The Obama Admin has again been accused of using Alinsky tactics.
Obama’s training as an acolyte in these tactics was big news during the 2010
presidential campaign.
Now that we have experienced 3 yrs of Obama’s political tactics, it is a good
time to review them and see if the warning was true.
Rules for Radicals
By Saul Alinsky - 1971
Hillary Clinton's 1969 Political Science Thesis ("There is Only the Fight")
refers to an earlier version of Alinsky’s training manual. "In 1946,” she
wrote, "Alinsky's first book, Reveille for Radicals, was published."
"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the
exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically
proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of
reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat,
and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." p.10
"An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma
to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth -- truth to him is relative and
changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he
is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the
widely different situations...." pp.10-11
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)
Saul Alinksky, Rules for Radicals, Vintage Books, New York , 1989.
The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were:
· ego ("reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to
create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God"),
· curiosity (raising "questions that agitate, that break through the
accepted pattern"),
· irreverence ("nothing is sacred"; the organizer "detests dogma, defies
any finite definition of morality"),
· imagination ("the fuel for the force that keeps an organizer
organizing"),
· a sense of humor ("the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire
and ridicule"), and an
· organized personality with confidence in presenting the right reason
for his actions only "as a moral rationalization after the right end has been
achieved.'...
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems
The Whole Thing – Rules for Radicals
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
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