I agree raerae....
and that takes us back to the education and hollywood and whatnot.
Hollywood has taken the more - and this isn't the best term to use but I'll say it anyway- less important topics (Gay marriage and what not- which shouldn't be dictated by the federal government anyway but by state government) and brought the huge outcry for the feds to take care of it.
Again- they don't know who to go to they go running over and whimpering to big brother to fight their battles for them- and since they have the money in hollywood.....guess who gets the most attention?
And then you have the schools (again federally mandated except private schools) teaching that (and this is just me paraphrasing) that private property doesn't exist and that its acceptable to listen to hollywood and watch American idol and what not.
Going back to the public schools and the educational system I found this on boortz.com 8/11/03
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein
This would be the Monday when school starts across the nation. This will also be the Monday when your precious little rug rats will get their annual leftist indoctrination against basic property rights.
I hit this particular topic every year about this time. To really get the point across I like to focus on first-graders – the first year in a government school.
About a year ago I wrote a column for World Net Daily detailing your child's first day of school. Here is part of what I had to say then. It's just as true, if not more so, today:
Do you remember those weeks before school started for your first grader? There you were, you and your proud new student walking the aisles of the local Costco with your list of school supplies in hand. You checked off the pencils, a ruler, a compass, paste, construction paper, a pencil holder, notebooks and erasers. At home, your first grader takes the supplies into his room and spreads everything out on the bed. Arranges them this way – then that way. Pencils next to the erasers, glue and construction paper lined up over here, compass and ruler lined up over there. These are his supplies. His! Do you hear? And tomorrow he is going to take them to school. He couldn't be more proud.
Finally, the first day of school arrives. The night before all of the school supplies are packed, repacked, unpacked and repacked again. Then, that morning, just one more unpacking and repacking to make sure everything's still there and undamaged. OK! It's off we go to school! Apprehension mixed with pride. Your young man or woman is taking another grand step toward adulthood! What could go wrong?
Plenty. Remember, it's a government operation.
The students are seated, the bell rings. As fast as you can say the Pledge of Allegiance without the "under God" part, the indoctrination begins. The government teacher steps in front of her virtual hostages and promptly delivers the first raw lesson in the power of government. The students are instructed to bring all of their precious school supplies – their property – to the front of the classroom and put them into a huge box. They are told that the supplies belong to all of the class now, and the teacher will assume the responsibility of distributing the supplies as they are needed.
"Whoaa! Hold on a minute here! These are my supplies. My daddy bought them for me. You can't have them! They're mine!"
Nope. Sorry! They were yours. Now all those supplies belong to – guess who? The government!
There's a method to this madness. Your child is being taught that there are some severe limits to the concept of private property. It is perfectly OK, for instance, if the government just steps up and seizes your property if there are other people who might need some of your stuff. After all, it's just not right for you to have something that other people don't have or can't share in, is it?
This whole "dump your supplies into this box" is not an innocent exercise. Your child's teacher might not even be aware of it, but this lesson in government power is a time-honored method of introducing your child to the concept that there is something basically wrong with owning private property – but everything will be OK if you just let your superiors even things out a bit by taking some stuff from you and giving it to someone else.
How did Marx present this concept? I think it was something like "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need."
Day number one, lesson number one: Your rights to your property exist only so long as government will allow, and it's just not fair to have more stuff than someone else.
And this is just the first week! More surprises in store! Wait until you get that call from your child's teacher with vague, dark hints of a better world for your child if only he was on Ritalin.
So that being shown the attention wont be deverted because at a young age we already start thinking in terms of words like "Common Good"
Again this is from Boortz.com 10/17/06 and I do not agree with him attacking the democrats on this but I do agree with the point he is trying to get across:
DEMOCRATS OUT FRONT ON ANTI-INDIVIDUALISM.
The Democrats have now rolled out their catch phrase for the 2008 mid-term elections. You'll be hearing it time after time after time from Democrat spokesmen and candidates from now until election day. It's a phrase that does nothing less than lend support to the identification of Democrats as nothing less than big-government socialists.
The Democrat's catch phrase is one that will surely bring smiles to the faces of Marx and Lenin in whatever corner of hell they now occupy. The word --- or two words, if you will -- for the Democrats is now "
common good."
Well, at least the Democrats are being loyal to their socialist roots. "Common good" was a catch-phrase for the communist movement for decades, now it is being officially embraced by the Democrats. No real surprise here. Democrat icon Ted Kennedy announced the war on individualism -- using those very words -- many years ago.
The idea of the "common good" is completely contrary to the concept of individualism. You either support and promote the idea of individuality, or you ignore the rights of the individual for the good of the whole .. for the common good.
So .. here we have the Democrats telling you just exactly who they are, and who they think you are -- not an individual, just one element that makes up the masses.
These people and their socialist "common good" theme are dangerous to freedom, liberty and the very concept of the individual. If you're looking for a reason to vote for the free-spending, big-government Republicans, the Democrats and their "common good" theme would be it.
So this is a huge thing with the american public. It's not even the really small issues it's a huge thing that at a young age we're taught the common good is most important and then we divert our attention to hollywood and whatever they tell us to think- because the american public is very stupid and we are sheep we automatically do it.
