An Early October Surprise?

An Early October Surprise?

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Political street theatre - just what one would expect from a regime of community organizers and street agitators

- Timothy Birdnow (Bio and Archives)  Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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There is are some puzzling aspects involving the attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. The hysteria that swept through the rioting masses did not seem to make sense at first, not until it became obvious that at least the Libyan attack was preplanned and the film being “protested” was merely an excuse.
Yet, despite comments by Libyan officials that made it quite plain that the film “Innocence of Muslims” was just a pretext, the Obama Administration stuck to the story that this was a spontaneous eruption of anger, and in fact the Administration went into panic apology mode. The maker of the film was even arrested, ostensibly for parole violations, if one believes such an amazing coincidence. Also, the Benghazi consulate was being guarded by locals who told the mob where to find the ambassador, and the guards there may have had no bullets anyway. Ditto in Egypt, where the Marines guarding the Cairo embassy weredenied the tools to defend sovereign American soil.
Curious. But it grows even more so.
One of the leaders of the attack on the Libyan embassy was Sufyan Ben Qumu, a man who wasimprisoned at Guantanamo Bay and turned over to Libya by the U.S. government.
Qumu was released through the intervention of the Center for Constitutional Rights and specifically by a big Obama donor named Michael Ratner, whose brother - real estate developer Bruce Ratner - has a most cozy relationship with ACORN, the vote stealing leftist organization that gave Barack Obama his start as a community organizer.

“The work would include community outreach and screening people to determine qualified applicants, and then scandal-scarred ACORN would be entrusted with overseeing a lottery system to choose who gets the housing. Ratner’s firm is expected to manage the housing.
When asked how much ACORN might make off Atlantic Yards, the city’s Department of Housing Preservation & Development referred questions to Ratner, who said via a spokesman it wasn’t the “appropriate time” to make such “decisions.”
But Anita MonCrief, a former ACORN official-turned-whistleblower, estimates the anticipated deal could bring the group $5 million to $10 million annually over multiple years from the public and private sector based on other housing deals ACORN has nationwide”

And the Center for Constitutional Rights is heavily funded by, among others, George Soros’ Open Society Institute.
The “Arab Spring” blossomed in Egypt not through purely local entities but with considerable aid from the West.
Ghonim was an executive at the notoriously liberal Google and very friendly with the folks at Twitter. When protests broke out Ghonim became a hero in Egypt and helped the uprising swell and metastasize by using the computer networking systems he helped run. Interestingly enough, Ghonim supported an Islamist for president in the Egyptian elections.
It was Ghonim and Muhammad Elbaradei, who had close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (the current rulers of Egypt) who were the two public faces of the Egyptian revolution. Elbaradei sat on the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group along with George Soros.
So, a Google executive and a crony of George Soros helped foster a revolution.

“Some Egyptian youth leaders attended a 2008 technology meeting in New York, where they were taught to use social networking and mobile technologies to promote democracy. Among thosesponsoring the meeting were Facebook, Google, MTV, Columbia Law School and the State Department.”

So many of the young leaders of the Egyptian uprising were trained by a cadre of American liberals.
I delve into this cadre in some length here.
And the Libyan uprising owes a huge debt of gratitude to American military intervention, an intervention that was largely the work of three women - Secretary of State (and Saul Alinsky devotee) Hillary Clinton, U.N. Embassador (and Brooking fellow) Susan Rice, and Samantha Powers, a close associate of George Soros. As was observed by Aaron Klein, the attacks on the Khadaffi regime bore the mark of George Soros.
Then there is the matter of Huma Abedin. The wife of Anthony Weiner and bosom buddy and aid of Sec State Hillary Clinton has close familial ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, the ruling junta in Egypt.
One must ask; what did Abedin know and when did she know it? Why hasn’t she been interrogated by Congress? Why isn’t she center stage in this affair?
It is an interesting coincidence that the places where America and the American left had some influence are the places where the wave of violence sprouted. It’s also interesting to note that the American ambassador to Libya was an openly gay man One wonders if this in itself was not intended as a provocation. It certainly was not condemned as a hate crime by the Obama Administration, who would have been quite upset had a group of American bigots murdered Mr. Stevens for his sexual lifestyle.
One wonders about these disparate associations, especially when looked at in the larger context of community organizing. Barack Obama was a community organizer and a disciple of Saul Alinsky as are many of his associates, such as Cass Sunstein, Van Jones, Jeremiah Wright, Bernadette Dohrn, William Ayers, and, yes, Hillary Clinton.
Saul Alinsky has this to say;

“The organizer’s first job is to create the issues or problems,’ and ‘organizations must be based on many issues.’ The organizer ‘must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.’”

Strangely, a problem appeared out of nowhere in two places where community organizers have influence in the Middle East, resentments were rubbed raw, latent hostility of many was fanned to the point of overt expression. What does that tell us?
SOMEBODY seems to have done a fine job of this throughout the Middle-East.
Barack Obama has foreign policy experience and Mitt Romney does not. That alone makes the troubles in Egypt and Libya valuable to his re-election chances. Mr. Obama need act merely competent in cooling the hostility and he can take credit for a cool-down prior to the elections. The situation must still be smoldering but not hot. You will notice that none of our embassy guards have fired on any of the protestors, despite the obvious dangers. In fact, some of our guards have not even been given bullets. It’s as if nobody is supposed to actually get hurt.
And this takes the attention off the economic malaise in the United States - something that is pure gold for the Obama campaign.
The closer we look at this, the more it appears to be political street theatre - just what one would expect from a regime of community organizers and street agitators.
There are strange things about this whole affair.

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Timothy Birdnow is a conservative writer and blogger and lives in St. Louis Missouri. His work has appeared in many popular conservative publications including but not limited to The American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Intellectual Conservative and Orthodoxy Today. Tim is a featured contributor to American Daily Review and has appeared as a Guest Host on the Heading Right Radio Network. Tim’s website is tbirdnow.mee.nuTimothy can be reached at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)