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Then I wondered why in the world would ACORN be involved in the
Census? Why hadn't I heard about it? Then I realized the only 24
hour news channel to cover it was Fox.
Yes, I had to look it up. Surely the print media would have some
coverage. The only one I found was the Washington
Times. I'd like to point out that the announcement that ACORN
would be 'assisting' the census came during the hight of the AIG
bonuses hysteria.
What about that flak about getting the GPS co-ordinates? I never
heard anything about that. Surely that must be some sort of a
tinfoil hat crackpot idea. Nope. NPR has
reported on it. Check the date on that article: reported in July of
2006. In the NPR article, it's just creepy but when you add in that
ACORN and the White House are now controlling the census, it starts
to make the small hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Do these sound familiar?
"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."
This is Obama's playbook. It is called Rules
for Radicals and it
was written by Saul
Alinsky in 1971 for
community organizers (our President's only claim of prior leadership
experience). Read rule 9 on that list and think about the Mexican
Swine Flu.
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When
Bush was President, one of the things that drove me crazy was that
the left never gave the guy a break. From November of 2000 when Al
Gore disputed the results of the election up until, well today,
George W Bush has been vilified and reviled for no other reason than
because he's George W Bush. 
