Let me tell you a little secret about politics. You know those “both sides” everybody talks about? While you are sleeping, they are getting together.
You don’t actually have to be sleeping. You can be going nuts over Prayers in Schools or Six Day Evolution or the Holiness of a Single Cell, but meantime, “Both Sides” are quietly selling you out. I worked on Capitol Hill. I watched it happen all the time.
Issues like this give your so-called “leaders” a wonderful chance to keep your eye on the Golden Ball while they make their deals with no interference from you.
Conservative “leaders” march forth and thunder that they love one-celled “unborn babies” as much as they do their own children, that they stand for prayers in school, despite all the pressures against them (WHAT pressures?) and that they demand the right for creationism be taught in schools.
Liberals yell for the other side.
These things are a godsend for politicians.
The wonderful thing about your wasting your entire political life on that stuff is the attitude of everybody who actually has any power is:
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
So while you are proud of yourself for marching boldly in favor of holly to decorate your school, the education establishment is working out a nice deal where it will eventually compromise and allow the right a few harmless school vouchers, while shouting all the way. The universities will still use your money to run their liberal seminaries.
While you obsess over Iraq’s borders and Israel’s borders, the third world will pour over yours. But they will be able to pray in your schools. Ain’t that great?
While you are talking about freedom, the right wants to take your freedom away by “protecting the children” from pornography and the left want to censor anything it decides to call “Hate.” Since the right wants to convince the left that it is more anti-racist than the left is, rightists will be proud to join the left in heavy censorship to stop both pornography and anything the left chooses to call “Hate.”
People in real politics like the way you think. While you worry about Creationism and Holy One Cells, they’ll take care of the stuff that matters.
Creationism? One-cell humans? Prayers in schools? The establishment would be far more frightened by one copy of Why Johnny Can’t Think: America’s Professor-Priesthood in a school than by ten thousand prayers, and you know it.
#1 by Roy Smith on 12/12/2004 - 12:16 pm
I agree politicians distract us with the small issues while agreeing on the big ones but outside of Immigration (which will change America), War (which will change our relationship with the world) and Judicial Activism (which reduced the Constitution to a mere scrap of paper), what do you consider the “big issues”.
PS. Bought and loved your book, thank the censors of Canada for at least one extra American sale.
#2 by Don on 12/12/2004 - 2:29 pm
Here is one of the really big issues:
Does Hillary Clinton have any Jewish blood in her?
#3 by Don on 12/12/2004 - 2:31 pm
Another biggie. Do the Jews control the diamond market?
#4 by H.S. on 12/12/2004 - 3:33 pm
And every one on this blog knows the man is absolutely RIGHT! And everyone of them from the right to left and back around again will run this country into the ground, into third-world status, with the winner’s smile on his face.
Look at the home school exodus. For every young one that will never darken the door of any indoctrination-propaganda center, K-18, they have lost on every possible front. It’s yet to be seen what fruits will come of it in the future. Every copy of Why Johnny Can’t Think that is read and understood AND ACTED ON! will be at minimum one more that they will have to deal with later.
They will be ignored, ostracized, outlawed, marginalized, villainized, attacked, divided, imprisoned, and eliminated. But, I fear, in the long run finally seduced – because they were not soldiers who were trained understanding that this is war, and were not anchored in what was absolutely right and absolutely wrong. It IS a matter of truth, honor, character, and blood.
And for anyone reading who does believe Genesis, events told to Moses because no man was present to see them:
the issue continues to be a primary battleground. “And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. … For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.”
Seduction through many means and people has always worked really well. What’s your excuse soldier?
#5 by E. Walker on 12/13/2004 - 1:33 pm
This is in regards to the National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 which passed the senate on 12/08/2004.
This is our future, the United Union of America.
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2004/pr120704.htm
Paul Denounces National ID Card
December 7, 2004
Washington, DC- Congressman Ron Paul today denounced the national ID card provisions contained in the intelligence bill being voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives, while urging his colleagues to reject the bill and its new layers of needless bureaucracy.
“National ID cards are not proper in a free society,” Paul stated. “This is America, not Soviet Russia. The federal government should never be allowed to demand papers from American citizens, and it certainly has no constitutional authority to do so.”
“A national identification card, in whatever form it may take, will allow the federal government to inappropriately monitor the movements and transactions of every American,” Paul continued. “History shows that governments inevitably use such power in harmful ways. The 9-11 commission, whose recommendations underlie this bill, has called for internal screening points where identification will be demanded. Domestic travel restrictions are the hallmark of authoritarian states, not free nations. It is just a matter of time until those who refuse to carry the new licenses will be denied the ability to drive or board an airplane.”
“Nationalizing standards for drivers licenses and birth certificates, and linking them together via a national database, creates a national ID system pure and simple. Proponents of the national ID understand that the public remains wary of the scheme, so they attempt to claim they’re merely creating new standards for existing state IDs. Nonsense! This legislation imposes federal standards in a federal bill, and it creates a federalized ID regardless of whether the ID itself is still stamped with the name of your state.”
“Those who are willing to allow the government to establish a Soviet-style internal passport system because they think it will make us safer are terribly mistaken,” Paul concluded. “Subjecting every citizen to surveillance and screening points actually will make us less safe, not in the least because it will divert resources away from tracking and apprehending terrorists and deploy them against innocent Americans! Every conservative who believes in constitutional restraints on government should reject the authoritarian national ID card and the nonsensical intelligence bill itself.”
#6 by E. Walker on 12/13/2004 - 1:52 pm
These links are in regards to the National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 and Congressman Ron Paul of Texas reaction to Section 7208, I could not find the full text of the National Intelligence Reform Act but I found the Conference Report, which is linked below also.
Section 7208 is a requirement for all states to have a biometric entry and exit data system so they can report to the department of homeland security. This is where you can say good-bye completely to a soveriergn statehood. They also are talking of check points to show who you are. This reminded me of the Soviet Union. What I am lead to believe with this information is that we are now the United Union of America. God be with us…
Just read these links, they are so important…
National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 Conference Report
http://www.house.gov/rules/s2845confrept.pdf
Congressman Ron Paul’s reaction to this Act
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2004/pr120704.htm
#7 by Bob Whitaker on 12/15/2004 - 3:57 pm
Roy, what about the issue I wrote a whole book about?
You don’t take a hint real good, do you?
#8 by H.S. on 12/15/2004 - 7:27 pm
Our Bob.
Subtle.
We’re sure that’s always been his middle name.
#9 by Roy Smith on 12/16/2004 - 10:30 am
“You don’t take a hint real good, do you?”
Apparently not but I have it now that I’ve actually thought about it. Thanks for the reply.