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1972 Playboy Saul Alinsky interview (Know Your Enemy!!)
Native Forest Council ^ | Friday, April 9, 2010 | Jim Britell

Posted on 04/09/2010 4:10:02 AM PDT by canuck_conservative

Edited on 04/09/2010 6:40:30 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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Lots of valuable background info here.

Hey, if the guy's an organizational genius, then conservatives should be able to employ the same tactics to our advantage. If it works for the left, why not for us? It's time we beat those clowns at their own game.

1 posted on 04/09/2010 4:10:04 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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Then the bastards brought in those serial machines at the door where you pull out a ticket that's only good for that particular cafeteria. That was a low blow. We were the first victims of automation.

What a low life piece of crap the liberals selected as a hero. No wonder liberals are pantie waist punks.

2 posted on 04/09/2010 4:12:47 AM PDT by highlander_UW (First we take down the Democrats, then we clean the Augean stable that is the GOP.)
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Just an ordinary, low down, two bit swindler crook. And he got a campus group to buy in to it. Back then.


3 posted on 04/09/2010 4:15:52 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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>> ALINSKY: The first and most important thing you can do to win this acceptance is to bait the power structure into publicly attacking you. In Back of the Yards, when I was first establishing my credentials, I deliberately maneuvered to provoke criticism. I made outrageous statements to the press, I attacked every civic and business leader I could think of, and I goaded the establishment to strike back ..... <<

Now you know why the continuous stream of “slip-ups” of Obama’s people referring to him as a Kenyan.


4 posted on 04/09/2010 4:16:06 AM PDT by dangus
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Also sounds like they may have inadvertently aided Palin’s rise to power.


5 posted on 04/09/2010 4:20:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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conservatives should be able to employ the same tactics to our advantage

If you play by the Devil's rule book, don't be surprised when you become just like the Devil.

6 posted on 04/09/2010 4:20:31 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Ronald Reagan: "Peace Through Strength." Barack Obama: "Perpetual War Through Utter Weakness.")
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We can employ some of their tactics (isolation, ridicule, aggressiveness).

But the difference is that Leftism is based on lies.

When you are trying to take control based on lies, that requires a strategy that ridicules and demonizes Truth and elevates the Lie.

That won’t work for us. Because Conservatism is based on an objective set of moral principles, on historical evidence, on fact, and, above all, on Truth.

So, like good soldiers, we’ll use whatever we can to our advantage. But some of the tricks this scumbag Alinsky employed simply won’t work.


7 posted on 04/09/2010 4:21:20 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Good reply. See my post following yours.


8 posted on 04/09/2010 4:22:01 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: EternalVigilance

True! when the unwritten zeroth rule seems to be “Numb your conscience.”


9 posted on 04/09/2010 4:23:11 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
You probably know that Alinky's "Rules for Radicals" was dedicated to Lucifer.


10 posted on 04/09/2010 4:26:22 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Ronald Reagan: "Peace Through Strength." Barack Obama: "Perpetual War Through Utter Weakness.")
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To: canuck_conservative

bookmark


11 posted on 04/09/2010 4:26:51 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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12 posted on 04/09/2010 4:27:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Ronald Reagan: "Peace Through Strength." Barack Obama: "Perpetual War Through Utter Weakness.")
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Typical thief and liar.


13 posted on 04/09/2010 4:27:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: EternalVigilance

the devil you say.


14 posted on 04/09/2010 4:28:49 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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This is very interesting. Alinsky was a punk who made it into a philosophy. And speaking of “Know your enemy,!” Playboy magazine has always been a vehicle for everything radical.


15 posted on 04/09/2010 4:32:12 AM PDT by Malesherbes (Sauve qui peut)
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And he got a campus group to buy in to it.

Did he? How many of them walked away from him and went on to lead honest lives? He isn't bragging about that.

No telling how many people marked him down as a lowlife, but don't expect him to tell you about that.

16 posted on 04/09/2010 4:33:03 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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True, he might be exaggerating (though perhaps this was what motivated the cafeteria chain to switch check systems). Today, you pay as you exit the line with your tray of food and there’s very little room for cheating.


17 posted on 04/09/2010 4:36:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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So cops studying criminal methods become more criminal-like? When the US military studied the Nazi war tactics it made them more Nazi-like?

C'mon, you have to understand the threat before you can defeat it. So all I'm saying is (a) be aware of what they're using, so we can be ready and blunt it, and (b) some methods may be useful for us.

I'm not advocating any law-breaking or deception, because we don't have to. But I think you'll admit, for a side that has truth with it in so many ways, we haven't made our conservative case effectively enough against the insanity that's been going on lately.


18 posted on 04/09/2010 4:38:44 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Malesherbes
Alinsky was a punk who made it into a philosophy.

Sound familiar? Sound like anyone we know ...... named Hugh Hefner?

Maybe the Playboy interview was pure affinity at work.

19 posted on 04/09/2010 4:38:50 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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True, he might be exaggerating ....

He's also lying to some degree in the retelling.

For example, if he told that story exactly as he told it to Playboy, to Ed Stash and his associates, about how he sucked up and got them to talk to him, do you think they might have had a little different take on it?

Different enough to win Alinsky a new position with the Mob .... head down in a barrel of wet cement, maybe?

20 posted on 04/09/2010 4:42:22 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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