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In this prior posting, GraniteGrok’s Ann Marie Banfield writes,
“As we try to play catch up to the Democrats, one area that continues to fly under the radar screen is our public education system. This is a system that continually indoctrinates children into the ideals of liberalism. This is a system that Republicans have virtually washed their hands of. Yet this is the most pressing issue we face.”
She continues,
“It is hard to run behind this indoctrination program and do repair work. It is best avoided when the indoctrination is not allowed to be conducted in the classrooms.”
Exactly. It is much harder to change something, in this case, ideology, once it starts to take root.
The Bedford mom-turned-educational activist asks,
“Where are these strong Republican leaders? Are they at school board meetings each week? Running for school board? Forming a relationship with board members to give their input? Supporting a Superintendent that promotes an apolitical atmosphere rather than a liberal indoctrination camp? I bet they are meeting for their weekly or monthly Republican meetings. All the while, the school board is voting in more programs that completely undermine the family, and every other conservative principle.”
“Where are Republicans on education?”
she wants to know. Of course, she does know:
“Many have checked out of the public school system and washed their hands of the mess. Yet they send them a hefty check each year, paying for the rest of those kids to be indoctrinated into liberalism and globalism at their expense without one word of criticism. How many of you would send $10,000/year to a company for nothing in return? Not only NOTHING, but to do a job you are in complete odds with? Yet that is exactly what is happening when they steal your tax dollars and dictate liberal curriculum in the classrooms.”
Consider the latest play presented by the school performing arts program here in the ‘Grok’s hometown. After reading in the Citizen newspaper of the rather-crudely named play currently being presented by Gilford students, “Urinetown,” that featured themes of “greed love and a ‘world without water’” I just knew it was yet another instance of leftist anti-capitalism indoctrination. All the buzz words were there.
“‘Urintown’ is an award-winning satirical musical comedy that pokes fun at capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement and petty small town politics.”
I’ll bet it “pokes fun at capitalism” all right. In addition, it carries the standard radical environmentalist agenda as well—After all, what public school activity would be complete without that? The Citizen notes that
“The Environmental Club at the high school will have a table set up outside in the lobby displaying how some of the issues in production actually relates to real life.”
When I read the Wikipedia entry on the production, I learned that the thing ends in a rather violent way, proclaiming that, for all intents and purposes, there are just way too many people on the planet and that WE are it’s ultimate biggest enemy:
“[M]uch of the population dies of thirst. Lockstock insinuates that Hope suffers a terrible death at the hand of the people for her actions in depleting the water supply, but adds that the remaining townsfolk will wage on, their town now quite like the imaginary ‘Urinetown’ they had been threatened with all their lives. As the cast chants ‘Hail, Malthus!’ the audience must face this final question: can they continue to blithely live a life that they consciously know is unsustainable?”
What– You’ve never heard of Malthus? He is one of the early heroes of the radical environmentalists, who, back in the 19th Century wrote in his famous Treatise:
“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world.”
Indeed, this is the stuff getting gently layered into the malleable young minds of Gilford’s children.
At least not everyone is falling for this garbage, for, amidst the rave reviews of this play, I found this one (from a Republican group, no less!) that pretty much sums up what I gleaned after doing the research on this latest production starring the children of Gilford:
“This disgusting anti-capitalist dreck is supposed to be a satirical examination of the supposedly unsustainable life lived by you and me. Having read it, I can tell you that it is nothing more than a sophomorically vulgar attempt at the same smart-aleck liberal humor that has been done much better by the likes of Lewis Black and Bill Maher. Equating modern American culture with urinating is disgusting and childish.”
Will anybody in town stand up and call this what it is: PROPAGANDA? Chip by chip, the radical left tears down our country by destroying its basic values. Whether by outright bold means such as the International Baccalaureate Programme seeking to inculcate World government within all facets of the curriculum, or in sneaky ways of incorporating subtle messages via such things as “the arts” like this play, they never stop. One day—perhaps sooner, rather than later– we might wake up to an America very different from the one we thought we knew and loved.
A famous man once said,
"When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, "I will calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants,however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
And of course, truer words were never spoken. He knew how to transform society so that it fit his worldview. So do the forces at work in America today. I, for one will not sit idly by and watch that happen again. I will put up the fight until they drag me off to the camp, once and for all…
Look at who those pushing the environmentalists’ agenda along with the kids in the government schools of my town. From Breitbart:
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and a top UN official urged industrialised nations Friday to alter their lifestyles and not let the global financial crisis hamper climate change efforts.
Industrialised nations should also help developing countries respond to climate change, Wen said at the opening of a two-day international meeting on global warming in Beijing.
"The developed countries have a responsibility and an obligation to respond to global climate change by altering their unsustainable way of life," the state news agency Xinhua quoted him as saying.
"As the global financial crisis spreads and worsens, and the world economy slows down, the international community must not waver in its determination to tackle climate change."
And that means a lot, coming from the head of the Chicoms. You just KNOW they care about the environment above all else, just like the Gilford kids, right? Riiiight….