The web that engulfs the people our president have surrounded himself with is amazing. The interconnections to each other and to organization after organization is difficult, intimidating and often boring to follow, but if you spend a little time to weave your way through the maze the web of connections and relationships are there. Organize, organize and then organize more. That is the mantra of the Leftist, whether Progressive, Socialist, Fascist, Marxist or Anarchist, Leftist ideologies all.
To one degree or another, the rules as written down by Saul Alinsky and carried around by most campus radicals of the 60's and 70's are used by today's Leftists. Yes, some who practiced these principles lived before him but it was Alinsky who consolidated them for use to America, who's book was used to ingrain his "rules" into the ideology of the American Leftist in order to work the American system to their advantage, to their political end.
I bring this up in my discussion of the unaccountable czars being appointed by our president because it is important to understand the background, the history of the Leftist movement and the "rules" by which they play the game. If you doubt our current president is not a Leftist, you are not paying attention or you do not know your history.
Remember that Saul Alinsky is "hero", is a mentor to today's Leftist-Progressives. Hillary Clinton, a self-described "early 20Th century Progressive", has referenced his influence on her as has our current president in his writings.
Read the "rules", think about how they relate to what is happening today, to our country, to those who oppose both Republican and Democrat Progressives, as both parties are at fault ...
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
Here's a brief summary of the rules. We are indebted to the Public Service Research Foundation for this information.
Rules for Power Tactics:
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.
Because Alinsky was sensitive to criticism that he wasn't ethical, he also included a set of rules for the ethics of power tactics. You can see from these why his ethics were so frequently questioned.
Rules to test whether power tactics are ethical:
1. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
2. The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
3. In war the end justifies almost any means.
4. Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
5. Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
6. The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
7. Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
8. The morality of means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
9. Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition to be unethical.
10. You do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral garments.
11. Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace."
Rules For Radicals, must be kept in mind for it is the blue-print for what is happening. Think ACORN, think the Center for American Progress, think the Daily Kos, think the Apollo Alliance, think the Tides Foundation and on and on and on.
Here are a few links related to Van Jones, special assistant for Green Jobs ...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/25/771977/-Is-The-Green-Czar-Van-Jones-A-Communist-Still
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/07/obamas-green-czar-proudly-admits-hes-a-member-of-san-francisco-communist-organization.html
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/07/obamas-black-red-green-czar/
http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/07/14/obama%E2%80%99s-latest-%E2%80%9Cin-your-face%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cgreen-czar%E2%80%9D-he-admits-he%E2%80%99s-a-communist-with-arrest-record/
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/obamas-green-czar-is-a-terrorist.html
http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/apollo-alliance-and-obamas-green-czar-van-jones-greens-on-the-outside-reds-on-the-inside-big-greens-big-unions-big-foundations-big-business-big-bucks-big-taxes-videos/
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/03/10/obama-drafts-van-jones-as-green-jobs-adviser.html
Here is a link to three of the organizations Anthony "Van" Jones helped found ...
http://www.greenforall.org/
http://apolloalliance.org/
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
There are other Czars that we need to question, that we need to gather more information about. They are unconfirmed by congress; they answer to one man, President Obama; there is no public accounting of what they do, how much they spend or the powers they wield. Why?
President Obama is hardly the first president to appoint Czars or as they were originally called under President Franklin Roosevelt, "Dictators". President Nixon had appointed them, President GW Bush had them. The appointment of these unaccountable, powerful people are not exclusive of the Democrat or Republican parties. They are not a problem for the parties but they should be for American citizens.
Our government, on both sides of the aisle, is out of control. They both are taking us to the same, big government, nanny-state place. One is taking us there on a steam locomotive, the other on a super-sonic transport.
Those Americans who still believe in individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom need to stand up to both parties. It is past time to say "ENOUGH"!
