Just Who Is The SEIU Threatening These Days?


It seems The SEIU is making rediculous threats for a change. They will get their way – NOW! Otherwise, they intend to get the banksters by crashing Wall Street. They intend to end capitalism as we now know it and redistribute the proceeds fairly. Silly me. I always thought you could do that by voting for Democrats.

So just how does one get the banksters? I’d like to collect them and trade them amongst my friends. Frivolity aside, this is an absolute joke. But just for kicks, Business Insider explains the Glorious Proletariat Revolution below.

Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore–the redistribution of wealth and the return of “$17 trillion” stolen from the middle class by Wall Street–is to “destabilize the country.”

Lerner’s plan is to organize a mass, coordinated “strike” on mortgage, student loan, and local government debt payments–thus bringing the banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans. This destabilization and turmoil, Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.

(HT:Business Insider.com)

So let’s unpack this volatile, Gramscian Screed. These people intend to deliberately default on their mortgages and student loans. They intend to act like pseudo-sapient, lower-order primates at the next J.P. Morgan stockholders meeting. And that will lead to a transfer of power that will supposedly benefit labor unions? I’m just not sure how.

Here’s what I see happening. Maybe the SEIU could actually talk a whole bunch of people into using their personal creditworthiness in a Kamikaze Attack against major banking institutions. This would cause Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Servis First a few serious headaches. It would do nothing to the Redstone Federal Credit Union, where I would transfer my mortgage and my meager checking and savings about five minutes after I believed this bunco scheme was actually beginning to work.

Then businesses that needed a line of credit to expand would approach all of these august institutions suffering the mortgage strike. There would be no money, because all the striking buffoons wouldn’t be paying their debt obligations. The major businesses and industries couldn’t get loans, wouldn’t create jobs. The natural processes that systematically and steadily erode gainful employment would continue unabated – without any offset from gainful capital manipulation. This would steadily jack up the U3 and U6 rates of unemployment.

So who does this unemployment really threaten? Does it threaten JP Morgan? Not particularly. They are one stock sale and spin-off away from really not caring a hang about the subprime mortgage market in Paducah, KY.

Does this threaten John Boehner? Not really. He’s never been a really big SEIU fan-boy. He disavows their tactics and decries all the Left-Wing Economic Terrorism. If he’s on his game, for a change, he takes it further. He reminds all of us that this sort activity by community organizers and self-important labor leaders is just the sort of negative externality we can expect when friends let friends commit the folly of voting for Democrats.

So just who does this put the heat on? Who has hitched his star to cleaning up this mess he inherited? Whose reelection prospects depend on the commencement of real, not just temporary, gubbermint-forced, improvement in the economic numbers? Barack Obama – that’s who. The SEIU has just issued a thinly-veiled threat against the man they believed was their very own, personal POTUS.

The SEIU has seen what happened in Wisconsin, where the unions failed to slag down Governor Walker and looked positively evil – when they were mailing GOP state senators death threats. They have recently heard Ohio Senator, and supposed flaming leftist, Sherrod Brown, make like Brave Sir Robin in the Monty Python skit, and totally disavow passing card-check legislation this term.

What Sherrod Brown said was a true and honest assessment of what he believed the bill’s chances were of becoming law. He wasn’t even saying the bill was a bad idea or that the unions that wanted it weren’t good people. He just threw up his hands and addressed what “is” is. Yet two things about what Sherrod Brown did nailed the SEIU to the perch, so to speak.

Organized Labor’s priorities are the first ones to be sacrificed, not Wall Street’s. This makes the SEIU wonder who the Democrats really work for. Electorates hire the political leaders they vote for. They expect goods and services in exchange for continued loyalty and support. It would be dishonest to view the current American political process through any other less-jaundiced prism.

When Walker wins in Wisconsin, and supposedly hard-core leftist Senators write off major union priorities for the sake of electoral survival, the SEIU experiences doubts regarding the ROI of their continued investments in Team Jack-Ass. The second thing that sticks in the craw of SEIU leadership is the rather conspicuous absence of President Obama on Wisconsin and the Card Check Bill. They want him to rack the (redacted) golf clubs and start remembering who walks a precinct or two on his behalf.

Yet the President won’t even vote “Present” when SEIU-types are in the same room these days. He avoids them the way pro-athletes avoid locker room staph infections. He considers them political kryptonite on the level of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Thus the SEIU looks for the 9-iron so that they can beat President Obama over the head and demand attention and respect.

So, fear not. The SEIU will not destroy American Capitalism, or even defenestrate any of the banksters. They will make noises until “Mud-Cat” Saunders, Paul Begala, and Bob Shrum all crap their pink, donkey-festooned diapers and ask for a meeting with the Obama Reelection Team that currently governs our nation. At that point, something-something will be tossed to organized labor as a big, fat, financial hush-puppy. To shut them up before the political silly season gets in full swing. That’s my Internet Conspiracy Theory regarding the SEIU Internet Conspiracy Theory. Life as we know it will continue apace, despite our obnoxious political-revolutionary blowhards.


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Would this make Obama "POTUSEIU?"

yoyo (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 10:48AM EDT (link)

I particularly like your line: “The SEIU has just issued a thinly-veiled threat against the man they believed was their very own, personal POTUS.”

Anyway…

He sounds like those stupid Chain-Mails asking us “patriotic Ameri-CANs” to “boycott gas for a day” to get back at those “dang A-Rabs.” Come to think of it, I bet the SEIU is the one who started those chain-mails.

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This is stupidity w/ a side order of hubris (nt)

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 10:54AM EDT (link)

Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler

And you are being way too nice, I would have been a bit harsher nt

PowerToThePeople (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 11:28AM EDT (link)
 
 

We could always copy Gosbank, it worked for the Soviet Union

johnt Wednesday, March 23rd at 11:16AM EDT (link)

in a manner of speaking. What counts is that daguvmint runs it.
Rabies is a terrible thing

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

What makes it even stupider

bk (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 11:25AM EDT (link)

is that crashing the economy also kills the pension funds that they’re counting on, since those funds are invested in Wall Street investments.

Which brings up another question, bk:

yoyo (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 12:26PM EDT (link)

Do unemployed SEIU members still have to pay union dues? Since many, MANY service jobs include a background/credit check, a lot of members are going to find themselves on funemployment if they attempt this. But this isn’t about them, it is about the “collective….”

This is about as ludicrous and stupid as someone saying that they are going to kill themselves to get back at someone…. Go ahead, SEIU. Show me! Pull that trigger! That will teach me! Do it! Have the AFL-CIO join your “teachable moment!”

A winning GOP 2012 platform? Removal of the collective bargaining “rights” and tenure for ALL non-elected, civilian Federal Employees and mandate that they reapply for their job semi-annually with the US House.

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Sans Reproache
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The ‘yoyo’ replaced my cigarettes January 22, 2006….

I've wondered about that too

bk (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 12:51PM EDT (link)

The unions care about power because it gets them more money which gets them more power. When union workers are laid off, you’d think they wouldn’t be paying union dues. Heck they probably make some dough to get by on by going out and terrorizing people in their homes, assaulting them at rallies, destroying anti-union recall ballots, etc.

They're called rent a mobs for a reason...

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 1:08PM EDT (link)

No one in their right mind would do that for free…

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A trivial detail...

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 1:10PM EDT (link)

Once the unions are “in charge” everything will be made better (for them) because they’ll be calling all the shots comrade…

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What makes it even more stupid

johnt Wednesday, March 23rd at 1:44PM EDT (link)

is who these people wold be acting against. Student loans, now controlled & loans made directly through the federal government, Just try striking. Mortgages? Did these apes ever hear of Fannie & Freddie. the FHA the Vets Admin? In mortgages either made directly or guaranteed estimates run from $4 to $6 trillion. The Community Reinvestment Act became the Godzilla of bad lending.
Yeah, Wall Street, which in the event gives much more to The O and the Democrats, Go Lerner, go !
Incomprehensible ignorance, the order of the day.

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They want to burn down the house to be in charge of the house...

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 1:07PM EDT (link)

Go for it.

The vast majority of their membership will pretend to play along but won’t out of either a gut instinct it’s not going to work out OR self preservation “just in case” OR outright disgust with the overall concept and it’s aims.

Besides being prosecutable under RICO* it might also be directly prosecutable as direct acts of sedition meant to destroy the nation etc.

*by someone other than the O’stration’s DOJ.

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will the DOJ investigate?

hughpecon (Diary) Wednesday, March 23rd at 3:31PM EDT (link)

Lerner’s plan is to organize a mass, coordinated “strike” on mortgage, student loan, and local government debt payments–thus bringing the banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans.

yuppers that makes sense. Bankrupt the banks so they can renegotiate loans. Only a ignorant anti capitalist Marxist could think up something so dumb. He must have been a great student in those government run indoctrination centers we call public schools. At least one man is taking this economic terrorist threat serious, rep Jason Chaffetz. Here is a letter he sent to the incompetent DOJ.

Dear Attorney General Holder:
Recent media reports suggest that the former director of the Service Employees International Union’s (“SEIU”) banking and finance campaign has threatened to seriously endanger the welfare of the United States. In a forum at Pace University earlier this month, Stephen Lerner, the former SEIU official, revealed a “secret plan” to “cause a new financial crisis . . . destroy J.P. Morgan . . . and weaken Wall Street’s grip on power” by using “civil disobedience” to create “the conditions necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”The escalation of Mr. Lerner’s threats would clearly constitute domestic terrorism and pose substantial harm to the American people and the economy. I am therefore requesting that you investigate Mr. Lerner’s terrorist plans and notify me how the Department of Justice plans to respond to these threats.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the House of Representatives and may at “any time” investigate “any matter” as set forth in House Rule X. An attachment to this letter provides additional information about responding to the Committee’s request.
If you have any questions regarding this request, please do not hesitate to contact [redacted]. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
_______________________
Jason Chaffetz
cc: The Honorable Darrell Issa, Chairman
cc: The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Minority Member

Write your Senators and congressmen and demand they all send the DOJ a letter.
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Crazy doesn't mean stupid...

merryj1 Thursday, March 24th at 6:25AM EDT (link)

They want chaos; this is just one more venue for it.

A reasonable person reading through their little book, “The Coming Insurrection” (by “the Invisible Committee, aren’t they clever?) will deem it just Schizophrenia Writ Large – which it is. But there’s an unmistakable echo of the same idiocy that attracted seemingly normal, well-adjusted but young, eager rebel-wanna-bes in the 1960′s; and this time, the recruitment is on a global scale, with a countless number of “causes” instead of just one (Vietnam) war.

Representatives Chaffetz and Issa deserve and should have all of our support and encouragement to dig into this, and any/all of their other little plots.

Ah! Someone who 'gets it'...

tonitabb Thursday, March 24th at 8:18AM EDT (link)

Why would anyone on this site dismiss the seriousness of an obvious case of invoking a “Cloward and Piven” – like strategy that was successfully employed before against NYC in overwhelming their welfare roles?

Yes, they are “burning house down to control it”, as Lerner stated himself to destroy capitalism and invoke a new government structure of collectivism. The problem is that there is truth in the matter that the banks and FED have stolen us blind with their reckless derivatives ponzi and the tax-payer funded bailouts, but the solution is not collectivism and one world government.

Audit the FED, restore capitalism, the Constitution and the republic.

You forgot the last part of that

Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, March 24th at 8:20AM EDT (link)

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This tactic says a lot.

napensnake Thursday, March 24th at 8:04AM EDT (link)

It is obvious from this tactic that the SEIU is not so much FOR the workers as they are AGAINST the “establishment.” If they were for the workers, this tactic would not even enter their minds.

 

I'm glad someone is addressing this BUT

robobbob Thursday, March 24th at 9:26AM EDT (link)

I think that you are trivializing the potential of this. It was the baying mobs of SEIU, ACORN, etc that set the Community Reinvestment Act in motion. It was the same groups pushing their bought politicians into the FANNIE/FREDDIE disasters. These set the stage for the economic mess that we are presently in. Do not underestimate the lenghts shill politicians will go to pay off their voters. What was the communists saying? pressure from above and from below. Mobs in the street provide politicians the cover to act in ways that normally would not fly. A good crisis never goes to waste.

Do not think that these people are an isolated fringe group. They have millions of followers. Hundreds of millions in cash. They have direct ties into the current White House. They have international ties and many of them are true socialist believers. They will stop at nothing, even crushing their own followers to acheive their greater good.

Have you listened to the whole audio? The plan is to use community front groups where possible so that the blame does not fall onto the shoulders of the union. To exploit intentionally created chaos. To what ends the author asked? Just as a 2000pg healthcare bill appeared from nowhere, or the questionable Patriot Act, you can guarantee that there are stacks of leftist written bills just waiting for the right crisis to get implemented.

listen for yourself . 12 min total. best parts 9min+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnakdRdh7Es&feature=feedf