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Monday, January 23, 2012

I'm Not Male, I'm Not Jewish & I'm Not American...


... but I'll take with pride, the association a Twitter follower made with Saul Alinksy...

This is who Saul Alinsky was: Saul Alinsky - Life and Work

and this is some of what he said in his 1946 "Reveille for Radicals":


"... A People’s Organization is a conflict group, [and] this must be openly and fully recognized.  It's sole reason in coming into being is to wage war against all evils which cause suffering and unhappiness.  A People’s Organization is the banding together of large numbers of men and women to fight for those rights which insure a decent way of life. . .

A People’s Organization is dedicated to an eternal war.  It is a war against poverty, misery, delinquency, disease, injustice, hopelessness, despair, and unhappiness. They are basically the same issues for which nations have gone to war in almost every generation. . . War is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play. . .

A People’s Organization lives in a world of hard reality.  It lives in the midst of smashing forces, dashing struggles, sweeping cross-currents, ripping passions, conflict, confusion, seeming chaos, the hot and the cold, the squalor and the drama, which people prosaically refer to as life and students describe as 'society'..."


 
 



Newt Gingrich doesn't like Saul Alinsky... how sad... too bad!
 

2 comments:

  1. Newt says he doesn't like Saul but doesn't Newt apply the principles expressed in the quote Pick the target (Obama) Freeze it (He's anti classical American) Personalize it ( I want to "punch" him) and polarize it (He's not one of us). Gee you think Newt is a close Alinskyite?

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  2. oh the irony (and hypocrisy)! what is it Robbie Burns said? “Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion”

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