Posted on 10/11/2008 6:42:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
What is that spirit that we recognize and can build on? What is that spirit that we want to connect to … that spirit of rebellion? The spirit of resistance ... the spirit of insurgency! It’s that spirit we should be talking about.
—Bill Ayers, 2007, on the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the Weather Underground
Perhaps his wife, Bernadine Dohrn expressed that “spirit” best in a public warning at the zenith of the Weather Underground’s influence:
Now we are everywhere and next week families and tribes will attack the enemy around the country. We’re not just attacking targets; we’re bringing the pitiful, helpless giant (the USA) to its knees. Guard your planes … guard your colleges … guard your banks … guard your children … guard your doors.
This election long ago ceased to be a partisan battle between Republicans and Democrats. It really isn’t a contest over big and small government, higher or lower taxes, or even abortion and homosexual rights.
Somewhere along the way while most of us were enjoying our precious freedoms, taking kids to soccer, ordering pizza and listening to our iPods, there was another group of people who were at work to destroy America. Even as they enjoyed with us its benefits, they schemed and planned and, moment by moment, inch by inch gained a footing and we never realized the ground was shifting.
You could say the groundwork was laid in the ’50s when radicals who were often synonymous with communists made a concerted attempt to destroy America through infiltration of media, government and labor unions. Top secret documents were leaked to the Soviets which resulted in the charge of treason for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. America believed in punishing its traitors then and they paid with their lives.
The children of the ’60s, raised in postwar prosperity on the “don’t discipline” philosophy of the wildly popular Dr. Benjamin Spock, were fertile young plants for leftist fodder. Throwing off all constraints, they embraced “free love,” unbridled drug use and turned with a vengeance on the parents whose system of values they had come from. Their indulgent refusal to embrace rules, coupled with legitimate simmering emotions of the black community over cruelty and discrimination, created the “perfect storm” of protest and violence—one group rejecting any restraint, the other rebelling from too much of it.
Surely the protest methods were as different as the participants. Hippies were often little more than clueless spoiled brats dulled by drugs, but others were serious radicals who preyed upon trouble and agitated it with the stated purpose of revolution. They wanted to overthrow the government of the United States of America. The black movement was characterized on the one hand by the high-minded non-violence of Dr. Martin Luther King, and on the other by the violent anger of the Black Panthers. The hate-filled factions of each, black and white, found each other and together nearly shipwrecked the country and undermined the Vietnam War. It was success for the rebellion in part … but not completely.
As those frustrated radicals came of age, they realized they would have to game the system, and improve their plans to accomplish their goals. They got advanced degrees and begin to fill colleges and universities. They slowly infiltrated the professional organizations of almost every major field of endeavor—education, medicine, retired citizens and unions. Gradually, these professional associations began to use their members’ money to fund leftist causes. Leftist leaders spoke for their membership as if they had the right. And perception became reality for the members. Then they did what all socialist regimes have done … they radicalized public school. They virtually eliminated the American story from history, removed civics, dumbed down math and science and English with outcome-based education. It became more important that kids had the right “thinking” on social and environmental issues than that they understood the academic disciplines. They took over law school faculties, co-opted many mainline Christian denominations—like Methodists and Presbyterians—and subtly replaced the teachings of scripture on man’s need for redemption with emphases on social justice and helping the poor. Man could now obtain his own redemption without any inconvenient mention of sin or moral behavior.
Once again they infiltrated Hollywood and news media, this time without consequence. In fact they managed to turn the consequences upon those opposing leftist views. They produced movies and reported news designed to support their view of the country—and it wasn’t a good one.
As with the communist agitators in Western Europe and later China, they learned to agitate, to find trouble and make it worse. Natural disasters, strikes, environmental concerns, the method was the same. Agitate. Stir up. Scare people and make things worse than they were so that people would look to their movement for “change.”
For nearly four decades, while we were living our lives and enjoying our freedoms, they were working diligently to destroy them. And now their plans have found the perfect personification in the handsome and charismatic Senator Barack Obama. But while he seems to bring new inspiration, their philosophy is as old as time.
They know who their inspiration is: Saul Alinsky, the ’60s author and philosopher of the left who profoundly influenced Hillary Clinton, Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn and Barack and Michelle Obama. Alinksy stated clearly in the dedication of his famous treatise, “Rules for Radicals”:
To the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.
The rebellion has found new strength. The attempted destruction of America has begun—and it is not a partisan fight.
Bring it Bill.
Let B. Hussein get elected, and we’ll show some “rebellion” alrighty...
Maybe the anger welling up in Palin/McCain ralleys will morph into an insurgency to take our nation back from the Obamaites, abortionists, perverts, Wall Street swindlers and Washington DC traitors.
If the Communists want a civil war [II] lets get it on!
That’s it. Bump!
Nowadays traitors are rewarded with university professorships.
A full socialized government
socialized medicine
socialized big oil
socialized big box stores
socialized Wal Mart run by government
socialized gas stations
socialized school systems, NO home schooling
socialized farms for growing food (with Russia's famine results)
Destruction of the military, downsizing, recalling carrier forces, mass reduction of troops world wide
Enlarging the Supreme Court to out number conservatives on the court
Making our enemies our pals (so they think)
Fairness doctrine
End of talk radio
End of religion on TV and radio to stop religion from spreading
Socializing all government agencies in all states
Massive gun laws, and even a new Supreme Court ruling after enlarging to a socialist court
Reeducation camps for conservatives
and, many more that my mind just cannot think of . . .
One important insight they've learned is that pussies can't make a revolution.
Within a year of Obama's inauguration, the street gang problem will be solved by turning existing paramilitary gangs into storm troops.
How do you say sturmabteilung in Spanish?
“Now we are everywhere and next week families and tribes will attack the enemy around the country.”
Dohrn was certainly suffering from grandiosity, wasn’t she?
My wife an I agreed in a conversation we had over coffee a few days ago that as far as the left in this country goes we are totally and absolutely done talking.
Better before than after the election...............
I don’t see any signs of an impending rebellion by conservatives. They seem to be just rolling over, as always.
La Raza
I think a LOT of true Americans are thinking the same way. If Barrack wins it is the beginning of the end for this country as we know it. I don't know about this "civil war" thing, but if it happens maybe it's needed. There's a lot of bad blood and division in this country that's been building since the 60's and it's going to reach a boiling point. Will the election of Obama be the catalyst? We'll soon see.
-—and it is not a partisan fight-—
Heck, it’s not even a “fight” anymore! Our MSM is so drenched in political correctness that no candidate speaks for those who pay the bill, lest the candidate be labeled insufficiently “compassionate”.
“We’re Doomed” has become a trite phrase. But if the shoe fits....
Guerrilla is Spanish for "little war". It's close enough.
Exactly!
Do they really think that we’ll go along quietly? Do they really think we love our ‘gold’ more than our freedom?
Give me liberty or give me death!
Pass it on! We may need a jury of our peers to judge us when we refuse to pay alms to Obama!
The ‘productive’ will not stand for this. They’re already talking about a two year recession because of declining GDP. Guess they heard about my two year vacation plans! Until the government decides to be an honest broker to business, I will no longer conduct business.
This revolution will not be televised. (Only watch the stock market and GDP as they fall, you know who holds the purse strings. There aren’t that many evil rich in this country.)
Until the government decides to work for us, we will no longer work for the government.
The anger is real and the reasons are clear. Enough already!
The silent majority has had it up to their eyeballs!
Boy you said it all!
(I assume the PC BS society fits in one of those catagories as well eh?)
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