Posted on 07/03/2013 2:01:46 PM PDT by lowbridge
The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed in a court filing it agrees with the philosophy of the German government that bureaucrats can punish homeschooling parents.
The agency contended parental rights to keep children free from instruction that violates faith essentially are negligible when the government’s goal is an “open society.”
The arguments were made in a pleading before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that urges the judges to send a German homeschooling family, the Romeikes, back to Germany where members likely would face persecution.
“The goal in Germany is for an ‘open, pluralistic society,’” wrote the government’s pleading, signed by Senior Litigation Counsel Robert N. Markle in Washington.
German law, he argued, requires attendance at government schools, and punishment is levied against anyone failing to comply, even due to religious objections.
His argument to the appellate court cited a German court decision, which stated: “The general public has a justified interest in counteracting the development of religiously or philosophically motivated ‘parallel societies’ and in integrating minorities in this area. Integration does not only require that the majority of the population does not exclude religious or ideological minorities, but, in fact, that these minorities do not segregate themselves and that they do not close themselves off to a dialogue with dissenters and people of other beliefs. Dialogue with such minorities is an enrichment for an open pluralistic society. The learning and practicing of this in the sense of experienced tolerance is an important lesson right from the elementary school stage. The presence of a broad spectrum of convictions in a classroom can sustainably develop the ability of all pupils in being tolerant and exercising the dialogue that is a basic requirement of democratic decision-making process.”
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Yeah, it seemed like such a good idea to put education under federal oversight.
The government is afraid of us because they can not control us. Our independence is the biggest threat to the ruling class. They (FUBARack) are trying to c0ntrol us now by demoralizing us through stress: enabling Muslim terrorists, spying on our allies, devaluing our currency, increasing the cost of living, forcing us to tolerate homosexuality, leaving the border open, giving benefits to illegal aliens (illegal immigration is a federal crime), they benefit evil and have a zero tolerance policy toward those of us who show any competence or self sufficiency like gun owners, property owners, business owners. It’s all an effort to stress us into submission. They can’t control us constitutionally but they know they can control us through stress. If we don’t stand up to them now we will lose our country forever. And there is nowhere safe left to defect to.
Our Founders fought to rid the colonies from the will of King George III.
George is a piker compared to Obama.
I would instead like to see him tried and executed for treason.
If this doesn’t send a chill down your spine, nothing will.
DOJ targeting homeschooling,,as predicted
Hey idiot Holder - we’re not in Germany.
“The entire Justice department from that bastard Holder on down is in rebellion against the First Amendment.”
Just the First Amendment? Hell, the Holder DOJ is against the entire Constitution!
Yeah, right. I had no idea what religion even my best friends believed in until I had known them for some time. We never discussed our 'broad spectrum of convictions' in class. Certainly not at the elementary school level.
I call BS on this nonsense.
That single picture was the defining moment in my life when I knew for certain my country was gone and at war with those of us who believed in the Constitution.
At that moment, I developed a permanent hatred of all JBTs and the government in general.
Subsequent events have proven me and others right!
You are correct. Obama is as legitimate as Morsi.
How surprising is it Eric “the Red” Holder is siding with the forces of state tyranny? Not at all.
This is pure unadulterated tyranny. This has to be grounds for impeachment.
This is ominous. They want to punish homeschoolers but exempt public schools from sex abuse lawsuits. Very revealing.
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“The entire Justice department from that bastard Holder on down is in rebellion against the First Amendment.”
They are to this country what the Bolsheviks were to Russia in 1917; not the original revolution that deposed the Tsar, but the second revolution that year (that executed him).
What’s next, implementation of the Nuremburg laws of 1933? Only this time American Conservative Christian Patriots will be persecuted and sent to the “crasy-ass cracker concentratin’ camps” instead of German Jews!
Mark my words: this is their intention.
“Dialogue with such minorities is an enrichment for an open pluralistic society.”
News flash. When muzzle those minorities by banning religion from schools, it is no longer a “Dialogue”.
SOCIALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER...
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