A 501 (c) called Health Care for America Now (HCAN) boasts that “its principles for reform are supported by President Obama“. It’s steering committee includes ACORN, AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, and the SEIU.
In case you didn’t notice, this is The Left at its best, with many of these organizations funded by “progressive” George Soros. It’s hard to say that the hand-painted signs at the health care protest are well-funded, right-wing orgaized protests, especially when facing this highly-organized response SWAT team.
Last week, this group issued a memo to its ground forces, detailing (in 2500+ words) how to respond to “right wing activists” and “tea-bagger” protesters who are protesting at Member of Congress and President Obama’s meetings. Tsk, tsk .. we really don’t want freedom of speech if we disagree with it, do we?
It is a very good implementation of many of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
The HCAN memo provides tactics to use to thwart everyday Americans who are upset at the sweeping proposals for health care “reform”.
Do they want a debate on the issues? HCAN says:
“Do not debate on their “policy” points. Remember, they are seeking a platform to distort the truth about reform by making health care about abortion, rationing, euthanasia, etc. Rather than try to reply with the truth (which won’t move them anyway) we should respond with our message and at every turn re-focus the agenda on communicating with the Member of Congress.”
Alinsky’ Rule 10 says “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” In other words, if you tell everyone that government health care will be all rosy, maybe people will believe you.
So Obama supports, according to HCAN, grass-roots activists who want to avoid the policy issues and cram down their points of view.
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