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www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=296865ACORN plan: 'Tactics that include extra-legal activity' Book uncovers president's links to 'undisguised authoritarian socialism' Posted: May 14, 2011 8:45 pm Eastern A new book that documents Barack Obama's career-long advocacy for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also reveals that the operative philosophy for the group apparently includes a readiness to accept illegal activities in pursuit of its goals. The revelations come in a stunning new book, "Subversion Inc.," by award-winning investigative journalist Matthew Vadum. Vadum, senior editor at Capital Research Center, a think tank that studies left-wing advocacy groups and their funders, has assembled the information from nearly three years of research and hundreds of interviews. MORE..........
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dailycaller.com/2011/01/22/acorn%E2%80%99s-man-takes-over-the-democratic-party%E2%80%99s-war-machine/ACORN’s man takes over the Democratic Party’s war machine 1/22/11 A longtime ACORN operative is about to take over the reins of the Democratic National Committee as its executive director – just in time to begin initial preparations for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. The activist in question is Patrick Gaspard. He currently holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush’s administration. Gaspard comes from the same world of radical left-wing community organizing that shaped Barack Obama. Gaspard is well schooled in the brutal, street-smart organizing tactics taught by the late Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals. He’s the hatchet man Obama sent to New York over a year ago to strong-arm then-Gov. David Paterson into dropping his reelection campaign. As executive director running the DNC’s day-to-day operations Gaspard will oversee Organizing for America, a project of the DNC supposedly modeled on Alinskyite organizing principles. (Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will remain as general chairman of the DNC.) Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Haitian parents, very little is known about this Rasputin-like power behind the throne. Gaspard shuns publicity and is extremely reluctant to speak to the media on the record. Look him up on Nexis and you will find virtually nothing about this otherwise influential counselor to the leader of the free world. But his colleagues hold him in high esteem. “Patrick is the best political mind of his generation in New York and maybe the nation,” according to Kevin Sheekey, a lieutenant of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. “I wouldn’t dispute that,” added David Axelrod, a senior advisor in the Obama White House. Gaspard came to the White House from ACORN’s favorite labor organization, Service Employees International Union. (SEIU Locals 100 and 880 were until recently official affiliates of ACORN.) He had been executive vice president for political and legislative affairs for SEIU Local 1199 United Healthcare Workers East, which claims to be the largest union local on the planet “representing more than 300,000 members and retirees in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.” Gaspard was previously revealed to be political director for ACORN’s New York branch. Although the source of this information, ACORN founder Wade Rathke, has since feigned senility and claimed he was mistaken, other evidence points to Gaspard’s involvement with the nation’s most notorious activist group. ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis’s Rolodex contains an extensive entry for Gaspard, the most detailed entry of the hundreds of individuals listed. A letter published in 2001 by the Nation magazine was co-authored by Lewis and Gaspard. Gaspard indicated in the letter he was working for the socialist Working Families Party at the time, a New York political party created by Lewis and ACORN. ACORN noted on its website that in 1998 “ACORN members spearhead[ed] formation of the Working Families Party, the first community-labor party with official ballot status in New York state in more than 50 years.” ACORN and the party share office space in Brooklyn.
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Post by cereb on May 15, 2011 5:27:56 GMT -5
"Look him up on Nexis and you will find virtually nothing about this otherwise influential counselor to the leader of the free world."
"Rasputin like"
Hysterical.
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Post by ugonow on May 15, 2011 8:10:14 GMT -5
Did you know Obama is a communist plant from Russia to organize a communist takeover of the free world?And that his mother in law,practices witchcraft and voodoo out of the White House? Both of these were actual articles on WND.IMO, you should take their word with a grain of salt.
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 8:20:46 GMT -5
Get the book that reveals the ongoing criminal enterprise known as ACORN. This book is so explosive, copies have been provided to all 535 members of the House and Senate in hopes of prompting further investigation of the subversive activity it exposes. (from the link in the OP) I wondered where the title of the thread came from. It is a great example of how to abuse truth. Any evidence that anyone there read the book?
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 11:35:38 GMT -5
Obviously you approve of Gaspard. Yep. He sure sounds like the right man to run the machine for 2012.
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From link #1-- "I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drives in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work," Obama told organization members at the time of his 2008 campaign. But the author also cites the acceptance of violence.
He noted the time was when George W. Bush won the presidency, and militants on the left were outraged by the loss by Al Gore, on whom they had pinned their hopes.
Wade Rathne, a key strategist and organizer of the original ACORN behemoth, said that the left should be more aggressive in its battles.
"We need an edge, some harder steel on the rim," he wrote at the time. "If some day we want to make more just laws, then today we may have to just learn to break more laws."
In his "wish list," he cited, "[t]actics that include civil disobedience and political defiance" as well as "[t]actics that include extra-legal activity."
According to the author, Rathke praised rioters in Seattle during the 1999 World Trade organization events and said their civil disturbances were "a colorful, exciting, smoky, hazy amalgamation of helmeted police, broken glass, and righteous rage."
The book explains Rathke then attempted to balance his statements, saying, "We do not embrace violence, quite the contrary, but we need to create chemistry containing the elements of more explosive combinations in order to create more force and power through the equations of action and reaction that we push to the target." The author confirms that "despite this perfunctory condemnation of violence," Rathke praises the sometimes-violent Black Panther Party of the 1960s, and even "longs for some computer hackers to come to his aid."
According to the book, Rathke wrote, "Crazy, computer viruses are started by young kids around the world or hackers bored out of their skulls that live right down the street. As union organizers we are still doing 8-point difficulty dumpster dives for alpha lists of employees, when theoretically some good geeks could tap in, load up, and download the whole thing and throw it over our transom window."
According to the author, "For ACORN, anything goes, from rude protests to crude intimidation and violence. The bigger, the louder, the more obnoxious, the more destructive, the better. Rathke summed up ACORN's approach to doing business in a single sentence: 'One can almost taste the adrenaline when people take a crowbar to a door and pop it open to begin squatting.' ACORN leadership doesn't care if people get hurt or property is damaged: as long as the action advances the cause, it's fair game."
Vadum quoted Sol Stern, of the Manhattan Institute, who said, "ACORN protests have turned violent, at times as soon as the rallies began. Some protests disrupted Federal Reserve hearings and busted into closed city council meetings."
Stern describes the attitude as "undisguised authoritarian socialism" when it demands that large companies that desire to leave the community be coerced into getting "an exit visa from the community board signifying that the company has adequately compensated all its employees and the community at large for losses due to relocation."
Vadum traces the "legacy of destruction and lawlessness" directly back to "the fiendishly brilliant Saul Alinsky," a godfather of the movement.
"Alinsky adored violence," the author said. "By the time he died, Alinsky had created an astounding 44 community organizations that aspire to pulverize the American system. ACORN founder Rathke worked with Alinsky."
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Post by Tennesseer on May 15, 2011 11:54:27 GMT -5
krickitt-your thread title suggests Congress is going to investigate ACORN. Can you post a current link to such a claim?
If your thread had been titled "Book Exposing ACORN Sent To Congressional Members", I would not have an issue with the title.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 15, 2011 11:55:10 GMT -5
I can't even look at the word "ACORN" without getting my feathers ruffled. Would Obama have been elected if everyone had been required to pass a test before voting? Wolves don't have feathers.
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From link #2-
Gaspard’s move also signals the almost complete acceptance of hard-left and labor union influence in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party. In embracing Gaspard, the D.N.C. has surrendered its “commanding heights” to the Party’s almost completely dominant far left. While never a proven member of any of the several radical and Marxist organizations operating within and the Democratic Party, Gaspard has worked with several of the most influential. He is undoubtedly a servant of the far left..... ...Patrick Gaspard got his start in politics in the mid 1980s, organizing demonstrations in New York City for “social justice” in Haiti. He got his first taste of campaign work in the 1988 presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson – who, like Obama, was a product of the Chicago socialist/communist machine. Patrick Gaspard went on to David Dinkins’ first New York mayoral race, as an intern in Dinkins’ office and then to City Hall, when Dinkins won the New York Mayoralty. Dinkins was at the time, a member of the largest Marxist organization in the U.S., Democratic Socialists of America. In 1997, outgoing Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger, a Communist Party USA front activist and also a member of Democratic Socialists of America, enlisted Gaspard for her doomed mayoral campaign against Rudy Giuliani. In 1999, Lopez loaned Gaspard out to help Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union to organize a march in protest of the police shooting death of Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant. Gaspard was allegedly a key organizer of the civil disorder that followed Diallo’s death. The SEIU Local 1199 was one of the central organizers of the civil unrest that followed, and its president Dennis Rivera asked Gaspard to coordinate those efforts. Dennis Rivera, later recruited Gaspard to the union – where he rose to the rank of union Executive Vice President. It is important to note that Local 1199, isn’t just any labor union, it New York’s most powerful and socialist labor union... In 2003, Patrick Gaspard was granted leave from Local 1199 to work as the deputy national field director for the presidential campaign of Howard Dean. After Dean was eliminated from the race, Gaspard became national field director for George Soros’ political action group America Coming Together. Later Gaspard helped Yvette Clarke win the Congressional seat vacated by Democratic Socialists of America member and Communist Party USA supporter Major Owens. Clarke is now a member of the far left Congressional Progressive Caucus – which was founded in 1991, by Bernie Sanders and Democratic Socialists of America. In 1995 Patrick Gaspard was an organizer for the New Jersey chapter of the New Party, a creation of ACORN, SEIU , D.S.A. and the Committees of Correspondence. By 2001 Gaspard was a leading activist in the New Party offshoot, the New York Working Families Party-a DSA/ACORN/Committees of Correspondence/Communist Party collaboration.... ...Barack Obama, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Frantz Fanon. He went into community organizing and the DSA/Committees of Correspondence aligned Chicago left, before moving on to the White House. Patrick Gaspard, as a young man, admired third world revolutionaries like Aime Cesaire. He went into radical organizing and mixed with the DSA/Committees of Correspondence aligned New York left, before moving on to the White House. Patrick Gaspard was “made” by the same socialist “mafia” who made Barack Obama. Now these socialist “twin souls” face the struggle of their lives, the war for the White House 2012. Obama cannot succeed in 2012, without complete control of the Democratic Party machine. He’ll surely be sleeping a little easier now, knowing that Patrick Gaspard has back over at the DNC.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 11:57:12 GMT -5
Interesting stuff. Gotta know your opponents...
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 11:59:45 GMT -5
Lots more on the history of these 2 young radicals, Obama and Gaspard, in the link.
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Organized labor will be among President Barack Obama’s most determined supporters in 2012. Obama’s return to office will be regarded as a matter of life and death for the labor movement. However, labor will be aiming higher in 2012 than in 2008. For American workers, organized and unorganized, the 2012 election will be about much more than the race for the White House, as important as that will be. Why should unions back Obama? Writes Sears; First the Obama Administration has, over the last two plus years, accomplished much on behalf of working people. We have seen the passage of a stimulus package that prevented the Great Recession from deteriorating into a second Great Depression. We have seen the passage of health care legislation that expands affordable coverage to millions of working Americans and their families. And we have seen Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court, to the Cabinet and to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that all have the potential to change the environment in which American workers struggle. We have been encouraged by the President’s recent pledge that Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare would not be cut while he was in the White House. And we can point to other recent developments that underline the significance of the changes that have occurred since the departure of George W. Bush from the White House. Despite disappointments, such as Obama’s failure to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, and the as yet not fully socialized Obamacare, Sears believes that unions will not only back Obama, but reach out to other sectors of the US left to do so; What needs to be emphasized is that the disagreements and the disappointments should not dampen labor’s support for Obama in 2012. If anything, these experiences will strengthen labor’s determination to flex its muscle, to struggle to defeat conservative and reactionary anti-people candidates, and to build and expand its own independent role in our nation’s politics. This will require labor to reach out and build alliances with other core forces with renewed determination. This has been the message from labor speakers at rallies across the country this spring. As Patrick Eiding, President of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO told a rally against education cuts on April 4, “We are coming together as working people, union and non-union. We have to spread the word that we will not let corporate leaders steal our country.” Or as Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) told the same rally honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, “King walked to bring together the labor community and the civil rights community; we need to bring them together as never before.” Lenin did not describe labor unions as “transmission belts of communism” for nothing. trevorloudon.com/2011/05/top-communist-labor-key-for-obama-in-2012/
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Obama File 88 Parallel Lives? Obama’s "Go To" Man, Patrick Gaspard and New York Socialism Submitted by Trevor on September 30, 2009 – 10:12 pm EST In June 2009 Patrick Gaspard, a Brooklyn-based, 41-year-old Democratic operative, became White House director of the Office of Political Affairs. Patrick Gaspard’s official responsibility is to provide the president with an “accurate assessment of the political dynamics affecting the work of his administration” and to “work with powerbrokers around the country to help push the president’s agenda“. According to Rep. Gregory Meeks; He’s a low key, behind-the-scenes, no-fingerprints kind of guy. I need something, I call Patrick. And if he calls, it’s a big deal. He’s close to the president.” Considerable attention has been focused on Gaspard’s ties to the radical community group ACORN..... trevorloudon.com/2009/09/obama-file-88-parallel-lives-obamas-go-to-man-patrick-gaspard-and-new-york-socialism/
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Obama seems to have a lot of foreign connections. And all his connections are radicals. Gaspard is also connected to Van Jones-- so radical he finally had to get OUT of the Obama administration. Interesting folks.
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bunkerville.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/new-dnc-patrick-gaspard-and-the-family-tree/New DNC Patrick Gaspard and the family tree January 24, 2011 — bunkerville How is it that Obama seems find those who have this non-american background? We have Iranian born Valerie Jarrett: Getting to know you. It is claimed she is the other half of Obama’s Brain in the Vid in the above post. She doesn’t deny it. Patrick Gaspard born in Zaire. Another Community organizer, cut from the same cloth as Obama. New Zeal has a great history of this dude, who no doubt was chosen to to pick up the Union support. Here tis: In a move clearly signaling that planning for the 2012 Presidential election is underway, President Barack Obama’s “go to” man Patrick Gaspard is leaving the White House to serve as Executive director of the Democratic National Committee. ***Contrary to what was said here, it seems people are well aware of who Gaspard is...***
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 12:22:21 GMT -5
The author is incorrect. "Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing-but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates." (italics in original) From the prologue of Rules for Radicals, page xxiii, Vintage Books edition Alinsky loved to organize against the status quo.
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 12:24:35 GMT -5
I can't even look at the word "ACORN" without getting my feathers ruffled. Would Obama have been elected if everyone had been required to pass a test before voting?What would the test questions be?
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Post by cme1201 on May 15, 2011 12:26:38 GMT -5
With out looking name your states sitting Congressperson and your area Representative in the House of Representatives.
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www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm2. Of Means and Ends "The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24 "The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be...." pp.25-26 "The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...." p.29 "The seventh rule... is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics...." p.34 "The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriate d weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly..." p.36
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 12:35:51 GMT -5
Gabby Giffords-House. John McCain, Jon Kyl- Senators. Is that what you mean?
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 12:36:10 GMT -5
krickitt-your thread title suggests Congress is going to investigate ACORN. Can you post a current link to such a claim? If your thread had been titled "Book Exposing ACORN Sent To Congressional Members", I would not have an issue with the title. I think this would be more appropriate. I was reading this thread and this song came to mind: tenn..., Remember the above? This thread illustrates why mine is more appropriate. "ACORN, Gaspard, Alinsky." Just like in my song.
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 12:44:18 GMT -5
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm2. Of Means and Ends "The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24 "The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be...." pp.25-26 "The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...." p.29 "The seventh rule... is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics...." p.34 "The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriate d weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly..." p.36 What does the rest of the chapter say? I have the book, you have a few out of context quotes. What does it say where the "..."s are? Why does it list the 3rd, 7th, and 10th while skipping the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 11th, (and is there a 12th )?
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Post by Tennesseer on May 15, 2011 12:47:34 GMT -5
billsonboard: (I just threw up a little in my mouth karma'ing someone)
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Post by stats45 on May 15, 2011 12:47:53 GMT -5
This kind of stuff is wacky. I'm a conservative, and I feel like I spend half my time explaining to people my age why they hell I'm voting with a bunch of know-nothings who think that buying gold and screaming about a birth certificate is 'politics'.
If someone honestly thinks Obama is too far left (and I do), oppose him by talking about his political choices and why market solutions are better. This nonsense about 'authoritarian socialism' coming from a website full of ads for buying gold and food rations is just commercialized paranoia and ignorance.
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 12:54:49 GMT -5
billsonboard: ... ( I just threw up a little in my mouth karma'ing someone) Understand. I get the same feeling when I am "karma'ed.
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Alinsky again- 6. In the Beginning: The Process of Power "From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his 'tactics' are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals." "Change comes from power, and power comes from organization." p.113 "The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new." p.116 "An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent... He must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. Out of this mechanism, a new community organization arises.... "The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict." p.117 "Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum.... Process is really purpose." p.122 www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
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7. Tactics "Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. ... Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves." p.126
Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):
1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."
2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
4. "Make the enemy live up to its 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."
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time...."
8. "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'... "...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...' "One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other." (pps.127-134)
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Post by billisonboard on May 15, 2011 13:09:32 GMT -5
Gaspard, ACORN, Alinsky, Ayers, Wright, Socialism, Communism, Frank Marshall Davis, birth certificate, stop and kick him Obama's a dope, Rush on the radio told me Gotta turn it up louder, so Glenn Beck told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa) Obama's a dope, Rush on the radio told me At the end of his one term, lies Mike Huckabee (okay, I know he said he wasn't running but his nanme works so well. )
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