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SW: Excerpts from a radical-right manifesto written by the late Paul Weyrich and Eric Heubeck that show a deliberate and concerted effort to upend democratic society.
<blockquote>For your information, yesterday I attended two workshop planning meetings for the toxics and degradable packaging workshops being held at the ALEC Annual Meeting in Monterey. ... Michele and I will be involved in the planning of the toxics workshop only to the extent of ensuring that there is no industry bashing in the panel presentations.<ref>Margaret Rita, Tobacco Institute, [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zwu03b00/pdf Letter to Norman Sharp, Cigar Association of America], document archived in Tobacco Library (Bates No. TI14120098), June 2, 1989</ref></blockquote>
* The late Paul Weyrich helped Eric Heubeck pen a radical-right manifesto in 2001.
Excerpts:
<blockquote>"This essay is based on the belief that the truth of an idea is not
the primary reason for its acceptance. Far more important is the
energy and dedication of the idea’s promoters—in other words, the
individuals composing a social or political movement..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"There will be three main stages in the unfolding of this movement.
The first stage will be devoted to the development of a highly
motivated elite able to coordinate future activities. The second stage
will be devoted to the development of institutions designed to make an
impact on the wider elite and a relatively small minority of the
masses. The third stage will involve changing the overall character of
American popular culture..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive.
We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to
weaken them, and eventually destroy them. We will endeavor to knock
our opponents off-balance and unsettle them at every opportunity. All
of our constructive energies will be dedicated to the creation of our
own institutions..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We
will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. We will not give them a
moment's rest. We will endeavor to prove that the Left does not
deserve to hold sway over the heart and mind of a single American. We
will offer constant reminders that there is an alternative, there is a
better way. When people have had enough of the sickness and decay of
today’s American culture, they will be embraced by and welcomed into
the New Traditionalist movement. The rejection of the existing society
by the people will thus be accomplished by pushing them and pulling
them simultaneously."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"We must create a countervailing force that is just as adept as the
Left at intimidating people and institutions that are used as tools of
left-wing activism but are not ideologically committed, such as
Hollywood celebrities, multinational corporations, and university
administrators. We must be feared, so that they will think twice
before opening their mouths..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"We will be results-oriented rather than good intentions-oriented.
Making a good-faith effort and being ideologically sound will be less
important than advancing the goals of the movement..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"We will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the
dominant regime. We will take advantage of every available opportunity
to spread the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with
the existing state of affairs. ... contribute to a vague sense of
uneasiness and dissatisfaction with existing society. ... We need to
break down before we can build up. We must first clear away the
flotsam of a decayed culture."</blockquote>
<blockquote>"We need more people with fire in the belly, and we need a message
that attracts those kinds of people...We must reframe this struggle as
a moral struggle, as a transcendent struggle, as a struggle between
good and evil. And we must be prepared to explain why this is so. We
must provide the evidence needed to prove this using images and simple
terms..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integration_of_Theory_and_Practice)</blockquote></blockquote>
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