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How Obama, district voting are similarTue, 03/04/2008 - 4:22pm
By: Letters to the ...
What is happening today in Fayette was happening in Chicago 30 years ago. In fact, it’s happening all across America. One of the few “achievements” for which we are supposed to give Obama the keys to the White House is his work as a “community organizer.” No, this isn’t a person that comes into your home to straighten up your closets or garage. Nor to pick up trash along the highways in and around your community. No, a community organizer was someone who beat the drums of discontent, where before there was none. Both Hillary and, more importantly, Barack are followers of Saul Alinsky. Hillary wrote her hidden thesis on him while at Wesleyan college and Barack literally followed each of the tenets of Alinsky’s rules for four years while working in Chicago. For all practical purposes, a community organizer is a person that comes into a community from the “outside,” as Barack did when he returned to the Chicago inner city after his college. (Why didn’t he return to his home in Hawaii? Because as he has said, he wanted to experience a real African-American lifestyle, which explains much of his other behavior.) So off to the inner cities he went. To be a community organizer sounds so very humble. You know, helping people fill out forms to receive benefits, driving food to the shut-ins, helping children in the schools. But this isn’t what Barack was doing, at least it wasn’t his real goal. It was to follow the teachings of Saul Alinsky. Alinsky’s methods of “organizing a community” are unique, and he is considered the founder of this movement. “Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, very accustomed to a vagabond existence, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.” Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to “rub raw the sores of discontent,” in Alinsky’s words. One of Obama’s early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to Ryan Lizza of The New Republic, about Obama: “He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.” “The agitator’s job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the ‘realization’ that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent ‘self-interest’ in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.” “In these methods, euphemistically labeled ‘community organizing,’ Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.” In other words, a community organizer, like Obama, was to come into a community and raise so many issues and to get the populace’s blood boiling such that they would then do whatever he wanted. In Fayette County, district at-large voting has worked since its inception. Even when the Democrats controlled it for the vast majority of the last 150 years, no one complained about it. But now, the community organizers are beating the drums of discontent and making an issue out of nothing. They say that we are only one of three counties that have it. That’s proof enough for me to suggest that maybe the other 156 counties should follow our model, since Fayette is by far the nicest place to live in Georgia. But not for the Democrats. The reason is, they haven’t “Claytonized” Fayette yet. That is, to take complete control of the sheriff’s office, the commissioner’s office, of the school board, etc. They want ultimate control. It isn’t about black or white; it isn’t about being properly represented; it’s about power. And since blacks tend to vote for the Democrat 90 percent of the time, they have framed this issue around a racially charged one, rather than in the truth, and that is, that it’s all about Democratic power. Obama has stirred the embers of America into a roaring fire of discontent, just like Steve Brown and other “community organizers” are trying to do here in Fayette. That’s a damn shame. We have it good here, very good. Those of you who listen to such rubbish are destined to never truly be happy in your own condition of life, since you are so easily stirred by inflammatory rhetoric. Whether it’s coming from a pastor that drives around in one of a dozen luxury automobiles, assailing the plight of the poor, or a slick talking U.S. senator from Illinois who has no real world experience other than in “community organizing.” You will never truly find peace of mind. Because inner peace doesn’t come from what the government can do for you; it comes from what you can do for yourself, unrestricted by oppressive governmental policies, unrestricted by bloated governmental agencies, as we find in Clayton, where so many of the elected officials are uneducated and inexperienced community organizers who really have no idea what they are really doing. Beating the drums of discontent might help to get out the vote or to even get you elected, but it’s no way to lead. These tactics remind me of what a professor once told me years ago. He was visiting Israel and he had noticed a sheep herder crossing a busy highway. The sheep followed his lead because they knew he had been a proven leader, protecting them, taking them to greener pastures. He compared this to America, where our cattle farmers herd their cattle by striking the cows on their rumps at the back of the herd. These cows then moaned and groaned and then pushed their way forward, in a direction presumably where the rancher wanted them to go. The comparison is real. To truly lead, one need only to honestly say what you mean and mean what you say, and the people will follow. Or, one can merely mimic Obama or Alinsky’s style and become a cow herder, and rap the rear ends of the discontented voters with catchy phrases, such as, “Yes, we can.” Symbolism over substance often wins the day, but to what ends? These community organizers are slick. They prey upon the uninformed and they play them for fools. Remember, there is always ulterior motives for these people. Whether it’s to add another Rolls Royce to their garage, or to get Democrats elected with their emotional rhetoric, they will always know that you have been bought and paid for with lies and half truths. They will then fall back with charges of racism and voter disenfranchisement if they are ever exposed for the frauds that they really are. The community organizers have complete control of Clayton County. Do you really what them to control Fayette as well? Remember the same party that is demanding district voting and talking about the individual rights of their base, also have on a national level, “super community organizers,” a.k.a. super delegates, who will overturn the votes of the masses to do what they need to do to maintain control. Not much of a democracy to me. (References from wikipedia.org and www.americanthinker.com.) Richard D. Hobbs Peachtree City, Ga. login to post comments
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