To justify his anti-liberty pursuits, Saul Alinsky came up with “a series of rules pertaining to the ethics of means and ends.” Most of them are rambling, convoluted meanderings that are based on the age-old progressive habit of anointing oneself judge of right and wrong, but I think it will be instructive if I touch on a couple of them here.
Alinsky’s “second rule of ethics” is worth dissecting, because it gives such a clear picture of how a professional agitator’s thought processes work. His second rule of ethics says that “the judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.” Read Full Article
Major earthquakes near heavily populated areas always produce destruction and mass casualties, but I’ve never seen anything quite like the carnage and suffering that Haiti has been experiencing. As I watch the aftermath of this tragedy, a number of thoughts go through my mind.
First is the question, “Why?” Why is the fallout from this earthquake so much more horrific than that seen in natural disasters in, say, the United States? How can such a cataclysm happen in the Western Hemisphere in the twenty-first century? Read Full Article
As the angry, arrogant — and now severely wounded — “leader” of our nation revs up to fight back against mounting public opposition to his progressive policies, one is beginning to wonder if he might deserve to inherit Saddam’s title of the Master of Miscalculation.
Brit Hume says that Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts could be the best thing that could ever happen to Obama and his fascists cohorts in Congress if it causes them to open their eyes and move toward the center. He’s right, but it’s not likely to happen. Here’s why … Read Full Article
I have long considered Rupert Murdoch — a transplanted Australian, of all things — to be one of the greatest American heroes of our time. Like millions of other Americans, he saw the liberal bias in the media, but what made him different is that he had the financial wherewithal to do something about it.
In 1996, Murdoch, through his flagship company News Corporation, started Fox News as an alternative to CNN’s addictive liberal coating of the news. And, in what has proven to be a stroke of genius, he hired Roger Ailes as the man to run his new enterprise. Ailes is staunchly conservative, daring, and one of those guys who seems to have been born with the Midas touch. While you’re at it, you can add him to my list of the greatest American living heroes. Read Full Article
Everyone — including the far left — is well aware of the hypocrisy of the Democrats as it relates to their treatment of Harry Reid versus their reaction to Trent Lott’s comment to Strom Thurmond at his 100th birthday party.
Reid, with his perpetual scowl firmly in place, was predictably pathetic in his reaction to questions concerning his remarks about BHO’s racial qualities. In a press conference that followed the “light-skinned-with-no-Negro-dialect” bombshell, instead of answering the questions asked of him, Reid used each question to launch into a self-serving speech about what a swell guy he’s always been when it comes to the African-American community. Read Full Article
In Part III of this article, I said that, unlike BHO, Saul Alinsky had a soul, as evidenced by his saying, “I salute the present generation. Hang onto one of your most precious parts of youth, laughter. Don’t lose it as many of you seem to have done. You need it. Together we may find some of what we’re looking for — laughter, beauty, love, and the chance to create.”
What I meant by that statement was that Alinsky had feelings. Nonetheless, as I have previously stated, he was a complex man who was full of contradictions. Anyone who spends his life in a meaningless pursuit such as “community organizing” has to be plagued by contradictions, because without them, he would be forced to come face to face with the reality that his life has no worthwhile purpose. Read Full Article
The Saul Alinsky who helped lay the foundation for the amorality of the soulless young lad who would one day lie and scheme his way into the most powerful office in the world comes through loud and clear in Rules for Radicals when he said, “We live in a world where ‘good’ is a value dependent on whether we want it.”
This is an important statement by Alinsky, because it opens the floodgates to interpret the term general welfare in any way one chooses. In other words, simply wanting something makes it right. If your desire is to play God and steal from those you deem to be rich and give the stolen loot to those you deem to be poor, so be it. If that’s what you want, it’s moral. Nice and simple. Read Full Article
In Part III of this article, I said that the Saul Alinsky-like idea of playing musical chairs with the reins of power is a yawner, because history has clearly taught us that what happens in a successful revolution is that a new upper class emerges (Castro and his thug associates, Mao and his thug associates, Quadaffi and his thug associates, etc.).
In all revolutions, the doors of elitism swing open and a small number of populist leaders (as opposed to the duped masses — euphemistically referred to as “the people”) rush to take their places inside. As Alvin Toffler describes vividly in The Third Wave: Read Full Article
Saul Alinsky was well aware of the advantages of living in a reasonably free society like the U.S. In Rules for Radicals, he said:
“Let us in the name of radical pragmatism not forget that in our system, with all its repressions, we can still speak out and denounce the administration, attack its policies, work to build an opposition political base. True, there is government harassment, but there still is that relative freedom to fight. I can attack my government, try to organize to change it. That’s more than I can do in Moscow, Peking, or Havana. Remember the reaction of the Red Guard to the ‘cultural revolution’ and the fate of the Chinese college students. Just a few of the violent episodes of bombings or a courtroom shootout that we have experienced here would have resulted in a sweeping purge and mass executions in Russia, China, or Cuba. Let’s keep some perspective.” Read Full Article
