Posted on 09/02/2009 6:50:17 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
This unprecedented presidential address to America’s public schoolchildren is pretty creepy. But don’t take it from me. Take it from D.K. Jamaal, columnist at the Newark Progressive Examiner [bolds in original]:
Big Brother alert: Sorry, but Obama’s planned address to nation’s schoolchildren is creepy September 1, 2009
… I’m sorry, but the notion of a mational address to schoolchildren creeps me out.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but it sparks within me thoughts of Big Brother’s looming head on a massive television screen, indoctrinating the hapless drones spread out before him.
The companion “Menu of Classroom Activities“ released to pre-kindergarten through sixth graders by the Education Department in advance of what they are billing as “President Obama’s Address to Students Across America” does nothing to assuage my paranoia.
That was just an appetizer. Consider these gems [h/t Parent Freedom]:
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”—Josef Stalin
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”—Karl Marx
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The author nails it. Creepy indeed.
I call it subversive.
In case you missed it......I stumbled across this ‘little gem’ last night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMxOPvIohcM
I visited the Soviet Union for three weeks in 1969. There were little statues and busts of Lenin everywhere, including schools. We had a tour guide who waxed rhapsodic over Lenin, having been properly educated and by the State. (No wonder she was hired as a tour guide.) This is similar.
How could people not be creeped by this? In our local paper even a progressive liberal college student is talking about how he was sold a bill of goods on Obama and that the guy is not what he campaigned as and wonders who the ‘real’ Obama is. This was a self admitted O Kool-Aid drinker. Not happy with zero and his whacked out decision making at all! We are all starting to hate this commie, Marxist pathological narcissist.
didn’t feel like commas today (except I slipped in one for good measure—LOL).
It reeks of every totalitarian "youth group" from the Nazi youth groups to the commie youth groups... same crap - same "by-pass" the parents bull... What is he thinking?
The speech to the nation’s children might please Obama’s ego, but this really seems like another goofy brainstormed item off of a young enthusiastic staffer’s list. —Because it overlooks the fact that this move pushes ordinary parents throughout the country who might otherwise be politically inert into actively resisting Obama and the Dem. party by extension. Those parents will talk to each other about taking a “sick day” for their children. (And you think most children will be grief-struck at the sudden holiday?) Those families will look around and see they are not alone or powerless. Obama is inadvertently provoking another mass unorganized opposition to appear like that which emerged during the August townhall meetings. This is not wise politically for the Democrat party’s future, but oh well.
Keep your children home when Obama speaks.
Get your children out of the union controlled public schools. They are being indoctornated daily, intentionally and unintentionally by the union teachers and administrators.
Good idea.
Spread the word about the 'sick' day for students.
If I don’t keep my kid home from school that day, I might have him wear red shorts, and bring a sledgehammer to school...
“What is he thinking? “
Exactly what you think he is thinking.
Just remember ‘tards, despite BDS, it was the muzzie who did it first.
Anyone researched this?
My wife and I took our eldest out of public school after his first quarter of kindergarten, due to red flags popping up from his teacher, and the school administration. We could see that he was being sucked into the maw of a gov't machine and we wanted no part of it.
We've now been homeschooling our eldest and his three siblings for the last seven years. It's perhaps the single best decision we've made on their behalf.
HO-LY S**T!
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