Not just in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion too…
Wonder how this is going to impact Hillary’s campaign to become President???
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19734
Hillary Clinton’s political methods were founded on the theories of a 1960s radical about whom she wrote her college thesis in 1969. It may take a village to raise a child, but Clinton’s college thesis seems to say that the village politicos need an enemy to mobilize against.
She titled the paper, written to fulfill her Bachelor of Arts degree at Wellesley College, “There is Only the Fight.†It praises the work of radical activist Saul Alinsky, a man who epitomized a self-interested no-holds barred campaign style that Hillary has emulated in later years. Clinton’s savvy-but-ruthless politics, including the “politics of personal destruction†she so often condemns but more often practices, seem rooted in Alinsky’s famous rules for radicals.
One year after Hillary turned in her thesis, Time Magazine profiled Alinsky. Their assessment was much different than hers. It said, “In his [Alinsky’s] view, the end of achieving power justifies a range of means…If the occasion requires, Alinsky’s forces will not refrain from spreading rumors about an antagonist or indulging in something that comes very close to blackmail.â€
Young Hillary balked at Alinsky’s critics who said he was too extreme. In her college paper she professed, “Much of what Alinsky professes does not sound radical. His are the words used in our churches, by our parents and their friends, by our peers. The difference is that Alinsky really believes in them and recognizes the necessity of changing the present structures of our lives in order to realize them.†While she wrote, Hillary Rodham learned.
Doesn’t surprise me a bit. Virtually everyone on the left believes “There is Only the Fight.†When you believe that all social outcomes are merely the result of prevailing power, it makes perfect logical sense. If you believe that with sufficient political power we can avoid war, provide professional health care to all comers, eliminate poverty and violent crime, eliminate the results of the injustices of generations past, and save the planet…seriously, what else could one possibly believe?
yours/
peter
Pingback: postpolitical » Hillary’s Black Flag