It Takes A Village Idiot To Say Kids Belong To State

Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 9, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Family: An MSNBC contributor revisits the statist notion that while you gave birth to your children and feed and clothe them, they are only on loan to you by their true parent — a benevolent and all-knowing government.

Melissa Harris-Perry, an African-American professor at Tulane, has endorsed the concept of human ownership by the state, something we thought history would teach her is a bad thing, saying in a promo for MSNBC that "we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

"We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children; your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children," Harris-Perry opined.

Our children? It is an idea most famously expressed in recent years by Hillary Clinton in her 1990s best-seller, "It Takes A Village," but it is hardly a new idea.

Collectivists throughout history have said that children do and should belong to the state and that if you control the children, you control the future.

One well-known collectivist echoed such sentiments when he said, "Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state. The state will take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. Your child belongs to us already... what are you?"

So said Adolf Hitler, who founded a sate-run youth group that bore his name.

[steve8714]

That’s a hot chick but she’ll burn her hand.

[USARightSide]

You are not rambling.

We’d like to know the definition of ‘they’ and ‘their’ from someone.
We are also perplexed. It does seem like an all-of-a-sudden avalanche.

Keep remembering McCain, was it, saying we had ‘nothing to fear’ with a BHO presidency. What the ‘h’ made him say that???
Was it code or something for ‘heads up?’
And Cheney’s wicked side-long glance at BHO at the first inaguration - priceless.
Convinced these men knew/know something - that’s probably not a revelation to many!

And how are some folks prepped/prepping to defend the constitution - ?

[ought-six]

“I agree. We are armed and ready.
I just pray it is enough.”

Either way you will die a free man. Who could ask for anything more?

[GOPJ]

Thanks...

[lentulusgracchus]

Do you consider that a proof of the saving power of God’s grace, or of the character-building nature of mandatory membership in the Hitler Youth?

It had better be the former, or we are deeply screwed.

I suppose that some character was built in some young men in the Hitler Youth .... but probably not in the ones who were victimized by the sadistic pederasts in the SA command staff, who used the Hitler Youth as a kind of seraglio.

At least until Hitler ordered Himmler to assassinate all the leading Brown Shirts.