Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Prior to the election of Barack Obama to his first term as president, I had heard of Obama’s close relationship with the ideas of Saul Alinsky. Alinsky was a community organizer (sound familiar?) who had written several books. I was intrigued by the title of one book in particular, “Rules for Radicals.” So I went to our local library and checked it out. My first surprise was that the book is dedicated to Lucifer the devil. As I read I discovered that Alinsky had eight tenets for changing a democracy to a socialist or communist society. Note the steps:

1) Healthcare. Control healthcare and you control the people.

2) Poverty. Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if the government is providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt. Increase the national debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control. Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state – total local control.

5) Welfare. Take control of every aspect of their lives (food, livestock, housing, and income).

6) Education. Take control of what people read and listen to; take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion. Remove faith in God from the government and schools.

8) Class warfare. Divide the people into the wealthy against the poor. Racially divide. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with full support of the voting poor.

Do you recognize any of the above in what has taken place over the last eight years? l do.

Furthermore, Hillary Clinton subscribes to the same philosophy as Barack Obama and traceable to Saul Alinsky. In fact, she wrote her final thesis in college on Saul Alinsky. So what we might expect, if she is elected president, is more of the same.

Dee Zanders, Malvern