A new book in the schools?

[Old Fart]

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/07/teachers-union-the-nea-recommends-its-members-read-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals/
Teachers Union, The NEA, Recommends its Members Read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”
You send your kids to Public School everyday trusting that those who influence them for more hours a day than you do, are honest, trust worthy and are only interested in teaching the ABC’s and 123′s.

Well for most teachers I believe that is the case, but for those in the NEA who are involved in “Grass Roots” organizing, they may have been influenced by a little more than reading, writing and arithmetic.

According to the NEA website, the Radical Communist Saul Alinsky’s Book, “Rules for Radicals” is recommended reading to all of their members :

    ” of our Association who are involved in grassroots organizing, especially Association Representatives (ARs) — also known as building reps or shop stewards — and leaders at local affiliates”
 

[wtf21]

So what?

"In the course of nearly four decades of organizing the poor for radical social action, Alinsky has made many enemies, but he has also won the respect, however grudging, of a disparate array of public figures: French philosopher Jacques Maritain has called him "one of the few really great men of this century," and even William Buckley, Jr., a bitter ideological foe, has admitted that "Alinsky is twice formidable, and very close to being an organizational genius." He was preceded by his reputation on a recent tour of Asia, where he was hailed by political and student leaders from Tokyo to Singapore as the one American with concrete revolutionary lessons for the impoverished Third World.

Not bad for a slum kid from the South Side of Chicago, where he was born on January 30, 1909. After working his way through the University of Chicago, Alinsky attended graduate school for two years, then dropped out to work as an Illinois state criminologist. In the mid-Thirties, as a side line, he began to work as an organizer with the then-radical C.I.O., in which he soon became a close friend and aide to John L. Lewis. Then, in 1939, he phased himself out of active participation in the labor movement and into the role of community organizer, starting in his own back yard -- the Chicago slums. His efforts to turn scattered, voiceless discontent into a united protest aroused the admiration of Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson, who said Alinsky's aims "most faithfully reflect our ideals of brotherhood, tolerance, charity and the dignity of the individual." In 1940, Alinsky elicited a generous grant from liberal millionaire Marshall Field III, who provided funds to establish the Industrial Areas Foundation, which has remained Alinsky's primary base of operation. Throughout the next decade, with Field's financial backing, Alinsky repeated his initial success in a score of slum communities across the nation, from Kansas City and Detroit to the barrios of Southern California. "

[sinkspur]

Many teachers can't read well enough to make it all the way through any book, and of those that can, the vast majority don't have the cognitive ability to understand it.

[wtf21]

Many teachers republicans can't read well enough to make it all the way through any book, and of those that can, the vast majority don't have the cognitive ability to understand it.
 
 There...I fixed it for you.
 

[sinkspur]

Many teachers republicans can't read well enough to make it all the way through any book, and of those that can, the vast majority don't have the cognitive ability to understand it.
 
 There...I fixed it for you.
 

You a teacher?  Or maybe a Tiger Beat reader?

"Republicans" is always capitalized.

[Old Fart]

Naturally, the leftist "tool" left a few things out.
http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm
Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption

Diane Alden
Jan. 7, 2003
Saul Alinsky died in 1972. He was a Marxist grassroots organizer who spent much of his life organizing rent strikes and protesting conditions of the poor in Chicago in the 1930s. However, unlike Christian socialist and activist for the poor Dorothy Day, Alinsky's real claim to fame was as strategist for anti-establishment '60s radicals and revolutionaries.

Indeed, Alinsky wrote the rule book for '60s radicals like Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Miller and Nancy Pelosi. He considered Hillary Rodham to be one of his better students and asked her to join him in his efforts as an organizer of radical leftist causes. But Hillary had other fish to fry on her climb to national prominence. Alinsky had a true genius for formulating tactical battle plans for the radical left. He wrote two books outlining his organizational principles and strategies: "Reveille for Radicals" (1946) and "Rules for Radicals" (1971).

"Rules for Radicals" begins with an unusual tribute: "From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins – or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer."

The devil challenged authority and got his own kingdom, and that goes to the heart of what left is really about. That of course is to get power any way you can, including lying, cheating and stealing. The ultimate rule is that the ends justify the means.

Alinsky asserted that he was more concerned with the acquisition of power than anything else: "My aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how to use it." This is not to be done with assistance to the poor, nor even by organizing the poor to demand assistance: "[E]ven if all the low-income parts of our population were organized ... it would not be powerful enough to get significant, basic, needed changes."

Alinsky advises his followers that the poor have no power and that the real target is the middle class: "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... 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."

But that didn't stop Alinsky and his followers from using the middle class for their own purposes. They counted on the guilt and shame of the white middle class to get what they wanted. In order to take over institutions and get power, the middle class had to be convinced that they were somehow lucky winners in "life's lottery."

Alinsky's radicals found a perfect vehicle for their destruction of the American system and more particularly for taking and maintaining power. That instrument was the Democratic Party.
(is any of this beginning to sound familiar?)

Transition and Transaction

The transition of the old Democratic Party to what exists today should not surprise or confound conservatives. Nor should Alinsky's tactics seem foreign. After all, for nearly 40 years, Republicans and the conservative agenda have been getting hammered by the left through the successful use of Alinsky tactics.

In that cause, radicals and the liberal-left gravitated toward the print and electronic media, toward the university professorate and the law. The left, consciously or unconsciously, adopted Alinsky's rules. The impact changed the nature of the Democratic Party and the direction of the United States. Increasingly, the left is succeeding in changing the nature of the Republican Party as well.

Suffice to say the greatest change has taken place in the relationship between the state and the individual. America is rapidly descending from a representative Constitutional Republic to a collectivist empire controlled by elites of one sort or another.

Alinsky's influence on the modern Democratic Party indicates that the ends do indeed justify the means. As Alinsky states in "Rules for Radicals" it was foolish to believe that means are just as important as the ends. He states that "to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles ... the practical revolutionary will understand ... [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind."

Sadly, not enough Republicans and conservatives learned Alinsky's rules until late in the game. A sign of hope is the fact that the new media, including talk radio and the Internet, are changing all that. One can hope it is not too late.

Here's a little quote from another Marxist Hero.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under
the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist
program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without
knowing how it happened."
 Quote by: Norman Thomas
(1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America
Source:1948 - from an interview during the presidential campaign.

[wtf21]

You a teacher?  Or maybe a Tiger Beat reader?

"Republicans" is always capitalized.

Nope, nope and nope.

[Rapunzel]

Nope, nope and nope.

So now the truth comes out -- like Obama and Hillary you are a Saul Alinsky devotee...... figures and places all your posts into complete context.

[wtf21]

So now the truth comes out -- like Obama and Hillary you are a Saul Alinsky devotee......

Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

[Rapunzel]

Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

I don't know... do you 

[sinkspur]

Nope, nope and nope.

Dope, dope, and dope.

When referring to the Republican party, "Republican" is always capitalized.

[mountaineer]

Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

Who writes your material, Pee-Wee Herman?  I know you are, but what am I?

[Old Fart]

The only way to win, is to not play "the game".
You notice how our "Leftist" has degenerated to one line comments, it's straight out of Alinski's "Rules For Radicals". When confronted with facts, divert.
2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.

3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

Now, back to the original post. We're talking about the teachers union here. The people charged with the task of educating your children.

As posted above, Alinski wrote:
"In that cause, radicals and the liberal-left gravitated toward the print and electronic media, toward the university professorate (THE SCHOOLS) and the law.
The left, consciously or unconsciously, adopted Alinsky's rules. The impact changed the nature of the Democratic Party and the direction of the United States. Increasingly, the left is succeeding in changing the nature of the Republican Party as well".

The internet wasn't around when Alinski was alive, it was a media he couldn't grasp.
He states that "the left is succeeding in changing the nature of the Republican Party as well' and he's right. The election of the blatantly socialist Pelosi/Reid Congress and Barak Obama IS changing the Republican party but not in the way he might wish.

[Oceander]

Anyone want a free pdf copy of that book?