The Savage Republican

Yesterday morning I was helping a good friend pour concrete for an egress window. Another mutual friend was there. A few years ago Bob asked me what he could do to get involved in politics. I gave him a few suggestions. He decided to work for The Maple River Education Project which is now EdWatch www.edwatch.org . I have gone to some of their presentations and have always been impressed. Yesterday Bob told me that EdWatch was having their year end wrap-up. I went. Now, what was interesting is that Bob and I were talking as my friend Greg was working the concrete. As he overheard Bob and me talk about government education in Minnesota, he commented "You guys are scaring me!" He was half joking as he and his wife homeschool their daughter, but there was truth in his comment as most children are government schooled.
Well, I went to the wrap up and supper. And what I heard come from these people as they reported what the government (even GWB!) has planned for children made my blood run cold.
Profiles of Learning is dead...so to speak. Son of Profiles of Learning is alive and well. And is pointed at infants to 4 year olds!
Mental health screening for 1 year olds. Drawing games for 3-4 year olds where there is an outline of a child and the kids are asked to fill in as many body parts as possible and are then asked if this is a drawing of a boy or girl...and why? Text books where all references to the Founding Documents are highly edited and all references to God are omitted. Early writings on and about the republic are twisted to make it sound as if the Constitution is a product of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment (which gave us socialism)!!! The Mayflower Compact (from the Pilgrims, who were Congregationalist, as am I, who also gave us the townhall meeting, among other things) is heavily edited to omit the dedication of the Pilgrims to God and the reason for their writing the Mayflower Compact (this editing of the early documents and comparing the edit to the originals comes from Mike Chapman. You can find a DVD of his presentation on the website www.edwatch.org . Very much worth the purchase!).
EdWatch is THE premiere watchdog group on government education in the nation! They are called upon as a resource from all over the country. They provide expert testimony and means to combat the wholesale true exploitation of children by government and the left.
They richly deserve to be supported. Make a donation. Make a purchase at their online store. Get involved with them or start an organization like theirs in your state.
This is something you can really do for the children.

It occurs to me that the evil of the left is like a vapor: it finds any crack and then seeps in to fill the room.

That being said, the reason for a group like EdWatch is because of the abandonment of the Constitution and the 10th Amendment. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that allows the Federal government to be involved in education. Nothing! Zip! Zero! Null and void! Empty set! This is what happens when we have an unrestrained government that operates as a democracy. And these fine people in EdWatch need to fight to keep the government away from our children. Rather than putting their energies into their families, they, and we, have to fight the government.
We have to fight the government to protect our rights. Does anybody, other than me and a select few, see anything wrong with that? Class? Class?
Welcome to the democracy!
Once again, two websites that you absolutely need to go read:
www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr012903.htm
and www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm .
Or for the last link go buy the book "The Law".

BTW, this blog title comes from a quote from a Nazi in Germany:a German citizen told the Nazi that the Nazis would never conquer the German people.