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Posted on 10/25/2002 8:23:34 AM PDT by repub32
BUMP!
You paint with a large brush -- typical of a small mind.
America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
New Link: Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)
One of the most effective tools the left has is a willingness to take the struggle to a new level when required by circumstances to do so.
They'll play by the rules in order to 'legitimize' their gains with the all too often painfully anal, rule-obsessed right...
But, if that doesn't work, they pragmatically shift gears and go into stealth mode, where they operate on a guerilla level, engaging in 'direct action'.
There are many ways to stir the homo' pot, anonymously and from a safe distance.
A real hornet's nest can be stirred up on an issue like this. The frustrated totalitarians can be goaded into self-destructive public displays of outrage and lashing out that polarize the community.
More challenges to their 'authority' coming from the shadows will produce more outrageous reaction, and an increased likelihood that others elsewhere will challenge them in the same way, safely, without cost, from the shadows.
They did this successfully to us... DECADES ago. What worked then, still will.
These bastards may have taken ownership of the Day from us... But to claim their prize they had to abandon the Night.
It's a shame to let that perfectly good darkness just sit there, unused...
I somewhat disagree...a better read might be:
"In this present age, diversity is an alluring word that the left utilizes to camouflage its ongoing effort to silence and demonize everyone who doesn't agree with them."
That mind is getting smaller.
America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
New Link: Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)
Does this same school district regulation override the constitutional protection guaranteed by the clause from the First Amendment that reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF."
This, and cases like it, beg for a legal challenge. Damn! If only I had gone to law school ...
'Direct Action' stuff (if you get caught) falls into three broad categories...
1) Stuff that'll get you arrested, beaten, shot, killed, etc..
2) Stuff that'll get you fired, sued, etc.
3) Stuff people will cluck their tongues at, criticize you for, disapprove of, etc.
From murder one to a frown, in other words.
Naturally, no one here will advise you to select anything from behind door number one.
And I won't suggest that door number two would be a good choice either.
You've GOT to consider the possibility that you'll be caught, and act accordingly.
That being said, there are any number of mischievous things, 'dirty tricks', that are fun to play and carry minimal risk... I'll give one example so that you can get my drift.
I once worked for a company that had a shop area which did both prototype and limited production work.
The most senior of the craftsmen had informally accumulated, over time, responsibility for quite a number of record-keeping and oversight tasks. He wasn't a foreman, but he had begun to fancy himself as one, and often treated his co-workers in an arrogant and condescending manner.
The situation was exacerbated by his supervisor, who was in over his head and had long been relying on the senior craftsman to cover his six o'clock.
My duties required me to deal with the senior craftsman on a fairly regular basis and I didn't like him.
When he took a week of vacation one summer, I had the media center produce a number of signs bearing the title: 'Shop Supervisor'. I had about 20 signs produced, with each succeeding sign being somewhat larger than the preceding one.
When the senior craftsman returned that next Monday his supervisor (who would have queered the impending fun had he been on site) had just left to begin a week of vacation.
I'd mounted the first (smallest) sign beside the doorway of the S.C.'s cubicle door early that morning and was lurking nearby to catch his reaction to it.
When he turned the corner to enter his cubicle he saw the sign, stopped short and studied it at length. You could see the moment when he decided that it must be the work of his (now on vacation) supervisor. The S.C. pulled himself up proudly and swaggered into his cubicle confident that the recognition he'd wanted for so long was beginning to come his way.
To make a long story short, I began replacing the sign with slightly larger versions several times a day.
Whenever possible, I'd lurk nearby to see whether he noticed anything amiss after a sign change.
At about the point where the sign had grown by about 15% he first seemed to notice 'something'. By the time it had grown by a third he was clearly confused, at one point staring at the sign for a long time after returning from lunch to find that the sign had grown yet again during the hour he was gone.
I finally ended it by 'growing' the sign in ludicrous increments over the course of an afternoon late in the week. Every time he left his cubicle unattended it would be larger when he returned.
Finally he couldn't take it anymore and ripped the sign down. His co-workers, who'd figured out what I was doing and had been watching me, erupted into a spontaneous roar of laughter and cat-calls that drew him, furious, to his cubicle's doorway.
I always assumed that he must have eventually discovered that it was me who played the 'joke' on him, but -if he did- he never gave any sign of it.
He was six months or so being less full of himself though.
This is an example of a practical joke, more than of a 'Direct Action', but the underlying principle is the same...
Strike from the shadows in a way that steers your victim into making a fool of himself. (or some other desired outcome) In this case I used my target's pride, but any other vice, such as anger, lust or greed, will work as well.
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