Building the Lowest Common Useful Idiot – Commentary by Michael Kilpatrick, 3/15/10

Interesting developments in the American experience de jour:

States enacting legislation exempting 'home-grown' guns and ammo from federal restrictions. The Tenther movement to nullify D.C. over-reach...

The ongoing 'health care' coup....and the health care nullification work...

And the Texas school book curriculum fight...

If you weren't aware, approved Texas school book selections set the standard for the rest of the country. As with most things of import these days, regardless of verifiable results, and 'good intentions', this vetting process is merely another political/ideological exercise in an 'un'civil war. So far, the results of 'progressive' education have not proven to be all that spectacular. American 15 year olds rank 25th internationally, despite our spending the most money on education. We rank 17th in average science scores, and 24th in math with only four countries scoring lower.
John Stossel

To choose history for an example, one side of the school book debate strives to have basic, traditional facts about our founding, form of government, and prominent figures and events etc., included. The other side (which includes a cadre of well indoctrinated, budding young Bolshevik 'useful idiot' students), wants to ditch the oppressive dead white guys for a Howard Zinn style 'who's who' of PC collectivists, 'activists', and atheists. It's difficult to promulgate a secularist State unless you purge history of the Christian influence of our nation's founding precepts, and turn a blind eye to the shrinking but still substantial faith of our people.

The Darwiniac Fundamentalists are well represented at the curriculum wars as usual, citing the bogeyman of Theocracy as a threat to the establishment of the prerequisite ignorant, compliant proletariat needed to inhabit the coming EUtopia. Macro-evolution is the same kind of deliberate, calculated, foundation destroying hoax that 'global warming' is... power, and control. The insidious views of the current regime's "Science Tzar", John Holdren, are just one of the burners under the pot where your children (the frogs) are being boiled.

Where, exactly, does the Constitution grant Fedzilla the authority to dictate to the States anything relating to the education of anyone, about anything?
---Dirt Road Scholar

Let's look at some of the views of Obamamunist "Science Tzar" John Holdren.

From "Ecoscience", by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren:

"Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

"It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society."

"Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock."

Involuntary fertility control
"A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."

"If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility—just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns—providing they are not denied equal protection." [Note: the left reveres the 14th Amendment except when it gets in the way of 'progress.']

In today's world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?

Toward a Planetary Regime
"Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist. Thus the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from DCs to LDCs, and including all food on the international market."

"The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits."

"If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization."

And you thought that Van Jones was the worst of the commie Tzars appointed by the Obamunist regime...

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Michael Kilpatrick is a painting contractor in Macon, husband of one wife, father of nine children. He is a firearms enthusiast, troubler of the 'progressive' elite, and a Christian, Southern, Constitutionalist.

"The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. ... Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."
---Samuel Adams (From The Rights of the Colonists, page 419) [Bold emphasis is ours]

"...Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late. ... It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War, will be impressed by all influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, our maimed veterans as fit objects for their derision. ... to establish sectional superiority and a more centralised form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties."
---Major General Patrick Cleburne, C.S.A., Jan. 2, 1864

"Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." --George Orwell, from his novel, 1984

"The struggle to control what constitutes our national history has evolved into a political battle for the future of America." --Gordon A. Thompson

"When they slander our heroes, they diminish pride in our heritage. Without pride in our heritage, we lose interest in history." --Gordon A. Thompson from It's Not What You Know - The Battle to Conrol How You Feel About History, 2004