This story has been discussed among various Facebook friends. Most of the conservative ones are swearing to keep their children home from school when the Obama address takes place September 8. I responded to one that I would probably send my child, but simple arm them with the knowledge that not everyone agrees with the president, and they don’t need to either.
Nevertheless, this unprecedented presidential address to America’s public schoolchildren is pretty creepy. But don’t take it from me. Take it from D.K. Jamaal, columnist at the Newark Progressive Examiner [bolds in original]:
Big Brother alert: Sorry, but Obama’s planned address to nation’s schoolchildren is creepy
September 1, 2009… I’m sorry, but the notion of a mational address to schoolchildren creeps me out.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but it sparks within me thoughts of Big Brother’s looming head on a massive television screen, indoctrinating the hapless drones spread out before him.
The companion “Menu of Classroom Activities“ released to pre-kindergarten through sixth graders by the Education Department in advance of what they are billing as “President Obama’s Address to Students Across America” does nothing to assuage my paranoia.
Before the speech, students are instructed to read books about Barack Obama. Teachers are asked to ask students “Why do you think he wants to speak to you?” referring to the President.
During the speech, students should think about the following “What is the President asking me to do?” and “What specific job is he asking me to do?” among other things.
After the speech, the questions that students should ponder include “Are we able to do what President Obama asks up to do?”
I’m sorry, but I don’t want the President of the United States asking or telling the kids of the United States to do anything. This isn’t 1950s China.
And what—exactly and precisely and specifically what—is the President going to be talking about during this address? The war? Healthcare reform? Voting issues?
Nobody knows, which is also scary. [...]
Scary indeed. But not surprising. President Hope&Change has learned from his radical leftist heroes well. Get control of the children and you get control of the future. Remember this Hitleresque display from before the 2008 election:
That was just an appetizer. Consider these gems [h/t Parent Freedom]:
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”—Josef Stalin
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”—Karl Marx
“Having children is not a question that we can afford to let each family, each household, decide for itself. It is a question that should be decided at the national level. … [T]he interests of the individual must be subordinated to the interests of the state. Where there is conflict between the interests of the state in reducing population and the interests of the individual in having children, it must be resolved in favor of the state.”—Chi An
“Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.” — Point #17 in the 45 Communist Goals for America, 1963
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future.”—Adolf Hitler, 1935
“The state will take youth and will give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. Your child already belongs to us… What are you?”—Adolf Hitler
Had enough of this?
End the Occupation! Liberals out of the Schools Now! Especially President Hope&Change.
Related reading:
Obama’s classroom campaign: No junior lobbyist left behind by Michelle Malkin
Parents rebel against Obama TV speech to schools by Bob Unruh at WND
Abusing School Kids With Pro-Obama Propaganda by Michael Medved at Townhall
UPDATE: Free Republic reader "RushIsMyTeddyBear" (cute) tipped me to this nauseauting video. Whatever happened to Separation of Church and State?
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