Seize the School

Yesterday marked the tragic anniversary of the Beslan school massacre, where the flower of Mother Russia's youth were slaughtered by Islamic extremists. Total innocents and even younger children who had accompanied them and their proud parents to the momentous first day of school were murdered-youth who were scholars, budding artists, and athletes had the chance to fulfill their lives' promise snatched from them by Koran-spouting brigands. In an event synchronous but apparently unrelated to the Beslan bloodletting, on the same day as the Beslan anniversary, Barack Hussein Obama announced he would grace America's public schools with a national speech broadcast to the captive audience of schoolchildren. This speech initially was to be accompanied by a national lesson plan asking the students how they could help Obama. Though the lesson plan has evidently been dropped because of the outcry of parents, enraged by what had all the appearances of an unprecedented partisan political foray into our schools, the speech will still be made and could be outrageous. The stratagem of "turn the youth first" has been commonly applied by statists and dictators for around a century. The Komsomol and the Hitler Youth were the building blocks of leader loyalty in both the corrupted Soviet and Nazi states. In Cuba and North Korea, children are brainwashed into little drones and become firmly adherent to party loyalty, basically robots of the state. I have no faith that Obama, who I fear will devalue property rights, due process of law (show trials and suppression of "sedition" may come under his "Soviet" Sotomayor-style judges), free and fair elections (remember it is Obama's crowd who still contend Bush stole the election from Gore and insulted the whole nation by summoning international election monitors-the same ones who routinely say dictators like Chavez win honestly-to observe Bush versus Kerry to keep the US Presidential election honest), will not further politicize our nation's classrooms, which are already rife with leftist indoctrination on subjects like global warming. Obama can not be permitted to do your parenting for you or the USA as we have known her, will be irrevocably lost.