How bad are things in Detroit?  Not a single person stepped forward to run for the Detroit school board.  Facing extinction, citizens thought better than jumping aboard a sinking ship.

And it’s with good reason.  A story just released by EAGtv shows that parents have lost confidence in the adult-focused system and its elected leaders.

Detroit Public Schools are among the worst in the country.  Dismal student performance, unions run amok and radical activists, like By Any Means Necessary, using the public schools as a platform for their socialist agenda.  Glenn Beck featured this socialist on his Fox News show, when the moron pontificated about the virtues of the Soviet Union during the “National Day of Action to Defend Public Education” March 4th.

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Militant socialists were out in full force Thursday, March 4th, for a “Day of Action to Defend Public Education.”  The nationwide event was organized by fringe, left-wing groups like Michigan’s “By Any Means Necessary,” Ohio-organized “Community Organizing Center for Mother Earth,” Los Angeles-based “County Peace and Freedom Party,” the “League for the Revolutionary Party” of New York, and North Carolina’s “Destroy Industry.”

In Detroit, a chap representing the Che Guevara-loving, Mumia Abu-Jamal-supporting “FIST Youth” educated a crowd of about two dozen about the virtues of socialism.  He also lectured on the Soviet Union, its roots and the glory days when the “people’s council” made all of the important decisions.

Strangely, that’s not the Soviet Union I learned about in public school.  I was taught about a ruthless nation that annihilated the United States.  I learned about a Soviet Union that starved its people and constructed drab buildings while its leaders lived the high life. (Well, that last part I had to find out on my own.)

But that’s enough of my take on the socialist rally in Detroit.  You can enjoy the history lesson for yourself.

I respect this guy - he represents the strain of socialism that lays it all out for America to ponder.  That’s more than I can say for our current leaders, who couch their true beliefss in poll-tested phrases and flowery language.

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