Your "Training" Begins In Five Days

How many teachers can be fired at once? In five days, on what for many children will be the first day of the school year, President Obama will deliver a speech via webcast into every public school classroom across the nation. Will all of those teachers be fired as a result of the propaganda on display in their classrooms? My best guess would be a resounding no. There has always been a different set of rules for Democrats and liberals.

For Republicans and conservatives, such a display would be grounds for immediate dismissal. Just ask Shiba Pillai-Diaz, a New Jersey middle school teacher who was fired in 2004 because she had a photograph of the president and first lady on her wall. The problem was that it was President Bush, and the principal ordered it taken down. When Pillai-Diaz refused, she was terminated. Ironically, one of the reasons was an accusation of "suppression of free speech", which came about because she refused to discuss her political views with her students. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most parents should expect that teachers keep their political opinions to themselves.

As parents across the country begin to protest this intrusion into the lives and minds of their children, liberal groups will subsequently start calling those parents and their advocates "right wing kooks". This is a prediction I make with virtually no trepidation, and I also know that the webcast will be defended by the left as something innocuous. But let's face it...Obama is not merely going to read My Pet Goat to them.

The Obama administration and the Dept. of Education have carefully choreographed this event, sending out specific instruction packets to teachers in what to discuss and when to discuss it. This will not be a speech in which the president simply beseeches the children to be good students and study hard, or to listen to their mommies and daddies. He is going to advise them on how to help him and his agenda. To put it simply, he is trying to organize them.

To contrast this, try to imagine this scenario; it is 2004, and President Bush plans a webcast to speak directly to the children about the virtues of tax cuts or to defend the Iraq War. The left would be completely apoplectic over such an event, but here they see no foul.

Incidentally, the school in question in the opening paragraph was Crossroads South Middle School in Monmouth Junction, NJ. They have a new principal now, but I decided to write to him anyway, and ask him the question of teacher firings next week. Here is the text of my email:

Dear Mr. Tucholski,

In light of the fact that a teacher from your school was fired for having a photograph of President Bush silently hanging on her wall in 2004, I was just curious as to how many teachers will be fired on September 8th for having President Obama beamed into the classroom for the purpose of indoctrinating the children.

Please reply at your earliest convenience.



Sincerely,

Daniel James Wood

I will certainly update this post in the event of a reply.

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Swine Flu And The Police State

Rahm Emmanuel recently said - and I paraphrase - never let a crisis go to waste, indicating that bad news is good news for those who seek to capitalize for political gain. What he never mentioned, however, was the value of manufactured crises.

Not to suggest that the swine flu outbreak was the product of any nefarious action, but its magnitude has certainly been vastly inflated. One reason may be to accentuate the debate on universal health care, but the current machinations in various states point to a much more potentially dangerous scenario. One such state is Massachusetts.

According to Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily, there is a "pandemic response bill" under way in the Massachusetts legislature that would give authorities broad and chilling powers in the event of a perceived health emergency. Passed by the Massachusetts state Senate on April 28, Pandemic Response Bill 2028 is awaiting approval in the House. If passed, all it would take for the state authorities to exert draconian control and a stunning cessation of constitutional liberty is a declaration by the governor that an emergency exists, and individual freedom would be lost.

Among the provisions of this bill are the state's ability to forcefully enter private dwellings, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, inoculate citizens against their wishes, and imprison those who refuse to comply. They will also have the authority to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons. According to Barbara Loe Fischer, president of the National Vaccine Information Center:

"Public health doctors have persuaded legislators to pass pandemic influenza legislation that will allow state officials to enter homes and businesses without the consent of occupants, to investigate and quarantine individuals without their consent, to require licensed health-care providers to give citizens vaccines and to ban the free assembly of citizens in the state."

This disturbing trend is not limited to Massachusetts, either. Other states pursuing the same measures are Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Washington. All of this over a virus that has not yet claimed nearly as many lives as other influenza viruses do every year. Perhaps the virus was not manufactured, but there is little doubt that the accompanying hysteria has been.

Rahm Emmanuel is no doubt licking his chops over the potential presented here for complete control of the masses.

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Look South For Signs: All-Out Assault On Capitalism

Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me where is sanity...
-Alvin Lee, Ten Years After

There once was a time in America when success was both desired and envied simultaneously, but never was it denied that the means toward success were the very foundation of the nation. Hard work and the entrepreneurial spirit, combined with a fervent desire for victory, is what built this country into the monument to freedom that it is. For generations, our youth has been taught that playing to win is important, for it was an educational preparation for life in the working world. Healthy competition was always encouraged, and it always bore fruit.

Then came an unsavory period in our history when the successful began to genuinely exploit their employees. Thus the unions saw their genesis, something that I do acknowledge was necessary at the time but have long since denounced as the unions gained more and more power and influence and merely became usurpers of the tyranny of the successful bosses. Ironically, this was all made possible by a Democrat president presiding over a financial crisis and fomenting the socialistic tendencies at play today, claiming that only government oversight could cure all economic ills. Look at where it has lead us.

While ordinary American tenacity, coupled with brief spells of Conservative control of the executive branch, has valiantly fought against the tide of previous fiscal maladies and won, the collective sentiment of the people has been steered purposefully towards an ever increasing desire for that which will be their ultimate ruin; totalitarianism, packaged and sold as "compassion".

Part of the Communist Manifesto designates control of the educational system as key to shaping the mood of the nation. By simple manipulation of the curricula, it would be easy to mold the minds of future leaders into blithe acceptance of ideologies that would make their parents cringe. Predictably, parents did resist, only to be told that they were poorly educated in old ways, and subsequently acquiesced out of dazed confusion and a sense of being outdated. The wheel was greased...

Because the Trojan Horse was gaily wrapped in bright, festive paper bearing the American flag, people took their eyes off of it while fighting the decoy that remained the object of their ire. Overtly communist neighbors were scorned and children warned, steering clear of those neighboring properties designated as hostile by their parents, all the while the subversion continued unabated. Once the mind is won, the rest is easy.

So now we have a president who calmly tolerates the tongue-lashing of his country by a socialist leader of a Latin-American country (Daniel Ortega) and a lecture by the socialist leader of the host country (Hugo Chavez). We have elected members of the United States Congress openly embracing the policies of the likes of those two men, as well as heaping praise on the "leadership" of Fidel Castro, additionally lauding his health care provisions for his poverty-stricken island. One such Representative actually romanticized about Che Guevara. Also, our nation's official stance under this administration - for the first time in my memory - is to side with the socialist Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, who was ousted by his own Congress for subversion of his countries constitution.

The next step is drawing a huge, collective yawn from our media, even as ordinary citizens rail against it and are denigrated as heretics. Obama is following in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez. Just as Chavez has nationalized a large portion of the Venezuelan industry, Obama is moving as quickly as possible to do the same here. Just as Chavez has waged war on media outlets not friendly to the regime, so Obama has sought to encourage tattletales to report citizens who disparage his regime even as he himself has decried the perceived "disinformation" being spread, just like Chavez has qualified his actions on the same, obtuse grounds.

Currently "employing" more czars than the Russian empire did in more than 400 years, this president has seen the finish line for capitalism and is racing for the tape. No one would heed the warning signs of his past associations during the campaign, and no one in the media today seems willing to point out the pasts of the plethora of unaccountable people now helping this Marxist in reshaping what was once known as the land of milk and honey.

Heartening is the sudden surge in conservative willingness for activism, but I fear that the tide may have come in too late for a peaceful reversal of the radical policy shift of our "leaders". When the likes of the Republican opposition candidate for president - who once heroically resisted the torturous tactics of his Viet Cong captors - suddenly succumbs to the whims of a would-be socialist tyrant, it is left to the angry population to seize the mantel of preservation.

For a short-range glimpse into our potential future, simply look South. All of the signs are there.

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