Posted on 03/05/2008 11:08:18 AM PST by OPS4
A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional values advocacy organization.
"Just when we thought the indoctrination in California's public schools couldn't get any worse, state lawmakers introduce bills that will further brainwash innocent children," said a statement from Capitol Resource Institute, a traditional values and family advocacy organization based in California.
"We're in California. Of course it has a chance of succeeding," CRI spokeswoman Karen England told WND. "These people get bolder and bolder every year."
Her organization, along with several others, already has been battling over lawmakers' orders, already placed in law, that public schools in the state teach nothing but positive messages about homosexuality, transsexuality, bisexuality and other alternative lifestyles.
Those plans are being challenged in court, by citizens' attempts to place the issue on the 2008 election ballot and by family advocates who say the best option is for families to abandon public schools for private schools or other alternatives. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58061
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Alan Lowenthal seems to be from the Harry Bridges wing of the party. In addition to being a big ILWU supporter, he authored Arnold’s Workers Comp reform legislation. It makes ya wonder what that was all about.
It would be just like him.
>are you joking? The communists couldn’t overthrow a rural post office these days.<
The problem is the terms you are using. Think progressive, socialist, and liberals. Now do you understand how powerful they are?
They are all communists, just that they these days they prefer to be called by different names. “Communists” is rude.
Arnold went past “moderate” long ago. He’s been in left field for quite some time now.
bttt
yes, but this law repealed a ban on the “old school” style communists holding jobs in the school system. I would say that is unconstitutional on the face of it-—a person who believes in Marxist-Leninism is not inherently dangerous. Sure it is an unorthodox, even rather stupid (as history has proved) belief but the state has no right to step in the way of any person simply for unorthodox beliefs. That is a slippery slope on the road to tyranny.
Actually planning violent action in support of political aims, however, is a different story altogether.
“Russia will spread her errors around the world” — from a Catholic prophecy.
SB 1322 would delete the requirement that an individual or organization wanting to use the school property is not a Communist action organization or Communist front organization.
This bill would also strike the law that a public school or community college employee may be fired if he or she is a member of the Communist Party,
In my opinion, the state cannot play favorites in who it allows state jobs or resources to because of political belief. That is inherently unconstitutional.
Being a member of the Communist Party goes beyond "political belief." Do you think teachers who become members of the (phantom) "Friends of Al-Qaeda" should also be able to teach children and use taxpayer funded public-property for their meetings?
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