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To understand ACORN you must first know and understand its philosophical god father, Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote the cult classic Rules for Radicals. More importantly, he was a master at grassroots campaigning, confrontational politics, ridicule, and trench warfare. He was in fact the god father of the so called community organizing movement. Alinsky taught this group all sorts of things.

Paul Benedict (Libertarian), of NolanChart.com, wrote a very nice piece describing Governor Palin and Governor Reagan. Both were ridiculed and belittled by the press, in a very similar manner, on there way to The White House. Most of America, via the health care debate, has now been treated to a taste of the derision that Governor Palin has experienced on a daily basis. The malicious slander sent their way is a badge of honor. Consider, for example, both Governor Palin and President Reagan. Most of America, via the health care debate, has now been treated to a taste of the...

WASHINGTON -- In the rhetorical battle over health care, the forces backing President Barack Obama's overhaul have spent years polling and using focus groups to find the precise language that would win over voters -- an effort that doesn't at the moment appear to be working. When Mr. Obama told grass-roots organizers last week that the mandatory purchase of health insurance would "be affordable, based on a sliding scale," the phrasing precisely mirrored language that had been poll-tested and put before batteries of focus groups by Democratic consultants over the past few years. The words had been carefully chosen in...

Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me: Part IHell on Earth: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part IIBoring From Within: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part IIITo Have And Have Not: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part IVPost-modern leftism: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VMeans and Ends One: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VIMeans and Ends Two: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me, Part VI ContinuedRadicals are focused on the future – usually the distant future – the moment when they will achieve power and institute the reign of social justice. Consequently they view and evaluate the present and the past...

“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.”— Rahm Emanuel “Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time … New issues and crises are always developing…” “Keep the pressure on,” he continued, “with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."--Saul Alinsky Arguably, the strategy developed by Alinsky and mapped out by Rahm Emanuel for the beginning of the start of the Obama administration was very successful for the first 100 days of the presidency....

Links to the first three Alinsky blogs: Part I: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and MePart II: Hell On EarthPart III: Boring From WithinThe epigraph for the first chapter of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals which explains that "The Purpose" of the rules is from the book of Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare..."For Alinsky and his Machiavellian radicals, politics is war. No matter what they say publicly or pretend to be, they are at war. They are at war even though no other factions in the political arena are at war, because everyone else embraces the System which...

Return to the Article August 19, 2009The Alinskyite's Big, Fat Governance FailureBy Kyle-Anne Shiver What happens when the thing a president knows best is a set of tactics designed to take power from the "haves"?  When the most highly prized info a president ever garnered could be summed up as nothing better than gaming an electoral system with ACORN pay-for-registration schemes?  What happens when a president is very skilled in deceptively cloaking these less-than-altruistic means in rhetorical "moral garments" and his lies finally start catching up with him, destroying his credibility?  When a president has never actually run anything...

Conservatives think of war as a metaphor when applied to politics. For radicals the war is real. That is why partisans of the left set out to destroy their opponents, not just refute their arguments. It is also why they never speak the truth. Deception for them is a military tactic in a war that is designed to elminate their opponents. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is first of all a broadside against the New Left. What Alinsky attacks about the New Left is its honesty — something I”ve always regarded as its o–nly redeeming feature. While American Communists — the...

Saul Alinsky's name comes up constantly in condemning statements concerning Obama's "real agenda." We've heard endlessly that Hillary's undergrad senior paper was written about Alinsky and his philosophy. It seems that the Beautiful People revere this guy. Paraphrasing Arlo Guthrie at the end of "Alice's Restaurant," I can write about anything - "I've got no pride." I come from coal cracker roots displaced onto a farm. I can shoot pool and milk a cow without the automatic pumpers; I can play shuffleboard and deal an honest hand of poker. I have no idea who this guy is, and my life...

Not long ago, Barack Obama and the Democrats were invincible. Republicans not only had substantially reduced minorities in the House and Senate, but they didn't even have a leader. Suddenly Obama seems quite vincible, with his signature project, postalizing the health-care system, in deep trouble. How could that have happened? Andrew Breitbart, a Washington Times columnist, argues that the opposition's lack of leadership, far from being a hindrance, has been a necessary condition for its effectiveness. He notes that the tactics of the left have long been informed by Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"--the bible of so-called community organizing--and especially...

Opponents of Barack Obama’s healthcare proposals are using the tactics of Saul Alinksy, the legendary leftwing activist who helped inspire the US president when he was a young community organiser, says Dick Armey, head of Freedom Works, a group fighting against universal healthcare. Mr Armey, who was the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives for most of the 1990s, said his group, which is behind many of the “tea party” protests that have disrupted town-hall meetings in the past two weeks, draws consciously on the forms of agitation pioneered by Mr Alinsky. Mr Obama, who worked as a...

Obama foes turn to '60s radical for tactical tips By Edward Luce and Alexandra Ulmer in Washington Published: August 17 2009 03:00 | Last updated: August 17 2009 03:00 Opponents of Barack Obama's healthcare proposals are using the tactics of Saul Alinsky, the renowned leftwing activist who helped inspire the US president when he was a young community organiser, says Dick Armey, head of Freedom Works, a group fighting against universal healthcare. Mr Armey, who was the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives for most of the 1990s, said his group, which is behind many of the "tea...

Evil is personified in the actions of B. Hussein Obama. He has no compassion, yet he wants to be believed as compassionate. His narcissism and sociopathic ways are driving him and his political agenda. Obama is the Pied Piper to the Marxist masses who see him as “The One”, “The Messiah” and he is leading them to their destruction. Last Monday B. Hussein Obama instructed his minions, “If they punch, punch back twice as hard!” and followed it up on Friday with, “Can’t we all just get along?” Isn’t it amazing that he can say two different things in the...

There's more than justice to the nationwide backlash against President Obama's healthcare putsch. There's a delicious irony. The President, a down-to-his-toes rabble-rouser, has admirably roused the American rabble. Except not quite as intended. He and the rest of the statist vanguard have run headlong into a cosmic law: the Law of Unintended Consequences. Not even the late master rabble-rouser and con artist extraordinaire, Saul Alinsky, could account for the unaccountable. But the gaping difference between the President and the rascally Alinsky is that Alinsky had sort of a genius for playing the angles. In other words, Alinsky could hit curveballs....

Glenn Beck will be on vacation this week but when he returns on the 24th he has invited me to come to New York to talk to him on camera about Saul Alinsky, the strategy guru of the Obama era. For the the Hillary-Soros generation of johnny-come-lately radicals and their ACORN footsoldiers Alinksy is their Sun-Tzu and his book Rules for Radicals is the field manual for their struggle. I thought while I’m refreshing my acquaintance with this destructive fellow and re-reading his text, I would share my thoughts with you, serially over the next week. For this first post,...

This is a compilation which was done by a Great Patiot in great detail early on. It is being distorted and erased by the obamanation. I copied it in April, and now can no longer find it online. It is a synophis of what was found out so far on this imposter: for example: Who is Frank Marshall Davis? Frank Marshall Davis was a radical black communist and fed the impressionable Obama a constant diet of Marx and "blackness" all through his high school years. He was introduced to Obama by grandfather Stanley -- they were drinkin' buddies and Stanley...

On the eve before the Back of the Yards Council's founding convention, the Chicago Daily News announced that "something new in community organization is about to happen in the Back of the Yards. The council is the conception and individual project of Saul D. Alinsky. The residents of the district are almost completely stockyard workers and Catholics, and on this basis the sociologist Alinsky has enlisted churchmen and the CIO leaders to form the main pillars of the neighborhood council." At the CHD's 25th anniversary, Cardinal Bernardin would have been more historically precise if he had stated that the great...

For all those who are embarrassed by the birther issue, know this: We are just taking a page from hero of the Left, Saul Alinsky's, book 'Rules For Radicals.' Rule #8: Attack, attack, attack on multiple fronts, and never let up. They made the rules. We're just following them. We can beat them at their own game, or we can lose. That's the choice.

Here is video of Glenn Beck today talking about what he calls the "Radicals in the White House" who want average American citizens to "sit down and shut up." He played a montage of video clips showing what the Obama Administration and the Mainstream Media have been saying about Americans who have been voicing their concern about Obama's desire to bring Government-run Health Care to America. He showed quite a collecting of statements from people like Robert Gibbs, Nancy Pelosi, John Dingell, and others. He then played Hillary Clinton's 2003 statement that "we have a right to debate and disagree...

When I saw this video interview of Bill Burton, White House Deputy Press Secretary, I could not help but be reminded of one of old Saul Alinsky's favorite fake-em-out tricks of the revolutionary trade. Burton is reinforcing Pelosi's earlier claim that people were carrying Swastikas at townhalls, but goes even further and claims that folks are actually "dressing up like Hitler." You got to give ole Saul a little credit. He was one wily deceiver, right after his hero, Deceiver in Spades, Lucifer. Saul Alinsky, crusader for the downtrodden, darling of the Auxiliary Archbishop of Chicago, was just an underachieving...

Alinsky's 12th Rule of Tactics: 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.' Why is President Barack Obama suddenly drowning in a sea of widespread resistance to his centerpiece legislation? Because it has now become quite clear to Harry & Louise Q Citizen that this was a man without a "constructive alternative" to the out-of-control healthcare system he has badgered and rhetorically beaten bloody to...

The first adjective that comes to mind for "liberal" may be "touchy-feely." The best adjective for a Stalinist might be "murderous." That's a pretty big difference. I would never want to mistake a well-meaning liberal for a nasty Stalinist. At the same time, I hope we don't fail to spot any Stalinists who might be looking for mischief and pretending to be liberals. Certainly the mainstream media aren't interested in the difference.

Return to the Article August 11, 2009The Alinsky Way Vs. the American WayBy Kyle-Anne Shiver It takes neither a genius, nor a shrink, to see why Alinskyite Democrat pols are so confused by all this 1776 Redux confronting them in their home-district townhalls.  Since they are so accustomed to calling up pals in unions and various other community agitators for a little rent-a-mob action to bolster support for their agendas, they naturally project this tactic onto anyone opposing their issue positions. They've become so immersed in the Alinsky Way that they've nearly plum darned forgotten the American Way, folks....

. Once again, with leftists in control of DC, here we are with the American people trying to shut down the leftist march to Marxism, and once again, the baseless cries of “racism,” --"fascism" and “right-wing” conspiracies flood the leftist MSM airwaves and headlines as a Marxist federal juggernaut runs head-on into the average American. But this time, Obama, Pelosi and Reid are convinced that they can ram all of it down Americans throats against their will because at the moment, they don’t need a single Republican vote to do it. Republicans are not losing the debate, there is no...

To understand ACORN you must first know and understand its philosophical god father, Saul Alinsky. Alinsky wrote the cult classic Rules for Radicals. More importantly, he was a master at grassroots campaigning, confrontational politics, ridicule, and trench warfare. He was in fact the god father of the so called community organizing movement. Alinsky taught this group all sorts of things.

BACKGROUND: Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed strategies and tactics strategies that can level the playing field. Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work. NOW: BUT, because Alinsky wrote these rules (which Obama et als follow) as guidelines for a Communist takeover, I have done some editing so they can work for us in our efforts to PREVENT this Communist takeover in America! These are just a first draft and just my opening shot. . Please be a part and add/delete/suggest changes so that we can end up with a set of basic rules which maybe can help us...

There is a scene early on in the movie Patton, where the feisty general watches the forces under his command do battle with those led by the legendary German Panzer leader, Erwin Rommel.  To prepare for this particular skirmish, “Old Blood and Guts” studied the writings of his adversary, prompting the memorable line uttered in a gravely voice by actor George C. Scott: “Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!”   Later, the general found out that Rommel himself had not actually been present for the confrontation, but he is comforted by an aid: “If you defeat Rommel’s plan, then...

I just finished reading Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky earlier this week, and it was one of the most unpleasant books I have ever read. I also think it was one of the most immoral books as well. I had two people (my brother and a friend) who suggested that I read C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, so that has been on my list for a little while now. As it stands, it was the next book I picked up after Rules for Radicals. I am stunned by the happenstance that led me to read The Screwtape Letters...

What happens when the middle class feels even more victimized than the nation's poor? When American middle-class citizens feel that they are being steamrolled by a Changeopoly Blitzkrieg, engineered by the principalities and powers of overreaching government and corporate oligarchs? When the only answer they're given to their just concerns about unsustainable debt is "We won."? Well, those beleaguered middle-class folks might take a look at the tactics which have been working against them for four decades and decide to make use of some of those tactics themselves. Middle-class Americans, myself among them, have watched for 40 years, as one...

Straight from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals playbook. Rule 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. It works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.This is a classic example. NSFW Warning: Edited strong language and actors representing Germans from the 1940's. Roll the tape: [VIDEO AT SITE](Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

He says ... Read health care bill, get chilled to the boneBy Bill Roe He says ... Reviewing facts of the Obama health care bill and the serious penalties on our senior population in eliminating quality medical for seniors, one business worth investigating is funeral homes located outside of senior developments and care centers. Business for them should be brisk if the bill is enacted in its present form. While traveling this weekend in middle America, books seen on the planes were Glenn Beck’s “Common Sense,” Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” and “Catastrophe” by Dick Morris. These books are all...

Since the democrat congressmen/congresswomen are hiding behind the teleconference it's our time to seize the day.

You’re right, Book. Saul Alinksy was/is one scary dude – a blend of French Jacobite radicalism and Mussolini-style fascism tucked into sheep’s clothing. More: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D6E27ECE-9798-4F01-A378-3F1405F69704 05/May/2008 Ymarsakar: An academic sheep’s clothing at that, Danny. Alinsky’s techniques are only extrapolations, not innovations, upon the time tested means by which human beings can be manipulated and exploited by other human beings. He saw Unions, which were constructing themselves more and more upon the basis of a medieval guild in which its members paid dues and the union ensured that there was no competition for union jobs, as an example of social organization...

Public Discourse: The candidate who told his supporters "to argue with them and get in their face" now finds the shoe on the other foot. So they're taking names and encouraging you to turn in your neighbors.So this is hope and change — telling American citizens who in a democracy disagree with you that they are mind-numbed robots participating in mob action and expressing "manufactured" outrage. Considering that upward of 80% of those hooligans like their doctors, like their insurance and like their care, anger over your government-run health care was not that hard to assemble. It was not that...

President Obama's political outfit, Organizing for America, is now trying to entice supporters to show up at health care events in order to make sure tea party protesters are outnumbered. Today, Vice President Joe Biden will be speaking in Michigan, and OFA wants to make sure he can. "Organized mobs across the country are intimidating lawmakers, disrupting events, and silencing discussions about the change our country needs," reads a letter from OFA's Michigan State Director to Obama allies. "The challenges our country faces are simply too great to let these debates be overrun by those angrily shouting down change" You...

Here it is, the liberals guide for political warfare as developed by Saul Alinsky. Read them , learn them and apply them daily. Beat the socialist with their own game! 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...

Forget Norman Rockwell. The town hall meetings that many representatives and senators are holding back in their districts to make the case for a health care overhaul are turning into knockdown-dragouts. Some of the aggressive questioning, and even heckling, of legislators meeting with constituents across the country appears to be staged. A memo on "best practices" for disrupting town hall meetings has surfaced on the Web. A conservative group in Connecticut called Right Principles laid out how it "conducted an action" at a town hall meeting of Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) in late May, even calling it a "potential playbook"...

by Old Glory Radio Eureka Ca: 08/04/09 In a fit of complete hypocrisy, find below the letter being sent out to the Huffington Posts troops today in an effort to ORGANIZE counter protesters and chill the free speech of Tea Party Patriots all across the nation as they confront their Congressmen and women in town halls. Check me if I am wrong here, but aren’t all the liberal talking heads all up in a tizzy saying the Tea Party people are just stooges of corporate interests?….but it’s ok for the left of course. Read it and gag. Thelibs are a...

WASHINGTON. D.C. – Following reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been orchestrating an effort to intimidate members of Congress and Governors who raise legitimate concerns regarding the effectiveness of the stimulus, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Emanuel saying “While this type of scare tactic may work In Chicago, it will not work to intimidate me or other Members of the United States Congress.” “I and others have dared to bring these facts to the attention of President Obama, the Congress and the American people,” Issa...

Others on this blog have described how Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-TX, demeaned his constituents for having the audacity to oppose socialized medicine at a public meeting. (Doggett called their self-expression a “real desperation tactic.”) However, it’s worth memorializing the way the host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews, views those who reject ObamaCare: they’re jihadists. (Snip) Matthews began: “Everytime a member of Congress or Senate calls a town meeting now, the people show up, and it’s like, I don’t know, it’s like Iran, it’s like the streets of Tehran.”

Submitted by R. Neal on Mon, 2009/08/03 - 4:13pm. From a memo re. "best practices" for infiltrating and disrupting town hall meetings on health care reform and energy policy: • Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: "Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington." • Be Disruptive Early And Often: "You need to rock-the-boat early...

This just in my email box from those leftist guerrilla warriors over at Media Matters. They are launching an ad campaign to attack Lou Dobbs for mentioning the birth certificate controversy. From the announcement email, really a shakedown for funds (Is George Soros starting to lose money now too?): "As countless other media figures criticize Dobbs, CNN is making a mockery of its claim of being "the most trusted name in news." Jon Klein, the network's president, continues to downplay Dobbs' promotion of the birther theories, saying he is merely covering "the phenomenon of the doubters" -- even though Dobbs...

Durbin warns other lawmakers of healthcare town hall 'sucker punch' @ 3:39 pm by Jordan Fabian Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) warned other members of Congress against antagonistic audience members at healthcare town hall events who may be funded by industry interest groups. "I hope my colleagues won't fall for a sucker punch like this," Durbin told the liberal blog ThinkProgress. "These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town meetings for visual impact on television," he added. Liberal news sources have recently featured items about conservative and interest groups efforts to pack lawmakers' town hall...

A serious H/T is needed here to the Naked Emperor News video news site for compiling the various news clips, and tying the gang of ethics complainants together in a tidy little package with a bow. [Mata Musing: Naked Emperor is one upping themselves here, as they were also responsible for digging up all of Obama's historic statements on what he *really* wants for America's health care... a single payer system.]Naked Emperor posted their "EthicsGate" YouTube link, and the Alaskan Bloggers again ganged up to get it removed from YouTube. This would be the same group that whined when Palin...

July 30, 2009, 0:00 a.m. Suborned in the U.S.A.The birth-certificate controversy is about Obama’s honesty, not where he was born. By Andrew C. McCarthy Throughout the 2008 campaign, Barack Hussein Obama claimed it was a “smear� to refer to him as “Barack Hussein Obama.� The candidate had initially rhapsodized over how his middle name, the name of the prophet Mohammed’s grandson, would signal a new beginning in American relations with the Muslim world. But when the nomination fight intensified, Obama decided that Islamic heritage was a net negative. So, with a media reliably uncurious about political biographies outside metropolitan Wasilla,...

The Democrat Party, using networks of local blogger operatives, successfully bogged down the Alaska state government with a series of bogus "ethics" complaints and FOI requests, all designed to destroy former Gov. Sarah Palin. Now the party of Hope and Change is using the same strategy in Minnesota: "Three Minnesota bloggers filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Michele Bachmann this week, claiming the Republican violated House franking rules in an email to constituents."Sound familiar? In the early stages of using the strategy, Obama's goon squads seem to be concentrating on on states that have attractive, conservative women of faith in...

A great many Leftist in America today follow the radical teachings of their mentor Saul Alinsky - including Obama . Little do they know that they are following in the very footprints of his (Alinsky's) mentor and master, i.e., Lucifer (John 8:44). Rules for Radicals is a book by Saul Alinsky which is dedicated to the original radical, Lucifer, who is also known as Satan, the Devil, The Old Serpent, and The Dragon (Rev.12:2,20:2). All other dinky despots have their roots in this arch-villain. In this book is found the following: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to...

A great many Leftist in America today follow the radical teachings of their mentor Saul Alinsky - including Obama . Little do they know that they are following in the very footprints of his (Alinsky's) mentor and master, i.e., Lucifer (John 8:44). Rules for Radicals is a book by Saul Alinsky which is dedicated to the original radical, Lucifer, who is also known as Satan, the Devil, The Old Serpent, and The Dragon (Rev.12:2,20:2). All other dinky despots have their roots in this arch-villain. In this book is found the following: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to...

Are you familiar with Saul Alinsky's rules? Take Rule 5 for example. Ridicule. So what do you see in the liberal media? Stuff like this in local media, and then you'll see stuff like this in the national media. Look like ridicule to you? Or take rule 4. Making your enemy live up to his own rules. How many times you seen liberal politicians crow about draining swamps, or culture of corruption and the media goes right along with them? How many promises has Obama broken? Haven't seen much of a showing from the media on this, have you. How...

Read Pt VII here to bone up on "da complaint" Andree McLeod - better known as the serial whiner and state departments' fashion fascist - had her sixth complaint dismissed. This was, of course, another charge that Sarah absconded with state funds illegally as a governor when she should have.... according to Ms. Mcleod.... transferred the gubernatorial duties to the Lt. Gov. while campaigning. Makes a body casually wonder if McLeod was the least bit perturbed by this last Presidential campaign when no less than three sitting Senators... one with less than 150 working days under his belt (ahem)... were...