Obama-Alinsky goons coming to a Catholic Church near you!

OKLAHOMA CITY – The flyer is simple but informative. “Community Organizing at St. Charles.” Sounds innocuous enough. But upon closer inspection, it appears to be further attempts by ACORN-esque organizers to infiltrate well-meaning parishioners in the Catholic Church in the Oklahoma City area, among other places.

The flyer reads: “Come to a special training in community organizing for Catholic parishes, presented by Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee and hosted by Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish.”

Not much could be found about the Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee, other than a Grace Presbyterian Church flyer online that notes that “the OSC is a congregation-based community action group that equips churches to better meet the needs of their communities through training and support.”

It also said seven Catholic churches are part of 27 churches in Oklahoma City that are getting involved with this community-organizing activity.

The corrupt group ACORN, which had been active in Oklahoma City until late last summer, is believed to be connected to this action considering it’s past links, as noted in this 2003 National Housing Institute article. Red Dirt Report was given an exclusive peek into a recently-abandoned ACORN office in south Oklahoma City last October. That report can be found here.

The event, scheduled August 8 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. is not being held at St. Charles Borromeo, rather at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in their Connor Center at 32nd and Western.

Among items on the “program” at this “community organizing” event, includes “interactive community organizing training based on the first five chapters of Nehemiah with attention to the concepts of subsidiarity and solidarity, by Kris Ausdenmoore, lead organizer, Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee.”

Ausdenmoore, it turns out, according to a 2008 article in the Sooner Catholic, was the lead organizer for the Oklahoma IAF. IAF stands for Industrial Areas Foundation. They are located throughout the United States and have chapters in Canada, England and Germany, according to www.industrialareasfoundation.org. And they deal with not only Christians but Muslims, Jews and others as well.

“The leaders and organizers of the Industrial Areas Foundation build organizations whose primary purpose is POWER – the ability to act – and whose chief product is social change. They continue to practice what the Founding Fathers preached; the ongoing attempt to make life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness everyday realities for more and more Americans.”

IAF is pushing socialistic political ideas like the “living wage movement” in the United States, according to their website. And when they ask themselves why they do what they do, they respond, in part: “We do it because we are angry.” Boiled down, they are angry that life is not fair and more must be done to make it fair, whatever it takes. This is not much different from the liberation theology movement that swept Latin America and radical Catholic churches in North America more than 30 years ago.

It also notes there will be a potluck lunch, “focused house meeting training,” and don’t forget your Bible.

Alerting the masses to this Marxist organizing activity was popular afternoon radio talk show host Mark Shannon on KTOK AM 1000 in Oklahoma City.

“This is nothing more than a scam for Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama’s Marxist mentor. And to the churches, shame on you,” Shannon said.

And this is true. Obama, the community organizer, was a great admirer of Rules for Radicals author and activist Alinsky, who died in 1972. Charles Beggs, who writes for the Tulsa Beacon, wrote in April in an article called “The Wolves Are At the Door,” that IAF has “disavowed some of Alinsky’s more extreme views” but also split churches in the process “seek(ing) to work within unsuspecting Catholic and Protestant congregations, and among other constituencies, to further a decidedly liberal agenda.”

Callers to his show Tuesday afternoon were equally concerned. One caller noted that this is nothing but a government attempt to further Obamanize the churches by forming “brownshirt” groups and advance leftist and socialistic ideas, including redistribution of wealth.

Another caller said he was fed up with Oklahoma City Archbishop Eusebius Beltran because he is a poor leader and Catholics who have concerns about radical leftists making inroads in their churches are ignored.

Shannon tended to agree and chided the churches that are getting involved with this activity, calling on listeners to “infiltrate the meeting” and “tape record the meetings” and send them to him afterward.

These community organizers, Shannon said, are “bad, bad news. We don’t want them in Oklahoma City.”

Further research led Red Dirt Report to the website of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, which goes into more detail about the “Community Organizing at St. Charles.”

The website says they are involved in community organizing by quoting Pope Benedict 16th and the late Pope John Paul II and noting that they are looking out for the “common good.”

“In September (community organizers) will conduct a parish information campaign. The object of this campaign will not be to GIVE information to parishioners. It will be to HEAR the concerns of our parishioners and to lean abou the pressures facing our families and individuals as citizens in the metropolitan area.”

With that in mind, Red Dirt Report hopes to attend the Saturday organizing event and will report more in the coming days.

One cannot ignore the purpose of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) - which is to spread Fabian socialism throughout the world.

Socialist/Communist organizations like the Saul Alinsky’s IAF, ACORN, et Al. would have bighearted citizens believe that they will, as the Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee says, “improve the lives of individuals and families by holding public officials accountable to the needs of families.”

HINT: These “public officials” are government. One does NOT have to look hard to see the results when government cares for the needy. I could point to Cuba and Venezuela for examples - but I point an accusing finger at our government welfare programs, which have created a sad class of broken families and fatherless children. The liberals have created a new class of slave addicted to the government dole.

This class is also targeted “expendable” by socialist organizations - for example, the ACORN employees, when they were caught extorting, committing voter fraud, trafficking underage illegal-alien children into prostitution, counseling others how to break laws, and setting up houses of prostitution in our neighborhoods. The IAF and ACORN are connected, as are the Tides Foundation, etc.

IS THE IAF whom you wish to hire as a consultant? I recommend not regurgitating their own propaganda - even ‘Wikipedia’ calls the IAF socialist. Do a Google search and an open-eyed look at what you have crawled into bed with (i.e. the IAF).

The IAF is evil. That is WHY Catholics are upset - and confused regarding why our Archbishop has remained dumb/mute regarding any direction for dealing with these socialist/communist quasi “community organizers.” Their idea of community organization is NOT Catholic - Yes, they will quote our teachings to us and lie to deceive - but is this NOT how the great deceiver engages and recruits his followers?

In the end, it is NOT the government’s JOB to care for the poor. Our Messiah never said, “Let Caesar take care of the poor.” Our Messiah said it is our job - yours, mine, and our fellow parishioners. Our Catholic “principle of subsidiarity” states that local problems are best served by local parishioners. I pray you do NOT walk down the path of God-less socialism/communism.

Your friend in Christ

This isn't necessarily about welfare. It's about infrastructure - maybe it's sidewalks, transportation, accessibility to after-care, something for the elderly. It's about people that are on the edge. Holding public officials responsible means ensuring they do what they say they will and think about families when they decide how to spend our tax dollars.

The IAF has no ties to ACORN. ACORN has a national agenda it promotes while IAF affiliates are all independent and locally driven. It's a huge difference. Saying they are the same organization or calling them communist or whatever is very misleading.

Look at what other IAF affiliates are doing, and you'll see it's good. Every affiliate contains Catholic parishes and none of them are taking action on issues contrary to Catholic teaching. That's very important.

Here's a recent example: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113931948. This story came out the same day Mark Shannon was cheering the burning of a “ghetto” (his words) apartment complex in Edmond...

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