The video at the following link, http://storyofstuff.com/ at which the following article writes about at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?_r=1 is being put out by Greenpeace, which is a far left organization that has been at the fringes of the most extreme elements of the environmental movement. What we all should be extremely concerned with should be how Greenpeace and other far left and militant organizations with specific agendas have made it into our classrooms, how the two large teachers' unions across the nation have allowed it to penetrate our schools' classrooms, and why public school officials are promoting them.
In a discussion with a close friend on the topic, she stated that she believed that the indoctrination of our children has begun. While I agree with her that there is a program of indoctrination of our young, I disagree with her on its timing. This sort of thing began in the early seventies when young teachers who had just recently received approval to teach in our public schools began to add to their curriculum environmental issues piece by piece. When I was in my last year of grammar school almost forty years ago, I began seeing this. I remember a young student teacher who was visiting our class who was enraptured when a young man (yours truly) espoused world government and transformation of our system of government into a Socialist Democracy (what is currently happening to US). Believe or not, that is what I used to believe back then, and I was praised for it by this young teacher.
This sort of thing has been going on for decades, not just in grammar schools across the nation, but also in our high schools, and colleges. This is not new, but because of the Internet more of US our being exposed to it, and only now are we beginning to awaken to just how pervasive it has been. This is serious folks. This is not fiction. And it is being done right under our nose with our tax dollars, and what is even more disturbing; it is being enforced by the Obama White House.
Recently, the NEA Communications Chief was forced to resign for using the National Endowment for the Arts in recruiting artists to create works that promoted President Barack Obama's policies. Teachers who are members of the two main teachers' unions: American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are using the public education system for political purposes. The venue of our public schools is being used by political hacks of the far Left to indoctrinate and brainwash our children to conform to the new political correctness sweeping our nation's government agencies, news and entertainment media. The other day, Fox News exposed a New Jersey elementary school directing its children to sing praises to Barak Obama as to a god. I was born and raised in this country, have lived through the turbulent 60s, chaotic 70s, came of age during the 80s, made it through the 90s, and have come to these times; but I have never in all of my years on this planet, in this country, have ever seen anything which comes remotely close to this in this country. I've seen it in newsreels of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's Communist China, Castro's Cuba, Ho Chi Min's Communist Viet Nam, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but I have never seen it here. No until now. Not only is it creepy, it is both inappropriate and is illegal, because involves tax payer supported institutions of learning being used for political manipulation of our children.
The cult of personality surrounding Barak Obama is a dangerous aberration in the body politic of this nation at this time, and it is promoted primarily because of race. A very large segment of our population have wedded themselves to this man primarily and above all else because his father was an African. Their affinity to this man because of his race is greater and stronger than their affinity even to this country, because they do no perceive him as ever having done them any wrong, whereas most of the members of this group believe as he has for many years that the injustices of this nation's past must be redressed by means of the redistribution of wealth, and a realignment of this system of government through Obama into a federal autocracy with Obama at its head. And though this man's policies are inimical both to their progress, their acute ignorance of the traditions of this nation, and why the Founders established a balance of power in the creation of an Executive Branch, a Legislative Branch, and a Judicial Branch who share power, and this group's antipathy for many of these because they point to a time when injustices were committed; they tend to view the nation, the Constitution, and the institutions which made this nation great synonymous with the very ills which visited these injustices upon their ancestors. It is not a question of race, it is a question of perspective, of world views. If you believe that your country is at fault for your ills and injustices against your ancestors, rather than objectively view these injustices as aberrations of evil men who abused their office and power to brutalize their fellow Americans - in other words if you think America is at fault, rather than evil men who abused power within it during certain periods of our history, then you will believe that this country is at fault for everything. This also is what the Marxist exploits for his dialectic, and this is Barak Obama's view of America and Barak Obama's worldview. This is why he has spent so much time travelling overseas to apologize for alleged wrongdoing by our country.
It's bad enough that one blames one's own country for the plight of one's own ethnic or racial group decades after such injustices have been effectively redressed. It's worst when one goes out of one's way to go overseas to debunk this nation and its accomplishments by apologizing for ills one believes were committed by this country in the past. This is not humility, it is the height of conceit, because it is the strongest statement put out by an individual that his personal world view and view of America is itself history, and therefore must be redressed through the expression of apology. It is a statement of one's own personal elevation above those of a nation's, indeed above anyone else's. This is the height of arrogance and the epitome of conceit, and it is the type of behavior that the world is beginning to expect from Barak Hussein Obama. France's president Zarkozy was so frustrated by Obama's naïveté and duplicitous actions and statements at the UN with regards to nuclear weapons and Iran that he gave Obama a lecture on the topic (see the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwGCTvpOi1I&feature=player_embedded and http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/29/sarkozys_contempt_for_obama.html) I never saw I'd see the day when a sitting American president would be upbraided by a French president for appeasing the world's most destabilizing criminal regime, but it has come to pass.
Another example of conceit and arrogance in the guise of humility and peace. But, this conceit and arrogance - a belief that his world view and opinions hold the key to the ills which plague the human race - is dangerous because it is coupled with a domestic and foreign policy that is wrong on every point it attempts to exert itself. One could at least say that if Obama's domestic and foreign policy objectives were correct, that is if they were in the best interest of this country and its people, including those of its allies; then we could meet him where these points and ours converged. But, this man is fundamentally wrong on every key issue, every key topic, and in every key policy objective he puts into motion. In eight months we have been ravaged by it.
A line however must be drawn between opposition to Barak Obama's policies, and opposition to Barak Obama as an American or to take it further, to Barak Obama as a fellow human being. At a time when partisan rankling has been become a degradation of civil discussion into personal ad homonym attacks, we must take the higher ground and separate from personal attacks upon the man. Thus, I will clarify that my criticisms of the president is of his policy measures and not his person. When I write of his ego, his naïveté, or his arrogance, these are character traits which have manifested themselves and have been observed by others working with the man, and not a personal attack on the man. It is an observation and opinion on the domestic and foreign policy deficiencies evident of this elected official who is the current occupant of the highest office in our land, a man who just months ago was a junior senator with no foreign policy experience whatsoever and a dangerously extreme liberal and radical view of this country and the world.
The cult of personality can be put to an end if the president of the United States were to order all organizations involved in it to put a stop to it immediately, and to address the matter with the nation to resolve it once and for all. But the problem is that this cult of personality is an Obama creation, financed by liberal interests, and fueled by the same organizations which worked behind the scenes to get Obama elected. Obama doesn't want to end it, it serves his purposes. It's not enough that CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, public television, Hollywood, the organs of information and the mass media, academia, and the unions are in his pocket, completely sold out to his cause and to his presidency. That is not enough for Obama. He needs to have it all. This is why he attacks Fox News and allows the charade of schools across the nation to manipulate, indoctrinate, and use our children to further his cause. This is why he and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Democrat-controlled Senate are pushing for some form of the Fairness Doctrine. Because what is being sought is the total control and manipulation of information; censorship of alternative points of view to Obama's radical agenda.
What does all of this entail of where we are as a nation and where we are headed if we put our guard down at this time? It entails that the often times said cliché' that absolute power corrupts absolutely is correct. Obama has eaten of this tree and he and the political party he belongs to which now controls the halls of congress, the media, and the courts; are intoxicated with it.
No comments:
Post a Comment