BEWARE THE USEFUL IDIOTS

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ottomatik
ottomatik

I live on 8 mountainous acres, not the best for growing much except pine trees. My property tax is 300/mon. or 3600$ per year, my property will never be able to support a family and the tax. I keep building greenhouses, maybe someday….

name withheld
name withheld

While I personally agree that each of the issues listed are hurting our country, I found this alleged list of rules written by Saul Alinsky too convenient. I did some research on this. According to http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/alinsky.asp this is a fabrication. I would add, why does this look like a newspaper article, but it doesn’t have the name of the newspaper on it, nor a date? Who is Garrett Geer?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Snopes in run by the left duh

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s what all the gullible right wingers say when the shit they believe is shot down

me
me

Snopes was proven to be bull shit….pay attention!!!

RG
RG

Read the original article here: http://www.millercountyliberal.com/news/2015-08-19/Opinion/Beware_the_Useful_Idiots.html
Also, read Alinsky’s book if you haven’t.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Please tell me where to find the book “How to Create a Social State”. I have been looking for this book, which Saul Alinsky has been accused of writing, for about a decade now and have not yet found anything remotely similar. I have no choice other than to believe that this is a complete fabrication.

Joe Anthony
Joe Anthony

He never wrote this. This was a fabrication. It was sorely regurgitated with this slant from a list entitled “Power tactics” from a book titled “Rules for Radicals”. One thing I notice, people do not check the stuff they post. I used to do that, but I feel foolish about it now. Who cares if you got a “smoking gun” on Hillary or Trump or whoever when anyone with just a little bit of sense can take two minutes and see that a person doesn’t know what the fuck they are talking about. Take two minutes, look shit up so you aren’t a douchebag…

Anonymous
Anonymous

go to snopes and read it your self sheeple

Anonymous
Anonymous

It is run by two people his wife who is Canadian and himself who last registered as a Republican! You are stupid

W.E.B.

I read he’s an Independent!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Of course, facts are always by the left. DUH!!!

Daniel Weber
Daniel Weber

Look at Alinsky’s original book and compare. You can see for yourself that they’re different. No need to rely on left or right wing media. Try relying on you brain

W.E.B.

Both sides embellish BS!!!
Look at book/movie “13 Hours” Go see movie “Hillarie’s America” Has healthcare REALLY IMPROVED since Moore’s “SICKO” movie????

Left Out
Left Out

Those darned lefties – always using facts and logic to debunk your twisted and dangerous fantasy world!

Joe Mama
Joe Mama

Too bad the left is actually pushing the things in the list. There goes your theory.

crs52
crs52

Actually it isn’t. But that’s beside the point, which is that the poster is correct- Alinsky did NOT write “How to Create a Socialist State.” No one seems to know who did, but it did NOT come from Alinsky.

Eva
Eva

Yes it is – bought & paid for..,

cryptoid
cryptoid

We should encourage “name witheld” – anything beyond default disagreement with an article that calls attention to their socialist proclivities is progress for a member of the witless shill contingent of the population (even if it is just to get confirmation of the party’s take from another libtard publication).

Penelope Adams

It’s very convenient to say Snopes is “run by the left” if you do not agree with their findings. That, frankly, is a cop out excuse. Instead of letting discomfort push you into making such an easy and cheap retort, take some time and do the research yourself. For everyone’s information, the “article” isn’t an article at all. It is an op-ed, or editorial comment–one person’s twisted take on Alinsky’s work all because of an inaccurate comment made by Ben Carson a couple of years ago about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Instead of assuming Alinsky is some sort of KGB operative, a Stalinist, a communist, or any other name you feel the need to toss out, perhaps reading about him might change your perspective; however, I am afraid it is way too easy to toss out barbs without doing your homework–especially when one hides behind aliases. The Russians have an ill-informed American public right where they want it: divided, dangerously gullible, disenfranchised, and painfully frustrated. Wake up people! It doesn’t matter where you are on the political scale in this nation, we all have a much greater danger sneaking into our public discourse like a thief in the night: Russia.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s China!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous

The article doesn’t exist on the publication – it’s a fabrication.

Jim Jones
Jim Jones

Yes it is, dope. You just need to put an ounce of effort into the search bar.

http://www.millercountyliberal.com/news/2014-05-28/Opinion/Beware_the_Useful_Idiots.html

Anonymous
Anonymous

Maybe article not a real Newspaper article but Rules for Radicals Was written!!

David R Stone
David R Stone

Have you read how Snopes has been found to be funded by George Soros and has extreme left leaning workers writing the answers and spinning the facts to deceive those looking for the truth. Saul Alynsky was widely know for his radical desire to change the United States to a more European design. Hillary Clinton did a paper in College regarding Saul Alynski who she admired and looked up to. Both Obama and Clinton fiollow the same ideology.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Nope, never did read that Snopes was run by George Soros. Snopes fact checks everyone equally, it’s just that the right produces a greater amount of hogwash

Anonymous
Anonymous

It just amases me how you can form words with your head up your ass but I can understand the shit coming out of it!

Bob Tucker
Bob Tucker

Regurgitating right wing fantasies doesn’t make it factual only you a bigger fool

Natalie
Natalie

Did you know snopes is funded by George soros?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Why does everyone refer to Snopes so much? Snopes is a husband and wife in California researching on the internet with no more access than anyone else. There is nothing special about Snopes other than that people choose to believe that they have some mega-research system set up.

Anonymous
Anonymous

And has been proven to be a VERY credible source. Factcheck.com

Anonymous
Anonymous

Don’t forget she’s a cat lady.

Lynn
Lynn

Then buy the paperback on amazon if you don’t believe it

Ron

Don’t get duped by snopes. Buy and read this book. Or find the .pdf version online.
– None Dare Call It Conspiracy

– Search Norman Dodd
– Search Reese Committee

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

OH…..I thouight this was a thread about people who think communism is dead…..nevermind.

Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand

In the end it doesn’t matter whether the 8 rules came from Saul or the Communist Rules for Revolution.history illustrates the tactics of fascists and communists alike Hitler, Stalin…
It if it walks like a duck..

Grace
Grace

You believe everything you read on snopes?

RG
RG

See the original here: http://www.millercountyliberal.com/news/2015-08-19/Opinion/Beware_the_Useful_Idiots.html
Also read Alinsky’s book. The “rules” are there.

Wiseopinion
Wiseopinion

Snopes can no longer be trusted. It is a biased, liberal website now, when once it was truly balanced until the original owners of the site sold it to the current proprietors.

I am not defending or dismissing the article…but one needs to be aware that this fact finding website is no longer unbiased and clearly in favor of the leftest progressive ideologies, just like YouTube, Google, Facebook and Twitter and other “media” outlets.

Eric G. Twickler
Eric G. Twickler

The image was taken from a news paper, the Miller County Liberal in Georgia. The article appeared on the newspaper’s “Opinion” page. The article is as follows:

2015-08-19 / Opinion
Print article Print
Beware the Useful Idiots
submitted by Garret Geer

Recall that Hillary did her college thesis on his writings and Obama writes about him in his books.

Saul Alinsky died about 43 years ago, but his writings influenced those in political control of our nation today.

Died: June 12, 1972, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Education: University of Chicago

Spouse: Irene Alinsky

Books: Rules for Radicals, Reveille for Radicals

Anyone out there think that this stuff isn’t happening today in the U.S.?

All eight rules are currently in play.

How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:

There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.

1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.

2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible; poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control– Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.

5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).

6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the government and schools.

8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Does any of this sound like what is happening to the United States?

Alinsky merely simplified Vladimir Lenin’s original scheme for world conquest by communism, under Russian rule. Stalin described his converts as “Useful Idiots.”

The Useful Idiots have destroyed every nation in which they have seized power and control. It is presently happening at an alarming rate in the U.S.

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

Here is a link to the article on the newspaper’s web page.

http://www.millercountyliberal.com/news/2015-08-19/Opinion/Beware_the_Useful_Idiots.html

Les Mc
Les Mc

Now only available to subscribers. The title came up twice: “August 19, 2015

submitted by Garret Geer” and again “May 28, 2014

submitted by Garret Geer”. Both links now go to a page stating the content is for subscribers only.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Snopes is fake.

absolute truth
absolute truth

Paperback is just $12.76…
Hardcopy is $125.00.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You are incorrect, Saul Alinsky’s RULES for Radicals was written as a dedication book for Satan himself. Read the book if you do not believe me!!!! Saul even said IN HIS BOOK in HIS OWN WORDS
the greatest teacher was satan!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous

BTW Hillary did write her COLLEGE thesis on Saul Alinsky RULES FOR RADICALS!!! That is no secret….

Anonymous
Anonymous

Except from HIS BOOK: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to thevery first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (andwho is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins— orwhich is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled againstthe establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won hisown kingdom —Lucifer.—SAUL ALINSKY”

Anonymous
Anonymous

Who are you?why don’t you have a name?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Snopes said it wasn’t associated with Obama.

Anonymous
Anonymous
kokoda
kokoda

Snopes is a political tool. They even stated the Social Security Trust Fund didn’t exist. Well, maybe that is not the specific name the Gov’t uses on their Accounting Statements, but snopes implied the gov’t doesn’t have a line-item for S/S receipts.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Snopes pushes a political agenda with little regard for truth unless it suits their purpose.

Show this to yourself by taking all those Snopes (politically based) analysis and following them over time to find that when they are publicly called out on something they simply change their story without any reference to the prior story.

They count on American’s short attention spans for their credibility along with their propensity for accepting anything they are told if they like it without further investigation for themselves to confirm it.

susanna

I own Alinski’s book…real slim volume
The above are essentially correct…
and there is more/all of it a recipe for the
destruction of a free society

Wiseopinion
Wiseopinion

Thank you for coming out and sharing the truth. I read the book years ago before I removed myself from the leftest propaganda machines called “Higher Education” and became enlightened to the agenda of the progressives. I burned it.

name withheld
name withheld

Susanna, could you provide a page number in the book where you saw this list? I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

IndenturedServant

Could you imagine what would happen if the Trumpster started pointing out how Rules For Radicals was being implemented by Useful Idiots on his campaign stops and it began getting traction?

His life expectancy could begin to be measured in days or even hours.

flash
flash

. “Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, “That’s radical!” 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.” ~ Saul D. Alinsky

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robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

There’s a sucker born every minute. PT Barnum was referring to Useful Idiots.

nkit
nkit

Nowhere in the above article attributed to Garret Geer does it say that the “eight rules for creating a socialist state’ is from Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”. Nor are these rules taken from his first book “Reveille For Radicals”.

I have a copy of Rules For Radicals that I have read twice. I can find no such rules for creating a socialist state in this book. I checked a PDF copy of Reveille fFor Radicals and likewise, came up empty. In “Rules” Alinsky does list his 13 Rules of Ethics of Means in chapter two. In chapter seven he also outlines 10 Rules of Power Tactics.

If someone could show me where in either of his books he list these eight rules I would be most grateful. These rules certainly sound like something Alinsky would say, but I simply can not locate them in either of his two books.

mc potts
mc potts

if someone gets back to you on this I would like to know too

Dorothy Connery
Dorothy Connery

Thanks for your comment, because I’ve read both books and don’t remember anything of the kind in them. I think Alinsky would be appalled at any comparison between him and Hillary Clinton.

pablito
pablito

This list of 8 looks like is was printed in a newspaper in GA:

http://www.millercountyliberal.com/news/2015-08-19/Opinion/Beware_the_Useful_Idiots.html

and here is a link that debunks the connection between Alinsky and these 8 rules:

http://therealtruthproject.blogspot.com/2014/07/myths-about-saul-alinsky-and-obama.html

nkit
nkit

Pablito, I saw that second link and believe that Alinsky did not pen 8 Rules. However, the link tends to downplay the extent of Obama’s belief in Alinsky and his tactics.

On page 103 of Rules For Radicals Alinsky says:” The (community) organizer’s job is to inseminate an invitation for himself, to agitate, introduce ideas, get people pregnant with HOPE and a desire for CHANGE and to identify you as the person most qualified for this purpose.” (Caps mine)

Further, in an excellent book by Jeff Hedgpeth titled “Rules For Radicals Defeated” A Practical Guide for Defeating Obama/Alinsky Tactics, the author makes a very compelling case of Obama and the majority of Progressive liberals relying upon the tactics that Alinsky outlined at every opportunity.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I’ve never read Alinksy or Cloward and Piven for that matter, just their quotes, but FWIW, again that magic Google tool, I found this…hopefully this will clear up the confusion about a Marxist who claimed that the radical must not dismiss any means to reach their Commie end , just wasn’t about all that. May all commies roast in hell.

Alinsky’s Rules + Cloward-Piven = Obama’s Fundamental Change to Socialism

WHAT CONSERVATIVES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA’s PLAN to FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AMERICA

When you first heard about Obama’s plan to fundamentally transform America, you probably wondered “into what?” Well, the answer, as many speculated, is a Social State. Socialism. And anyone that said that was mocked and ridiculed by the people who were planning to implement it. (See Rule #5 below.)

In less than 5 minutes you will know the Progressive’s plan and their tactics. Please take the time, read this and refer to it often. And tell others.

There are 2 sections in this post.

The first is the 8 point plan to implement Socialism. This plan was not enumerated in Alinsky’s book, but Alinsky inspired two Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven to devise the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” which seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. This strategy is often attributed to Alinsky and left wing websites like Snopes have tried to discredit the plan by declaring it false because Alinsky didn’t actually write the 8 steps in his book. But Snopes conveniently fails to correctly attribute the work to Cloward and Piven.

The second is the 12 “Rules” for implementation of this plan. The tactics or “rules” work equally as well on the left to fight the plan, which is in it’s final stages of implementation.
Section 1:
How to create a social state – The Cloward-Piven Strategy:

There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state.

Carol Moore
Carol Moore

It seems like Saul Alinsky’s economic philosophy was to create a strange mix of oligarchy and communism (both systems being all about control over the masses) and attribute it to socialism. However, socialism is a far broader concept and actually the closest to democracy. Franklin D. Roosevelt, supposedly proving Alinsky’s philosophy, enacted many powerful socialist reforms such as Social Security, etc. which could be indicative of a “social state” and yet nobody dares to call him a socialist. Socialism and communism are only the same when one has been fooled into ignoring their crucial differences. Communism is a POLITICAL system wherein a few rule over the many. Socialism is an ECONOMIC system wherein the many have a say over their own rights (ergo closer to the political system of democracy). I learned this in my Oregon State University class 45 years ago wherein the professor outlined the basis and facts about HOW and WHY capitalism and communism are closer to one another than to socialism. In a nutshell, capitalism is a predatory economic system (because great wealth ultimately controls government/politics through monopolies, oligopolies and oligarchy) and can crush any chance at socialism unless capitalism is wisely regulated (as in a Democracy) for the benefit of all. There’s room (and a need) for both capitalism and socialism economically, but for that to happen Democracy must prevail.

scott
scott

Who taught you this?? A college professor you say? This ignorance in our educational system seems to have been pervasive over more years than i apparently thought.

You claim that Capitalism (the free exchange of goods and services) does not work because it has the ability to be corrupted by wealthy gaining control and influence over the government?? OK i will agree that is a possible effect, however that would not be an example of a true capitalistic system.. but a potential failure.

Then you come to an awfully strange conclusion that corrupt people use government as a means to wield power, yet the answer would be to allow that government to posses even more power?

This is a socialist fallacy, the problem with capitalism is when government oversteps and limits the ability for free trade. The most logical conclusion to quell a corrupt government would be to restrict its power.

Lastly since when did the rights of a collective become more important than the rights of an individual. That is not freedom my friend. Wait until corruption gets into that system. You will be a slave faster than you know can say BERNIE SANDERS.

Anti capitalists are ignorant fools and cannot understand that with our personal freedoms and capitalist system we became the most prospers nation in the world. Yet socialist professors infect the minds of fools and we slowly and willingly hand over our rights, all the while virtue signalling and patting all of our idiot friends in our echo chamber on the back for being so progressive.

Smoke Jensen
Smoke Jensen

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnadams124799.html

flash
flash

Above was I.

nkit
nkit

Fuck Commies and if you really have the book, then read it!…..

Suzanna
Suzanna

The premise of the book by Alinsky is that the present system,

is corrupt, and needs to be overthrown and replaced. His opening

paragraph (not the prologue) reads:

“What follows is for those who want to change the
world from what it is to what they believe it should be.
‘The Prince’ was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on
how to to hold power. ‘Rules for Radicals’ is written for the
Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

So, skimming through the book (1971) the predominant thread

is what it takes to be an organizer. How to manage people to

rally in to an “organization”, and how the organizer must conduct

himself toward that end. The book must be examined within the

context of the era = Vietnam and Cambodia, and the hatred/resentment

that era fostered. Also the book is autobiographical, where Alinsky describes

his success with organizing things in Chicago. He gets humorous and describes

how he dressed and spoke to people to gain their confidence and loyalty. The

book isn’t evil…it is about social justice and changing the system with socialism

prevailing. He sounds a bit like a labor leader, and apparently he was that also.

We are clear now, (thanks commenters) that the 8 levels of control are attributable

to Cloward and Piven.

Mike from Michigan
Mike from Michigan

Saul Alinsky was a real Communist supporter and his tactics along with Ayers were used to overthrow the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in 1968. Since then the radical revolution based communist party of the US has been in charge of the Democratic Party…. Hilly, Billy, Barack, Michelle, Pelosi, Sanders, Ayers … The whole bunch are bent on one thing alone, communist socialism.

Jim Jensen
Jim Jensen

You are deranged, my son.

Kris
Kris

I keep a copy of “Rules for Radicals” on the stand next to my recliner and consult it often. None of this is in there. He has many rules on tactics to confront the powers that be, but none of these alleged power-trip control ideals. He deals with the process of change, not necessarily specific results.

Doug
Doug

I love it when folks like “Anonymous” are so determined to be ignorant that they double down on stupidity. And criticizing Snopes…the writings of Alinsky have been altered even before Snopes existed. What morons Americans have become. That’s why the current state of this country is so pathetic.

Elbowman
Elbowman

For many of you this opinion piece from a small town paper in Georgia submitted by a citizen of that town is like the Bible.

A thought written by an author long ago is read and reinterpreted by someone else. Then the reinterpreted text is falsely assigned by yet another author. You then feel the ‘truthiness’ of the false resignation, and since it feels true to your worldview you believe it. You have faith its true, even when presented with verification it is false.

Who is now the useful idiot?

Anonymous
Anonymous

You mean like michael brown and the BLM movement? Even if alinsky didnt write it, its undeniable the agenda. The leftist are outta control and this is such a corrupt government, its ridiculious. Its funny how all the liberal media news stations are blaming everything from Christianity, NRA, Conservatives, catholics even for the orlando shooting. Not radical islam. Our president basically denies the events of sept.11. This apparently didnt happen and there isnt enemies that are at war with us! The next day obama fast tracks the syrian refugees. He sold us this bullcrap under the lie they would be properly vetted. Even though every expert says its impossible to do so(what the heck is finger printing, retinal scanning or a interview gonna do?). The directors of the fbi, cia, homeland security are pleading over and over again that this is a bad, unsafe idea. These refugees are the catalyst for crisis. This is also why the UK wants out of the EU. People
Need to wake up. Leftist are traitors. Obama doesnt like saying radical islam is because he was raised muslim(who cares what he says he is now, its so insincere). He was also a radical. Bill ayers, a known domestic terrorist was a mentor of obama. Who was in socialist clubs in college. He studied alinesky and is obviously familiar with these guys work here. When nerds were playing dungeons and dragons, he was learning all of this. The useful idiots were paramount in stalins rise to power.

Jim Jensen
Jim Jensen

Hear, hear!

Elbowman
Elbowman

P.S.

My belief is the reason the image of the original article has no heading is because then you would realize it is a submitted piece to the paper’s opinion section, and the author is no scholar, just an ordinary person.

hardscrabble farmer

You know what I do whenever someone quotes something that interests me? I read the book. Snopes is for very lazy people, like wikipedia. Reading the original in context provides you with much more BECAUSE IT’S THE ORIGINAL.

Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals is far more extreme than the little tidbit above, whether real or fabricated.

Most people have a deficit of curiosity, not time or opinions.

Adam
Adam

That’s a very reductionist and grammatically incorrect statement of viewpoint: “Snopes is for very lazy people, like wikipedia.” Congratulations that you read an entire book every time anything interests you. A lot of people have demanding jobs, lots of friends and family, and many other things that prevent us from reading a dull and lengthy book just because a single thought or two caught our attention. Snopes cuts to the chase, and usually very accurately, in my experience. Also, better grammar would have been to say, “Snopes, like wikipedia, is for very lazy people.” Your phrasing implies that wikipedia itself is one of the lazy people who relies on Snopes. Wikipedia isn’t a person at all, silly!

Ghost

You are a moran.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer

I’m not a very good writer.

“…many other things that prevent us from reading a dull and lengthy book…”

Revelatory synopsis.

Snopes, however, is very full of shit.

Ghost

Hallelujah, can we get an Amen!

Jess Cumberbatch
Jess Cumberbatch

Since this has all been debunked, I’d say the useful idiot is the imbecile who posts it as fact.

Ashamed2Bwhite
Ashamed2Bwhite

As the election of the Orange One proves, we live in a post-factual era (‘1984’ just came late). Snopes and other serious efforts to actually fact-check materials are now a waste of time, as you can play back HiDef videos of Trump saying ugly, sexist, racist, anti-American statements, inciting violence, etc. and it bounces right off the thick skulls of a large percentage of citizens who on casual inspection look to be of normal intelligence. Meanwhile, toss out the most ludicrous fabrications, baseless lies, conspiracy fantasies, and as long as they align with your beliefs, you swallow them whole so as to regurgitate them forever when anyone challenges you. One question though – who are they going to blame for the calamities about to befall the very voters who elected him, but are already being ignored in favor of the Great White Men of Vast Wealth and Privilege, once there is no Evil Obama/Hillary to point to?

James the Wanderer

“as you can play back HiDef videos of Trump saying ugly, sexist, racist, anti-American statements, inciting violence, etc.”
These are all YOUR OPINION of what Trump said. If Trump said “build a wall” is that racist, xenophobic, or merely a prescription for dealing with an unfortunate reality? If you say “racist”, then that’s YOUR opinion, not mine. “Ugly” has no value; “they will let you grab them by the pussy” is sexist? Anyway, your opinion is not fact, and is not shared, apparently, by half the country that voted for him. Perhaps they voted out of protest against the evil, corrupt and untrustworthy Hillary (yes, MY opinion) but they apparently regarded her crimes as more deplorable than his.
And as to violence – paid political operatives disrupted Trump rallies and tried to create chaos. One was apprehended trying to rush the stage, and secret service men hustled Trump to safety; various other incidents resulted in injury and bloodshed. Inciting violence or advocating self-defense?
I do not share your opinions about Trump, or likely anything else beyond gravity, the tides and sunlight. And maybe not even those!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Here I have the book here is some of the “tactics”:

TacticsWe will either find a way or make one.— HannibalTACTICS MEANS doing what you can with what you have. Tacticsare those consciously deliberate acts by which human beings livewith each other and deal with the world around them. In the world ofgive and take, tactics is the art of how to take and how to give. Hereour concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can takepower away from the Haves.
For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as thepoint of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First theeyes; if you have organized a vast, mass-based people’s organization,you can parade it visibly before the enemy and openly show yourpower. Second the ears; if your organization is small in numbers,then do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise adin and clamor that will make the listener believe that yourorganization numbers many more than it does. Third, the nose; ifyour organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.Always remember the first rule of power tactics:Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.{footnote 1}The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people.When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, theresult is confusion, fear, and retreat. It also means a collapse ofcommunication, as we have noted.The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside of the experience ofthe enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.General William T. Sherman, whose name still causes a frenziedreaction throughout the South, provided a classic example of goingoutside the enemy’s experience. Until Sherman, military tactics andstrategies were based on standard patterns. All armies had fronts,rears, flanks, lines of communication, and lines of supply. Militarycampaigns were aimed at such standard objectives as rolling up theflanks of the enemy army or cutting the lines of supply or lines ofcommunication, or moving around to attack from the rear. WhenSherman cut loose on his famous March to the Sea, he had no frontor rear lines of supplies or any other lines. He was on the loose and
living on the land. The South, confronted with this new form ofmilitary invasion, reacted with confusion, panic, terror, and collapse.Sherman swept on to inevitable victory. It was the same tactic that,years later in the early days of World War II, the Nazi Panzer tankdivisions emulated in their far-flung sweeps into enemy territory, asdid our own General Patton with the American Third ArmoredDivision.The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their ownrules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is mans mostpotent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Alsoit infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.The sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.{footnote 2} If your people are not having a ball doing it, there issomething very wrong with the tactic.The seventh rule: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time,after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to churchon Sunday mornings. New issues and crises are always developing,and one’s reaction becomes, “Well, my heart bleeds for those peopleand I’m all for the boycott, but after all there are other importantthings in life”—and there it goes.The eighth rule: Keep the pressure on, with different tactics andactions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.The ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thingitself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development ofoperations that will maintain a constant pressure upon theopposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactionsfrom the opposition that are essential for the success of thecampaign. It should be remembered not only that the action is in thereaction but that action is itself the consequence of reaction and ofreaction to the reaction, ad infinitum. The pressure produces thereaction, and constant pressure sustains action.The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough itwill break through into its counterside; this is based on the principlethat every positive has its negative. We have already seen theconversion of the negative into the positive, in Mahatma Gandhi’sdevelopment of the tactic of passive resistance.One corporation we organized against responded to the continuousapplication of pressure by burglarizing my home, and then using thekeys taken in the burglary to burglarize the offices of the IndustrialAreas Foundation where I work. The panic in this corporation wasclear from the nature of the burglaries, for nothing was taken ineither burglary to make it seem that the thieves were interested inordinary loot—they took only the records that applied to thecorporation. Even the most amateurish burglar would have had moresense than to do what the private detective agency hired by thatcorporation did. The police departments in California and Chicagoagreed that “the corporation might just as well have left itsfingerprints all over the place.”In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point whereyou stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt. When acorporation bungles like the one that burglarized my home andoffice, my visible public reaction is shock, horror, and moral outrage.In this case, we let it be known that sooner or later it would be
confronted with this crime as well as with a whole series of otherderelictions, before a United States Senate SubcommitteeInvestigation. Once sworn in, with congressional immunity, wewould make these actions public. This threat, plus the fact that anattempt on my life had been made in Southern California, had thecorporation on a spot where it would be publicly suspect in the eventof assassination. At one point I found myself in a thirty-room motelin which every other room was occupied by their security men. Thisbecame another devil in the closet to haunt this corporation and tokeep the pressure on.The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructivealternative. You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in hissudden agreement with your demand and saying “You’re right—wedon’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.”The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, andpolarize it.In conflict tactics there are certain rules that the organizer shouldalways regard as universalities. One is that the opposition must besingled out as the target and “frozen.” By this I mean that in acomplex, interrelated, urban society, it becomes increasingly difficultto single out who is to blame for any particular evil. There is aconstant, and somewhat legitimate, passing of the buck. In thesetimes of urbanization, complex metropolitan governments, thecomplexities of major interlocked corporations, and the interlockingof political life between cities and counties and metropolitanauthorities, the problem that threatens to loom more and more is thatof identifying the enemy. Obviously there is no point to tactics unlessone has a target upon which to center the attacks. One big problem isa constant shifting of responsibility from one jurisdiction to another—individuals and bureaus one after another disclaim responsibility
for particular conditions, attributing the authority for any change tosome other force. In a corporation one gets the situation where thepresident of the corporation says that he does not have theresponsibility, it is up to the board of trustees or the board ofdirectors, the board of directors can shift it over to the stockholders,etc., etc. And the same thing goes, for example, on the Board ofEducation appointments in the city of Chicago, where an extra-legalcommittee is empowered to make selections of nominees for theboard and the mayor then uses his legal powers to select names fromthat list. When the mayor is attacked for not having any blacks on thelist, he shifts the responsibility over to the committee, pointing outthat he has to select those names from a list submitted by thecommittee, and if the list is all white, then he has no responsibility.The committee can shift the responsibility back by pointing out thatit is the mayor who has the authority to select the names, and so itgoes in a comic (if it were not so tragic) routine of “who’s on first” or”under which shell is the pea hidden?”

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