The American Left attempts a bloodless coup

Perspectives ^ | 4/29/2009 | Sandy Rios

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The American Left attempts a bloodless coup Sandy Rios - Guest Columnist - 4/29/2009 8:45:00

Totalitarian movements have always destroyed their enemies. Peter the Great of Russia murdered members of the Streltsy military corps by taking the ax of the executioner to cut off their heads one by one himself. The Bolsheviks murdered the last Russian Czar—along with his wife and family—by telling them they were going to have their picture made. As they smiled into the camera, they were shot, buried and had acid poured over their remains.

Stalin continued the blood bath of the Russian Revolution by murdering thousands of his own who didn't agree with Marxism. The Nazis had their gas chambers, not just for Jews, but also for dissenters. Fidel Castro turned his popularity into tyranny and brave Cubans gave their lives trying to free their beloved island. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia tortured and murdered the intelligentsia in the S21, the regular folk in the Killing Fields. The slightest lack of support for Pol Pot and the new regime earned one a place in a mass grave.

There was a dreadful logic in all of this: By killing the opposition, you eliminated any possibility of future resistance, and you eradicated any personality who could possibly remind or rally future generations to any other way of thinking. Power was—at least for a time—absolute in each situation.

But times have changed and so have strategies. Saul Alinsky, radical of the '60s, author of "Rules for Radicals" who was all about taking power, suggested that you target your opposition, make it personal and destroy him. Recent decades have seen this play out in the demonization and ruination of a host of people. They weren't killed, but they were in essence destroyed so that no one in the mainstream culture would ever again listen to or heed their advice. Richard Nixon...Oliver North...Clarence Thomas...Dick Cheney...Tom DeLay...George W. Bush...Sarah Palin.

Have Americans stopped to think that these destroyed people are all on the political right? Have they noticed that Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank still walk among us, exercising influence, with whatever reputations they have in tact?

[chase19]

Have they noticed that Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank still walk among us, exercising influence, with whatever reputations they have in tact?

[bert]

For the record.....it is blodless up to this point. It may not remain so forever

[null and void]

Only because they are incapable of feeling shame.

[null and void]

For the record.....it is bloodless up to this point. It may not remain so forever

I didn't want to say that out loud.

It won't.

[Dr. Ursus]

52% of the Americans are morons!

[Outlaw Woman]

“The American Left attempts a bloodless coup...”

Attempts?? The coup already happened on 11/04/2008

[Las Vegas Ron]

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

~Thomas Jefferson

[ETL]

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by Dynamic Committee, 30.04.2008 14:57

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First published 04/30/2008 16:09 by (article_topic_desc)

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Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
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."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (Latter-Rain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[umgud]

The American left dominate academia, MSM, Hollywood entertainment and the unions. When you own and control a propoganda (spin) and attack machine as vast as this, it’s a small wonder there are any conservatives at all.

[chase19]

I just came across this artical by the Anchoress whose been talking about it since 2005 - an excellent read on how it grew to reach this point:
http://www.firstthings.com/theanchoress/2006/09/24/the-art-of-the-painless-coup-repost/

[DTogo]

The American Left will eventually overreach, and it will no longer be bloodless.

They will rue that day...

[muawiyah]

Bill Clinton's secretary's brother died in a highway accident just days before she was to testify regarding his bad behavior.

He was crossing an interstate highway. He was struck by a truck. Then, he was struck by a truck coming the other way.

What do you mean by "Begin"? Did people think "the Clinton Body Count" was a joke or something?

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52% of the Americans are morons!

Not true. Half of us are above average...

52% of voters are morons.

More accurately, 52% percent of the votes were moronic. No telling how many of those were multiple votes.

[null and void]

Retail vs wholesale.

Still, point conceded...

[headsonpikes]

"The American Left attempts a bloodless coup"

After a time, their patience will be exhausted - THEN they will cheerfully liquidate the "wreckers'.

At that time, you may bleed all you wish.

[chase19]

Agree which leaves us constantly on the defensive - we must attack. I believe the Tea Parties are the most potent tool.

[oblomov]

In a rural Virginia server farm, a disk drive whirs momentarily, and your comment is recorded.

[null and void]

FWIW, I’m observing, not advocating.

[Radix]

The assault on Robert Bork was probably about the time that I found myself with time to begin considering an evaluation of my convictions.

The liberal media was absolutely brutal towards him.

[alloysteel]

You only have to outnumber them at the polls.

Or on the battlegrounds that will surely come into being as the “New Columbia” emerges from the wreckage of the fallen nation once known as the “Untied States of America”. There may remain of that formerly great nation a number of isolated small republics, centered mostly on the East and West coasts, and possibly around the Great Lakes.

There is no such thing as a coup that remains bloodless.