JERRY AGAR

Montreal's rules for radicals

Posted By: Jerry Agar · 5/28/2012 8:37:00 PM

I no longer believe the rioting in Montreal is about tuition rates.

It may have started that way, but the demonstrations have been co-opted by union leaders such as Sid Ryan of the Ontario Federation of Labour, Ken Lewenza of the Canadian Auto Workers and the Vancouver-based Adbusters Media Foundation, which launched Occupy Wall Street.

Seeing the waning of the Occupy movement, they are following the advice of Saul D. Alinsky, the communist community organizer who wrote Rules for Radicals.

Alinsky wrote, “The organizer goes with the action. His approach must be free, open-ended, curious, sensitive to any opportunities, any handles to grab on to, even though they involve other issues than those he may have in mind at that particular time.”

In other words, when the students hit the streets, get in there and put some gas on the fire. Use them for your purpose.

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  1. StephenS_5505 posted on 05/29/2012 08:52 AM
    Saul D. Alinsky was never a communist as you claim. He was an organiser for the CIO but was never a communist as some members were. Taking a single snapshot of a man or a single quote and labeling them with your own prejudices i really the mark of lazy journalism, and I even hesitate to use that word in connection to the article.
    1. levon posted on 06/07/2012 10:22 AM
      @StephenS_5505 "Lazy journalism" ....Welcome to Agar's world. He's a rwnj bringing his American political biases back to Canada. Eg Alinsky...a favourite talking point of the right when trying to attack President Obama.
      This guy should be dumped from the station asap like he was so often in the US.
  2. Torontonian posted on 05/29/2012 12:22 PM
    It is not a riot in Quebec.
    It is a large scale demonstration or protest.
    Call it what it really is and be fair in your coverage
    or sink to the depths of so-called journalism inhabited
    by the likes of Michael Coren.

    You give commenting a bad reputation.
    1. Risk_05 posted on 05/30/2012 11:43 AM
      @Torontonian Riot - a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets, violent or wild disorder or confusion.

      So your telling me that what is happening in Montreal DOES NOT include any of those things? This definition straight from dictionary.com
  3. Bob posted on 06/01/2012 10:24 AM
    Jerry, why didn't you ask the psychologist about the clinical fact that there is a strong correlation between psycho-killers and homosexuality? Isn't this something to be discussed openly in the age of gay agenda and the catholic school attack by the liberals?
  4. StephenS_5505 posted on 06/01/2012 10:34 AM
    strong correlation between psycho-killers and homosexuality????

    What, er wait, did I miss a study somewhere that concluded this?

    BTW there is no gay agenda, the only people making a noise over the Gay/Straight Alliance was the Catholic Church, but then again, wait maybe their is a gay agenda, no can't be that, could it?
  5. EdwardM_8180 posted on 06/02/2012 07:37 AM
    Jerry Agar

    I have followed your take on the students of Montreal, but as a parent you need to understand that the children you have in your house are the future of this nation, and the moment we fail to invest into them we fail this country. Jerry this country is not a poor country it is only structured out to create a very few dead rich people and very many very poor people. I have travelled in this country very extensively and God I hope you do also, but it bothers me very much when I see Canadians in this very lovely and rich country of only 30+ million people, living a life way under a life I left in Africa. That should not happen in a country this rich. Now let me go on oil, every single country with oil out there pays its children education except Canada. And do you know what is so funny? Canada that claims to be a very poor country, decided to spend the little meager finances it has to spend it and fight a war in Libya to remove a government that was paying college education for all its children for we defined it dictatorial. Every single Libyan child that reached an age of going to university had his education paid by his or her government by Kaddafi that all Libyan students you see in our universities here were paid up. And for a very good reason, they are going to run the future of Libya unlike Canadian children we are replacing with Indians that are running Canadian banks today as expatriates.

    But as a parent again I have another issue that eats me alive. We cry poverty in this country, but we have a conservative prime minister that dhows out our money to every dictator that smiles at him, Afghanistan we will give you 100 million dollars, Libya we are giving 100 million dollars, the other day he was in Central America I think he dhowed out another 100 million, the man hands out money as a drunken sailor but to our children that are a future of this country. How are these dictators going to help the future of this country? What have we ever got from Afghanistan Jerry? And we walk every day and every night and work weird hours for we have to pay taxes that get used by every autocratic man out there but our children.

    We live in very strange days indeed !!!!
    EM
    Toronto
  6. Gary posted on 06/02/2012 01:46 PM
    Canadians are waking up to the tactics used by the islamists and tamils that break the Laws during protests as we saw when tamil assualted the Polcie to storm a Highway and use Babies as human shields as Milelr and McGuinty allowed it and did NOT order arrests or call-in the CAS to take the babies away and charge the Mothers. This year we will see for one more time the naked males in PRIDE be allowed to expose themselves at little girls as the PRIDE-Police allow that too because Miller and Hall allowed it so it must be moral and good.
    If muslims, gays,refugess and non-whites can riot,loot,make death threats, yell terrorism threats, burn flags, assault the Police , and be afforded the Status of a pathetic minorty for the Charter Protection by Barbara Hall......then why not join them and see if the Police and leaders enforce the Laws equally or just pick what groups get a special dispensation from the Neo-Liberal Bigotry and Racism of Lowered-Expectations for Brwon People and immigrants.
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