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2020-10-28 Fifth Column

[AmGreatness] When, in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama’s career as a community organizer was lampooned at the Republican National Convention, few understood what the words meant. Most sympathetic voices in the media stressed "community," evoking images of soup kitchens, clinics, and shelters. Republicans had every reason to look more darkly at what this kind of work meant and, probably due to Obama’s race, were inclined to associate the candidate’s time "organizing" in Chicago with New York racial demagogues and shakedown-artists like Al Sharpton.

That description was closer to the mark, but the full truth was deeper and considerably more sophisticated; left-wing organizing is a robust intellectual universe. Thanks largely to talk radio, conservatives soon learned the name Saul Alinsky and began to digest his now-infamous Rules for Radicals.

After several brilliant investigative pieces into Obama’s time among left-wing organizing meccas like the Northwest Academy, Stanley Kurtz wrote the valuable Radical-in-Chief. Unfortunately, for much of the public, the thread frayed shortly after the election that November; emboldened by Democratic control of both houses of Congress, the newly elected Obama would use what he’d learned from Chicago activism to instigate and win battles on more pressing political issues.

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Posted by 746 2020-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 >In other words, forces arrayed against the president’s reelection should abandon the American political system—and pin their hopes of election victory not on the Constitution-mandated quest for the most electoral votes, but upon the street mobilization and direct-action capabilities of Antifa and the Left’s other professionally-staffed organizing groups.

I immediately saw a flash of the end of the movie "billion dollar Brain".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-28 05:46|| 2020-10-28 05:46|| Front Page Top

#2 So many names...so little ammo.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-10-28 13:24|| 2020-10-28 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 If the state authorities can't keep the peace then declare Martial law and invoke the Insurrection Act. Send in federalized National guard troops from neighboring states and try all those arrested under military tribunals.

Posted by Lumpy Slomoting3095 2020-10-28 14:44|| 2020-10-28 14:44|| Front Page Top

#4 If they're insurrectionists they become POWs not normal criminals (which may be extended to jurists who interfere in reestablishing order). There is no 72 hour rule in war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-28 14:59|| 2020-10-28 14:59|| Front Page Top

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