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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Erin Go Gay!

Anything to keep it out of NYC.

NYC council leader marches on St. Patrick's Day - in Dublin
March 17, 2007, 12:22 PM EDT
DUBLIN, Ireland -- New York Council Speaker Christine Quinn finally marched Saturday in a St. Patrick's Day parade _ and it took her just 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) to do it.
Quinn, the first openly homosexual leader of New York City Council, has boycotted the New York parade for years because of the organizers' refusal to let gays and lesbian groups march.
This year, she accepted an Irish government invitation to join the Dublin City Council contingent here _ and highlight the big differences between the parades in Ireland and New York.
"The fact I'm here in Dublin and able to march and participate in inclusive events should send a message of how backwards the New York parade is," said Quinn, who is the city's second-most powerful politician behind Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a likely 2009 mayoral candidate.
The New York parade has been bedeviled for years by chronic bickering between its conservative organizers, the Ancient Order of Hibernians fraternal group, and New York's legion of special interest groups, particularly gay and lesbian groups.

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Rule 1: 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.

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

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

Rule 4: 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.”

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

Rule 6: 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.”

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

Rule 8: 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.”

Rule 9: 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.

Rule 10: 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?”

Rule 11: 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.

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