Posted on 02/09/2009 12:20:24 PM PST by EternalVigilance
Nope just telling the truth in how I see people.. He is nothing but a scam artist who just does one thing.. Run for office and takes money away from honest people.
I think that would be a tipping point; real anger would spill out into the streets. At least I would hope there are enough patriots to do so.
My pleasure.
Having had some insights into what went on in IL and after, I find this piece to be a poignant one.
That would be awful if it were true. Fortunately, it’s not.
Alan, I voted for you in the Illinois Senate race. You were the best candidate. I could show you where Barack has even adopted some of your message since then. Thomas Jefferson once, “One man with courage is a majority!”
Well it is.. Funny for a guy to keep going to different parties until he was the nominee.
May be so, I don’t know, but he is speaking of a time coming for this country which has never been seen here. It’s been seen elsewhere, and it was never pretty.
Keyes is pulling political strings for the *establishment* once more.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/alan_keyes.htm
Ideas, and a sheer will to get them across, can take odd paths.
Albert V. Burns
The education establishment in this country, at all levels, continually decries the absence of parental involvement in the everyday process of educating the young people of this country. We are asked to volunteer time to ease the burdens on the teachers. We are NOT expected to assume that we will have any input into decisions effecting what they will be taught or how the teaching process is to be done. In the book, "Educating For The New World Order," the author, Bev Eakman points out repeatedly the necessity of the educationists to preserve the ILLUSION that there is: "Lay, or community, participation in the decision making process, while in fact lay citizens are being squeezed out." It is interesting, and EXTREMELY important to Americans, both as parents and as citizens, to clearly understand just HOW the "squeezing out" process takes place. It is a well defined, if not well perceived, process known as the "Alinsky Method" (which was derived from a procedure named as "The Delphi Technique.") This method of manipulating people is based on the fact that people in groups tend to share a common knowledge base and display certain identifiable characteristics known as "group dynamics." In this process, one or more people known as "Change Agents" or "Facilitators" appear to be acting as organizers, "allowing" each person in the group to express their concerns about some program or policy under consideration. While this process is going on, people are urged to make lists or form into task forces. The Facilitator carefully notes which members of the group are leaders, which are "loud mouths" and which may be easily swayed to different viewpoints. At a certain point, the previously friendly Change Agent begins to act as "devils advocate," becoming an agitator. The process involves playing one part of the group against another, the "divide and conquer" technique. Anyone who is not clearly in accord with the Facilitators agenda is made to appear ridiculous, inarticulate, ignorant or dogmatic. The idea is to make these members of the group angry thus escalating tensions. The end object being to shut opposition voices out of the group. The "targets" of such manipulation rarely, if ever, realize how they are being manipulated. If they do suspect, they generally have no idea how to defeat the process. This method is being used at all levels of government to force meetings toward PRESET conclusions. There are three steps to defeating this process. They are simple to learn, if not always easy to put into practice since the Facilitators are well trained in agitation techniques. The first rule is: Always be charming, pleasant and courteous. SMILE! Speak in a normal voice to avoid seeming to be belligerent or aggressive. Rule No. 2 is to STAY FOCUSED! Write your question or statement down in advance to help you stay on track. These Change Agents are trained to twist the conversation around to make the questioner appear foolish or belligerent or aggressive. The idea being to put the questioner on the defensive. Be careful! As mentioned in Rule 1, always be charming, pleasant and courteous (if it kills you to do so!) Often an attempt will be made to change the subject, digress or distort your intent. Always bring them back to the question you asked! If they distort your question into what amounts to an accusation of them, simply state clearly and precisely: "That is NOT what I stated. What I asked was..."(here repeat your original question.) Do not be distracted or angered by their efforts to make you look bad. Rule No. 3: BE PERSISTENT! When the Facilitator realizes that putting you on the defensive is not going to work, quite often he, or she, will go into some long drawn out discussion of some unrelated or only vaguely related subject. Such a discussion may drag on for a number of minutes. The intent being to have the crowd become bored and forget what the original question was. Let them run on, then very calmly, quietly but with determination drag them back to the subject by saying: "But you didnt answer my question! My question was..."(again repeat your question.) Never, NEVER allow yourself to become angry. Anger directed toward the Change Agent makes him or her the victim. Their object is to become liked by the crowd, to be seen as a friend by a majority of those present to convince that majority the ideas of the Facilitator are correct and acceptable. With the increasing demand for education reform, increasing agitation among the public and more and more grassroots research exposing the defects in our current government indoctrination centers, also known as public schools, more and more people are being exposed to this Alinsky method of maneuvering public meetings toward preset goals. Somehow, people walk out of public meetings wondering just what happened - how were their ideas and objections so neatly derailed. This consistent pattern of manipulation of public meetings is causing concern about the corruption of the very process of government established by our Founding Fathers. Next week we will examine some of the finer points of the Delphi Technique, how and why it was originally developed and how it is being used to destroy our freedoms. |
Albert V. Burns writes from Utah and is a regular columnist for the Spanish Fork Press. He has an extensive knowledge of the conspiracy which has been working so hard to destroy this nation and incorporate it into a one world government. He has developed an extensive personal research library and the knowledge to find what he needs, to write his columns. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. Albert V. Burns can be reached at: avburns@mindspring.com |
That’s utterly ridiculous.
Not that “funny” when you consider that those two parties he “went to” don’t represent Reagan conservatism any longer.
He, and we, were willing to do the hard work to prove that, which we did.
And now, as Monty Python would say, “It’s time for something completely different.”
What? Obama received nearly as many votes in the Democratic Primary for this race as ALL of the Republicans put together.
Less than 3 months before the election, WHO was going to step in and beat him?
I don’t disagree with that.
It will get far worse than even Keys writes about in the coming 4 years.
Very possible.
"The first rule is: Always be charming, pleasant and courteous. SMILE!
Speak in a normal voice to avoid seeming to be belligerent or aggressive."
When Keyes was running against Obama in Illinois, I heard a lot about it by listening to WLS. They had some really good local conservative talk shows back then, Terry O’Brian and 2 others whose names escape me. They discussed that campaign a lot. Little did we know, that Mr.Keyes’ opponent would lie his way into the White House. Until I read the article today, I did not know the extent of the vile actions Mr.Keyes endured from Obama’s political machine. Kind of like what Sarah is putting up with, and Joe the Plumber, and others.
Some may sneer at Keyes for his rock-solid moral stands and pounce on whatever they think his shortcomings are as an excuse to dismiss his views but the absurd comparison to Hillary Clinton (because Keyes moved to a state just to run for office) serves to undercut the assumption that Keyes doesn't deserve to be heard.
Alan Keyes rightfully characterizes what the American people have done by electing an Alinsky Marxist as president and a congress dominated by leftists, both salivating at the realization that finally, they can make their long-anticipated move to change our beloved country from a land of free people, seeking and finding their own destiny, to a land of people subjugated to the now all-powerful government.
Mr. Keyes sounds a serious warning about what may well lie ahead for America and yet, all some posters can do is try to kill the messenger and generate cynicism by inferring Alan Keyes is 'the same as Hillary Clinton'. It's unfortunate that we can't simply accept the truth of what Alan Keyes - who isn't running for office - warns about, without arguing between ourselves why he lost an election in a state where the Democrats have superior numbers. In the 2004 election for the U.S. senate, Barack Obama received 70% of the vote - and 40% of registered Republicans voted for Obama.
This loss, easily predicted, is now laid at Keyes' feet. Alan Keyes, in his piece, admits to being 'lost in the political wilderness' ever since, meaning, no doubt, that he is considered 'untouchable' by Republican bigwigs, those geniuses who helped give us John 'maverick' McCain as 'our' 2008 presidential nominee.
Whether or not you like Alan Keyes personality or agree with his stridently pro-life stands or want to quibble about his political self-sacrifice in the 2004 Illinois senate race, he is stating a clear warning and needs to be paid attention to, not treated as someone who isn't worthy of our respect because he lost a hopeless senate race in a 'red' state, almost 5 years ago.
You strain at gnats while we are assaulted by lions.
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