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To: be4everfree

I have to admit; Alinsky offers food for thought:

"Saul Alinsky's rules of power tactics, excerpted from his 1971 book "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals"

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. Whenever possible go outside 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.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. 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."


6 posted on 03/02/2007 4:23:48 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Tactic #5 is one conservatives should use more often.

It is my belief that most liberals are deeply insecure and are projecting their fears. They operate at a high level of uncertainty regarding most issues and their default position generally involves imposing their uncertainties on others.
9 posted on 03/02/2007 4:32:42 PM PST by be4everfree (Liberals are "Thick as a Brick" ......JT)
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To: Chi-townChief

You can see that some of the democrat's most annoying tactics come straight from Alinsky. They are annoying because they are disingenuous, they are drawn from the philosophy that the ends are everything and anything that facilitates advancement toward the goal is good.

Hillary can be beat like an omelet using nothing more than her nationalized health care debacle.


11 posted on 03/02/2007 4:35:16 PM PST by concentric circles
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To: Chi-townChief

This is not Alynski's work, this is military guerrilla tactic fed by the Soviet Union through the like of Alynski.


15 posted on 03/02/2007 4:55:38 PM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: Chi-townChief
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. ...


Hey! Stop that!

18 posted on 03/02/2007 5:17:18 PM PST by SquirrelKing ("When a coin in the carbon pot rings, out of global warmin hell a soul does spring." - Timothy Ball)
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To: Chi-townChief

Every Conservative should memorize these rules. Noise promotes, silence is agreement.


32 posted on 03/02/2007 6:40:49 PM PST by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: Chi-townChief

In actuality, those quotes sound like what I'd read in my local Chinese restaurant's fortune cookies.


84 posted on 03/03/2007 4:43:50 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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