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CA Homeschool Parents Panic as Judge Blocks Kids Escape From Godless Socialist Indoctrination

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WND: California Bill to Allow Openly Communist Indoctrination

Link: Next on school agenda:
Teaching communism.

A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional values advocacy organization.

WorldNetDaily: Student disciplined for pen with gun company logo

Link: WorldNetDaily: Student disciplined for pen with gun company logo.

A student has been threatened with a 3-day suspension from school for bringing to campus, and using, a pen with the corporate logo of the Glock company, a large stylized "G" with the letters "lock" inside.

NRA-ILA Investigating Citigroup Issues

Link: NRA-ILA :: Legislation.

In late December, 2007, a large and well-known firearms dealer was informed by a company called First Data -- which operates as Citi Merchant Services under license from Citigroup, Inc. -- that it would no longer handle the dealer's credit card processing business. The company, CDNN Investments, is well known to gun owners and has been operating in Texas for decades.

Catholic Schools Join Government Schools in PC Halloween Anti-Self Defense Indoctrination

Schools are banning everything from utility belts to laser blasters.  Link: U.S. schools taking the scare out of Halloween - International Herald Tribune.

"Kids are growing up too fast today," she said. "They're learning more about guns and issues in the street than educational issues."

Really?  Kids are learning more about guns today than in years past?  Only a generation or two ago kids took guns to school to compete on rifle teams.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walk.
--Thomas Jefferson

School Suspends 4-Year-Old Over Toy Gun

Story here: MyFox Dallas | School Suspends 4-Year-Old Over Toy Gun.

Enough with these unreasonable school officials abusing the very kids they are charged with protecting!  Sandy Froman urges Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance.

Second Grade Student Suspended for Drawing Stick Figure With Gun

Suspending a kid for drawing guns is child abuse and should be prosecuted as such.

Link: John Lott's Website: Second Grade Student Suspended for Drawing Stick Figure With Gun.

17-year-old disciplined for shotgun shells at school

School equates two unopened boxes of shotgun shells to "dangerous instrument" in suspending Junior Olympic shooter from high school.

Link: 17-year-old disciplined for shotgun shells at school.

WorldNetDaily: Are there no Catholic Billy Mitchells?

Link: WorldNetDaily: Are there no Catholic Billy Mitchells?:

Our church is a hierarchal organization, and we are taught and conditioned to respect our superiors. We understand the difficult situations and scorn and contempt that public appeals to Rome will put upon you. But as Christ says, "To whom much is given, much will be expected." We are properly taught reverence and obedience to our superiors just as was Gen. Billy Mitchell. But Mitchell knew that his superior's blindness to the future required his sacrificing all that he had achieved for a greater good – that of his country. So we arrive at the question: Are there any among you, individually or in group, who will now say "Enough is enough" and begin to publicly appeal to Rome for relief from hierarchy and clergy who subject us to the outrages such as occurred in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2007? Yes, you may lose access to the chancelleries. You may lose prestige among your peers. You may face cancellation of your columns from diocesan publications. You may be dismissed from your board chairs in Catholic charities and organizations. All these may happen. But who else, at this point, can carry our pain to those in the seats of power in our church. Will you accept your commissions in this great battle for the soul of our church?

Bill of Rights should not be selectively taught

Alert reader takes Massachussetts Newspapers in Education Council to task on omitting the Second Amendment.

Link: READER’S VIEW: Bill of Rights should not be selectively taught.

The Crimson Appear Incapable of Condition Yellow, Let Alone Red

A stunning example of leftist academic lunacy.  What is a Harvard degree really worth?  They will of course now ban umbrellas and it doesn't matter because most of their theories are all wet anyway. Link: Of Arms and the Law: How the elite sees life.

The Harvard Crimson reports in shock that (1) a dog stalking a squirrel actually killed him and (2) there were two robberies on campus... one using an umbrella: "The idea of Harvard students being threatened with knives and umbrellas in the shadow of Widener Library is quite unsettling."

UPDATE: Of course, what can you expect if educrats cover up rapes of first-graders.

BOOK REVIEW: Nathan Tabor's "Beast on the East River" ... Should we tame it? cage it? kill it?

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I just finished reading a GREAT new book: The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America’s Sovereignty and Security, by Nathan Tabor (published by Nelson Current). 

This is a book that will change you.  For example, I now believe in black helicopters.

From NRAnews.com and Wayne LaPierre’s recent book, “The Global War on Your Guns” (same publisher), and in particular from watching the televised debate between Wayne LaPierre and Rebecca Peters of IANSA, I already appreciated the emerging threat the UN poses to gunowners.

But black helicopters?  No one wants to be accused of “black helicopter thinking!”  That implies a belief that globalists plot to impose one-world government, including the military apparatus necessary for such government.

Well, it turns out I am in very good company as a “black helicopter thinker.”  Walter Cronkite (“America’s anchorman,” the “most trusted man in America”) went on record advocating world government (including requisite police and standing army) while at the UN accepting an award from the World Federalist Association in 1999.  Cronkite does not merely believe such globalists exist; he appears to actually be one, which is news to a lot of us who grew up with him “objectively” covering our news.

But does a force of “black helicopters” (permanent UN military force) actually exist beyond the planning stage? 

Yes, that’s the way it is, according to Nathan Tabor’s seismically significant book.  The Multinational Stand-by High Readiness Brigade for United Nations Operations (SHIRBRIG), the first permanent UN military force in history, was mobilized secretly in 1997 and kept quiet until media learned of a secret $200,000 donation made as “backdoor support” by the US State Department.  Countries initially pledging to send troops included Canada, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Sweden.  Operational headquarters were established in Copenhagen.  SHIRBRIG became fully operational in 2000 with about 5000 troops, and a potential pool of 147,500 troops pledged from 88 countries.  Both Clinton and the UN denied there was any standing army.  While the denial was perhaps technically correct, SHIRBRIG was at least the functional equivalent of a standing army since all command and control systems and logistical infrastructure were in place and the troops needed to be merely “plugged in.”

Moreover, new plans supported by Bush will create a permanent UN force of 75,000 in Africa.

The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America’s Sovereignty and Security is a well-researched primer on UN organizational structure and its most nefarious activities.  It makes a very complicated subject understandable.  The book is a good read and an essential resource for any patriot’s library.  No matter what your main issue is, the nonsense (norm changing) side of it is probably being pushed by the UN or affiliated “transnationalists.”  Things make a lot more sense after reading this book.

The only improvement I would make would be the cover graphics.  While the existing blue scheme with UN logo is attractive and goes nicely with the title of the book, for a future printing I’d suggest adding a relevant illustration such as one recently drawn by my daughter, World Examiner cartoonist Ayn C. Duringer.  Maybe we could work out something.

A few highlights of what is documented in The Beast:

• Rape and murder of women and children, prostitution rings, human trafficking, and other atrocities, almost everywhere UN peacekeepers operate.
• Shocking UN facilitation of genocide of 800,000 Tutsis (mostly by clubs and machetes) in Rwanda; sale of arms to Hutus by Egypt’s foreign minister under Boutros-Ghali; elevation of Boutros-Ghali to UN Secretary-General; urgent cable from UN Force Commander in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire, requesting permission to defend Tutsis who sought refuge in UN compounds; denial by then-head of UN peacekeeping operations Kofi Annan despite capability to defend easily with troops in place; Kofi Annan’s promotion to UN Secretary-General.

Communism in the Church - Today's Meeting of Thomas More Society

Interesting speaker at today's monthly meeting of the Orange County chapter of the Thomas More Society (a Catholic lawyers group): Bishop Peter Esterka, Auxiliary Bishop of Brno and Bishop for Czech Catholics in Diaspora.  This gentleman was one of only three to have escaped across the Czechoslovakian border alive in 1957.

allAfrica.com: Ethiopia: Country Burns 7,000 Guns As Region Fights Illegal Small Arms

Link: allAfrica.com: Ethiopia: Country Burns 7,000 Guns As Region Fights Illegal Small Arms. Excerpt:

To inculcate an anti-gun culture, the centre has embarked on thematic programmes involving schoolchildren in primary and secondary schools.

This is where the battle is.  (Schools, not Ethiopia.)

A Bloomberg Anti-Gun Mayor Is Charged With Carrying Weapon - The New York Sun

Link: A Bloomberg Anti-Gun Mayor Is Charged With Carrying Weapon - November 22, 2006 - The New York Sun.  Excerpt:

One of the members of Mayor Bloomberg's anti-gun coalition has pleaded to charges of illegally carrying a gun into a church, onto a college campus, and into a park.

(H/T to Alphecca)

The Real Story of Thanksgiving: Capitalism Saved the Pilgrims, Not the Indians

Link: The Great Thanksgiving Hoax - Mises Institute.  (Article originally appeared in The Free Market in 1985.)  Excerpt:

To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of famines.

The real story of Thanksgiving is very different from what we were taught in school.  This is an American holiday with an important lesson for us all.  We do best when we trust in God and obey His commandments (thou shalt not steal), relying on prayer instead of socialist dogma.

Farmington Daily Times - Police stress gun safety

Link: Farmington Daily Times - Police stress gun safety.

Excerpt - first paragraph:

No parent expects their gun to kill their child — but it happens too often, said Dan Patterson, an investigator with the La Plata County Sheriff's Office.

Excerpt - last paragraph:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 297 children between the ages of 5 and 14 were killed by accidental gunfire between 1999 and 2003. That amounts to less than 1 child in 100,000 being killed by accidental gunfire.

That's less than 100 per year in a nation of 300 million people.  Other risks posing a greater danger to kids (drowning in water buckets, crossing the street) are ignored by the press, which continues to sensationalize gun accidents.  Accidents have dropped even as gun ownership has rapidly expanded.  Accidents are highly preventable in this age group through gun education, yet groups with an anti-gun agenda (American Academy of Pediatrics, for example) have opposed gun education in schools, even if it is simply teaching kids to stay away from guns.

Orange Coast College Students Ban Pledge of Allegiance

Link: Students at Calif. College ban Pledge of Allegiance | US News | Reuters.com. Excerpt:

"Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings...."

Although the Pledge was written by a socialist educrat in 1892, the scary Hitlerian implications were neutralized in the 1950s by inclusion of the words "under God," and these two words are what the students really find so objectionable, about the Pledge and about America.

The Smallest Minority: Saul Cornell Receives a Professional Whuppin'

Link: The Smallest Minority.

Smallest Minority summarizes and links to Stephen Halbrook's refutation of the scholarship of Saul Cornell, director of the "Second Amendment Research Center" at Ohio State University - a "research center" established with funds from the rabidly anti-gun Joyce Foundation.