Posted on 12/03/2007 4:27:53 PM PST by Richard Poe
| by Richard Lawrence Poe Monday, December 3, 2007 |
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HILLARY CLINTON is America’s leading gun-hater. This is no secret. Her “F” rating from the National Rifle Association merely confirms the obvious. More perplexing is why she hates guns. The explanation may lie in the teachings of Hillary's one-time political mentor Saul Alinsky.
As noted in last week’s column, Alinsky was a radical organizer who got his start building militant community groups in Chicago slums during the 1930s. Young Hillary met him through a leftwing church group in high school. She wrote her senior thesis about Alinsky at Wellesley College, and remained friends with him until Alinsky died in 1972. After law school, Alinsky operatives got Hillary an appointment to the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigative team in 1974.
Hillary’s ties to Alinsky run deep. Her tactics have long borne his imprint.
In 1971, Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals, a book destined to change the American left. In it, Alinsky mocked Sixties radicals as dilettantes who loved to talk revolution, but shunned the hard work of organizing the masses.
Especially irksome to Alinsky was loose talk of guns and bombs.
Such talk was fashionable in the Sixties. Student protestors loved quoting Chairman Mao's 1938 statement, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”.
Some activists, like those of the Black Panther Party, went beyond mere words. In their ten-point platform of October 1966, the Panthers declared, among other things, “The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense.”
On May 2, 1967, Panther boss Bobby Seale led some 20 armed Panthers into the California State Capitol Building in Sacramento, brandishing loaded rifles, shotguns and pistols. They were protesting the Mulford Act, a pending bill that would bar Californians from carrying guns in public or in vehicles.
Police arrested Seale and five others, but pressed no weapons charges. Carrying guns was still legal in California. Prosecutors ended up charging the Panthers only with disturbing the peace.
Young Hillary Rodham supported the Black Panthers. At Yale, she helped defend the New Haven Nine, a group of Panthers who tortured to death a suspected police informant. Hillary worked closely with Panther attorney Charles Garry on the case. She was put in charge of monitoring the Panther trial for civil rights violations.
Despite her work on behalf of the Panthers, Hillary may have developed doubts about their tactics. Her mentor Saul Alinsky had harsh words for Panther gunmen. In his book Rules for Radicals, Alinsky expressed “contempt” for “those who leave their dead comrades and take off for Algeria or other points”.
Alinsky was no pacifist. In Rules for Radicals, he wrote, “The power of a gun may be used to enforce slavery, or to achieve freedom”. He rejected violence for practical reasons, not moral ones.
The problem with America, Alinsky wrote, was that rightwingers had more firepower than leftists. This made violent revolution impractical. “`Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns,” Alinsky admonished his readers.
In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky noted approvingly that Lenin renounced violence upon returning to Russia from exile in April 1917. The Tsar had abdicated, but Social Democrats now controlled the government. Lenin’s Bolsheviks were outnumbered and outgunned.
Alinsky explained, “The essence of Lenin’s speeches during this period was `They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet’ And it was.”
Lenin did not have to wait long. He siezed power in an armed coup in October 1917.
As long as the right has more guns, the left should oppose guns, Alinsky concluded. Only when the balance of power shifts, and “appropriate weapons” became “available” to the left, should leftists consider turning to violence.
To what extent Senator Clinton adopted Alinsky's thinking on revolutionary violence we can only guess. However, her policy on guns is clear, whatever her motives may be. She seeks to disarm the American people, while arming herself to the hilt.
Hillary exhorts us to give up our guns for the common good. For herself, she aspires to the Presidency, from which perch she would wield power as America’s top law enforcement official, highest-ranking intelligence officer and commander-in-chief of the mightiest army, navy and air force in the world.
Something about this deal does not strike me as equitable. Or wise.
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Richard Lawrence Poe is a contributing editor to Newsmax, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party, co-written with David Horowitz. |
Thanks for the ping, Richard. Great article. Outstanding links. A look inside the criminal mind. All criminals fear your ability to defend yourself. Hillary is no exception.
From David Limbaugh here.
I think there is a lot of truth in what you say here Richard...Good article.
Don’t ever, EVER, think that “it can’t happen here.” Hillary & Co. believe in incrementalism/salami tactics/camel’s nose, etc. For instance, did YOU believe in 1992 that people would be taking gay marriage seriously 12 years later?
Socialized Medicine is not going away.
Euthanasia?
Bueller?
Thank you for the ping Richard. My daughter recently asked me to send her information about Hillary. Your Profile page is an excellent source, I enjoyed browsing through it!
I just don't know. Maybe it's time for a hillary presidency, with a democRAT controlled Congress.
Why? I believe Thomas Jefferson was right. History proves him right. 1861 was less than a hundred years after the founding of this great nation.
Yep, maybe it's time for hillary. Let's get the hundred years going now before it's too late.
"Too late" meaning it's past time for me to hump ammo.
5.56mm
The Clintoons have enough “room temperature” associates to fill their own cemetery that would include VWF.
Informative post, thanks
When the time comes, various agencies can be staffed by the "correct" people, who would have no problems firing on middle class America. There are, after all, plenty of people in America who have a fondness for violence and antagonism for middle-class America, who can be recruited
Literature professors are not the only Dem constituency
Which is exactly why our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, sought to implement the Second Amendment as a Constitutional right.
It's been said millions of times throughout U.S. history, and should be emphasized once again. Nuff said.
Clinton’s showed us a peak of their inclinations, when they are ‘in control’ of the weapons, with Elian and Waco.
peak = peek...rolls eyes.
Let me know if you have any unambiguous anti-RKBA quotes by her.
Hillary don’t hate guns. She just doesn’t want you to have them. Her henchmen are the only ones that she wants armed.
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Waco
Exactly!
we’re gonna take things away from you for the public good...
not specifically said about guns, but her mindset is there...
teeman
SHe’s very careful to avoid giving her enemies quotable quotes. Believe me, I’ve looked.
I feel honored just to be pinged ..thanks.. Now I will read the thread. :-)
Hillary doesn’t need guns, she has a face that kills.
Which, imho, being interpreted means . . .
SHRILLERY MACHIAVELLI GLOBALIST KLINTOON
hates guns in anyone’s hands that she doesn’t have 100% control over.
Al Gore said, “Handguns have no place in American society.” He said it on Larry King right before he ran for President. King was so taken by surprise, that he asked Gore if he had heard right.
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