Yes, I've already hot-linked the following pic on two different websites this morning:
Posted on 08/05/2009 10:37:08 AM PDT by RED SOUTH
RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
The “rules” are much easier to implement when you have the mainstream media in your back pocket.
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
Climb in the sewer where these feces spawn and fight them using their tactics back on them.
Our rules.
“The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
This is why every single poster that cries out “we need to concentrate on health care and 2012 instead of chasing some crazy birth issue that will blow up in our faces and make us look like loonies” is either timid, inexperienced, or pursuing a pro-O agenda.
We are facing a major project and need to do several things at once with multiple assets, or fail.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2296931/posts
Those that are clamoring for universal healthcare have NO IDEA what it entails. Their "expertise" consists of lining up for free stuff.
Study these rules, folks and understand them. They are what your enemy does and the reasons he does them. They are what our government practices and hint at what they will be doing in the future.
I wanted to buy Alinsky’s book to get these, but this person graciously put them at our disposal. Thank you, red south.
Now we don’t have to stand back in incredulity and ask “why”?. Here is the explanation why no Liberal will discuss an issue at all.
Number four tells how to use our ethics against us. Number eight warns us that they will keep on coming at us no matter what. Number ten shows how to make us perceive their negatives as positives.
This is extremely valuable because in it our enemy (our government, now) reveals its battle plan. That’s a strategic gift.
Using rules from a book dedicated to Lucifer is not a good idea.
Sort of reminds me of the logic behind “The Screwtape Letters”.
Funny you should say that, because they’re both from the same author, as was “Mein Kampf” and The Communist Manifesto. He was a liar from the beginning and the father of it. The thief comes but for to steal, to kill and to destroy.
Name that devil.
I despise SAul Alinsky, he’s dedicatted to Satan, and I despise liberals because they listen to trash like Alinsky.
Yes, I've already hot-linked the following pic on two different websites this morning:
I am going to disagree with you. I just finished reading this amoral piece of crap less than a half hour ago, and I have never had to work so hard to force myself to get through a book.
But this book is the bible followed by an anti-American, socialist, racist, Marxist who now inhabits the most powerful office on earth, for at least the time being. It is also the bible of his followers and those who didn’t follow him such as Hillary Clinton.
That is why we give them concern.
humblegunner, sticking your head in the ground isn’t going to make it go away.
Nothing personal, because I piss on them too. But to read that book is to understand what makes these Marxists tick.
Agreed.
As I stated, I finally finished the book tonight after trying for a couple of weeks. I had been trying to figure out a way to obtain a copy of “Rules for Radicals” to read because it is the bible followed by Obama and his associates, but I would be damned if I paid a single cent for one and the copies at the library were backordered for months. To my surprise, one came in.
I finally made it all the way through “Rules for Radicals”, and I can assure you, reading it tells volumes about the people who profess to following it as a bible, especially the ones pushing this health care bill.
It explains a lot. And none of it is good.
I was going to dictate the entire thing and make an audiobook out of it to give to people such as myself who don’t want a penny to go to anyone associated with writing, printing or distributing that hideous work, but I couldn’t stomach hearing myself read it in a way that would make it easier on the ears to listen to (To put the inflection in the right places means you have to read it as if you believe it, and I gave up after one chapter.)
It is probably one of the most amoral, twisted works I have ever read. Given that Alinsky wrote a dedication to Lucifer, I shouldn’t be surprised. The dedication was taken out of later editions so as not to offend the clergy he was attempting to recruit, but the version I have still carries it.
From what I can see, reading this book enables one to understand what makes Obama (and his followers) tick.
The very FIRST paragraph exposes very clearly what they are all about:
"What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. 'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."
It is unrestricted class warfare, pure and simple. And it is the bible of Obama, Clinton, and many MANY others in this country.
Bingo!
With each passing day...I see more clearly what is going on. What is happening in government is not a mistake or incompetence.
It is deliberate.
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