Posted on 08/30/2010 12:26:05 PM PDT by Rashputin
I suppose I should not be surprised, given the utterly perverted primary and secondary education most people receive now in their government run schools. After all, those very schools and everyone with a job in the system, depend upon the flat out rejection of the idea of our basic, natural rights spelled out in the Declaration of Independence.
For if each of us does in fact have an unalienable right to our life, our liberty, our pursuit of our happiness and the rest, then those schools exist in direct contradiction to these rights. They are built with the loot the politicians and bureaucrats confiscate from the citizenry, loot that involves the violation of those basic rights the Declaration states every human being has!
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I fear he is right too - One of my biggest fears and sources of aggravation is that there is never any talk or plan of getting rid of the NEA and getting government out of schools.
No change will last if that is not changed.
It's not hard to understand - cops, lawyers, judges, bureaucrats, educators, congresspeople and administrators all have to understand it to one degree or another in order to implement it.
But, as Sean Connery says in The Untouchables, "everyone knows where Capone is - the real question is, who wants to cross him?" Likewise, Americans need to decide if they just want to make noise, or confront the beast that's seized the country by the throat.
The author is correct. The whole system (implies centralized control) is insidious and rotten. It must be expunged and the federal government removed from education.
Our whole educational system is corrupted by the leftists and their ideology.
In order for his argument to work at all, it requires "the White House and its legal team, lead [sic] by Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein" to have essentially unlimited power.
Although he uses lots of words and pithy-sounding phrases, if you really look through the fog of his verbosity, Machan's article really just boils down to a straightforward piece of whining about the tactics used by those on one side of the debate.
Well, I suppose that's important to say ... but when you're getting paid by the word, I suppose it's not profitable to make the point simply.
Which point is, simply, most Americans aren't paying attention to the debate, much less taking part in it.
Kids are being taught the IMPORTANT things today...like how to put condoms and cucumbers, that Washington was an evil slave owner and Islam is the religion of peace.
The author is right and we are doomed. My conversion to Conservatism came in the 1980s when there was an airlines "strike" that consisted only of enforcing every regulation on the books to the letter.
We have too many laws. There is absolutely no incentive to repeal the ones we have and no will to require mandatory sunset clauses (except on tax cuts, sigh).
I doubt it will change. I recall vividly my interview for a student government office in the 1970s and was ultimately rejected because I had no ideas for an activist student government.
This has been going on for a long time.
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