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Rules for Radicals

In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the book as out-of-date. Nevertheless, it provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics. Alinsky begins this way:

What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

His “rules” derive from many successful campaigns where he helped poor people fighting power and privilege

For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting what is wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a bad situation, they stop thinking about it.

According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”

Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a “mass army” that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.

Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

These are the tactics of Obama’s mentor, but remember, these are for community organizers not someone in power. People in power have a lot more tools at their disposal. Like controlling what people see and hear.

Most people in this country have no clue what’s going on. A friend of mine who does not get FoxNews on cable said to me the other day that all he sees on the news is some local stuff and the other half of it is basically a commercial for American Idol. He did hear about the Holocaust shooting but not the recruiter shooting.

As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But Since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead..

This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty ‘Obama’ bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change, I gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.

Here we go again. It’s not enough that our Southern border is wide open allowing Mexicans  to simply walk across. It’s not enough that the violence of the Cartel is also spilling over here. It’s not enough we import many goods from Mexico including food. Yes food from a country that can’t even drink it’s own water because it’s riddled with their own waste. Now we need to send them money even though in 2005, 20 million illegal aliens from Mexico sent 20 billion dollars a back to Mexico. That comes from Wikipedia. It’s how the U.S. Government calculates how many illegals are here. They base it on remittances of U.S. dollars back to Mexico mostly through Banco Popular.

But now we need to send them more U.S. dollars. “Under the Merida Initiative, the U.S. is giving Mexico $1.4 billion over three years, for military and law enforcement training and equipment, like helicopters, and includes extensive contracts for U.S. hardware and training.” Of course it’s to fight the cartel which the Government on both sides want to blame on us. The news keeps reiterating Hillary and AG Holder’s false claim that 90% of the guns the cartel has come from here.  The truth is 90% of the guns that Mexican authorities send back here to be traced are actually from here. But that’s only 17% of what they actually seize. The rest they don’t send here to be traced because it’s obvious by the Chinese, Russian or Islamic writing on them that they are not from here. Especially the grenade launchers and other items that aren’t even sold here. What they also don’t mention is that a lot of the guns that come from here were actually sold by our Government to the Mexican Government for their Military and Law Enforcement. Instead they want to blame it on gun shops along the southern border and I’m sure many guns are probably from there but not as many as they make it out to be. This is merely propaganda in their hopes of future gun control and squashing of the 2nd Amendment. They know what the 2nd Amendment was written for and it scares the hell out of them because people are starting to wake up to the fact that our government is full of corruption.

So now we have to give 1.4 billion to a corrupt Mexican Government because we refuse to simply maintain the border. I guess building a big wall would look too Nazi-ish and would be so not PC. Oh wait that wall was splitting a country two.  Not a bad idea, all the liberals and the welfare cases/illegal immigrants that they seem to want to “take care of” so badly on one half and all the people that simply want to work for a living and be free on the other. We’ll see who thrives. Did you know some Americans are taking matters into their own hands because our government won’t enforce it’s own immigration laws? The Minuteman Project was started in 2004 by a Purple Heart decorated ex Marine after years of frustrated efforts trying to get a neglectful U.S. government to simply enforce existing immigration laws. If you’ve heard their name in the news lately (or even of you haven’t) check out the FAQ page. Why doesn’t Obama give them 1.4billion for  doing the work that our government is supposed to be doing? Oh sorry that money went to a special interest project to pay back a favor  done by a campaign contributor. Sort of like the UAW having a big chunk of ownership in a couple of car companies after being one of the biggest contributors to the Obama campaign. Nothing to see here, move along.

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WOW, I had to comeback  and edit this post to add this page at the Minuteman site that is full of facts and figures. The bottom  half is a breakdown of how much illegal immigration costs the U.S. Taxpayers. The total is 338.3 Billion per year.

I was scouring the blogs today to get a better idea on how this whole blogsphere thing works since I’m a bit of a newbie. So I was checking out some of the more popular conservative blogs because that’s what I am now. I haven’t changed and a few years ago I was just left of center if not more left but the extreme left has moved even further left dragging the middle of the road left so now I’m left on the right. So I was looking over Michelle Malkin’s Blog since she’s about the most popular and ran accross an article about the potus doing a special on ABC from the blue room oooh aaah to be followed by a one hour infomercial about health care. The article was called ABC: The All Barack Channel but later on in the day I couldn’t remember where I saw it so I did a search. I found it and also found something else in the search. An all Barack Obama Youtube site by none other than the potus himself. Yes he can. And he has over 24,000 friends. Not bad for the potus of 3 billion.

And now we’re getting some new possible ABC logos. Here’s the one on Doug Powers’ Site. Image links to his site.

You go fellas.

For years the French have been calling us stupid lazy Americans. I think we now live up to that. This is amazing.