Posted on 10/21/2009 6:35:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
If Americans want a glimpse of all of the good that can be done for children if our Senate decides to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), we need look no further than 90 miles off the coast of Florida. For a shining example of the success of internationalism, Cuba is the United Nation’s latest poster child.
In articles released this week by official Cuban news agencies, UNICEF representative José Juan Ortiz praised Cuba for being “able to apply the UN Convention on Children’s Rights in a way which is truly a model.”
Cuba? -- a model in the area of children’s rights? The Communist nation was extolled particularly for advancing the right of children to “self-expression.” UNICEF’s Ortiz commended the Cuban youth group, the José Marti Pioneer Children Organization, for granting children “the possibility of expressing themselves.” This organization even “met in Congress” Ortiz noted.
The José Marti Pioneer Children Organization is the Cuban version of a long-standing Communist youth organization created to promote communist ideology. While UNICEF believes the group promotes self-expression, an award winning Cuban blogger—posting on the ultra-liberal website Huffington Post—described her own experience in the group in far different terms.
Blogger Yoani Sanchez described the Pioneer Children’s annual ritual held this year on October 8, 2009. “In all the schools in the country, today is the ceremony for the first grade students to enroll in the Pioneer organization. The morning assembly lasts longer than usual; the parents accompany their children while they put on the neckerchiefs and shout, for the first time, the slogan, “Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che.”
Observing the ceremony at her son’s school this year, Sanchez recalled her childhood experience as a Cuban first-grader. “I felt touched by the hand of the Fatherland even though in reality I was only being added to the ranks of an ideology.”
The practice of ideological indoctrination continues to this date. Describing the scene in her son’s classroom in 2009, Sanchez writes, “The teacher walked up and down the ranks and asked the children to repeat the slogan about Che Guevara.”
Sanchez’s son Teo declined to repeat the slogan. When caught by the teacher for non-participation, Teo was asked why he didn’t want to recite the slogan. “Che is dead,” he said, “and I don’t want to be dead.”
“Ah, Teo,” the teacher replied, “repeat the slogan now, why make problems for yourself.”
So much for self-expression -- parrot the government slogan or find yourself in trouble.
Given the recent troubling episode of “Obama veneration” in the public schools, one can only imagine what this might foreshadow for America in the future. Case in point: the political organization committed to securing the ratification of the UN Children’s treaty in the United States, for instance, has prepared a curriculum that fully intends to use children to promote its political goal of adopting the treaty. Child indoctrination appears to be a core value of the internationalist’s creed.
To see what lies in store for the United States, turn to Cuba: less real free expression; nifty government slogans taught to your children.
When that day comes, Americans may mourn the loss of our American traditions of freedom. But look on the bright side, a UNICEF representative will undoubtedly praise us as a model of how to raise children.
Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm
One of these days Elian Gonzales is going to be old enough to take a boat ride to Florida (again) and we’ll hear something interesting
If he is not in some internment camp
If these elitists attempt to “crack down” on homeschoolers,
they’re going to have blood in the streets.
The corks really must be popping in the Red House. For the last 40 years the libs have been in charge of public education, housing, auto registration, gun registration (DD forms), and other items. Now they have taken over GM looking at eliminating the First Amendment and with the Copenhagen Treaty signing in December, will sign away our sovereignty.
All this will have been accomplished in less than a year.
“Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che.”
Example of an actual Che quote:
“In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm”—
“In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm”—
Reminds me of something I saw years ago:
“God is dead” - Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead” - God
Check this video out. Bertha Lewis (yes ACORN’s bertha lewis) introduces Randi Weingarten, head of the American federation of teachers. Lewis calls Weingarten a sister and community organizer.
These clowns want to unionize children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1niVqTrtvE&feature=player_embedded#
its from http://www.aftexposed.com/index.html
History always repeats itself.
btt
Don't count on it.
For the past 9 years, Castro has ensured that Elian was treated as one of the Communist Party's elite pampered few.
Whoever Elian was when he was 6 years old, that is not who he is today.
If you give me a 6 year old, free reign in the means of indoctrination and tell me what ideology you want programmed into him, nine years later I can deliver anything from a red, white and blue American patriot to a fanatical Islamic suicide-bomber nut-job.
Children are like clay that can easily be molded into pretty much anything you want as long as you keep them under a tight reign. That is why statist regimes from ancient Sparta to Germany to the USSR to Cuba to statist regime wannabes like the Obama-worshipping school teachers are so eager to have complete control over how children are raised and indoctrinated.
If the traditional values of America are being lost today, they are being lost in the classroom.
People forget that if Obama signs us up on Dec. 7th the UN’s millenium goals are gun control, how to raise your kid,and being told what to do;Including the bizarre painting of your roof and sidewalks white and what type of TV you are allowed to buy to save energy.
This is serious stuff. The democratic partisan hacks want in their way or the highway in complete communism.
My President Worships Che Guevara
(and all he brought me was this crummy t-shirt)
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Hmm...you may enjoy this website then:
It’s already started.
During the campaign, Obama’s Houston office had a picture of Che right behind the front desk...
And we are surprised because...???
;-)
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