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Sign in High School Promotes Population Control, Tells Teens Two Kids Maximum
Life News ^ | Christine Rousselle

Posted on 10/18/2013 9:54:39 AM PDT by Morgana

Fr. John Hollowell, a priest and blogger from Indiana, saw a disturbing sign in the hallways of Northview High School in Brazil, IN.

At first when I walked past the sign I thought to myself – “Oh, cool, they’re starting to catch on that our population levels are at a critical phase and that we’re heading for a demographic winter because no one is having kids anymore; they’re trying to get the word out that our population growth is trending towards a crisis….”

Then I literally had a sick feeling in my stomach when I realized I had the sign completely wrong.

In 1968, the book The Population Bombwas released and predicted, among other things, mass famine and death from starvation due to overpopulation. The book initially claimed that there was no possible way for India to feed its population of 200 million. Since the book was published, India’s population has grown to over a billion, and while malnourishment levels are unacceptably high, it is mostly due to corruption and and government ineffectiveness, not overpopulation. The mass starvation due to food shortages never came to fruition–food production actually increasedfaster than ever before.

Despite the completely wrong predictions in The Population Bomb, the idea that the world is becoming grossly overpopulated has remained in the public’s mind. This has led to a shockingly low fertility rate in the western world–almost all of Europe is not reproducing at replacement-level rates.

It is not a school’s job to dictate family size to its students, but I am not at all surprised by this sort of rhetoric. This ridiculous project is grounded in junk science and overly-hysterical predictions, and should not be presented as fact to students.


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KEYWORDS: abortion; obamacare; populationcontrol; prolife
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1 posted on 10/18/2013 9:54:39 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Are they talking about out of wedlock breeding machines in the innercity?


2 posted on 10/18/2013 9:58:13 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
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To: Morgana

:: Fr. John Hollowell, a priest ::

There’s no more malleable fool than an old fool. Good to see this “old fool” woke up, but it is probably too late to teach his catechumins the “correct message” and the evil behind the school message.


3 posted on 10/18/2013 10:00:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Gamecock

Are they talking to the boys or girls?

Only two with each baby’s momma for the boys? I have to ask because there is a man in Tennessee who have like 29 kids with several baby’s mommas.


4 posted on 10/18/2013 10:02:43 AM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Which of Obama’s policies do NOT promote population control?

Energy?
Economic?
Foreign Aid?
Global Warming Hoax?
Mid-East destablization?
Absorbing Illegal Immigrants into gov’t programs?
Pro-abort, contracepting, consequence free sex?
Homosex unions?


5 posted on 10/18/2013 10:03:30 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Morgana
Zero population growth, indeed a moderate but steady diminution in our population levels, is a desirable goal for reasons quite apart from Malthusian fear mongering.

The population of America has more than doubled my lifetime and, while the problem is not feeding these people, it is how they vote, how they intrude on my lifestyle, how they make demands on space, water, recreational areas, and highways. How the burgeoning mass of people clamoring for a share of limited resources demand political solutions, such as land-use controls, which inevitably infringe on my liberties (and yours whether you realize it or not) and cumulatively generate a real threat to conservative values.


6 posted on 10/18/2013 10:04:41 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

It is a bit ironic that someone who has chosen a life of celibacy is concerned about a “reproductive winter”.


7 posted on 10/18/2013 10:05:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Morgana

Western nations are committing cultural suicide... it’s nuts. In 200 years there won’t be enough Germans to keep the language alive. France isn’t far behind.


8 posted on 10/18/2013 10:05:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Brieitbart sent me... Freeper newfreep)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’m sure Father wants more to get married and “go ye therefor and populate the earth” but that is the old fashion way.

Now it’s have unprotected sex out of wedlock and populate the welfare system. The democrats way.


9 posted on 10/18/2013 10:06:03 AM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

The Demographics of Brazil, Indiana from Wikipedia:

“The racial makeup of the city was 97.1% White, 0.6% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.6% of the population.”

Now, imagine the cries of “genocide” that would ensue if such a sign were put up in a public school in a “diverse” community. Imagine if the sign were printed in Spanish.

Make no mistake: if your skin color is that of 97.1% of the population of Brazil, Indiana, the Bad People don’t want you around, and they are going to replace you, whether it’s through immigration, or messages like this, which resonate with you because people like you actually care about open space, the environment, etc. The people who are intended to replace you don’t care about those things.


10 posted on 10/18/2013 10:08:16 AM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: nathanbedford

Totally agreed. America was a better and more free place when it wasn’t as crowded with people. Look what happened to California since the 70s. It was a middle class paradise, a family could have a single breadwinner and live in a beach town. Now you have to be a millionaire or you have to live 20 to a house like the Mexicans.


11 posted on 10/18/2013 10:09:18 AM PDT by turducken
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To: nathanbedford

I agree with everything you’ve written. I write only to amplify this point: Only people like you care about the values associated with a stable population. So the powers that be will use those things that you care about: resource scarcity, crowding, environmental values, etc., as a weapon against you and the people like you. You and I will are encouraged to be “responsible” in our family planning decisions, while our replacements are encouraged to have large families to further their “vibrant” and “energetic” “diverse” communities.


12 posted on 10/18/2013 10:14:45 AM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: Gamecock

No, they will continue in their subsidized breeding program.


13 posted on 10/18/2013 10:16:23 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: altsehastiin
The first few minutes of "Idiocracy" nailed it.


14 posted on 10/18/2013 10:17:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

It isn’t hard to understand Socialism’s war on humanity if you consider the spiritual dimension. Socialists are representatives of the devil whose ambitions are the extermination of the human race and the condemnation of human souls as an affront to God.


15 posted on 10/18/2013 10:18:00 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Morgana
“One is enough!”

http://www.chinasmack.com/2013/stories/family-planning-commission-weibo-chinese-netizens-reactions.html

Why must you continue thinking?
Thinking is too difficult.
Let the government free you from thinking.
Do as you're told.

See it's so easy!

Read Animal Farm, the pigs are the heroes...or so the Dems will tell you.

16 posted on 10/18/2013 10:18:24 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: altsehastiin

“The racial makeup of the city was 97.1% White, 0.6% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.6% of the population.”

Yeah, funny that.

Imagine if this were posted in inner-city Indianapolis in a majority black or Hispanic school — in Spanish there.

The outcry would be all over CNN and the alphabet networks about genocide being waged against “persons of color.”

Yet white kids? The media yawn.

The parents need to raise h*** (I would if that were my daughter or son’s school).
The school (representing the STATE) has NO RIGHT to tell kids to do any such thing, it’s none of their business. I’d be asking why this message is in THIS school and it is all across the state or just in white-majority schools.

If it is ONLY in white-majority schools, then IS a message of genocide against the white population — and needs to be stopped in its tracks.


17 posted on 10/18/2013 10:22:23 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: GOPJ

Start learning Arabic and buy a prayer rug.


18 posted on 10/18/2013 10:25:31 AM PDT by 353FMG ( I don't say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: Morgana

That’s liberal religion. Shouldn’t be in schools.


19 posted on 10/18/2013 10:26:10 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Morgana

Tell that to the brood sows in the minority side of town. Get rid of future takers.


20 posted on 10/18/2013 10:30:47 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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