10/15/2011, 8:05 pm
A radio talk show host from Florida, Dr. Rich Swier, wrote an article in which he uses my book, Shakedown Socialism, to point out the similarities between Obama's connection to the Wall Street Occupiers and the tactics of Stalin's government.
Here's an excerpt:
Obama: The Pitchfork Operator-in-Chief
October 15, 2011
Posted By: Dr. Rich Swier
On March 27, 2010 President Obama met with the CEOs of the largest and most powerful financial institutions in the world. Politico reported the bank Chief Executives tried to explain to The Chief Executive the rationale behind their and their employees' high salaries - salaries based upon the free market and the global competition for high quality employees. An agitated Obama brushed them off stating, "Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn't buying that. My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
Fast forward to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations and how both President Obama and Democrats have embraced the protesters. Oleg Atbashian, a former citizen of the former Soviet Union predicted these demonstrations and calls the strategy used by OWS the "pitchfork formula".
Is there a historical example of the "pitchfork formula" being used for political gain? My good friend Oleg Atbashian, author of "Shakedown Socialism" believes there is. Oleg published his seminal, and satirical, book on socialism in America in 2010, long before the OWS demonstrations. Oleg wrote, as an after thought, an Appendix titled, "Obama the Pitchfork Operator: Remake of a Soviet Classic". What Oleg wrote is prophetic and predicts the very tactics being used today by leaders of OWS (students, workers, unions, socialists, communists, anarchists, etc). According to Oleg, "Obama's 'Newspeak' not only redefines existing meanings, it also abolishes ranges of 'Oldspeak' meanings such as property, markets, competition, capitalism, political opposition and the rule of law. The latter is perhaps the most important ingredient missing in his new 'pitchfork' formula, signaling that law is now being replace with mob rule."
Read the rest here: https://www.drrichshow.com/blog_post.cfm?BlogID=120
Here's an excerpt:
October 15, 2011
Posted By: Dr. Rich Swier
On March 27, 2010 President Obama met with the CEOs of the largest and most powerful financial institutions in the world. Politico reported the bank Chief Executives tried to explain to The Chief Executive the rationale behind their and their employees' high salaries - salaries based upon the free market and the global competition for high quality employees. An agitated Obama brushed them off stating, "Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn't buying that. My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
Fast forward to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations and how both President Obama and Democrats have embraced the protesters. Oleg Atbashian, a former citizen of the former Soviet Union predicted these demonstrations and calls the strategy used by OWS the "pitchfork formula".
Is there a historical example of the "pitchfork formula" being used for political gain? My good friend Oleg Atbashian, author of "Shakedown Socialism" believes there is. Oleg published his seminal, and satirical, book on socialism in America in 2010, long before the OWS demonstrations. Oleg wrote, as an after thought, an Appendix titled, "Obama the Pitchfork Operator: Remake of a Soviet Classic". What Oleg wrote is prophetic and predicts the very tactics being used today by leaders of OWS (students, workers, unions, socialists, communists, anarchists, etc). According to Oleg, "Obama's 'Newspeak' not only redefines existing meanings, it also abolishes ranges of 'Oldspeak' meanings such as property, markets, competition, capitalism, political opposition and the rule of law. The latter is perhaps the most important ingredient missing in his new 'pitchfork' formula, signaling that law is now being replace with mob rule."
Read the rest here: https://www.drrichshow.com/blog_post.cfm?BlogID=120