Jew Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

[Idaho Kid]

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 blame.


From Art Larson's No Place For Corruption Taking of America 123 A Review of the Power Control Group (894 pages).  Art's show is 6-8 PM Mon-Wed on RBN (http://republicbroadcasting.org)

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