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		<title>Radical Leftist Teacher Sets Bad Example for Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RACINE, Wis. – Al Levie must be proud of himself.
The Racine teacher had his fifteen minutes of fame this month when he refused to accept an award from Congressman Paul Ryan at a Martin Luther King, Jr. event at a local college. A video of Levie’s antics, accompanied by a lame explanation for his defiance, is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RACINE, Wis. – <strong>Al Levie</strong> must be proud of himself.</p>
<p>The <strong>Racine</strong> teacher had his fifteen minutes of fame this month when he refused to accept an award from <strong>Congressman Paul Ryan</strong> at a <strong>Martin Luther King, Jr.</strong> event at a local college. <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/liberal-hate-high-school-teacher-refuses-to-accept-mlk-award-from-paul-ryan/">A video</a> of Levie’s antics, accompanied by a lame explanation for his defiance, is circulating online.</p>
<p>“Paul Ryan is a lackey for the one percent,” Levie contends in a video interview after the event.<br />
The video made Levie an instant folk hero for leftists.</p>
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<p>But our research shows that silly antics are nothing new for Levie, an ends-justify-the-means type who routinely uses his students to promote his personal political agenda.</p>
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<p>In an article Levie penned for his union magazine, <strong>NEA Today</strong>, he wrote that “By engaging students in real-life issues and encouraging them to act on a political level, we will transform schools into places where authentic learning takes place.</p>
<p>“At the same time, we will help our students become engines of positive change in our society,” he wrote.</p>
<p>In other words, Levie wants his students to become fellow rabble rousers. And what better way to elicit “positive change” than to snub a respected congressman from a political party he opposes?</p>
<p>The incident with Ryan, however, is only the most recent example the social studies teacher has set for his students.</p>
<p>Last summer, he was kicked out of a <strong>Wisconsin Senate Finance Committee</strong> hearing for causing a fuss. He was literally carried out by police.</p>
<p>In 2009, “<strong>Horlick </strong>teacher Al Levie, known for organizing high school students in political movements, was part of the crowd” that protested outside of Ryan’s office, according to the <strong>Racine Post</strong>.</p>
<p>In 2004, a student vote project headed by Levie was canceled when it was discovered that the event would only benefit one political party. <strong>The Journal Times</strong> reported:</p>
<p>“The get out the vote project planned by <strong>Horlick High School</strong> students has been canceled.</p>
<p>“<strong>Racine Unified School District Superintendent Thomas Hicks</strong> said what started out to be a class-related activity last week turned out to be a partisan event. The decision to cancel the event was made … after he learned the facts had changed and it was no longer a bipartisan endeavor.”</p>
<p>It quickly becomes clear that Levie believes the purpose of public schools is to turn students into junior social democrats, and he’s setting the example with his childish antics aimed at Congressman Ryan.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, only 57 percent of <strong>Racine Unified</strong> high school students are proficient in social studies.</p>
<p>That sad reality will leave students with a one-sided perspective on <strong>American</strong> political issues, and likely little insight into Ryan’s conservative thought.</p>
<p>And that’s exactly the goal, isn’t it, Al?</p>
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		<title>Kid Pan Alley Encouraging Students to &#8216;Compose&#8217; Left-Wing Protest Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Va. &#8211; If you want to mesmerize small children and make them believe   everything you&#8217;re saying, just grab a guitar and deliver your philosophy in   the form of music.
Soft sounds and attractive rhymes ring true with kids, regardless of the   content or message. And with musicians being so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON, Va. &#8211; If you want to mesmerize small children and make them believe   everything you&#8217;re saying, just grab a guitar and deliver your philosophy in   the form of music.</p>
<p>Soft sounds and attractive rhymes ring true with kids, regardless of the   content or message. And with musicians being so glorified by popular culture,   kids have a tendency to believe that if it comes in a song, the message must   be profound and correct.</p>
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<p>What a brilliant strategy for left-wing educators across the nation who have   openly declared their intent to convert public school students into young   liberals.</p>
<p>The indoctrination-through-music effort comes courtesy of a <strong>Washington</strong>, <strong>Virginia</strong>-based   non-profit called &#8220;<strong>Kid   Pan Alley</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musicians who belong to the group visit elementary schools for a reported   $1,200 per day, supposedly helping children learn to write their own musical   lyrics. The fee comes from school budgets, of course, and schools are   encouraged to seek government grants to cover the cost.</p>
<p>When the &#8220;workshop&#8221; is finished, they help the kids perform   &#8220;their&#8221; songs for classmates in school assemblies.</p>
<p>The lyrics these kids come up with are amazingly adult in their political   content, and startlingly liberal for very small children who generally have   little coherent understanding of politics at all.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s one example of a song supposedly written last fall by third-graders at   <strong>Woodbrook   Elementary</strong> in <strong>Charlottesville</strong>,   <strong>Virginia</strong>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some people have it all, but they don&#8217;t think they have enough; They   want more money, a faster ride; They&#8217;re not content, never satisfied; Yes,   they are part of the 1 percent, I used to be part of the 1 percent; I worked   all the time, never saw my family, couldn&#8217;t make life rhyme.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Though I lost my yacht and plane, didn&#8217;t need that extra stuff; Could   have been much worse, you don&#8217;t need to be first; Cause I&#8217;ve got my friends,   here by my side; Don&#8217;t need it all, I&#8217;m happy to be part of the 99.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Wow. Who would have guessed that third-graders were so in tune with the   anti-capitalistic message of the <strong>Occupy</strong> movement?</p>
<p>If we didn&#8217;t know better, we might suspect that the musicians who run the   workshops are teaching the kids about the glory of the Occupy effort and   suggesting a few lyrics here and there.</p>
<p>But they wouldn&#8217;t stoop low enough to brainwash innocent, trusting minds &#8211;   would they?</p>
<p><strong><em>Not   so sweet and innocent</em></strong></p>
<p>If you visit the &#8220;Kid Pan Alley&#8221; website, you&#8217;re going to get the   sugar-coated version of what these people are up to.</p>
<p>You’ll hear background recordings of adults and children singing about making   the best of a rainy day, or having to go to school. How sweet and   age-appropriate.</p>
<p>The   words on the cover page are equally innocent.</p>
<p>&#8220;Imagine what it is like to be a child writing a song in their classroom   with a professional songwriter,&#8221; the website says. &#8220;You&#8217;d be   changed forever. You&#8217;d have learned about teamwork, the value of everyone&#8217;s   ideas, embracing diversity and collaboration through the group songwriting   process.</p>
<p>&#8220;You might start writing songs to express your feelings rather than   striking out in anger. You&#8217;d feel really listened to and proud of what you   had done. And just imagine that this is the most fun you ever had in school.   Well, this is what Kid Pan Alley is doing in schools throughout the country   &#8230; .&#8221;</p>
<p>How touching, and how misleading. These people seem to be unapologetic   left-wingers who are seeking to produce a whole new generation of   anti-American radicals through music. To prove that point, all you have to do   is look at more lyrics from songs supposedly written by children in their   workshops.</p>
<p>The following is an excerpt from a song called &#8220;<strong>Inauguration</strong>&#8220;:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The world is as cold as the white snow, the birds have been wondering   if it&#8217;s safe to return; We&#8217;ve all been hibernating for too long; but now   we&#8217;ve got the power &#8211; we&#8217;re no longer cowards; We&#8217;ll have a brand new song.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now we&#8217;re ready to shed our old skin; we&#8217;re ready for a brand new day;   Ready for peace &#8211; ready for spring; Ready for freedom &#8211; let freedom ring;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Welcome <strong>Barack   Obama</strong>, he&#8217;ll save the day &#8211; hip hip hooray.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Barack Obama, hip hip hooray, Barack Obama, hip hip hooray, Barack   Obama, hip hip hooray. Barack Obama!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Nothing political or one-sided about that. Kids naturally want to honor their   president, right?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny, though, because we haven&#8217;t come across any Kid Pan Alley songs   praising the virtues of <strong>Ronald   Reagan</strong>, or even <strong>Mitt   Romney</strong>, for that matter. We&#8217;re sure at least some of the kids   in these workshops come from more conservative homes. Maybe those kids just   aren&#8217;t very talented lyricists.</p>
<p><strong><em>This   is brainwashing, &#8216;no doubt, no doubt&#8217;</em></strong></p>
<p>Obviously some level-headed observers have called Kid Pan Alley out on the carpet   for this blatant attempt to create a juvenile wing of the <strong>Democratic Party</strong>.   The following comment came from a Virginia resident who read the lyrics to   the &#8220;99 percent&#8221; song quoted above:</p>
<p>&#8220;Even after a cursory glance at the lyrics of this song, I find it hard   to believe that an eight-year-old would have something to say about the   (economic) bubble bursting,&#8221; the woman said.  &#8220;I know it says   on their website that the ideas come from kids, but I would question how much   input the facilitator had to do with writing the song.&#8221;</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll take it a step further. We think the &#8220;facilitator&#8221; wrote the   song, and used his charm and musical chords to easily convince the children   to endorse it.</p>
<p>Amazingly, officials from Kid Pan Alley defend what they&#8217;re doing and dare to   suggest that they have no political motive.</p>
<p>&#8220;Kid Pan Alley does not promote nor condone any personal or political   agenda,&#8221; <strong>Pat   Rogers</strong>, the executive director of the group, was quoted as   saying. &#8220;Our sole mission has been and continues to be to inspire and   empower children to work together to become creators of their own music and   to rekindle creativity as a core value in education.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even less believable are the words of naïve educators who have   hosted Kid Pan Alley musicians in their schools.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no question in my mind that Kid Pan Alley is firmly committed   to teaching kids, and they are not interested in a political agenda,&#8221; <strong>Phil Giaramita</strong>,   a spokesman for a school that hosted the group, was quoted as saying.   &#8220;We&#8217;re confident that Kid Pan Alley has set the right boundaries and are   committed to enforcing that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do they think we&#8217;re stupid? Do they really expect anyone to believe that   elementary kids are coming up with left-wing protest songs by themselves?</p>
<p>Consider the lyrics of another song, addressing American foreign policy,   supposedly written by small children. We&#8217;re guessing the lyrics are directed   toward <strong>George W.   Bush</strong>, and perhaps even President Obama, who continues to   frustrate his liberal base by pursuing a military strategy in the <strong>Middle East</strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t <strong>Pearl   Harbor</strong>, this isn&#8217;t <strong>World   War II</strong>; This is just a disagreement, and I disagree with you;   Why pick a fight, isn&#8217;t that the easy way out? In the end everyone loses, no   doubt.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sometimes we fight just to be in a fight; but in the end it makes the   whole world poor.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sometimes we fight to be holy; sometimes we fight to be free, sometimes   we fight because we&#8217;re blinded by might; Let&#8217;s open our eyes and look inside   and finally see.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why pick a fight; isn&#8217;t that the easy way out? In the end everybody   loses, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong><em>The   money source tells the story</em></strong></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>If there remains any doubt about the political motives of Kid Pan Alley, just   consider one source of its funding. It&#8217;s the Virginia-based <strong>William and Mary Greve   Foundation</strong>, which also funds a group called the<strong> American Society For Muslim   Achievement</strong>, headed by a <strong>9/11</strong> conspiracy theorist, according   to writer <strong>J.   Christian Adams</strong>.</p>
<p>The Greve Foundation is headed by <strong>John   Kiser III</strong>, author of a book titled &#8220;<strong>Communist Entrepreneurs: Unknown   Innovators in the Global Economy</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>We doubt the Greve Foundation supports Kid Pan Alley because of the balanced   political message it shares with children. It supports Kid Pan Alley because   it produces songs for children like the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I could change one thing, I would change all the rules; Freedom would   be free. I&#8217;d be my own boss no matter what the cost.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;What if kids could vote, it&#8217;s love that sets us free; When everyone has   what they needed, there would be no more war. Yeah, that&#8217;s what kids are   for.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with exposing students, even elementary kids, to the   issues of the day. In a society that&#8217;s becoming progressively ignorant about   its government, children should be encouraged to become more knowledgeable   and engaged.</p>
<p>But responsible educators will make sure children are exposed to various   points of view, so they can go home, discuss various topics with their   parents, and begin to develop their own opinions.</p>
<p>Responsible parents should make sure that teachers aren&#8217;t shoving their   narrow political philosophies down kids&#8217; throats, even through seemingly   harmless venues like musical workshops.</p>
<p>Remember, the vast majority of leaders in the public education   establishment are very liberal. They will let this type of thing continue   until parents and taxpayers demand otherwise.</p>
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		<title>Hamas-linked CAIR in Your Kid’s Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is a Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood organization given entrée in public schools? In the American Thinker December 19, I asked: “Why is a representative of a terror-linked organization, a defender of jihad terror groups and an apologist for Islamic supremacism welcome to speak in public schools?”
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is a Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood organization given entrée in public schools? In the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/hamas_high_school_in_florida.html">American Thinker</a> December 19, I asked: “Why is a representative of a terror-linked organization, a defender of jihad terror groups and an apologist for Islamic supremacism welcome to speak in public schools?”</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/CAIR.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-403220" title="CAIR" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/CAIR.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="217" /></a>I was referring to Hassan Shibly, a representative of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who spoke at Tampa’s Steinbrenner High School in November. After I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">broke the story at my website Atlas Shrugs on December 4</span>, giving specifics of where and when the CAIR rep spoke, and then published the article in the Thinker, “<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hamas High School in Florida?,”</span><em> </em>patriots made hundreds of calls and sent hundreds of letters, emails, Tweets and Facebook messages in protest to Steinbrenner school officials.</p>
<p>The main person responsible was Kelly R. Miliziano, a teacher in the Social Studies Department at Steinbrenner. And she announced Wednesday that the school has scheduled additional religious speakers to balance the CAIR operative &#8212; a Hindu priest or a Christian pastor.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>The problem with that is that Shibly is a<strong> </strong>political speaker. A Hindu priest or Christian pastor won’t counter the poisonous propaganda that Shibly spews to our impressionable young minds. An informed counter-jihad speaker such as Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan or I myself must be given a chance to speak, so as to counter the lies of Hamas-tied CAIR.</p>
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<p>Hamas-linked CAIR should not be speaking at all, but if the public school shills insist on presenting jihadi views, they must provide freedom lovers with the same opportunity. Further, political speakers should be off limits on school grounds.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the email exchanges between CAIR and Steinbrenner High School are revealing. Miliziano wrote this in a November 14 email: “Every year I invite a representative from CAIR to speak to our AP World History Students.” After CAIR-Tampa responded favorably, Miliziano wrote again: “Over the years I have had many speakers from CAIR come to my classes, and it has been such a good learning experience for the students.”</p>
<p>Miliziano said that she “regularly asks” Shibly to speak. This is despite the fact that Shibly has a track record of defending jihad terrorist groups and acting as an apologist for the worldwide jihad and Islamic supremacism. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, Shibly granted legitimacy to the jihad terrorist group Hezb’allah by characterizing it as a “resistance movement” that provides valued social services to the Lebanese people. “They’re absolutely not a terrorist organization,” Shibly said, and “any war against them is illegitimate.”</p>
<p>Yet Miliziano refused to respond to parents’ requests to vet the notorious Mr. Shibly. Instead, she attacked the parents who complained. She even called parents’ concerns about CAIR “baseless and Islamophobic.” Yet although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has many links to Islamic supremacist and jihad terror groups. CAIR’s cofounders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad attended a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they conspired with Hamas operatives to raise funds for Hamas. And several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various jihad-related crimes.</p>
<p>This should be grounds for Miliziano’s immediate dismissal. Freedom lovers should urge Steinbrenner’s principal, Brenda Grasso, to fire Miliziano at once demand equal time for freedom fighters, while calling upon Steinbrenner High cease and desist from inviting Muslim Brotherhood groups to speak to public school students. Call for Ms. Miliziano’s removal. Demand equal time for freedom fighters. Brenda Grasso’s <a href="mailto:email%20is%20brenda.grasso@sdhc.k12.fl.us">email is brenda.grasso@sdhc.k12.fl.us</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">.</span></p>
<p>One parent of a Steinbrenner student, whose child went through Shibly’s indoctrination, wrote me that his daughter told him that Shibly said that “only 4% or 6% of Muslims were terrorists,” and that his presentation was so positive toward Islam as to be “borderline proselytizing.”</p>
<p>This parent went to Steinbrenner the morning of December 5 and spoke to Kelly King, the Assistant Principal for Curriculum. King confirmed that the speaker who addressed his daughter’s class was indeed a representative from Hamas-linked CAIR. “I explained to Ms. King,” wrote the parent, “that I strongly objected to CAIR being involved in the school, and recited some of CAIR’s more infamous highlights. She replied that the presentation was part of a history of religion unit in their history class. I told her that I have no problem with students being taught the history of Islam, but if the school was going to have a speaker do that, they should invite an Imam, not a representative from a religious based political organization, particularly one with such a dubious history.”</p>
<p>In response, King equated “a Christian pastor to a PAC” and ultimately referred the parent to Miliziano, who said that she regularly invited Shibly to give presentations, and “that the statements I had made about CAIR were baseless and Islamophobic,” even though the parent had expressly told her that he had no problem with the school bringing in an imam to discuss the history of Islam. When the parent tried to explain to her that “the school was associating itself with a religious-based political organization that propagandizes for Islam &amp; Sharia, and are terrorist apologists,” Miliziano “completely dismissed these concerns.”</p>
<p>And despite Miliziano’s assurances that a Hindu priest and a Christian pastor would address the class, so far only Shibly has done so.</p>
<p>This is unconscionable. Freedom lovers must <em>demand</em> equal time.</p>
<p><em>Pamela Geller is the publisher of </em><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/"><em>AtlasShrugs.com</em></a><em> and the author of the WND Books title </em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Current-Affairs/Stop-the-Islamization-of-America-A-Practical-Guide-To-The-Resistance-Autographed-Hardcover"><em>“Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance”</em></a><em> and </em><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439189307?tag=atlasshrugs-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1439189307&amp;adid=1C6TN7J5GTC47KSBTNMZ&amp;" target="_self">The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration&#8217;s War on America </a></em><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439189307?tag=atlasshrugs-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1439189307&amp;adid=1C6TN7J5GTC47KSBTNMZ&amp;" target="_self">(Threshold Editions/<em>Simon</em> &amp;  <em>Schuster</em>).</a></em></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Let&#8217;s Move&#8217;: A Government Initiative to Lie to Kids</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/kavrech/2012/01/01/lets-move-a-government-initiative-to-lie-to-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Singer Avrech, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, an aggressive media campaign has been launched by Let&#8217;s Move, a government-funded fitness initiative led by Michelle Obama.
As you will see in this TV spot that&#8217;s airing, one of many, the message of the Let’s Move campaign is quite  simple: Lying to your children is fine because it’s good for  them.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, an aggressive media campaign has been launched by <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/first-lady-michelle-obama-launches-lets-move-americas-move-raise-a-healthier-genera">Let&#8217;s Move</a>, a government-funded fitness initiative led by Michelle Obama.</p>
<p>As you will see in this TV spot that&#8217;s airing, one of many, the message of the Let’s Move campaign is quite  simple: Lying to your children is fine because it’s good for  them.</p>
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Let&#8217;s Move should be relabeled Let&#8217;s Lie.</p>
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<p>Social engineering—for that&#8217;s exactly what this is—is not just ineffective but it is evil.<img title="More..." src="http://www.seraphicpress.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>In a sense, we should be glad these commercials are out there. It serves as a wake-up call that Liberal ideology justifies the use of lies, manipulation and let&#8217;s face it, a dose of sadism. This insidious mindset pervades the ageing 60&#8217;s idealogues&#8217; views  of child rearing. It&#8217;s a deceitful approach that sabotages good parenting, which must be based on trust and mutual respect.</p>
<p>Instead of a relationship built upon integrity these health autocrats encourage us to manipulate and lie to our children.</p>
<p>This is a paradigm for how the Obama administration views and treats the American public. They are the all-knowing parents and we are the clueless children who will be herded and prodded, by any means necessary, into government mandated programs that are, they assure us, ultimately “good for us.”</p>
<p>The premise that we should seek out guidance from the government on child rearing is one more encroachment on the sanctity of the family aimed at destroying the rights of parents to raise children according to their values.</p>
<p>Under the guise of a smiley, benevolent state, Michelle Obama, Big Sister, is making a bid to lead the ignorant masses to a better life.</p>
<p>And where have we seen that strategy before?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the justification for Obamacare, a Byzantine universe of laws and regulations that is guaranteed to ratchet up the cost of health care, drive physicians out of business, destroy competiton in favor of a government monopoly, and ration medical care especially for the elderly and those afflicted with life threatening illnesses.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also the fuel that sustains every murderous Socialist and Communist regime that&#8217;s ever existed, dictatorships whose morality is best summed up thusly: the ends justifies the means.</p>
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		<title>New Book Exposes the Effort to Introduce Radical Political Philosophy into K-12 Classrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Education Action Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUSKEGON, Mich. &#8211; We’ve always known that teachers unions are very political   organizations, and many of their more radical members are active in left-wing causes.
That’s their right, as long as they pursue their activities after school.
But more and more American K-12 teachers are bringing their politics into the classroom, brazenly acknowledging their effort [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MUSKEGON, Mich. &#8211; We’ve always known that teachers unions are very political   organizations, and many of their more radical members are active in left-wing causes.</p>
<p>That’s their right, as long as they pursue their activities after school.</p>
<p>But more and more American K-12 teachers are bringing their politics into the classroom, brazenly acknowledging their effort to indoctrinate and recruit a new generation of radical, anti-American students.</p>
<p>“The long period of self-censorship among educators regarding class and labor issues may no longer hold,” wrote radical educator <strong>Rob Linne</strong> in his book “<strong>Organizing   the Curriculum</strong>.”</p>
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<p>&#8220;We cannot claim to be teaching for social justice if we ignore the class warfare being waged all around us. Bringing labor into the arena of K-12 education will undoubtedly meet political resistance, but an increasing number of educators are motivated to take up the challenge.”</p>
<p>That frightening approach to teaching is what motivated <strong>Education Action Group</strong> to publish a new book titled &#8220;<strong>Indoctrination: How &#8216;Useful Idiots&#8217; are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can watch a short promotional video for the book by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VMb4aQpa0E" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</p>
<p>The book, authored by EAG <strong>Chief   Executive Officer Kyle Olson</strong>, with assistance from staffers <strong>Ben Velderman</strong> and <strong>Steve Gunn</strong>,   is available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Indoctrination-Schools-Subvert-American-Exceptionalism/dp/1467060410/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1322575813&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>.</p>
<p>It explores dozens of examples of radical public school teachers and their   politically active unions taking liberty with our children by teaching   left-wing philosophy as fact.</p>
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<p>It also illustrates how radical left-wing think tanks around the nation are   producing and distributing special lesson plans that attack the fundamentals   of American society and plant the seeds of class warfare in young   minds.</p>
<p>In his foreword for the book, <strong>FOX   News</strong> contributor and former Clinton advisor <strong>Dick Morris</strong> bemoans the fact that educators are willing to brainwash young minds before   they have the ability to fully understand and judge issues on their own.</p>
<p>“We have become accustomed to hearing American history and politics   misinterpreted by leftist university professors,” Morris writes. “But (now)   we see the insidious indoctrination at the elementary and secondary levels.   At least university students can think for themselves. (The book) explains   how 7- and 8-year-olds are taught to embrace an atheistic, leftist philosophy   virtually from the time they enter school.”</p>
<p><strong><em>I,   Tomato</em></strong></p>
<p>The   book clearly illustrates that teachers unions want to create a future class   of organized labor activists or sympathizers.<br />
A   curriculum produced by the radical <strong>California   Federation of Teachers</strong> is called &#8220;<strong> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkGAJyUsg1g" target="_blank">Golden Lands, Working Hands</a></strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>To reverberate with its adolescent audience, the lesson features a rap video with the lyrics, &#8220;The age of railroads meant mass transportation, but   did rich men make the trains of our nation? Psych! It was the working people   who laid the tracks. And see who did the work and got the job done. While   lazy lone ranger was out havin&#8217; fun.&#8221;</p>
<p>After   the minimum wage line, the cartoon character in the video falls in the grave   he just dug for himself, then a pig rises out of a pile of money bags. There is nobody in the video defending the &#8220;pig&#8221; who invested the money to build the railroads and create the jobs. That would have destroyed the whole purpose of the lesson.</p>
<p>Younger students are not immune from these very political “lessons.”</p>
<p>There is a popular story/lesson plan for young children titled “<strong>I Tomato</strong>.” The   main character, a tomato plant, tells readers about the loving care it   received from various migrant workers, and how it was mistreated by being   sprayed with pesticides.</p>
<p>The story gives full credit for food production to the field workers – “Juana, Dolores and Rajib; Finoy and Carlos, Connie, Lupe, Marcos and Jose Manuel – it is to them I owe my life and you owe your tomatoes.”</p>
<p>That’s great, but what about the investor who risked his savings to establish   the farm, hire the workers and provide the necessary materials to grow the   tomatoes? No mention of him. But the kids do get a union promo at the end of   the story:</p>
<p>“Many farm workers belong to a union,” the story says. “Do you know what a union is? If you were a worker, would you want to belong to a union? How can you find out if your fruits and vegetables were picked by union workers?”</p>
<p>The book also discusses <strong>Chicago</strong> teacher <strong>Kati   Gilson</strong>, who taught her preschoolers about her 2011 trip   to <strong>Madison</strong> to protest the collective bargaining policies of <strong>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker</strong>. She also taught them new words like &#8220;strike,&#8221; &#8220;collective   bargaining,&#8221; and &#8220;negotiate.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My preschoolers understand what a protest march is and why it is important,” Gilson wrote.</p>
<p>“As   we gear up for what looks like a big battle it is important for us to teach our children and families why we are taking a stand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is this what we pay school taxes for?</p>
<p><strong><em>What would the Black Panthers do?</em></strong></p>
<p>Many radical teachers obviously want their students to disapprove of the   United States and mistrust their government.</p>
<p>One chapter in the book explores the growing pattern of teachers leading elementary children to recite the <strong>Pledge of Allegiance to the Earth</strong>, instead of America. One educator, <strong>Rosalie Tyler Paul</strong> of <strong>Maine</strong>, wrote a piece calling for everyone to reject love of country and embrace globalism.</p>
<p>“We can see that the nation is not the parcel most in need of our loyalty and   allegiance,” Paul wrote. “The purpose and courage we need can be found better in Earth citizenship that in nationalism.”</p>
<p><strong>Wayne Au</strong>, a former <strong>Seattle</strong> high school teacher, wrote about teaching his students the story of   the violent <strong>Black   Panthers</strong> and their “<strong>Ten Point Program</strong>,” and encouraging students to develop their own lists of political priorities, based on modern issues.</p>
<p>One successful student wrote, “We want the mask of capitalism lifted and economic classes disbanded,” and “The enslavement of the middle of the lower classes by the bourgeoisie must end.” Au praised the student’s work for its “relentless attack on corporate America.”</p>
<p>Even school math lessons are not immune. One chapter of the book refers to “<strong>The Guide for Integrating Issues of Social and Economic Justice into Mathematics Curriculum</strong>,” by <strong>Jonathan Osler</strong>.</p>
<p>In his guide, Osler suggests giving a lesson about mathematical averages using casualty numbers from the war in Iraq. He suggests teaching probability by having students explore the probability that a police traffic stop will   target a person of color. He also calls for a geometry lesson based on “environmental racism” that would require students to “determine the density of toxic waste facilities, factories, dumps, etc. in the neighborhood.”</p>
<p>Way to go, Mr. Osler. Instead of teaching a generation of youngsters to appreciate their nation and the freedom they have to make their lives better, you want to create an angry bunch of revolutionaries who are determined to destroy the very system that makes it possible to work for change.</p>
<p>As one blogger who reviewed our book wrote, “Olson shows that kids are being taught everything but what parents are sending them to school to learn. This is a solid book, but it’s shocking in what it uncovers.”</p>
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		<title>Do Teachers Really Believe They&#8217;re Paid to Preach Political Views to Kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; We were dismayed a few weeks ago when hundreds of union teachers in Oakland, California skipped work and forced the shutdown of several schools, in observance of the Occupy movement&#8217;s national strike day.
We thought their commitment to their students should come before their outside political activities. We wondered how they could [...]]]></description>
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<p>OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; We were dismayed a few weeks ago when hundreds of union teachers in <strong>Oakland</strong>, <strong>California</strong> skipped work and forced the shutdown of several schools, in observance of the <strong>Occupy</strong> movement&#8217;s national strike day.</p>
<p>We thought their commitment to their students should come before their outside political activities. We wondered how they could be so passionate about national tax issues, but fail to display the same type of concern about educational quality issues.</p>
<p>But now they&#8217;ve sunk to a new low, and it should not be tolerated.</p>
<p>Dozens (or perhaps hundreds) of teachers in the Oakland school district pledged to use taxpayer-funded class time to teach their students about the Occupy movement &#8211; from a positive viewpoint, of course. We can safely assume that critics of Occupy were not invited to participate in the lessons.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s what the teachers pledged to do:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;During the week of 10/31 to 11/4, I pledge to teach about: the Occupy movement; the role of strikes in movement history; the systems and issues this movement is protesting against; the possibilities for change this movement is part of envisioning; what students need to know about how to stay safe during these protests.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p><strong><em>Unique lesson plans</em></strong></p>
<p>Several teachers shared their ideas for lessons on the &#8220;<strong>Teach Occupy Oakland</strong>&#8221; website.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The use of <strong>Israeli</strong>-made weapons in Oakland police violence,&#8221; one wrote. &#8220;International solidarity,&#8221; another wrote. &#8220;Oakland history of blues, rap and protest,&#8221; was an entry from a music teacher. &#8220;Wealth distribution&#8221; was another lesson topic.</p>
<p>Okay, we get it. Oakland schools are chucked full of radical left-wing teachers who hate America&#8217;s economic system, despite the relatively high standard of living that most of us take for granted.</p>
<p>Those teachers, as private citizens, certainly have the right to believe anything they want.</p>
<p>But do they really believe they&#8217;re paid to indoctrinate students in their personal political philosophies? Do they really believe people pay taxes to send children to <strong>Marxist</strong> brainwashing camps?</p>
<p>If political issues are going to be discussed in public school classrooms, all sides should be presented in a balanced and equal light, so students can weigh the arguments and form their own opinions. We&#8217;re certain that &#8220;99 percent&#8221; of Oakland parents would agree with that assessment.</p>
<p>School administrators in Oakland, and throughout the nation, have an absolute responsibility to put an end to this gross misuse of class time and taxpayer dollars. And the taxpayers of America should pay close attention and make sure they do.</p>
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		<title>Revealed: #OccupyWallStreet Public Relations Strategy for Reports of Violence Against Cops&#8211;Blame Someone Else!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel B. Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Government has learned that Occupy Wall Street activists and supporters are circulating this blog post from the left-wing site Firedoglake, entitled: &#8220;What to Do When the Media Says a Protester Attacked a Cop.&#8221;
The plan is simple: find someone else to blame for Occupy violence against police.
The Firedoglake post was published on Saturday, October 22. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Big Government has learned that Occupy Wall Street activists and supporters are circulating <a href="http://my.firedoglake.com/spocko/2011/10/22/what-to-do-when-the-media-says-a-protester-attacked-a-cop/" target="_blank">this blog post</a> from the left-wing site Firedoglake, entitled: &#8220;What to Do When the Media Says a Protester Attacked a Cop.&#8221;</p>
<p>The plan is simple: find someone else to blame for Occupy violence against police.</p>
<p>The Firedoglake post was published on Saturday, October 22. By then, there had already been several incidents of <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/20/teacher-choked-women-attacked-at-occupyoakland-its-lord-of-the-flies-among-anarchists-sex-offenders/" target="_blank">violence</a> and attacks on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/benbradley7/status/123563114854760448" target="_blank">police</a> at Occupy demonstrations throughout the country. Moreover, it had become clear that some Occupy activists were determined to initiate or provoke clashes with police, such as those witnessed on the streets of Oakland <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/25/breaking-occupyoakland-activists-attack-police/" target="_blank">last night</a>.</p>
<p>Once posted on Firedoglake, the proposed public relations strategy for dealing with accusations of anti-police violence was then circulated via email to organizers of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations.</p>
<p>One activist suggested: &#8220;Might it be useful to put it out to the media that OWS is expecting infiltration and agent provocateur violence, and OWS is concerned about how it will play out, since OWS is peaceful?&#8221; (See below &#8211; email addresses redacted.)</p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/100691167/OWS-Media-Strategy">OWS Media Strategy</a></span><br />
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<p>The Occupy strategy outlined on Firedoglake consists of five steps:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>1) Challenge the assumption that the violent protester(s) are actually Occupy Wall Street protesters&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>2) <strong>Scour all the footage and photos you can find of the instigators of the violence at the protest&#8230;</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>3) <strong>Crowd-source the images and ask for help identifying them&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong><strong>4) <strong>Write a post about it on a blog with info on the person(s) and</strong><strong>their background&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>5)<strong> Contact the media and point out who that protest was started by</strong>&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;That is what you do in this age of easy access to video, photos and social media,&#8221; the post continues.</p>
<p>The problem is that video, photos, and social media from the Occupy activists have often captured evidence of their own enthusiasm for violence and provocation.<span id="more-360000"></span></p>
<p>Occupy activists sometimes try to edit out that evidence&#8211;as in the following example, in which a policeman is shown swinging a billy club at demonstrators:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QtIqrv1Z_o"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/3QtIqrv1Z_o/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>However, that video appears to be an edited version of the one below, in which it is clear that the activists attacked the police first.</p>
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<p>The first seventeen seconds of the second video are missing from the first. The last seventeen seconds of the second video&#8211;in which activists taunt police with profanity and shouts of &#8220;Whose streets? Our streets!&#8221;&#8211;are also missing from the first video.</p>
<p>It would be far simpler for Occupy to avoid embarrassment if it were a proudly and self-consciously non-violent movement.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not what Occupy&#8217;s leading organizers, like <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/10/10/meet-the-anarchist-leaders-behind-the-leaderless-occupy-movement-part-one-lisa-fithian/" target="_blank">Lisa Fithian</a>, want or believe. For the anarchists and socialists of Occupy&#8211;to whom President Barack Obama, the unions, and the Democrats are inextricably tied&#8211;non-violence is merely a dispensable tactic.</p>
<p>The sad truth is that there is no PR strategy slick enough to hide the true face of Occupy&#8211;not when so many Occupy activists are so eager to reveal it themselves.</p>
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