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Agent Matt

Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 10:44

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Glenn Beck has been railing against 78-year-old CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven for weeks now, claiming she co-authored a devious plan to overthrow the government in the 1960s. Now, some of his fans are issuing death threats against her.

According to the New York Times, Piven has been receiving death threats after being villainized on Beck's show. "Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 rounds ready and I'll give My life to take Our freedom back," wrote one user on Beck's news site, The Blaze.

As a scholar, Piven is famous for her work on social movements. But Glenn Beck has become obsessed with one 1966 essay she and her husband wrote for The Nation, which argued for bringing about social change by overwhelming the welfare system. To Beck, the "Cloward & Piven Strategy" is sort of master plan by Liberals and the Obama administration to collapse the government--he even put her on his "nine most dangerous people in the world" list!

So, inevitably, the crazies started targeting Piven, whose work poses an enormous threat to American undergraduates trying to stay awake in intro sociology, and that's about it. Seems they think they can somehow prevent her from writing an article in a political journal in 1966 that maybe thirteen people outside of Glenn Beck fans have thought about since then? But it's a testament both to Glenn Beck's skill at making shit up, and his fans' ability to be crazy, that some Americans actually care enough about a sociology professor to threaten her.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/glenn-becks-ranting-sparks-death-threats-against-78-year-old-sociologist.php?ref=fpb

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advancedatheist

Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 12:42

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Piven apparently advocated a guaranteed income, like Jacque Fresco did in the 1960's. How can we get Glenn Beck to denounce Jacque Fresco?

As evidence, refer to:

http://www.project-humanity-earth.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/24712868-Jacque-Fresco-Looking-Forward.330222226.pdf</p>

Scroll down to page 39 in the Adobe formatted document:

How would you like to have a guaranteed life income of $100,000 per year—with no taxes? And how would you like to earn this income by working a three-hour day, one day per week, for a five-year period of your life, providing you have a six-months vacation each year? Sound fantastic? Not at all with modern technology. This is not twenty-first-century pie-in-the-sky. It could probably be achieved in ten years in the United States if we applied everything we now know about automation and computers to produce a cybernated society. It probably won't be done this rapidly, for it would take some modern thinking applied in an intelligent crash program. Such a crash program was launched to develop the atomic bomb in a little over four years.

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domokato

Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 13:44

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People who use "for" in place of "because" irritate me

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