Posted on 07/25/2015 2:43:03 PM PDT by ebb tide
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” ~Saul Alinsky
Chicago was home of Saul Alinsky, the infamous founder of community organizing, who penned his infamous manifesto, Rules for Radicals. Borrowing a page from his creed for leftists, Alinsky encourage political operatives to agitate, foster resentments, fan hostilities and create a mass army of malcontents. ACORN, SEIU and other union thug organization serve as the model Alinsky community organizations.
Hailing from the rough and tumble political landscape of Al Capone and the Daley machine, where politics is a blood sport, the hard ball politics played by the Vatican are very familiar, albeit problematic. One wonders what happened to the mercy papacy?
The political gloves have come off operatives at the Vatican who are engaging in hardball partisan political tactics. One doesn’t expect that an organization known otherwise, as the Seat of Peter, the Holy Roman Church, The Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican, the Papacy, and the Holy See would start hurling political invectives at faithful Catholics. Yet, it is happening at the Vatican. Welcome to the papal Alinsky Adherents.
One of the most menacing of the Alinsky Rules is to ‘ridicule your opponent’. In the face of opposition, Alinsky recommends that you demean, scoff, and infuriate your enemy. Name calling is always the desired tactic of harassment. Lately, this is the tack of choice by the Pope’s minions. Enter Bishop Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), and mastermind of the radical papal environmental agenda. PASS serves as the launching pad (sorry, NASA), for the radical climate change/global warming/UN sustainable development agenda.
In response to criticism that he excluded and barred diverse scientific opinions on climate change, and inexplicably, only invited rabid UN pro-abortion advocates, Bishop Sorondo responded with what can only be described as Alinsky rancor and venom. His baffling hostility and defensiveness spoke volumes.
Are Catholics to remain silent when the Vatican opens the bronze doors of St. Peter’s to population control disciples and abortion proponents like Jeffrey Sachs, Hans Schellnhuber, Naomi Klein, Ban Ki Moon, Governor Jerry Brown, NY Mayor Bill de Blasio? These hand-picked papal advisors cause faithful Catholics great consternation, not only because they represent only one side of the environmental debate, but more troubling, they embody moral views in direct contravention to the theological teaching of the Catholic Church.
What is going on at the Vatican? Why are the Church Fathers actively embracing individuals who are virulent opponents of Church moral teachings? One of the Vatican advisors is Jeffrey Sachs, who has been invited 7 times to keynote Vatican eco-conferences and draft papal documents! For the last 25 years, Sachs led and promoted legalized abortion and population control in his various roles at the UN, including his latest as director of Sustainable Development Goals. This papal advisor defies any rational defense, and confounds Catholics as a theological and moral head scratcher.
So, when criticism arises over the skewed selection of papal experts at the PASS, Bishop Sorondo dusts off Rules for Radicals and engages in political hard ball name calling. Case in point, when the Heartland Institute delegation of preeminent climate scientists raised objections about the partisan, unscientific, anti-life stance of all the Vatican experts, Bishop Sorondo unloaded. Bishop Sorondo unleashed a torrent of demeaning barbs, calling the Heartland 7 “Tea Partiers,” and “Deniers who funded by oil interests”. Then, Sorondo finished off with an arrogant flourish, “we can invite any one we want.” Testy, eh? Not so merciful, your Eminence.
Sorondo’s blatant character assassination and over-reaction to criticism is so revealing. His bullying betrays a radical political agenda at work at the PASS. It continues.
This week, the name-calling at the Vatican persisted as Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA), a rabid supporter of abortion and LGBT rights, and a radical environmentalist (all essential qualities for Vatican experts), described scientific dissenting voices as “Troglodytes”. His diatribe continued as he peddled that deniers of climate change are spending “billions on trying to keep from office people such as yourselves and elect troglodytes and other deniers of the obvious science.” Brown castigated climate deniers for their “fierce opposition and blind inertia” and their attempts to “falsify the scientific record” to persuade scientists, politicians and the American people that global warming does not exist. End of discussion, no deniers need apply.
The debate was shut down before it even started by the Alinskyites guarding the Vatican gate. Their behavior exposes an agenda that obscures the truth and conceals the radical agenda from scrutiny. This is machine politics, plain and simple; the goals are censorship, intimidation, discrediting, and a smear campaign against any dissenters. One would expect this from a Chicago precinct captain, but it’s quite unbecoming of a Prince of the Church. Yet, the Vatican overplayed its hand. Their invective and cunning tactics expose the cover up: the big lie of global warming.
Legitimate and credential scientists know that global warming is a hoax perpetuated by radical environmentalists for the sole purpose of imposing a one global government upon the world. The climate change scheme provides the perfect vehicle to seize control, and force redistribution of wealth through carbon taxes and fines. The Vatican has chosen the side of the big lie. This papacy is perpetuating the global warming myth by aligning with the most pernicious enemies of the Catholic Church. Indeed, politics makes strange bedfellows.
Go ahead, call us names. We will not be deterred or intimidated. We will defend Holy Mother Church. We will defend the truth. And the truth will set us free.
“But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth, we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.” ~2 Corinthians 4:2
And who would be that pimp?
and I just may answer.
Or not.
Try to not take everything so personal?
If I had intended to lay into you for something, you'd not be having any doubts as to what it was all about.
Oh, and please refrain from comparing FRiends directly with Satan.
Think you can manage that?
I apologize. By repeating the words of others in what seemed an approving manner, I assumed you were saying it. So then were you repeating the words of others in an unapproving manner?
Many people don't, which is why we have ended up in such a collectively deplorable state and those of us who adhere to traditional values are being forced back on all fronts by the savant's of Satan's methodology.
I don't take the article to declare that the Vatican operatives in question are adherents to Alinksy himself per se, although it is hardly a stretch of the imagination to suppose that men in the business of politics, well-educated men at least, would be intimately familiar with his writings, just as they would familiar with the works of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.
It is not a coincidence that the left has been rolling with more collective success in nearly every quarter (political, national, ecclesiastical) in the past century than at any other time. Their suddenly apparent success has been the result of a long and oft invisible campaign going back much further in history. Alinsky merely synthesized all the tactics of political and cultural agitation and subversion into one handy, easy-to-use reference that can be applied (with varying degrees of panache and refinement) by common rabble-rousers and international theorists alike. In that sense, the Vatican operatives in question are Acolytes of Saul Alinsky, even if they aren't following his edition of Satan's playbook.
In any event, why do you take such issue with what is, overall, the most superficial facet of the article? No offense, but your grand arrival to the comment section of this article is reminiscent of a belligerent drunk bellying up to a bar. I rather get the sense that you looking to ruffle feathers for your own amusement.
1) I never compared anybody on this forum to Satan.
2) My question was not unkind.
3) I don’t give a hoot about any of you “answers”. They are worthless, in my opinion.
Please point out the post in which I repeated the "words of others" or retract your false accusation.
was not comparing anyone to Satan. Just their 'writings', huh? All the same, according to you...
But it was ridiculous. Don't you know who the blogger overlord is around here? I was making reference to that. That knowledge alone should have explained everything.
I'm not sure why that would need to be explained to anyone who has been here for years...
Your question, "and who would be that pimp", as it came about, also, in addition to not being up to speed on freeper culture, seemed to me that if was if you had assumed I was implying something that included yourself. As such, it was like an accusation in the form of a question.
Yet in #2) statement quoted just above you just acknowledged having asked me a question, and in several comments on this thread, you have asked questions.
But ---you say you don't give a hoot about answers, and others' opinions are "worthless".
That's part of what I was talking about when I had said "ask more kindly and maybe you'll get an answer". Can you see it yet?
Yet if it were true (no 'hoot' available) then its not entirely logical to have asked questions.
I get the impression that despite what you are saying, opinions of others have some value.
Gunner is a tough customer though, ain't he? lol
Everyone has their reasons. I think I understand his.
But thanks for the thread.
From the article;
Name calling is always the desired tactic of harassment. Lately, this is the tack of choice by the Pope’s minions. Enter Bishop Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), and mastermind of the radical papal environmental agenda. PASS serves as the launching pad (sorry, NASA), for the radical climate change/global warming/UN sustainable development agenda.In response to criticism that he excluded and barred diverse scientific opinions on climate change, and inexplicably, only invited rabid UN pro-abortion advocates, Bishop Sorondo responded with what can only be described as Alinsky rancor and venom. His baffling hostility and defensiveness spoke volumes.
...
...So, when criticism arises over the skewed selection of papal experts at the PASS, Bishop Sorondo dusts off Rules for Radicals and engages in political hard ball name calling. Case in point, when the Heartland Institute delegation of preeminent climate scientists raised objections about the partisan, unscientific, anti-life stance of all the Vatican experts, Bishop Sorondo unloaded. Bishop Sorondo unleashed a torrent of demeaning barbs, calling the Heartland 7 “Tea Partiers,” and “Deniers who funded by oil interests”. Then, Sorondo finished off with an arrogant flourish, “we can invite any one we want.” Testy, eh? Not so merciful, your Eminence.
They did stack the deck. The game was rigged. The sought for conclusions foregone. It was more as stage managed theater rather than anything like discussion --- unless one's idea of discussion is pre-agreement on all major points.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.