Are you prepared? The Radicals are Coming to a Town near you.
Posted on 02/03/2009 8:08:22 AM PST by Nachum
Immediately after the Democratic National Convention in Colorado, the Boston Globe published a letter from David Alinsky. He boasted about how Barack Obama had made effective use of his training in the methods of David's late father, the famous Chicago radical, Saul Alinsky.
David Alinsky gloated: "I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday."
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
The rules, for those who wish to read them, are on my “about” page.
I need to read this book. I’ve been trying to find it in a used book stoe because I don’t want his estate or whatever to get any royalties. I can’t seem to find it yet. I would read them online, but I prefer hardcopy over softcopy.
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Great minds think alike!!!
The really troubling thing about having an adherent of Alinsky in power, is Alinsky's ethics. He was a strong believer that "the means justifies the ends" (the socialist ends, that is).
You might want to add Alinsky's "rules for the ethics of power politics" to your about page. Here they are:
1. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
2. The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
3. In war the end justifies almost any means.
4. Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
5. Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
6. The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
7. Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
8. The morality of means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
9. Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition to be unethical.
10. You do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral garments.
11. Goals must be phrased in general terms like &"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
Do these "rules of ethics" sound familiar?
Try www.abe.com. If it exists, they probably have it. Used books only.
Sounds like good justification for waterboarding and worse.
I have been familiar with Alinsky’s “Rules” for several decades & I've seen evidence of them being employed by leftists many times. (Most of the “useful idiots” probably never heard of Alinsky — but, their puppet masters certainly did & the rest picked it up by osmosis.)
For instance: (ethics) Rules 5 & 9 have been used by the anti-war crowd regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, and (most recently) Gaza.
When supporters of the U.S. invasion of Iraq invoke (in essence) Rules 3 & 4 — the leftists were ready for them. E.g. they don't want judgment of the Bush administration to be made “in the context of the times in which the action occurred” — because that would make the Bush administration look too good.
Seem my post # 12.
Actually, if you apply Alinsky’s Rules, you'd say: “justification for waterboarding and better”.
“I’m sure part of the Alinsky method is to redefine terms to fit the goal.”
From the “Rules of the Ethics of power politics”:
10. You do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral garments.
11. Goals must be phrased in general terms like &”Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” “Of the Common Welfare,” “Pursuit of Happiness,” or “Bread and Peace.”
This is the linchpin. This is why the raison d'etre of the Democratic Party is gaining political power by any means necessary.
There seems to be no daylight between the Obama Economy Doctrine (redistribution of wealth, class envy, central control, nationalized industries, thugocracy) and Marxism. If Marxists were to publicly announce a coup, they would likely have identical plans.
INTREP
Was that on another site, or in person?
Over the phone with someone.
Thanks for the link. I’ll keep looking in the local used bookstores for it though. I appreciate the help.
‘ve been wanting to buy the book but I don’t want to give the money to anyone involved. Is there a cheatin’ way to get it?
ebay
Thx, this is great article, 444. It is well spelled out and shows how manipulative and deceitful he has been during this campaign to achieve objectives which are devistating to our country.
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“Rule-making for others,
...Rule-breaking for herself” =
Lifetime M.O. of SAUL ALINSKI Student HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
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NEVER FORGET that SAUL ALINSKI dedicated his most famous book to SATAN.
NEVER ever FORGET it.
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The one thing The LOVE Itself
needs more of in this world,
...for GOD is LOVE,
is more LOVE.
And that only comes when people are FREE.
The very anthisis of a FREEDOM-hating SAUL ALINSKI and his students now in power.
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The 9/11 commission told us that “they were at war with us, we weren’t at war with them”..
This stands for democrat aka radical leftists. If you want to win, you have to fight them. Not try to be above the fray but to win the fray and drain their ability to continue.
Prayers for America!
Has anyone read Hillary’s thesis on Alinski yet?
I wonder if it is published on the internet??
Anyone ever read any books on body language? What do you think they say about this posture??? (Reuters image from a cabinet meeting yesterday)
"...Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer
Funny how it disappeared from the book in the later printings. They found out that the dupes in the clergy who bought into his Marxist claptrap had second thoughts when they were made aware of the dedication.
Or at least some of them did.
Any suggestions?
Communism always fails, IMHO. People want to be free. We must be vigilant and active. Also, we need to create conservative grassroots lobby groups to promote our agenda just as the left has.
Totally agree, but sometimes it takes years to dislodge it from power.
It's better not to let it take hold int the first place.
Good idea about conservative grassroots groups.
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