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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
1:07:00 AM EDT
Sacrificial Lambs
by Korrin Weeks Grigg
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/grigg2.html
"Excuse me ... pardon me ... excuse me," mutters the lone black sheep as he wades through a huge flock of docile sheep heading in the opposite direction. That cartoon, drawn and published by a forgotten artist years ago, captures both the disposition and the plight of most parents who choose
to homeschool. We take justified pride in our independence, our refusal to be carried with the conformist tide - and our determination to cultivate similar traits in our children.
Most of all, we are determined to protect our children from the omnivorous state.
Thus it was hugely disappointing to read that the Republican Party has successfully co-opted much of the homeschool movement ("Homeschoolers hit campaign trail," WorldNetDaily, September 14). Particularly galling was
the smug comment offered by Republican campaign official Jim Terry: "By far, the best grass-roots workers in the nation are homeschoolers. They will give you 100 percent, 10 to 12 hours a day."
Mr. Terry runs an affiliate of the Republican Party called STOMP. This seems an appropriate name in light of everything the Bush administration is doing
to erect the Total State - the kind that Orwell summarized in the image of a "boot stamping on a human face - forever."
It defies understanding that parents so proudly skeptical of the government school system could dutifully throw their support, money, and volunteer labor into an effort to re-elect a president whose foreign policy all but ensures a return to conscription. If the "global democratic revolution"
Bush and his handlers pursue continues unabated, the homeschoolers stuffing envelopes for GOP financial appeals today will be filling bodybags tomorrow.
Bills intended to restore the draft are pending before both houses of Congress. HR 163, introduced by New York Congressman Charles Rangel in January 2003, decrees: "It is the obligation of every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States [heads up,
illegal aliens], who is between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a period of national service as prescribed in this Act...." Those who object to military service on religious grounds would be required to serve in a civilian
capacity "that, as determined by the President, promotes the national defense, including ... homeland security."
The Bush administration's "No Child Left Behind Act" includes a provision preparing for a new draft by requiring schools to collect contact information for every student on behalf of the Selective Service System.
And it's a foregone conclusion that an administration determined to leave no child alone will devise some way to gather homeschoolers in its nets.
Once conscription is re-instated in the service of the Glorious Global Democratic Revolution, no deferments will be permitted. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who actually faced hostile fire in Vietnam, told Fox News
on September 12 that while he doesn't foresee a return to the draft, he believes that all Americans should be "equally liable" should conscription be restored.
Appropriately, Powell's statement offers a very close paraphrase of the Communist Manifesto's plank describing the "equal liability of all to labor." Whether they are clad in BDUs and sent overseas to slaughter foreigners, or used as informants for the emerging surveillance state,
or simply assigned to what Lenin called a "great army of free labor," the new conscripts would be the property of the almighty State, to dispose of as the State sees fit.
Isn't this precisely the sort of thing homeschool parents are trying to avoid? Why, then, are so many of them enlisting - along with their children - in an effort to re-elect a president who combines Wilson's megalomania, FDR's contempt for the Constitution, and Lincoln's deluded sense of sanctity - with his own proprietary brand of dull-witted arrogance?
Many Christian homeschoolers regard George W. Bush as an adjunct member of the Holy Trinity - or at least, as Gov. George Pataki put it, "one of those men God and fate somehow lead to the fore in times of challenge." His
chief accomplishments as president have been to abet an unprecedented orgy of deficit spending, kill tens of thousands of innocent people, and alienate
hundreds of millions of people abroad. He knows nothing about freedom and cares about it even less. Before succeeding in the family business -politics - Bush displayed a skill set inadequate to any task more ambitious
than managing a Taco Bell.
But because that little man is swaddled in the trappings of
unprecedented political power, and has uttered a few public comments friendly to the Faith, millions of Christians - including homeschoolers - fall into a swoon,
forget the Bible's repeated and explicit admonitions not to place their trust in man, and treat those who criticize him as heretics, infidels,or traitors.
Sane people always express horrified disbelief when confronted with the spectacle of parents who sacrifice their children. Old Testament descriptions of pagan parents feeding their children to Molech areindelibly
horrifying. The mind recoils from the image of parents in Jim Jones' Marxist suicide cult force-feeding poisoned kool-aid to their children.
Then there are the American parents happy to allow their children to kill and die on behalf of the State.
Jesus commanded His disciples to "feed my sheep"; this didn't mean that they were to be fed into the maw of the war machine. Belonging to the Good Shepherd often means being the solitary black sheep struggling against the
conformist flock. Most homeschool parents know this. Why, then, are they perversely determined to offer their children as sacrificial lambs on the altar of the total state?
September 17, 2004
Korrin Grigg is a homeschooling mother of four in
Appleton, Wisconsin.
Copyright C 2004 LewRockwell.com
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Homeschoolers and Bush
Sacrificial Lambs
by Korrin Weeks Grigg
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/grigg2.html
"Excuse me ... pardon me ... excuse me," mutters the lone black sheep as he wades through a huge flock of docile sheep heading in the opposite direction. That cartoon, drawn and published by a forgotten artist years ago, captures both the disposition and the plight of most parents who choose
to homeschool. We take justified pride in our independence, our refusal to be carried with the conformist tide - and our determination to cultivate similar traits in our children.
Most of all, we are determined to protect our children from the omnivorous state.
Thus it was hugely disappointing to read that the Republican Party has successfully co-opted much of the homeschool movement ("Homeschoolers hit campaign trail," WorldNetDaily, September 14). Particularly galling was
the smug comment offered by Republican campaign official Jim Terry: "By far, the best grass-roots workers in the nation are homeschoolers. They will give you 100 percent, 10 to 12 hours a day."
Mr. Terry runs an affiliate of the Republican Party called STOMP. This seems an appropriate name in light of everything the Bush administration is doing
to erect the Total State - the kind that Orwell summarized in the image of a "boot stamping on a human face - forever."
It defies understanding that parents so proudly skeptical of the government school system could dutifully throw their support, money, and volunteer labor into an effort to re-elect a president whose foreign policy all but ensures a return to conscription. If the "global democratic revolution"
Bush and his handlers pursue continues unabated, the homeschoolers stuffing envelopes for GOP financial appeals today will be filling bodybags tomorrow.
Bills intended to restore the draft are pending before both houses of Congress. HR 163, introduced by New York Congressman Charles Rangel in January 2003, decrees: "It is the obligation of every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States [heads up,
illegal aliens], who is between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a period of national service as prescribed in this Act...." Those who object to military service on religious grounds would be required to serve in a civilian
capacity "that, as determined by the President, promotes the national defense, including ... homeland security."
The Bush administration's "No Child Left Behind Act" includes a provision preparing for a new draft by requiring schools to collect contact information for every student on behalf of the Selective Service System.
And it's a foregone conclusion that an administration determined to leave no child alone will devise some way to gather homeschoolers in its nets.
Once conscription is re-instated in the service of the Glorious Global Democratic Revolution, no deferments will be permitted. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who actually faced hostile fire in Vietnam, told Fox News
on September 12 that while he doesn't foresee a return to the draft, he believes that all Americans should be "equally liable" should conscription be restored.
Appropriately, Powell's statement offers a very close paraphrase of the Communist Manifesto's plank describing the "equal liability of all to labor." Whether they are clad in BDUs and sent overseas to slaughter foreigners, or used as informants for the emerging surveillance state,
or simply assigned to what Lenin called a "great army of free labor," the new conscripts would be the property of the almighty State, to dispose of as the State sees fit.
Isn't this precisely the sort of thing homeschool parents are trying to avoid? Why, then, are so many of them enlisting - along with their children - in an effort to re-elect a president who combines Wilson's megalomania, FDR's contempt for the Constitution, and Lincoln's deluded sense of sanctity - with his own proprietary brand of dull-witted arrogance?
Many Christian homeschoolers regard George W. Bush as an adjunct member of the Holy Trinity - or at least, as Gov. George Pataki put it, "one of those men God and fate somehow lead to the fore in times of challenge." His
chief accomplishments as president have been to abet an unprecedented orgy of deficit spending, kill tens of thousands of innocent people, and alienate
hundreds of millions of people abroad. He knows nothing about freedom and cares about it even less. Before succeeding in the family business -politics - Bush displayed a skill set inadequate to any task more ambitious
than managing a Taco Bell.
But because that little man is swaddled in the trappings of
unprecedented political power, and has uttered a few public comments friendly to the Faith, millions of Christians - including homeschoolers - fall into a swoon,
forget the Bible's repeated and explicit admonitions not to place their trust in man, and treat those who criticize him as heretics, infidels,or traitors.
Sane people always express horrified disbelief when confronted with the spectacle of parents who sacrifice their children. Old Testament descriptions of pagan parents feeding their children to Molech areindelibly
horrifying. The mind recoils from the image of parents in Jim Jones' Marxist suicide cult force-feeding poisoned kool-aid to their children.
Then there are the American parents happy to allow their children to kill and die on behalf of the State.
Jesus commanded His disciples to "feed my sheep"; this didn't mean that they were to be fed into the maw of the war machine. Belonging to the Good Shepherd often means being the solitary black sheep struggling against the
conformist flock. Most homeschool parents know this. Why, then, are they perversely determined to offer their children as sacrificial lambs on the altar of the total state?
September 17, 2004
Korrin Grigg is a homeschooling mother of four in
Appleton, Wisconsin.
Copyright C 2004 LewRockwell.com
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Korrin Weeks Griggs show in this commentary that she is a wonderful writer, using colorful language, and creative word pictures.
Some inaccuracies need to be corrected, however, in my view many Home Schoolers flock to support President Bush because of the character he has demonstrated. Christians most certainly do not fall into any "swoon" and it is not "a few public comments friendly to the faith" that we base our assessment on. We do not trust in any man above God, but we do recognize a man devoted to Almighty God, relying on Him to guide him in the Oval Office.
I see in Sen. Kerry the same disrespect for the office that was evident in former Pres. Clinton. I can imagine John I and John II sitting with their feet up on the oval Office desk drinking booze and smoking cigars, saying "Well, we finally made it." Don't know if he drinks or smokes, but the projected attitude fits his behavior to this point.
You cannot change the fact that the number of babies killed by abortion each day shows it is a lousy form of birth control. We absolutely must have a president who is committed to changing that, whether the current political climate will let him do so immediately or not. Do these deaths count in your abhorrence for child sacrifice?
You cannot change the fact that the media representation of the global warming issue is distorted. Science is not defined as what people who call themselves scientists say. Science is facts, experimental evidence, and peer review.
Jo Ann, a homeschooling mother of three in St. Louis, Missouri
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I'm gonna scream if I hear that bastard's name again.. looks like I'll be screaming for 4 years
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I wish this would hit the mainstream press........
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oh boy, do I "get" the black sheep thing................
10/9/04 11:31 PM
As for my reverence for the unborn, it is there completely. But I cannot consider a man to be "pro-life", who, while paying lip service to anti abortion issues, is bombing living children to death in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who was the former governer of a state that executes more prisoners than any other in the Union.