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EVERY single time I hear the term “community organizer” I picture al sharpton and jessie jackson........and I snicker.
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Try Saul Alinsky.
Obama, all signs show, is an Alinsky radical (the father of the Chicago community organizers, a grandfather of Obama, but Obama was already steeped in neo-Marxism by time he hit Chicago). Alinsky’s organizers might even be the reason he targeted Chicago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
...and Barack Obama
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/activistinf/morality.html
THE 10 RULES OF THE ETHICS OF MEANS AND ENDS
Alinsky presents a set of “rules” on the ethics of means and ends.
http://www.answers.com/topic/saul-alinsky
Alinsky was a critic of a passive and ineffective mainstream liberalism. In Rules for Radicals, he argued that the most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired ends, and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice.
The left is dominated by the old, Marxist, cum “radical” tactic of “the ends justifies the means” and that morality is simply a set of perceptions of the people, either as a weapon against the socialist, or a tool set for him to utilize. And the goal, mind you, is to control and manipulate the people in order to gain the power they need — in order to (funny part here) empower the people. Worked really well in Asia, last Century.
Lie. Pretend to be a democrat interested in freedom and the common principles of one’s milieu. Become messianic if you can to get power. Focus on the felt problems of the masses. But gain power however you can.
And that doesn’t get to: Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremigh Wright and the “Black Liberation Theology” Marxists, David Ayers the Maoist, and so on.
[Saul Alinsky's] Son sees father's handiwork in [2008 democrat] convention
ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.
The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.
It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.
I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.
L. DAVID ALINSKY
Medfield
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From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]
[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
“...and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice.”
—meaning, the death of democracy and freedom. Isn’t it refreshing (sarc) to note that a potential POTUS was taught by mentors with that specific goal in mind!