Organizing
for America (OFA) is a cadre of Obama supporters, first marshaled a few
weeks ago to ignite grassroots support for the President's massive budget bill.
Last week, The Birmingham News reported
that groups like OFA and ACORN were organizing volunteers to canvas for
Obama's agenda. The iconography of the OFA marketing material is bizarre: it is
affiliated not with the Democrat Party, but Barack Obama himself.
Those
who gathered at
"We're looking for supporters," said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the
event's organizers. "We're not looking for a fight. That will come
later, when we have an army."
Comforting, given that ACORN and OFA are certain to benefit from
the insidious GIVE
Act, which provides $5.7 billion to create 250,000 "paid
volunteer" jobs.
The Senate defeated
an amendment to GIVE that would have prevented groups with political arms
-- like ACORN and OFA -- from receiving funds. That means these community
organizing groups, affiliated with Obama himself, could receive billions of
taxpayer money.
And the GIVE Act may tie directly to Obama's bizarre promise -- repeated
publicly on two occasions -- to create a "civilian
national security force
that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as our military."
Specifically
mentioned in the bill are programs "that strengthen community efforts
in support of homeland security."
In other words, GIVE could militarize ACORN and OFA under the guise of
"homeland security." It provides housing, uniforms, food, logistics,
unspecified equipment and "other services determined by the Director."
DeHaven
simply confirmed what anyone can read for themselves in the bill.
"We're not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an
army"
Courtesy of the GIVE Act, Obama's army -- an unprecedented internal security
force operating as a political wing of a President's re-election campaign --
appears to be on the way. Funded by taxpayers, no less.
I'd call them Brownshirts, but ACORN's color is red.