One of the most quoted “rules” in Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals book is Rule 13. This rule is under the tactics section of the book and that is a better way to think of this. In this tactic, you are taught to select a specific target, a person. Government bodies (i.e. Congress, etc.) or buildings (i.e. Washington, city hall, etc.) allow blame to be shifted too easily.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Has anybody here seen our old friend Harry?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
He screwed a lot of people,
But it seems the pols. they hide now.
You know, I just looked around and he’s gone.
Anybody here seen our old friend Nancy?
Can you tell me where she’s gone?
She ticked off the CIA,
But it seems she just up and left town.
I just looked around and she’s gone.
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev’rybody and sing
There has a roiling controversy in Pennsylvania’s control liquor sales system. State government not only taxes the heck out of liquor and wines, it is the exclusive agent (Liquor Control Board or LCB) for the sale of said products. Other than a limited number of outlets that can sell wine, if you want more than beer you have to visit a “State Store.” They have since come up with a nicer name, but will always be State Stores to my generation.
