The Romeike family, Christian evangelicals, wanted to homeschool their children, but the German authorities wouldn’t permit it. So the Romeikes came to America (Tennessee, to be precise), where there’s lots of homeschooling, and where a federal judge granted them asylum. The Germans didn’t like that, and the Obama/Holder Justice Department ordered the extradition of the family back to Germany, where, in another recent case, German police dragged off four children from their homeschooling parents. The Justice Department ordered the extradition of the Romeikes on the basis that “banning homeschooling teaches tolerance of diverse views.” You couldn’t ask for a better example of Orwellian doublespeak. The German state isn’t interested in “diverse views” at all; it went to great effort to compel the Romeikes to deliver their children to the official teachers of the officially approved version of the truth. That version is political correctness written in long words with most of the verbs coming at the end. The Europeans are steadily advancing toward maximum indoctrination of their youngsters, perhaps inspired by the old dictum, for which the Jesuits are usually credited, “give me a child at the age of seven and I will give you the man.”.... ....Alas, we’re headed toward the same sort of brainwashing. The Feds recently refused to condemn some very nasty language aimed at pro-Israel students on three California University campuses, wrapping themselves in the saintly language of free speech. But at the same time, the student government at UCLA demanded that the words “illegal immigrant” be banished from the campus. Step by step, unwanted ideas are extinguished by eliminating the words necessary to express them. “Radical Islam,” and “Islamic terrorism” are very much in the lexicon of taboo phrases, as we can see in the Newspeak-ridden prosecution of Hasan Nidal, the Fort Hood jihadi.