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]

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]

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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 ...