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]]> By: Alex http://westernfrontamerica.com/2009/08/04/know-your-enemy-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals/#comment-79 Alex Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:09:45 +0000 http://westernfrontamerica.com/?p=7376#comment-79 Dear old Saul sounds like the typical deluded Jew with his musings. I think he must have been tripping on Meth or Mescaline when he wrote this crap. I think he should have run some of his idiotic mumblings past one of his Jewish brethren, Meyer Lansky or Dutch Schultz (Born Arthur Flegenheimer), they could have put Saul on the right path. I don’t think Saul was ever a member of a street gang or any ‘Organization’ that achieved anything other than a Luniversity drug taking group. I always find it amusing how a person who has never achieved anything in life can be taken seriously when they write crap and try to make it sound as if it is something new. I am even more amazed that some psychos who read this self-parasitic, plagiaristic non-sense have delusions, that Saul is some sort of God who will lead them to the promised land of enlightenment! I think a good read of a Batman or Superman comic book and a bottle of Valium would do them a lot more good. To the believers of Saul – Go F**K your selves. Dear old Saul sounds like the typical deluded Jew with his musings.
I think he must have been tripping on Meth or Mescaline when he wrote this crap.
I think he should have run some of his idiotic mumblings past one of his Jewish brethren,
Meyer Lansky or Dutch Schultz (Born Arthur Flegenheimer), they could have put Saul on the right path.
I don’t think Saul was ever a member of a street gang or any ‘Organization’ that achieved anything other than a Luniversity drug taking group.
I always find it amusing how a person who has never achieved anything in life can be taken seriously when they write crap and try to make it sound as if it is something new.
I am even more amazed that some psychos who read this self-parasitic, plagiaristic non-sense have delusions, that Saul is some sort of God who will lead them to the promised land of enlightenment!
I think a good read of a Batman or Superman comic book and a bottle of Valium would do them a lot more good.
To the believers of Saul – Go F**K your selves.

]]> By: Michael http://westernfrontamerica.com/2009/08/04/know-your-enemy-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals/#comment-78 Michael Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:32:11 +0000 http://westernfrontamerica.com/?p=7376#comment-78 "This willingness to arrogantly disregard verifiable truth in service of a greater revolutionary “truth” is a central aspect of Alinsky’s tactics." ... and exactly what the Tea Party activists did with their talk of "death panels" in the healthcare debate. As a progressive, I find it fascinating that the Right is now adopting the "radical" tactics of the left to affect social change, the same way the Left adopted the Right's grassroots organizing techniques to win the last election. Personally, I have a lot of trouble with Alinsky's rather cavalier notion that the "end's justify the means." No matter what your ideology, I don't believe it's okay to misrepresent the truth in order to score political victories. Yet many of his other "rules" about how a disempowered minority can wrest power from the majority work whether you believe you are being oppressed by rich fat cats or latte-sipping liberals. As the Left has given up on activism in favor of trying to work through the administration to achieve its ends (a mistake in my opinion) it's been very interesting to see the Right take up the direct action tactics that liberals have been using since the 1960s to influence political debate. “This willingness to arrogantly disregard verifiable truth in service of a greater revolutionary “truth” is a central aspect of Alinsky’s tactics.”

… and exactly what the Tea Party activists did with their talk of “death panels” in the healthcare debate.

As a progressive, I find it fascinating that the Right is now adopting the “radical” tactics of the left to affect social change, the same way the Left adopted the Right’s grassroots organizing techniques to win the last election.

Personally, I have a lot of trouble with Alinsky’s rather cavalier notion that the “end’s justify the means.” No matter what your ideology, I don’t believe it’s okay to misrepresent the truth in order to score political victories. Yet many of his other “rules” about how a disempowered minority can wrest power from the majority work whether you believe you are being oppressed by rich fat cats or latte-sipping liberals.

As the Left has given up on activism in favor of trying to work through the administration to achieve its ends (a mistake in my opinion) it’s been very interesting to see the Right take up the direct action tactics that liberals have been using since the 1960s to influence political debate.

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