Americans Are Losing Their Freedom

Americans fought a war to end slavery. Will we have to fight to resist becoming slaves?

Canada Free Press, by Alan Caruba, Sunday, February 2, 2014 

February 1st was National Freedom Day. It commemorates Lincoln’s signing of the House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment. Lincoln signed the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865.

Short of another Civil War, Americans have reached a point verging on the loss of their Constitutional freedoms as ever before. The issue then was slavery, but Americans are rapidly moving toward having their Bill of Rights annulled by a President intent on ruling as a despot, making them slaves of a regime that rules as he wishes, ignoring the Constitution and Congress.

His actions have been supported by the Democratic members of Congress and because Republicans only control the House they have seen their legislative efforts to oppose the regime blocked, often by one man, Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader. The nation’s media with few exceptions have supported or ignored the President’s actions.

Why is this happening? A brief review of the means put forth in Saul Alinski’s “Rules for Radicals”, written by a “community organizer”, outlines what Obama is doing as he seeks to turn America into a socialist state. It is a process that progressives/liberals have been pursuing since early in the last century.

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Saul Alinsky’s Ninth Rule for Radicals and the 2013 Budget Fight | Pundit House

Saul Alinsky’s Ninth Rule for Radicals is that “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself,” the point of which is to say there is a lot you can do to defeat your opponent mentally and vise versa.   In fact, Sun Tzu said “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” but that if you must fight, you should leverage your opponent’s psychology to your advantage.  “Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak,” he said.

This principle is evident even in one on one combat.  In boxing for example, fighters try to break their opponent’s wills before the fight even begins by delivering a deadly cold stare, sending chills down their opponent’s spines.  

We can see this tactic at work today more than at any time in recent political history in America.  These days, Obama has Republicans in such fear that they unapologetically skip the fight and go straight to declaring defeat.  

In their defense, Obama’s string of successes has defied rationality.  In 2008, he was perhaps the least experienced candidate to ever win the presidency. He came from a radical background, yet received practically no vetting whatsoever from the mainstream media.  The whole scene was unlike anything in modern American history, with the extraordinarily large, euphoric and delusional masses under the spell of a demagogue.

A totally unsuspecting American public fell victim to the unprecedented assault of every third world populist tactic in the play-book, e.g. class warfare, racism, sexism, idolatry and so on.   By and large, America had no experience with this and therefore had no basis by which to know this was happening and to therefore reject it on its demerits.  However, if you ask an immigrant from Cuba or a former Soviet Satellite state, they recognized and rejected Obama for what he was right away.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media reinforced the Obama narrative and when events occurred or information was somehow revealed which contradicted the Obama narrative, you would likely never know the contradiction had ever existed—just like in third world countries. 

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Obama quotes Alinsky in speech to young Israelis

In his address in Jerusalem today, President Obama channeled Saul Alinsky, citing the radical community organizer’s defining mantra as he urged young Israelis to “create change” to nudge their leadership to act.


Obama told a crowd of college students at Jerusalem’s main convention center that Israel “has the wisdom to see the world as it is, but also the courage to see the world as it should be.”

One of Alinsky’s major themes was working with the world as it “is” to turn it into the world as “it should be.”

In his defining work, “Rules for Radicals,” which he dedicated to “the first rebel,” Lucifer, Alinsky used those words to lay out his main agenda. He asserted radical change must be brought about by working within a system instead of attacking it from the outside.

“It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system,” wrote Alinsky.

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Sun Journal Letter to the Editor: Rules for Radicals by CCTA Chairman, Nancy Murdoch

February 8, 2012

One would expect local Democrats to defend President Obama in our local paper, but Saul Alinsky? For readers not familiar with Alinsky, he was a radical of the ’60s and ’70s known for his community organizing to achieve his far left agenda. His book, “Rules for Radicals” (originally called “Rules for Revolution”) was dedicated to the first radical, Lucifer. Alinsky based his strategies on those of Neo-Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Gramsci believed that the revolutionary plan of Lenin and Stalin wouldn’t work in the West; instead he favored an assault on Biblical absolutes and Christian values that would allow the new face of Communism to flourish.

Many people have read Alinsky to discover how to effectively engage with those using “Rules” and to render them ineffective. After all, one of Sun-Tzu’s Rules of War is to know your enemy. The primary premise of “Rules” is the means justify the ends, and the lowest, vilest tactics may be used to weaken or destroy ones’ adversaries. Most Conservatives are too decent and principled to actually use these tactics, but feel it necessary to be aware of what kind of tactics the left will employ and be able to recognize them for what they are. Radicals prefer destroying to building; whether it is people or a system of government with which they disagree. Alinsky may not have been a Marxist or Communists, but he knew quite a few, had dealings with them, as well as other radical types like the Black Panthers. His beliefs were not important; only the tactics.

An apt description of Alinsky would be master manipulator. His goal was to figure out what people wanted to hear and then give it to them, disguising the true goal, achieving as much power as possible. He rejected the unkempt hippies of the ’60s, and favored a bath, haircut, and a nice suit in order to infiltrate the system from within.

Many of the academic elite, the main stream media, and a number of politicians were students of Alinsky. Hillary Clinton wrote her doctoral thesis on Alinsky, and President Obama taught the “Rules” principles in his community organizing days. Democrats can deny the relationship between the left and Alinsky, but the facts indicate otherwise. When a candidate speaks of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America”, prudent Americans would be wise to listen.

Nancy Murdoch, Havelock, NC

http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/alinsky-104194-local-familiar.html

THE BLAZE: Revealed: Michigan Union Manual Instructing Teachers on How to Use Children as ‘Propoganda’

“For more than two years, the Michigan Education Association [MEA] has had a manual that urges its members to use students as propaganda in contract negotiations and also lays out how to organize strikes,” writes Tome Gantert of Michigan Capitol Confidential.


Considering the fact that teacher strikes are illegal in Michigan, some may find it odd that the MEA has been encouraging this sort of behavior.

In fact, the MEA has been doing a lot more than just encouraging. As Gantert reports, the organization produced an anonymously written 28-page manual titled, “Building Full Capacity Locals — Crisis Planning, It’s Never Too Early To Start!”

While there are many things in the manual that should be the cause for concern, probably the most disturbing moment occurs when one section appears to quote almost verbatim Saul Alinksy’s “Rules For Radicals.”

Alinsky instructs his followers to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Likewise, the MEA manual instructs teachers to “Pick a target—personalize—and polarize the opposition [pg. 17].” And those are just the verbatim quotes; the entire manual is a handbook for creating, managing, and profiting from crises.

Representatives of the MEA were unavailable for comment when The Blaze contacted them for more information.

“What’s really troubling about this publication isn’t what’s inside, it’s right there on the cover. This organization has decided it is above the law that has empowered them so much in so many other ways,” said Paul Kersey, director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, according to the Michigan Capitol Confidential article.

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