Posted on 09/22/2008 7:32:41 PM PDT by T Ruth
My sister-in-law is a card carrying member of ACORN and buys the obama kool-aid by the case load. She has been trying to push him on me for over a year now.
btt
You have my sympathy.
When is someone in the MSM going to cover this? Why isn’t O’Reilly on the case about this?
It simply amazes me that this kind of illegal activity gets NO PLAY in the media. If it weren’t for the internet, this stuff would be covered up completely.
You can bet your britches that if this were a conservative group, there would be 24/7 coverage of it.
Every single time I see an article on ACORN vote fraud I send it to her and she always has the same response. “It is just a few people so why are you so worried about it?”
For anyone not familiar with the origins of the commonly used expression "Kool Aid drinkers"...
"In 1951, Jones began attending communist meetings and rallies in Indianapolis.[4] Jones became flustered at harassment he received during the McCarthy Hearings,[4] particularly, regarding meetings between Jones and his mother with Paul Robeson.[5] This, among other things, provoked a seminal moment for Jones where he asked himself "how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church."[5][4]"
"In the summer of 1977, Jones and most of the 900 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after media pressure built.[25] Jones left the same night that an editor at New West magazine read Jones an article by Marshall Kilduff to be published detailing allegations by former Temple members.[25][16] Jones named the settlement Jonestown after himself.
Jones purported to establish Jonestown as a benevolent model communist community stating, 'I believe were the purest communists there are.' [26] Jones' wife, Marceline, described Jonestown as "dedicated to live for socialism, total economic and racial and social equality. We are here living communally."[26] Jones wanted to construct a model community to show others and stated that Prime Minister of Guyana Forbes Burnham 'couldnt rave enough about us, uh, the wonderful things we do, the project, the model of socialism.'[27] In that regard, like the restrictive emigration policies of the then Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and other communist republics, Jones did not permit members to leave Jonestown.[28]
Jones and several members argued that the group should commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid (often misidentified as Kool-Aid) along with a sedative.[39]
One member, Christine Miller, dissents toward the beginning of the tape.[39] When members apparently cried, Jones counseled "Stop this hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity."[39] Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die" and, regarding death as "just stepping over into another plane" and that "[death is] a friend."[39] At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: "We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."[39] Children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together. The mass suicide had been discussed in simulated events called "White Nights" on a regular basis, while members drank liquid Jones first told them was poison during at least one of those White Nights.
I’m certain that we will see a piece about this on NBC, CBS and CNN!
Democrats Platform for Revolution
By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 05, 2008
Excerpt...
Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obamas legendary pledges to bring "change" to Americas political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, "Change We Can Believe In" is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is also well practiced at issuing calls for change. Her "Change and Experience" ad campaign was but an outgrowth of her 1993 declaration, as First Lady, that "remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.' Most Americans are unaware, however, that when Obama and Clinton speak of "change," they mean change in the sense that a profoundly significant, though not widely known, individual -- Saul Alinsky -- outlined in his writings two generations ago.
Much more at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D6E27ECE-9798-4F01-A378-3F1405F69704
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
________________________________________________________________
From the Boston Globe, August 31, 2008:
[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
Daryl L. Hunter - Publisher
Greater Yellowstone Resource Guide
If this were a conservative group, they'd be in jail.
Tonight on BO’R he did sort of discuss the links to Bill Ayers..I didn’t get to hear all of this but is sounded like he was about to give the Obama a pass...did anyone hear the show? I got the impression that O’R was not going to come down hard on this and I don’t know if the subject of ACORN came up.
The story that's been in plain site all along but which the media refused to cover -
This is the outfit that is tied up in the past and PRESENT voter fraud scams...
Just what did obambi DO as a “community organizer”? Since that was his initial claim to experience - why isn't any media looking into just what he DID under that title? (Maybe the hilderbeast and bubba will dig it up and pass it along)
BOR is hot air ...he’ll do nothing and he’s in the tank for Hussien
but maybe they just don't give a damn....
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