Posted on 07/11/2016 6:05:02 PM PDT by Crush
Turn on the news today or log into your social media and you will see headline after headline of attacks on our liberty and security. Whether it’s anti-police riots, jihadist gunmen, or corrupt politicians, our nation’s traditions and principles are under heavy assault. It is demoralizing. We know who seeks to destroy our society and what their objectives are. But what can we actually do to stop them?
What we face today are multiple “wars of ideas.” While enemy combatants are not an invading force shooting bullets and dropping bombs, the outcome is the same. Our way of life is up for grabs. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is an opponent in one of the idea wars. The attacks on our police officers – and law and order itself – coming from their protests across the nation are a threat to our justice system and could have far-reaching effects if we do not engage.
Fortunately we do not need to adopt their tactics of lawlessness and violence to defeat them.
Author Robert R. Reilly lays out four maxims for winning wars of ideas in The Knowledge Group’s 2015 special report, The Islamic State and Information Warfare: Defeating ISIS and the Broader Global Jihadist Movement:
“the first thing one must do is...
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TERRORIST!!
Jail George Soros
Given that their one and only idea is bull shi...er...bull Dorkbama, it is appaling that no one gas the cojones to call their low IQ bluff.
Oppose statism and you will oppose BLM.
Appalling, not appaling.
Sorry, Dorkbama the Muslim spelling.
Ask people if they want Ebonics Law.
We don't have to "stop them."
They will self-destruct on their own.
From your link....
Fortunately we do not need to adopt their tactics of lawlessness and violence to defeat them.
Author Robert R. Reilly lays out four maxims for winning wars of ideas in The Knowledge Group’s 2015 special report, The Islamic State and Information Warfare: Defeating ISIS and the Broader Global Jihadist Movement:
“the first thing one must do is formulate the ideas that are so central to one’s life that one is not willing to live without them.”
“one cannot go into a war of ideas until one understands the ideas one is at war with.”
“wars of ideas, by definition, can only be fought by and with people who think.”
“along with a consistency of purpose, one must have the organizational and
financial means for conducting a war of ideas over the course of generations.”
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We know the groups that seek to undermine or destroy our system and replace it with their own vision. We have plenty of thinkers on tv, radio, internet, and print media that already defend our ideas.
What is missing is organization and resolve. A consistency of purpose.
Since the movement’s founding in 2012 following the shooting of Trayvon Martin, BLM protests have become increasingly widespread and violent, receiving legitimacy from media and government (including President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch) despite their criminal activity. The movement is getting stronger and the chaos they create is giving politicians the opportunity they need to act on things they otherwise would not be able to, like transferring control of policing from municipalities and states to the federal government.
So how do we fight back in this war of ideas?
We must take control of the language. “Justice” is not assassinating police officers and blocking highways. Justice is not throwing police officers in jail merely for shooting suspects that happened to be black.
We must steal the initiative by controlling the narrative. We can’t let BLM and their supporters in government and media frame the debate so we have to respond to them. They need to respond to us.
We must destroy their legitimacy. The movement’s ideology, not just their actions, has to be attacked. BLM is not seeking equality; it is a violent supremacist movement. Exposing the movement’s true intention would make their enablers in Washington and the media rethink their support.
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“conveying the rightness of one’s cause does not guarantee victory in war,” states Reilly, “but failure to make and support the claim to the right in a convincing matter can fatally undermine the chance for success.”
If more people armed themselves against criminals, the BLM will mostly get killed in the act.
BLM is based on BS supported and promoted by the MSM and the traitor in the White House and the pos DOJ...
Soros should be locked up for paying for terrorism...
Twice as many whites are killed by cops
98% of black are murdered by black... Where’s BLM terrorism for that
BLM. Burn loot murder
BLM is a communist hate group based on racism/fascism that seeks control over institutions.
The best thing to do is keep on keeping on.
Keep exposing them, keep showing them to be liars and violence purveyors.
This will all coalesce. BLM is the propaganda arm, the NBPP/NOI is the militant arm.
I have never been more certain that we are past the reconciliation stage. We are headed to swift and sure collision.
No amount of well-meaning police officers is ever going to be able to change the hearts and minds of those who have been indoctrinated since the time they could walk and talk.
Easily said, but not so easily implemented when the opposition forces control the access to large audiences.
NO ONE wins a “War of Ideas” when the entire nation is so effing brain dead that they can’t understand either the issues or the arguments.
[Without bothering to actually read the article.] Talk about a Fool’s Errand!
Ideas?! If these idiots have one it’ll be the first.
Acknowledging how to defeat them will likely get me banned.
I think the idea is to avoid a reasoned discussion. If you notice, the movement is shouty angry and groupthinky. The idea seems to be to just roll over opposition, and they have according to WIKI modeled themselves on other movements like the Arab Spring which have been co-opted by well organized groups which then betrayed them.
Therefore, the only thing you can do is to wait until the voters utterly loathe them, vote in Trump, and have them designated a hate group. Otherwise, if you can deny them visual media maybe you can get them to write out a platform and get concrete positions from them that way.
Isn’t only Black Lives Matter Hillary’s reelection scheme?
Same old call everyone a racist - get federal money - buy votes.
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