> Yep. This is the plan. For the past 40 years our lawmakers > have made a concerted effort to dumb us down. They enact > laws that substitute for common sense and deprive most young > Americans of a decent education; one that encourages thought > and not only standardized testing. Then they use the > military as a vehicle to provide secondary education to those > who cannot afford it.
That's certainly a piece of it. But it's mostly that greedy, selfish, monied special interests have seized the power of our government by controlling the gates of entry through the election process, in combination with consolidated media ownership that has put the power of the press into the hands of just a handful of people. Together, this combination has beaten our notion of democracy into a pulp. Proof? Bush, the neocon stooge, as President. More proof? AIPAC's influence over Congress, foreign policy in particular. Still more proof? The spate of ridiculous "major news" stories that have been pushed by the choir to "make little" of the unmitigated disaster unraveling the ME - with our world right behind it. We've been suckered into a "nothing is as it seems to be" world, where the only truth we can touch is the historical record - and that's only for people who put time and effort into digging for it. Others, for just one example, Murdoch's minions, have their heads so stuffed with sh!t it's coming out of their ears. Even MSNBC, which I see as taking some sort of stand, still stands back from putting it all together. > The result is an ignorant public, as > shown in this piece. I'll bet that 95% of natural-born > American citizens could not pass the test that immigrants > seeking citizenship must take. http://www.floydpinkerton.net/fun/immigration/imindex.html has a sample test. It seems pretty (too?) simple, but even so I got 6 wrong. > It was funny for a while, making jokes about how dumb > American high school students are, but now it seems that we > have hit bottom. If I had a magic wand I would make tomorrow > January 20, 2009. If we don't stand up to and repair the root causes of our problems, one more - or a thousand - elections wouldn't change anything but names. Bill > HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
