Education Monopoly

"The real problem is that the public-school system is, in effect, an educational garbage dump. No matter how much money we pump into these schools, they will not improve because the system's foundation is rotten. It is a compulsory government-controlled near-monopoly- that is the rot under its foundation. Just as the government-controlled food system in the communist Soviet Union produced failure and famine, so our government-controlled public schools produce educational failure for our children. In both cases, that failure is built into the system because compulsory government control strangles free choice and competition." Joel Turtel in Public Schools, Public Menace

Video

Here is about a 30 minute video I found on-line about America and our political institutions. It is broken into four parts and I found it very informative. If you only have time to watch one part I would recommend part 2 of 4.

http://youtube.com/profile_video_blog?user=TheJohnBirchSociety

Citizen

The Oppressive Government and Education

"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe....Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of government, from their carelessness and negligence. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants....Make them (their children) intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting wrong, and they will apply the remedy." - Daniel Webster

One of the most important tools for the masters of the socialist state is government-run education (public education). For, it is fundamental that the minds of youth be conditioned to trust and follow government edicts (because, after all, these regulations are "for the public good"). So, the question, "who should shape the minds of our youth?", is extremely important for any society. God expects parents to train their children in the way they should go. Math, History, Philosophy, and Science can not be divorced from truth and God is central to these truths. For example, math and science show God's ordained order. In addition, what subjects and topics we teach our children will differ based on worldview. Socialists like to trust the state, and state alone, to answer these questions. They assume the government bureaucrats are right, or at least, more right than the rogue parent. Freedom is too risky for the socialist. However, the right to freely educate one's children is assumed in the Bible, and actually required of the parents. Thankfully, our Founders separated church from state and school from state at the national level (see first and tenth amendments). If only our government followed the Constitution and applied that wisdom to state governments as well.

"God demands that we submit to authority. In America, the people have retained the sovereignty of the king, and they have a Law by which to rule: the Bible-based common law and the written Constitution. These are the Law of the land, these are the God-appointed authority- not a man or a group of men. To submit to the lawless and unconstitutional acts of rebellious leaders is to become accessories to their crimes against the Law of the land, and thus against God. Yet many Christians comfort themselves that acquiescence is proper because it is submission to authority. In fact, it is ignorance and cowardice masquerading as submission. Too many Christian men today are ignorant: they don't know our nation's heritage or understand its system of law. They are cowards, unwilling to make the personal sacrifice required to stand up against legal lawlessness. They are rebels against God and the authority he has established in this republic." Editors of Patriarch Magazine (Jan. 1997)

We desperately need the government out of education. I publicly declare that I favor ending government involvement in education. www.schoolandstate.org

Quick post about the USA

check out www.freedomtofascism.com
It is about an upcoming film that exposes (as if it is not obvious) the USA's shift from freedom to fascism. Fascism, like socialist, includes: state control of the economy, censorship, and blind loyalty.

Why should I make this blog?

This blog is the result of a realization that socialism, despite it poor track record, seems to be growing in popularity worldwide. Even though the Nazis (National Socialist Workers Party) were defeated in WWII and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) desinegrated in the Cold War largely due to U.S. efforts, the U.S.A. continues to embrace socialism. Ironically, socialism continues to attract people with it lofty goals and fools people into believing that more government control will not be used to exploit them, but to help them.

If socialism did not: enslave people under a command economy, destroy the right to own private property, limit rights such as freedom of speech and conscience, usurp the right of parents to educate their children, attempt to control the social decisions of people, ruin work ethic by discouraging initiative, waste monies that could be spent more wisely to help humans worldwide, and create a false trust that the government, and not God, is sovereign, among other vices, I would not have created this blog. However, socialism does all of that and more and I think I am responsible to speak up for my fellow human beings.

Furthermore, I think that Christians need to actively oppose evil and love our fellow humans by sticking up for them. Sharing the gospel is primary; but without deeds to support faith, will the world really see much of a difference? "Is this not the kind of fast I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke. Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter...? Then your light will break forth like the dawn..." (Isaiah 58:6-8) Socialism, as I will attempt to record on this blog, actually causes poverty and oppression despite its claims to alleviate them. By God's grace, Christians need to love neighbors enough to help them physically and spiritually. By doing good and challenging evil God can work through us to better the world.

So here it goes....