It will be difficult to tell what came first, the plot or the uprising.  Even a splash event needs an idea and some planning.

So, we really don’t know where the Tea Party protests evolved from, as disorganized as they appeared to be and understanding why the Republican Party glammed onto them and identified with their cause, anymore than we now know the origin of the Anti-Wall Street Protests and understanding why the progressive Dems are now empathizing with them.

But, I can assure you these events just don’t happen spontaneously.

About three weeks ago Mayor Bloomberg warned of some unrest in the streets.  I guess he heard something from his intel.  There was some movement afoot to target Wall Street and the nation’s financial services.

Some three weeks later more than 700 arrests have been made in New York and elsewhere.

I don’t know of an equal comparison to the Tea Party, although they did apparently make an impression in the mid-term elections by returning control of the House to the Republicans.

And, oh, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that some members of the Tea Party allegedly spat on some Congressmen, according to Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

I’ll bet it’s an urge a lot of people have these days, although I don’t condone it – I didn’t do it when I played baseball.

Now with respect to the Anti-Wall Street protests they have all the furnishings of the progressive movement, wealth re-distribution, the Have Nots of the middle class protesting the haves, the Unions protesting for their values and escalating the policies of the Obama administration.

It struck such a resounding chord that last Thursday President Obama expressed empathy for the demonstrators, even going so far as to elevate them to a force in the 2012 election cycle.

Now, is that a surprise or what?  This is all after a recent poll that the majority of Americans, 51%,do not want to give him a second chance.

In fact even Joe the Plumber, remember him, who confronted Obama on wealth redistribution, is running for Congress on the Republican ticket from Ohio.  I’d vote for him, at least we would get something fixed – even if it was only a toilet.

“I think part of people’s frustrations, part of my frustration, was a lot of (lending) practices that should not have been allowed weren’t necessarily against the law, but they had a huge destructive impact,” the president said at a news conference last week.

He added that the protestors, “are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works . . . and that’s going to express itself politically in 2012 and beyond.”

Now this wasn’t anyone condoning the protests, it was the leader of the free world encouraging the best thing he ever accomplished since becoming a president – a community organizer, a disciple of Saul Alinisky, a Marxist.

Oh, it is true Obama was a US Senator before becoming a president, but the most he did in the Senate was to vote present, that is when he wasn’t absent.

Now to give you some concept of what to expect as these Anti-Wall Street protestors move across the country, a right the constitution gives all protestors, we have borrowed some passages from Saul Alinisky’s book “Rules for Radicals” , a pragmatic primer for realistic radicals.

I don’t know of a comparative rulebook for the Tea Party.

A relevant chapter in Alinisky’s book to what we are seeing today, and are about to continue to see,  is under the heading Tactics.  Here he quotes Hannibal, “We will either find a way or make one.”

At the outset Alinisky points out the concern with the tactic of taking “how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.”

This too is Obama’s thought expressed through wealth redistribution and his lecture to ‘Joe the Plumber.’

Here are the Alinsky 11 power tactics:

• “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
• Never go outside the experience of your people.
• Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
• Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
• Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
• A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
• A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
• Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
• The threat is usually more terrifying then the thing itself.
• The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
• If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”

Alinsky says in his book, ” The reaction of the status quo in jailing revolutionary leaders is in itself a tremendous contribution to the development of the Have-Not movement as well as to the personal development of the revolutionary leaders.”

Alinsky says jailing the revolutionary leaders and their followers performs three vital functions for the cause of the Have-Nots:

• “It is an act on the part of the status quo that in itself points up the conflict between the Haves and the Have-Nots.
• It strengthens immeasurably the position of the revolutionary leaders with their people by surrounding the jailed leadership with an aura of martyrdom.
• It deepens the identification of the leadership with their people since the prevalent reaction among the Have-Nots is that their leadership cares so much for them, and is so sincerely committed to the issue, that it is willing to suffer imprisonment for the cause.”

In David Horowitz’s booklet, “Barack Obama’s Rules For Revolution”, the Alinsky Model, he says, “The first chapter of Alinsky’s manual is called “The Purpose” and is designed to lay out the radical goal.  Its epigraph is taken from the Book of Job: ‘The life of man upon earth is a warfare . . . ‘”

Horowitz goes on to say, “this is not an invitation to democratic politics, as understood by the American Founders.  The American system is about tolerance and compromise and bringing disparate factions into a working partnership.”

Many Americans thought this is what Obama was talking about when he was running for the office he holds.  Apparently he was not.

No president in recent times has benefited to the degree Obama has in financial support from Wall Street to his campaign to become President.  Yet it is he that is encouraging the  Wall Street protests. 

Is he encouraging a revolution?  Is he encouraging protests across this nation when its cities can least afford such protests?  Is he doing so because this is the only tactic he knows to salvage a second term?  He certainly can’t run on a record of failure?

Where is the mainstream media in asking these questions?  Don’t Americans deserve to know the origin of this latest movement that appears to be endorsed by Obama and other progressives in his party?  Should, we know whether progressives are behind this rather unorganized, rather dirty – in the garbage they leave behind sense – or does it go further up in the political chain from one who knows how to be a ‘community organizer’?

Saul Alinsky founded what is known today as the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization.  His work in organizing the poor to fight for their rights as citizens has been internationally recognized.

He was born in Chicago in 1909 and died in California in 1972.  He described himself as a ‘rebel’ and his entire life was devoted to organizing a revolution in America to destroy a system he regarded as oppressive and unjust.  By profession he was a “community organizer” , the same term Obama described himself.

PS:  Joe the Plumber is Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher.  He filed paperwork to run for Congress in a district that runs from Toledo to Cleveland Ohio.  It heavily tilts towards Democrats.  He drew cheers at a tea party rally last year in Cincinnati when he told the crowd not to let “a bunch of liberal pansies” take away their rights.