Evil Seeds

Just how much ideological poison will the leftist creeps who infest our educational system from top to bottom have to pour into developing minds before they succeed in their goal of destroying American civilization from within? Considering how quickly our schools are disintegrating into leftist indoctrination camps, we may be finding out within a generation or so. Walter Williams offers some hair-raising examples in a piece on Townhall.com.

Here’s Jay Bennish of Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, educating his pupils on the topic of President Bush’s State of the Union address:

Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say. … Bush is threatening the whole planet. … [The] U.S. wants to keep the world divided. …Who is probably the most violent nation on the planet? The United States!

Bennish has also enlightened his 10-graders with assertions that the USA has committed “7,000 terrorist attacks against Cuba” and that “Capitalism is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion and at odds with human rights.” The Communist Manifesto is part of his class’s curriculum. He teaches geography.

It doesn’t get any better when the kids move on to college. Williams gives a few representative examples from UCLA, where history professor Mary Corey informed her class that “Capitalism isn’t a lie on purpose. It’s just a lie,” and that capitalists “are swine. . . . They’re bastard people.”

For political and economic analysis, students can refer to Andrew Hewitt, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages, who told a class that “Bush is a moron, a simpleton, and an idiot,” and that “American consumerism is a very unique thing; I don’t think anyone else lusts after money in such a greedy fashion.”

Economics Professor Rod Swanson would likely agree, having revealed to a class that “The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world.”

Undergoing politically correct indoctrination isn’t always a passive activity at UCLA. Sociology professor Terri Anderson required a class to go cross-dressed in public.

Some very unhealthy seeds are being planted and nurtured by depraved ideologues who hate this country and everything it stands for. There will be a price to be paid for letting it continue: the future.

via Moonbattery.com

Second, I would like to direct readers to YOUR fine blog and your post on the topic.

Nobody has argued that freedom of the student press does not bring with it consequences or responsibilities. The issue in Hosty was prior restraint – the censoring of publication before it was disseminated because the administrator didn’t like what was going to appear.

Further – and this is something the peoria pundit didn’t mention – the appellate case law is now hopelessly split on what level of freedom college presses should enjoy. The 7th circuit says Hazelwood may be applied. The 4th (?) circuit (including Kentucky) says college press freedom is protected from such restraints. At some point, the Supreme Court will have to step in.

The Daily Illini is hardly the only fish in the kettle on this issue. every college in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin is now subject to administrative “editing” if they don’t have some sort of protection. Check the Student Press Law Center for more *facts* about the case.

P.S. – the code thing really does suck. Whadya know, they invented a “captcha” that even foils human comments!

Regardless, the 1988 Supreme Court case put limits on what schools can do with their student newspapers and therefore, this decision isn’t surprising.

Wave of the future.

btw, this code things sucks. I’m on my 7th try