Yesterday I wrote about the comments Hoffa made at the rally where Obama spoke to union members. Today I read about comments that Hoffa made after his speech where he stated: “We didn’t start this war – the right wing did. My comments on Labor Day in Detroit echo the anger and frustration of American workers who are under attack by corporate-funded politicians who want to destroy the middle class,” Hoffa said. “We’re tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it’s about jobs and it’s about rebuilding America. As I said yesterday in Detroit, we all have to vote in order to take these anti-worker politicians out of office.” Read more of the story here.
In the book Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky he writes: " Enter the labor organizer or the agitator. He begins his “trouble making” by stirring up these angers, frustrations, and resentments, and highlighting specific issues or grievances that heighten controversy. He dramatizes the injustices by describing conditions at other industrial plants engaged in the same kind of work where the workers are far better off economically and have better working conditions, job security, health benefits, and pensions as well as other advantages that had not even been thought of by the workers he is trying to organize."
He also writes: "The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community: fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act."
In the book he has 11 rules listed pertaining to the ethics of means and ends. His 3rd rule is "that in war the end justifies almost any means." Now is the unions stirring up trouble, well, you be the judge. Obama has made no comments on the remarks Hoffa made.
Back on January 12, 2011, Obama gave a eulogy for the shooting victims in Tuscon, Arizona where Gabriell Giffords was shot. In that eulogy Obama made the statement: " Only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation." See the video here.
Why isn't Obama speaking out against Hoffa's remarks? Could it be that civil unrest is what he is hoping for? Is it a political maneuver? Will he speak up when the "U.S. day of rage occurs on September 17,2011? What day of rage? According to their website "The American Revolution is alive and well. It's a group of non-violent citizen nobodies who believe in the radical notion that Americans have a right to freedom of speech and the right to peaceable assembly, in deed the right to engage in politics through free and fair elections unsullied by disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful special interests that are destroying our democratic republic and preying on the resources and spirits of citizens." The date for this day of rage is September 17,2011. Read more about it here.
The website calls for non- violence, but, if you watch this video, you will see the truth of what the "Day of rage" is all about. To say the least it does not in any way promote non-violence. They call for a "Tahrir moment." Let's not forget the death and destruction that this moment caused in Egypt.
Now there is an online game that promotes the killing of "Tea Party Zombies." According to the reports: "A New York-based video game developer has set his virtual crosshairs on Republican and conservative political figures in a game called "Tea Party Zombies Must Die," which allows players to indiscriminately slaughter politicians like Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin."
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