Posted on 05/24/2004 3:34:34 AM PDT by kattracks
In San Diego, a couple of teachers were suspended for showing the pictures of American Nick Berg being killed by his Muslim captors in Iraq. Oh, the outrage -- that our delicate high schoolers would be subjected to reality.
Far from suspending these teachers, we should give them medals (maybe the ones John Kerry threw away). They have done their students a big favor. They have introduced these soon-to-be-adults to the notion that it is a dangerous world out there.
Kids from this generation are hooked on video games that are so vile, so violent -- even Satanic -- that military experts worry that young people are deadened to the real effect of killing. With the restart button all the killing in a video game can be undone. Those same figures mowed down by virtual AK 47's come back to life.
Not true in real life. Nick Berg, although he pleaded for his life, was dead, dead, dead. His captors, like the murderers of John the Baptist, had his decapitated head to prove it.
One of the students who heard the audio and saw still pictures, which didn't show the worst of it, said he had no idea such things like this went on in the real world. It is time he learned.
For decades now in many of our school systems, students have been shielded from reality, while a false utopian society was pushed in social studies classes, which feature all of the liberal constructs. Ah yes, the wonderful UN guiding us to enlightened world government where, to paraphrase a just-arrested drunk, "We can all just get along."
The notion that there is a worldwide effort to eradicate Christians and Jews is utter nonsense, concocted by the same feverish minds who dreamed up the worldwide Communist conspiracy. Where are all those documents from Russia that detail the conspiracy? We don't want to deal with ancient irrelevant history.
Guns are to be hated because guns, not people, kill. War is caused by the United States because we steal the world's resources. War can be avoided because the UN is ready, willing and able to bring peace forever more.
There is no need to worry. There is no effort to kill Americans for who we are. Right. Still, just in case we might be tempted to demonstrate our "learned male aggressiveness" and want to defend ourselves, guns should be confiscated -- especially in this country, of course. No need to confiscate them elsewhere.
After all, if we would just ratify the Kyoto treaty and scrap our capitalist free enterprise system, we would no longer be stealing the world's resources so no one would want to kill us any more.
Besides, it doesn't matter. We are all going to die from global warming anyway. Heard of Omaha Beach? Not that place of fame during World War II. No, this is in Omaha, Nebraska where the oceans will at last surround a narrow strip of land. Maybe, just maybe, we could save ourselves if we just adopted Socialism and turned over all governance to those beloved peace-oriented diplomats at the UN.
Peace is so comforting. Just ask those in a nearby cemetery. Freedom is so messy...so unpredictable. You can't always plan the outcome. Besides there are risks involved with freedom and risks are unacceptable in a utopian society. The one value we maintain is equality. Not equality of opportunity, but equality of result. In a Socialist world, risks are unnecessary because without freedom there is no need for such outmoded thinking.
If you doubt that such a utopian society can exist, then you need only look to Cuba, a mere 90 miles from our shores where in our textbooks the Cuban healthcare system is touted as a model for the world. This is the nonsense our youth are being fed.
They are not told that in radical Muslim textbooks, Christians and Jews are called rats and vermin. What do you do with rats and vermin? You set traps for them and then you eradicate them. They are not instructed that there are millions who want to kill us for who we are and what we represent.
With the exception of the invasion of Iraq, the United States has never begun a war. Even there, an average of 20 times per day the Iraqi government was attempting to attack U.S. and British planes over parts of the country we agreed to protect.
We do, however, respond to the attacks of others. The removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan was a response to destruction of the World Trade Center buildings by terrorists on 9/11. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States formally entered World War II.
The abject failure of the UN is never discussed in Social Studies. The failure of Socialism and Communism in Russia and the former Soviet bloc nations is not taught. If it is mentioned at all, the suggestion is quite strong that they just didn't do it right.
The real world rarely enters the classroom. The utopian nonsense, which has filled the heads of young people for decades, now leads to a complete misunderstanding of who and what really works.
The audio and pictures of Nick Berg were from the real world. Did they shock and sicken some of the students? It is well if they did. It is time that they learn that there is no restart button. There are people who want to kill us and against whom we should defend ourselves.
It is time young people learn that the reason our Founding Fathers included the Second Amendment to the Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights was precisely to insure that a relatively free people who wish to defend themselves may do so.
Yes, and they ought to understand that capitalism, especially capitalism as one side of the coin and free enterprise as the other side of the coin, works. In fact, it is really the only system that works. Nick Berg was certainly killed because he was an American. His death probably was insured when his captors learned that he was Jewish.
It is a mean, nasty, dreadful world out there, but one which we have managed to keep at bay, not by the UN, but by our own Constitutional government.
Those teachers who dared acquaint their sheltered and misled underlings about a little part of the real world deserve a promotion and thanks from all of us. If they lose their jobs over this it will demonstrate just how far cultural Marxism (i.e. political correctness) has infiltrated this once great country.
(Paul M. Weyrich is chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.)
Copyright 2004, Free Congress Foundation
Thanks for sharing this article. I don't respond to many posts here, although I've been hovering for ages. This is one time I feel compelled to give my two cents.
I disagree strongly that teachers have a right to show this "film", particularly without parental permission. Not neccesarily because it would offend their "sensibilities" or that they should be sheltered from the real world. Although, I do believe it would be better to view something as horrid and disturbing as this with access to a lengthier dialogue then classroom time divide by x-amount of students would allow. But, also because I would not trust for a moment the context many teachers would place the beheading of berg in.
Not true in real life. Nick Berg, although he pleaded for his life, was dead, dead, dead. His captors, like the murderers of John the Baptist, had his decapitated head to prove it.
THE MESOPOTAMIAN
TO BRING ONE MORE IRAQI VOICE OF THE SILENT MAJORITY TO THE ATTENTION OF THE WORLD
http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Hi Friends,
Regarding the horrible act of beheading the poor hostage Nicolas Berg, there is no use in expressions of horror and condemnation, but it is necessary to express sincere condolence and sympathy with the family of the victim.
But I would like to inform the American friends that beheading was known to be one of the techniques of the Fedayeen Saddam. The late Uday, the son of Saddam commanded that particular outfit. I think it was the summer of 1999 when we woke up some morning to be shocked by some horrible news. Before we tell you about that it is necessary to recount something that has some bearing on the subject. You might have heard that an assassination attempt against Uday had taken place in 1996, which left him with injuries that caused impotency. This made him even more cruel and sadistic than his usual self. It has been revealed after the fall of the regime that he shot the doctor who broke the news to him (c.f. interview with one of the close bodyguards of Uday at Al Arabia last year). This added one more complex to his extensive repertoire of psychological problems. He started to hate anything to do with other people having any kind of sexual pleasure.
Well, that horrible day we learnt that the night before the Fedayeen had attacked scores of houses and dragged women and young girls to streets and beheaded many with swords leaving the heads at the doorsteps of the victims houses. Some of these heads were left in place for more than twenty-four hours. The atrocities lasted for several weeks. The pretext for this behavior was a campaign against prostitution. The women who were beheaded were alleged to be prostitution madams and some of their young girls. I remember that my young boys came home suffering from shock as one of these houses was in our area and they knew the occupants quite well. The victims were taken by surprised and there was nothing to arouse their fears before that night. This was typical of the Baathists when they planned some atrocity to attack suddenly at some predetermined moment without any previous warning. Throughout the reign of the Baath party and particularly the Saddam era, it was customary to suffer periodic atrocities carefully planned and imaginatively variable to keep the people terrified all the time. It was considered necessary not to leave the people too long without some thing awful to keep them intimidated properly. The Baathists were masters of the “Terreur”, and it was the essential means of their hold on power. In fact what we see now is something rather similar. It is a similar technique; they are trying to intimidate both the Iraqi people first but mainly the western people. They will stop at nothing. You must understand that this is their only expertise; their sole training and method and way of thinking. They think they can inspire fear and terror into the Coalition forces and their people and leadership exactly in the same way that they did with the Iraqis. They think that they can intimidate the whole world exactly in the same way that they did with us.
So I just wanted to say the above to help people understand why these horrible things are happening: You are just being treated to a small sample of what we suffered for more than three decades.
Salaam
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