Posted on 08/17/2009 9:28:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama foes turn to '60s radical for tactical tips
By Edward Luce and Alexandra Ulmer in Washington
Published: August 17 2009 03:00 | Last updated: August 17 2009 03:00
Opponents of Barack Obama's healthcare proposals are using the tactics of Saul Alinsky, the renowned leftwing activist who helped inspire the US president when he was a young community organiser, says Dick Armey, head of Freedom Works, a group fighting against universal healthcare.
Mr Armey, who was the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives for most of the 1990s, said his group, which is behind many of the "tea party" protests that have disrupted town-hall meetings in the past two weeks, draws consciously on the forms of agitation pioneered by Mr Alinsky.
Mr Obama, who worked as a community organiser among unemployed steel workers on Chicago's South Side in the late 1980s, was heavily influenced by Mr Alinsky, who inspired a generation of radicals in the 1960s. Mr Alinsky believed that packing public meetings with highly vocal activists would sway their outcomes and give people a taste of the power they could exercise when they showed up in numbers.
"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," said Mr Armey, who was one of the leaders of the "Contract with America" Republican landslide in 1994.
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Alinsky, you magnificent bastard... we read your book!!!
And the next thing we need to do “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”...
Armey is smart on two fronts. To paraphrase a line from the movie “The Untouchables” ‘If an enemy brings a knife, you bring a gun. If they bring a gun, you bring a bigger gun.’ Sean Connery said it better but you get the jist. Armey is using their tactics on them which at worst, neutralizes their efforts.
Secondly, he has anticipated what their next move will be and has publicly described it which helps to innoculate the public from the crisis mode that Obama and Emmanuel are counting on in order to get their way in September. If we know the tactic is coming, we are immuned to the hysteria they are hoping will come with it.
Nice Job, Dick.
Schadenfreude !!
Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) leaders and stalwarts are the ideological offspring of 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble!
(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "neo-con" taunts many Democrats fled the Party.)
Headline?
England's Financial Times uses state controlled media (SCaM) template
Financial Times A Division Of SCaM?
FT reports: Republican organizers behind disruptions
Up to this point the Obamistas have not fought back ~ they've tried to pass their opposition off as a joke, or a bunch of KKK types, or as a handful of kooks.
The fact is the only way they know how to fight is by bombing innocent people, rioting at IMF/World Bank meetings, laying down in front of locomotives at atomic power plants, or strong arm robbery on the streets of Chicago.
Which is to say that once they figure out they're being beat down politically they'll resort to violence.
We must be prepared to abandon the Alinsky methods to turn to direct action instantly once the Leftwingtards start killing people.
If Obama’s goons start killing people, all bets are off. Don’t count on anything.
I am reading the book now. There is some good material there. The best of which, I think is to ridicule your enemy in the most public of ways whenever the opportunity presents itself. Obama really cannot stand that.
Spread the Joker poster.
For example, consider Rule 10: "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition." Alinsky argued such pressure was necessary in order to get the opposition to react. It was in the reaction, Alinsky suggested, real opportunities for change existed ("The action is in the reaction").
Also, in Rule 12: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative" - here Alinsky insists that the actor must have a plan, and cannot merely resort to rhetoric or violent outbursts.
The key thing for our side is to recognize when an attack is coming, and then have a plan to turn it back around upon the enemy at their weakest point. That's one of my Rules for Counter-radicals.
My first thought too. I got this more than a year ago and have been trying to instruct the local GOP into the methods. Some get it, many don’t want to hear it because it’s too “confrontational.” But we’re winning this.
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