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"Harry Hope" |
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15 Mar 2006 02:36:39 PM |
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In the words of Rudolph Hess 25 February 1934, "The Oath to Adolf Hitler" |
"Loyalty in character means absolute obedience that does not question
the results of the order nor its reasons, but rather obeys for the
sake of obedience itself. Such obedience is an expression of heroic
character when following the order leads to personal disadvantage or
seems even to contradict one's personal convictions."
-- Rudolf Hess 25 February 1934, "The Oath to Adolf Hitler"
http://www.counterbias.com/589.html
March 15 2006
Teachers Should Teach Students to Think
Like Jay Bennish, teachers should refuse to give in to the hateful and
intimidating atmosphere of fear
by John F. Borowski
In Overland High in Colorado, a student hears his teacher make a
painful request:
ponder today’s politics and be open to thought.
If this young student was upset, did he ask the teacher about it?
Did his parents follow traditional protocol:
call the teacher, if unhappy, call the teacher’s immediate supervisor,
if unproductive, take it to the school’s chief administrators?
No, this young man knows the best way to confront speech is to enlist
avowed enemies of such democratic principles:
tape parts of the conversation on an MP-3 player and give it to a
conservative talk radio.
Apparently, the Mike Rosen radio show, a known conservative, would be
a fair arbiter of this situation?
While overt expressions of patriotism are welcomed in classrooms
around America, dissent is not.
Not even dissent in the form of two-sided, thoughtful analysis of the
current state of politics in this nation.
Most teachers like Jay Bennish, carefully preface their discussions
with disclaimers such as what was reported by the LA Times:
"According to the transcript, Bennish concluded by telling his
students: "I'm not implying in any way you should agree with me ....
What I'm trying to do is to get you to ... think about these issues
more in depth." He thanked them for asking questions."
But as Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough, Bill O’Reilly and the "new
order" of selective freedom of speech advocates excoriate Jay Bennish,
what will teachers across America do?
They will hide.
They will avoid tough discussions and thoughtful essay assignments and
turn to sterile fill in the blank and multiple- choice questions.
Mundane is good, mindless is better and sheep-like is the safest.
According to the critics of Mr. Bennish, there needs to be more
"balance."
There needs to be "two-sides" of all issues.
Mr. Bennish is giving balance:
Mr. Bush has misled the American public on Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction, the connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, fought
the creation of a 9/11 panel, refuses to make public data ranging from
the secretive energy meeting between Cheney and big oil to contrived
"intelligence" to start the Iraqi war.
These are not fabrications or a hateful agenda brewed up by a liberal
teacher, they are facts.
But, America in the year 2006 has a fear of facts.
Just search your own memory.
Remember when the news (the so-called liberal press) played the clip
with President Clinton stating, "I did not have sexual relations with
that woman Ms. Lewinsky."
I would like to know how many times that played on television.
It was "burned" into the collective CD memories of most citizens.
Yet, why don’t we hear and see these three pieces over and over again?
For years, law enforcement used so-called roving wire- taps to
investigate organized crime.
You see, what that meant is if you got a wire tap by court order --
and, by the way, everything you hear about requires court order,
requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example.
President Bush: April 19, 2004:
"We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the 11
September attacks," Mr Bush told reporters as he met members of
Congress on energy legislation.
At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush narrated a slide show
poking fun at himself and other members of his administration.
One pictured Mr Bush looking under a piece of furniture in the Oval
Office, at which the president remarked:
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere."
After another one, showing him scouring the corner of a room, Mr Bush
said:
"No, no weapons over there."
And as a third picture, this time showing him leaning over, appeared
on the screen the president was heard to say:
"Maybe under here?"
How dare the press not play these pieces of data over and over and
over again?
Teachers like Jay Bennish want our youngest citizens to be equipped
with the keystone of "Democracy 101"...the ability to take data and
process it through critical thinking.
Instead, we have a press that is for the most part obsequious lapdogs
to the most corrupt administration in United State’s history.
We have a talk radio culture that thrives on lies and intimidation
(yet the likes of O’Reilly’s sexual harassment, Bill Bennett’s
gambling follies, Limbaugh’s illegal drug purchases, Hannity’s
shameless manipulation of Terri Schiavo's health condition are all
ignored).
And now, we have students who are actively urged to secretly tape
their teachers and morph challenging discussions into a "judge, jury
and hanging" on radio by pundits that have the most obvious and
unapologetic agendas?
Rudolf Hess’s speech to Nazi youth back in February of 1934 is eerily
replaying itself in 2006.
Detractors of free speech, wrap themselves in our American flag while
they undermine the constitution and Bill of Rights.
Messengers of dissent, an action that President Jefferson called, "the
highest form of patriotism" are scorned and looked to be crushed by
the enemies of democracy.
I have taught for 25 years and I have now seen dialogue and truth
replaced with blind faith.
From: There is no global warming to the teaching of intelligent
design; we have entered an era where the foundations of democracy are
not being chiseled away but openly chain sawed down.
When people, adult or child cannot back accusations, they rely on a
frightening rationale of "just because."
Facts no longer matter and ideology is blindly and dangerously driven
by an "absolute obedience that does not question the results of the
order."
Teachers like Mr. Bennish refuse to give into this hateful and
intimidating atmosphere of fear.
What are we going to do about it?
Teachers: don’t run and hide, teach the truth.
Jay Bennish did.
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"Loyalty in character means absolute obedience that does not question
the results of the order nor its reasons, but rather obeys for the
sake of obedience itself. Such obedience is an expression of heroic
character when following the order leads to personal disadvantage or
seems even to contradict one's personal convictions."
-- Rudolf Hess 25 February 1934, "The Oath to Adolf Hitler"
Harry
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| Title: Re: In the words of Rudolph Hess 25 February 1934, "The Oath to Adolf Hitler" |
15 Mar 2006 04:59:22 PM |
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Not all Republicans are Nazis, but all Nazis are Republicans.
Republicans take the same positions as Nazis. Dumyas father Prescott
Bush helped finance Hitler's rise to power and armed Nazi Germany and
was convicted under the "trading with the enemies" act. Both parties
have an intolerance of the viewpoints of others. Both smear and try to
destroy their political opponents. ***** Cheney ordered the release of
top secret government information, compromising the war on terror and
destroying the US spy network in Iran just so that he could destroy
someone who provided the CIA with evidence that the Bush administration
was lying about WMDs in Iraq. Granted, we haven't had our Krystal Nacht
yet, but we have had arrests of American citizens on American soil
without warrents, evidence, or access to courts. We have had the
torture of political prisoners by the US government in both Iraq and
Gitmo. We have had illegal spying on US citizens. We have a White House
that argues that they are above the law and are not bound by it.
In what sense is the Republican party not the same as the Nazi party?
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www.cafepress.com/bush_doggers
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| User: "John" |
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| Title: Re: In the words of Rudolph Hess 25 February 1934, "The Oath to Adolf Hitler" |
15 Mar 2006 05:01:51 PM |
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<james01773@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1142463562.921699.101800@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
Not all Republicans are Nazis, but all Nazis are Republicans.
Republicans take the same positions as Nazis. Dumyas father Prescott
Bush helped finance Hitler's rise to power and armed Nazi Germany and
was convicted under the "trading with the enemies" act.
Actually the arrangement was quid pro quo. The original Bush
family fortune was paid to Prescott Bush by Nazi-owned
banking interests.
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