Those evil tea baggers have burned down the Reichstag! They must be arrested! (/sarcasm)
Posted on 03/27/2010 6:41:47 AM PDT by GregNH
The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar. They resemble faces of protesters lining the street at the University of Alabama in 1956 as Autherine Lucy, the school's first black student, bravely tried to walk to class.
Those same jeering faces could be seen gathered around the Arkansas National Guard troopers who blocked nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.
"They moved closer and closer," recalled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine. "Somebody started yelling, 'Lynch her! Lynch her!' I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the crowd -- someone who maybe could help. I looked into the face of an old woman and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she spat on me."
Those were the faces I saw at a David Duke rally in Metairie, La., in 1991: sullen with resentment, wallowing in victimhood, then exploding with yells of excitement as the ex-Klansman and Republican gubernatorial candidate spewed vitriolic white-power rhetoric.
People like that old woman in Little Rock, the Alabama mob that hounded Autherine Lucy, the embracers of Duke's demagoguery in Louisiana, never go away.
They were spotted last weekend on Capitol Hill under the Tea Party banner protesting the health-care-reform bill. Some carried a signs that read "If Brown [Scott Brown (R-Mass.)] can't stop it, a Browning [high power weapon] can." Some shouted racial and homophobic epithets at members of Congress. Others assumed the role of rabble, responding to the calls of instigating Republican representatives gathered on a Capitol balcony. [emphasis mine]
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LEARN HOW TO USE SAUL ALINSKY’S RULES FOR RADICALS AGAINST THE DEMOCRATS.
Don’t lash back . . . RIDICULE back. Make them live up to their standards.
This article makes my blood boil. It’s a use of rhetoric and color that is so mean-spirited, a Tea Party Patriot would not consider using it. THAT’s why we MUST use the Alinsky tactics back at them.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people”.
When Lies are your stock in trade, Going ‘outside the expertise of your people’ means being truthful and honest. Saul knows that the Statists can never attain power if they do that.
Saul’s advice is that the Statist’s need to stick to this area of expertise and never get pulled into the realm of facts and logic and instead Lie, obfuscate and deceive. Conservatives know that the truth is on their side, We conservatives have no need to go outside the truth and into the Statist’s realm of Lies, nor do we have any desire to. The Statist’s have to lie because it’s all they have.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy”.
For the Statist, this means assaulting Conservatives with Double standards and lies. It means spewing an outrageous Lie at a Conservative, and quickly following up with another big lie while the Conservative is refuting the first Lie and so on. It means overwhelming the Conservative with rhetorical BS as a way of silencing the Conservative.
We Conservatives know that with the facts and logic on our side, we can win any argument with the Statists as long as it is a fair venue. The Statists can only win if the deck is stacked in their favor and their lies aren’t challenged. They can only win when they are the Only voice or possible if it’s ratio of 5 Statists against one Conservative.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Given that Statists seemingly have no moral code, this would appear to be a good tactic for them. But in reality, they do have ‘rules’ – rules they want everyone else to live by, but not themselves – Statist’s are nothing if not hypocrites.
Therefore, we Conservatives should insist that the Statists ‘lead by example’ – live by their own set of stupid rules and admonitions.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”.
Aren’t Statists supposed to be fair minded and only have good intentions, always whining about Social justice and other types of PC crapola? This one readily illustrates that they are just duplicitous liars.
Given what we all know about them, maybe it’s not such a work of genius to propose this as a tactic, seeing that Conservatives can easily turn this against the Statist – and have lots of fun doing it.
Lies, Double standards and deceptions are not only easy to ridicule but enjoyable to demolish. Conservatives are confident in their beliefs and in the truth. Unfortunately, we have to keep on doing this because the Statists constantly repackage their lies and ideas with different terminology – same excrement in a different bag.
8. “Keep the pressure on”
Just like the anaconda, squeezing the life out of its prey, Statists always have to maintain pressure to squeeze the Liberty and freedom out of a society. But an important distinction here is that Statist’s require the productive to fuel their vote buying revenue stream. Before they can seize full control of a society, Statist’s still require the good works of the very people they demonize – achievers and producers. They have to demonize the tax Payers (note the emphasis on ‘Payer’)– the people who actually contribute to society – in order to justify seizing their wealth.
This is important because it gives Conservatives a way to fight the Statists. As Statism wraps it’s slimy coils around a societies freedoms and liberties, it’s achiever’s and producers will either escape or gradually halt their efforts. This is why these systems invariably fail and are eventually replaced with free societies, but only at great human cost.
We conservatives can stop this cycle dead in it’s tracks if we advocate achiever’s and producers going on strike for short time periods as an act of ‘civil disobedience’ – as the Statist would say.
Alexander Tytler said that a democracy can only exist until people discover that they can vote to seize other’s people money. The corollary to that is that the crushing of a free society by the Statists can be halted if the achievers and producers refuse to cooperate with their very destruction.
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside”.
Besides the idiotic new age gibberish, this tactic highlights the Statist’s head’s I win, Tails I win method of governance.
This is exemplified by the phenomena that the Statists always come out on top – even when it is their ideas that screw things up. To them, the answer is always more government, even when the problem IS the government, so they think they can’t lose.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
This seems to be the Statist’s favorite tactic – mercilessly go after individuals that oppose their collectivist aspirations. These are the people that always set themselves on a pedestal as the fairest minded, tolerant and only seeking justice, yeah, sure.
Tactic #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”, and this one should be an abject embarrassments to the radical left; instead, they proudly promote and teach these hideous methods.
Remember: The aggressor sets the rules, and according to Saul Alinsky, you should always attack an individual with ridicule and never let up. Something to always to remember about the Statists. Aside from the fact that they are consummate Liars, this is the most important lesson Conservatives can learn from these tactics.
Generally consumed with Hatred of individuality and individual freedoms, Statists are vicious little snotweasels (just following your lead, Saul) that couldn’t tell the truth if their life depended on it. Conservatives need to deal with them accordingly.
In that case take it to the courts. Sue them for libel and defamation. That may be the only way to teach those idiots a lesson.
Now I'm on my way to SEARCHLIGHT!!!!!!!!
I agree that we need to use the tactics that the left uses against us, short of the violence they provoke.
Chanting slogans germane to the situation (i.e., “Read the bill. Kill the bill. Listen to what we say., etc) should be the only thing we should be about.
If there is one that does any of the provocative acts (profanities, racial slurs, etc.) it is the duty of those near that one to shout that down as vociferously as possible. We must police ourselves. Isolate the hatemongers, extremists and infiltrators that dilute the sincerity of our message. Shout louder than the vulgar proponents and shout at them.
Vote like your life depended on it because it probably will. Find a candidate that supports 1)line item veto (defunding everything and every entity not specifically granted to the Federal government in the Constitution), 2)balanced budget (you cannot spend what you do not have—no more deficits, set asides, earmarks, off budget items), and 3) the Fair Tax (a guaranteed fair and equitable increased revenue stream to begin to pay off the National Debt). Once you find that candidate, burn yourself out in supporting them with as much time, energy and financial support as you can.
Those evil tea baggers have burned down the Reichstag! They must be arrested! (/sarcasm)
Someday the conservatives, Tea Party and Patriotic Americans will catch on and use these tactics to our advantage.
From the Start, the Freedom loving Americans should have preempted the civil rights parallel and used it to our advantage. We should have compared ourselves to the Alabama School children, fighting for freedom, equal rights against an oppressive bureaucracy.
But instead, we continue to allow them to place us on the defensive and demagogue the issue.
We MUST learn to appeal to people on an emotional level. Playing the victim is not something that comes naturally to conservatives but allowing the socialist media to make a movement about freedom into one of racism, fascism and oppression is something we simply cannot afford. Unfortunately, it’s something they do successfully on a daily basis.
Someone should remind this moron that those ‘’faces of hate’’ in the 1950’s South were people who voted for Democrats.
There’s nothing racist about the Tea Party movement. It’s a delusional stretch for this guy to compare them to segregationists. Being angry does not mean that you are racist. This author apparently believes that they are racist, because he says so.
The Democratic News Media will get no help from me. They’re propagandists for the Democratic Party. As such, they are as much a political foe as the Democrats in Congress. They’re also flaming delusional.
I like to remind such scoundrels that ultimately, out of all the Dixiecrat politicians opposed to segregation, only one, Strom Thurmond, became a Republican. The rest remained Democrats to their dying days.
Of course they say I’m lying, being scoundrels, so I prove it:
* (D)VA Harry F. Byrd, 1933-1965
* (D)VA A. Willis Robertson, 1946-1966
* (D)MS John C. Stennis, 1947-1989
* (D)MS James O. Eastland, 1941-1941, 1943-1978
* (D)LA Allen J. Ellender, 1937-1972
* (D)LA Russell B. Long, 1948-1987
* (D)NC Sam Ervin, 1954-1974
* (D)NC Everett Jordan, 1958-1973
* (D)OK Thomas Pryor Gore, 1906-1921, 1931-1937
* (D)AL J. Lister Hill, 1938-1969
* (D)AL John J. Sparkman, 1946-1979
* (D)FL Spessard Holland, 1946-1971
* (D)FL George Smathers, 1951-1969
* (D)SC Olin D. Johnston, 1945-1965
* (D,R)SC Strom Thurmond, 1954-1956, 1956-2003
* (D)AR John McClellan, 1943-1977
* (D)GA Richard B. Russell, Jr., 1933-1971
* (D)GA Herman E. Talmadge, 1957-1981
* (D)TN Herbert S. Walters, 1963-1964
* Benjamin Travis Laney, Arkansas Governor
* Fielding Wright, Mississippi Governor
* Frank M. Dixon, Former Alabama Governor
* William H. Murray, Former Oklahoma Governor
* Mills E. Godwin Jr. Governor of Virginia
* Floyd Spence state representative from South Carolina
* Albert Watson while U.S. Representative from South Carolina
* Walter Sillers JR, Mississippi Speaker of the House
* Harvey T. Ross, Mississippi State Legislature
* Thomas P. Brady, Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court
* Gessner T. McCorvey, Alabama state Democratic Executive Committee Chairman
* Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (1955-1967) during the Little Rock Nine Crisis and presidential candidate.
* Leander Perez, Parish Judge in St. Bernard Parish and political boss of the parish.
* Horace C. Wilkinson, Birmingham attorney defender of the Klan and political “leader”
I think it’s predictable, given the political motivation of the people spouting it. Don’t let them intimidate you, and don’t let them divide us. If you have done nothing, you have nothing to apologize for. Let Mr. King be responsible for every whacko who claims they’re doing something for civil rights.
Eric, the beauty of these stupid articles can been seen in the responses. This time last year, it was all Obamabots commenting on the Compost, ABC.com, CBS.com. All of them, now it runs about 80% against the libs. The Obots have the same mantra, they cut and paste but they are getting refuted at every turn!!
It’s a shame the once proud journalism profession has become a playground for the Left.
It's not the drivel that Colbert King spews.
Some shouted racial and homophobic epithets at members of Congress
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There is no credible claim that this happened.
Actually there are three videos that have surfaced from that event and not one bore out any evidence of anything but “Kill the bill”
*I read only the excerpt provided. I refuse to go to the Washington ComPost Heap to give them more hits.
Look, this is another example of the left out maneuvering us. They have us on the defensive. Constantly we are re acting instead of proactively attacking the left.
I would encourage all of you to read about the OODA theory and begin to employ it against the left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA
These Democrats stories are designed to taunt tea party and conservatives in the hopes of inciting and emotional response that results in someone committing an extreme violent act in public where it can be replayed and replayed.
At that point, they can declare the tea party terrorists and stamp out their speech even if the guy that did it isn’t a member of the tea party and just another wing nut.
I suspect though, if they keep it up, that one of two things will happen. A clean sweep in the elections or a civil war or both when who ever is elected doesn’t repeal the bill.
I am afraid we are heading towards a 3rd world country where there will be ingrained civil strife for generations. This bill was the catalyst, we need to undo it’s damage to society.
Well, sir, it looks like you Tea Party types are learning a harsh political lesson. In politics, what you stand for counts for a lot less than how people perceive you. And on that count, the MSM is handing you your collective rear end.
This is what comes of political organizations that actively spurn any sort of coordinated direction, which is something that the Tea Party folks themselves proudly admit. What that means, though, is that the only folks out there who have the means to shape public perception of the Tea Parties, are its opponents.
It's the easiest thing in the world for them. You're angry -- justifiably so -- but that's all that anybody ever sees. You haven't got anybody who can stand before the media as the face of the Tea Parties and explain exactly what you're angry about, and what you intend to do about it. And I don't believe you really can, because it appears that you have no clearly-agreed definition of what the Tea Parties are really about, aside from "being opposed."
Political energy is a fine thing, but it's never enough to have energy. Undirected political energy can be used by anybody who can channel it, including opponents. Here we see an example of a very successful campaign by the left to use the political energy of the Tea Parties to their own detriment.
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