I've never, in my lifetime, seen anyone treated as cruelly as Sarah Palin, in America. The fact that Palin is an evangelical Christian, an accomplished public servant, a good mother, and good wife, makes the hatred of her critics all the more horrific, shameful, and perplexing. The America I grew up in, in the 1950s and 1960s, no longer exists. Common sense, integrity, and morality are no longer popular concepts among many Americans.
When I was a boy, It was not okay for a young girl to lift her t-shirt to partially expose her breasts on national TV. It was not okay for a President of the U.S. to behave like a dictator.
Hollywood is mad, as in certifiable. From a headline: May 17, 2010 | 1:06 PM ET
Woody Allen says President Obama should be granted dictatorial powers (seriously)! Once, there was no more ardent fan of Woody Allen than I, but then some of his movies became sexually deviant. Then he took nude photos of his lover, Mia Farrow's, adopted daughter and subsequently married her. The lack of integrity in Hollywood is surpassed only by its narcissism and inflated sense of self-importance and relevance.
We are travelling down a dangerous road my friends. A nation so divided cannot long reign as a super power. A nation with no moral absolutes is destined to wind up on the trash heap of former nations of glory and power.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
BEACH MUSIC LEGEND, JACKIE GORE, TO SING MY SONG, PRODUCED BY BEACH LEGEND, JOHNNY BARKER
I was born in Kinston, North Carolina, on April 19, 1948. My family and many of my relatives lived on French Lane, where many of the poorest white folk of Kinston lived.
My grandparents, Vaden and Addie Powell were devout Christians. They out-lived four of their ten children.
Dad, Allen James Ball, aka "Jay" and "AJ", moved our family from Kinston, in 1955, to Greenville, N.C. We lived there for only a few months, moving to Washington, N.C., where we lived until 1972. In 1972, we moved back to Kinston.
I played in junior and high school band, in Washington; and started playing in my Dad's band, at Whichard's Beach, when I was 13-years old. I volunteered to join the army, on September 12, 1966, at Ft. Bragg, upon graduation.
I attended Little Creek Naval School of Music, in Norfolk, Virginia, from November 1966, until May 1967. I was then stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., with the 440th Army Band. There, I played in the 440th jazz band as well. The jazz ensemble toured eastern North Carolina, playing in high schools, including my alma mater, Washington, N.C. My tour of duty ended on September 11, 1969, after which I enrolled at East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C., December 1969.
I've struggled since then to become a successful songwriter, working as a professional musician since 1971.
After an unremarkable nine-month stint as a college student, ( I didn't take algebra, algebra took me!)I dropped out of college to manage, and perform in, a 7-piece, variety music band.
Since my Mother became plagued by seizures, in 2004, and later cancer, in 2009, I've been full-time care giver for my Mom, and my Dad, (Dad died on July 10, 2008), in Britthaven of Snow Hill nursing home, at age 86.
Mama just turned 83 on May 14, 2010. On June 10, 2009, a Kinston oncologiist, from India, prophesied my mother's death, saying she had "six months to live." The prophesy was delivered in a startling, cold, unsympathetic manner. The oncologist never once smiled during his meeting with my Mom, my brother, and me.
Thoroughly disgusted with "smiling-boy," I found oncologist Dr. James N. Atkins, of Goldsboro, N.C. He's a wonderful doctor, greatly admired by everyone who's had the fortune to know him or be treated by him. He bears a remarkable resemblance to Dr. House, on the TV series of the same name. The similarities end there. He's a gifted professional who, along with superb treatment, offers hope to his patients, as much as is reasonable and realistic.
Jackie Gore is well-known in the field of beach music and music styles beyond. He's an exemplary performer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Jackie is recording a beach music song of mine, "Cuddle Up". Johnny Barker, superb keyboardist, singer, songwriter, and producer, is producing the song. Jackie wrote the beach music anthem "I Love Beach Music". Johnny wrote the beach music classic "Summertime's Calling Me". I'm looking forward, with much anticipation, to hearing the song, which I've placed in such capable hands. Despite the fact that they, like me, are musicians and ne'er-do-wells, they are gentlemen and just plain, good ol', North Carolina boys. They remind me of the guy who said: "I put my pants on, one leg at a time, like everyone else. The only difference is: I write hit songs".
My home recording of "Cuddle Up" has, as of today, Friday, May 21, 2010, amassed 25, 267 views, since August 21, 2009 {A lot for an unknown artist with a poorly recorded, home-recorded demo}.
Jackie and Johnny are part of the new beach music group, Legends of Beach. You can find their videos on youtube. You can find my videos on youtube, as well, at the URLs below:
ALLEN BALL ~ CUDDLE UP {Posted August 21, 2009}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUa6g0BMITE
ALLEN BALL
http://www.youtube.com/user/19271948
My grandparents, Vaden and Addie Powell were devout Christians. They out-lived four of their ten children.
Dad, Allen James Ball, aka "Jay" and "AJ", moved our family from Kinston, in 1955, to Greenville, N.C. We lived there for only a few months, moving to Washington, N.C., where we lived until 1972. In 1972, we moved back to Kinston.
I played in junior and high school band, in Washington; and started playing in my Dad's band, at Whichard's Beach, when I was 13-years old. I volunteered to join the army, on September 12, 1966, at Ft. Bragg, upon graduation.
I attended Little Creek Naval School of Music, in Norfolk, Virginia, from November 1966, until May 1967. I was then stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., with the 440th Army Band. There, I played in the 440th jazz band as well. The jazz ensemble toured eastern North Carolina, playing in high schools, including my alma mater, Washington, N.C. My tour of duty ended on September 11, 1969, after which I enrolled at East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C., December 1969.
I've struggled since then to become a successful songwriter, working as a professional musician since 1971.
After an unremarkable nine-month stint as a college student, ( I didn't take algebra, algebra took me!)I dropped out of college to manage, and perform in, a 7-piece, variety music band.
Since my Mother became plagued by seizures, in 2004, and later cancer, in 2009, I've been full-time care giver for my Mom, and my Dad, (Dad died on July 10, 2008), in Britthaven of Snow Hill nursing home, at age 86.
Mama just turned 83 on May 14, 2010. On June 10, 2009, a Kinston oncologiist, from India, prophesied my mother's death, saying she had "six months to live." The prophesy was delivered in a startling, cold, unsympathetic manner. The oncologist never once smiled during his meeting with my Mom, my brother, and me.
Thoroughly disgusted with "smiling-boy," I found oncologist Dr. James N. Atkins, of Goldsboro, N.C. He's a wonderful doctor, greatly admired by everyone who's had the fortune to know him or be treated by him. He bears a remarkable resemblance to Dr. House, on the TV series of the same name. The similarities end there. He's a gifted professional who, along with superb treatment, offers hope to his patients, as much as is reasonable and realistic.
Jackie Gore is well-known in the field of beach music and music styles beyond. He's an exemplary performer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Jackie is recording a beach music song of mine, "Cuddle Up". Johnny Barker, superb keyboardist, singer, songwriter, and producer, is producing the song. Jackie wrote the beach music anthem "I Love Beach Music". Johnny wrote the beach music classic "Summertime's Calling Me". I'm looking forward, with much anticipation, to hearing the song, which I've placed in such capable hands. Despite the fact that they, like me, are musicians and ne'er-do-wells, they are gentlemen and just plain, good ol', North Carolina boys. They remind me of the guy who said: "I put my pants on, one leg at a time, like everyone else. The only difference is: I write hit songs".
My home recording of "Cuddle Up" has, as of today, Friday, May 21, 2010, amassed 25, 267 views, since August 21, 2009 {A lot for an unknown artist with a poorly recorded, home-recorded demo}.
Jackie and Johnny are part of the new beach music group, Legends of Beach. You can find their videos on youtube. You can find my videos on youtube, as well, at the URLs below:
ALLEN BALL ~ CUDDLE UP {Posted August 21, 2009}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUa6g0BMITE
ALLEN BALL
http://www.youtube.com/user/19271948
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
We C Thru U Mr. Obama
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. --BARACK OBAMA --[my emphasis --Allen Ball]
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. --Communist/Marxist SAUL ALINSKY, Rules For Radicals
--[my emphasis]
*****
Too bad most people are still at work or on their way home from work as Glenn Beck is exposing the Machiavellian machinations of the current White House administration--- every day of the week on Fox News Network. So many people I talk to don’t know the following:
1.
Obama hired at least one self-avowed communist to work for him as a czar.
2.
Every czar in Obama’s employ, it appears, is a radical and a socialist.
3.
The entire Obama administration, it appears, is composed of ardent devotees of
Communist/Marxist Saul Alinsky and mass murderer, Mao Zedong.
I’m doing my part to spread the word about this sad and dangerous state of affairs.
Saul Alinsky developed and wrote Rules For Radicals, a book describing a methodology he designed for radicals, to employ, to collapse America, in order that it might be rebuilt to the satisfaction of atheists, in general, members of the A.C.L.U., the CNN Network, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Hollywood, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and David Letterman.
I’ve collected a series of quotes and excerpts below, from various sources, that shed much light on the mindset of Saul Alinsky and his followers. I hope you find the information as disturbing and frightening as I found it to be. If so, maybe then you’ll do your best to spread the word.
*****
Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left. --JOHN PERAZZO
When I worked at Nevada Policy Institute in Nevada several years ago, the Post-election analysis of the 1998 election uncovered the fact that family pets received absentee ballots in crucial districts. Dead people were counted as well.
Democratic Senator Harry Reid's slim, 428-vote win against Republican John Ensign raised eyebrows and the juices of some who understand how the modern DNC and its phalanx of wheelers and dealers, lawyers and opportunists really work.
A part of the tactic includes breaking the law when you can and where you can get away with it. Remember, in the minds of the hijacked Democratic Party the ends do indeed justify the Luciferian means. --DIANE ALDEN (Jan. 7, 2003),
graduate of the University of Minnesota with degrees in political science, economics and history.
Marxist radicals of Alinsky's era denounced Alinsky, but that was because of Alinsky's tactics, not his end goals. The following is from a 1972 interview of Alinsky in Playboy discussing why Alinsky always sought limited goals and incremental progress towards a Marxist utopia rather than a total and immediate revolution such as occurred in Russia and China:
PLAYBOY: Spokesmen for the New Left contend that this process of accommodation renders piecemeal reforms meaningless, and that the overthrow and replacement of the system itself is the only means of ensuring meaningful social progress. How would you answer them?
ALINSKY: That kind of rhetoric explains why there's nothing left of the New Left. It would be great if the whole system would just disappear overnight, but it won't, and the kids on the New Left sure as hell aren't going to overthrow it. Shit, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin couldn't organize a successful luncheon, much less a revolution. I can sympathize with the impatience and pessimism of a lot of kids, but they've got to remember that real revolution is a long, hard process. Radicals in the United States don't have the strength to confront a local police force in armed struggle, much less the Army, Navy and Air Force; it's just idiocy for the Panthers to talk about all power growing from the barrel of a gun when the other side has all the guns.
America isn't Russia in 1917 or China in 1946, and any violent head-on collision with the power structure will only ensure the mass suicide of the left and the probable triumph of domestic fascism. So you're not going to get instant nirvana -- or any nirvana, for that matter -- and you've got to ask yourself, "Short of that, what the hell can I do?" The only answer is to build up local power bases that can merge into a national power movement that will ultimately realize your goals. That takes time and hard work and all the tedium connected with hard work, which turns off a lot of today's rhetorical radicals. But it's the only alternative to the continuation of the present system. . . .
The following profile was written by John Perazzo in April 2008. Perazzo is the Managing Editor of DiscoverTheNetworks and the author of The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations.
[my emphasis]
After completing his graduate work in criminology, Alinsky went on to develop what are known today as the Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power. In the late 1930s he earned a reputation as a master organizer of the poor when he organized the "Back of the Yards" area in Chicago….
In the Alinsky model, "organizing" is a euphemism for "revolution" -- a wholesale revolution whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America's social and economic structure. The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted -- a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation. Thus, the theory goes, the people will settle for nothing less than that status quo's complete collapse -- to be followed by the erection of an entirely new system upon its ruins. Toward that end, they will be apt to follow the lead of charismatic radical organizers who project an aura of confidence and vision, and who profess to clearly understand what types of societal "changes" are needed.
As Alinsky put it: "A reformation means that the masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution."
"[W]e are concerned," Alinsky elaborated, "with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which men have the chance to live by the values that give meaning to life. We are talking about a mass power organization which will change the world … This means revolution."
But Alinsky's brand of revolution was not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight transformations of social institutions. As Richard Poe puts it, "Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties." He advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of these institutions, and to introduce changes from that platform. This was precisely the tactic of "infiltration" advocated by Lenin and Stalin.
---http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314
*****
Alarmingly, much of what Obama is doing to our country fit’s the profile of what was advocated and promoted by Saul Alinsky, in Rules For Radicals, to bring America to her knees. The problem we face, as Americans determined to disallow the overthrow of America, is to educate the millions of Americans who are still walking about in the darkness of ignorance concerning the existential threat Obama poses to the United States.
I risk being branded an alarmist by some. A single voice cried out to warn the world of the intentions of Adolph Hitler, in the twentieth century. That voice was the voice of the man who was credited for being greatly responsible for having saved the world from Nazi world domination. The man was Winston Spencer Churchill, one of my favorite heroes.
Please check out the videos I have provided for you this week and please forward them to friends and family members. We must stand together to save America.
MILTON FRIEDMAN-what alinsky never told obama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjH4QBSwWlg
Saul Alinsky and Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYMzwIHAtc
DIANE ALDEN
http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm
QUOTES
"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky
"Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." --By RICHARD POE, 11-27-07)
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... 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
"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. (my emphasis) 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."
In this book [RULES FOR RADICALS] we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace.... "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.' This means revolution." --SAUL ALINSKY
“Alinsky's tactics were based, not on Stalin's revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci's transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.”
--Notes from an article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinsky's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'" --SAUL ALINSKY
"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.'...
--Notes from an article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinsky's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)
"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." --SAUL ALINSKY
"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." --SAUL ALINSKY, RULES FOR RADICALS, p.117
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. --Communist/Marxist SAUL ALINSKY, Rules For Radicals
--[my emphasis]
*****
Too bad most people are still at work or on their way home from work as Glenn Beck is exposing the Machiavellian machinations of the current White House administration--- every day of the week on Fox News Network. So many people I talk to don’t know the following:
1.
Obama hired at least one self-avowed communist to work for him as a czar.
2.
Every czar in Obama’s employ, it appears, is a radical and a socialist.
3.
The entire Obama administration, it appears, is composed of ardent devotees of
Communist/Marxist Saul Alinsky and mass murderer, Mao Zedong.
I’m doing my part to spread the word about this sad and dangerous state of affairs.
Saul Alinsky developed and wrote Rules For Radicals, a book describing a methodology he designed for radicals, to employ, to collapse America, in order that it might be rebuilt to the satisfaction of atheists, in general, members of the A.C.L.U., the CNN Network, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Hollywood, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and David Letterman.
I’ve collected a series of quotes and excerpts below, from various sources, that shed much light on the mindset of Saul Alinsky and his followers. I hope you find the information as disturbing and frightening as I found it to be. If so, maybe then you’ll do your best to spread the word.
*****
Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left. --JOHN PERAZZO
When I worked at Nevada Policy Institute in Nevada several years ago, the Post-election analysis of the 1998 election uncovered the fact that family pets received absentee ballots in crucial districts. Dead people were counted as well.
Democratic Senator Harry Reid's slim, 428-vote win against Republican John Ensign raised eyebrows and the juices of some who understand how the modern DNC and its phalanx of wheelers and dealers, lawyers and opportunists really work.
A part of the tactic includes breaking the law when you can and where you can get away with it. Remember, in the minds of the hijacked Democratic Party the ends do indeed justify the Luciferian means. --DIANE ALDEN (Jan. 7, 2003),
graduate of the University of Minnesota with degrees in political science, economics and history.
Marxist radicals of Alinsky's era denounced Alinsky, but that was because of Alinsky's tactics, not his end goals. The following is from a 1972 interview of Alinsky in Playboy discussing why Alinsky always sought limited goals and incremental progress towards a Marxist utopia rather than a total and immediate revolution such as occurred in Russia and China:
PLAYBOY: Spokesmen for the New Left contend that this process of accommodation renders piecemeal reforms meaningless, and that the overthrow and replacement of the system itself is the only means of ensuring meaningful social progress. How would you answer them?
ALINSKY: That kind of rhetoric explains why there's nothing left of the New Left. It would be great if the whole system would just disappear overnight, but it won't, and the kids on the New Left sure as hell aren't going to overthrow it. Shit, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin couldn't organize a successful luncheon, much less a revolution. I can sympathize with the impatience and pessimism of a lot of kids, but they've got to remember that real revolution is a long, hard process. Radicals in the United States don't have the strength to confront a local police force in armed struggle, much less the Army, Navy and Air Force; it's just idiocy for the Panthers to talk about all power growing from the barrel of a gun when the other side has all the guns.
America isn't Russia in 1917 or China in 1946, and any violent head-on collision with the power structure will only ensure the mass suicide of the left and the probable triumph of domestic fascism. So you're not going to get instant nirvana -- or any nirvana, for that matter -- and you've got to ask yourself, "Short of that, what the hell can I do?" The only answer is to build up local power bases that can merge into a national power movement that will ultimately realize your goals. That takes time and hard work and all the tedium connected with hard work, which turns off a lot of today's rhetorical radicals. But it's the only alternative to the continuation of the present system. . . .
The following profile was written by John Perazzo in April 2008. Perazzo is the Managing Editor of DiscoverTheNetworks and the author of The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations.
[my emphasis]
After completing his graduate work in criminology, Alinsky went on to develop what are known today as the Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power. In the late 1930s he earned a reputation as a master organizer of the poor when he organized the "Back of the Yards" area in Chicago….
In the Alinsky model, "organizing" is a euphemism for "revolution" -- a wholesale revolution whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America's social and economic structure. The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted -- a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation. Thus, the theory goes, the people will settle for nothing less than that status quo's complete collapse -- to be followed by the erection of an entirely new system upon its ruins. Toward that end, they will be apt to follow the lead of charismatic radical organizers who project an aura of confidence and vision, and who profess to clearly understand what types of societal "changes" are needed.
As Alinsky put it: "A reformation means that the masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution."
"[W]e are concerned," Alinsky elaborated, "with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which men have the chance to live by the values that give meaning to life. We are talking about a mass power organization which will change the world … This means revolution."
But Alinsky's brand of revolution was not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight transformations of social institutions. As Richard Poe puts it, "Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties." He advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of these institutions, and to introduce changes from that platform. This was precisely the tactic of "infiltration" advocated by Lenin and Stalin.
---http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314
*****
Alarmingly, much of what Obama is doing to our country fit’s the profile of what was advocated and promoted by Saul Alinsky, in Rules For Radicals, to bring America to her knees. The problem we face, as Americans determined to disallow the overthrow of America, is to educate the millions of Americans who are still walking about in the darkness of ignorance concerning the existential threat Obama poses to the United States.
I risk being branded an alarmist by some. A single voice cried out to warn the world of the intentions of Adolph Hitler, in the twentieth century. That voice was the voice of the man who was credited for being greatly responsible for having saved the world from Nazi world domination. The man was Winston Spencer Churchill, one of my favorite heroes.
Please check out the videos I have provided for you this week and please forward them to friends and family members. We must stand together to save America.
MILTON FRIEDMAN-what alinsky never told obama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjH4QBSwWlg
Saul Alinsky and Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYMzwIHAtc
DIANE ALDEN
http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm
QUOTES
"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky
"Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." --By RICHARD POE, 11-27-07)
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... 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
"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. (my emphasis) 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."
In this book [RULES FOR RADICALS] we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace.... "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.' This means revolution." --SAUL ALINSKY
“Alinsky's tactics were based, not on Stalin's revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci's transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.”
--Notes from an article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinsky's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'" --SAUL ALINSKY
"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.'...
--Notes from an article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinsky's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)
"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." --SAUL ALINSKY
"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." --SAUL ALINSKY, RULES FOR RADICALS, p.117
Saturday, May 15, 2010
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