Home Under Siege

While the assault on the Constitution and the takeover of the economy by the central planners remain grave dangers, subverting parental authority poses the greatest risk. When Bush was President, expanding Head Start and mandating pre-K instruction seemed benign enough. Though studies have shown that any academic gains from these programs quickly evaporate and that the students who participate are performing at or below the level of non-participating peers by the middle elementary years, few would fault Bush for his good intentions, but the secular humanists, who have assailed God in the classroom and who have so much sway in the courts with such fellow travelers as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Obama appointee Sonia "Soviet" Sotamayor as Associate Justices on the US Supreme Court, and homosexual advocates now in control at the highest level, the apparently innocent actions Bush took to advance early instruction, taking toddlers out of the home, seem far less innocuous. Obama's Safe Schools czar Kevin Jennings is an open homosexual who advocated a fifteen year old high school student continue a statutory rape relationship with an adult male he had met in a bus station bathroom, and only suggested the use of condoms as a measure of prevention of disease, neither reporting the crime to law enforcement as was his duty in loco parentis or urging the victimized boy to stop. Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, and Obama himself both want to extend the school year by eliminating summer vacation and ending long blocks of time off from instruction under the pretext of making American education more competitive, which will further erode the weakened hospitality and travel industries, but more important, remove that much more parental control. In a conference in Latin America. Obama's friend and political mentor Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground terrorists and the man in whose home Obama launched his political career, praised the Marxist education system in Cuba and Venezuela. By all appearances, with parental influence being curbed and even legislated against as abuse, even worthy of litigation by children against their own parents, a similar system of state control by way of indoctrination of the young, is where we are headed if the crowd in charge are not ushered out of office starting with the 2010 elections.