“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” said President Barack Obama, directing his comments at Republican leaders in Congress earlier this week. During a 15-minute segment on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends program this morning, Limbaugh responded by saying the 44th president was attempting to employ Rule #13 of the late Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”
Not familiar with Saul Alinski or his socialist “Rules”? Fear not.
The folks at the Public Service Issues Foundation have the subject covered in an online document, What Every Public Official Should Know About Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Rule #13 reads as follows:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Reread President Obama’s comment above, and you can see that Limbaugh was right: President Obama picked his target (i.e., Limbaugh); he personalized his message; and he turned the conservative radio talk show host into a polarizing figure by telling Republicans they can’t get things done by listening to Limbaugh.
What else can Americans expect to see from President during the next four years? A review of all 13 of Alinsky’s “Rules,” provided by PSRF, offers a frightening glimpse:
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
I encourage you to print these “Rules” and use them as tools via which to keep track of President Obama’s actions.
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1 Helen Sacred-Horsesghost // Jan 12, 2010 at 5:07 am
Reader beware! Rules for radicals should not be taken lightly. These rules can easily be used by corporations against employees when there are not laws to protect the employees. The land belonging to corporations can be turned into black holes in the American fabric. Corporations can control paperwork and avoid paper trails. They have the power to turn against employees and treat hem like liars, trouble makersc and crazy people. They can retaliate against anyone who tries to defend the person. The HR department’s job is to protect the company. American rights violations can cost the company money. Therefore descrimination and harassment complaints can be stifled by use of tactic 13. When jobs are hard to come by, the corporation has more power because a person’s survival is at stake, and the employee may be afraidto act for fear of the corporation’s deceit. I live in S. E. Oklahoma and employment is a major problem. I have had all 13 tactics thrown at me and I stood in fear of the corporation while the tactics were used against me. I had problems with discrimination and I was branded as a liar and a trouble maker and a crazy person. I was angrily informed that the person “did not like me, did not want to hear anything I had to say, and I was not allowed to talked to him.” I was hit with all tactics except #4. The harassment was actually promoted. The company carefully avoids all paper work and has key individuals who bat down and conflict everything a person says. On a bigger scale the rules can be used to bring a country down on its knees. The United States is presently in a state of depression where we could easily be taken over because we have no alternative except to submit. A person in control can easily manipulate American citizens with the tactics until our Constitutional rights become no more than a joke. Oh, and one of the Alinsky teachings is to tell people what they want to hear. If anyone compares the above tactics with what is happening in America, they will see what is happening. Terrorism is a major issue and yet our gov cn not control the Mexican border with finger prints and photo cards. So Americans do not have priority on welfare and jobs. Illegal immigrants from all over sometimes have more power than US citizens. This is also a tactic which could help weaken American finances and citizens and make us susceptible for over throw.
2 Boo Wilbury // Jan 31, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Helen- you are a dumb as a post
3 Helen Sacred-Horsesghost // Jul 17, 2010 at 9:56 am
RULES FOR RADICALS presents a GREAT DIVIDE between controllers and victims. Recognizing and understanding the tactics are important for anyone needing to set up a defense to counteract the tactics. (The ABOVE POST is a tactic # 5 example). ONE REALITY exists that highly organized communist and socialist tactics are used to overthrow countries by a few against many, with the few who brag they did it without using a gun. Those tactics ARE being used today to DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY. Rules for radicals, the communist manifesto, prairie fire, che guevarra’s teachings and other writings…..are all available to be used by those who plot to destroy and overthrow the US. And because an unorganized code of tactics (similar to R for R) is found in the lower self, some identical tactics are used by people who have not read the tactics. Alinsky organized and streamlined his tactics in print. Abusers, killers, controllers, and manipulators use similar tactics, without having read anything, while they work to be the dominant life form to harm and/or destroy their victims. The SECOND REALITY is when people work with the higher principals of intelligence, spirituality, respect, empathy,concern for people, and the defense of the whole. Our democractic government, when not abused and deteriorated by abusers (and an anti American president!), falls into that category. Also, there are wholesome people who do not end up in psychotherapy while dealing with issues of harassment originating in all kinds of unethical behavior pushed on victims who do not honor ethical boundaries.
ALERT: Knowledge is power. Communist and socialist tactics are being used to destroy our government. Those with knowledge see the tactics clearly. Those with out the knowledge are often left in confusion and often buy the lies presented by those who wish to destroy America.
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