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Comment by Jennifer Groves on January 26, 2012 at 12:28pm

I'm promoting no shari'a in the U.S.

Conservatives are the ones who also work--we are not the OWS crowd. I don't believe it's either healthy or helpful to spend too much time online regardless of what sites ppl are visiting. I also don't promote any particular candidates. Remember, not everyone has the same set of values or the same priorities--what bothers me about Paul may not bother you.

My issue is with those who claim to understand a subject enough that they want to argue about it, yet never read the original sources. I'm not happy about the Federal Reserve, for instance, but I know I haven't spent time researching its history and I don't have any interest in doing so. Because I know I don't have a lot of background in FR issues, I don't engage in arguing them one way or the other, and I don't expect everyone to adopt my views on it.

I'll never look at every link or video posted on this site. I do my own research and have no desire to be dragged into what each individual sees as the priority issue. Clearly we all have different priorities. Doesn't mean we can't all support the same mission statement.

We have to choose our battles, and choose wisely.

Comment by albaby on January 26, 2012 at 11:26am

 Here's a neat summary of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"  It shows what the TP is up against and I don't think it can be fought with honey. I think the TP should look at it closely. I understand some TP groups are adopting the tactics. This was taken from another forum.

Alinsky Rules For Radicals
Rules for Power Tactics:

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Because Alinsky was sensitive to criticism that he wasn't ethical, he also included a set of rules for the ethics of power tactics. You can see from these why his ethics were so frequently questioned.

Rules to test whether power tactics are ethical:

1. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
2. The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political position of those sitting in judgment.
3. In war the end justifies almost any means.
4. Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
5. Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and vice versa.
6. The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to engage in ethical evaluations of means.
7. Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
8. The morality of means depends upon whether the means is being employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
9. Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition to be unethical.
10. You do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral garments.
11. Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and Peace

Comment by albaby on January 26, 2012 at 11:19am

Oh Ha Ha, Ray, that was hilarious.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/3616/breaking-ron-paul-falls-in-l...

Comment by Brett Pepper on January 26, 2012 at 11:13am

sorry, I'm chewing on sour grapes right now....I never said I refused to read the Qur'an and hadith. I'm busy trying to save our bill of rights and constitution by promoting Dr. Ron Paul's ideas about freedom, liberty and sound money. We have a primary coming up on the 28th of  Feb and I'm trying to inform voters on issues. What are you promoting...Jennifer? What did you think of Money Masters? Or did YOU REFUSE to watch it...just sayin.

Comment by Jennifer Groves on January 26, 2012 at 10:52am

Brett, the Qur'an and hadith ARE history books and it's clear you refuse to read them. Which makes me question how much research you are willing to do yourself and what sources you use. Not saying you're necessarily wrong on the other issues, but you really have not bothered to look into Islam at all.

FYI--Islam is NOT a race. Never has been, never will be. Ever wonder where you are getting your info from?

That lie has been on the lips of the MB since the 1960s. The MB is not a reliable source on Islam. They have their own agenda.

Comment by Brett Pepper on January 26, 2012 at 8:44am

This site is hopeless....Go put on your 3-pointed hat and march around demanding more war, more torture, more bailouts, more fed printing of money, more racisim against muslims, more military industrial complex, more drones, more loss of civil liberties, more unconstitutional government...it goes on and on and on....COMPLETELY HOPELESS.

 

It's going to take a complete collapse for some of you folks to finally wake up...Don't worry your going to get the collapse...it's coming. And it won' t be because the muslims are going to get us. It will be because we spent ourselves into oblivion just like all the other empires before us. For god's sake pick up a history book and stop watching Fox News. Your like sheep being led to the slaughter and your loving every minute of it.

Comment by Ray Kirkus on January 26, 2012 at 8:06am

Breaking News.. Paul changes views on foreign policy!

http://www.policymic.com/articles/3616/breaking-ron-paul-falls-in-l...

Comment by albaby on January 25, 2012 at 6:49pm

Sherry, what assignments are not filled? 

Comment by albaby on January 25, 2012 at 6:43pm

Help! The crazy paranoids are after me!

Comment by albaby on January 25, 2012 at 6:43pm

Oh no! Not again!

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/25/apollo-16-astronauts-foun...

But wait! As is typical of any pseudoscience, when reality doesn't fit the far-out claims, true believers turn to paranoid allegations of government cover-ups, monolithic global conspiracies and media censorship.

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