Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes Alinsky, "ethics is doing what is best for the most." Ethics are the systems by which a particular act or tactic is judged "moral" or "immoral." and Alinsky's many critics have so regularly attacked the means he uses to win change, even when they claim to agree with the changes he is fighting for, that he has repeatedly been constrained to defend his ethics. His defense of his own ethical relativism in Rules for Radicals comes almost incidentally along with a chapter that examines how systems of ethics actually work in politics, a chapter called "Of Means...
Disrupting courtroom decorum is an occasional tactic of defendants and even defense lawyers willing to risk violating the canons of their profession. Often with the help of an intemperate judge, they manage to raise a legal ruckus that may very well provoke a mistrial or a judicial error likely to be reversed on appeal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet laid down rules for obstreperous lawyers, it held last year that a judge has broad powers in dealing with unruly defendants. He can have them gagged or bound, expelled from his courtroom or cited for contempt...
...forced much of the population of Laos to live in underground caves. And the bombing policy is not something which Nixon and Kissinger merely inherited from their predecessors. They have broadened and intensified it. And it is not so much that the bombing has been a successful military tactic as part of the policy of threat-witness the use of South Vietnamese ground troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail after weeks of sustained pounding by American...
...possible tactics, even Weatherman tactics, are only propaganda and organizing tools. None of them in itself impedes the war machine. They make the war too costly, and thus the war may end, but the war machine will remain intact. The criterion for judging an action should be. therefore, in terms of building a movement that will be able to destroy the machine itself. The criterion must be dependent upon how many of whomever you want to see. to hear and to agree become catalyzed to move to the level of consciousness that the particular tactic embodies...
...criminal. And what are Prof. Huntington's policy recommendations? He is well-known for an article in Foreign Affairs (July 1968). In it he frankly praises the use of massive bombardment and technological destruction on such a scale as to empty out the Vietnamese countryside. The result of this tactic is-in his famous word-"urabnization." Now it so happens that policies like those recommended by Prof. Huntington are implicitly or explicitly forbidden by the Hague Convention and the Geneva Convention of 1949. Freefire zones, defoliation, forced relocation, squalid refugee camps, the shooting of prisoners. the saturation bombing in areas...