LAT on Hannah Giles in Santa Barbara
The Los Angeles Times has an article, yesterday, on an appearance by Hannah Giles at a conference at the Reagan Ranch Center:
Reporting from Santa Barbara – Hannah Giles was in the middle of her guerrilla warfare lecture this weekend at the young conservatives leadership conference when a man in the audience interrupted her.
“We love you!” he cried out. The crowd erupted in applause and whistles.
“Aw,” Giles said into the microphone. “I love you guys too.”
At age 20, Giles is a rock star of conservative activism. She shot onto the national scene in September after posing as a prostitute at ACORN offices around the country, where she secretly videotaped employees who appeared to give her advice on tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution….
Two years ago, she said, she was just a laid-back surfer kid from Miami when a friend got her to attend a foundation event in Washington, D.C. That, she said, was where she converted to conservatism.
In her lecture Friday about how to take down liberal organizations and expose what she called media corruption, Giles sought to stir others to action. “Above all, attack, attack, attack,” she said, quoting Republican consultant Roger Stone. “Never defend.” ….
Giles asked everyone in the room to copy down the words of Saul Alinsky, who is considered the father of community organizing — and is a great hero of the left.
“All life is warfare,” she quoted him as saying, “and it’s the constant fight against the status quo that revitalizes society.”
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“Never before in our history has there been a greater need for men of integrity and courage in the public service. Never before in our history has there been a greater need for the people to take up willingly the responsibility of free government.” (Kennedy)
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