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“Organized” crime: On the President's favorite philosopher, Saul Alinsky [MUST READ!]
New Criterion ^ | September 2010 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 09/19/2010 12:00:33 AM PDT by Enchante

... He must, rather, master “the art of communication,” which means he “communicates within the experience of his audience,” affecting “full respect to the other’s values.” He doesn’t, for example, burn the American flag—he holds that “it is the establishment that has betrayed the flag while the flag itself remains the glorious symbol of America’s hopes and aspirations.” This isn’t because he actually cares about America’s hopes and aspirations. Those he seeks to lead care about them, however inchoately, and the successful organizer must connect with his audience’s self-interest. If he plays this game of misdirection well enough, the organizer progresses from pressuring the political class, to partnering with the political class, and finally to leading the political class. At each stage, by working within the system to destroy the system, the organizer increases his destructive capacity.

As a young Alinsky acolyte, Barack Obama worked closely with acorn, schooling operatives of an organization now infamous for its Marxist platform, “direct action” tactics, and rampant election fraud....

(Excerpt) Read more at newcriterion.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; alinsky; chicagorules; clintons; communism; evil; hillary; liberalism; liberals; marx; media; mentaldisorder; msm; obama; radicals; seiu; socialism; socialists; subversion; unions
A number of items have been posted on FR about the ideas and activities of the radical mentor to both Obama and Hillary, the loathsome Saul Alinsky and his "Rules for Radicals" (subject of Hillary's B.A. thesis at Wellesley College).

Here is the best article to date which shows the intimate links between Alinsky's ideas and other radicals from Marx to Obama.

If you want people to understand better what we are faced with in the White House and throughout this administration, this article is a key read.

1 posted on 09/19/2010 12:00:38 AM PDT by Enchante
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To: Enchante

Bookmarked

Much thanks


2 posted on 09/19/2010 12:13:07 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7
GREAT ARTICLE!!!

Emailed to all my compadres.

3 posted on 09/19/2010 12:37:22 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Slyfox

I think you meant to reply to Enchante


4 posted on 09/19/2010 12:41:27 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Enchante

Great! Thnaks!

“Alinsky began Rules for Radicals—which was originally to be called Rules for the Revolution—with an “over the shoulder acknowledgment” of Lucifer as the “very first radical . . . who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom.” Inconvenient, and thus glossed over by Alinsky and von Hoffman, is the minor detail that the kingdom “won” by the fallen angel was . . . hell”


5 posted on 09/19/2010 12:55:41 AM PDT by Bhoy
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To: Enchante

““Democracy,” wrote Alinsky, “is not an end; it is the best political means available toward the achievement of [the organizer’s] values.” The organizer’s highest value is empowering the organizer.”


6 posted on 09/19/2010 1:45:38 AM PDT by Bhoy
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To: Bhoy

Thus as “Liberals” accept those Alinsky ratioales for use of a tageted course of action be it bombing,flag burning, asassination, destruction of property,etc they become silent accomplices to that action, and as guilty as the perpetrators of it.


7 posted on 09/19/2010 2:36:20 AM PDT by mosesdapoet ("To punish a province let it be ruled by a professor " Frederick The Great paraphrased)
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To: Bhoy

“Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven” Lucifer, Milton’s “Paradise Lost” The dude knew how to use language. Recommended reading.


8 posted on 09/19/2010 4:35:23 AM PDT by tal hajus (too disgusted to care...much)
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To: Enchante
Alinsky's Rules For Spoiled Brats

Both images obtained via google images. Respective sources are listed in the links

9 posted on 09/19/2010 4:49:49 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Enchante

sfl


10 posted on 09/19/2010 7:12:00 AM PDT by phockthis
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To: Enchante

I read it. Bing! Another light goes on in the dark!


11 posted on 09/19/2010 7:38:45 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: Enchante

Bump


12 posted on 09/19/2010 7:47:43 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: aflaak

Ping


13 posted on 09/19/2010 10:20:24 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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