http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:12:27 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/images/dark_vb/misc/rss.jpg http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=15 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:17:29 GMT [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=+1][B]Rules for Radicals[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=2]

In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled [I]Rules for Radicals[/I]. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the book as out-of-date. Nevertheless, it provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics. Alinsky begins this way:[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=2][I]What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.[/I][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=2]His “rules” derive from many successful campaigns where he helped poor people fighting power and privilege [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=2]For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting what is wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a bad situation, they stop thinking about it.

According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”

Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a “mass army” that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.

Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.

[B]Rule 1[/B]: 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.

[B]Rule 2[/B]: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

[B]Rule 3[/B]: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

[B]Rule 4[/B]: 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.”

[B]Rule 5[/B]: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

[B]Rule 6[/B]: 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.”

[B]Rule 7:[/B] A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

[B]Rule 8[/B]: 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.”

[B]Rule 9[/B]: 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.

[B]Rule 10[/B]: 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?”

[B]Rule 11[/B]: 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.

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.” [/SIZE][/FONT] ]]> TheDrizel http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=15 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=14 Fri, 01 May 2009 17:26:44 GMT [B]THE HEGELIAN PRINCIPLE[/B]


[B]THE HEGELIAN PRINCIPLE:[/B]

[LIST][*]Step one: [B]CREATE A "PROBLEM":[/B] Create it or take one that does exist and build it up out of all proportion to its [I]real[/I] importance;[*]Step Two: [B]PUBLICIZE THE "PROBLEM"[/B]: Make sure a story about this problem appears in the news media each and every day, in newspapers, news magazines, radio, and television. Hit it again and again in a "steady drumbeat" that soon has people who don't pay real attention to politics (which is the majority of them) clamoring for a "solution" to the problem;[*]Step Three: [B]OFFER A "SOLUTION":[/B] A solution that takes away one or more of our rights and further undermines the constitutional protections we all are supposed to enjoy. One that involves higher taxes (to pay for this "solution," of course), and one we would not have allowed them to do without this previous conditioning of the public.[/LIST] [B]WORKS LIKE A "CHARM":[/B] They've been using this method for a long time now, and it's working for them. It has allowed them to "tighten the noose" on the American people to a point we wouldn't have believed even a few short years ago.


[B]CURRICULUM CONTROL:[/B] The entire system of payments for "Results" was set up by the power seekers in the federal government for a single purpose: [I]to take [B]total control[/B] of what is taught our children away from parents and put it in the hands of the federal government.[/I] They know, just as did Hitler and Stalin and most other power seekers, that in order for their scams to work, they [I]must[/I] get to the minds of the [I]children[/I] at as early an age as possible and teach them the values of the power seekers, not of the parents. To teach them collectivism and "forced altruism," where money is [I]taken[/I] from those who [I]earn[/I] it and [I]given[/I] to those who [I]don't[/I] in return for the votes to keep the power seekers in office. This so they can continue to wield power and enjoy the "perks" such power gives them. Not to mention the "heady brew" of being able to [I]control, absolutely,[/I] what others may do.
No, I don't think the power seekers are "setting up" these mass killings to whip up support for their laws against self-defense. But I [I]do[/I] think they're doing an excellent job of [I]taking advantage[/I] of those things that happen [I]all the time,[/I] but are usually "local stories" until the "big boys" take them and build them up to the point where it [I]seems[/I] that "violence is increasing and we've got to do something about it!" Never mind that they've got about 20,000 anti-gun laws already on the books, which they rarely (in selected circumstances only) enforce. They immediately go out and clamor for more laws as soon as news of yet another massacre hits the news. They don't enforce them (unless it suits their purpose) because [I]gun laws that work don't help them in their quest for complete disarmament of the American population.[/I] And they [I]must[/I] disarm us if they are to become our dictators.
[B]THEY FEAR US:[/B] Even now, we're seeing evidence that the people running our governments fear us. Every government building is now an "armed camp" where you must submit to a "warrantless search" in order to enter when they demand your presence. As people grow ever more irritated with their ever-increasing interference in everybody's daily lives, they [I]know[/I] that soon people who have guns are going to take serious offense to the things they do to us and they're deathly afraid of the result. So the drive to disarm us goes into "high gear" and [I]every[/I] occurrence that can help their cause is "touted to the skies," while the ones that don't (such as the one in Atlanta a few days after the more famous Atlanta shootings, where the attacker was killed by people on the scene who had their own guns before he could kill anybody) are studiously ignored. If they succeed in this, you will indeed become a "slave" to the whims of any bureaucrat who wants to "lord it over you." They will make so many laws that there will be no way for you to live without breaking one.

[B]CREATE CRIMINALS:[/B] Philosopher Ayn Rand said: "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one "makes" them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of law-breakers-and then you cash in on the guilt." (Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged")
That's what they're doing, and you can make no mistake about it. If we continue to allow them to get away with it, they'll win. Then we'll all be slaves. You'll know it is happening when people like me either disappear or become subject to false charges that have nothing to do with what we're saying. We'll be the first to go - and you'll be next.

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[/URL] ]]> TheDrizel http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=14 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=13 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:40:29 GMT [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&eurl=http://www.dualsportridersoflouisiana.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6610&feature=player_embedded[/url] ]]> TheDrizel http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=13 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=10 Thu, 22 May 2008 16:08:23 GMT People often have asked me why I chose the profession I did. That question has not always been an easy one for me to answer until recently. It has... People often have asked me why I chose the profession I did. That question has not always been an easy one for me to answer until recently. It has been easier for me to figure out what I didn't want to be than it was to decide what I want to be when I grow up. Through the process of elimination, Surgical Technology is one of the few things I could not cross off of my list. And recently I had the chance to realize why it is I haven't crossed it off yet.

I agreed to cover call for a co-worker last week, not something I usually do anymore. I left work and took a pager and garage pass home with me just in case I got called back, and sure enough I did. At 11p I got the call that there was bleed in the ER and the surgeon on call had posted a craniotomy. I rushed out and arrived at the hospital in enough time to change and see my nurse bringing the patient back from the ER. Luckily a co-worker stayed over and started setting up for surgery for me, and thanks to her for pulling everything else I didn't have. You see, the term "bleed" in neurosurgery generally means subdural or epidural hematoma which is a fairly simple case, as far as craniotomies go. But this patient actually had a ruptured intracranial aneurysm which is a much more involved procedure. I took in this new information and began changing my gameplan, making sure that I would have everything the surgeon would need before we would need it. In situations like this, there is no time to wait for "oops I forgot, let me go get that", the patient could be lost by the time someone gets back with it. And I did have everything i needed. Considering the severity of this situation, things could not have gone any smoother. The surgery went on until 4a the next morning. That night I helped the surgeon get the aneurysm clipped and under control and remove the blood clot from the patients brain quickly enough to save her life. This is what I went to school for, this is why I haven't scratched surgical technology off of my list.

I don't do it for a six figure salary and its not for awards or recognition. I'm not even sure my husband realized where I was much less was aware of what I was doing while he rested that night. Most of the nurses in the hospital don't even know what a CST is or what we do, but it does not matter. For me it is the personal satisfaction of knowing that I had a part of helping save a woman's life last week.

What did you do last week? ]]> R6Chick http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=10 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=6 Thu, 15 May 2008 19:13:59 GMT [url]http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8325796[/url] ]]> TheDrizel http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=6 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=5 Wed, 14 May 2008 19:44:49 GMT I don't know how this works so....




Once I learn, they'll be more to come:evilgrin: ]]> TheDrizel http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=5 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=4 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:12:12 GMT :wheelie: :wheelie: ]]> tigersden http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=4 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=2 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:06:48 GMT Very Friggin Cool............ Very Friggin Cool............ ]]> Juice http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=2 http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=1 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:22:58 GMT this is a test entry in the new blog system. enjoy! --jp this is a test entry in the new blog system.

enjoy!
--jp ]]> Joey http://www.rocketmadness.com/forums/blog.php?b=1