Western reporters gathered around Joseph Stalin for a rare opportunity to ask him questions during World War Two. One asked him, "Sir, why do your people still follow you since you are so harsh with them?" Papa Joe (as the mass murderer was so affectionately known) asked that a live chicken be brought to him. He held the chicken tightly as he began to pluck it's feathers. The animal made the most horrific screams (for a chicken) of pain and agony until the ordeal was over and Papa released it. The featherless, bleeding bird fled to a corner of the room where it remained corraled by some of Stalin's men.

Next, the loveable dictator reached into his pocket and brought out a handfull of grain. He held it out toward the frightened chicken and waited. Slowly, the little guy quieted, then looked over the grain, and finally began to move toward the food. It ate. Stalin grinned. He said, "THIS is why they follow me."

Evil minds know how to control other minds. They have learned the psychology of how to exploit human weaknesses. They only care about what WORKS, and not about whether the methods that justify the ends are moral. One of these immoral methods is to make the one who was wronged feel that HE is in the wrong when he doesn't graciously accept the offender's outstretched hand that forgives the offendee's wrong which he never committed! Makes sense, huh. The offender never does wrong as long as he doesn't ACT guilty! If he stays cool and acts magnanimous, he receives the praise of all that he is a "uniter" and not a "divider". At the famous "Beer Summit", Barack Obama held out the grain while the police officer fell for the trap and ate.

This whole scenario played out again about a month later at a townhall meeting in Houston, Texas. Sheila Jackson Lee was filmed talking on her cell phone while a citizen, Tracy, asked a question. The arrogance of the moment only meant something to the Congresswoman after the video was played for wide exposure nationwide. On Greta Van Susteren's show, Ms. Lee spoke into the camera lens, "Call me Tracy. We can work this out." She obviously hoped that a local version of the "Beer Summit" would deflect her own wrong.

To my observation, this "Beer Summit" tactic is ONLY used by leftist minds. While I don't think that Barack or Sheila ever studied Stalin so deeply that they consciously LONG to apply his methods, those methods just seem to be built into them naturally. So, if you have ever been wronged by a he of the twisted left, don't let him pluck your brain. He is the chicken, not you!

-- RPC, Sunday, October 25, 2009