Making a prediction for the "State of the Union" Address.

No, I am not trying to foretell the future, or pretend I am some kind of prophet.  But with a little knowledge and historical facts I can predict what obama will be talking about tomorrow night at his state of the union address.

In 1971, a man by the name of Saul Alinsky wrote a book entitled "Rules for Radicals."  In it he describes how to overthrow a current form of government and replace it with a different one.  The book consists of 13 “Rules” for acquiring power and keeping it. They are the following:

1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."

2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.

3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

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."

5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."

7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time...."

8. "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."

9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."

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."

11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."

12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'...

"...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'

"One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other." (pps.127-134)

I know that this is a lot of information to absorb at one time, so I plan on taking more time in future blogs to point out how these “Rules for Radicals” are in play in politics today. Suffice it to say that you need to keep an eye on rule #13. Obama's targets will be, but not limited to, banks, investors, health insurance providers, and “wall street.” He will blame everything negative that has happened in the last year on them and on his predecessor, George W. Bush. Using rule #2 obama will use our struggle to keep our financial heads above water as the ammunition to attack these entities and to make you think that he is on your side. Don't believe it people. Again I will do future blogs about why obama is doing this but it is plainly obvious that obama would rather have an economic system of socialism/fascism instead of the capitalist system we have in place today. If you think that I am way off base then know that obama was taught by people who where protegees of Alinsky, and that even his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, wrote her political thesis on Alinsky's writings.

-E.I. Pando

"Rules for Radicals" at Amazon.com