Obama's Broken Promises To The Left

There are an increasing number of those who are lamenting the recently broken promises of the newly elected president who promised them change. Having helped the junior senator from Illinois assume the highest pedestal and office of American government, they are now disenchanted by what they have been instrumental in creating.

And leading the pack are those like the ACLU and Amnesty International. They must have truly felt that they had elected a kindred spirit last November. Only now to learn that they are lying next to a strange fellow in their collective political bed.

As is evidenced by recent reports and reactions, they must feel particularly raw and mistreated by the Obama administration, as they truly believed that they had finally seen the arrival of the socialist driven president that they have so earnestly sought for and stumped for for decades.

Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise Says Amnesty International

"President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military commissions that in June 2008 he called an 'enormous failure.' In one swift move, Obama both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United States fights terrorism and undermines the nation's core respect for the rule of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.

"Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions do not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate standard of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism -- they merely mock the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human rights standards.

Make no mistake, politics has always made for strange bedfellows, but never so much as of the past 10-15 years IMO. And that disparity of allegiances grows wider and more apparent and visible by the passing of each day.

And as is evidenced above by the most recently published relativist rhetoric and propagandized socialist philosophical tripe, those of the committed left bend of Marxist philosophy, are very uncomfortable with a constitution applied in any manner that they can't control or define for themselves.

As an example, let's have a look at the musings of the now deceased, yet instrumental creator of the angst politics of socialist American revolution in the latter days of the twentieth century. A true Marx protege if there ever was one.

Saul Alinsky 12 step program.



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.)

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.)

And there you probably were........ believing that the twelve step program had something to do with AA and kicking the habit/disease of alcoholism.

The bottom line......?

Pay particular attention to rules 4 & 5 and 8 & 9 of the Alinsky model. For therein lies the reality of application, as applied by the likes of the ACLU, Amnesty International and a myriad of other Marxist activist organizations in America today.

We have seen the enemy and it is us?

You are damn skippy it is us! And we allow ourselves to be lynched with the silk ropes of our own laws and constitution every day by virtue of our complacency.

The true enemies of freedom and democracy are always found immersed in the books and laws designed to preserve freedom. But these interlopers are not looking to preserve freedom, they are looking to destroy it. And all the better if they can accomplish that with the very tools and devices of law and social intercourse, created by those who's original intent and desire was to preserve freedom.