Vitter's Attempt

Saul Alinsky-ACORN-Democrats

AXIS OF EVIL

Here's Louisiana Sen. David Vitter discussing his efforts to make ACORN open its books, and be held accountable.  That led me to Vitter's effort on the Senate floor to stop what eventually became a $5.2 Billion gift to ACORN, and Sen. Turban smacking down that amendment.  In the same breath last night, I received this. “ I don't know if you've seen this but it is a pretty good assessment of our looming peril.   DonM  Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist ” A juxtaposition waiting to happen, wot?  Excerpt from American Thinker “ "They fear that the development and building of People's (community) Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will seize leadership and control and turn an organization into a Frankenstein's monster against democracy."  - Saul Alinsky responding to his critics, Reveille for Radicals; p. 199 Dick Turban When Saul Alinsky began building his community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe.  It wasn't hard then to see in Alinsky's programs at home, elements of the people's revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same "in your face" tactics being employed by Hitler's Brownshirts. What Alinsky's critics saw was the burgeoning of a national movement, the carefully manipulated construction of people's organizations, which all had two elements in common:  (1) a collectivist creed, which denied the existence of personal responsibility; and (2) an amoral dogma, in which all means were justified by an imaginary utopian end. [continue reading]