'New Civics' Means 'Global Governance'

CNSNews.com ^ | October 28, 2003 | Tom DeWeese

[Gorjus]

What's the underlying principle in government? For moderates, it is that government exists to fulfill a role that is impractical to fill individually. Whether that is banding together as a community to pave the streets or for the common defense, we choose when we will do things together.

We the People hire a sheriff rather than have the king appoint a shire reeve for every shire. It's bottom up rather than top down. That view finds international cooperation - when it's not coerced - as a good thing. International corporations are formed for economic advantage. International bodies regulate air traffic because we recognize we need common method for navigation and control.

This whole 'New Civics' is the opposite of that. It's globalism as an end in itself, not based on any demonstration that it benefits each of us to join together globally. They use examples founded on one principle - voluntary cooperation based on a perception of advantage to self - to justify its opposite.

Who benefits? The socialists/statists whose underlying principle of governance is that people should not be allowed to make mistakes. And so the annointed must take away our choices, for our own good.

Sign up today! Let the bureaucrats run even more of your life. Oops, sorry, I forgot. You don't need to sign up. We already know what you want, so we've signed up for you.

[neverdem]

"We the People hire a sheriff rather than have the king appoint a shire reeve for every shire."

"Let the bureaucrats run even more of your life. Oops, sorry, I forgot. You don't need to sign up. We already know what you want, so we've signed up for you."

A comment and a question:

Thank you for the vocabulary lesson with shire and reeve.

How do you italicize letters like in your final sentences of comment# 21?

[Badray]

Thanks for posting this.

I just got done emailing my rep.

[Badray]

Go here for some good info on italics and other good stuff:

http://www.freerepublic.com/help.htm

[neverdem]

Thanks I appreciate it.

[Badray]

You're welcome.

[El Gato]

How can American schools' civics classes, authorized by the very federal government established by the Declaration of Independence and paid for by American taxpayers, now ignore American sovereignty?

How can a National Government of limited delegated powers authorize anything to do with civics education? I don't see any delegated power in the Constitution that grants them the power to do such a thing. The Supreme Court ruled that education is not commerce, when they overturned the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, in U.S. v. Lopez, 115 S.Ct. 1624 (1995)

[ItsOurTimeNow]

It's not just the youth anymore. There are scores of people with whom I work that are simply disinterested in politics, or the way that our government works.

Many are surprised when I tell them that I frequently write, e-mail, and call our state reps and senators.

They are dumbfounded with the notion that our government is supposed to WORK FOR US...not the other way around.

We're sliding ever closer to the Abyss...and the sheep just smile and slide along, to ignorant to see the dangers of complacency.

[Travis McGee]

"...In this century, by contrast with the past, we may reasonably speculate that education for citizenship in a democracy will, with each decade, become everywhere more global, international and comparative in curricular content and processes of teaching and learning..."

Hmmm....I don't think so...

[ladylib]

Citizen/Servants -- that's a good one.

I always thought that government was here to serve us, not the other way around.

It's time to ditch the public schools and hope to God Hillary doesn't get anywhere anytime soon as far as her political career is concerned.

[B4Ranch]

How far along are we?The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto

Have you even heard about it?What is Agenda 21

[B4Ranch]

"How can American schools' civics classes, authorized by the very federal government established by the Declaration of Independence and paid for by American taxpayers, now ignore American sovereignty?"

Easy, just look at Bush refusing to close our borders to the illegal aliens who are crossing in droves. Bush doesn't believe in our American sovereignty either!

[GeronL]

Thanks for the ping

This will probably pass easily, how sad.