CREEPY! Video: Organizing for America’s training program - Obama Volunteers taking names numbers, addresses »
Posted By pc25 8 months, 1 week ago in NewsI’ve been mulling over this latest entry from Naked Emperor News since yesterday afternoon, when I first saw it. On one hand, organizing for political change is perfectly fine, and I suppose training videos to make organizing more successful make sense. On the other hand, organizing a door-to-door campaign to support a POLITICAL LEADER already elected to office seems to tip over into that cult-of-personality territory, to which Organizing for America seems oblivious:
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pc258 months, 1 week ago
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NICE BROWN SHIRT DUDE!!!!!!! nice one, good touch.........the leader of the HITLER excuse me Obama youth speaks.......
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the mission here seems very, very strange, and not in line with traditional politicking at all. The creepy, ubiquitous Obama logo on their material gives the game away. They’re not supporting the economic policies, which by the way have yet to be fully explained. How can they encourage people to support Obama’s economic policies when even the Obama administration has trouble articulating them and providing details? And even if they could, the omnibus budget bill and Porkulus have already passed Congress and been signed into law. So why do they need a door-to-door campaign?
The policies don’t need the door-to-door campaign; Obama does. They’re pushing their Obama fetish, not grassroots policy change. And that’s very, very creepy.
remember this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A66hV04ceQ-
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antibrainwasher8 months, 1 week ago
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Look, it's a one winger whankfest.
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The repugnicircle jerkers are showing some serious shrinkage, check out the loyalist, standing at attention, in the Burmese jungle, loyal to his New Emperor Drug Closetgaybaugh, even after the war is over. -
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pc258 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTp_atr2G9E
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pc258 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLyoaHJuGTU&fea...
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pc258 months, 1 week ago
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pc258 months, 1 week ago
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and who can forget the classic indoctrination video
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DaneL8 months, 1 week ago
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
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Saul Alinsky
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Saul Alinsky
History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky
Last guys don't finish nice.
Saul Alinsky
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Saul Alinsky
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Saul Alinsky-
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antibrainwasher8 months, 1 week ago
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Klarissa, who never met a rich tycoon she would immediately bend over for, is deeply afraid and horrified by this non right wing jew Alinsky, who .....
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In the 1930s, Alinsky organized the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago (made infamous by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle for the horrific working conditions in the Union Stock Yards). He went on to found the Industrial Areas Foundation while organizing the Woodlawn neighborhood, which trained organizers and assisted in the founding of community organizations around the country. In Rules for Radicals (his final work, published in 1971 one year before his death), he addressed the 1960s generation of radicals, outlining his views on organizing for mass power. In the first chapter, opening paragraph of the book Alinsky writes, "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. 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".
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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Alinsky's rules for radicals:
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RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 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.)
RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)-
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antibrainwasher8 months, 1 week ago
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Its ok for corporate raiders to rape every penny and move it overseas and buy gulfstream jets with your 401k retimement, but if someone tries to stand up and take power from the right wing murders and thieves, its nice to know that the minions will swiftboat some dead jewish writer as a strawman.
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You c omplete moron, Alinsky was opposing the slavery conditions of the chicago stockyards, you are a facist moron if there ever was one, you'd make faux noise proud, and they don't even pay you.
Hitler had his brown shirts just like Drug Lamebaush has his di-ldo heads.....
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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Alinsky's rules for radicals contd:
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RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.) -
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tiredofwhiners8 months, 1 week ago
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I hear comments on CNN and others that Obama acts like he's still on the campaign trail. I don't think he is up to the job and is clueless. So he tries to make up for it with campaign rhetoric. I wonder how long it will take for his hair to turn gray?
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tchef8 months, 1 week ago
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He acts like he is still on the campaign trail because he is trying to rally popular support for his programs. He is reaching out to the people of this nation. It's about time we have a president who brings his agenda to the people instead of just forcing it upon them.
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By the way can't you guys find something constructive to do?
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gamahuche8 months, 1 week ago
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No allegiance pledged to anybody, Slate.
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My politics don't even show on this map.
However after the last 8 years of Republican catastrophe of the greatest magnitude that I have ever seen in my over 3 score years I am of the staunch opinion that it it does behoove those who did continue to give blind and unthinking adoration to the bumbling cretin who just finished his attempt at destroying America to at least take a pause and see what Obama can do.
Can he do better - I don't know. Can he rescue America? I don't know that either; it may be too late. The US may be a 3rd World country in 10 years time, ranked somewhere behind Mexico and possibly WAY behind China..
Can Obama personally, as a human being, do worse?
As a gambling man I'd stake my entire bankroll on that being impossible.
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ind068 months, 1 week ago
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This might be scary if the government didn't already have my name and address several times over.
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Social Security has it.
Selective Service has it.
The IRS has it.
The Oregon Employment Division has it.
And the dreaded DMV has it as well.
I give it out for magazine subscriptions, entrance to the hospital, and job applications.
Every college I ever attended has it, as well as my high school.
It's plastered to the front of the envelope of every letter I mail which means Q West, AT& T, Comcast, Bank of America, Visa, my landlord, my local newspaper and the United States Post Office have it.
The Peace Corps wanted it, even though they ended up not being too excited about me.
Slave Labor Graphics Comics has it. (Along with a fine selection of independent creator owned and controlled comics, if you're into that sort of thing.)
Oh, and also Amazon.com, Alibris and Powell's Books... Yeah, almost forgot about them.
Actually anyone who really wants my address, or anyone else's has only to go to the public library and look it up in the latest "reverse" phone book.
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Wolfie20078 months, 1 week ago
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I suspect from his comment that ind06 is a member of Organizing for America. Just look at how ind06 is minimizing and rationalizing the actions of this organization. He says, "Oh don't be afraid to give them your address as the government already has your address and other personal information ten times over. " The problem with ind06's rationalization is that Organizing for America isn't part of the US government, at least, not yet. But nice try ind06, I'm sure you've made Saul proud.
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aceofspades18 months, 1 week ago
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There's no such thing as privacy in the new electronic age - so what else is new?
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The Nazis tattooed serial # s on forearms - we have Social Security #s that were supposed to be private - now try to find a form that doesn't ask for it.
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Klarissa8 months, 1 week ago
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anit - you got it right out of Wikipedia!
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"but you missed this: Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties....
In Rules for Radicals, he argued that the most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired ends, and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice. "
Who is to determine what "social justice" is??
Is it to take away from those who work hard to make more money than others and give it to those who want to stay on welfare?
Is it to provide health insurance to those who can afford it but would rather have a big tv set, a new car, and a vacation in Hawaii? -
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toph19738 months, 1 week ago
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This is the problem with republicans, they never do any research and just spew what their heroes spew. They don't care about integrity, honesty, or America for that Matter. They only worship themselves and their beloved preverts in the republican party.
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