Subverting the Constitution in High School

by Alan Caruba

Parents of high school students would be well advised to look at We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, a book that is the federally-mandated text for what these students learn about the founding and fundamental principles of this nation. Some fairly lonely voices, like my own, have been saying that not only has our educational system been deliberately “dumbed down” to produce students ill-prepared to compete in a complex society and world, but that it is being used to mislead and corrupt a proper understanding of our political system. One would hardly think, however, that the people doing this represent our own government. Wrong. They do.

I learned about this while reading Fed Ed: The New Federal Curriculum and How It’s Enforced, written by Allen Quist and published by the Maple River Education Coalition (The book can be purchased from EdWatch, 105 Peavey Road, Suite 116, Chaska, MN 55318; 952/361-4931; www.edwatch.org/fed_ed.html.)

Quist raises a very important question.” Why,” he asks, “should the federal government be involved in authorizing and subsidizing the publishing of a high school textbook?” All others are privately published and compete for use in schools, but We the People does not. Moreover, only one non-government organization was given the contract, the Center for Civic Education. Since Congress did not set up any review process for the book, there is no way to know how accurate it is, or whether it has a particular bias. Unless, of course, you read it!  

“How can a textbook teach the meaning

of Constitutional government without

teaching the Ninth and Tenth Amendments?”

Allen Quist 

When you do, you will discover that the “self-evident truths” of the Declaration of Independence have been magically transformed into mere “ideas” from the eighteenth century. The message is that it can be cast aside, or changed in our times. It gets worse, a lot worse. When this textbook looks at the Bill of Rights, those ten amendments that are the very heart of the protections extended to individual American citizens, ensuring that government cannot run rampant over them, neither the Second Amendment, nor the Ninth, or Tenth are even mentioned!

The Second Amendment, of course, protects the right of citizens to bear arms. The Ninth and Tenth are called “reserved rights,” and require the government to recognize that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” The United States is a republic composed of separate and sovereign republics. The ultimate government of the United States is the people!

Naturally, Quist asks, “How can a textbook teach the meaning of Constitutional government without teaching the Ninth and Tenth Amendments?” And he answers, “It cannot be done.”

Instead, this vile and cancerous text exists to subtly subvert our Constitutional system and our loyalty to the sovereign government of the United States of America by teaching students that they are members of a “global village” and are, in fact, “world citizens.” As Quist notes, “The book is really propaganda. It is social engineering, not education. It is decidedly anti-American and anti-freedom. It is designed to indoctrinate our citizens into being willing to give away our national sovereignty and freedom, and to accept the establishment of world government, instead.”

“We have met the enemy, and they is us,” said Pogo. Well, the enemy is definitely among us, and definitely in our high school classrooms. It is your child’s curriculum, and it is time to demand this book’s removal by writing to your congressmen, your state department of education, and your local school board.

Let me make this as clear as I can. The federal government has no business in determining the curriculum of this nation’s schools! It especially has no business underwriting the publication of a book that deliberately subverts key elements of the U.S. Constitution.

(Found at www.eco.freedom.org. Copyright by Alan Caruba. For more of Caruba’s great columns, visit www.anxietycenter.com.) 

The New Religion is Global Warming

by Tom DeWeese

The UN finally got what it wanted. The Kyoto Climate Change treaty just became international law. The treaty went into full effect with the approval by the Russian Federation, even without the support of the United States. Time will tell if and when the treaty will begin to affect the U.S. economy. What is certain is that truth and reason had no part in the process.

Global warming has become a new religion. No one is supposed to question whether it is a fact. I did in the December 2004 issue of The DeWeese Report (“There is no man-made global warming,” Volume 10, Issue 12). For my trouble I was labeled a “moron,” a “liar;” one who wants to “blow up the world,” and just plain “evil”, to name a few from a mass of mail I received.

In particular, my article stated that there is no scientific evidence to support claims of man-made global warming. I pointed out that there is division among scientists and that there is no “consensus” among them. I also reported that there are scientists who promote political agendas over truth to keep the grants coming in. And I said that the UN’s 1996 report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was edited at the last minute to remove two very important paragraphs that specifically said science showed no clear evidence of man-made climate change. Those were all facts.  

Global Warming is nothing more than a

euphemism for redistribution of wealth... 

Apparently I’m a moron for reporting them because as one letter said, “Everyone knows global warming is real.” In response to these Luddites, I simply present this: A federal hurricane research scientist named Chris Landsea has resigned from the UN-sponsored climate assessment team because his group’s leader had politicized the process. Landsea said there was little evidence to justify Kevin Trenberth’s assertions in October that global warming was responsible for the strong hurricanes experienced this past year and that “the North Atlantic hurricane Season of 2004 may well be a harbinger of the future.”

Said Landsea in his resignation letter, “It is beyond me why my colleagues would utilize the media to push an unsupported agenda that recent hurricane activity had been due to global warming. My view is that when people identify themselves as being associated with the IPCC and then make pronouncements far outside current scientific understandings that this will harm the credibility of climate change science and will in the longer term diminish our role in public policy.” Landsea closed his resignation letter by saying, “I personally cannot in good faith contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.”

There you have it. Two kinds of scientists. One standing for true science based on the facts. The other pushing a political agenda that says science be damned, our global religion is at stake.

Global Warming has become a religion that the faithful have vowed to follow no matter what the true facts may show. Global Warming is a theory, nothing more, and large numbers of scientists around the world are beginning to question its validity. There is no consensus of support.

The fact is the Kyoto Protocol will have absolutely no effect on climate change, but the faithful demand that it be implemented anyway, because “we have to do something.” In 1990, Timothy Wirth, who later became Bill Clinton’s Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs said, “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong we will be doing the right thing…”

Global Warming is nothing more than a euphemism for redistribution of wealth from the rich, developed nations to jealous dictatorships who refuse to allow their citizens the right to gain their own wealth through free markets. It’s about political redistribution from strong, independent sovereign nations into the hands of a power-hungry global elite cowering in the United Nations. These are the same cowardly scoundrels who used to try to rule the world through global communism. Today they pretend that the same lies have something to do with protecting the environment.

The truth is there is no man-made global warming. There’s only the scam of an empty global religion designed to condemn human progress and sucker the feeble minded into worldwide human misery. I rest my case. Amen.

(Copyright by Tom DeWeese, publisher-editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American Policy Center, www.americanpolicy.org.) 

The Pattern Was There

“The message from the 9/11 hearings is that we’re a bit slow in connecting the dots --- about 25 years too slow. It was Feb. 1, 1979, when the dark side of Islam stepped off a plane from Paris in Iran. After 14 years in exile, Muslim cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had come triumphantly home to establish his revolutionary ‘reign of virtue,’ an Islamic theocracy designed to cleanse a nation of what Khomeini called ‘Westoxification,’ the poisonous influences of Western culture.

“With no delay, Khomeini urged a jihad against ‘the Great Satan’ and supported the storming of the American embassy in Tehran by student militants. Others followed in Khomeini’s footsteps, getting ‘new meaning’ in their lives, getting ‘perfect,’ by killing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981; killing Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel in 1982; bombing the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983; assassinating a U.S Navy officer in Greece in 1983; murdering a U.S. Embassy official in Beirut in 1984; killing American servicemen in 1984 in Torrejon, Spain; hijacking the Achille Lauro in 1985; killing American servicemen in the bombing of a Berlin nightclub in 1986; blowing up the Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988; bombing the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992; bombing the World Trade Center in February 1993; attempting to assassinate President George Bush in April 1993 in Kuwait; murdering American diplomats in Pakistan in 1995; bombing the Riyadh military compound in Saudi Arabia in 1995; bombing the Khobar Towers in Dhahran in 1996; blowing up American facilities in 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya; and bombing the USS Cole in 2000. Sept. 11, 2001, was simply more of the same, only larger.”

(Ralph R. Reiland; found at www.federalist.com)