Tsunamis in nature begin in the hidden world
under the sea, and are typically generated by underwater earthquakes (“seaquakes”)
caused by a shift of the earth’s tectonic plates. As the water is displaced it travels
to the shores both near and far, building in destructive force, finally wreaking
great havoc upon its arrival at those shores. At first, the world remains
unaware of the developing tsunami and then, if tsunami sensors pick up the
disturbance, warnings are sent out to let people in the affected areas know of
its coming. If sensors are disabled or unavailable to provide adequate warning,
tremendous damage and death can result.
A tactic often used in warfare is for
aircraft or missiles to fly so low that they pass under radar beams intended to
protect a country’s territory and are able to attack and destroy the
unprotected country.
Both tsunamis and flying under the radar
utilize deception. Both are based on ignorance of the facts.
The oldest military treatise in the world
penned 2400 years ago by Chinese General Sun Tsu asserted that all warfare is
based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using
our forces, we must seem inactive, when we are near, we must make the enemy
believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
Sun Tsu also said:
When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in
coming, the men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you
lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is
protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped,
your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring
up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able
to avert the consequences that must ensue.
Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war,
cleverness has never been associated with long delays. There is no instance of
a country having been benefited from prolonged warfare.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the
evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it
on. . . On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and
high prices cause the people's substance to be drained away.
When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will
be afflicted by heavy exactions.
With this loss of subsistence
and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare and
three-tenths of their incomes will be dissipated; while Government expenses
for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and
arrows, spears and shields, protective mantlets [sp], draught-oxen and heavy
wagons, will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue.
Excerpt from The Art of War by Sun Tsu
The socialist Fabian Society, a British
socialist organization adopted similar tactics for transforming society and
fundamentally changing its values through a slow, steady influence. Fabian
socialists were manifested in America in the form of Students for a Democratic
Society and its derivative, the Weather Underground. One of Barack Obama’s
mentors, Bill Ayers, was active in both organizations.
It is interesting that many ‘60s radicals (Ayers
among them) are now tenured professors in colleges and universities forming the
thinking of our young adults in higher education.
Drawing on the thinking of Karl Marx (author
of the Communist Manifesto), an Italian political philosopher by the name of Antonio
Gramsci helped develop the ideology of Saul Alinsky, a communist radical and
author of Rules for Radicals which Obama used for several years to teach
community organizers in Chicago. Alinsky’s rules are being used today in the political
life of our President:
Alinsky
provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these
rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive
to the situation at hand.
Rule
1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If
your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that
will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule
2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule
3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want
to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule
4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with
this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can
live up to Christianity.”
Rule
5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule,
and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule
6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball
doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule
7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may
become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule
8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events
of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the
development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the
opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your
advantage.”
Rule
9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked
word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of
O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a
longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as
thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom
occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and
the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule
10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being
trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule
11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to
attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible
individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According
to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting.
“The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major
strength.”
We need to wonder what the goal of these
radicals is. The goal is the gradual grinding down of American values about which
Joseph Stalin noted, “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is
threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine
these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
The Communist movement has long set out to
achieve a list of 45
goals which would ultimately transform America into a big-government,
socialist/communist society.
Some of the goals include:
- Discrediting the American Constitution.
- Supporting any socialist movement to give
centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social
agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
- Infiltrating the press. Controlling the information
being disseminated.
- Eliminating prayer or any form of religious
expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of
“separation of church and state.”
- Get control of the schools. Use them as
transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften
the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line
in textbooks.
- Promote homosexuality, degeneracy and
promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
- Break down cultural standards of morality by
promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures,
radio, and TV.
The communists have been successful in
reaching these goals.
After a century of continually grinding down
American values, mocking them, and insisting on tolerating beliefs contrary to
those upon which our nation was founded, many of the goals have been
substantially achieved. We live in a frog in the kettle world! The temperature
of the opposition’s flooding of American with their aberrant, unchristian values
has lulled us to sleep or near-sleep.
More recently, Islam has battered against the
values of our country.
We are closer to the realization of Sharia
law in America. Suppression of free speech and open discussion of differences
is growing. If the UN has its way, any negative characterization of Islam will
become punishable by law.
Today we are also finding our country
besieged by foreign religious values. While we pride ourselves on not being a religious
nation, our core values were birthed from the Judeo-Christian scriptures.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral
and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John
Adams
America — it’s time to wake up and resist
with all prayer the insidious efforts to derail our values!
The curtain has not yet fallen—although the
ropes are being loosened—there is still time for supplication to Almighty God.
I recommend the prayer in 2 Chron. 7:14 as a starting place, but only after
fulfilling the exhortation in Romans 12:1-2.
I heartedly recommend viewing two
documentaries:
