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Frankly, I've been surprised since getting online in '95 just how many people are interested in learning about the rule of law. There seems to be many more people than one would think by seeing what is allowed to pass as "news" reporting and political punditry.

Still, those of us interested are in the minority and the level of misinformation about our laws and government among otherwise educated people is pretty high.

Good column, and good suggestion, FS.

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Excellent.

Education is the answer.
Knowledge is Power.

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See Liberal William Manchester Turns on ACLU and PC ism, by Carl Limbacher and crew, NewsMax, Feb. 25, 2002 (posted by NormsRevenge)

Responding to the news that the American Civil Liberties Union says hanging the portrait amounts to forced patriotism the old liberal revealed that "I ceased my affiliation with them a few years ago. "It's all about guilt now. Guilt. Victims and guilt."

Asked to explain, Manchester said he didn't know why that's so. "But we're supposed to feel guilt about things that happened or are said to have happened in the faraway past. Do you know what George Washington's real sin is for these people? He was a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Period. He doesn't fit in with today's prescribed correctness. Hang the portrait. Maybe some child will see it and ask a teacher, `Who's that?' And then that child might just get a history lesson."

When asked how important history is he said "A fundamental premise for a functioning democracy is that the citizens will be literate enough, educated enough to see through the bull, know what's good for the democracy and what's dangerous. Washington embodied that premise, championed it.

"If you let education slide in schools and in the home, if your citizens are not aware of their own history, you open the door for self-appointed arbiters of truth," he warned. "And their so-called truths may not be true at all. It's a bad thing. The real question here is: Are our children learning enough history in school? I think not.

"But," he added "it must be good history, real history. Bad enough we don't teach more about World War II in our schools, for 55 years the Japanese have gotten away with teaching a false history of the war in their schools." Manchester, an ex-Marine wounded in action by the Japanese on Guadalcanal in WW II added "To catch the lie you have to be educated."

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[SuziQ]

How very timely! My kids and I just finished our discussions on their studies of the First and Second Continental Congresses, Battles of Lexington and Concord, Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill, and the writing of the Declaration. We are homeschooling, and the series we're using for Amer. History is "A History of US" and it comes with a wonderful sourcebook which includes writings of the founders and the full texts of the Declaration and the Constitution! And we're going to go on a Field Trip to MinuteMan National Historical Park next month, so all of this will come alive for them!

I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who, when asked "What kind of government are we creating here"?, said "A Republic sirs, if you can keep it!" Well the only way we'll be able to keep it is by continuing to be informed and passing along the info whenever we get the chance!

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Especially for you.

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Please read this thread.

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[Chad Fairbanks]

Ping!

To win in the court of public opinion, we must be in court.

To accomplish more widespread knowledge, it is obvious that we must get the word out ---

Please look around for at least one, worthy "conservative print media" publication., and then offer a gift subscription to your local library --- so there is at least some balance against the ubiquitous Washington Post, and other, so-called "mainstream" publications of the "liberal media." This Free Republic forum is a national, natural distribution-resource channel. And we may as well use its advantages while we have them.

As SuziQ has said, "I might also suggest that you offer a subscription to a local high school. Get those 'young skulls full of mush' started seeing this info and make it difficult for them to be indoctrinated by either the high school or the college they eventually attend."

Many people don't even know that any kind of fact-filled "conservative print media" exist. When in the Washington, D.C. area, and you run across a copy of The Washington Times, or The American Enterprise, or Insight on the News Magazine, or Human Events ... please grab copies and place them alongside the stacks of the New York Times or Washington Post --- somewhere else around our country, far away from the 'DC Beltway'.

Call The Washington Times and ask that they deliver stacks of newspapers to truck stops around the 'DC Beltway,' where they may find (Freepers can help at this) various truck drivers who would be interested in taking a stack with them ... and then dropping that stack off at another truck stop, again, away from the 'DC Beltway" ... in order that other people across the nation, get an opportunity to see the facts ignored by the W'Post, etc.

Airports are a great place; also at truck stops, at newsstands, at cafes, and at bookstores. And please note, that I'm not asking for your money. Instead, I am asking that you help get "conservative print media" to a level of customary reading in our American culture. I'm suggesting a way to fund Liberty, instead of funding timid politicians.

The formula is that we be educated in our Liberties and Foundations thereof --- which was the reason, by the way, for the Founding Fathers' and Framers' great interest in "public education." That we should know how and why we are free.

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