Vengeance For Sarah: How It's Done

Eternity Road ^ | Sunday, July 05, 2009 | Francis W. Porretto

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I've received a lot of email...that suggests that the libertarian-conservative Right couldn't possibly do to the Left or the Republican Establishment what they've done to Sarah Palin. A few of my correspondents have suggested that it would be immoral, which indicates a lack of imagination. The majority have asked, in one way or another, "How?"

Here's how: a simple, easy-to-follow algorithm for making room for good people and the ideas of freedom in American politics once more:

1. Pick a single target. It could be an elected or appointed official, or it could be some spokesvermin who merely flacks for anti-American ideas and policies. Just as long as it's someone you think should be hounded out of the public eye, if not the country. Buy a spiral-bound notebook and print XXX PROJECT, where XXX is your target's name, on the cover in large block letters.

2. Subscribe to three newspapers or news feeds that cover your target's area of activity, <snip>....
3. ... sift it for any patterns of activity he displayed, especially those involving sex, money, or real estate. ...

4. ...and imagine the foulest plausible motives that could have given rise to those patterns.. ...

5. Repeat the above procedure until your target is no longer worthy of anyone's attention.

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The key attributes of the above algorithm are:

• Concentration: [explanation snipped]
• Orderliness. [snipped]
• Persistence: [snipped]
• Egolessness: [snipped]

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You might come up with something more elegant or efficient on your own, but what I've set down above, if faithfully prosecuted, is guaranteed to make the typical corrupt, arrogant bastard of a statist politician wish he'd never been born.

Let's get to work.

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[9YearLurker]

Meanwhile, NYTimes house “conservative” David Brooks today accuses Gov. Palin of insufficient equipoise.

[lentulusgracchus]

Meanwhile, NYTimes house “conservative” David Brooks today accuses Gov. Palin of insufficient equipoise.

Brooks ought to know. He's been riding a picket fence for years.

[csense]

Now that I've calmed down, I have a question for you. Just what exactly do you plan on doing. Attacking the White House? Deploying the military in the streets of America? If and when it ever warrants such things the situation in this country will be profoundly different, because right now, even with our political differences, you're going to have a hard time convincing our military to fire on their fellow citizens.

Are you going to literally start your own revolution? Who do you want us to kill first? Members of Congress? Judges? How about the Executive. Do you want to start from the top, with Obama? Or somewhere lower down the chain, and when you get to the Generals, let me know if their Service trumps their politics.

What kind of armed conflict do you envision needs to happen here, because if that is not your point, then what is your problem with sound, principled ideological reasoning, especially if you consider the majority of the American public to be principled and reasonable, albeit temporarily a little confused presently.

Do me the courtesy though of responding with a little civility. If you can't, then don't bother responding at all.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Well said.

[sergeantdave]

I agree. Time for the gloves to come off. Target them all.

Meanwhile, we’ll see a procession of RINO surrender monkeys riding in on their poodles, crying that we shouldn’t insult the Marxists and fascists trying to destroy us, our families and the country. Ignore them. We also had whiners in our Revolutionary War who decried the tactic of patriot marksmen hiding behind trees and shooting at the pretty British all lined up in neat rows.

War is war. Do what has to be done to win.

[doberville]

Well put.

[NTHockey]

>>...what I’ve set down above, if faithfully prosecuted, is guaranteed to make the typical corrupt, arrogant bastard of a statist politician wish he’d never been born.

It will also make you just like them. If Sarah adopted this method, which, I doubt she would, I would walk away from her in a heartbeat.<<

That is a 9/10 mentality. There are people who wish us great harm; but we are not going to recognize that? Look at what that got us! Only by taking the fight TO them, on our terms, can we defeat this enemy. Make no bones about it - LIBs are an enemy that must be destroyed(politically) or accept defeat and slavery.

[csense]

Let me tell you something my friend. The only way to defeat or contain an ideology, is to expose it’s truths and principles, or the lack thereof, because only in the assumption that the general populace is reasonable, can you have a free society. The Founding Fathers understood the connection between morality and freedom. I’m not sure why you don’t. If you don’t have that basic ingredient, then you have nothing and you never will. That is your target.

[csense]

Only by taking the fight TO them, on our terms, can we defeat this enemy.

The only terms you possess that distinguish you, are your principles. So, how is that different from what I'm talking about?

[csense]

LIBs are an enemy that must be destroyed.

Liberals are not the enemy. People are not born liberal. Your enemy is an idea.

For all the huffing and puffing from some of you on this thread, you don't seem to understand the nature of the enemy very well...

[sergeantdave]

“because only in the assumption that the general populace is reasonable, can you have a free society.”

That assumption is your error and will be your eventual downfall. If the voting American population was rational and reasonable, obuma would not have been elected. Reasonableness is only another barrier to overcome in the totalitarian’s drive for power.

Hitler said it best: “Think in blood.” Those three words define the typical leftist and is an admonishment by the furhrer to his followers to reject rationality and logic. The entire leftist philosophy is filled with calls to reject reason and is peppered with propaganda appealing to emotion. Think in blood means to base your actions on boiling, unreasoning emotion.

I’d recommend a careful reading of Robert Conquest’s “Black Book of Communism.” The people we’re dealing with are neither rational nor reasoning.

Our situation is not equivalent to Gandhi resisting the British with rational appeals to non-violence. The fascist obuma and his followers are not reasonable or moral or rational and they do not embrace freedom.

[dcwusmc]

No, I am not talking about armed conflict. I hope it never comes to that. I am talking about someone who would be willing to throw someone (who is fighting for her political life) under the bus if she should ever use any tactic HE does not personally approve of. I am talking about the proper use of the tactics mentioned in the article which are completely legitimate and, as the LEFT has proven over and over again, actually WORK. THAT is what I am talking about.

[RJS1950]

The real problem is that republicans have refused to stand up to the half truths and innuendoes told by the left because someone might call them mean, or racist or put them in some other politically correct category. Refuse to fight hard and actively stand up to the lying Nazi socialists and the GOP will continue to be stomped to a bloody pulp. You don’t have to lie to fight back, just stand up and aggressively refute the lies. Haven’t seen much of that from the GOP, ever. It’s that group of nadless wonders who will not be missed.

[RJS1950]

And your principles, whatever they are are null and void if the democrat party takes full control. Again, you don’t have to lie or cheat to fight back but you do have to fight back. Openly labeling them as the liars and cheats that they are and refuting them publicly at every turn goes against no moral principle I can think of. If your principles prevent you from aggressively fighting to defend the constitution then your principles are crap.

[Squantos]

No dirty tricks involved at all, not sure why you suggest such is involved here......trust but verify and keep a record of all your polidiots be they ones you voted for or not.

[fr_freak]

Let me tell you something my friend. The only way to defeat or contain an ideology, is to expose it’s truths and principles, or the lack thereof, because only in the assumption that the general populace is reasonable, can you have a free society. The Founding Fathers understood the connection between morality and freedom. I’m not sure why you don’t. If you don’t have that basic ingredient, then you have nothing and you never will. That is your target.

You are confusing two aspects of this debate. The Founding fathers certainly did understand the value of morality to this country, but that has absolutely nothing to do with whether the general populace is reasonable. In fact, the Founders understood that a good portion, if not most, of the populace are incompetent bottom feeders. That is why they originally, and wisely, limited the right to vote to MALE LANDOWNERS ONLY. They wanted to see proof that a person was competent and would produce rather than drain the country's blood.

Now we have a situation where welfare recipients can vote just as much as any homeowner or business man, so the parasite naturally votes to take money from the homeowner and business man and give it to himself. In addition to that, we have foreign nationals imported yearly by the millions who have no loyalty to this country and often an active hatred, but whose children are automatically granted the right to vote despite their antipathy toward the native population.

In my opinion, the ballot box phase of our problem-solving method is over. It can no longer restore that which has been corrupted. I know that there are still plenty of Freepers who think that we can make everything right again if we just get the right people elected, but that simply is not going to happen with the usual methods. Period. The sooner you undertand that fact, the sooner you will be willing to entertain some alternative methods.

[gunner03]

Conservatives, as they are right now, will be the recipients of the new Holocaust, blindly walking to their doom without a fight. We were right, but we are dead. “But we have the guns” is no big deal if we’re too righteous or lack the will to use them. Look inside yourself and you’ll see the left is right. We are sheep still.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Gidday Squantos, you write:

> No dirty tricks involved at all, not sure why you suggest such is involved here

Fair enough, from the main article (emphasis mine):

>> Once each month -- perhaps on the first or last day thereof -- assemble the month's notations from your XXX PROJECT notebook and imagine the foulest plausible motives that could have given rise to those patterns. Compose your speculations into a coherent letter -- pose your speculations as questions or possibilities, a la John Stossel --and mail it to the editorial addresses of the three newspapers to which you've subscribed, with references to their articles on the subject. Send a copy to your target himself if you're feeling particularly cruel.

IMO this is nothing more nor less than character assassination which is, in my book, a dirty trick. You will note that there is no attempt made here to find truth, but rather to create speculation based upon the worst possible motives, and use FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) to cast aspersions upon the target. Nothing solid enough to qualify as defamation -- so there's no danger of the target being allowed to defend himself in court -- but just enough nastiness to make a few cheap shots, some of which will stick.

What part of Conservatism is that? It's cowardly at best.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

The following was added to the original post at eternity road:

UPDATE 2: Those who question the morality of this strategy should also read this post on the moral rationale.