RULES ARE MEANS TO ACHIEVE GOALS.

RULES ARE MEANS TO ACHIEVE GOALS. By Claudia Roazen
Machiavelli’s the Prince “end justifies the means”. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals “Does this particular end justify this particular means?”
“The goal and the means should equally be called into scrutiny and be required to answer to the same test of righteousness, intent and morality. The goal achieved or unachieved should of its own definition, be determined moral minded or corrupt, good or evil and to history famed or defamed. The means should equally be judged effective or not by its own definition, moral or savage, respectful or cruel and to history celebrated or abandoned.” Claudia Roazen

The power presently in place has purposefully outraged the haves against the have not’s and the Republicans against the Democrats and Middle Class Conservative voices against the Affluent Liberal Elite using the eleven rules of tactics of the Alinsky’s method. I will paraphrase Alinsky’s list of eleven rules below in his Rules for Radicals.
Rule 1 Power is the perception of power not the reality of power. Convince your opponents that you have power.
Rule 2 Keep your method, tactic and message within the boundaries of their comfort zone or risk losing their direct support by confusion, fear and retreat.
Rule 3 Do go out of the comfort zone of your opponent so that they become confused, fearful and retreat.
Rule 4 Hold them to their own rules and beliefs and expose their inability and failure as the weapon to diminish their position by hypocrisy.
Rule 5 Ridicule that hypocrisy and your opponent to incite their reaction. Ridicule and insults that are counterattacked debase the opponent or leave them silent.
Rule 6 Tactics must be fun, a sport and a game that thrills the supporters.
Rule 7 Change and refresh tactics before boredom sets in and your energetic supporters are less inspired.
Rule 8 Spread your tactics, extend your issues keep momentum and ratchet up greater pressure on your opponent to cause a reaction.
Rule 9 Never underestimate the power of threats, even a losing poker hand can be played to win the game and cause the other players to react by folding.
Rule 10 Be ready to offer a solution or Alternative and never be caught with a victory without a plan.
Rule 11Target tangible and specific people or things with a laser beam focus to stay unyielding and undistracted from your main target. Be marksmen and cite the bull’s eye, and ignore all else, focus the frame and gather all marksmen to the same bull’s eye.

These rules have been and continue to be employed in some form or another to the politics of the day whether knowingly or un-wittingly by political puppets and their political puppeteers. How then do those in the crosshairs react, survive, win the argument and defeat their agenda? I list below a partial list of rules I have been taught or have conjured and practiced in my life to try and stay of good character.
Rule 1 Be informed and be educated of the mindset, tactics, intent and ultimate goals of those wishing to align you or malign you. Ignore them and stay strong and respectful in unyielding principle.
Rule 2 Exercise in example everyday those principles of belief you understand to be accorded both to yourself as well as those who are without principle.
Rule 3 Acknowledge but do not accede to the imperfections of your character, opinions and beliefs by accepting defeatism to the ideal. Know that a character that continues to seek elusive perfection always and ever strived for: is a good character kept sound, both with smaller and more modest failings. The ego’s best weapon of attack against sound and moral conscience is rationalization.
Rule 4 “Never wallow in the mud.” An expression I was constantly taught along with, “you are as responsible for your reactions as you are your actions.” Meaning they can throw mud upon you but cannot make you dirty, only when you reach down in that same mud pile and throw it back, are you now both of equal disdain. Actions may be easier to control than reactions, but your responsibility to control them and the consequences that follow them are owned by you equally.
Rule 5 Always remember your glass house when criticizing others but, never be afraid to stand up for what you believe even if it means your house stands alone.
Rule 6 If your head can’t tell you which is more ethical of two or more choices then and only then should your heart be the arbiter.

A LETTER TO THOSE AFRAID OF TEA!

A LETTER TO ALL THOSE AFRAID OF TEA!
By Claudia Roazen
First, do not be fooled that the tea party is an organized political party or a puppet of the Republican Party or any other organized political machine. It is not a third party; it is called the Tea Party strictly as a metaphor of the historic BOSTON TEA PARTY revolt in which colonists solidified with each other’s want of freedom as it expressed to British rule that it would rather go without their beloved British Tea than continue to be subjugated by “Taxation without Representation”.
Second, it is not a “Patriot group” or a cult or a group that espouses hatred, violence, bigotry, insurrection of any kind to the government. There is no connection and no affiliation with radicalism.
Third, one needs not to be of just one party to join the Website and or affiliate with those in the movement. Democrats, Independents, Republicans and even those who have never registered, or voted or have taken in interest in politics prior can be in the group, provided that they agree with the Tea Party beliefs and are not trying to infiltrate the group and disrupt or corrupt it’s message.
Fourth, it is a basic, simple and apple pie straightforward message. Keep America’s unique Constitution based Democratic Republic and Capitalist System safe from a liberal camp that has been trying to socialize her, undermine her Constitution, demonize her Capitalism, alter through propaganda her past history and seek to change her future away from her Forefather’s roots.
Fifth, members and likeminded sympathizers are not zealots, ill-educated, bible thumping proselytizers or old fogies that want to return to horse and buggy days but instead are average, patriotic, law-abiding, civil minded, taxpaying Americans wanting integrity to be restored to our institutions. These average citizens have concerns and Ideas such as;
Representatives in government should represent the people not special Interest groups, lobbyist or those with most campaign monies to contribute.(Corruption) Laws and or legislation should be enacted that solve problems not create problems or make problems worse or in any way undermine Americans constitutional rights.(Healthcare Mandate) That the Federal Government should be constrained to its size, power and scope as was the intent of our Forefathers in understanding that we are the UNITED STATES not the FEDERAL AMERICA that our leaders in Washington have been power grabbing for years from distorted and contorted interpretations of the Constitution.(Commerce Clause) Protection of our borders from illegal immigration not Amnesty. (We welcome legal immigration and are not bigots) That if the Federal Government is using taxpayer monies to bail out companies like General Motors then it is both hypocritical because it is not bailing out small business that suffers bankruptcy as well as undermining the Capitalist System by owning private enterprise. (Socialism)
These are just some of the concerns of people who have joined or who are thinking of joining the Tea Party movement there are other concerns as well.
What is this group’s devious plan of action you might ask? It is to do the un-thinkable as they communicate and band together on web sites. They plan to, they are going to…I’m not sure I should say…it is just so scary radical…it’s just so politically un-apathetically historic…it’s just so novel and inventive…okay I’ll reveal the secret plans to everyone…they are going to register if not registered already and then…then…then..VOTE!

"Sham and Shame on You!"

“Sham and Shame on You!”
By; The Speaker in the House
Claudia Roazen

The left-wing Progressive Democrats are all smiles and happily exclaiming victory over their Healthcare Bill but are they being precipitous and premature? First, this law will be challenged by the Supreme Court on whether the Federal Government has the Constitutional power to mandate Americans to buy Health Insurance or be fined.
I know that the argument is that State’s requires car owners to buy insurance but there is a distinct difference, driving is considered a privilege not a right because the State creates and the State maintains roadways for said privilege. The State does not force you to buy a car or a driver’s license. In fact; if you owned a large piece of property and you bought a car to drive only on your private property then you would not need a valid license nor would you have to register or insure that vehicle.
The Health Care Insurance mandate however would be imposed by the federal Government based solely on one being a living American citizen. It would change my right to living; to being a privilege to live. There is no argument that can be made that the government controls life and that therefore because it created life and maintains life it can then require us to be licensed for life. This is a clear violation and over reach of the commerce clause and the Bill of Rights. This brings up an interesting notion contained in the HealthCare Bill about rationed care and government panels dealing with the issue of death! Are they already setting us up for the Orwellian tomorrow?
If the Supreme Court allows the government to require us to buy Health Insurance then what is next? Will the government then control the buying and selling of property, foodstuffs and personal grooming products? I as well as the majority of Americans are outraged by the “Big Brother” Bill that passed the House and is about to be signed into law by President Obama. However I and most Americans should be happy that they cast their votes out in the open and have exposed their devious political Progressive plans so that we know their names and faces. We should vote them out, not just Novembers’ elections, but in 2012, 2014 and any election year they and their new comers run for public office. We must be vigilant not vigilante, we must be decidedly decisive, and we must not fall for the messages of messiahs in the future. They may have won this battle but we can stop them from winning the war of our American freedoms. Fool us once “Shame on you!” Fool us twice “Sham and Shame on us!”