A Successful Revolution Avoids Violence
From 2012.
Would you rather wind up like David Koresh or Barack Obama?
Does this sound like a silly question? It isn’t.
Koresh thought he could kill federal officers and get away with it. He got killed, taking a lot of naïve, trusting, and armed adults with him . . . and unarmed children.
Obama decided to follow the tactics of Saul Alinsky, a non-violent revolutionary who adopted the tactics of resistance used by Gandhi. A successful revolution avoids violence.
Who has been more successful in pursuing his agenda?
A decade before Koresh died and 19 years before Obama worked with ACORN, an Alinsky-inspired political organization (R.I.P.), I edited two volumes:
Tactics of Christian Resistance
In Tactics, I discussed Alinsky’s tactics. I recommended them, though of course modified so as not to pursue the strengthening of the state. I opposed armed resistance.
Anyone who recommends taking up arms against the government is a Koresh-minded person. Stay as far away from him as you can.
I say this, because the Tea Party movement has attracted Koresh-minded people. I know this, because a few of them have expressed displeasure with my previous article on the use of arms.
It is better to be elected President than it is to die in a hail of bullets or a fire. It is better to appoint the Attorney General than it is to die under the armed forces commanded by the Attorney General.
This should be obvious. It is not obvious to wanne-be Koreshes.
Koresh’s remains are buried in Tyler, Texas. I lived there at the time. I lived there when I edited those two volumes. If he had read them and followed them, he would probably still be alive. But he was not a Christian. He was a cult leader. Sadly for those around him, his cult was armed.
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Published on March 13, 2012. The original is here.