Posted on 08/09/2013 4:55:05 AM PDT by Dysart
The latest fad among football sportswriters and commentators seems to involve crowing about head injuries and long-term health effects from playing football.
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All this teaches a lesson to the children: private, individual action is dangerous and should be avoided. Life must be lived within the guardrails, carefully planned and safeguarded by society.
Even more distressing to the left is that sports started as a means of training for soldiers. That is why football is so appealing to America; it is a he-man sport, a vestige of the old America, where an association of free men stand together in battle. Yes, team effort is required, but there is also plenty of room for heroics, and the individual may make a huge difference.
But at football's core is a physicality bordering on violence, and to the left, that is anathema -- an atavistic impulse that must be squeezed out of our children.
So instead of a healthy game of tackle football at recess, liberals substitute Ritalin and maybe a good heated game of tag.
Consider the war against dodgeball. Progressives fret that it is traumatizing children and have been systematically banning the game. Why? Nobody ever gets hurt from dodgeball, but Progressive educators still want it gone. That is because of the actual acts performed in the game: one physically tries to hit another. The goal of the left has been to make physical aggression taboo; thus, dodgeball, which teaches children to be physically aggressive, must go.
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Do not attempt-- I repeat-- do not peruse this article without your prescribed reading glasses should you have reached forty (40) years, lest you incur eye strain and consequent headache, which may well lead to anxiety, depression and possible irritable bowel syndrome...to say nothing of the strain foisted upon your life partner in your proximity. This bodes ill for society at large, especially the children, many of whom, as you may predict, are already disadvantaged minorities. We must do all we can to level the playing field; and it naturally begins with sage guidance from the authorities.
Another field we are surrendering to the liberal church to control.
America is pu$$ifying itself and only plays video games now, leaving government, feminists and communists and Islamists tell them what is right from wrong, how to play a physical game or not to play it.
Ridiculous.
Yet the left nurtures the proliferation of an urban culture of drugs, preteen pregnancy, mob violence, and savage killing resulting in wasting of hundreds of thousands of individual lives as well as untold billions of dollars of property damage.
“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”
— Gen. Douglas MacArthur
When it comes to football, the reason it is being destroyed is because it is uniquely American. The game for the global society is determined to be soccer. The NWO does not want global societies to have anything unique. Everyone must march to the same drummer. That would be what the ruling class deems we can enjoy.
Remember over the past years we sent football teams to other countries to see if it would catch on. It didn’t. So...football won’t be stopped, it will just be ruined and pansified until nobody watches and it fades into the past.
Soccer can produce terrible injuries too. But you can see it is not under assault.
Well, that serves to dismantle traditional society, so to them promoting destruction advances the ball.
Anything conidered “American” or patriotic is their target. Anything related to morale or character building as well. For the progressives to in they have to destroy the oncpt of indiviualism and freedom.
In this case, such oppression is borne by the viewers...
Here is a similar (from Wikipedia):
The Duke of Wellington is often incorrectly quoted as saying that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton". Wellington was at Eton from 1781 to 1784 and was to send his sons there. According to Nevill (citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, "There grows the stuff that won Waterloo", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to "the manly character induced by games and sport" amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.
Hammer directly on head of nail.
And? Its working!
Well if course, there is profit to be made by liberal progressive elites who provide the “solutions” to these problems (or add fuel to the fire to create new problems) they can get rich even faster.
I know lots of progressive liberal commie Marxist b@$t@rd$ who love their HS/college/NFL football. Are they not in on their leadership’s plot?
Really? So what are they doing about gang-bangers, drive-by shooters, "flash" mobs, black-on-black murde, black-on-white murder, etc, etc? NOTHING!
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
Check on a large number of them...
You’ve done it, you’ve posted the stupidest paranoid screed ever to appear on Freerepublic, no mean feat! Congrats.
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“it is a he-man sport, a vestige of the old America,”
He man is long since dead in America. Perhaps the author hasn’t noticed that when any newsworthy bravery is shown by a man or men the reports leave out any mention or indication of maleness involved. “The gunman was jumped by two brave citizens, (in another report) two individuals, (and in another report) two people. Over the course of a day I had no idea who the hell had grabbed the guy.
This has been going on for the better part of a decade now.
Why on earth so many different reporters (at least her in the NYC metro area) would act so seemingly in unison over so small a thing is really kind of creepy.
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