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Stephen Lerner Doubles Down on ‘Economic Terrorism’ Plan in New Op-Ed

In an op-ed dated for today that appears in the progressive publication In These Times, Stephen Lerner doubles down on his plan to bring down the U.S. economy.

Stephen Lerner Doubles Down on ‘Economic Terrorism’ Plan in New Op Ed

Lerner writes that “This can be our moment.” In the op-ed, Lerner outlines his campaign to “stoke simmering discontent into concrete, concerted direct action to challenge corporate extremism.“ This is a campaign that would sow ”the seeds of a movement that turns the tables on them [Wall Street].”

Elsewhere, as The Blaze has reported, Lerner said that the aim of such a campaign would be to “bring down the stock market…bring down their [Wall Street] bonuses…interfere with their ability to, to be rich.” He also said, “There are actually extraordinary things we could do right now to start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.”

What are those things that could be done right now to “destabilize the folks that are in power” and “bring down the stock market”? He outlined them in his op-ed today:

The fragility of an unstable boom-and-bust economy and growing economic inequality create unique opportunities to stoke simmering discontent into concrete, concerted direct action to challenge corporate extremism….

But in order to make this vision reality, we need to go on offense and make Wall Street pay for the trillions it stole from us…..We can use our political and economic power to renegotiate our relationship with Wall Street to keep millions of people in their homes, and raise revenue for cities and states to protect jobs and critical services:

The Potential Power of Government—Don’t Do Business with Bandit Banks: Wall Street does trillions in business with all levels of government. Let’s leverage that money by getting governments to refuse to do business with banks that don’t pay their fair share in taxes, won’t renegotiate high-cost deals that are bankrupting taxpayers with astronomical interest rates, and refuse to stop foreclosures by reducing mortgage principals.

The Potential Power of Homeowners and Students—Don’t Pay Unfair Debt: Growing numbers of homeowners and students cannot afford to pay back their loans. If they organized a loan strike — refusing to pay their mortgages and student loans unless banks agreed to negotiate lower rates — it would threaten CEO bonuses and bottom lines of the banks. When corporations are in trouble they renegotiate their debt all the time so they can get on their feet again. Homeowners, students and local government need that same deal.

As The Blaze reported here, Lerner said that “If we organized homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike….it would literally cause a new financial crisis for the banks.” So that’s what Lerner wants: another crisis on the order of 2008. If people follow through on Lerner’s loan strike, “Chaos” could ensue, experts say.

By the way, as we previously surmised, Stephen Lerner appears to be with the SEIU still–a fact which again seems confirmed by his short biography at the end of today’s op-ed:

Stephen Lerner serves on the Service Employees International Union’s International Executive Board and is the architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign. Lerner is a frequent contributor on national television and radio programs and has published numerous articles charting a path for a 21st-century labor movement.

H/T Redstate.com.

Check out The Blaze’s related Stephen Lerner coverage:

EXCLUSIVE BLAZE AUDIO: Stephen Lerner Details His Economic Terrorism Plan To Bring Down US Economy

Could Stephen Lerner’s Economic Terrorism Plan Actually Bring Down the Economy?

Did Stephen Lerner Have Ties to Obama’s White House?

Is Stephen Lerner Still on SEIU’s Payroll? Why Yes He Is, Says Wade Rathke

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  • idrathermisstotheright
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:50pm

    The Feds won’t touch this guy, remember what they did with Hanoi Jane? Absolutely nothing! These morons have been given way too long of a leash for years without consequences therefore they now have a free ride.

    No discipline no respect for authority which is why we have a disrespectful government, no acceptability.

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    • sodizzy
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:37am

      Lawlessness.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:46pm

      So that means you think J.P. Morgan Chase is an authority we’re supposed to respect, and people who are losing their homes because they didn’t realize that adjustable rate mortgages would go up faster and farther than they would come down, they’re like the Viet Cong?

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    • Boojer56
      Posted on March 31, 2011 at 1:28pm

      So If I plotted to bring down a major building and then told the world about it wouldn’t t I get a visit from the FBI, So whats the difference now.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:48pm

      Boojer 56
      Bringing down a building is an act of violence, bringing down a company is not. The banks are under attack because they have exhibited contempt for the feelings of the public that paid to bail them out, and through their own behavior have earned the anger of the people. Any action against them by the public conducted without resorting to illegal means is part of the free market, just like a boycott. For the government to intervene to protect the banks from the results of their own actions would be an anti-free market regulation of the industry.

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  • SandyfromChesterfield
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:50pm

    I wonder what will happen to the union pensions (what’s left of it) that are invested in the stock market after he collapses the system? Hmmm.

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    • delhoghe
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:58pm

      Same thing that will happen to the non-union ones.

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  • jefferson1743
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:46pm

    This guy’s a moron.. Wall street, wall street, wall street, same old thing every time. What about the money that Soros makes, Michael Moore, P-Diddy, Or Bruce Springsteen make‘s that’s ok but a guy that make’s millions for his company is that bad guy. But I make a movie and make 20 million per picture thats ok isn’t that hypocritical a little BS.

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:45pm

    All the guys trying to do all the harm to our country are simpletons who have no plan beyond their own hateful ideas. They remind me of the cartoons of the guys that cut off the limb of the tree they are sitting on. Just totally focused on cutting off the limb without any other thought about the outcome. Stupid useful idiots, Soros and his ilk love them.

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    • SamAdams66
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:47pm

      Underpants Gnomes Underpants Gnomes we must be the Underpants Gnomes
      Step 1 – Steal underpants
      Step 2 – ???
      Step 3 – World domination

      Somehow these leftists/commies/econ terrorists and their ilk don’t get it. Never in history have any of these revolutions succeeded. Never in history has the outcome of their plans turned out really well for the little guy the leftists/commies profess to be in support of. Somehow the plans fall into step 2 of the Underpants Gnome plan for world domination. The ensuing chaos, starvation, deprivation, depravity and misery resulting from their initial actions never allow the plan to get to step 3 world domination.

      Sadly the useful idiots will wake up too late or be destroyed first by those initiating the plan. Although Lerner’s plan is crazy to a thinking person with some level of education and research, I fear too many do not look beyond today and the consequences of their actions. These people will fall for the trap, not pay their legal obligations even though they are able. The system will tank and they will go swirling down the bowl with the very institutions they sought to destroy. Then the useful idiots will begin to turn on their leaders like Lerner. That is the moment it gets truly ugly. The most vocal supporters of this evil are the first to be eliminated because they are the most upset when the plan doesn’t turn out how they expected it to.

      The whole plan is about as nonsensical as the Underpants Gnome episode of South Park.

      PS – Why did the American Revolution succeed? Maybe freedom really is the natural condition of man. Maybe oppression and hatred and violence never solve anything. Maybe the government that governs least really does govern best. Maybe …….

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:30am

      we better pray to our ‘percieved higher authority’ [sic] God for help…did you all know that they are changing that in the NIV…I don’t read that one anyway, thought you might want to know…and Noah‘s ark is now ’gender neutral floatation device’, and a whole lot more!!!! Prepare for battle my friends it is coming to us soon!

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  • jb1972
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:43pm

    ” Let’s leverage that money by getting governments to refuse to do business with banks that don’t pay their fair share in taxes, won’t renegotiate high-cost deals that are bankrupting taxpayers with astronomical interest rates”. Isnt this about the same thing we were saying about the Wisconsin protesters. Renegotiating contracts that were bankrupting taxpayers! Its only about greed. They get to pick and choose when the rules apply to them. Lerner has been exposed and will suffer the same defeat as most dems in 2012.

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    • gunkgy
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:20pm

      when you signed the loan paperwork you knew what interest you were going to pay. I don’t think the bank held a gun to your head and made you sign the paper. If you don’t like the interest, don’t sign the paper.

      Whwn in heck are people going to take responsibility for their own decisions/actions and quit blaming others.

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  • delhoghe
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:39pm

    What do the following people have in common;Andrew Rosenthal, Stephen Lerner, Barbra Boxer,Ben Cardin, George Soros, Chuck Schumer, and Richard Blumenthal ? I mean, other than being depicted as being possible “enemies of the state” by today’s issue of the Blaze.

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  • FToth84
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:39pm

    @ ARE338 That’s the whole point. Make you plan know to the masses. In hopes that it will take effect. The DOA obviously isn’t doing a thing about this. So they figure… Why not?

    All I have to say to all my true American patriots, is BE PREPARED! If you don’t know where to begin. I would suggest a book that I am reading. ‘The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide’ by Sean Brodrick. He covers what could happen and how to prepare yourself and your family.
    I found the book in the investing section at B&N.

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  • The Atomic Mom
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:35pm

    You have to wonder, if these types of people would just go out and acutally WORK at a real job, if they would be content with their lives. Instead they whinge and moan about everyone else being “rich”….well get out and WORK for it! And in the end this will only hurt the middle class if it acutally happens.

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  • trueblueday
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:35pm

    Know what you‘re say’in. Prepared in the realization that it will all tank.
    Faith – Hope – Charity (with a hefty dose of love and courage) – that’s what will get us through.

    The beasts won’t get me down.

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:34pm

    Don’t have that option in a 401k until you leave the company you work for.

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    • uc35ajet
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:25pm

      In the same boat as you. Just praying it will stay good until retirement this year.

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  • Angeld
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:33pm

    This man needs arrested!

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:19am

      For what? He’s not telling people to break the law. He’s not even telling them to break a contract, since the readership of These Times doesn‘t actually include very many of the people who are waiting to be evicted from houses they can’t pay the mortgage on. All he’s doing is talking about telling people to break a contract. There’s no law against that.

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  • heyjim55
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:32pm

    This guy wants all of you who own homes to not pay your monthly payments, what he is after is a collapse of our economy that will also bring down the Government how does this help the poor? or anyone in the middle class the rich would simply leave. This will put all of us still working out of a job and with no food to eat and possibly no shelter or water to drink. Anyone who has read up on the Bolshivick revolution or Stalin should quickly see the similarities of this idea. These people no nothing about what it takes to run a society and to provide services or utilities to the masses, they only think about power and change. They will bring more death and destruction despair, hunger and violence to us all that is if any one of us survives their carnage. Leftist see people as animals a useless comodity , they will kill, incarcerate, and starve anyone who opposes or appears to oppose their will. This Lerner is no different to Molotov or Berian under Stalin he is another potential cruel player in a murderous ideology.

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    • sodizzy
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:37am

      Exactly! They are a ruthless enemy. Constantly trying to lure us to our death.

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  • thermonator
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:31pm

    Hey, no one is making anyone get a loan or a bank account.
    Banks provide a service, but if you don’t like the terms, don’t use them.
    Get a tent and a bike and live in the woods.

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    • Shrugged
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:53am

      A . . you still have to buy the land to live on it. That pretty much puts you in mortgage land my friend. Not so simple. Never is.

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  • sissykatz
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:30pm

    This man scares me. I think he is capable of almost anything. Surely since he has been exposed he won’t continue with this plan. Who knows what his next plan will be? Any one or anything connected to SEIU is evil and needs to be watched.

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:42am

      Exposure won’t stop these traitors! They will do exactly as they saym because the fraud in the WH is backing it, organizing it, top down baby, top down!

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:30pm

    This idiot wants to bring down the rich and wall street. I wonder what his annual income is and what he’s invested his money in.

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    • Sandy
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:58am

      He’s probably with Soros and shorting the Market so he can make a lot as it goes down.

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  • fletcher1
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:28pm

    This guy can say these things with no fear because he knows that the Obama regime ‘has his back’. This whole bunch needs to be put up on charges, and locked away, that includes Obama. Obama is running amok (that is actually the proper word in African countries for someone who is wildly out of control), because he knows that our representatives who don’t agree with him have a wide path of yellow that goes all the way down their back. They are afraid to do anything for fear of riots. LOOK!!!!!!!!! We are already having riots, the unions are out of control, and our TOTUS (T=thug) is encouraging our youth to get up and protest just like they are doing in the middle east. Lucky for us, the youth in this country have been educated in our public schools, by unqualified teachers, so they do not understand what he is saying. It is coming to a head. The Bible talks of these times, we need to listen, and pray, and be ready.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:25pm

    Domestic Terroism …….the CIA is watching, we still have wonderful American agents.

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  • Sandy
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:25pm

    You should be putting it in gold, it will crash either way.

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    • gunkgy
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:14am

      If a total crash comes, gold would be as worthless as cash, inmy oppinion. No jobs, no grocery stores stocked with food, no gas,etc…. Unless you have food stored, no mater how much gold you have, you may still not have anything to eat. Example: Crash has happened. Banks closed, grocery stores empty. No delivery trucks delivering anything due to no fuel and thieves. You are looking and trying to buy food for your family anywhere and everywhere. You finaly find someone who was prepared and has extra. You want to buy something. The seller sets the price, you want to pay 1 small coin for a given amount, the seller says half of what you have. you say, thats to much. He says, I can‘t eat gold and if you don’t like my prices, go somewhere else.

      Stock up on food and Items that can be traded. Ammo, mason jars and lids, food, etc…

      Gold will only be worth something sometime down the road, as things balance out. Which could be years.

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:01pm

      You couldn’t be more wrong. Gold is barter. Gold can be reduced to it’s worth in silver and then copper. The only thing that can make gold worthless (out in the open) is making it illegal and punishable by law (likely and it has been done before). Ergo the island will make you king for the duration of the crisis. All wealth will move offshore where the progressives want it..

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 5:06pm

      That’s still not the right way to spell Gandhi.

      Oh, and the thing about gold is that if, contrary to what you’ve been told to fear, there’s not some huge crisis, then you can only sell it to other gold dealers, who will buy it at a lower rate than they sold it to you. So it will take you like twenty years to make a substantial profit that you can actually realize by cashing in – a profit which, if there is no huge crisis, will be less than you could have made from sane people type investments.

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    • Eblaze44
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:23pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubJp6rmUYM

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  • ChiroRef
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:23pm

    I sleep so much better at night with a full pantry, and rolls of silver and my SOCOM II in the safe.

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  • geonj
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:23pm

    i want to spit in lerner’s eye

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  • ares338
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:22pm

    As long as he‘s in the open we know what he’s up to. They’re too stupid to keep quiet.

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  • Sandy
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:21pm

    Everyone, please call the DOJ and your congressmen to get this guy prosecuted.

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  • NSDQ
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:20pm

    How the hell is he not being arrested I dont get it, HE IS PLANNING AND ORCHESTRATING AND ATTACK ON THE US …. WTH!!

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    • randy
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:25pm

      One word. Eric Holder. Ooooops , sorry, that was two words

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    • Dotty4CommonSense
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 2:52pm

      Simple: This story is being ignored by the MSM (lame-street-media) and so no pressure is being put on Holder or anyone else and as long as this is the case, nothing will be done. We must all do our part to help get this story more out into the public, so that more people will see it and realize what is going on….Lerner will probably just wait it out to see if it goes anywhere…but it won’t without some publicity!

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  • Hyena
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:20pm

    Freedom of speech rules…..but should something materialize and JP Morgan Chase experiences ANY detriment whatsoever…….arrest this guy!!

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:58pm

      No it doesn’t. I can‘t walk into Burger king and say I’m going to poison the burgers because I want McDonald’s to do better. Free speech protects citizens from the government. Not against other private citizens suing and/or pressing charges, etc for libel, slander, and threats.

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  • psycodad36
    Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:16pm

    spooky guy wannabe. or otherwise known (traitor)

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    • Revere1
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:20pm

      It is reminiscent of Soros. The sad part is that Mr. Lerner‘s economic meltdown plan makes about as much sense as the liberals’ typical economic policy: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/liberal-taxes-explained.html It’s all designed to redistribute wealth and undermine what has made us the strongest economy in the world.

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    • JP4JOY
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:23pm

      Until something actually is done the planning stage is sedition. These SEDITIONISTS want to destroy America and need to be brought to justice.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:29pm

      This guy is a econ terrorist, pure and simple, by definition of law and procedure set by the FBI and such. Of course the administration and DOJ will do NOTHING to them as long as Obama is in the White House, unless a sacrificial goat is needed for another part of their plan to come to greater bit of fruition.

      The frightening part is though, this plan of their could actually work. And even if this group does not set it into motion, another one might, or already be setting similar plans into effect.

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    • Wilma
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:47pm

      Bottom line is that Lerner wants to destroy the existing power structure to replace it with his own. The more things change the more they stay the same. He is also a bloodsucker whose only concern is to keep the union dues coming.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:56pm

      Of course he is a traitor. Naturally, though, some idiot like him will be at least able to create some sort of disorder. Communists like him have been able to dumb down education to the point that Americans have no idea of what Communism even is. Those students don’t have a clue as to what they are asking for. They are sheep, and stupid ones at that.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 9:59pm

      Lerner…That would be Jewish, right?
      I can’t figure these anti-American Jews. You think about all the misery Jews have had at the hands of Communists/dictators, and have to wonder what the hill they are thinking.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:00pm

      So, if this guy calls for the murder of White rich people and someone acts on it, if he called for the burning of Synagogues and someone acted on it, this is punishable by law. It is called conspiracy to incite. That is what they get most of these extremist leaders on when their followers commit crimes. Why would this be any different….oh, because Holder is AG. Never mind.

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:00pm

      Somewhere there is a jail cell just his size.

      Somehow the useful idiots who follow evil people like this creep, don’t realize that the “money” he’s talking about “seizing” NEVER makes it into the hands of those same useful idiots. It’s called COMMUNISM. And only the elite reap the benefits.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:08pm

      Why has he not been arrested?

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    • tom
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:35pm

      I cannot figure out why we are not armed in the streets right now tracking down scum like this.

       
    • BetterDays
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:43pm

      “AKMIIKEUS
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 10:05pm
      So Funny how no news outlet has reported on this.
      Not even Fox news.

      Glenn Beck must be really on the outs at Fox.”

      Actually, Because of Glenns staff, and Blazers who comb the web, he is often in the forefront on issues like this. Any way I don’t expect you to listen, I know that the “ extra gene” we conservatives have cause our ears to be able to actually “ hear”.

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    • foobear
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:00pm

      I see that he’s learned the democrats trick of labeling everything “extreme”.

      Call it the Mountain Dew Strategy.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:14pm

      All they care about is the “inequity.” They would be happy if the poor are poorer as long as the rich are less rich! (Margaret Thatcher)

      Looking at what they care about points straight to their goals – pure communism, everyone is just as broke and miserable as everyone else (except of course for those that “are more equal than others.”

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:49pm

      Why isn’t this guy in jail? .. we used to have laws in this country … now not so much!

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:59pm

      @JP4JOY:
      That would be good but they control the legal authority ERIC HOLDER is a follower…

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    • Patrick in AZ
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:05am

      Why are “smart” leftist so freeking stupid? This is a guy who has spent a lot of time thinking about this and yet the obvious outcome alludes him – if he were to succeed with his plan he would only destroy wealth, not redistribute it. Most of the “wealth” on Wall Street is not real (goes for the banks too). There are not trillions of actual dollars just laying around. Most of that value is on paper only – undermining it will only drive the value down

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:34am

      “Global Governance” Explained by Henry Lamb
      Very reasoned analysis of the movement towards “global governance” from veteran commentator Henry Lamb.

      This comes from 2002, but is still very relevant and worth the time. This video is a little over an hour long…well worth your time…you will learn a lot and at about 10 min in, some of what he is predicting will happen is currently underway…scary stuff Blazers!

      newzeal.blogspot.com

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:54am

      I have to point out again that we as a country have gone from saving then buying to buying into debt. If we all saved up first and then bought then we would see a number of things change. Prices of items especially of the big items are based upon what the market will bear. We by allow ourselves to go into debt alow the prices to raise. If we stopped taking out loans to buy items (any items) and we saved for those items the prices would come down. Because those who are tring to sell us those items want us to buy them. Banks would certainly opperate differently, but we all live in a debt frame of mind. I work at a small supermarket. I have an account there. I have worked there for close to a year. now it is so easy to charge my food on the account. It helped a lot when I was struggling to get settled. However, I make the owner take out everything I have charged during a pay period out of my check. I refuse to go into debt. I watch and make sure that I have worked the hours to cover my charges. This way if something should happen it is covered. It is hard to live without debt, and you have to be content with not having a lot of stuff others have. I don‘t own a TV because I can’t afford one nor could I afford the cable to watch it. I just buy what food goes on sale, very little else. If my car needs repair I wait until I can afford it. If it needs it now, and I don’t have the money then I will pay it off each and every paycheck and plan to have it paid off the soonest it can be. I hate debt. I am even willing to not go to the doctor and place my trust in God for my health. If I had health insurance I could not afford the co-pays so why have the health insurance. I don‘t mind being denied health treatment because I can’t afford it. God says don’t go into debt because those who do become the slave of those who loan to you. The truth will set you free, Pay off your debts, don’t go into debt, and save up for those big ticket items or settle for something less. This will make us free, and not slaves to the banks, goverment, and others. We have a legal financial slavery going on in our country. People sell themselves into slavery everyday for things they don’t really need, but just want. It is a shame, and I wish the young could realize this. We are not teaching them well.

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

      joseph Fawcett  
    • *************************
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:03am

      They are getting bold. They are OPENLY SPEAKING THEIR TREASON. Well, F.B.I., get to work!!

      “Come on, boys! The way you’re lolly-gaggin’ around here with them picks and them shovels, you‘d think it was a hundert an’ twenty degree. Can‘t be more than a hundert an’ fourteen.” -cowboy Lyle, Blazing Saddles

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    • Large Eagle
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:18am

      Right after you turn the hogs loose – Arrest this treasonous SOB

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    • ottodiedacktick
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:48am

      @STEPHEN LERNER

      The Potential Power of Government—Don’t Do Business with Bandit Banks: Wall Street does trillions in business with all levels of government. Let’s leverage that money by getting governments to refuse to do business with banks that don’t pay their fair share in taxes, won’t renegotiate high-cost deals that are bankrupting taxpayers with astronomical interest rates, and refuse to stop foreclosures by reducing mortgage principals.

      These are the exact reasons that we need to shrink the government. The government is too cozy with Wall Street.

      Hey Stephen, maybe you should consider joining the Tea Party, they want smaller government and aren’t happy with bailing out Wall Street corporations that are “too big to fail”.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:10am

      Panic at SEIU! First there was the “Just trying to give the struggling consumer some good business advice” response to being outed.–kind of an independant capitalist feel to that one. Now its back to “stoking” (ouch!) the suffering victims into non-action (strikes–whew…at least we don’t have to DO anything). Pawns for the banks, pawns for SEIU.

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    • sodizzy
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:32am

      Dear Descendent,

      Lerner has likely never been inside a temple let alone seek the counsel of a Rabbi. That would imply he might believe in something higher than himself.

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    • sodizzy
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 4:34am

      Patrick, You are right. They are not thinking. Only destroying, and destruction is their game. It is their main goal and sport.

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    • avenger
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:09am

      is this like 1916 russia before the storm….we know where this is heading,so what will the powers do with the lerners and the rest of the plotters….

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    • GringoBob
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:16am

      can you say “economic jihad” with no fear of prosecution as long as Obama and Holder have whitey by the cajones

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    • proudpatriot77
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:55am

      Classic Marxist strategy: Let others break the law and take the fall while the elites in charge sit in their Ivory Tower. If anyone is actually stupid enough to follow Lerner’s strategy, they deserve the consequences.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:18am

      We are facing perhaps the biggest plot ever to destroy this country, and yet Eric Holder and the DOJ remains silent….I wonder why…….oh yes, its because they are traitors as well, along with Obama and all his various minions. It will take the people rising up and overthrowing these enemies of freedom. Lock and load America, because the war to save the Republic is coming.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:26am

      “We need to go on offense and make Wall Street pay for the trillions it stole from us”. Maybe he should be mad at his government for giving them the trillions in the form of bail-outs. Don’t forget the bottomless government-run pits that are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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    • Keggs1961
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:15am

      The scariest part of all this is, these people are going to do exactly what they say they are going to do unlike our elected officials. JP Morgan Chase bought my home loan from WaMu and offered me a loan modification ( HAMP ) After completing all paperwork and making all payments on time, I was refused the modification. They have done this to me 4 times! I have not missed a payment during the last 2 years yet Chase says I owe $15,000.00 in fees and fines. I hope they bring the entire industry to its knees. I love my country, but my God I hate the Banking system and all that help to prop this system up!

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    • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:01am

      Excuse me for butting in – please, everyone sign the letter- at:

      countdowntotheshutdown.com

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    • empatreides
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:13am

      the man is a traitor and guilty of treason wich by deffinition is •a crime that undermines the offender’s government •disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior •treachery: an act of deliberate betrayal. and also, Oran’s Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as “…[a]…citizen’s actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation].” In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour. however, treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III Section 3 delineates treason as follows:Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
      The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. the United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states “whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” What this means is that congress, not the DOJ has authority to declare this man a traitor and set his punishment which as stated above details death at the maximum or 5 years in prisin and 10,000 dollar fine. That is 10,000 dollars in 1796 money so alot more today abjusted for inflation. I strongly encourage every one to write to their senators and representatives to have this man brought up on chagres of treason, or sedition, not terrorism, and have him “hung by the neck until dead” or just living with Bubba for the rest of his natural life.

      Sources for this post come from Wikipidea Deffinition fo treason.

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:32am

      PS: go out and buy a KJV [King James Version] of the Bible, it is the closest to the correct translation you can get – unless you can read Latin…throw all the others in a box for posterity!

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:52pm

      If the college kiddies do their part in destroying daddy’s 401k who will pay for their cute little pink iPhones?

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    • Almighty God
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:28pm

      Don’t worry; as long as the Great Emperor of Money, Ben Bernanke, keeps the quantitative easing scam going, nothing can take down the stock market. Don’t fight the Fed.

      End the Fed. Institute a sound money policy. Fix Capitalism. Fix America.

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    • ConsiderThis
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:27pm

      I hope he has a plan for the day after he brings down Wall Street because the global financial markets will crumble, the dollar will drop like a stone and government bonds will dumped at bargain basement prices on the international markets. AND let him not forget that most of the pension plans including those sweet public service ones are heavily invested on Wall Street and they will be hammered.

      There’s a funny thing about successful revolutions. For a few days its party time and then the cold reality sets in that the revolutionaries haven’t got a bloody clue how to run things and everyone winds up being worse off than before.

      Isn‘t it better to get involved in the established political system and participate in the ever evolving honing and regulatory processes that’s already built into the system?

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    • M-O-O-N Spells Moon
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:30pm

      Leaves torn between anger at their intent, and shaking my head in sad disbelief. First they encourage people not to work, just accept the handouts. Now they encourage people to take out a loan and then not repay it simply because they think it’s somehow unfair. These people are truly insane to keep following this failed idea. Collectivism doesn‘t work because humans aren’t designed to work that way. We aren’t hive creatures, get over it.
      American capitalism has done more good for the entire world than any other system in the history of mankind. The facts are there to see for yourself, as long as you look beyond the progressive textbooks and listen to more than the far-left teachers infesting our schools today. There have been mistakes made by this nation. I acknowledge them freely and try to learn from them and move forward. There are also great achievements in our history. But those great achievements are becomming a rare thing today under Leftist rule.
      Listen to me, those people who want to follow this guy: You buy a house, you sign the contract, it is a binding legal agreement to pay back the money they are lending you. It has NOTHING to do with the market value of your home at any time after the purchase. It is only an agreement to borrow money and to pay it back. Period. What part are you failing to understand?

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    • greater than less than
      Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:44pm

      In response to this, “I cannot figure out why we are not armed in the streets right now tracking down scum like this”, If it is deemed necessary to do so before the presence of the “Great Equalizer” is know to all men, it will be done.

      If you are to be included in such a call to arms against the evil and wicked of this world, you will most likely feel compelled now, in the present, to make preparations for such an event to occur.

      If you choose to be among those that “hear” the drums of war, be advised that you will not be spared from the laws of this land. There is a price to pay for sin, and that price is death.

      He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. The only consultation is that you give your life, in this world, so that others may experience truth while living.

      Be brave, stay strong, and, most importantly, keep steady your faith. God will deliver on his promise, in the final hour.

      Time is a man made event.

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    • Colleen
      Posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:33pm

      And where, pray tell, is the DOJ??????????

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