Moral: Never attack someone on false pretenses. Myth: Iraq was a threat to the USA. Result: The Constitution becomes toilet paper. Sad sad sad...

The government never "gives" any one any thing that they didn't steal in the first place. And they don't give anyone anything without an expectation of a return of some kind....

A State education will by design create State "loyalists". aka Cannon Fodder. And the truth is always the first casualty of any war.

Now if people could just understand what a menace to society immoral laws really are. Repealing Laws of Forfeiture and Confisaction would be a good start.

Truer words have rarely been said.

To this the American people "were"committed. Nowadays though, the Governments policy is the dumbing down of the masses.

Perhaps if we take it to mean that "Only people who understand the concept of freedom can be free" then it makes more sense. Or as Ted Nugent put it "I never went to college, I was too busy learning things."

The cia would disagree.

Having a Politically Correct education makes education pointless. The statement is good, its just way too late.

Its a good statement. Most of the university grads I meet today though...are socialists.

The Kings of old would agree...never educate the serf's.

And I should learn to type :)

Not necessarily so. Hillary would have us believe that we are all bad people and naturally prone to doing bad things. Which is why we need so many laws and tools of control. To keep us in line. She's a socialist which in my mind is a very low form of life. Education can also teach us to recognize the early signs of tyranny such as we are seeing now. And education is what is being denied the masses...for a reason.

PS, It seems the "Act" has been expanded. -http://www.slate.com/id/2178646/

No!...no we can't! In Germany the state is actually persecuting families trying to practice home education under a law that was actually brought in under Hitler and is still on the books. They are taking children away from families and putting them in state schools. When challenged in court a German judge actually said it was in the "best interests of the state". The ruling stands.

Trying to make a distinction between Liberal and Conservative anymore has become an exercise in uselessness. We get the same usurpations from both, ergo, voting is irrelevant. (Save for Ron Paul) The education systems of the west in general have the not so hidden agenda of dumbing down new generations which makes them easier to control and to program. History is glossed over if its taught at all. And its by forgetting history that we repeat it. Education has simply become another pulpit for politicians to grandstand from. AND Education happens only in the home anymore. Conformity happens in school. Obedience to the state is what we can expect from a state education system. Check out this little vid. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg

Perhaps because the "aborigine" doesn't deal in absolutes and is more in touch with the world in a spiritual sense?

Archer, The reference to Germany reminds me of a scene I like to pose for people: "Heinrich, zees Brown Shirts...I'm telling you someday zey are going to be trouble! Franz you worry too much, have another strudel...have you thought about actually joining ze party?" Franz stares into the distance.... Wake up America!

The world is run by bureacracies and I would say a "C" mark would be generous. Stalin and Hitler didn't develop bureacracy to help people, but to control them.

Well :calculated" is about all we've seen from this administration. Lets not forget Cheney and Rummy were involved with the CIA mind experiments and other "beneficial" activities. Ignorant, they are not! Evil yes, ignorant....no.

When the nation was a Republic, Liberty was the way of life envisioned by the founders, and it worked. Then came Democracy, a system of mob rule in a cheap suit. Being given the right to vote is a ruse, especially when no matter who you vote for, you get the same system and the same policies. As George Carlin said, "Its called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"

Leo, I know a Canadian fellow who flew bombers in WW2. You and he would get along fine. He knew a time of freedom too. And he knows the difference between then and now. He said "This isn't what we were fighting for" God Bless.

Well said E Archer.

Spoken like a true tyrant.

Hitler was fascist. Fascism is, put briefly, a system of social organization in which the political state is a dictatorship supported by a political elite and in which the economic society is an autarchic capitalism, enclosed and planned, in which the government assumes responsibility for creating adequate purchasing power through the instrumentality of national debt and in which militarism is adopted as a great economic project for creating work as well as a great romantic project in the service of the imperialist state. Broken down, it includes these devices: 1. A government whose powers are unrestrained. 2. A leader who is a dictator, absolute in power but responsible to the party which is a preferred elite. 3. An economic system in which production and distribution are carried on by private owners but in accordance with plans made by the state directly or under its immediate supervision. 4. These plans involve control of all the instruments of production and distribution through great government bureaus which have the power to make regulations or directives with the force of law. 5. They involve also the comprehensive integration of government and private finances, under which investment is directed and regimented by the government, so that while ownership is private and production is carried on by private owners there is a type of socialization of investment, of the financial aspects of production. By this means the state, which by law and by regulation can exercise a powerful control over industry, can enormously expand and complete that control by assuming the role of banker and partner. 6. They involve also the device of creating streams of purchasing power by federal government borrowing and spending as a permanent institution. 7. As a necessary consequence of all this, militarism becomes an inevitable part of the system since it provides the easiest means of draining great numbers annually from the labor market and of creating a tremendous industry for the production of arms for defense, which industry is supported wholly by government borrowing and spending. 8. Imperialism becomes an essential element of such a system where that is possible — particularly in the strong states, since the whole fascist system, despite its promises of abundance, necessitates great financial and personal sacrifices, which people cannot be induced to make in the interest of the ordinary objectives of civil life and which they will submit to only when they are presented with some national crusade or adventure on the heroic model touching deeply the springs of chauvinistic pride, interest, and feeling. Where these elements are found, there is fascism, by whatever name the system is called. Look familiar?