Intro to ‘THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE AMERICA’

Edited John R. Houk

By Robby Bowling

Intro posted 6/21/17

This is one of those posts in which there is some content that I highly agree with and some content that I have some serious doubts.

Bowling’s post has a lot of criticism of where the Leftist fundamental transformation has taken America of the years. This I concur with. Here is a good summation (though not complete) of the Leftist transformation plaguing America:

Perniciously, multiculturalism builds on the works of Marxist European thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Gramsci, whose “Critical Theory” has greatly influenced American progressives.

… The goal of politics should be first to ‘delegitimize’ the ideas of the American system and second, to transfer power from the dominant group to the ‘oppressed’ groups.”

Gramsci himself was crystal-clear on this: “In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” (Multiculturalism’s Leftist Threat to the American Story; By Mike Gonzalez; The Daily Signal; 10/28/15)

Then there is the injection of less credible Conspiracy Theories. For example, Robby Bowling includes in his frustration of the Leftist transformation this Conspiracy Theory attribution:

“HITLER was also a "Rothschild”

Conspiracy Theorists blame the Rothschild family of Jewish heritage for Hitler’s Holocaust of Jews and for global Communism. Does anyone but me see a conflict of blame here?

The same family that inspired the Balfour Declaration calling for a Jewish State in their land of heritage is responsible for Hitler’s murder of about 6 MILLION Jews? IDIOTIC!

The same family that made a success out of Capitalist global banking is involved in a global Communist New World Order agenda? That would mean abandoning Capitalist principles of gaining wealth and joining a Communist agenda of ending all religion, that would include Judaism (Jews) and the extermination of a sovereign Israel. Yup, IDIOTIC!

Here are some fascinating proponents yet doubtful in credibility Rothschild-Hitler Conspiracies:

o   Was Hitler a Rothschild? By David Icke; Biblioteca Pleyades [Website links to Icke homepage but if you search the title plenty of Rothschild conspiracies but none of with this title]

o   Meet the Real Adolf Hitler!! Hitler was a Rothschild!! Reformation.org

o   Rothschilds Financed Hitler Takeover? By Henry Makow; HenryMakow.com; 4/26/17

o   (Makow on Rothschild and Communism) How to Make Sense of Current Events; By Henry Makow; HenryMakow.com; 4/21/17

Here is a valid debunk of everything connected with Rothschild-Hitler-Jewish themed Conspiracy Theories:

o   HITLER WAS NOT A ROTHSCHILD-BRITISH AGENT; By Mike King; TomatoBubble.com [I hope it’s a centrist anti-conspiracy website but further title examination with actual investigation might lean toward a Left slant. Not sure though.]

JRH 6/21/17

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THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE AMERICA

By Robby Bowling 

June 20, 2017 4:07 PM

The Realistic Observer

Rainbow Utopian Government

Once upon a time there was a "Functioning Brain" that became a "Child" that became an "Adult" that became a useful "knowledgeable & prosperous" member of the Family, the Community the Society, the Culture & it was good, it was progress, it was evaluation, it was "Learning to adapt! “There was a TIME when this LIFE, when being an American or European had Meaning, had Opportunity, it had Goals & it also had Dreams or Aspirations...We knew WHO we were, we knew our Past, our History because it was Taught to us as a GIFT, as a LESSON as well as a TESTAMENT & AS GUIDE to take with us as we go about our Travels from Sea to Shore & back again...


That world as we knew it is where most of us started this Journey! In those "DAYS OF YESTERYEAR" the "Family was still intact! And because Society nearly always Mirrored the Family Unit, it was HIERARCHICAL! The Child respected the Parent the Adult, they both respected the ELDERS, those that were considered the Wise, the Learned & those with Insight & Vision! It was not a Perfect system but somehow FLAWS & ALL we survived a few Thousand years...And some of that was RECORDED HISTORY! That recorded History is what gave us documents like the "Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, the Magna Carta & every countries version (or lack of) a "Constitution!" When I grew up my Mother kept a Family Bible & along with that Bible was the FAMILY NAMES that we all heard countless stories about ...The Names, the Memories of the Grand Fathers, the Grand Mothers, the Aunts, the Uncles, the Cousins, the Brothers, the Sisters, perhaps a "Birth Certificate" & even a small Locket of Hair or a Babies shoe or sock...I think those Memories & Moments are .what we Cherish the most...You could call them "Family Heirlooms" after a fashion...


That is the AMERICA I grew up in! My roots come from "Small Town Rural America" & mine started on the "Family Farm!" It was just the way it was...We went to Church on Wednesday Nights, Sunday Mornings & Sunday Evenings...I rode the School Bus to Town for most of my Schooling Years...My life was not that much different than others in that Community! I played Sports, I was on the "Debate Team" & later on I was in a "Teenage High School ROCK & ROLL BAND.....However "LIFE IN THE FAST LANE " it was not....I went to College, paid my own way, raised hell, drank a lot of beer & SOMEHOW Survived! How about that? You don't think for one Moment, one minute it could have had anything to do with a FAMILY (not perfect) that actually Loved & Cared about each other, do you? Heavens Forbid that thought,,, How could it be POSSIBLE that a FAMILY could do BETTER than what this now this 'Self-Righteous Evil Greedy GOVERNMENT in Washington DC Claims to do "Miserably" while Failing at every level....Could it be that that was the INTENT all along?

Hitler Quote

Have we all forgotten that "Sometimes” it is the "Simple Things in Life" that separate most of us....Contentment is actually "Perspective" & a little bit of "Attitude." When I was the young child growing into the teenager some of my FONDEST Memories are literally grabbing a "Fishing Pole" & going to the Creek to catch Fish! The only thing we had to Worry about were Poisonous SNAKES...And we were usually Prepared for that VARMINT with an old 22 Rifle or shotgun....And to the "Chagrin of Liberalism" we didn't Kill, Maim, Rape or Pillage a Village of Idiots either...HOW COULD THAT BE POSSIBLE, that is Without Government Supervision & Liberalism??

"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing & dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We thought we'd never lose
For we were young & sure to have our way
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days"-Paul McCartney

I'm not trying to HARP or go on a Nostalgia Trip, but come on, those days were HEAVENLY compared to the "RAT RACE EXISTENCE" I see now... Fears were Real & Genuine in that ear, but so were Friendships & the Family (at least for most of us)...LBJ started the (FAKE) "War On Poverty" & all it did is Create "Ghettos & Projects" it "KILLED the African Families ...They NEVER Recovered...but that was an RESULT the Communist Liberal Democrats WANTED & LUSTED for...A WELFARE STATE that would KEEP the COMMIES in POWER FOREVER....Hell, it is working...


That was also the ERA when Drug Addiction & Alcoholics started RAMPING UP...Activist Lawyers like the ACLU started doing their thing...And we CAN'T leave out or forget about The COMMUNIST Professes like "Saul Alinsky"- "RULES FOR RADICALS" got their FOOT-HOLD in the AMERICAN School & College system....And there has BEEN "No Looking Back" from that bunch of Evil Bastards!

Dear Conquered Peoples

The IRONY is thus: those Communist Liberal Deluded, Delusional, Sick, Perverted Snakes took what is PROBABLY the Only "Freedom" that was uniquely ours-"Freedom Of Speech" & used it to DESTROY the very "Foundations or Tenets (if you will) that our Constitution allowed & Cherished.... Think about it LIBERALS & MUSLIMS are the only ones allowed to Have & Use "Freedom Of Speech"...It is slowly FADING away into "Obscurity"

America is in the MIDDLE of a "Cultural Revolution or War" call it what you wish...the Next Step will be "Civil War"...But allow me to make 'One Big Point" here...the Soldiers (the People) on BOTH SIDES are the REAL LOSERS...Ask yourself this, who are the Winners? ANSWER" the ELITES of this World....The Vermin Poisonous Bastards that are "One Step Removed" from being SATAN Himself are the WINNERS...That's the "NEW WORLD ORDER" -Soros-Rothschilds-(the Bilderberg Group)....They want it ALL & right now there is Little anyone can do to STOP this "Avalanche" it seems to be cascading & moving on its Own Inertia ...Kind of like Quicksand!


These same HEATHENS have now fairly well Destroyed EUROPE...We have no NEED to speak about the MUSLIM Nations they were already "Excrement Holes" that Smell & Look like "Death Warmed Over". Their Job in AMERICA is moving into the NEXT Phase! They were Brought here 1st to introduce the CANCER of ISLAM...Then SECONDLY to sell FEAR....That one is Nearing its Crescendo...the Next Phase will be to become "Enforcers" for the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.....For those WHO Don't know History-----HITLER had MANY --"Muslim Battalions"...HITLER was also a "Rothschild"

3 Phases of Muslim Immigration

There was a TIME, apparently a very long time ago when the "Rule Of Law" was Respected, not ignored. And now it's Ignored TOTALLY if-if fits the "New American Communist Liberal Progressive Manifesto" If we ELECT 537 Partisan Parasites ROM Both sides of the FAKE, FAUX or PHONY Aisle & the Republicans are "Supposedly" the "Party In Power" & they DO NOTHING whatsoever to reinforce that POINT....Then what WAS the POINT in ELECTING them to begin with....Or just MAYBE they aren't Republicans at ALL, just Frauds, Crooks, Cons, Swindlers & Perverts just like all the others & also work for the Globalist SOROS (BINGO)...Isn't there something that's getting lost here....Isn't this actually LIFE or DEATH....Or do we continue with our Bad Habits & go out & get "Sedated" like all the other JUNKIES & DRUNKS? And PRETEND it will all get better tomorrow....I guess OBAMA & SOROS can KISS your little HURT & make it all Better....Damn...what planet was it that brought us all these Ignorant Frigging Fools? NEVER MIND --I Needed To VENT!


It's gotten hard, actually Impossible to see this SHIP & the SEAS we are Sailing on getting BETTER-anytime soon, if ever! How do you RISE above the DEATH STENCH that's now in the air? I sure as hell don't know!...DOING NOTHING is Suicidal! And taking ACTION before we can Organize may well be Futile also...


Feel free to argue with me, but I think we are getting very close to being HISTORY....Liberals have already started Tearing down & Destroying all our History...Monuments one by one are being torn down & History books haven't been HONEST or TRUTHFUL in DECADES....Remember the VICTORS of WAR write all History with a Prejudice....There will be no one here to Correct them ....Go back and read the Books & the Movies made from "Fahrenheit 451" & "Logan Run"...Maybe those will be insightful? You also should read the Books by Huxley, Orwell & Ayn Rand before they are BURNED too...

Stalin Quote

As we speak the "Fear Mongers" from the CIA controlled Media are SPINNING....WAR with "Russia" one moment & War with North Korea" the next... Which begs me to ask this QUESTION....If TRUMP is in BED with Russia why the Charade? Forget it, LOGIC died a Slow Ugly Death Decades ago! "PARDONNE-MOI" but the "coup d'état" continues, just as the CANCER, we call LIBERALISM continues to eat Brain Cells better than any "Lobotomy" ever could...We should be ASHAMED of what we've come to, but sadly a "Willful Ignorance" is killing that shot....For the LIBERAL Lunatics out there, "how could you EVER think this could EVER have a "Happy Ending?" Somethings have no Bounds ...Stupidity is apparently one of them....


So go on about your day, numb yourself into submission if you wish, but the Sword or the Guillotine will still Sever your HEAD off, Brain or Not....The Liberals in this WORLD & the Empty Headed IDIOTS that believe this "UTOPIA HOG-SLOP" will eventually Pay the PRICE for their INFINITE STUPIDITY... BECAUSE of their Willful Idiocy & the Cowards left in this WORLD ....FREEDOM is now "For All Practical Purposes DOE & EXTINCT...


Lest we remember LIBERALS are "Miserable Sadists" who get off by making People "Subservient" to them ..Their Dream goes like this, "Create A Welfare State" & make Everyone they "ALLOW" to survive "BEG THEM & WORSHIP THEM" as if they were the Messiah! They will Burn in Hell First!


Remember your Past that's all we have left...Today is AIMLESS & Tomorrow...You are my guest....just give it your best SHOT...FOOL!

Cicero Quote on Treason from Within

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Intro to ‘THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE AMERICA’

Edited by John R. Houk

Intro posted 6/21/17

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THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE AMERICA

By Robby Bowling 

June 20, 2017 4:07 PM

The Realistic Observer

Is Neconservatism the Villain or Alinsky Radical Transformation?

John R. Houk
© March 23, 2010

When President G. W. Bush was elected President in 2000 his political policies were criticized as being influenced by advisors with a Neoconservative slant. The Islamic terrorist attack on American soil on 9/11 in effect gave Bush II war powers in an undeclared war on terrorism. Undoubted a formal Congressional declaration of war was never forth coming because the only thing known of the perpetrating war criminal terrorists were that they were Arabic and Muslim. The discovery of the terrorist-in-chief was aided publicly when Osama bin-Laden’s al-Qaeda organization took credit. The problem with a declaration of war was the transnational decentralized character of al-Qaeda. Hence the face of evil became bin Laden. The hunt for bin Laden ultimately led to Afghanistan in which like-minded Afghanistan head of State Mullah Omar refused to give up bin Laden to America for a criminal trial.

Since Afghanistan harbored the most wanted man in America Bush II ordered an invasion to hunt for bin Laden and take down Afghanistan’s radical Islamic government headed by the One-eyed Mullah Omar.

President Bush II was influenced by Neoconservative ideology to bring democracy to the Middle East by force if necessary. The reasoning is Democratic minded nations do not start wars, they negotiate differences diplomatically. There has been no instance of a democratic nation going to war with another democratic nation. It has turned out that nation building democratic Muslim nations was easier to think of on paper than in reality. Islam is not conducive to Western style representative democracy. Hence the Global War on Terrorism became a terrorist-guerrilla war of attrition that is still around past President Bush II two terms of Office.

The Left used the longevity of the GWOT to spew hate on President Bush II and Neoconservatives in general. It is interesting to me that Neocons are so vilified for an agenda of developing democratic peace rather than despotic client States. The premise of the agenda was a safer world.

President Barack Hussein Obama used this vilification of Bush II Neocon influence to campaign for utopian change. Concepts of transforming America into a Socialistic Secular Humanist moral relativist nation inwardly and an appeasement minded peace at any cost outwardly.

The former cripples America internally. The latter opens America to serious security deficiencies externally.

The American Left’s propaganda campaign to focus on a person and turn that person into a villain is a classic tactic of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Hussein Obama’s mentor in Socialism/Marxism - Saul Alinsky.

An essay at Family Security Matters shows the Saul Alinsky plan to transform America is to destroy the American and Christian legacy slowly with deceptive grassroots activism. It was worse than a Trojan Horse, the Alinsky plan is a slow virus that undermines America then changes it to the equivalent of a Marxist utopia. Alinsky lived this paradigm by carefully making clear that was not an overt Communist by never joining any Marxist organizations yet mirroring the utopian ends of Marxism.

I am for universal medicine but not on BHO terms. Obama Care could be a step toward undermining the American way of life while producing the illusion of State funded insurance reform. Frankly I was cautiously pleased that Obama Care passed, but only with the hope the Republicans take over Congress in 2010 and the White House in 2012. In this way Conservatives can undo the social transformation stages of universal medical insurance to a more competitive market format yet preserving such items as no insurance rejection for precondition ailments. When President BHO speaks and writes about change, it is Alinsky change. The Alinsky radical change is evil for America.

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Saul Alinsky and the Rise of Amorality in American Politics

D. L. Adams
January 4, 2010
Family Security Matters

Saul Alinsky and his "community organizing" methods and philosophy have had a profound influence on the politics of the United States. Recent history would suggest that this influence is just short of catastrophic.

Alinsky's book, Rules for Radicals, published in 1971 still has enormous effects on our country today. Hillary Clinton wrote her Wellesley College thesis on Alinsky, interviewing him personally for her research. After her graduation Alinsky offered her a job with his organization, which she refused to pursue other opportunities. President Obama worked for Alinsky organizations and taught seminars in Alinsky tactics and methodology during his "community organizing" period in Chicago. Michelle Obama echoed Alinsky’s words in her speech at the Democrat Convention.

Michelle Obama:

“Barack stood up that day”, talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, “and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be…”

And, “All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.”

Saul Alinsky, “Rules for Radicals,” Chapter 2:

“The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive-but-real-allies of the Haves … The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means … The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.”

Alinsky is making a strong case in this quote for the abandonment of morals and ethics as nothing but impediments to political success. For Alinsky, as for Michelle and Barack Hussein Obama, morality and ethics prevent the world from being what “it should be.” The Alinsky end game is likely a global utopia in which the “people” have “power.” Unfortunately, this utopianism has been the foundation of several über-violent movements of the last century which have resulted in over 100 million deaths.

Alinsky’s dedication of Rules for Radicals to Lucifer is easily understood; as a champion of amorality and the abandonment of ethics as nothing more than props that sustain the status quo, Lucifer is the perfect model of the destroyer for the activist Alinsky. The fact that our top political leadership has embraced this amoral set of tactics for political gain should cause all Americans concern.

There is no utopia; those who have strived to make the impossible real in order to implement their grand visions of life have been the agents of death and destruction on a scale surpassed perhaps only by Islam. Alinsky – like the Koran, Sira, and Hadith – represents morality turned upside down or abandoned entirely in favor of cold pragmatism.

ACORN uses Alinsky’s aggressive model of “Community organizing.” It is no surprise that they have been deeply involved in voter fraud and other nefarious practices. ACORN’s transgressions and fraud were so abysmal that the federal government de-funded the organization several months ago.

ACORN operates on Alinsky principles of immorality and total radical pragmatism, after all, they are trying to usher in the people’s utopia; why should they allow mere ethics, legalities, and other such encumbrances to interfere with their mission to save humanity from itself?

Recently, ACORN employees attempted to assist two young people who wanted to start an illegal sex business; unfortunately for the ACORN people, the two entrepreneurs were actually conservative activists who had filmed the entire encounter. Following in the path of Alinsky, what could be wrong with a bit of prostitution and other sex-related “businesses” if it “empowered the people” and could help to de-construct the institutions of society? For ACORN it was a win-win opportunity.

Alinsky’s mission was to incite constant struggle and agitation so that the oppressive “system” would eventually be brought to its knees; ACORN is on the same path, but pretends legitimacy much better than Alinsky ever attempted. In fact, the ACORN “sting” as it is now known is Alinsky methodology put to good use. ACORN and its Alinsky amorality were supported by our current President.

“In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive than we have known. In the few stories where Obama’s role as an Acorn “leadership trainer” is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama’s ties to Acorn.” (Stanley Kurtz, National Review)

Many Americans have read Alinsky's books and understand his methods; this is excellent, as so few read Mein Kampf, and fewer still have read the Koran, Sira, and Hadith. These are the foundational texts of existential opposition to the existence of the United States in its present form.

The fact that our current President and Secretary of State (wannabe President Hillary Clinton), are followers of Alinsky is beyond disturbing. That so many Americans know Alinsky is heartening, but few know the motivations behind the agitation that is so central to the Alinsky method and, further, what it means when a professional agitator acquires the power that he claims to require. What kind of effective governance is possible from the permanent agitator when the reins of power are handed to him/her? We have seen the results.

The problem with the Alinsky method is that the end game is amorphous; the end game is the acquisition of power but little is said of what to do with that power once acquired. The core of Alinsky's method is destruction, destruction of the "system" that allows a disparity of wealth. There is no discussion of what is to replace this system once it is brought down. However, there is little doubt that Alinsky's idea of a better "system" is one that brings forced equivalence or Marxism. Fundamentally, the struggle to get power is the essence of Alinsky, what to do with the power once acquired is another matter altogether.

Just two weeks before his death in 1972, Alinsky gave a revealing interview to Playboy magazine. While this is not a widely known interview it provides great insight into Alinsky, his purposes and, most importantly, his deep alienation from concepts of decency, ethics and morality. In order to understand our current "leadership" we must understand Alinsky.

David Horowitz recently published a small but insightful pamphlet on Alinsky andRules for Radicals. Horowitz understands what few do not: Alinsky was a nihilist. What does Alinsky’s nihilism say about those who follow in his footsteps? The answer is clear.

The current use of the term "change" is directly from Saul Alinsky. This is a term that can mean many things to many people. "Pragmatically, the only hope for genuine minority progress is to seek out allies within the majority and to organize that majority itself as part of a national movement for change." (Alinsky interview)

“Change” is both the tool and the goal, but it is rarely defined in any way that is not strictly local and economic; better housing for the poor, better economic opportunity, better wages, better municipal services, etc. However, at the national level "change" is left undefined. In fact it seems the process of change itself, not the implementation of "change," is the goal.

This is amoral political agitation that appears to be about something positive but is really about deconstruction. Once the institutions of "oppression" that require "change" are destroyed, there is no plan delineated by Alinsky (nor his current crop of followers) as to what will replace them. The goal apparently is "people power" (whatever that means). However, since the concept of destroying the institutions of society specifically to "empower" people is foundational, this is the same message of Marx.

Alinsky is a Marxist without the red flag. Any institution that allows one group of people to advance at the expense of another is to be brought down even if those who advance within it do so as a result of honest hard work and talent. The essence of Alinsky is a radical idea of universal equivalence, though this has been seen before both in Marxist theory, and in Communist states. In order to agitate for “change,” Alinsky and his adherents require the population to be on edge; "rubbed raw." This desire for endless agitation as a goal is bizarre and disturbing.

"The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. We'll give them a way to participate in the democratic process, a way to exercise their rights as citizens and strike back at the establishment that oppresses them, instead of giving in to apathy. We'll start with specific issues -- taxes, jobs, consumer problems, pollution - and from there move on to the larger issues: pollution in the Pentagon and the Congress and the board rooms of the megacorporations. Once you organize people, they'll keep advancing from issue to issue toward the ultimate objective: people power." (Alinsky interview)

Alinsky believed that the struggle itself is empowering and important, in and of itself. "People power" is another way to say the rule of the people, and not elites or institutions or representatives. This is Marxism. Our president is the greatest acolyte of Saul Alinsky. The influence of Alinsky in our national politics cannot be overstated.

"We'll not only give them a cause, we'll make life goddamn exciting for them again – life instead of existence. We'll turn them on." (Alinsky interview)

Alinsky claims to love the United States, but not in its current form. His love of country is as hollow as that of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

"I love this goddamn country, and we're going to take it back." (Alinsky interview)

“An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans. ‘The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing “God Bless America.'” No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people,’ he said in a 2003 sermon. ‘God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.’" (ABC News)

"Taking back" was a popular meme of the radical left during the Vietnam War era. Once the country is "taken back" what is to be done with it? We now have an Alinsky acolyte in the White House, one could say he has “taken back” the country, but it is clear that he does not know what to do with it. He doesn't know because no Alinskyite has ever reached this level of power except for Hillary Clinton.

The ongoing agitation that comes now directly from the White House, most particularly the troubled health care “reform,” shows that the “rubbing raw” method is being followed closely; the popular resistance to “change” that we now see growing across the country is evidence that perhaps this method of “community organizing” is bereft of solutions. Constant agitation is not a solution though Alinsky would have you believe otherwise. “Struggle” itself is the purpose and goal of the Alinsky way.

"All life is warfare, and it's the continuing fight against the status quo that revitalizes society, stimulates new values and gives man renewed hope of eventual progress. The struggle itself is the victory." (Alinsky interview)

This is essentially an anti- anti-revolutionary concept. The idea of fighting for the sake of fighting itself is morally depraved. But this term "depraved" would not have bothered Alinsky for he is the champion of the abandonment of morality. Amorality is fundamental to Alinsky and to his followers; an ideology that justifies the abandonment of morality and ethics is attractive to many – to the detriment of us all. "Integrity! What shit." (Alinsky interview)

In fairness to Alinsky, the above was said relating to a specific local situation, but the dismissal of integrity is illustrative. Alinsky saw the march of history as driven by revolution; without revolution there is stagnation (lack of development of humanity in his view). It is stunning to see someone dedicated to destruction and deconstruction so self-convinced that he is an agent of human necessity and development; Alinsky is deeply confused. Unfortunately, Alinsky’s followers are just as confused on this matter.

"History is like a relay race of revolutions; the torch of idealism is carried by one group of revolutionaries until it too becomes an establishment, and then the torch is snatched up and carried on the next leg of the race by a new generation of revolutionaries. The cycle goes on and on, and along the way the values of humanism and social justice the rebels champion take shape and change and are slowly implanted in the minds of all men even as their advocates falter and succumb to the materialistic decadence of the prevailing status quo." (Alinsky, interview)

Alinsky grew up in Chicago in a very poor Jewish family in the early part of the century. He said that he had "kicked the habit" of Judaism at an early age, but would always say that he was a "Jew." Seeing the corruption of Chicago at the time and the hero status held by Al Capone and his operatives, Alinsky made it his affair to associate himself with them. He saw no difference between the Capone criminals and the corrupt city officials of Chicago at that time. He was successful in flattering himself (his characterization) into the Capone organization and became a trusted fellow traveler for "two years" according to his estimate. In fact, the influence of the Capone gang on Alinsky is substantial and lasted for more than two years.

"He introduced me to Frank Nitti, known as the Enforcer, Capone's number-two man, and actually in de facto control of the mob because of Al's income-tax rap. Nitti took me under his wing. I called him the Professor and I became his student. Nitti's boys took me everywhere, showed me all the mob's operations, from gin mills and whorehouses and bookie joints to the legitimate businesses they were beginning to take over. Within a few months, I got to know the workings of the Capone mob inside out." (Alinksy interview)

Alinsky’s self-identification of Frank Nitti the mobster killer as his "professor" is important. In retrospect one can speculate that Alinsky learned a great deal about pressure and intimidation from his friends in the Chicago mob. But even more enlightening is that the mob killer Nitti is the antithesis of what America is about; amorality and criminality were what Alinsky apparently found so fascinating about Nitti and his gang – they beat “the system” which Alinsky saw as just as corrupt or equally so to the Capone/Nitti gangsters.

This abandonment of morality and ethics and in fact, the identification of morality and ethics as impediments, would become a theme with Alinsky. The two years of training with “Professor” Nitti would reap huge rewards for Alinsky over time. But what it has left as a legacy for this country is a disaster as Alinsky’s followers took this abandonment of morals and ethics as a serious lesson; nothing is excluded as far as tactics and strategy are concerned – this is the lesson of the “professor.”

Alinsky's abandonment of morality and ethics is not difficult to demonstrate. Rules for Radicals is dedicated to Lucifer, the rebel against God's rule and great destroyer of Christian ideology.

Alinsky and his method negate and reject morality and ethics. The denial of history is an important component of the denial of ethics and morality. Alinsky writes in the dedication to Lucifer that history cannot be known. “…Who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins – or which is which…”

Without a knowable historical record there can be no learning from past events, and no trust in previous knowledge. The result of the denial of history is the denial of learning, because no existing knowledge can be trusted. Denial of the capability of people to attain knowledge and understanding from existing sources of information is a component of nihilism. This leaves the future open to radicals and de-constructionists like Alinsky who have made a definitive break with the past.

The institutions of society, the old institutions upon which society and morality are built, are therefore illegitimate and are to be brought down. This distrust in the idea of knowledge itself is a totalitarian, anti-intellectual concept.

Alinsky’s worldview is built then on new knowledge only and experience as the old cannot be known or trusted. This shattering of old orders is completely revolutionary and destructive as the past is therefore inherently unworthy because it cannot be trusted (myth and history are the same). The result of the rejection of the past and of knowledge can best be seen in Pol Pot’s Cambodia where knowledge and wisdom and those who possessed such things were destroyed to make way for the revolutionary Utopia of the Khmer Rouge. Beginning on the day in 1975 when his guerrilla army marched silently into the capital, Phnom Penh, Pol Pot emptied the cities, pulled families apart, abolished religion and closed schools. Everyone was ordered to work, even children. The Khmer Rouge outlawed money and closed all markets. Doctors were killed, as were most people with skills and education that threatened the regime. (New York Times)

The rejection of morality and ethics and the embrace of total pragmatism to achieve the goal of power are characteristic of the “radical” Lucifer so respected by Alinsky. It is not important to Alinsky that Lucifer is the embodiment of the idea of evil and opposition to good; what matters is that Alinsky sees Lucifer as effective; the trains always run on time when Satan runs the show. Effectiveness and success are divorced from issues of morality and ethics; success is its own morality for Alinsky and his followers. Morality and ethics have no value for the "radical" who wants to overturn the institutions of society and save the world. Alinsky was a Utopian dreamer who turned his formidable intellect to de-construction and removed morality from the equation for operational purposes. There can be no place for morality and ethics when the world must be transformed to a Utopia – for Alinsky and his followers this purpose is superior even to any "supreme being" and the morality and ethics which may have originated from such a being.

In fact, this rejection of accepted morality means that anything goes; any "action" is acceptable if it destroys or undermines the "status quo" and brings “change.” This is radical anti-stability for the sake of Utopianism. The Alinsky puddle-deep “philosophy” is incredibly dangerous because it elevates “struggle” and “change” over humanity, individuals, and institutions that, while they may be flawed (but can be improved) must be destroyed simply because they are institutions.

This is anti-intellectualism and a denial of context and history which results in what can only be endless agitation, conflict, and de-construction. This is a philosophy of a great cosmic vacuum in which stability and quality are sucked up forever until there is only "struggle." Utopians believe themselves above morality and ethics because there can be no greater purpose than theirs – the creation of Utopia. Utopians therefore consider their opponents evil.

The cruelty of Utopians toward their enemies is easily understood:

“Over and over again, the firebrand revolutionary freedom fighter is the first to destroy the rights and even the lives of the next generation of rebels. But recognizing this isn't cause for despair. All life is warfare, and it's the continuing fight against the status quo that revitalizes society, stimulates new values and gives man renewed hope of eventual progress.” (Alinsky interview)

Utopianism is at the foundation of Soviet Communism, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, etc. We have seen in history that Utopian ideologies resulted in the greatest toll of death of innocents in human history. Jihad and its hundreds of millions of victims is a Utopian effort to bring the world out of jahiliya (non-belief, ignorance) into dar al-Islam (the purview of Islam's deity, Allah). The amorality and moral degradation of Utopianism is one of our greatest threats.

David Horowitz' excellent recently published pamphlet "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model" offers keen insights into Alinsky and what it might mean when Alinsky followers are in positions of power. The conclusions he reaches are not pleasant but are borne out by current events, public utterances of the president, his history, and the work of Alinsky himself.

What we are seeing is the most radical President in our country’s history who is unable to govern because governing is not his purpose. The Alinskyite, ever the destroyer of institutions, cannot govern because governments and societies are built upon institutions. The cold war is over - but now it is being fought anew under a new name in the halls of our national centers of political power under the multi-colored banner: "Hope and Change." The promotion of socialism though socialized medicine, the constant bowing to foreign leaders, and apologizing for American actions across the world and a new detente with traditional enemies and abandonment of and hostility to traditional friends is evidence that agitation and de-construction is the goal of the present administration.

A small article appeared in the Boston Globe just after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. It was written by Saul Alinsky's son.

"ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people. The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style.

Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

“I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." (Boston Globe, 8/31/08)

While Mr. Alinsky relished the fact that Mr. Obama had learned his father’s "radical lessons," we should not be so sanguine. The anti-morality of Alinsky has brought our national political discourse to a breaking point. This is good for the true believers of Alinsky but bad for those who love liberty, democracy, and the future growth and stability of the United States and the prosperity and security of ourselves and our friends.

Utopians live in a fantasy realm outside of context and history, as if history and its cycles and challenges do not apply to them. Mr. Obama is at war, but not in the way that you might expect.

Our president does not appear to be seriously interested in war in Iraq or Afghanistan, these are but distractions to the main issue which is the homeland. With his oath of office taken on Abraham Lincoln's personal bible the American people thought that the long circle of racism had finally been closed with Obama's inauguration, but it is not so. We thought that we had entered a new era of openness, bi-partisanship, and post-racialism. It is not so; not since Jefferson Davis has an American president been so divisive. The Civil War allusion to Lincoln is appropriate but it is not accurate, our leadership is purposefully divisive because they are Utopians first, Americans second, third, or fourth, or fifth. We live in a time of disunity and radicalism foisted upon us by our leadership. This is not the future for which Abraham Lincoln had labored.

“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. (Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address)

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” (Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address)

We live in a time of unprecedented domestic upheaval and not any that has been brought upon us by circumstances or international conflagrations but because our Alinsky-influenced, post-modern leadership believes that conflict and struggle is the path to human evolution.

The Obama administration is the embodiment of the failure of politics because it is not about politics - politics involves concession and compromise - it is about victory at any cost. The American people expected hope and change, as that is what they voted for but what they really wanted was stability and prosperity.

"Thus Alinsky begins his text by telling readers exactly what a radical is. He is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer. In his own mind the radical is building his own kingdom, which to him is a kingdom of heaven on earth. Since a kingdom of heaven built by human beings is a fantasy - and impossible dream- the radical's only real world efforts are those which are aimed at subverting the society he lives in. He is a nihilist.

This is something that conservatives generally have a hard time understanding. As a former radical, I am constantly asked how radicals could hate America and why they would want to destroy a society that compared to others is tolerant, inclusive and open, and treats all people with a dignity and respect that is the envy of the world. The answer to this question is that radicals are not comparing America to other real world societies. They are comparing America to the heaven on earth - the kingdom of social justice and freedom - they think they are building. And compared to this heaven even America is hell." (Horowitz, pp.16-17, Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model)

The United States was founded upon the concept that “the people” rule, not the elites; that is why there are checks and balances built into our system of government. The Alinsky followers, now that they hold the levers of power, are seeing a popular opposition to their endless agitations. The rise of the Alinskyites has been a rude awakening for most Americans, but it has also energized a vocal opposition.

We must return to our roots, our moral, ethical and legal roots, Constitution and Bill of Rights. We must see ourselves in an historical context which the Harvard and Yale dhimmis in positions of authority will not. Our culture and our country are of great value and are worth protecting and saving. We live in a confused time, but the confusion is clearing away; it is clearing away through knowledge and understanding of the motivations of those in power. The Alinsky ideology of nihilism and deconstruction must be repudiated. Those who are his sycophants and fellow travelers must be exposed and shamed for waging war on their own country and their own people in the name of Utopianism and endless struggle.

Our purpose is to learn through the slow, but sound, evolutionary process of trial and error, and to preserve the Constitution its sovereignty over this great land. If our leaders do not concur, if they seek to shortcut the natural process or disrupt the rule of law, they must be voted out or impeached.

Saul Alinsky's message resonated heavily with many intellectuals and activists of the ‘70s and ‘80s including Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. Our people naively voted for Mr. Obama and his party. Mr. Obama's agenda is clearly built upon Mr. Alinsky's model and method. Mr. Obama taught seminars in this method; he is a true believer. The message is that the United States is corrupt and must be de-constructed so that the power can rest with the people. But, it already does.

Our system of democracy based upon our Constitution must be slowly and continually perfected, but not de-constructed or destroyed. The United States is the hope of the world; some have forgotten this, or never believed it. The American people believe it still while our academic and political elites appear to have abandoned the idea. We believe in liberty, freedom, and tolerance, we do not believe in totalitarian barbarism like that of Islam. We are expected to preserve these freedoms and our system of Constitutional government that supports them.

There is no utopia, and there is no better system of government in history than what we have here in this country. Our purpose as citizens should be to constantly improve it and aspire to perfect it knowing that absolute perfection is impossible. This is not absurd but an embrace of constant self-examination and improvement.

“Perfection” as a realistic political goal is a Utopian concept. Those who embrace Utopianism, like Saul Alinsky and his followers, believe that it is real – the Utopian idea is the same as the fascist, totalitarian, and communist, and Islamic concept of global conquest. Utopians know what is best, those who oppose them are… evil.

Ours is not a world of global fellowship, and disarmament and universal goodwill. We live in a world of challenges and threats. When we forget that the reality of humanity is the driver of the functioning of the world, we are lost in dreams. Dreamers, utopians, and fantasists do not drive the world; they break it or are broken by it. Pragmatism without morality and ethics to check it is amoral and leads to de-construction and devolution. Alinsky and his followers have confused agitation with growth; the advancement of humanity must by necessity be driven by morality and ethics. Pragmatism without morality and ethics leads to holocaust.

Alinsky has no goal but endless strife, “the struggle is the victory itself,” as he says. This means that institutions must be brought down because stability is seen as immoral in this amoral worldview. This is a bizarre and corrupt ideology for any leader of a nation to embrace.

"If the radicals' utopia were actually possible, it would be criminal not to deceive, lie, and murder to advance the radical cause which is, in effect, a redemption of mankind. If it were possible to provide every man, woman, and child on the planet with food, shelter and clothing as a right, if it were possible to end bigotry and human conflict, what sacrifice would not be worth it?" (Horowitz, p.45, Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model)

Those having a theological bent might ask where Saul Alinsky is now. The answer is best provided by him.

"Let's say that if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell. ...Hell would be heaven for me." (Alinsky, interview)

We Americans are a people of morality and strong beliefs of our place on this planet and in history. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (John Adams, 2nd U.S. President) “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.” (Washington, Farewell Address, 1796)

We Americans believe that we have something of great value; we know it is so because we enjoy liberties that others on this earth do not; we know it is so because so many immigrate to our shores for the freedoms, openness, and opportunity that this country offers. America is no utopia, but we shall do our best to work with the concepts of freedom and good government that Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Washington, Madison, Monroe, and all the rest left to us as their legacy forever. “If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?” (John Adams, 2nd U.S. President)

We hold this legacy as a great responsibility to ourselves and to future generations.

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” (John Adams, Letter to wife Abigail from Paris, 1780)

There is no utopia but the one that we aspire to here with the superb tools which were left to us by our founders. We have not forgotten their gift to us, and we will make it right once again.
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Is Neconservatism the Villain or Alinsky Radical Transformation?
John R. Houk
© March 23, 2010
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Saul Alinsky and the Rise of Amorality in American Politics
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor D.L. Adams is an analyst and historian, and a co-founder of SIOA.

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Corporate Businesses also War against Christianity

John R. Houk
© January 31, 2010

The war against Christianity is more than Leftist, Secular Humanist, atheist and homosexual activists attempting to impose there vision of a “Living Constitution” that interprets the First Amendment law that keeps the government from enfranchising a Christian Church as a State Church. Corporate America that takes the same position of the Left leaning activist blocs is also obstructing the foundational faith of America.

Now I realize that Corporate America may view an interaction with Christianity as detractions from their capitalist bottom line of profit and that corporations in general should have the freedom to manage what happens on their property. However corporations must follow the rule of law as much as any individual. This means a corporation cannot discriminate on the basis of race, religion or creed (i.e. a creed not harmful to the rule of law). Again this means corporation owe the same deference to Christians as they due to races. This means if a person shares the Good News of Jesus Christ in an open market mall, they have as much right to do so a corporation would allow a homosexual activist event or marketing tool to be found in their mall.

The pure Libertarian might say the Christian can exercise their right to shop somewhere else if the mall is to an individual’s disliking. Fortunately America has not become the Libertarian Utopia in which the main of rule of law is founded on harm no one. Take note the kind of “harm” spoken of is aggression. “Harm” does not refer to hurting someone’s feelings or forbidding entrance based on a proprietor’s preference. If the foundation of the rule of law was do no harm to anyone then a whole slew of discriminations could evolve in which the class in a Libertarian Utopia can discriminate against another class in the Libertarian Utopia based on ability to pay. Although I doubt monetary inequality is the design of a Libertarian Utopia, which is exactly what would evolve if Christian moral principles are deleted as the rule of law. Christian morality calls the same rule of law for all is based on the ubiquitous Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do to you.

I just read a WorldNetDaily (WND) article in which a Christian Youth Pastor was beat up by mall private security for engaging in a conversation about Christianity with a couple passers by. The private security evidently wanted the Youth Pastor to leave for sharing his faith in the mail they were contracted to keep secure. Actually, this understandable to me if it is a distraction from the transactions of the various mall store businesses. For I am sure Fredericks of Hollywood would not look too kindly if a group of people were quietly sharing the Gospel in the vicinity of their store. It might slow business.

Is this a reason for security to smash the Youth Pastor against a wall and place hand cuffs on so tightly that his wrist bled?

One might answer in the affirmative if the group of people or in this case person violently proclaimed he would not desist in sharing the Gospel. Guess what? The Youth Pastor willing told the security personnel he would leave the mall. According to what I gleaned from WND, the Youth Pastor assurances to leave did not deter mall security from smashing against the wall and violently hand cuffing him. Then the Youth Pastor was the one charged with assault. Sounds like discrimination against Christians to me.

As atheist activists, homosexual activists and Separation of Church and State activists scream to exercise their right to be excluded from the moral foundation of Christianity; should not Christians also have rights in which they are not discriminated against for their faith? After all the part of the First Amendment that proclaims the government shall not establish a State Church (specifically a State Religion) also says the government will prohibit the free exercise of religion.

JRH 1/31/10