(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.)
It would be nice to try and make the rats live up to their rules....not that they have any other than lie and steal whatever you can.
“ALINSKY 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.”
There is an Alinski corollary to that rule:
Never worry about your own rules; do whatever it takes to gain power.
These rules only work when you have a friendly media. That is what Alinski took for granted. That state still mostly exists; but there is a small amount of new media that now contests the domination by the old media.