The commies are coming, the commies are coming

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” — Thomas Jefferson

A few weeks ago a friend who lives in Northern California lambasted me because I called Barack Obama a Marxist. I explained that I did so because Obama has surrounded himself with radicals from the far left, many of whom are communists, throughout his life. 

As a youth Obama came under the influence of Frank Marshall Davis, a Marxist communist during the 1950s. By his own admission, Obama sat under the teaching of Marxist professors and gravitated toward the communist elements while he attended college. Obama was also a disciple of the philosophy and teachings of Saul Alinsky, whose booklet, Rules for Radicals, he followed religiously during his years as a community organizer in Chicago; rules which he still implements today. Known communists currently serve as Obama’s advisors including Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones,  Presidential advisor Carol Browner, and friend and fund raiser William Ayres, who launched Obama’s senatorial campaign..

In addition, Obama’s minions employ Alinsky's Rules for Radicals as their play book. Since inauguration day, 2009, the Rules for Radicals have been incorporated each and every day by Obama and his czars; his henchmen; ACORN operatives; a myriad of other radical groups, and a complicit press that has ignored the warning signs.

Saul David Alinsky was born on January 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on June 12, 1972 in Carmel, California. A Communist , Alinsky is considered by many to be the founder of modern community organizing in America. The Alinsky doctrine, as spelled out in Rules for Radicals, was adopted by a significant number of American college students in the late 1960s and formed many of their strategies for organizing on campuses and in communities. Some of the most influential members of the left-wing and the environmental movement are also disciples of Alinsky.

According to Public Relations expert, Craig Miyamoto, here is a condensed version of Alinsky’s most significant Rules for Radicals.

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.

Rule 12: Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

If you think these tactics sound familiar, they are. We are continuously being confronted and manipulated by them.

It is a terrifying thought that the same Marxist radicals who engaged in the Viet Nam era anti-war movement, bombed buildings on college campuses, and committed various felonies, became entrenched in our universities, and sought to overthrow our government and the American way of life are now imbedded within our government.

America voted for change in 2008. Indeed, change is coming unless right-thinking, patriotic Americans do what is necessary to stop it. If could require another revolution to overthrow the tyrants if we don't act now.  But we can conduct a bloodless revolution with raised voices of dissent at tea parties and town hall meetings across America, floods of calls and letters to Congress, participation in discussions on talk shows, letters to newspaper editors, and our votes at the polls in 2010 when we will finally have a chance to throw the bums out.

That goes for all the radical Marxists, arrogant asses, wishy-washy RINOs and the gutless elephants.