Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor. ------------
On Sep 9, 4:11 pm, "d.b.baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Q] - In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a > swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a > ‘community organiser’. > > This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of > community organisation as a way of promoting social change ‘from the > bottom up’. The impression is that community organising is a worthy if > woolly and ultimately ineffectual grassroots activity. This is to miss > something of the greatest importance: that in the world of Barack > Obama, community organisers are a key strategy in a different game > altogether; and the name of that game is revolutionary Marxism. > > The seditious role of the community organiser was developed by an > extreme left intellectual called Saul Alinsky. He was a radical > Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972, had had a profound > influence on the highest levels of the Democratic party. Alinsky was a > ‘transformational Marxist’ in the mould of Antonio Gramsci, who > promoted the strategy of a ‘long march through the institutions’ by > capturing the culture and turning it inside out as the most effective > means of overturning western society. In similar vein, Alinsky > condemned the New Left for alienating the general public by its > demonstrations and outlandish appearance. The revolution had to be > carried out through stealth and deception. Its proponents had to > cultivate an image of centrism and pragmatism. A master of > infiltration, Alinsky wooed Chicago mobsters and Wall Street > financiers alike. And successive Democratic politicians fell under his > spell. > > His creed was set out in his book ‘Rules for Radicals’ – a book he > dedicated to Lucifer, whom he called the ‘first radical’. It was > Alinsky for whom ‘change’ was his mantra. And by ‘change’, he meant a > Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means > which turned society inside out. This had to be done through > systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic > middle class by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda > designed to destroy it. And the way to do this, he said, was through > ‘people’s organisations’. > -http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can... > > Read the whole thing, there will be a test is you have any questions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
