Saul Alinsky,the premier community organizer

There's an old saying about democracy. It only works until 51% of the voters realize they can vote themselves goodies from the public treasury. Once that happens they begin to economically rape and pillage the other 49%. That's why the Founding Fathers established a republic instead of a pure democracy.

But today there are many with their hands in the pockets of the taxpayers and their snouts in the public trough and America is moving ever closer to becoming a socialistic state. Not only that but the values that made America great are being systematically attacked by groups who's mantra is "my will be done." Just take a look at how government funds the gay agenda and Planned Parenthood as two examples. If you scratch the surface of their successes you may very well find the influence and tactics of one man -- Saul Alinsky.

Saul Alinsky, the "father of community organizing," was a radical activist and atheist, a brilliant man who formulated a system to give the illusion of power to the masses while manipulating them into accepting Marxist ideas and embracing socialism. His famous book, Rules for Radicals, dedicated to Lucifer, the "first radical," set down his Machiavellian approach, although he distinguished himself from Machiavelli saying that, "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-nots on how to take it away." Alinsky didn't try to organize the poor so much as the middle class where he felt the power was. but Alinsky had nothing but contempt for the group he wanted to use for his own purposes.

"Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority."

From that point of view Alinsky developed rules to manipulate the middle class (for whom he felt such contempt) into doing the will of their handlers.

Among Alinsky's rules were these: (reprinted from: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/rules.html)
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

Alinsky made it clear that the community organizer was at war and, "in war the ends justifies almost any means." He encouraged dressing ideas in moral disguise to make them more palatable, in other words using a moral pretense to accomplish the goal. "Moral rationalization is indispensable," he said. In the end, success is the measure of your effectiveness no matter how immoral the means used to accomplish it. "There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds, he becomes a founding father."

And finally, Alinsky elevated the community organizer to the level of God's competitor, "reaching for the highest level for which a man can reach -- to create, to be a 'great creator', to play God." Alinsky and the organization he founded, The Industrial Areas Foundation, have been faithful to their creed, "to play God." They have been active in promoting abortion and attacking marriage. To have power over life and death and to reject natural law, created by God, is indeed encroaching on God's power. It is no surprise then that Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer. Like Lucifer he refused to serve.

Next: The Industrial Areas Foundation and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development