Posted on 09/02/2009 10:34:38 PM PDT by Cindy
Note: Videos and photos included.
SNIPPET: "In 1967, at the Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, World History teacher Ron Jones was asked about the Holocaust by a student. "Could it happen here?".
According to the press release accompanying the latest retelling of the events that followed, "Jones came up with an unusual answer. He decided to have a two week experiment in dictatorship. His idea was to explain fascism to his class through a game, nothing more. He never intended what resulted, where his class would be turned into a Fascist environment. Where students gave up their freedom for the prospect of being superior to their neighbors.
Monday morning he straightened the classroom, dimmed the lights and played Wagnerian music. The word "discipline" was written on the blackboard. He then had the students sit up straight in their chairs with hands placed flat across the small of their backs. In this setting, he devoted the remainder of the class to the topic of discipline.
By the second day, Jones developed a special greeting, a wave. It became known as the Third Wave, and if students saw each other outside class, they were to use it. In his lectures, Jones went from "discipline," to "strength through community," and then to "strength through action."
By midweek, his "experiment" expanded to sixty students, and by the week's end, more than two hundred were participating. Other teachers and the school's principal stood by and watched.
The first sign of concern came when some students had taken it uponthemselves to report others who did not conform. After just four days, things got out of hand. Jones feared for the safety of a few students who refused to participate. To his dismay and alarm, the experiment was so blindly embraced by the students, that he cut the project short. "Initially I just wanted to show my students how powerful the pressure to belong can be, but the exercise got out of control. A momentum began to build that I couldn't slow, or even deter. I became frightened by the day-to-day happenings in class, and was forced to call it off," recalls Jones.
Overnight, Jones became the subject of national controversy, sparking discussion on the appropriateness of exposing young adults to life's realities. To some, he was an innovative hero and teacher; to others he was a Communist. Many people were shocked and embarrassed that the same mentality which led to the Holocaust could develop so quickly, in 1967, in a pristine all-American setting, and an academic town no less, home to the well-known Stanford University."
Read more at the web site http://www.thewave.tk
stepping back in time...
Video just in time for Halloween 2008 by Iowahawk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Xy4hNyYFs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457269/posts
“Organizing Kids for Obama”
Townhall ^ | 2-23-2010 | Phyllis Schlafly
Posted on February 22, 2010 10:04:43 PM PST by smoothsailing
The AmeriCorpse* Pledge
I will get things done for 57 states -
to make our servants safer,
docile, and healthier. [Whether the livestock likes it or not]
I will bring our wage slaves together
to strengthen our hold on power.[Whether the livestock likes it or not]
Faced with apathy,
I force submission.[Whether they like it or not]
Faced with conflict,
I will throw insults ‘round.[Whether they like it or not]
Faced with adversity,
I will milk them some more.[Whether they like it or not]
I will carry this commitment
with me to the gates of Hell.[Because the Marxists’ dupes never learn from mistakes]
I am an AmeriCorpse member,
a strutting cockerel in uniform.
[With nothing to crow over]
“Faced with conflict,
I will throw insults ‘round. [Whether they like it or not]”
Yep.
#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472440/posts
ObamaCare’s New Public Health Workforce Corps
The American Thinker ^ | March 16, 2010 | Michael Geer
Posted on March 16, 2010 2:57:41 PM PDT by givemELL
“It speaks of regular and reserve Officers, scholarships, loans, obligated service, individual contracts, training centers, the traditional income redistribution scheme of grants and grant proposals, etc. The debt repayment provisions are especially attractive to certain sectors of our population. It appears to be an indentured servitude gig. You sign up, do your part for nationalizing health care and the Corps will get the American taxpayer to foot the bill for your training and educational costs and retire your debts. Of course, if pinned down, I’m sure this will be characterized as a draft, a proposal, need to modify, hasn’t been reconciled yet or any of a number of ways to weasel the simple truth that until Nancy Pelosi votes on it she won’t have any idea what’s in this ‘Bill’.
Read more of this thing at your own discretion. The next heading after the Public Health Corps is Adapting The Workforce to Evolving Health Care Needs, which I take to mean, in the double speak legal jargon of phraseology and policyspeak, that you and your job skills will adapt to the needs of the Health Care Corps, not the other way around. We are living, after all, in the era Hunter S Thompson labeled as The Age of Confusion, Ruled By The New Dumb.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63267
“Obama Excludes Private and Catholic School Children From Easter Egg Roll Ticket Giveaway”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
SNIPPET: “Robert Brannum’s 17-year-old son Nicholas attends St. John’s College High School, a Catholic school in the District. Brannum told CNSNews.com he believes the 3,000 tickets reserved for public school students should be available to all students.
“The White House is a public building,” Brannum said. “The tickets are essentially being paid for with public dollars. So it should be open to everyone, not just going to select categories of students.”
Brannum said he not only supports D.C. public schools, he attended and taught at those schools. But, he added, “There are students in the District of Columbia who attend private schools, parochial schools, or even (are) home schooled, and their parents pay taxes and they should be able to participate in some of the benefits of being citizens of the District of Columbia.””
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1OLQ8EkhI
“This is What Change Looks Like”
Video Description - Quote:
BarackObamadotcom — March 30, 2010 — To the untold numbers who knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction that change in this country comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up — this moment is possible because of you.
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This is What Change Looks Like Health Insurance Reform President Obama Organizing For America
SOBERING TO THE MAX.
However, FREEPERS are DIFFERENT.
NO ONE HEREON:
—tries to silence other CONSERVATIVES who may have more information about a given topic.
—tries to call other CONSERVATIVES insulting, intimidating, marginalizing names . . . e.g. nutty, crazy, psychotic,
—tries to silence watchmen on the wall regarding Communists/globalists/socialists rushing the planet into a tyrannical global government.
—tries to ridicule those who are averse to OThuga’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL tyranny that’s getting deeper and broader by the week.
. . .
naw . . .
. . .
NOT on FR!
We KNOW BETTER
and
ACT BETTER.
We’re very good at warning folks properly in mild and civil tones about slight to moderate threats to minor FREEDOMS around the edges of daily life. We know better than to alert folks about wild haired idiotic concerns about any so called major issues of life.
We work very hard to keep things decent, in order, balanced and reasonably pleasant. We don’t see any need for anyone to lose even 5 minutes of sleep at night.
Thanks for the ping!
blather ping
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
Sorry for the double ping for those who are on both lists, but I though that those who homeschool and aren’t on the ARTH list ought to see this as well.
Gosh, any “speculation” on why the
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
needs a whole bunch of brand new “riot” shotguns?
The left knows they will have to “address the homeschooling situation” some day, because it is a direct threat to their goals.
ping for later
And homeschoolers are more likely than not to be armed.
You can't be serious.
I'm a better FR than you ;)
I've also reported your post to flag@whitehouse.gov
The 2nd video’s been removed.
Unless they are Ron Paul advocates, of course. We don't approve of THEIR kind.
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