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To: Ichneumon
I never advocated that, nor has anyone else I've ever heard of. Spare us your straw man fallacies.

Ichneumon,

If you do not believe that the government schools can and do send out armed police, court orders, and foster care workers to threaten parents then I advise you to visit the Homeschool Legal Defense Association website. There you will find page upon page of court recorded incidents of government school bullying. Some parents and children have been jailed. Some parents have lost custody of their children.

Also.,.government school expenses are a significant portion of any business or home's property tax. Just try refusing to pay the government school portion of that tax and watch what happens.

This are not strawman arguments. Thoughtful people will see the truth.

Government school indoctrination is driven through police threat. That includes evolution and ID.
49 posted on 02/18/2006 6:32:11 AM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime
If you do not believe that the government schools can and do send out armed police, court orders, and foster care workers to threaten parents

Where in the heck do you hallucinate that I said any such thing?

then I advise you to visit the Homeschool Legal Defense Association website. There you will find page upon page of court recorded incidents of government school bullying.

I don't doubt that at all.

Also.,.government school expenses are a significant portion of any business or home's property tax.

I strongly support voucher systems.

Just try refusing to pay the government school portion of that tax and watch what happens.

You'll get in deep legal trouble, like other "tax protestors". If you don't like your taxes, take it up with your representative in the legislature. If not enough other people agree with you and you can't get the tax law changes you want, either move to somewhere else, or suck it up. That's how representative democracies work. Not everyone gets everything they want all the time. Most people are adult enough to learn to live with it, while working to change enough people's minds to get a different vote outcome next time. But you don't get to throw a tantrum and just refuse to pay your taxes.

This are not strawman arguments.

I didn't say they were. What I *did* say was a straw man argument was the false accusation that anyone wants to teach evolution at the point of a gun. There are plenty of alternatives if you don't like your local public school -- move, send the kids to a private school, homeschool without making waves, get elected to the school board, start a grassroots effort for change, etc.

Thoughtful people will see the truth.

...and other kinds of people will get hysterical about science being taught in science classes.

Government school indoctrination is driven through police threat. That includes evolution and ID.

Feel free to send your kids to a private school, or any of many other alternatives. No one's stopping you, and no one's going to sic the police on you for it if you do it without being a loon about it.

59 posted on 02/18/2006 7:19:27 AM PST by Ichneumon
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