You are being Alinsky-ed
Saul Alinsky’s Rules from Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky describes 24 rules in Rules for Radicals. Of those 24 rules, 13 are rules of “power tactics”:
1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy
thinks you have.”
2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.”
3. “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the
enemy.”
4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6. “A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.”
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
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.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will
break through into its counterside.”
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The remaining 11 rules Alinsky describes are concerned with “the ethics of means and ends”:
1. “One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue … Accompanying this rule is the parallel one that one’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s distance from the scene of conflict.”
2. “The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.”
3. “In war the end justifies almost any means.”
4. “Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.”
5. “Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.”
6. “The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.”
7. “Generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.”
8. “The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.”
9. “Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.”
10. “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”
11. “Goals must be phrased in general terms like ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,’ ‘Of the Common Welfare,’ ‘Pursuit of Happiness,’ or ‘Bread and Peace.’”
I think if conservatives don’t press this point all week long that the man must resign, over and over and over, we are losers.
What happened here is that conservatives are being taught a lesson that they are less than human and deserve contempt. And leftists are being given training lessons on how to humiliate conservatives and if we let this happen they will be given a pass. This will be standard operating procedure.
Are there bigger battles? Yes.
But the Broken Window Theory works here. Stop letting this happen OR no conservative is safe.
He needs to be Alinsky-ed BIGLY!
Hang tough bro! don’t let them even try to mess with your rights. You can always sue ‘em!!
I am assuming they are interested in your Facebook posts? If they are also going after your Freep posts, then they may be watching you via computer stream. University IT guys can connect to your screen when it is one of their computers and on their network. That may cross the line of targeted spying on the university’s part....
So lawyer time. Otherwise, it was probably a student filed a complaint over facebook.
I wouldn’t consider meeting with them alone. I’d have an attorney or at least a credible witness with me. And record the meeting.
1) Are you tenured? If so, no worries. Do what you want, and the worst your department chair can do to you is stick you with all of the Summer Semester classes.
2) Are you on the tenure track? If so, stop posting anything conservative on Facebook, start sharing memes from Occupy Democrats on Facebook, and start a new account on Free Republic with a screen name that cannot be identified back to you. And never, NEVER browse Free Republic from a University PC. All traffic is logged by the University IT department.
3) Are you non-tenure fixed term faculty? If so, see 2 above.
Any post on FR which neither identifies you nor the university is none of their business.
How do they know you’re even posting here?
These days, most institutions have a published policy on posting to social media. Generally, it is published in a general policy manual, a faculty/staff manual, or whatever that is referenced in your contract. I suspect that you have agreed to abide by those policies as a condition of employment, since that is common practice. You should find and read that policy and make it available to your attorney, if it comes to that.
Ask Mike Adams.
The DUer’s reported you.
Two of them and one of you? Don’t do it without someone else on your side in the room. Preferably don’t meet without conservative free speech council with you. There are a number of conservative organizations that will look into college free speech issues.
Two of them and one of you? Don’t do it without someone else on your side in the room. Preferably don’t meet without conservative free speech council with you. There are a number of conservative organizations that will look into college free speech issues.
Do you have a union? Shop steward should be there if you do.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
FWIW, I am not in HR, and I may be way off here but watch out for the "employee improvement" plan set up, i.e. meet these 3 benchmarks or we terminate you. Tangent to that if they get nasty and make the workplace unbearable, that possibly is hostile work environment territory. They don't want to do that to you that is a big no no in terms of HR....
Remember HR depts hate this stuff, lawyers, and the potentiality of things getting icky, and perhaps those pressuring you are potentially putting them is a corner and potentially you might have the stronger hand with a couple of aces. Having a protectiveness for the sake of your own careers stand, with those than can guide and give you protective advice is worth way more that what I posted, Go find those professionals.
it would be such a coincidence if a local conservative news crew happened to be in your office at the scheduled time....
Keeps records on who said what and when to you. Best if you can get it on tape just in case even if it appears to be minor issues. I am not sure what the privacy laws are, but might they be overstepping them?
Ask them if they have talked to any lib professors about their posts, show them some examples. I’m sure you can find some.
Call Liberty Law they are conservative lawyers who fight against Liberals.
Never use work email for FB or FR for postings.