Alan Keyes: Teaching the essentials

..."That's the bad news, as I discussed last week. The good news is that federal pressure and control will be applied slowly, and curricular pressure will be applied only indirectly through a new testing regime that will serve as a benchmark for the states' own measures, not as the basis for direct federal control. Accordingly, much state autonomy will actually remain – if the states and their citizenry vigorously claim and exercise it"....

Oh sheeet, Dr. Keyes......how can it be good news to be sticking the damn frog in the cold pot of water? The sheeple will never know what hit 'em!!!!!

It seems that every time we engage in a "war" (forgetting the fact that the Congress has not declared war on anyone or anything since 1941 (WWII), "to defend freedom" we always have a little less of it when the "war" is over.

It's interesting that the only wars for which this isn't true, where liberty was expanded and not diminished as a result, were the Revolutionary and Civil wars. The reason for this, as we all know, is that the philosophical objectives behind those wars were more clear, and the commitment to liberty was stronger, at the beginning of our nation than now. By the 20th Century, American principles were pretty much forgotten. The common man lost his liberty-loving perspective, as well as his diligence in keeping his government in check. He had too much faith in his leaders, in the “experts,” and not enough feelings of personal initiative. What other result could there be when this happens, but a lessening of his freedoms?

That’s why it’s so important for each one of us to take self-government seriously. When we feel we can rest easy with our government officials, or we are content to just let things be, our complacency is taken advantage of. No minuteman was ever born with that attitude of laziness.

Our difficulty is that we must be not just modern minutemen, but watchmen also. This is impossible if we are not firmly devoted to our founding principles.

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