Seen And Heard: A Youthful Exception

“Children should be seen and not heard,” is the old adage, but Kyle Williams is quickly becoming both. He’s going to New York this week to be on national radio and television. If fourteen-year-old Kyle isn’t the pride and joy of Oklahoma, he soon will be. The exceptional youngster represents everything a society could want, and everything America could hope for.

How did this young boy from Guthrie, Oklahoma become seen and heard, when other youth are not considered worth listening to? How did he rise to the level of national attention?

He started writing for WorldNetDaily.com at the age of 12. His first article was posted November 3, 2001. It was titled, “Search for Truth.” Well, that probably distinguishes him from the start as a youngster not totally absorbed in hard rock, sports, drugs, movies, skate boards, or girls. (In fact his latest article, “Hollywood Without Conscience Meets Teen-agers Without Brains,” is on teens and media. Sounds like a real monster movie to me.)

Where did he get his disposition of objectivity and critical assessment toward the cultural junk food crammed in his face (and everyone else’s) every day?

Home schooled? That means he doesn’t go to school. He parents teach him. And he teaches himself. They’re involved in a national program which offers children an alternative to public education. Oklahoma happens to offer the best of this kind. Although Oklahoma rates near the bottom in the quality of public education (K-12), Oklahoma also has the largest home schooling program, and the students rate highest among national home schoolers. Home schooled children score on the average 30% higher on college entrance examinations than public school students.

You might think that home schooled kids are socially handicapped and maladjusted. But they’re not. They are advanced. They are more knowledgeable and more mature. They generally become leaders when they enter public circumstances. This is because they know who they are, and what they value. They have objectivity.

Bill Cessato tried to disarm the prejudice that will likely fall towards the young Kyle. In a Washington Times article, he says, “When Kyle Williams is not playing video games or doing his chores, the 14-year-old pundit is skewering liberals in his weekly commentary for the Web site www.WorldNetDaily.com.”

And Kyle is really just one of many extraordinary young home schoolers. I feature them on BadEagle.com. I call them “the new royalty.” They are like the tutored sons and daughters of Medieval or Renaissance European royal families. I dare say, Kyle is king.

He comes from a Christian home, where family relationships are foundational to the entire approach to life. Kyle’s family’s values are very clear, and very effective. His views on society, the country, and the world, all come from his Christian family.

His family values, education, morality, and politics are the subject of his first book, Seen and Heard (WND Books, May, 2003). Kyle is already scheduled to appear on programs like G. Gordon Liddy, Hannity, O’Reilly, Scarborough, and Fox & Friends. This will only snowball. Kyle Williams will probably become a household name before he’s 16.

He has an excellent website, CaptoVeritas.com, (“search for truth”) which, due to his current book promotional responsibilities and publicity campaign, is temporarily shut down. CaptoVeritas.com is a truly impressive site, beautifully simple, lofty sentiments. His youth only makes the truths he advocates more grand. These thoughts are not his concoctions. They are his convictions. He didn’t invent truth, he’s merely recognizing it.

Kyle believes there are elements in American society hell-bent on destroying the family, overturning traditional American values, and changing America into something it isn’t, nor was ever meant to be. Media, education, law, and politics are the major playing fields of these anti-American forces.

But Kyle is a fervent believer in the United States Constitution, and in the Declaration of Independence. This is the foundation of America, and if followed, these rules will not allow any subversive game to be played on any American field.

What impresses me the most in Seen and Heard is chapter 10, “The Founders Again.” Kyle shows that “separation of church and state” is the most misconceived and abused “game” ever played in America. I have five degrees, including a Yale Master of Divinity, and I never heard it put so plainly. The First Amendment was designed to keep the government from forcing religion on anyone, but not to prevent public employees from practicing their religion on the job.

I'm sure Rush will want to give plenty of attention to Kyle.

Not.

(steely)

If fourteen-year-old Kyle isn’t the pride and joy of Oklahoma, he soon will be.

let's hope there are no unpleasant revalations in the future.

No reason to suspect there will be, but, as Orwell said (re: Ghandi) "saints should always be considered guilty until they are proved innocent."

Hope he is in fact the real deal.

I must say, to all, I am stupidly surprised at the resistance shown young Kyle. I should have predicted it. Anyone coming from a broken home, who didn't do well in school, who had a miserable childhood, who accomplished nothing significant...would be offended in Kyle. I guess we're getting an indication of how many people are disatisfied with their lives.

I say this: just be humble about it. Rejoice that good parents DO exist, and have chosen to devote themselves to their children. What's WRONG with that? No one needs to be envious.

Yes, it may hurt. I may bring sadness or remorse, to know your own life hasn't been what you wanted, or been what it could have and should have been. But, I for one find great joy in vicarious living!

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