Saul Alinsky, the NEA, Rules for Radicals, Lucifer, & Rush Limbaugh (must-read)

[kwilliams1130]

Well, at least now they're being open and upfront about their worship and promotion of Saul Alinsky, whose book, "Rules for Radicals," is the bible for progressive/communist "community organizers," and which contains, in the preface, a dedication to Lucifer.

Yes, you read that right, no I am not kidding, and yes, I've seen it with my own eyes.

It is on the page after the dedication "To Irene," immediately before the table of contents, and after a quote by Rabbi Hillel, and then one by Thomas Paine (both presumably to make it seem like Lucifer is just one of Alinsky's "favorite philosophers):

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

That is a direct, verified quote. You can take that to the bank. So it is clear that Saul Alinsky knew what he was doing, and gave an acknowledgement to the devil himself.

Here's a bit more about Saul Alinsky & his book, before the NEA's glowing promotion:

Alinsky was born in Chicago in 1909. Hillary Rodham’s thesis is very revealing of Alinsky’s view of American life. It says, “…after graduating from the University of Chicago, Alinsky received a fellowship in criminology with a first assignment to get a look at crime from the inside of gangs. He attached himself to the Capone gang, attaining a perspective from which he viewed the gang as a huge quasi-public utility serving the people of Chicago.”Alinsky -- in that and other experiences -- became an academic-turned-radical, a personality type first found among the press covering the Russian revolution of 1917-18 and that became much more common five decades later, forming the basis of the Vietnam anti-war movement. He and others like him would find America’s adversaries -- within and outside the law -- more attractive than America itself.

Saul Alinsky’s radicalism was expressed in his 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” In that book, Alinsky said, “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.” Alinsky never saw himself as the devil, but as some radical angel who could bedevil “the Establishment” and force it to change to assuage pressures from community organizations.

...and the part about the book:

Rules for Radicals is concerned with the acquisition of power: "my aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how ot use it." This is not to be done with assistance to the poor, nor even by organizing the poor to demand assistance: "...[E]ven if all the low-income parts of our population were organized ... it would not be powerful enough to get significant, basic, needed changes."

Alinsky advises the organizer to target the middle class, rather than the poor: "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is."

Alinsky is interested in the middle class solely for its usefulness: "Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority."

To accomplish this, Alinsky writes that the organizer must "begin to dissect and examine that way of life [the middle class lifestyle] ... He will know that 'square' is no longer to be dismissed as such -- instead his own approach must be 'square' enough to get the action started."

Rules for Radicals defends belief that the end justifies the means: "to say that corrupt the ends," writes Alinsky, "is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles ... the practical revolutionary will understand ... [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind."

Altogether, Alinsky provides eleven rules of the ethics of means and ends. They are morally relativistic...


Now here's the article that prompted me to write post this:

[kwilliams1130]

Feb. 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM

Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer

Reveille for Radicals
by Saul Alinsky
Vintage; Reissue edition (October 23, 1989)

Rules for Radicals
by Saul Alinsky
Vintage; Reissue edition (October 23, 1989)

An inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!

Saul Alinsky wrote the book on American radicalism - two books, in fact: a 1945 best-seller, "Reveille for Radicals" and "Rules for Radicals" in 1971. The "Reveille" title page quotes Thomas Paine... "Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

Saul Alinsky, who was a labor and civil-rights activist from the 1910's until he died in 1972, has written here a guidebook for those who are out to change things. He sets down what the goal is: a society where people are free to live, and also aren't starving in the streets. A society where there is legal and economic justice. Then he sets out to say how to get there.

Alinsky spends a lot of time critiquing the idea that "The end does not justify the means." What end? What means? He feels that there are circumstances where one can and should use means that in other circumstances would be unethical. I am not sure I agree, but Alinsky certainly speaks with the voice of experience.

Alinsky's goal seems to be to encourage positive social change by equipping activists with a realistic view of the world, a kind of preemptive disillusionment. If a person already knows what evil the world is capable of, then perhaps the surprise factor can be eliminated, making the person a more effective activist. Alinsky further seems to be encouraging the budding activist not to worry to much about getting his or her hands dirty. It's all a part of the job, he seems to say.

Alinsky, the master political agitator, tactical planner and social organizer didn't mince words...

"Liberals in their meetings utter bold works; they strut, grimace belligerently, and then issue a weasel-worded statement 'which has tremendous implications, if read between the lines.' They sit calmly, dispassionately, studying the issue; judging both sides; they sit and still sit.

"The Radical does not sit frozen by cold objectivity. He sees injustice and strikes at it with hot passion. He is a man of decision and action. There is a saying that the Liberal is one who walks out of the room when the argument turns into a fight.

"Society has good reason to fear the Radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the Radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while Liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, Radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of Conservatives.

"Radicals precipitate the social crisis by action - by using power. Liberals may then timidly follow along or else, as in most cases, be swept forward along the course set by Radicals, but all because of forces unloosed by Radical action. They are forced to positive action only in spite of their desires ...

• "The American Radical will fight privilege and power whether it be inherited or acquired by any small group, whether it be political or financial or organized creed.
• "He curses a caste system which he recognizes despite all patriotic denials.
• "He will fight conservatives whether they are business or labor leaders.
• "He will fight any concentration of power hostile to a broad, popular democracy, whether he finds it in financial circles or in politics.
• "The Radical recognizes that constant dissension and conflict is and has been the fire under the boiler of democracy. He firmly believes in that brave saying of a brave people, "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
• "The Radical may resort to the sword but when he does he is not filled with hatred against those individuals whom he attacks. He hates these individuals not as persons but as symbols representing ideas or interests which he believes to be inimical to the welfare of the people.
• "That is the reason why Radicals, although frequently embarking upon revolutions, have rarely resorted to personal terrorism."

Alinsky practiced what he preached. He said, "Tactics means doing what you can with what you have ... tactics is the art of how to take and how to give."

He uses eyes, ears and nose for examples...

Eyes
"If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power."

Ears
"If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does."

Nose
"If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place."

Alinsky devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth.

   1. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
   2. "Never go outside the experience of your people.
   3. "Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
   4. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
   5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
   6. "A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
   7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
   8. "Keep the pressure on.
   9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
  10. "Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.
  11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
  12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
  13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

"The real action is in the enemy's reaction. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action."

Alinsky was hated and defamed by powerful enemies, proof that his tactics worked. His simple formula for success...

"Agitate + Aggravate + Educate + Organize"

 

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[kwilliams1130]

Feb. 2, 2010 at 1:03 PM

Due to the dedication to Lucifer, I have to wonder if these steps haven't been used, thousands of times, to gain power and wealth...to "get gain," by force, as it isn't in human nature to just give up power and wealth that they've worked so hard to earn, to give as a gift to those who refuse to work for it.

We should all be on the lookout, here on this network, as well as within the Patriot movement, for any who use those steps against those who have worked hard to get where they are (such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of those who help educate, inform, and rally us to defend what our Founding Fathers instituted!).

Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, here's what Rush had to say back on August 28, 2008:



RUSH: I want to describe for you exactly how it is that the Obama campaign operates behind the scenes, the brutal ruthlessness, the smear tactics of this campaign.  This situation I'm going to tell you about, something the Drive-Bys will not tell you about, and it is an insight, it is a clear insight into how Obama would govern.  

Before I get to the big story, you probably heard about the ABC reporter on their investigative unit that was arrested on a public sidewalk in Denver taking pictures of Democrat senators going into an exclusive posh hotel for a meeting with high-roll donors, the special interests that Obama says are not going to be part of any massive change that he brings to the party.  Put the lie to that.  Tonight an Invesco Field, they have club seats in that stadium. Charles Krauthammer had a great description of this.  Charles Krauthammer said this is the Super Bowl halftime show without the game.  They had these club suites, and guess who's going to be in 'em, for millions of dollars of donations?  The big, fat cats, the special interests, the corporate interests that the Democrats profess to hate so that they can protect you from these evil, mean profiteers, and they're going to be in those club boxes and Obama is going to pal around with them afterwards, you know, hobnob with them up there, just like they were in the hotel.  

"Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel. ... A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker's neck, then twisted the producer's arm behind him to put on handcuffs.  A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. He also said the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel. ... Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC's 'World News with Charles Gibson.'"  They're going to do this in Minnesota, too.  But this is the Democrat Party in conjunction with this hotel wanting to keep all of this private, and so a reporter is arrested and carted off.  This is the change.  This is the Barack Obama of Chicago, as Bill Clinton called him, a typical Chicago thug.  They don't play on a level playing field; you clear it, you clear the playing field.  

Now they're trying to destroy Stanley Kurtz of National Review magazine because Stanley Kurtz has been researching the papers in the Richard J. Daley library in Chicago that detail the business dealings of Obama and William Ayers.  The attempt to destroy not just the career and the reputation of Stanley Kurtz occurred on radio last night, a local Chicago host who himself I'm told is a pretty nonpartisan guy, was stunned at the effort made by the Obama campaign to clog up the phone lines and thousands of people just calling to complain about Stanley Kurtz, mass e-mails, not saying one thing specifically in defense of Obama but rather trashing Kurtz for engaging in this kind of politics.  It's right out of the Saul Alinsky book.  It's right out of this book for radicals, and this is Obama.  He doesn't want whatever is known about Ayers to become widely known.  There's something there, there has to be, for this campaign to be ginned up this way.  

Now, imagine if they had the Fairness Doctrine.  If they had the Fairness Doctrine they wouldn't have to mass e-mail, they wouldn't have to clog up phone lines.  All they'd have to do is call the general manager of the radio station and complain and demand equal time and do this 20 times a day in response to programming at every radio station, and guess what, the programming's gone because the stations can't put up with that kind of hassle.  They can't document it to the government in order to prove they've been fair and so forth.  This is the Obama that nobody knows.  This is the Obama that the Drive-Bys will not tell you about.  This is the Obama who wants to clear the playing field.  His accomplishments were not on display last night.  Nobody at that convention could describe his accomplishments because there aren't any that they can talk about.  His real accomplishment is learning the art of Chicago thug politics.  Bill Clinton is exactly right, and that's what you need to be concerned about, in addition to what we know as his radical leftist policies would be, that's what you need to know about Obama. 

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I'll tell you about what's going on in Chicago.  Bill Ayers, Weather Underground terrorist and now an "educator" at the University of Chicago or somewhere, is a longtime friend of Obama.  

Obama has described him as just somebody that lives in the neighborhood.  It's a lie.  I know it's a harsh word to use, but they're close friends.  They are associates.  Obama's career was launched in this guy's house! This guy was one of Obama's mentors, taught him the ins and outs of radicalism as authored by Saul Alinsky.  "[T]he relationship between Ayers and Obama is much deeper and longer than Obama admits. They ... were partners in various entities and regularly exchanged ideas, including," according to Investor's Business Daily, "how to turn Chicago schools into re-education camps to create a generation of social revolutionaries." That's who Bill Ayers is, and he is unrepentant.  And this is who Obama worked with on education.  

"One of Ayer's descriptions for a course" that he and Obama designed and worked on is "called 'Improving Learning Environments'," and here's the description: "[P]rospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.'" You think you know enough to elect Barack Obama?  You think you know enough about what he really believes?  You think you know enough about what has really happened in his life in order to form a judgment?  Now, Stanley Kurtz writes for National Review Online.  He's a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.  He is a Harvard-educated social anthropologist who frequently does contribute to National Review and some other publications.  He is widely respected.  

His research is meticulous, and he has been doing for months (as many of us do) the job the mainstream media refuses to do, and that is examine the background and the public records of Obama to try to find out what's there.  He specifically is looking into his relationship with Bill Ayers -- and he has found some documents in Chicago that give some details that shine the light on the lie that Obama barely knows Ayers. "He's just a guy in my neighborhood."  It's clear that Obama does not want people to know how close he is to Bill Ayers.  So, the Saul Alinsky-inspired Obama campaign has engaged in a brutal sleaze and smear tactic. The Obama machine is now going after Stanley Kurtz, who is just looking into this.  He was Chicago radio station WGN last night, and the phone lines were flooded and the e-mails came in, and call after call after call came in denouncing Kurtz.

"Kurtz needs to stop this. We just want this to stop." The callers were robots.  They were reading an e-mail that the Obama campaign had sent out and those that got through were just reading e-mails.  We just want it to stop.  The host said, "What has Mr. Kurtz said that's not true here tonight?" and they would not respond 'cause they couldn't respond.  They just said, "We want it to stop.  The criticism of Obama is just not what we want to hear as Americans," and these people were racing through their script, and they echoed the campaign insistence that it was Rosenberg, the host, who was lowering the standards of political discourse by having Stanley Kurtz on rather than the campaign by shouting him down.  This is who they are.  There is no opposition permitted.  They are to be gotten off the field.  The field is to be cleared. 

"You are not going to be allowed to criticize our candidate. I don't care whether the criticism is true or not. We are going to stop you. We are gonna stop it. We're going to destroy you. We're going to destroy your reputation. We're going to harass these media people and give you any opportunity whatsoever.  We're going to intimidate them. We're going to make them afraid to have any guest on their show that will criticize.  When asked, "What's wrong?" when asked, "What's inaccurate?" when asked, "Well, what's Mr. Kurtz saying here that's incorrect?" they don't answer it. They read from the script: "We just want this to stop."  This is Barack Obama.  This is who Barack Obama is.  This is William Ayers and who he is.  This is Jeremiah Wright and who he is.  This is everybody who has ever poisoned the mind of Barack Obama.  I'm sure at some point in his young life he was like every other normal little kid with four half-brothers and a father with four wives.  But somewhere, somehow, somebody got hold of him -- or he chose it.

Maybe he wanted to go to Chicago and get involved in politics there and he knew what he had to do to do it; and he has absorbed this poison from radical, radical leftists who do not like this country.  He has learned their techniques.  The techniques of radical leftists do not involve engaging in debate. They do not involve trying to persuade people to agree with your point of view.  The Obama, Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Harvard professors, whoever it is who taught this guy, the technique is: You get rid of the opposition, and it doesn't matter how.  You get rid of them by destroying their credibility.  You intimidate them.  You intimidate people who would give the media opportunities.  This is a window, my friends, into how Barack Obama would govern -- and don't forget this little episode with the ABC News producer and his camera crew outside the hotel in Denver. Don't forget that.  This is who Barack Obama is. 

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light blog, points out the dedication by Saul Alinsky in his own book, Rules for Radicals.  Now, we've discussed Saul Alinsky a lot over the recent past.  He was one of Hillary Clinton's idols.  She, too, by the way, from Chicago.  But Alinsky's tactics have spread.  I mean, Vladimir Putin uses Saul Alinsky's tactics.  The difference between Vladimir Putin and Saul Alinsky is too small to be measured.  And I know you're not going to believe this.  You're not gonna believe that a woman who almost became the presidential nominee of the Democrat Party holds Saul Alinsky as one of her idols, one of her role models.  You're not going to believe this when you hear me read to you his dedication to the book.  You are not going to believe that Obama has signed onto this hook, line, and sinker.  Rules for Radicals is the title of the book, A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals, by Saul Alinsky.  He's no longer alive, but his work lives on.  

Here is Saul Alinsky's dedication to his own book:  "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."  Saul Alinsky dedicated the book that Barack Obama has learned from to the devil, to Satan.  It's right here.  We have screen shots.  We will link to Steve Gilbert's website, Sweetness & Light blog, sweetness-light.com.  You want me to read it to you again?  Snerdley can't believe what he just heard because he's out there screening calls.  Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton's idol, Barack Obama, total believer. Saul Alinsky from Chicago, dedicated his own book with this:  "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."   

There are two other dedications on this page, one from Thomas Paine, the other from Rabbi Hillel, but it's Saul Alinsky who is the author of the book.  I know you don't believe this.  But folks, the evidence for the belief that Obama buys what's in this book is on display against Stanley Kurtz of National Review, all because he's trying to find out what the relationship was between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama.  And that's not going to be found.  If it is found, the guy who finds it and tells everybody is going to be so discredited and so destroyed, nobody is going to believe it.  And anybody else who tries to give Stanley Kurtz an opportunity to be on the air, they're going to be likewise intimidated.  This is on local Chicago radio last night, but it has spread throughout the proper channels, ladies and gentlemen.  It will never find its way to the Drive-By Media...

...Nancy Pelosi is all for this. A number of Democrats said they can't wait. Some have even advanced legislation to make it happen now.  Who was it, Maurice Hinchey in New York, I think, was the author of a piece of legislation.  No, we're looking at this. We're keeping a sharp eye...

(read the rest of the Rush Limbaugh transcript here.)

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