Citizens For The Constitution is a group formed for Americans who value their Constitutional rights. We have seen our rights eroded over the years while our elected officials do what is in their best interest. We want to stand up for our rights and let our voices be heard before we lose the right to do so. We are forming a citizens protest at the National Mall in Washington DC on July 26th, 2009. This is a peaceful gathering to remind our elected officials of our nation’s core values.
Sounds like there are several groups like ours that are organizing this same concept.....now we just need to bring it all together.
Luke mentioned earlier about http://www.meetup.com I did a search at meetup.com and found several groups who are organizing similar events in washington.....starting to look good!
Be a Real blessing to ALL be able to work together on a common goal . A march on Washington .
So what kind of timelines are you all hearing ? Do any of them have permits yet ? Those are Biggies as you know .
Any way to get each of Their spokesman to con-call with us ? If yes , let us know , we'll set it up .
Going on a limb here , but , what would you all think about emailing everyone , posting everywhere , let the whole world know , for a con-call (I'll foot the bill) for feb. 11th 8pm est. ???
Thank's Dan . Glad to have your support . I am what you call Technologically Challenged . How would/does one go about the business of doing what you suggest ?? Sounds like a Great idea !
The Hidden Weapon of "Gun Control" Advocates Saul Alinsky Techniques Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy 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. This sort of deception works very well when dealing with suspicious people, and a lot of the DemLib left are very suspicious folks. If the suggestion of the existence of an underground armed resistance movement can be fostered, the DemLib left will react as if this were reality, rather than a carefully fostered deception. When they push the authorities into moving on the basis of this act, innocent folks will wind up caught in the gears, and the DemLibs will accomplish two things by overreaction. First, they will shake the faith of the people who are not of the Faithful, and will lose power. Second, they will polarize the unaligned gun owners. It is quite possible that they will push those gun owners into organizing, and will produce the very armed underground they sought to crush in the first place.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Training is the answer to coping with the lack of knowledge and experience in the people who are in favor of your cause. Workshops on dealing with these points, and classes in coping with hecklers who want to shout you down, practice and drill in verbal and physical self-defense, these are vital things in preparing inexperienced volunteers for their first experience in coping with the DemLib/MSM propaganda machine. A trained volunteer will profit from the experience of coping with the enemy.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat. What things does your DemLib opponent not know how to do? Look at the list, know thy enemy, and apply your resources accordingly.
Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its 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.” The DemLibs are in favor of some of the most extreme positions that exist. If one does not live like a stylite, if one drives anything except the least of the econoboxes, or drives anything at all, that DemLib isn't living up to the standard. That's why Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic Junketeers are vulnerable to lampooning on exactly this set of grounds. Pointing out the essential difference between the state in which they want us to live, and how they live themselves, is a good way to get them frothing at the mouth.
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counter-attack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. Collecting appropriate political caricature, or drawing same is a fine way to ridicule an opponent. Preventing one of the opposition's caricature artists from lampooning your candidates is a worthy undertaking. Since most of these are DemLibs to the core, the prevention of their work is not likely to be a matter of convincing them that they are wrong. Build a character profile of the artist, and find out what buttons will lead him onto neutral targets. Then push those buttons. The left-wing students of Austin, Texas made extensive use of the shaving cream pie, and its public application to conservative politicians a number of years ago. This kind of ridicule will even draw the slanted and biased media into giving coverage to a movement that they don't favor, because the public loves a good joke, and loves even more seeing the mighty humbled.
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.”
It is a matter of motivation and of keeping your people in good spirits. Organization into small teams, and getting those folks involved with each other's lives, is key to the whole process. Soldiers do not, as a rule, fight for the slogans, or the smoke-and-mirrors that the propaganda manipulators put in front of them. They do not fight for the flag, or for the medals. They fight for their buddies, their squad-mates. To the extent that the other members of the group are important, emotionally, to your people, to that extent will they exert themselves to achieve their goals.
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Allowing the cause to devolve into 'business as usual' will kill a movement faster than anything else. If a fervent spirit is allowed to be replaced by 'bean counter' rote activity, the movement will falter and die as the boredom destroys the social cohesion that is essential to the continued health and effectiveness of the fellowship, be it social, religious, or political. However, if you have a crew of the kind of rowdies that the old values tend to attract, they'll come up with some truly eye-popping stunts to keep themselves amused. And their wives will be worse.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose.
The gathering of like-minded people into a group demands a reaching out. The development of leadership demands trust. Organization of a truly effective political movement demands the organization of a cadre of folks who serve, who do not lead.
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.
The MSM, the Brady Bunch, and the NRA its own d**n self has used this as a basis to force us, the gun owners, into compromising away our rights since the National Firearms Act of 1934 was passed. Nobody wanted to be tarred with the "mobster" brush back then. So we gave away rights. Nobody wanted to be seen with a "Saturday Night Special", because we have a certain element of snobbery in the gun game, so the Gun Control Act of 1968 got passed, and again, we gave away rights. Now it is the "evil black assault rifles". If you doubt that NRA will sell out again, just look up Joachin Jackson's views, as a member of the NRA board. Then it is "sniper rifles" and handguns. It is our turn, folks, to present the DemLibs and their tame media with a credible threat. And it is time to repeal the GCA '68 and NFA '34. Otherwise, it is time to water the Tree.
Rule 10: "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
Most DemLibs are scofflaws at some level or another. The trick is to find out what laws they break, regularly, and make sure the local law enforcement busts them for their failings. With many, it is illegal drugs. And few things will destroy a public figure's credibility so thoroughly as a proven instance of this kind of offence, though the tame media has attempted to destroy this perception over the last three decades. Go after the individuals, and the movement will falter and fail.
Rule 11: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
(This one I'll leave for someone else to take a crack at.)
Rule 12: 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?”
Let's face it, folks. The DemLib agenda has not worked. The statistics show that where their methods have been tried, the murder rate is six times what it is 'out in flyover country'. That single bloody, deadly statistic can be used, over and over, to hand them their butts. You do not let them refute it, you do not let them shout you down, you hammer the point home again and again. "You take my gun, you make my chances of death go up six times. I think I'll keep my gun, and YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CHANGE!
Rule 13: 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.
Go after the individuals, and the movement will falter and fail.
One – Our common welfare should come first; recovery of our Constitutional Rights depends on Movement unity.
Two – For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
Three – The only requirement for membership in the Movement is a desire to recover our Constitutional Rights.
Four – Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or the Movement as a whole.
Five – Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the person who still suffers deprivation of rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Six – A movement group ought never endorse, finance or lend the Movement name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Seven – Every Movement group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Eight – The Movement should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
Nine – The Movement, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Ten – The Movement has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Movement's name ought never to be drawn into public controversy.
Eleven – Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
Twelve – Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
You wanted a framework, lads and lassies. Here is a starting point.
We are getting some good feedback from some other websites. People are emailing the CFTC email address asking what they can do to help.
ReplyDeleteSounds like there are several groups like ours that are organizing this same concept.....now we just need to bring it all together.
ReplyDeleteLuke mentioned earlier about http://www.meetup.com
I did a search at meetup.com and found several groups who are organizing similar events in washington.....starting to look good!
Be a Real blessing to ALL be able to work together on a common goal . A march on Washington .
ReplyDeleteSo what kind of timelines are you all hearing ? Do any of them have permits yet ? Those are Biggies as you know .
Any way to get each of Their spokesman to con-call with us ? If yes , let us know , we'll set it up .
Going on a limb here , but , what would you all think about emailing everyone , posting everywhere , let the whole world know , for a con-call (I'll foot the bill) for feb. 11th 8pm est. ???
If we book it , will they come ? ;)
Anyone have a different idea ?
A network on Ning.com could be started to bring everyone together. Once a network on Ning is started you form groups in the network.
ReplyDeleteThank's Dan . Glad to have your support . I am what you call Technologically Challenged . How would/does one go about the business of doing what you suggest ?? Sounds like a Great idea !
ReplyDeleteActually I setup a website at RestoreTheConstitutionOfTheUS.com
ReplyDeleteThe Hidden Weapon of "Gun Control" Advocates
ReplyDeleteSaul Alinsky Techniques
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy 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.
This sort of deception works very well when dealing with suspicious people, and a lot of the DemLib left are very suspicious folks. If the suggestion of the existence of an underground armed resistance movement can be fostered, the DemLib left will react as if this were reality, rather than a carefully fostered deception. When they push the authorities into moving on the basis of this act, innocent folks will wind up caught in the gears, and the DemLibs will accomplish two things by overreaction. First, they will shake the faith of the people who are not of the Faithful, and will lose power. Second, they will polarize the unaligned gun owners. It is quite possible that they will push those gun owners into organizing, and will produce the very armed underground they sought to crush in the first place.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Training is the answer to coping with the lack of knowledge and experience in the people who are in favor of your cause. Workshops on dealing with these points, and classes in coping with hecklers who want to shout you down, practice and drill in verbal and physical self-defense, these are vital things in preparing inexperienced volunteers for their first experience in coping with the DemLib/MSM propaganda machine. A trained volunteer will profit from the experience of coping with the enemy.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
What things does your DemLib opponent not know how to do? Look at the list, know thy enemy, and apply your resources accordingly.
Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to its 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.”
The DemLibs are in favor of some of the most extreme positions that exist. If one does not live like a stylite, if one drives anything except the least of the econoboxes, or drives anything at all, that DemLib isn't living up to the standard. That's why Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic Junketeers are vulnerable to lampooning on exactly this set of grounds. Pointing out the essential difference between the state in which they want us to live, and how they live themselves, is a good way to get them frothing at the mouth.
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counter-attack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Collecting appropriate political caricature, or drawing same is a fine way to ridicule an opponent. Preventing one of the opposition's caricature artists from lampooning your candidates is a worthy undertaking. Since most of these are DemLibs to the core, the prevention of their work is not likely to be a matter of convincing them that they are wrong. Build a character profile of the artist, and find out what buttons will lead him onto neutral targets. Then push those buttons.
The left-wing students of Austin, Texas made extensive use of the shaving cream pie, and its public application to conservative politicians a number of years ago. This kind of ridicule will even draw the slanted and biased media into giving coverage to a movement that they don't favor, because the public loves a good joke, and loves even more seeing the mighty humbled.
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.”
It is a matter of motivation and of keeping your people in good spirits. Organization into small teams, and getting those folks involved with each other's lives, is key to the whole process. Soldiers do not, as a rule, fight for the slogans, or the smoke-and-mirrors that the propaganda manipulators put in front of them. They do not fight for the flag, or for the medals. They fight for their buddies, their squad-mates. To the extent that the other members of the group are important, emotionally, to your people, to that extent will they exert themselves to achieve their goals.
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Allowing the cause to devolve into 'business as usual' will kill a movement faster than anything else. If a fervent spirit is allowed to be replaced by 'bean counter' rote activity, the movement will falter and die as the boredom destroys the social cohesion that is essential to the continued health and effectiveness of the fellowship, be it social, religious, or political.
However, if you have a crew of the kind of rowdies that the old values tend to attract, they'll come up with some truly eye-popping stunts to keep themselves amused. And their wives will be worse.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose.
The gathering of like-minded people into a group demands a reaching out. The development of leadership demands trust. Organization of a truly effective political movement demands the organization of a cadre of folks who serve, who do not lead.
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.
The MSM, the Brady Bunch, and the NRA its own d**n self has used this as a basis to force us, the gun owners, into compromising away our rights since the National Firearms Act of 1934 was passed. Nobody wanted to be tarred with the "mobster" brush back then. So we gave away rights. Nobody wanted to be seen with a "Saturday Night Special", because we have a certain element of snobbery in the gun game, so the Gun Control Act of 1968 got passed, and again, we gave away rights. Now it is the "evil black assault rifles". If you doubt that NRA will sell out again, just look up Joachin Jackson's views, as a member of the NRA board. Then it is "sniper rifles" and handguns. It is our turn, folks, to present the DemLibs and their tame media with a credible threat. And it is time to repeal the GCA '68 and NFA '34. Otherwise, it is time to water the Tree.
Rule 10: "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
Most DemLibs are scofflaws at some level or another. The trick is to find out what laws they break, regularly, and make sure the local law enforcement busts them for their failings. With many, it is illegal drugs. And few things will destroy a public figure's credibility so thoroughly as a proven instance of this kind of offence, though the tame media has attempted to destroy this perception over the last three decades. Go after the individuals, and the movement will falter and fail.
Rule 11: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
(This one I'll leave for someone else to take a crack at.)
Rule 12: 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?”
Let's face it, folks. The DemLib agenda has not worked. The statistics show that where their methods have been tried, the murder rate is six times what it is 'out in flyover country'. That single bloody, deadly statistic can be used, over and over, to hand them their butts. You do not let them refute it, you do not let them shout you down, you hammer the point home again and again. "You take my gun, you make my chances of death go up six times. I think I'll keep my gun, and YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CHANGE!
Rule 13: 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.
Go after the individuals, and the movement will falter and fail.
One – Our common welfare should come first; recovery of our Constitutional Rights depends on Movement unity.
Two – For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority – a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
Three – The only requirement for membership in the Movement is a desire to recover our Constitutional Rights.
Four – Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or the Movement as a whole.
Five – Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the person who still suffers deprivation of rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Six – A movement group ought never endorse, finance or lend the Movement name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Seven – Every Movement group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Eight – The Movement should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
Nine – The Movement, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Ten – The Movement has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Movement's name ought never to be drawn into public controversy.
Eleven – Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
Twelve – Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
You wanted a framework, lads and lassies. Here is a starting point.