Posted on 08/01/2013 1:40:40 PM PDT by NYer
In his book Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky states “Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. In the world of give and take, tactics is the art of how to take and how to give. Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.” p.126
Saul Alinsky’s 13 “power tactics” are inconsistent with Catholic teaching and prove to be anti-Catholic as you will see below. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and current community organizers have followed and do follow the “power tactics.” These tactics are found on pages 127-134 of Rules for Radicals:
1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat. It also means a collapse of communication, as we have noted.”
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.“
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with tactic.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to church on Sunday.“
8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10. “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.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying “You’re right – we don’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.”"
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that the organizer should always regard as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and “frozen.”… Obviously there is no point to tactics unless one has a target upon which to center the attacks… Furthermore, any target can always say, “Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?” When you “freeze the target,” you disregard these arguments… Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target.”
If a community organization on this list (click here) is in your Catholic diocese and has any of its parishes as members, then they use the anti-Catholic “power tactics” listed above. Take these steps (click here) to remove them.
To learn more about the history and damaging influence of Saul Alinsky on prominent Catholic clergy and laity click on → Change Agents: Alinskyian Organizing Among Religious Bodies, which is available at Amazon. By Stephanie Block.
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O Holy Spirit, strengthen us to defend all that is holy.
I can totally envision satan whispering in Saul’s ear as he came up with this list.
Ping!
The guy dedicated that book to Satan. I’m sure he had a problem with Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and religious believers in general.
Before we all cower in fear of Alinsky, let us consider what he wrote that was new or not self-evident.
Not an effing thing.
He was a putz. His crap is old news, was old when he wrote it.
His book serves as an example of commie organization of thought, not anything new or groundbreaking.
Shun him, laugh at him.. but never fear his recycled bullshit.
Thanks for the added links too! I learned about Alinsky as a very young man. The Pastor of our Catholic parish signed us up to participate in a “community organization” that was to address some of the local concerns (i.e. wealthy developers getting special breaks and advantages that were working to the detriment of a lot of normal folks).
My grandfather, who was politically VERY well-connected in the Democrat Party, knew all about Alinsky and was repulsed by him. He and my mother led a virtual revolt which eventually forced this Pastor to back down and withdraw our Church from this organization.
I was probably no more than ten, but my mom and grandfather made sure to enlighten me about this guy and his dangerous philosophy.
If I wait for the Catholics to circle the wagons and fight back like hair-shirted Jesuits against the slings and arrows of the vast unwashed agnostic left I will be either dead or far too old.
Catholics have been beaten into mush by the likes of Vatican II and weasely phony churchmen planted by an evil cabal of agnostics and communists.
This present pope will do absolutely no good as he’s been and is part of the problem.
Popes succeeding Pius XII issue plenty of encyclicals, bulls, speeches, homilies and what-not, but, unfortunately, they are impossible to parse. They are merely planted on the throne of Peter to placate those who look upon church as a place to gather on Sunday to be entertained.
The author fails to provide even a single example of how they are inconsistent, let alone "anti-Catholic".
If one of the people you highlight as an influence at the very beginning is “Lucifer” himself ... “the very first radical” .... I don’t know how much more anti-Catholic one can get!!
Interesting fact: Alinsky was the recipient of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award in 1969, the sixth year it was given. This prize is in commemoration of the 1963 encyclical letter “Pacem in Terris” (Peace on Earth) of Pope John XXIII ... given to those “to honor a person for their achievements in peace and justice, not only in their country but in the world.”
In 1972, Alinsky wrote RFR ... he was a great deceiver ... following in the footprints of his mentor, the Greatest Liar of All. Alinsky tactic, and those of his students (many, mind you, still reside in Holy Mother Church) have dismantled most of all that is good and holy over an almost 50 year period.
May we turn to God for the grace, strength, mercy, and righteous action that is necessary to make things aright in the world again ...
I remember thinking his approach borrows quite a bit from the Bible and the techniques used to attack Jesus and His disciples, as well as some of how Jesus spreads His Word, but all used to promote the darkside instead.
I never did research if his name is Saul or if he chose it for himself, but it fits and is a bit prophetic, as is the book's dedication. Justice is coming.
Saul was a genius.. look at what his tactics have done!!!!.
They’ve elected “the black Barney Fife” as President..
and purged and refilled most federal agencys with their minions..
AND jounalism-jacked most of the media..
To say Alinsky was crazy makes YOU look stupid..
Are you Catholic?
Of course.
When I was a child I thought everybody was.
Actually, I think the post-conciliar Popes have picked up quite a few of Saul’s tactics:
1.“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
Tell your enemy you don’t have the Power. That you’re not the One, True, Church and outside It, there’s no salvation.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.
Engage in false ecumenism and inter-religous dialogue seeking a “united” true church.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
Ridicule Tradition. Ridicule traditionalists as “Pelagians.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with tactic.”
Throw wild WYD rock Masses.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to church on Sunday.“
See No. 5 and ridicule TLM’s.
8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”
Remove the head of a religious order and command that same religious order to no longer offer the TLM, in violation of SP.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
Supposed “excommunications”.
10. “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.”
See No. 5
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
See No. 5
......Well do not tell that to the 3 million Catholics who had gathered at the beach last weekend in Rio for the closing mass for WYD. Pope Francis is simply bringing the Gospel of Jesus back into the Church.
“Pope Francis is simply bringing the Gospel of Jesus back into the Church.”
Where has the Gospel been in the meantime? And for how long has it been missing from the Church?
For way too long.
But starting with Blessed John Paul II, and then continuing afterwards with Pope Benedict Emeritus and now Pope Francis it is being rediscovered once again.
How long? Since 1962 or 1789?
If you don’t know when it was lost, how would you know when, and if, “it” was discovered?
Hard to believe. I am also Catholic but I don’t buy into this stuff the Church has fallen apart after Vatican 2. The problem with Vatican 2 is most people don’t understand it. The theology of the Church certainly didn’t change. The influx of radical homosexuals in the late 60s and 70s was terrible, but those bastards have been infiltrating every segment of society for years now. I am a Catholic because of the theology. I believe it was the Church started by Christ and He predicted 2,000 years ago that the forces of darkness would try to destroy it. Not happened in those 2,000 years as damn hard as satan has tried.
Ask Jimmy Swaggart and his handful of followers. They seem to have the answer. Pentacostals good, Catholic bad. LOL.
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