Is NEA a 'terrorist organization'?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, February 27, 2004 | Brannon Howse

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, February 27, 2004

Quote of the Day by kevao

[Reactionary]

The NEA has done nothing more than push the egalitarian agenda of the socialist Left, and they've used our tax dollars and our goodwill to do it.

And who is their target audience for Left propaganda? Children.

The NEA isn't exactly a terrorist organization; it's rather the propaganda arm of a terrorist organization (namely the egalitarian socialist Left).

[Calpernia]

>>>>The firestorm has started and Paige will be asked to apologize – but should he?

NO! He should not!!!

BUMP to Paige!

Matter of fact, everyone should take some time out of their day to surf through this site:

http://www.etext.org/index.shtml

I've seen material from there show up in curriculum. Total attempts to rewrite history.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes.

[Calpernia]

Ping

[Cincinatus' Wife]

*** He charged the NEA with encouraging a "coalition of the whining." He called other education reform critics "nihilists" and made unflattering comparisons to French U.N. diplomats and racists. Paige impoliticly suggested last year that schools with a religious environment were preferable to public schools with diverse values. *** Source

[thegreatbeast]

Stupid question, of course it is! They hold the entire educational system in America hostage to their agenda.

[Calpernia]

Wasn't the NEA suppose to be auditted at one time? They were caught collecting teacher monies for campaign purposes?

What ever happened with that?

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning, Cincy :-)

[AmericanVictory]

I don't know, John, I'm afraid to say.

[quantim]

The NEA is a "labor union." Labor unions have from time to time in this great country conducted terrorist exercises.

We all know Hoffa is working as a gardener in Anchorage.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hi JohnHuang2!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

November 25, 2003 - IRS auditing National Education Association [Full Text] WASHINGTON (AP) --The IRS is auditing the nation's largest teachers union, scrutinizing an organization that works energetically to elect candidates but files tax returns reporting zero political expenditures from member dues.

The National Education Association promised Monday to cooperate, but its president, Reg Weaver, said the union "will not be silenced" by the audit or the conservative law firm that requested it.

NEA spokeswoman Kathleen Lyons said the audit began last week. "It will be a complete, thorough audit," she said. "The IRS has not singled out any particular aspect of our activities."

Weaver and Lyons predicted the association would be exonerated, contending the IRS found no problems when it audited the NEA's 1993 tax return. The IRS is prohibited by law from publicly discussing audits of specific taxpayers.

The NEA has tax-exempt status as a union but must report political expenses "direct and indirect" on its tax return. Some of those expenses could be considered taxable by the IRS. It defines a political expense as "one intended to influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of anyone to a federal, state, or local public office."

The Associated Press, which first reported on the NEA's tax returns three years ago, has reviewed the NEA's filings from years 1993 through 1999 and hundreds of pages of internal NEA documents. The records showed the 2.7 million-member union spent millions of dollars to help elect pro-education candidates, produce political training guides and gather teachers' voting records.

A July 1999 strategic plan, for instance, stated the union budgeted $4.9 million for the 2000 election for such things as "organizational partnerships with political parties, campaign committees and political organizations."

Part of the money, the document said, would be spent on a "national political strategy" which involved "candidate recruitment, independent expenditures, early voting, and vote-by-mail programs in order to strengthen support for pro-public education candidates and ballot measures."

Politics in public education The documents were gathered by Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm that has filed complaints with the IRS seeking an audit and a criminal investigation of whether the NEA evaded taxes.

Landmark received the NEA documents as part of a lawsuit it filed that forced the IRS to disclose records identifying members of Congress who had asked the tax agency to audit political opponents.

Mark Levin, president of Landmark, hailed the IRS audit and said Monday the NEA "has diverted tens of millions of dollars in membership dues to influence political campaigns, for which it hasn't paid a wooden nickel in taxes."

"It appears that the NEA may finally be called to account for its failure to tell the government -- and its members -- how much it is spending on politics," he said.

Weaver, the NEA president, said his organization will "vigorously defend our constitutional right to speak to our members about the role of politics in public education."

Union members "have a right to be involved in politics," he said. "Our organization will not back down in the face of those who want to bully us out of our rights as Americans."

Marcus Owens, a tax attorney who headed the IRS tax-exempt organizations division, said it was not unusual for the agency to wait three years to act after Landmark's 2000 audit request.

He said an audit of a major organization like the NEA could only be conducted if high-level agents were available. [End]

[endthematrix]

Drivel from nea.org
Privatization in Education: What is it?

The term "privatization" typically refers to shifting the delivery of services performed by public employees to private businesses.

In Dewwy-speak privatization is VERY bad word.

[WaterDragon]

I dearly hope Paige's comments stirs a firestorm of debate about whether the NEA is a 'terrorist' organization. If so, it will be the first time it will have gotten any sustained scrutiny and exposure, and the public desperately needs to be fully informed about who's educating our children. This article is a good start.

[GailA]

btt

[wgeorge2001]

No, the NEA is not a terrorist organization.
The democrat party and liberals in general are a terrorist organiation even worse than the islamic terrorists and they have destroyed more of our rights and privledges than a standing army could have.

[FreedomPoster]

Over 10 years ago, Forbes called the NEA "The National Extortion Association". I can't find the article online, but here's a reference.

Brimelow, Peter and Leslie Spencer. "The National Extortion Association?" Forbes. June 7, 1993. Pages 72-84.

If this is the same article I am remembering, the cover said something like "the most dangerous organization in America".

[leprechaun9]

Excerpt from FORBES:

The National Extortion Association? (National EducationAssociation and school choice) (Cover Story)

Forbes; 6/7/1993; Spencer, Leslie

As the National Education Association has gained in monopoly power, the cost of education has increased while its quality has deteriorated. But monopolies are by nature unstable, and this undemocratic labor union may have met its match in the movement for school choice.

"... quit talking about letting kids escape...."

--Keith Geiger, 52, president of the National Education Association teachers union, denouncing the increasingly popular idea that tax monies now spent on education should instead be given directly to students to be spent in the public or private school of their choice; on the Larry King Show, Nov. 10, 1992.

KEITH GEIGER'S STYLE may be more polished now than in his salad days as president of the NEA's Michigan Education Association affilia...

[Born Conservative]

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