Trickle Down Tyranny

by Michael Savage

  What’s going to happen if we let the administration and the union thugs continue to cause chaos in the streets of America as we move toward the election of 2012?

  Let me make it clear to you just how high the stakes are in this fight.

  We’ve been asking “Where are the moderate Muslims?” Now we have to ask, “Where are the moderate labor union members?” Moderate labor union members—like moderate Muslims—are too intimidated to speak out against the unions’ policies of protecting bad teachers through tenure laws. Teachers know what will happen if they speak out against thuggish behavior of unions, just as Muslims know what will happen if they speak out against radical Islam.

  As I see it, the Obama administration is raising the level of the rhetoric and intimidation to incite the people, to encourage them to take part in mob warfare that requires that the administration step in, possibly to declare martial law.

  The parallels to the Nazis’ rise to power are ominous. What’s happening with Obama and his radical accomplices—especially the labor unions—is very similar to what Hitler’s Brownshirts did as the Nazis rose to power.

  They don’t stop there, though. The out-of-control spending, runaway inflation, communist thugs inciting the people—these all echo what was happening in Germany in the 1930s.

  I can’t see Obama letting this crisis, which his own government has created, go to waste.

  I’m convinced we’re witnessing, for the first time in our history, a president of the United States take a page from the Nazi playbook as he tries desperately to consolidate his power.

  The Tea Party is one of Obama’s prime targets. I am sure that the Tea Party has already been infiltrated by leftists who will pretend to be Tea Party members and speak out as if they are, saying racist and violent things in the name of the Tea Party to give the administration a reason to step in and shut the Tea Party down. Tea Party members—and other conservatives who see the dangers of this administration—must take extreme care not to react to the insults and challenges that are hurled at them by Obama and his leftist cohorts.

  It’s one of the tactics developed by the godfather of the community organizing in America, Saul Alinsky. Barack Obama and many of his closest advisors—including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and presidential advisors David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel—are Alinsky disciples. Obama himself cut his teeth as a community organizer in Alinsky’s hometown.

  I want to make you aware of what this background means for those of us Obama is trying to subjugate.

  Rules for Radicals

  The president and his advisors and labor union leaders are disciples of Chicago-born Saul Alinsky. Alinsky was a career leftist political agitator. He literally wrote the book on how to be an effective community organizer: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. The first thing you notice when you open the book is that it’s dedicated to the devil: “[T]he first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.”

  Alinsky’s earned his nickname—the father of community organizing—during a nearly 40-year career going around the country and stirring up “the masses” against their capitalist oppressors. He was the ideological father of Barack Obama, the community organizer we elected president. Obama spent time in that role in Chicago on Alinsky initiatives like Project Vote and the Developing Communities Project.29 Here’s what he said about the experience: It was “the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard.”30

  Obama isn’t the only one in his administration who cut his teeth on Alinsky’s radical teachings.

  The key figure in the administration’s push to bring America under leftist rule is senior advisor David Axelrod. Axelrod was mentored by Alinsky disciple David S. Canter. Canter founded the Chicago-based leftist journal Hyde Park Kenwood Voices and “helped educate [Axelrod] politically.”31 When leftists use the word “educate” they mean “indoctrinate.” A piece about Axelrod in the Chicago Tribune had this to say: “[I]n his early years as a political consultant, Axelrod, following in the footsteps of his mentor, the political strategist Don Rose, carved out a reputation for himself as a skillful specialist working for local progressive candidates.”32 Rose was a member of a Communist Party front organization called the Alliance to End Repression.

  Axelrod’s parents were leftists, too. His mother, Myril Axelrod, was a journalist who worked for the commie tabloid newspaper PM in the 1940s. The journal was aggressively pro-communist and boasted among its writers communist sympathizer I. F. Stone, as well as a former editor of the communist periodical Daily Worker and a leader of the Communist Youth League.

  Axelrod never tried to hide his communist sympathies. In an interview in which he explained that it might be necessary to keep the Bush tax cuts for the rich in order to extend them to the poor and middle class, Axelrod said, “We have to deal with the world as we find it, the world of what it takes to get this done.”

  Axelrod was quoting directly from Rules for Radicals.33

  Rules for Radicals lays out Alinsky’s strategy for promoting class warfare—the same thing Obama did when he toured the country promoting his 2011 “jobs” bill and trying to sell his “tax the rich” strategy. Alinsky’s intention was nothing short of ending capitalism. In an interview he gave just before his death in 1972, Alinsky described our government as “American fascism.” What is the only alternative? “Radical social change.”34

  In his 2008 speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Obama put forward his version of this Alinsky mantra: “Change we can believe in.”

  Alinsky and Obama both had the same outcomes in mind.

  Obama and Axelrod aren’t the only Alinsky followers in the administration. Hillary Clinton’s senior honors thesis at Wellesley College was titled “THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT—An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” Clinton’s thesis was finally been made public against her wishes.

  From the 1940s through the late ’60s, Alinsky traveled the country staging sit-ins and other types of demonstrations, as well as boycotts. He worked to organize urban neighborhoods by politicizing their residents and getting them to unite against the “enemy.” During that time, Alinsky carried a business card that said “Have trouble, will travel.”35

  Here’s the most important thing you need to know about Alinsky: He put the political philosophy of the Obama administration down on paper.

  First, Alinsky likened leftist radicals like himself to the people who stood up against Hitler in World War II. The “haves” that he was trying to overthrow were the equivalent of the Nazis. The “haves” still are Nazis for the Obama administration.

  Alinsky advocated using minorities to expand the power of the left. Like Obama, he didn’t care at all about making minorities’ lives better, only about gaining power. Like all leftists—Obama included—Alinsky saw people not as individuals but as members of racial or ethnic groups.

  Alinsky defined his agenda based on two things: “power” and “compromise.” In his words, “Every organization known to man, from government down, has had only one reason for being—that is, organization for power in order to put into practice or promote its common purpose.”36 Alinsky’s intent was “to organize for power: how to get it and how to use it.”37

  If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s exactly what Obama bases his political philosophy on. The ends justify the means if the ends are achieving power.

  During the health-care “debate,” without a single Republican vote, against the will of the American people who protested in town hall meetings through the summer of 2009, and through a series of payoffs of hesitant Democrats in order to get even the Democratic votes needed for passage, the Obama administration defined itself as willing to engage in any behavior in order to achieve its ends.

  It’s classic Alinsky.

  Another Alinsky principle: If you lose power, as Democrats did in the 2010 elections, compromise: “[T]o t
he organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. . . . If you start with nothing, demand 100 per cent, then compromise for 30 per cent, you’re 30 per cent ahead.”38

  Radical Islamists have been paying attention to the Alinsky playbook, too. To them Americans’ sense of right and wrong is a sign of weakness. Taking advantage of the West’s sense of “fairness,” Islamists in the Netherlands have managed to get the government to require that the name of Christ be spelled with a lowercase c because Christianity is offensive to Muslims. In Britain, images of Winnie the Pooh have been banned so that Muslims don’t have to deal with pictures of a pig, which would be offensive to their sensibilities.39 The practice of demanding that democracies bow to the will of the true enemies of freedom is an Alinsky tactic that every antidemocratic group from radical Islamists to the ACLU to the Obama administration takes advantage of at every turn.

  Alinsky used personal attacks as another powerful weapon. The last of the 13 rules he laid down in Rules for Radicals is this: “Pick the target. Freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” He explained that “[r]idicule is man’s most potent weapon.” The leftist media’s vicious attack on Sarah Palin and their attempts to blame the murderous Tucson rampage by madman Jared Loughner on conservative hate speech represent Alinsky’s tactics at their ugliest and lowest.

  I should know. Chris Matthews, the leftist host of MSNBC’s Hardball, blamed me for creating a climate of hate that led to Loughner’s shooting spree, saying, “People like Michael Savage, for instance, who every time you listen to them are furious, furious at the left, with anger that just builds and builds in their voice . . . every night with ugly talk, ugly sounding talk.”40

  Alinsky’s tactics are so much a part of leftist thinking that they’ve become second nature. Alinsky defined and put into practice every one of the principles and tactics that are in use by the Obama administration in America today. In his days as a “community organizer” Obama absorbed much of Alinsky’s teachings. He’s said so himself. As president, he’s putting Alinsky’s tactics into practice.

  We’re living under a government headed and run by vermin who see America as the enemy.

  Don’t believe me?

  Here’s how Alinsky’s son explained how the Obama team put his father’s teachings into practice at the 2008 Democratic National Convention:

  All the elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situation and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd’s chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people. . . . The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. . . . Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.41

  It was Alinsky who taught his followers to “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Those were the same words used by Obama’s then Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

  The Obama administration takes his advice.

  They used the underwear bomber crisis to make every airline passenger submit to invasive and dangerous X-rays or pat-downs every time they fly. It’s another incursion on our rights and our privacy that marks a further step toward this administration’s using a crisis, even a manufactured one, in order to advance its agenda of total control.

  The United States is fast becoming Alinsky’s America, with labor unions and crony capitalists and race- and agenda-based groups of thugs of every sort vying for a piece of the action.

  The Obama administration exists for one purpose only: to amass the power to push through its dictatorial agenda and gain control for a group of blue-collar union bosses and white-collar financial industry cohorts who have ingratiated themselves with the president. And he owes it all to Saul Alinsky and the new generation of subversive community organizers and activists and radical leftist Democrats.

  Rules for Beating Radicals

  Here’s some advice for you as you watch this battle unfold.

  Never believe a word that comes out of a Democrat’s mouth. Lying is their standard mode of operation, and they’re not about to change now. They can’t let us hear what they really believe, because most Americans would immediately call for their arrest on the grounds that what they say constitutes criminal activity.

  Never negotiate with a leftist Democrat. There’s no such thing as “good faith” where leftist liberals are concerned. I know. I’ve been there. I’m banned from entering Britain for being a passionate nationalist by corrupt British leftists of the same type as now preside in America. We’ve seen during the first two years of the Obama administration how the left operates when they have control over both houses of Congress and the executive branch. When we take back the presidency and the Senate in 2012, we’ve got to remember that our first job is not to work with Democrats and give them a chance to continue to influence America’s future, but to do anything we must to begin to undo the damage they’ve caused.

  Never compromise with a Democrat. As I’ve explained, for those on the left, any compromise is a victory. For real Americans, any compromise with the left is a loss. To allow even the smallest component of the leftist agenda to be considered legitimate is to grant a foothold that you may never be able to recover. When Democrats uses the word compromise, they mean that their enemies have given in.

  Attack Democrats before they attack you. Democrats like our president have no core principles except the lust for power. Following Alinsky, they say, “Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules.” Because those on the left are unprincipled but will nonetheless attack you if you violate one of your own principles, it is important to call them out based on your principles and demand that they act in a principled manner.

  Obstruct Democrats at every opportunity. If a Democrat calls you an obstructionist, take it as a compliment. It’s the Democrats who are the true obstructionists; they’re the ones who stand in the way of individual Americans exercising their right to take care of themselves. They’re the ones who want to make every decision for us, to obstruct our right to live our lives as we see fit. They’re the ones who confiscate our money and squander it on an educational system that is nothing more than an excuse for teachers’ union members to live off the public while undermining through negligence and self-interest the lives of the very students they’re charged with educating.

  Use the left’s treatment of racial and ethnic minorities against them. Following Alinsky, the left uses minorities for only one reason: to help solidify its power. At the same time, it continues to work to make sure that minorities are held down. In fact, if minorities were to be given their freedom from Democratic oppression and encouraged to freely exercise their rights and bring their dreams into realization, the Democratic Party would simply disappear. It would have no group on whose shoulders it could climb to power.

  We’re in the fight of our lives for the survival of our nation. The policies of the left, including many Democrats now in positions of power in our government, are designed to do nothing less than eliminate the principles articulated in the U.S. Constitution as the foundation of our legal system by abrogating the rights of the individual and replacing them with the authority of the state to intrude into every aspect of our lives and determine how we must live, speak, and behave. What the Obama administration is attempting to do represents the most insidious abrogation of human rights in our nation’s history. We have to stand up against Obama and the people who want to Occupy the United States, before it is too late.

  Chapter 6

  Tyranny of Obama’s Corporate Cronies

  One of the things I have learned watching the Godfather movies is that every tyrant needs accomplices, a band of brothers to carry out his dark designs. Running a mafia is simply too big of a job for one man alone; even a talented type-A overachiever can’t do it by himself. Michael Corleone need
s his consigliere and his henchmen.

  So Barack Obama needs his merry band to run the alphabet soup of bureaucracies from the Agricultural Research Service to the Veterans Health Administration. And as president, he can appoint many of them. The president has the constitutional authority to appoint up to 3,000 senior government officials and put thousands more into positions like those of special envoys, special assistants, commissioners, task-force members, and members of other unelected bodies.

  Czars Belong in Russia

  Not that that was enough for Obama. In typical tyrannical fashion, the president immediately went beyond the bounds of the Constitution and started appointing czars, unvetted cronies chosen to do the left’s dirty work without congressional approval. He brought in more than 40 czars, with unpublished salaries and secret agendas.1

  I could write an entire book just about the often criminal and unconstitutional activities these guys engage in. They were appointed extralegally, and almost all of them are convinced that they’re above the laws that you and I have to obey.

  Take the case of Obama’s environment czar, Carol Browner. She claims to love the environment, but the only things she really loves are regulations that don’t apply to her. I did some checking into her background and I found something the major media wouldn’t dare to report. When she was nominated, but not yet confirmed as head of President Clinton’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), she wanted to cut down a 120-foot-tall oak tree in order to widen her driveway. But she lived in Takoma Park, Maryland, one of the most liberal bastions on the East Coast.

  Takoma Park has one of the toughest tree protection laws in the United States. Even putting a flagstone path near a tree can result in a $1,000-dollar fine, as Takoma Park residents S. Craig Alexander and Amy Wasserstrom learned in August 2009. While the fine was later reduced to $250 plus court fees and a scolding from the presiding judge, they got off lightly for their indiscretion. In fact, putting anything on the ground within 50 feet of a tree in Takoma Park requires a tree-impact statement.2 Cutting down trees is strictly forbidden.