As I was sleeping last night, I began to think about what a “Community Organizer”(CO) is. I know, I’m weird, why on earth would I wonder such a thing and why in the world would I even care enough to wake up at 3 in the morning thinking about it? Common sense would tell me that a “Community Organizer’ is a person who organizes the community to do stuff, duh, but it seems that there may be more to it than it‘s obvious connotation.
We are being told, on a daily basis, that this is a very important job, which endows it’s practitioners with that oh so necessary executive experience that is the prerequisite to assume the office of President of the United States. But the question that still has me puzzled is, what in the name of Fred is a “Community Organizer“? Well, here I sit in the wee hours of the blessed AM researching the subject, and what an eye opener it is. First of all, it is not such a magnanimous position, born out of the sole desire to improve the lives of our fellow men, it actually has an ulterior motive that we all need to be aware of. That motivation is the propagation of socialist ideas aimed at the destruction of the foundation that this nation was built upon.
With a statement like that, a little history of the movement may be in order here.
While many in the CO movement would like to include the American Revolution as one of their triumphs, I disagree so I will begin with the actual emergence of the movement as it morphed into the organization it is today. During the industrial revolution from the late 1800’s to the middle of the 20th century, living conditions were abysmal ,to say the least, for Americans who lived in the industrial centers of the nation. During this tumultuous period of change from a placid agrarian society to an industrial juggernaut, there was a huge push, world wide, to reclaim the independence lost to the large corporations that wielded such a considerable influence on the daily lives of the people who made the cogs of capitalism turn.
In America, trades unions were formed and blood was shed to secure the rights of the worker to be treated fairly. In Europe, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia and the fascist movements began to sweep Germany and it’s surrounding neighbors. After the defeat of fascism during World War II and the ensuing prosperity that followed, more and more people were moving off of the farm, drawn by the better lifestyle that being a member of the industrial workforce promised. However, the seeds of socialism and anarchy had been planted and began to take root within the CO movement.
Under the leadership of Dorothy Day, an American journalist turned anarchist, social activist and a devout member of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Worker Movement was established which organized workers and tended to the social needs of the improvised downtrodden masses in depression era New York. Her work helped establish many communal farms designed to provide for poor people to live on and share their existence with one another. Over 100 of these communes are still in existence today and Dorothy Day was declared a Servant of God by Pope John Paul II and her case has been opened up to be considered for canonization as a saint.
Saul Alinsky, a Chicago Marxist, actually originated the term "community organizer". Alinksy is the author of two books, "Rules for Radicals," and "Reveille for Radicals." "Rules" was published in 1971, has been the bible of the radical CO movement since the 1970s. In his Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing,
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default.."
In his dedication to his own book, Rules for Radicals Alinsky stated:
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."
Alinsky is often credited with laying the foundation for the grassroots political organizing that dominated the 1960s. The American Civil Rights Movement, the Global Warming (Green) movement, the anti-war movements, the Chicano, Feminist and Gay Rights movements all influenced and were influenced by the ideas of Community Organization. Famous community organizers include: Jane Addams, César Chávez, Samuel Gompers, Martin Luther King, Jr., John L. Lewis, Ralph Nader, Barack Obama and Paul Wellstone.
Alinsky was the subject of Hillary Rodham’s senior honors thesis at Wellesley College, “There Is Only The Fight…”, An Analysis of the Alinsky Model. In her 2003 biography, Living History, Clinton notes that although she agreed with some of his ideas, "particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves" they had a fundamental disagreement: "He believed you could change the system only from the outside. I didn't." Once Hillary Rodham Clinton became First Lady, the White House asked Wellesley College to restrict access to the thesis for fear of being associated too closely with Alinsky's ideas.
Thirteen years after Alinsky died, some of his former students hired Barack Obama for a $13,000 a year job as a community organizer in South Chicago. In a few years he became very proficient in the Alinsky Method of community organizing and became an instructor and teacher of the Alinsky Method to other community organizers. When several speakers at the 2008 Republican National Convention questioned the value of Obama’s CO service, the main stream media was quick to come to his aid with scathing rebukes of the “insensitive remarks“.
So, my conclusion about CO Movement is that it is an attempt by socialists, currently championed by Barack Obama, to dismantle the fabric of Judeo-Christian values which this nation was built upon and replace it with a system that has been dedicated to the “first radical“, Lucifer.
My friends, we are in a war. It is a war of the principalities of the air, a battle between righteousness and evil. To allow this movement to gain complete control of our Government will have grave consequences for our Nation. I fear that we will see our Constitutional Rights shredded as the new American Politburo takes it's place on Capitol Hill.
I, for one don’t think we can afford to enter into a partnership with a movement dedicated to Lucifer. I don’t care how slick the front man is packaged. I am not impressed with the fear mongering and class envy tactics they employ. We cannot allow this evil to come into our Halls of Democracy, we need to take a stand this November and rebut their attempt to destroy what our forefathers built with the sweat of their brow and the blood of their hearts.
If you are as concerned about this issue as I am, I ask you to join hands with us in this battle against evil. This is the year that your vote really counts... but that's just my two pennies.
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