Goes To Twelve: Does "Western" Mean Ignorant?

Friday, August 10, 2007

Does "Western" Mean Ignorant?

GT12 has basically supportive feelings toward Bill Richardson but ...

Richardson Stumbles at Gay Rights Forum
"Underscoring the importance of gays and lesbians in Democratic politics, most of the party's presidential hopefuls gathered in Los Angeles on Thursday night for a televised forum on gay-rights issues," the Los Angeles Times reports.
"Six candidates participated. All were jockeying to firm up support among gay and lesbian voters, one of the party's more active and reliable voting blocs.
"However, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson "got caught up in the most tense moment of the evening when he was asked whether he believes people are born gay or whether it is a choice.
"Said Richardson: "It's a choice.""Richardson released a statement moments after the event, saying that he had misunderstood the question and that he does not believe people choose to be gay.
"USA Today notes the questioners, including singer Melissa Etheridge, "pulled no punches in trying to make the candidates feel their frustration over their inability to marry and other issues."

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Alinsky's Rules For Radicals

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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Friday, August 10, 2007

Does "Western" Mean Ignorant?

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