The Wave - what is it about?

THE WAVE.tk ^ | Last updated April, 2009 | n/a

[Cindy]

Note: Videos and photos included.

SNIPPET: "In 1967, at the Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, World History teacher Ron Jones was asked about the Holocaust by a student. "Could it happen here?".

According to the press release accompanying the latest retelling of the events that followed, "Jones came up with an unusual answer. He decided to have a two week experiment in dictatorship. His idea was to explain fascism to his class through a game, nothing more. He never intended what resulted, where his class would be turned into a Fascist environment. Where students gave up their freedom for the prospect of being superior to their neighbors.

Monday morning he straightened the classroom, dimmed the lights and played Wagnerian music. The word "discipline" was written on the blackboard. He then had the students sit up straight in their chairs with hands placed flat across the small of their backs. In this setting, he devoted the remainder of the class to the topic of discipline.

By the second day, Jones developed a special greeting, a wave. It became known as the Third Wave, and if students saw each other outside class, they were to use it. In his lectures, Jones went from "discipline," to "strength through community," and then to "strength through action."

By midweek, his "experiment" expanded to sixty students, and by the week's end, more than two hundred were participating. Other teachers and the school's principal stood by and watched.

The first sign of concern came when some students had taken it uponthemselves to report others who did not conform. After just four days, things got out of hand. Jones feared for the safety of a few students who refused to participate. To his dismay and alarm, the experiment was so blindly embraced by the students, that he cut the project short. "Initially I just wanted to show my students how powerful the pressure to belong can be, but the exercise got out of control. A momentum began to build that I couldn't slow, or even deter. I became frightened by the day-to-day happenings in class, and was forced to call it off," recalls Jones.

Overnight, Jones became the subject of national controversy, sparking discussion on the appropriateness of exposing young adults to life's realities. To some, he was an innovative hero and teacher; to others he was a Communist. Many people were shocked and embarrassed that the same mentality which led to the Holocaust could develop so quickly, in 1967, in a pristine all-American setting, and an academic town no less, home to the well-known Stanford University."

Read more at the web site http://www.thewave.tk

[Cindy]

from the link http://thewave.tk

SNIPPET: “About this website.

This page is set up to document the many different appearances of ‘The Wave’. Another recommended internet source of information is the Wikipedia entry on The Third Wave.”

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks for this thread, Cindy.

[Cindy]

Ok, I’ve been hearing a bit about “the third wave.”

Here’s my post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2330717/posts

Let’s see what thewave,tk is linking to regarding “the third wave.”

Well, I don’t know because the link the web site owner links to is 404.

Here is the link for reference:
http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/Auxiliary/Psychology/Frank/Thirdwave.html

[Cindy]

You’re welcome Brad’s gramma.

Jet Jaguar pointed me thewave.tk so I’m exploring out loud here.

[Cindy]

Adding to post no. 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRXXbU-z7U
“Cults: The Wave - Part 1”

Video Description - Quote:

May 13, 2007
(less info)

1981 - Based on the real experience of a high school class in Palo Alto, CA in April 1967, whose teacher wanted to explain the rise of the Nazi party to his students.

To buy The Wave on DVD, go to http://www.amazon.com/The-Wave-by-Ale...
Category: News & Politics

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Wave-by-Alexander-Grasshoff/dp/B00132XZNI

Video:

“The Wave by Alexander Grasshoff”
Format:
DVD

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2330790/posts?page=222#222

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http://www.ronjoneswriter.com/videos.html

SNIPPET: “Ron Jones’s Stories on Videotape

The Wave”

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Quote - Snippet:

http://www.outspokenideas.com/html/the_wave.html

THE WAVE
Ron Jones Stories Volume I

For the first time on video Ron Jones talks about an exorcism - his haunting vision about fascism - and what really happened in his classroom experiment called
THE WAVE

currently printed in 9 languages with over 1,500,000 copies sold. The Wave is currently
being performed as a play in 16 nations.
Not Rated - Parental Discretion Advised
60 minutes Color VHS NTSC $29.95

[dianed]

Third Wave, Tides foundation, Tsunami (received 4 million dollars from the Tides Foundation)...What the heck???!!!

http://www.undueinfluence.com/tsunami.htmaol

Who funds the radical left in America?

http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=3107

[Cindy]

I went over to YouTube and brought these videos back to watch.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94iNrSrfGmY
“The Obama Youth Corps Wave p1”

Video Description - Quote:

Subscribe
LookUpHigher
May 24, 2009

The Wave redux, hitler youth group think, edited with an Obama speech and several city year commercials, as well as a bunch of shorter clips, and the famous don’t taze me bro. Obama youth, sept 12, national day of service m.i.a.c. mandatory service corps give act secure corps

Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Tags: wave redux hitler youth group think edited with an Obama speech and several city year commercials don’t taze me bro sept 12 national day of service m.i.a.c. mandatory corps give act secure

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfgYffpQz5g

“The Obama Youth Corps Wave p2”

Video Description - Quote:

LookUpHigher
May 24, 2009

The Wave redux, hitler youth group think, edited with an Obama speech and several city year commercials, as well as a bunch of shorter clips, and the famous don’t taze me bro. Obama youth, sept 12, national day of service. m.i.a.c. mandatory service corps give act secure corps

More info

http://www.travelersunite.com/blog/20...
Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Tags: wave redux hitler youth group think edited with an Obama speech and several city year commercials don’t taze me bro sept 12 national day of service m.i.a.c. mandatory corps give act secure

[dianed]

Sorry, Tsunami link is......

http://www.undueinfluence.com/tsunami.htm

[PureSolace]

Wasn’t there a movie about this? I think I remember seeing it... and if I dreamed it... then someone should make said movie so I can watch it. :)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2330790/posts?page=222#222

Anyway, finishing up by looking at the previous thread post:

SLTRIB.com - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: "PARENTS UPSET OVER 'LEFTIST PROPAGANDA' VIDEO Education - Prinicipal apologizes for showing 'I Pledge' to students." by Lisa Scencker (Updated September 1, 2009, 10:45 pm MDT)

Video: "I Pledge!"

7 posted on 09/02/2009 3:58:49 PM PDT by Cindy

[Dumpster Baby]

[Cindy]

Thanks for the additional video Dumpster Baby.

[Cindy]

Looking back in history, let’s look at this video with English-language subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KgJQUXr2Ws

“Hitler speech (English subtitles)”

Video Description - Quote:

From Triumph of the Will

Category: People & Blogs
Tags: Hitler speech

[Cindy]

Two more videos on the internet inspired by the last presidential election:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BAfKCfu74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG6ureeTw2E

[PureSolace]

I found the movie of the wave experiment on you tube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRXXbU-z7U

Since this month is the 70th year anniversary of Germany's Invasion of Poland, this would be a good time to review this movie. Peace.

[Cindy]

Adding this last video to post no. 16:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssC7aSZnAX8

[Cindy]

Yes and at this link here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2330790/posts?page=222#222

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Remembering Germany invading Poland here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/newsid_3506000/3506335.stm

[Cindy]

Adding to post no. 12:

A different pledge.

Quote:

www.americorps.gov/about/pledge/index.asp

About AmeriCorps >

The AmeriCorps Pledge

As an AmeriCorps member, you are expected to adhere to the AmeriCorps pledge. ( If you don’t have a pledge certificate, ask your project director for one.) The pledge represents the commitment you have taken to serve not just this year, but in the years ahead.

The AmeriCorps Pledge

I will get things done for America -
to make our people safer,
smarter, and healthier.

I will bring Americans together
to strengthen our communities.

Faced with apathy,
I will take action.

Faced with conflict,
I will seek common ground.

Faced with adversity,
I will persevere.

I will carry this commitment
with me this year and beyond.

I am an AmeriCorps member,
and I will get things done.

[Cindy]

ADDING to post no. 7... let’s check out this brief commentary:

Blog:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mithridate-ombud/2009/09/02/what-does-obama-want-our-children

“What Does Obama Want with Our Children?”
By Mithridate Ombud
September 2, 2009 - 21:16 ET

[Cindy]

stepping back in time on FreeRepublic.com:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102440/posts

“OBAMA = The Wave”
ABC television ^ | October 4, 1981 | Alexander Grasshoff
Posted on October 10, 2008 10:41:47 AM PDT by RobRoy

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ping to this post.

[bootless]

Thanks!

[Shelayne]

Hmmm, I remember the after school special in the 70s (remember those? LOL) called, I believe, “The Blue Wave”, and it was the same thing as described here. The students became little brownshirts and some got violent. They even wore arm bands to distinguish themselves as the elite. In the end, the teacher tells them that they will get to meet their leader in the school auditorium, where the whole school will gather to hear him speak. They are all so very proud that they finally get to meet their leader.

A movie screen rolls down, and on it, an image of Hitler speaking to a massive crowd appears. The fascist little brats that were—just minutes before—arrogant pubescent brownshirts (OK, I think they were blue), were soon sobbing and most were horrified.

As far as After School Specials went, that one was pretty good. Obviously, it stuck with me.

[rawcatslyentist]

Adolph had a "mandate" of the will of the people.

How could a couple of million Good German citizens be wrong?

Those that don't know history are doomed to fulfill Einsteins definition of insanity.

[Pajamajan]

"I remember that After School special too! It also stuck with me, after all these years.

I think Obama's Hopey Changey symbol even looks a bit like the one in the movie.

At the time- I didn't realize the film was based on a actual event. Chilling.

I think we all need to watch this again, and kids need to see it too.

[gman992]

I remember some PST—public school teacher—did a lesson about the Holocaust a few years ago, and had the Jewish students wear yellow stars around school so they could be singled out. Suffice to say, it did not go well...

[Cindy]

Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqMTD5UFmU

“School kids taught to praise Obama”

Video Descrtiption - Quote:

Subscribe
alteredbeat
September 06, 2009

This was filmed at a school in South Jersey.

Category: News & Politics
Tags: obama indoctrination school children kids youth government public singing sing

[Cindy]

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog (SMART GIRL POLITICS): "MORE DEAR LEADER IN THE CLASSROOM: OBAMACARE PROPAGANDA POP QUIZ!" (September 23, 2009, 05:24 pm)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "DEAR LEADER IN THE CLASSROOM" (Note: Includes Video.) (September 23, 2009, 02:11 pm)

[Cindy]

#

Blog:

Note: The video included.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/28/video-hey-whos-up-for-another-clip-of-kids-chanting-about-obama/

“Video: Hey, who’s up for another clip of kids chanting about Obama?”
POSTED AT 7:06 PM ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 BY ALLAHPUNDIT

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Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKIzVZtbFUA

“liberal indoctrination camp”

Video Description - Quote:

September 24, 2009

here is a clip from a PTA / PTO (whatever) meeting at Sand Hill Elementary School in Asheville, NC
Category: News & Politics
Tags: liberals obama indoctrination

[Cindy]

Discussion Thread to go with post no. 31:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2350357/posts

“Video: Hey, who’s up for another clip of kids chanting about Obama?”
Hot Air ^ | Sept. 28, 2009 | Allahpundit
Posted on September 28, 2009 4:26:13 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

[Cindy]

and here’s another one...

Note: Video included.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102209/content/01125106.guest.html

“Another One: School Kids Sing Song in Praise of Barack Obama”
October 22, 2009

[Cindy]

2009

Note: Video included.

www.jointhewave.com/

“About Join the Wave”

SNIPPET: Join the Wave was an initiative from Pixman Nomadic Media to let the people of the world express their emotions, hopes and dreams inspired by the the new President of the United States.”

[Cindy]

Video:

my.barackobama.com/page/content/hrvcratings?v=mkDhKHD52tk

“I Deserve Health Care
by Eric Hurt”

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Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDhKHD52tk

“HEALTH CARE REFORM 1”

Video Description - quote:

October 14, 2009

Category: Nonprofits & Activism
Tags: OBAMA HEATH CARE CHALLENGE 264

[Cindy]

ADDING to post no. 12:

The “I Pledge!” video link on YouTube in not valid as the video was removed.

Here is a relevant snippet of the “I Pledge” video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQawLBC59g

Here is a commentary and what looks to be the full length version of the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0

[Cindy]

Video:

“The Barack Obama Song”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-9A7O9Phg

[Cindy]

Video:

Video - Description - Quote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-MmoI1Qeew

Obama Wave Target Center Mpls

September 14, 2009

Over an hour before Obama’s speech to Target Center about Health Care refrom, the audience spontaneously starts doing this :

Category: News & Politics
Tags: Obama Obama Wave Obama Rock Star Health Care Reform

[Eye of Unk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Force_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441730/posts

Obama Recruiting Radicals in High Schools (Freedom isn’t free...Fight Back!)
Big Government ^ | January 31, 2010 | Pamela Geller
Posted on February 1, 2010 1:23:23 AM PST by yoe

Barack Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army. Organizing for America (OFA), formerly Obama For America, is recruiting in our high schools to “build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda” – that is, his agenda of socialism for the United States of America.

Chuck, a reader of my website AtlasShrugs.com, has a daughter in the eleventh grade in a public high school, Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio. The teacher in her government class passed out a propaganda recruiting paper – headed with Obama’s distinctive “O” logo — asking students to sign up as interns for Organizing for America. You can see the entire intern recruiting form at (AtlasShrugs.com.)

And what will these “interns” be force-fed? The mother’s milk of the left — anti-war agitation, anti-capitalism, Marx, Lenin, Ayers, LGBT agenda promotion, global warming, pro-jihad, and illegal immigration. For starters. Maybe “Ellie Light,” who has in the last few weeks published the same Letter to the Editor supporting and defending Obama in over a dozen newspapers across the country, can give lessons in astroturfing.

The form carries a recommended reading list, including Rules for Radicals by the notorious hard left community organizer and Obama mentor Saul Alinsky; two Huffington Post articles by Zack Exley, “The New Organizers” and “Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle.” The first of those, published in October 2008, enthuses about “an insurgent generation of organizers” inside the Obama campaign that has, “almost without anyone noticing … built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people’s organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.”

(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...

[Cindy]

stepping back in time...

Video just in time for Halloween 2008 by Iowahawk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Xy4hNyYFs

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457269/posts

“Organizing Kids for Obama”
Townhall ^ | 2-23-2010 | Phyllis Schlafly
Posted on February 22, 2010 10:04:43 PM PST by smoothsailing

[piasa]

The AmeriCorpse* Pledge

I will get things done for 57 states -
to make our servants safer,
docile, and healthier. [Whether the livestock likes it or not]

I will bring our wage slaves together
to strengthen our hold on power.[Whether the livestock likes it or not]

Faced with apathy,
I force submission.[Whether they like it or not]

Faced with conflict,
I will throw insults ‘round.[Whether they like it or not]

Faced with adversity,
I will milk them some more.[Whether they like it or not]

I will carry this commitment
with me to the gates of Hell.[Because the Marxists’ dupes never learn from mistakes]

I am an AmeriCorpse member,
a strutting cockerel in uniform.
[With nothing to crow over]

[Cindy]

“Faced with conflict,
I will throw insults ‘round. [Whether they like it or not]”

Yep.

#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

[Cindy]

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472440/posts

ObamaCare’s New Public Health Workforce Corps
The American Thinker ^ | March 16, 2010 | Michael Geer
Posted on March 16, 2010 2:57:41 PM PDT by givemELL

“It speaks of regular and reserve Officers, scholarships, loans, obligated service, individual contracts, training centers, the traditional income redistribution scheme of grants and grant proposals, etc. The debt repayment provisions are especially attractive to certain sectors of our population. It appears to be an indentured servitude gig. You sign up, do your part for nationalizing health care and the Corps will get the American taxpayer to foot the bill for your training and educational costs and retire your debts. Of course, if pinned down, I’m sure this will be characterized as a draft, a proposal, need to modify, hasn’t been reconciled yet or any of a number of ways to weasel the simple truth that until Nancy Pelosi votes on it she won’t have any idea what’s in this ‘Bill’.

Read more of this thing at your own discretion. The next heading after the Public Health Corps is Adapting The Workforce to Evolving Health Care Needs, which I take to mean, in the double speak legal jargon of phraseology and policyspeak, that you and your job skills will adapt to the needs of the Health Care Corps, not the other way around. We are living, after all, in the era Hunter S Thompson labeled as The Age of Confusion, Ruled By The New Dumb.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

[Cindy]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63267

“Obama Excludes Private and Catholic School Children From Easter Egg Roll Ticket Giveaway”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

SNIPPET: “Robert Brannum’s 17-year-old son Nicholas attends St. John’s College High School, a Catholic school in the District. Brannum told CNSNews.com he believes the 3,000 tickets reserved for public school students should be available to all students.

“The White House is a public building,” Brannum said. “The tickets are essentially being paid for with public dollars. So it should be open to everyone, not just going to select categories of students.”

Brannum said he not only supports D.C. public schools, he attended and taught at those schools. But, he added, “There are students in the District of Columbia who attend private schools, parochial schools, or even (are) home schooled, and their parents pay taxes and they should be able to participate in some of the benefits of being citizens of the District of Columbia.””

[Cindy]

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1OLQ8EkhI

“This is What Change Looks Like”

Video Description - Quote:

BarackObamadotcom — March 30, 2010 — To the untold numbers who knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction that change in this country comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up — this moment is possible because of you.

Category:
News & Politics

Tags:
This is What Change Looks Like Health Insurance Reform President Obama Organizing For America

[Quix]

SOBERING TO THE MAX.

However, FREEPERS are DIFFERENT.

NO ONE HEREON:

—tries to silence other CONSERVATIVES who may have more information about a given topic.

—tries to call other CONSERVATIVES insulting, intimidating, marginalizing names . . . e.g. nutty, crazy, psychotic,

—tries to silence watchmen on the wall regarding Communists/globalists/socialists rushing the planet into a tyrannical global government.

—tries to ridicule those who are averse to OThuga’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL tyranny that’s getting deeper and broader by the week.

. . .

naw . . .

. . .

NOT on FR!

We KNOW BETTER

and

ACT BETTER.

We’re very good at warning folks properly in mild and civil tones about slight to moderate threats to minor FREEDOMS around the edges of daily life. We know better than to alert folks about wild haired idiotic concerns about any so called major issues of life.

We work very hard to keep things decent, in order, balanced and reasonably pleasant. We don’t see any need for anyone to lose even 5 minutes of sleep at night.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!