From: chasm@insync.net (schuetzen)
Subject: SNET: (fwd) IP: A glimpse of totalitarianism
Date: 2 Jun 1999 16:21:03 -0400
To: george@sneety.insync.net, al@sneety.insync.net, paul@sneety.insync.net
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On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:11:44 -0400, "L.J.Alberts" wrote:
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A glimpse of totalitarianism
by Joseph Farah
Most Americans have grown to trust their government
to protect them and their rights.
This is why Americans are flirting with a loss of all
freedom.
If you wonder what a total government power
monopoly will be like, all you need to do is examine the
reaction by government schools to the recent rash of
student attacks.
Remember, government schools in all 50 states long ago
banned firearms. Not even teachers or administrators
would think of keeping a loaded gun on campus to
protect themselves and their student charges. Thus,
those attending government schools are sitting ducks for
anyone who wants to go out in an ignominious blaze of
gore.
The shooting and bombing attacks have only increased.
So what's the next step?
School districts all over America are increasingly
treating all students like criminals. In Michigan,
WorldNetDaily reported last week, one school system
has banned bookbags, lunchboxes -- even coats and
jackets -- from school premises for fear they might be
used to conceal weapons. A 12-year-old boy in
Louisiana was suspended and then locked up in a
juvenile detention center for two weeks for telling fellow
students, "I'm going to get you." In Pennsylvania, a
14-year-old girl was strip-searched and suspended for
two weeks when, during a class discussion, she
observed that she understood how unpopular students
might eventually resort to violence. A 9-year-old in
Virginia was suspended and later expelled for drawing a
gun in class. Four boys in Arkansas overheard talking
about guns were taken to the police station,
strip-searched without their parents' knowledge and
suspended or expelled. A 16-year-old in Virginia was
suspended for the rest of the year for writing an essay
about a nuclear bomb.
What's going on here? Has America gone mad? Is this
overreaction or collective insanity?
I'm afraid it's neither. Instead, it's the predictable
eventuality when government is given the authority --
tacitly or otherwise -- to be the sole guarantor of our
safety, security and liberty. That's where we're headed
in America. The government schools are already there.
To see what life in an American police state will be like
one, two, five years down the road, just take a glimpse
of the Gestapo tactics being employed in U.S.
government schools.
What's the solution? I admit there is no easy answer.
What got us here is years of dumbing down --
intellectually and morally. If adults don't understand the
concept of self-government, how can we expect
deliberately miseducated kids to grasp the concept?
We're long past the point where the U.S. political elite
accepts the notion of self-government. Washington
operates from the guiding principle that people are to be
controlled -- much like children in government schools
or cattle being raised for slaughter.
This is why, first and foremost, we are seeing
government's mad scramble to disarm the American
people. It's still coming incrementally, step by step. But
it's more obvious than ever what the ultimate goal is.
You, your family, your community will be at the mercy
of the government for protection. Government will no
longer concern itself with being accountable to the
people -- the people will be accountable to government.
Government will maintain a monopoly on the use of
force and terror.
You don't even have to go to your kid's government
school to see the early stages of the coming fascism.
You can see it when you go to the airport and you are
forced -- at government's insistence -- to prove you are
not a criminal. You can see it when you go to your local
theme park with your children and guards search your
backpacks and purses for weapons.
Slowly but surely Americans are being forced to cope
with and live with government-mandated security
checkpoints, draconian rules, random searches and
seizures.
Americans are so conditioned to this trend as a way of
life that most even defend it as a necessary evil as we
head into the brave new world of the 21st century.
Do you like what you see when you look into the
mirror, America? Do you like what your kids see?
A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph
Farah's commentaries can be heard at
http://www.ktkz.com/
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