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Ahhh, Cricket; tell me if I'm out of line here, but somehow I sort of sense a few thing about you. Bear in mind, now, that I'm neither a Psychic nor a Prophet, but I think we see a certain pattern emerging here.

So if you can humor a fellow FReeper for a moment...

You're a Teacher in Maine, right?

Probably one of those Maverick Educators who still thinks that educating our Children should be, and is, priority number one. Whatever diety or ideological paradigm you subscribe to, you keep it to yourself - at least in the classroom - and challenge your Students to rationally and critically analyze the information available to them and select their World-view and attitudes accordingly.

How am I doing so far? You may not be terribly popular with some of your Peers who consider their vocation as an opportunity to advance, via those same, or similar Children, a popular acceptance and loyal adherance to the socio-political theory or institution around which their own lives orbit.

What better way to influence the hearts and minds of a whole generation of future Citizens and Voters than to usurp, by force of Law, significant if not primary control over the intellectual and moral developmental input these impressionable and malleable young minds are exposed to during the critical years of their development?

By the Second Generation, many Parents of these young mental sponges will themselves be products of previous indoctrinational guidance, and passively accept if not whole-heartedly support the continuation of the proccess with their own offspring.

And where do the Children of Immigrants arriving in America first go to learn what "being American" is all about?

Bingo!

So that after a year or two, they understand all there is to know about Americanism; You have RIGHTS! Primary among these rights, and the one around which all others revolve and have their meaning is...

ABORTION!

Nearly as important is an American's right to WELFARE. Especially if the American in Question happens to be of a certain racial or Ethnic "Minority". We all know, in that case, that you are too stupid to make appropriate choices for yourself, so the Government will kindly make the really important ones for you.

What a Country!

On top of that your generous providors will see to it that you get prefferential treatment in admission to College or in getting a job, in the event that you feel like working for a living or advancing beyond the squalid conditions of poverty. Of course if you don't feel like straining yourself that way and don't mind somewhat squallid conditions in Government subsidised housing, Massah in Washington will see to it that you are kept in fodder, beverages, and just enough drugs to keep you addicted and dependant for life, as you are entitled to it by just being an "American".

And whenever Massah needs you to "VOTE", all you have to do is get on the bus when it comes around and do what the nice people tell you to. Who knows; there might even be a pack of cigarettes in it for you.

Now ain't Massah kind? What a Country!

If it feels good and other Americans are doing it; enjoy! It's your RIGHT, after all.

The worst enemies of the Human Race are the American Corporation, the Stock Market, the Republican Party, and America's Military. The overthrow and destruction of these evil institutions is one of the most important goals all nice people must strive for.

It would be cause for celebration if the Golf Course just opened up and swallowed Rush Limbaugh whole, and who needs Israel anyway?

Anybody anywhere in the World can come and be an American, too. American Taxpayers will support them and their offspring for their entire life, if need be, and sue anyone who is reluctant to learn their language in order to serve them. It doesn't matter it they hate America and want to kill us all... as long as they get on the bus when it comes around and vote.

For Mas'sah.

So there appears, for some "Educators", much like "Journalists", a sacred mission above and beyond all others; a quest which drives and inspires all of their endeavors.

And it is, quite simply I think, to "Change the World". At least in their minds, perhaps for the better - but always according to the Master blueprint they have been issued.

At School.

Providencially, there are still a few of us Retards and Reprobates out here who recalcitrantly refuse to believe it, and we represent an impediment to their mission... but not without risk.

They are known to have rather limited tolerance for anybody or anything that gets between them and power.

Now as to that "phone call"; they caught you just in the nick of time, didn't they?

Had you pushed that "Post" button a little too soon before the phone rang and you got the orders, you might have posted it before extensively editing it as I am sure you had to, and there would have been hell to pay.
Why, by this time next year - or next Week - you could be bagging groceries down at the Shaw's Market in stead of Teaching; I doubt that any Public Schrool in the State of Maine would even accept you as a Substitute for some mysterious reason. For years.

Close one, eh? No doubt whoever made that call knows who "Cricket" on the free Republic is a whole lot better than I do, and now you know that they know, and I would not be surprised if we will not be hearing from you again any time soon. Were they able to tell you exactly what you were keystroking just before you attempted to post it? The timing of that call may not have been a coincedence at all. (There are sophisticated and very stealthy "Trojans" that will do that, giving the Hacker complete access to and control over your computer. If they don't like what you are doing or where you are going on the internet, they can take you down hard, and you won't be using that computer for a while.)

Pity; I rather think there may have been something you wished to share with us that we would be very interested in learning. But we must only learn that which we are supposed to learn, isn't that the way?

But until they manage to take the Free Republic, Rush, and a few other outposts of Liberty down and out (as I have no doubt they would like to if they only could), 'Tain't neccessarily so.

I think that if any FReepers still question the formidable power of some of the parties and institutions in play, please check out what just happened here.

Pretty scarey, isn't it?

By attacking the minds and emotions of Children entrusted to it's care in an attempt to turn them against their own Parents who did not, for whatever reason, submit to the directives of the Mother Goddess, the Dragon (a certain "Teachers'" organization, we suspect) got the attention of the wild Bull-Moose (The Maine National Guard, Military Parents, WABI and FReepers) who was duly indignant over the way the Dragon was treating it's Calves when the Moose wasn't watching.

The Moose snorted, shook his antlers, and pawed defiantly at the ground while the Dragon exhaled fire and sulferous fumes, quickly silencing any of the ducklings or other subordinate creatures who had so impetuously cried out without permission.

Both antagonists roar out to call their Allies throughout the Maine woods and beyond, as ominous clouds begin to gather. The tall Maine pines begin to tremble...

This could get interesting, Sports Fans; Stay tuned!

And be careful out there, "Cricket"; I have little doubt that you are being watched.

But you know that now, don't you?