The South Side of Chicago was the scene of many radical movements, the most radical being that of Saul Alinsky, the Marxist agitator and organizer who learned his methods from Al Capone and the Mob. He had a school for radicals and revolutionaries, wrote the book on methods and tactics, and was the teacher of Hillary Rodham as well as the inspiration for Barack Obama.
The IAF, Industrial Areas Foundation, was founded by Saul Alinski. Saul Alinski is the author of "Rules for Radicals" a book, by the way, that he dedicated to the devil.
Quote before Table of Contents:
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."
On page 71, speaking of his training program for political organizers, Alinsky remarked:
"The qualities we were trying to develop in organizers in the years of attempting to train them included some qualities that in all probability cannot be taught. They either had them, or could get them only through a miracle from above or below."
West Bend's latest effort by a local group that is gathering for "Common Ground Listening Sessions" is an attempt to work itself through the methods noted by Alinski in his "Rules for Radicals' book. (His works are mentioned in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.) This group's efforts should come as no surprise as many of the organizations that follow Alinsky's teachings and attend the IAF Institute are church-based organizations. Is this dangerous? YOU decide.
In January 2006, IAF sent a full-time organizer, Mark Fraley, to lead the initiative’s effort in southeastern Wisconsin.
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Connolly fondly recalled Karsh’s anxiousness to get going, but stressed that the strength of Common Ground is in the relationships it has built over the last four years.
“We have to be patient because we want this organization to be here 50 years from now,” said Connolly, citing the IAF’s model for organizing.
http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=10399
In "A Role Model for Left Wing Satanists", and speaking of Alinsky's methods, the author writes, "Anyhow, as the financial troubles of the Church of Satan itself should more than adequately demonstrate, we Satanists need to drop the fantasy that we're a bunch of supermen. Yes, we should aim to empower ourselves through our own individual efforts, but it also helps to have organizations that empower entire communities."
Many mainline Christian denominations today follow Marx more than Jesus. They accept divorce without a fight; they accept pre-marital sex and same-sex relationships without a whimper; they think "government" has the answers yet are loath to seek out solutions in prayer. A church in New Hampshire even ordained as their bishop an openly practicing same-sex man (divorced from his wife and children). Saul Alinsky would approve of these kinds of things.
Rules of Power Tactics written by Alinski:
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Second: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Third: Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
The fourth rule is: Make the enemy 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.
http://www.semcosh.org/AlinskyTactics.htm
Statement from woman who participated in similar sessions "Prayer was not the answer. The answers were found in the people who lived in the community and from there creative solutions were found to achieve results."
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This group is meeting TOMORROW NIGHT (9/30/08) at St. Francis Cabrini, 1025 S. 7th Avenue, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Go, and witness for yourself. Don't take MY word for it.
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