US Citizens Sign Petition For Obama To Repeal Bill Of Rights
Posted by ShrugInArgentina 11 years, 4 months ago to Government
"Give yourself four minutes to watch this Mark Dice video and you will understand exactly how much trouble your country is in."
Then listen to The Mark Levin Show from July 10th. Mark cites a provision of the 5th Amendment and calls for state conventions to amend the Constitution to restore the Republic.
Then listen to The Mark Levin Show from July 10th. Mark cites a provision of the 5th Amendment and calls for state conventions to amend the Constitution to restore the Republic.
Doing research for a graduate sociology class, I spoke with the folks who designed NCLB (no child left behind). They thought I was "one of them," so the conversations were open and frank.
What would it take to "fix" the educational system? They know it -- perfectly. They use that information to design programs which purposefully destroy it.
In order to pull off their plans, they must have an illiterate populace -- people trained by a life-time of Pavlovian stimulus/response reinforced thought processes. These children, "properly trained" do not have to tools they need to analyze new information and come to a logical, thoughtful conclusion of their own.
They are, quite literally, brainwashed to the point where they are permanently brain damaged. They have lost the ability to take in new information.
And the folks who are designing this curriculum are so excited about what they are doing that watching them talk is frightening. I believe we have reached a point of no return where the public (mis)educational system is concerned.
The only hope a future society has is that those children who were homeschooled (by parents with a clue) or were taught how to actually think for themselves (by parents who knew how) survive to rebuild.
The "world's greatest generation" are dying by the tens-of-thousands a day, from old age and government sponsored illnesses like dementia and heart disease. The baby boomers could quickly be too old and feeble to physically rebuild a new society. What we have to have is the youth -- and too many of them have had their brains sucked out by the (mis)educational system.
"The acceptance of full responsibility for one’s own choices and actions (and their consequences) is such a demanding moral discipline that many men seek to escape it by surrendering to what they believe is the easy, automatic, unthinking safety of a morality of “duty.” They learn better, often when it is too late."
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guess who said that?
Ayn Rand
If there is "no excuse," then it is we, the sentient ones left who are without excuse for helping the victims of an educational system we allowed to lord over them and damage them in the first place.
I agree there is "no excuse." I just don't agree it is the children's fault.
How often do we hear children argue with their parents about what is true because their teacher told them something? I have seen families torn apart because the teacher(s) said religion was a waste of time and only for the feeble minded, while the parents were trying to teach their children to love God. Your stand on religion is your business, but when the (mis)education industry's indoctrination of children is more significant than the parent's most ardent attempts to overcome, it is impossible to "blame" the children and/or the parents.
Truly evil people run our schools today. Led by the folks at the NEA, the state and local school districts are slowly (?) destroying the minds of our youth. You want a high school student to magically become sentient and discerning? What has prepared them for that? School has gone out of their way to NOT prepare them for that stage in their life.
You only see what you look for. When the school system teaches students to look to their teachers and other similar authorities for "truth," and to reject everything else, then "what's going on beneath [their] noses" is meaningless drivel.
I see the evil busybodies from the baby boomer generation, who are now in control of virtually everything, as the cause of the problems. Their children and grand-children are true victims of this evil plot.
They will pay with their lives, unfortunately, for the "sins" of their parents. When the social order collapses, and there is nothing left for them to take, starvation and disease will become rampant. Hopefully enough sentient folks will survive to rebuild.
I really do not get the victim mentality.
I don't, either. But being a victim of an evil perpetrator is not the same as having a "victim mentality."
When a thief or rapist attacks a victim, they are a victim, irrespective of their thinking on the matter.
When a corrupt politician or psychobabblist tells someone they are a "victim" because society did not do enough for them, then that is a "victim mentality."
The two are nothing alike.
When I am saying the youth of today are victims, I mean of an exploitative and evil group of people who have, with passion, malice, and forethought, perpetrated a real hurt against them.
Those raised and consumed by this environment truly are little more than just lemmings -- and it is not by their choice. They just don't know any better.
Before I came to see AS1, I was only vaguely aware of Ayn and her book, I formed opinions based on my parents and my experiences. But I'm one of the small percent of the baby boomers who survived the educational system.
Thank goodness we homeschooled our kids -- they have a chance at a reasonable life. We taught them to actually bring in information, analyze it, and determine what is right.
But even in *this* group, that skill is not ubiquitous. I had a recent foray with a misogynist who continues to hammer on a socialist organization's tabloid research study like it is truth straight from god. This person cannot be convinced the study is virtually meaningless. The ability to actually process the information, and think through the data being presented is lost to them.
If someone HERE cannot make that leap, then how can we hope people who are not "up to" this level can?
I will say this, though: I have seen a LOT of folks who are starting to simply accept the premise that the government is corrupt. When that happens, the ones who are still sentient start to ask questions and challenge preconceived notions. THAT is when they are ready to hear the message!
Being someone new to the Ayn Rand environment, I have more ammunition to use. But before this time, I still tried to talk to people and help them see what was going on around them. I'd say my "success rate" was still less then 10%, though.
1) I might be the most anal person you know. That is why I am such a top notch ANALyst. I can't do a lot of things, but digesting and analyzing is one of the things I do best.
2) I have Asperger''s and dyslexia. Reading is not an easy task, especially something "deap." I normally have to read something 2 - 3 times before I am comfortable saying "yea, I read that."
So me reading AS is going to involve going through 3,600 pages of text, probably with a highlighter and pen and notebook.
Things like these blogs (which are called "loose text") are not (often) something that has to be digested before responding to. A book like AS simply demands too much attention.
We know many other families who WANT to be vigilant, but they just cannot "see" how. Your list if obviously off the cuff -- which is a good sign. But too many parents cannot "see" what is so obvious to you and me, thus they cannot "do" what you are suggesting.
Another point: when you homeschool, someone has to stay home. My wife did for most of it; I did the last bit. Convincing a dual-income family to have one of the parents quit their job and stay home to teach the children is a monumental task! It might actually be impossible for most families today.
There are any number of alternatives -- and people *should* use them.
So how do we overcome years of training and brainwashing by the most skilled psyops organization the plant has likely ever known (e.g. public school employees)?
You have my greatest admiration for keeping up the fight in the "gaping jaws of the beast," so to speak. I am more than pleased to know I have such stalwart folks in my presence.
Long before my introduction to AS (literally within the past year), I tried to fight the battle. I went to the Texas state folks -- the ones who designed NCLB, etc. I spoke with them (many of them face-to-face, some on the phone, a few via email), and got to know them.
When I say these folks are evil, it is because I saw their eyes when they spoke of what they were doing, and the "success" they were having.
At the time I was writing a book. The title I was tinkering with was "How Leadership Principles Could Restore American Schools to Greatness." Yea, long and boring title.
Steven Covey started me doing leadership development work in 1987. I have read a lot of leadership texts and held leadership seminars. I knew how these principles helped *US* in homeschooling our children, and thought how they could help the public school systems as well.
It was doing this research that put me in touch with the Texas and national leaders who designed the system we are suffering through today. Hell, I even went back to college for another master's degree (in sociology, this time) to help me with gathering and writing the book.
I realized how totally corrupt the system was, and how feeble my pathetic voice would be against the machine I was attempting to do battle with. I went into it thinking that I understood something which could help, and so (obviously) these folks would welcome my thoughts. I left knowing their intentions were to do what they are doing -- destroying the minds of the youth.
I did what I probably should not have done -- I quit. I walked away from the book and the research. Had *this* group existed 5 years ago, who know what I would have done.
Every time I hear of someone who is fighting to make a difference, I applaud them, and see what I can do to help support their efforts.
september, Pendulum of Justice, dealing with many of the troubling issues of our time. I am gratified and humbled to meet you all in here. I have made life long friends from this site, I have no doubt. Although I am an atheist, a particularly compelling biblical passage to me has always been, the light shines in the darkness and the darkness can not over-power it, the darkness cannot see it, etc. depending on interp. This is reason. have a great weekend!
Someone who was trying to hammer on me once called me an "old curmudgeon." Little did he know that I'd use that to describe myself from then on... (after, of course, I looked it up)
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Thanks...
I promise!
(He'll walk by my office one day and pick it up...he did it with AS too. Cuz he wants to, not cuz I'm telling him to. arg.)
Admittedly... is part of why I love him so much. Of his own free will and all that. :)
I meant to write "Article 5" when posting the topic rather than the "5th Amendment."
Please keep in mind that Mark is not calling for a new Constitution or a Constitutional Convention at the Federal level. He is calling for state legislatures to convene conventions to propose amendments to the Constitution instead of the US Congress.