Fightback by Alinsky Techniques

Useful Websites

• http://paulaustinmurphy2000.blogspot.co.uk/
• http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp

The MIQASHUD
The Left demand Muslim-only swimming pools and shout 'Islamophobe!' at anyone who objects, but remain silent at all the abuse, persecution and genocide against the victim groups we try to protect here.

• M: (Islamic) Moderates (like Inayat Bunglawala)
• I: Islamists (Fundamentalists) (like Abu Qatada)
• Q: Quisling Opportunists (like Ken Livingstone or George Galloway)
• A: Appeasers (like Archbishop Rowen Williams)
• S: Self-centred hedonists and materialists (like Victoria Beckham)
• H: Hopeless - disillusioned former fighters that have given up
• U: Utopianists (like Prince Charles)
• D: Distracted - constantly distracted by pulp TV and Social Media, so never able to even ask the question

Alinsky's 12 Rules for Radicals

• Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have
  Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.  (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
• Never go outside the expertise of your people
  It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.  (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
• Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy
  Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.  (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
• Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules
  If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.  (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
• Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon
  There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.  (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
• A good tactic is one your people enjoy
  They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
• A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag
  Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
• Keep the pressure on. Never let up
  Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.  (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
• The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself
  Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
  (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
• If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive
  Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
• The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative
  Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it
  Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

With thanks to Glenn Beck for the comments.

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Anything you do, however small, that isn’t controlled by the government, is a revolutionary act - Pat McCran