small number of morons will always follow the call of stupidity but until they turn violent, they’re little more than stuff to wipe off your shoe.

  51. #54 September 21, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    gee! commented:

    Leftist have been calling for civil unrest for the past year ,Odummer can’t win re-election so they are using a tastic to stir-up the crowds to cause as much civil unrest ,where americans we’ll be asking for odummer to call for martial law that way odummer’s hands will stay clean,once martial law is declared elections will be cancel. be ready be prepared……..just saying

  52. #55 September 21, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Fisherman commented:

    Do these a-holes think that if they really started a revolution we would just sit back and watch them destroy our country and our families??? These people and their unions are nothing but bloodsuckers on the country. It’s time to dismantle all unions so these parasites would have to work for a living like the rest of us.

  53. #56 September 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    averagemelon commented:

    I wonder why Unions do not think that people will defend themselves in a fight. What drugs are they on? Are they really ready to risk their lives and property for Obama? Holy mackerel, they better take off the Utopia glasses.

  54. #57 September 21, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    tpartynitwit commented:

    Unfortunately, time is running out for us to give the lumpen proletariat something useful to do, like rebuild our infrastructure with their silly manual skills. Idle hands and all that. We may have miscalculated with all this deliberate mass unemployment and dramatic spike in the poverty rate. I fear increasing unrest and focus on income inequality ahead of the 2012 elections may impede our Tea Party, if not upend our silver tea service cart. One shudders to think what an awakened former middle class may do if we crush all their hope much longer. Perhaps it’s time for a bit of –it pains me to say– enlightened self interest?

  55. #58 September 21, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Glenmore commented:

    Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. Pick a random group of 100 of his side and 100 real people and let’s see who wins a fight. Who has the most guns and ammo. Who shoots straighter. Who can grow food better. Who can repair stuff better. Hell, it would take at least a thousand of his side to even have a chance (and I’ll even concede to hold military personal exempt from the draw – and we can guess which side they’d favor!)

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