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We must expose the WTOS, they're a threat

Listener: Lu
Category: Law Enforcement by Camera
Date: 22 Sep 2007
Time: 20:22:08 -0700
Remote Name: 70.238.205.143

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Mr. Pratt,

It is time that we expose the WTOS (the industrial areas foundation founded by Sol Alinsky) because they are threatening some members of our City Council over the bus fares increase and the name change of Canyon Lakes Drive to Cesar Chavez . Todd Klein has been threatened with a recall.

It is time the Protestant churches who have accepted this Marxist garbage extract this organization from their church. Protestants can hire and fire their Pastors , Bishops, Elders, and Boards. The Catholic churches unfortunately cannot hire and fire their clergy. The only thing that they can do is not contribute to the Sunday collection, or Bishops Campaign for Human Development.

Please keep exposing the WTOS as you did a couple of weeks ago when you had a caller named Cathy, who was very knowledgeable in this area.

Please consider having her as a guest on your show, as I would like to hear more on this subject.

Thank you,
Lu Ann Collins

Pratt responds:

West Texas Organizing Strategies is formally affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation inspired by Saul Alinsky. Here is an example of what an admirer writes about Alinksy's book Rules for Radicals:

Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky's third book, though written with a 60s slang that now seems a bit dated, brilliantly sets out the basic concepts of organizing for power. Alinsky does this with engaging, often humorous, and too often self promoting anecdotes drawn from his many experiences as an organizer in American cities including Chicago, Illinois and Rochester, New York. In the process of explaining how an organizer thinks and acts, Alinsky also reveals many of the issues and problems that confronted America during this era -- and still confront us today.

The books mission is to show the well-intentioned but often misguided activists of the 60s and 70s that the best chance of making a difference in our American society lies not in the anti-Establishment counter-culture Movement nor in the destructive and alienating protests embraced by many campus radicals of the day. Instead, Rules for Radicals presents a guidebook on how to practically go about confronting and changing powerful institutions and individuals with well organized action.

Insofar as this book inspired and still inspires many earnest organizers to pursue their work, Alinsky's mission was successful. The longevity of the national organization that Alinsky founded, the Industrial Areas Foundation, and the dozens of urban organizations now affiliated with it is further testimony to the significance of this mission.

Below are a few links to learn more about this group. They appear to be dedicated toward overturning America's social order to fit ill-defined visions of the disaffected. These ideas tend to be inspired by Marxist-analysis Liberation Theologies, third-way socialism, and other "ism" which have no track record of success or the promotion human Liberty.

Comes from this site: http://www.catholiccitizens.org/printer/article.asp?c=8423
"The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is an annual collection taken up in Catholic parishes around the United States. Over one third of their grants go to Alinsky-styled political organizations. The largest are the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), Pacific Institute for Community Organizing (PICO), Direct Action and Research Training Institute (DART), Gamaliel, and ACORN.

"These so-called community organizations DO NOT provide direct services to relieve the suffering of the poor, nor do they provide economic development grants for the poor. Rather, they organize institutions - particularly in and around churches - to fight for political power."

Though the IAF attempts to say they are not "non-ideological and non-partisan" when they do so they are practicing the Great Lie. For example, from their own website:

"One new reality is the living wage movement in the United States. The first living wage bill was conceived, designed, and implemented by the IAF affiliate in Baltimore in 1994. The second bill was the work of the IAF affiliates in New York City in 1996. Since then, IAF affiliates in Texas, Arizona, and elsewhere have passed living wage legislation."

The "living wage" is hardly non-ideological and is an anti-free market, anti-capitalist movement attempting to create a socialist economic system in the United States. The group is inherently anti-free markets and anti-capitalist as there entire reason to exist is to organize people to fight "organized money."

• See how the IAF began and uses churches as its organizing base.
• The Hillary Clinton link to Saul Alinsky, more
• Take a look at the IAF's own recommended reading list here
• "Individualism and morally divided leadership fragment our country" a quote directly from the purpose of the Center for Public Justice - affiliated with the IAF through San Antonio activist Ernie Cortez (Cortez is, or has served as head of the IAF Texas)
• Industrial Areas Foundation was behind the "Citizenship USA" plan to legalize 1 million aliens
• What is the IAF from the liberal Austin Chronicle
• The next IAF target: Organizing Muslims in America
• Conversations with the IAF (pdf) from USD - They believe themselves to be the last hope for Democracy through Collectivism (sounds quite similar to the arguments made throughout the world for Communism.)
• A United Methodist pastor praising the IAF
• Saul Alinsky's Legacy Inspires Pastors in Sacramento

Alinksy and IAF are about gaining power through organizing people which in and of itself is not bad. The problem is that many of the things they want to do with the power gained are anti-Liberty, anti-free markets and supportive of elements of socialism. One writer strikes at the core of what the IAF, and WTOS, stands for and it demonstrates to the thinking person why we cannot debate them - we cannot trust any thing they say or proclaim as they believe the end justifies the means. Thus anything they say or do, just as Lenin taught, can be a complete lie merely to achieve an end they find desirable.

"Alinsky had a true genius for formulating tactical battle plans for the radical left. He wrote two books outlining his organizational principles and strategies: "Reveille for Radicals" (1946) and "Rules for Radicals" (1971).

"Rules for Radicals" begins with an unusual tribute: "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."

"The devil challenged authority and got his own kingdom, and that goes to the heart of what left is really about. That of course is to get power any way you can, including lying, cheating and stealing. The ultimate rule is that the ends justify the means."

Another writer provides this bit of information:

"Here are eight of Alinsky's 13 Rules for Radicals. They take advantage of the patterns of weakness, arrogance, repeated mistakes, and miscalculations large organizations and their leadership make:

1. Power is not only what you have, but what the target thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the expertise of your people. Feeling secure stiffens the backbone.
3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the target. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty.
4. Make the target live up to its own book of rules. If the rule is that every letter or E-mail gets a reply, send thousands.
5. Ridicule, especially against organizational leaders, is a potent weapon. There's no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force concessions.
6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They'll even suggest better ones.
7. Keep the pressure on. Never let up. Keep trying new tactics to keep the opposition off balance. As the target masters one approach, hit them with something new.
8. Pick the target. Target an individual, personalize the attack, polarize and demoralize his/her supporters. Go after people, not institutions. Hurting, harassing, and humiliating individuals, especially leaders, causes more rapid organizational change.

"This sampling of Alinsky's rules illustrates why opposition groups enjoy opposing and why corporations and institutions fail to win. Simply put, large organizations are never as committed to victory as their opposition is committed to defeating them. There are few surprises here, just unprepared organizations."

As I stated above, it is not the organizing strategies that are bad in and of themselves. Alinsky was right on target with many of his methods and they do work. However, the problem is that these strategies are being used by the WTOS / IAF to achieve ends to which they will rarely admit but are clearly socialist in nature and punitive to those who choose to act as individuals and achieve success in our culture. They, just like the Marxist-Leninist-Communists, are all about the "group" over the individual. In my mind this is antithetical to everything the great American experiment in Liberty and self-government stands for.