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Guest Post: Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party As "Terrorist Act"
Via Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Absolutely remarkable... and in Texas to boot! As I have said for years, pretty soon anyone that disagrees with Washington D.C., Federal Reserve policies and rule by TBTF Wall Street criminal banks will be labeled a “terrorist.” That is where all this is headed.
From CBS Houston:
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) – The most historical instance of protesting against taxation without representation is now being taught in Texas schools as a terrorist act.
As recently as January of this year, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative included a lesson plan that depicted the Boston Tea Party, an event that helped ignite the American Revolution, as an act of terrorism.
“A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port,” wrote the teachers in charge of organizing the curriculum about the Boston Tea Party. “Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities.
1984 has arrived folks.
Full article here.
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But that's what happened!??
Yes, terrorism if you were the King.
The start of a country then a nation if you were local.
So it wasn't a "party"? Damn.... Who brought the beer then since they were intoxicated?
Well, according to our double plus awesometacular newspeak, it qualifies -- along with pretty much the entire remake of "Red [Y]awn."
As long as they're saying that, this is likely a positive for civil liberties. Whenever you can encourage someone to rethink their perception of a heart-felt sentiment, that's per se good.
"Supporters of the program indicate that the lesson hadn’t been taught in Texas schools since August 2010, but the lesson plan remained on CSCOPE’s website until at least January of this year."
-1984 arrived a few years ago... and has since been redacted. This article should have come out in 2010. None-the-less it's disgusting revisionist history.
OK, and so's the Revolutionary War.
Which thus makes our central gubamnit the oppressor by simple logic.
Backfiring much?
So I can't drink their "tea" any more?
I've been watching the Star Wars animated TV series with the kiddies. They have some really complicated themes. Last week, some monsters from the Cantina wanted to get out from under the thumb of the REPUBLIC. The Republic was waging war all over the galaxy and Amidala let the monsters self rule.
This week, one of the Rex's soldiers was labeled as a traitor, going against the Republic. He wanted his life back and did not want any more war and did not want to be in the military. He may as well have just given the finger to every fucking Jedi in the Galaxy.
One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
The terrorism wasn't their most serious crime though... They ALL dressed up like native Americans when they did it. Which means they were obviously racist as well, just like every one of the EVIL Founding Fathers.
The educational brain trust in Texas has a name that is a chain of SIX nouns in a row. That speaks volumes. Texas is a third world country.
It's actually FAR worse for the elites to teach the Boston Tea Party as an act of "terrorism". Why? Because as we all know, the Boston Tea Party was a "good thing" that gave birth to the American Revolution, which in turn gave birth to our nation.
So to make the case that the Boston Tea Party was an act of "terrorism" is to simultaneously make the case that terrorism is therefore good, and that our nation was founded on terrorism.
So go ahead, Texas schools, teach it however you want it. Either it wasn't an act of terrorism, and it was justifiable. Or it was an act of terrorism, and terrorism is sometimes "good". Pick your poison. There's no escaping a conclusion that smells any better from a perspective of law and order.
I thought terrorism was no longer politically correct. I think we should revise history once again and call it workplace violence (the ship was somebody's workplace), and a hate crime (for dressing up like Native Aboriginals).
Although they did do one thing lefty-politically correct, they redistributed the capitalist tea to the Boston Harbor.
The state of PA has a picture of the Gadsden flag on a page about identifying domestic terrorists:
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/who_are_terrori...
It's time to start shooting
People teaching this lie should be removed from duty and have required psychotherapy to correct their misunderstanding.
They should teach Terrorism is a Tactic and you can't win a war against a Tactic.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/1773_GreenDragonTavern_Boston.jpg
Typically stupid Massholes. The first Tea Party was actually in Charleston SC two weeks before Boston- but instead of dumping the tea those poor dumb Southerners just impounded it then sold it later to finance the militia fighting the British.
Boy those Yankees sure are smart, good thing they only teach the Boston one in schools or someone might realize that they have about as much economic sense today as their ancestors did.
In the South, we're comfortable with "rebels" being the good guys :-)
The terrorists are the opressors. Come on, what did they learn from "V for Vendetta" because we sure as hell know that kids aren't reading books in the classrooms?
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." And any time that isn't the case, the government is the opressor, the terrorist, and the people have the God-given right to throw off their opressor.
Oh shit. What the fuck are the Texan teachers going to do with the Declaration of Independence? Terrorist bastards, every single signer...and may God rest their souls and somehow revive them among the sheeple.
Absolutely they were terrorist! Ben Franklin was an athiest, Alexander Hamilton was a slave trading homosexual, and a number of the other FF's were outspoken pedophiles! This is why our country hardly stood a chance of surviving. Yet, in spite of it all, we remain a military and economic powerhouse..Growing stronger by the minute, obviously based on the brilliance and integrity of these last few generations!
No, but there's plenty of Kool-aid.
The "teacher" left the part out about Rothschild owning a majority interest in the East India Company, which was a monopoly. Oh, and a few years later EastIndiaCo had complete control of the (illegal) opium trade. Just sayin'.
Over reacting. Texas has been making their kids stupid for years.. Not to worry, they can learn "Lefty loosey- Righty-tighty" on the job...
That's an absurd statement.
We're waiting...
For what? For me to justify that there are fine schools in Texas? As there are fine schools in Minnesota? Even Baltimore?
If you can't figure that out yourself, then you must have gone to school half-asleep. It is an absurd statement on its face and you should be ashamed to associate yourself with an idiotic blanket remark like that that has no inherent meaning whatsoever.
Always to laugh at someone, B'rer Remus? You can wait for that one, too.
My my my, we are full of ourselves today. I went to schools overseas, the US south (public and parochial), midwest and southwest. Of course there are "fine" schools everywhere, but it depends on your standards I suppose. But wait, there's more - Texas schools may very well be excellent - but what they are teaching (or not teaching as the case may be) and why seems to be questionable.
Perhaps you should read further down the thread, as those questions are answered very well.
I just take offense to blanket statements that have no other purpose than to rile someone up. I am not necessarily riled by the statement itself, I am more riled about how it was delivered and for what purpose. The only reason was to cajole, demean and incite negative responses. I have little patience for that kind of stuff.
Being uninformed and mean just to get a laugh doesn't fly very far with me, I'm afraid.
Are you in Texas? Did you attend school there; do you have children in school in Texas?
'The only reason was to cajole, demean and incite negative responses. I have little patience for that kind of stuff."
And yet, here you are on ZH.
This discourse deserves the death penalty, Texas style. Don't wait for a reason.
Wow.... And here I was joking.. Instead I did a Million Dollar Bonus...
Y'all needs to get laid....
Actually, you know what? No it isn't. I was talking toungue and cheek. But now that I think about it. Texas HAS been dumbing it down for a long time. Teaching creationism rubbish for example. And since they are the largest buyer of textbooks, a lot of their idiocy leaks out into the rest of the country. So if you don't like Texas getting messed with, take the aluminum foil off your head and shove it. Do us all a favor. Move there and secede.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Osama Bin Laden as seen by Reagan: Freedom Fighter
Osama Bin Laden as seen by George W: Terrist
Osama as seen by his wife : dead and buried somewhere.
"Hey Spartacus, nobody knows who you are, but we'll hang u all anyway, just to make sure."
Thats imperial efficiency for u.
I thought Dubya was saying he was a tourist - now it all makes sense
I personally don't see anything objectional in the narrative. It teaches the kids that not all persons given the appelation "terrorist" or "radical" by the government are necessarilly guilty. Plus it is an accurate portrayal of the way the loyalist press covered the events at the time. Or to quote Goering on the general thematic, "The victor will always be the judge and the vanquished the accused." If that's the way we are going to run things in this country then the least we can do is teach the kids what an injust, corupt, rotten system they are living in. It will help them cope later on.
Not quite. This realization of injustice, corruption, etc. can only come from objective/critical thinking. That's not the case with textbooks, is it? If it's written in a textbook, it has to be right, right? RIGHT!?
Fuck academia right up the academia bunghole... cowards all.
The idea that academia wrote those textbooks is chilling, and most likely wrong. This is a texas thing. Remember that they have been working to make their citizens stupid for a long time.
What are you, some kinda commie? Text-books are published by for-profit businesses.
But they have to match standards set by public education commisions, which is why Bill Ayers went into precisely that part of our educational system, to move the communist project "forward"...
You know this will have fully manifested when Bill Ayer's bombing spree, hitting police stations across the US, is represented as freedom-fighting.
What do you know about Bill Ayers?
He's an asshole? She's an asshole. I'm certain about the asshole part.
@nola: Yeah, I guess it's okay so long as it is contained within Texas. Big macs, Big trucks, Big waistlines, Big gubbamint. Nothing new here...
@bdog: All media is dished out for profit only. If untruth generates more revenue than truth, that's what sells. But what I'm concerned about is academia dishing out the misinformation all the way down to the elementary school level. As onelight points out, these teaching 'standards' are surely discussed and aligned with some heads of something or the other where members of big media and members of academia come together to make textbooks happen. If some bought-out PhD can author garbage that is taught to be truth at the elementary levels of education (it already is), we's fucked son. We is fucked.
This is the USA. We don't care about education, never have.
If you have kids, you can educate them, sure, but sending them to school is a joke.
well, strap a rat cage to my face and call me Winston ... I did NOT see this coming ...
... and apparently the only thing more loathsome than a terrorist is a "militiaman" ... wow ...
Fuck you, King George!
Actually, was the much larger problem not that the tea belonged to the East India Company that essentially owned English government in much the same way that Wall Street and big biz now owns Washington today?
Um, grammar check, please? You're missing a suborindate clause somewhere that contains the "larger problem".
Yeah, sadly the authorities behind this stuff is distributed between many 100s of entites globally, few of which will publicly admit the direction they would like to take this country. No "King George" to blame this time.
I don't think he heard you.
George Washington was an Unlawful Combatant.
Isn't it fucking dandy that you can leverage one single word against anyone and anything in the contemporary and make it retroactive to apply to anyone and anything in the past that doesn't align with the current leveraging of that word?
Welcome, my friends, to RecDep, where we control the past.
This will be complete when Bill Ayers & Co. police station bombing spree is re-framed as the work of a freedom-fighter...if you can set standards for the textbooks, you can shape future minds..
What do you know about Bill Ayers? I bet it's mostly what you have been told, told to you through a very narrow perspective. Just a guess.
No but it may be that many do get information that narrowly, and perhaps the tone of my remarks sounded that way. Not intentional, if so.
I don't know Ayers personally but I have long studied the American Left (and the Right), not without interest and empathy, and fully at my own expense, eg. a decade at Berkeley in intellectual history with middle focus on neo-Marxism, the Frankfurt School and its diverse if subtle permeating of American culture since the WW2 era via academia, hollywood, advertising, etc. Later focus and thesis was on the EU project, in its earlier form during the interwar period, and the post war contest over its purpose by the competing political movements, including the communists.
That period of study ended 2 decades ago, and was accomplished and paid for my myself through a small business I ran through the first half of that time, followed by independent economic consulting, where I professionalized some basic research work that others did not prefer to do, but was much needed in that venue.
My approach to research and work has been like that since, but each time a new industry and a new puzzle set to solve. Two decades later I am working independently the markets, supporting social service career development, and forward-researching in geosecurity and public policy, out of personal interest, and diplomatic history was my initial focus at Berkeley log ago.
That has given me something of a blended view, kridkrid, however I should clarify that I am NOT an expert on Bill Ayers, though I have followed the history of the New Left, and some of his role it. Much as I do with the neo-cons and the Right, I take issue with how the Left has morphed into an institutional force, and some of the contradictions inherent to that. Even so I have a more nuanced view Ayers interaction with his father, and how that reflected and perhaps usefully informed the dialogue between generations at that time, in that city. There are many dimensions to that whole period of history and how its legacy manifests today. I have long found it interesting to study, but I am not an academic nor do I presume to understand it all.
If my remarks sounded simplistic it was not intentional.
It seems that, assuming he was ever a genuine member, Ayers left the Left a long time ago and went into business . . . which is how he met our good, similarly "marxist" buddy Barry O, who was busy creating the myth of being a community organizer in Chicago:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/exclusive-how-obamas-early-career-succes-was-built-on-fronting-for-chicago-real-estate-and-finance.html
The word "terrorist" has gotten absurd. Terrorism is a tactic of using individual events of violence to cause broad distress in the population. Dumping tea overboard is not terrorism. Attacking government targets is not terrorism. Revolution is not terrorism.
Once you allow the meaning of words to be changed in front of your face, you've already lost.
Doubleplusungood.
That's gay (in the 1890's sense [not that there is anything wrong with that, the gay part])
Bingo!
precisely my premise when asking for a definition of "libertarian" - a word used quite liberally here by folks of many differing beliefs. other labels like "socialist" "progressive" "communist" - pejoratives favoured as disparaging when used as defined by culture, not necessarily descriptive when defined accurately.
if one wants to stay clear going forward, the usage of words should be scrutinised in order to ascertain the perspective of the users. . .
Ah the dreaded Generalism (and by dreaded i don't mean Peter Tosh)
Still communist and socialist can't be confused with much else
really?
do you come here often?
C'mon Redpill, it's not like words have meaning in the first place. They're all just made up.
Some better than others.
A 1950s "communist" is today's "terrorist".
Both words mean "not politically correct".
In both cases the word was expanded far beyond its true meaning, encompasing any belief, position, or action contrary to the government's position.
Somewhere along the way in America's history it stopped being "for the people" and started being "for the government".
Today it's all about the government. The government is being threatened. The government has to be protected. The government needs more money. Loyalty to the government above all else.
When it started being all about the government, that's when America ended and Amerika began ...comrades.
Today you can't find a dime's difference between our government and Russia's government ...except Russia's government doesn't sexually grope people when they get on a plane.
They have a little dignity left. Our government has no dignity left.
So by this same logic, the American Revolution was one of the largest terrorist acts in history?
No, because we won, it worked, therefore it was a glorious fight against an oppressor. /sarc
And "here comes the new boss, same (worse) as the old boss" -.
I suppose the next target will be Lexington and Concord, where the King's attempt at "gun control"--i.e.confiscation--ran into a well armed militia and had to retreat in disorder. And of course, the 13 States' secession from the British monarchy....will horrify these marxist scumbags.
'Horrify' is the tar and feathering of people - deliberately inflicting first and second degree burns over a major portion of one's body with a substance that was hard to remove. Then you parade them around town? How is that different from the Taliban committing acts of terrorism in Afghanistan?
Those that were tarred and feathered never lost their heads.
I bet it's all the unions and special entitlement and grievance groups and whiners that are in a panic in case the Tea Party idea might morph into secession. Then they can't go crying to DC to get what they want, they'd have to make a good case to their fellow Texans.
It's the same school district that teaches creationism in their science classes. So what do you expect?
So I would take it that Texas should also update their history books to inclued the Texas terrorist act of 1836 when they terrorised Santa Anna at the Alamo!
Those same terrorists went on to establish a kleptocratic network that lasted nearly three hundred years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives and untold fortunes..........
Historically bunk. The kleptocracy did not come until more than 150 years later, and many of the tea partiers opposed ratification of the Constitution precisely because it created a potentially strong central government.
No, the Federalists made that. Other 'terrorists' tried to prevent...
It was a terrorist act, by today's definition. Terrorism is essentially any violent or coercive act which threatens the government's interests. It's a good thing that founding heroes are being portrayed as terrorists while the government is increasingly showing itself to be self-interested or incompetent and always corrupt.
And what the government does is tyranny.
The people are terrorists and the rulers, tyrants.
Agreed. I see this as a huge mistake on the part of the collective.
What will happen here is to turn the word 'terrorist' into a positive, as otherwise, "Americans" lose their sense of identity, as well as the rewards of family sacrifice in service of the state (a.k.a., your child/father/brother/uncle all died in VAIN!). People won't settle for that. But if they do? Well, the collective loses all leverage associated with the idea. So, it's a lose-lose for statists of all stripes.
One of my favorite examples of this also occurred in Texas. Jill Sobule wrote what she believed to be an anti-death penalty song. Thing is, I guess she never considered the lyrics from the pro-death penalty side.
http://www.lyrics007.com/Jill%20Sobule%20Lyrics/Texas%20Lyrics.html
The idea that someone would write this as a protest is ridiculous. Yet she did it anyway.
Now, it's time to go rewrite some local history books!
I miss the days when only Muslims could be terrorists
What about Asians?
no, no they were all serbs from Bosnia. You know dirty balkans.
At this rate how long before the hurricane Sandys of this world are also dsignated as terrorists?
They already have. It's known as the War on Weather... er... "Climate Change."
soon Mathematical definition of terrorist will be "yearly income below US$50,000"
Isn't this official policy of the GOP?
Well the broad definition of terrorist is:
Failure to accept FRNs for trade, more commonly called the USD.
pods
When will people say enough and start to turn against our own self destruction?
As soon as the "free" stuff stops arriving.
"people" en masse won't. not in amrka, too fractured and mind-captured.
some persons said enough long ago. . .
Well ... if you were British ... it was a terrorist act.
Just like the residents of NW Pakistan can see every drone attack as a terrorist attack by the US (which they are).
Just like the residents of NW Pakistan can see every drone attack as a terrorist attack by the US (which they are).
No, no. Our flying death robots are spreading freedom and democracy.
If our flying death robots are spreading freedom and democracy then may the American skies be filled with them...... Maybe that is what they are planning.
There are a few out there now, yep, but for sure we'll see more over time. How else could law-enforcement ever keep up with all the crime?
Obviously there are billions of unprosecuted crimes every day, and once *everything* is made illegal, US citizens will have something in common again.
. . .and then there will be the tiny nano-bots swarming, the folks concentrating on their devices (homing signals) will never notice. . .
edit: for my downvoter,
http://opiniojuris.org/2012/02/21/another-warbot-metaphor-nanobot-swarms...
Beat me to the punch...
Let me add the Iraq & Afghanistan wars are terrorism too.
Don't answer the door with the back cars our front
and Central America's destabilisation for corporate control & profit. . . the list goes on. . .
Which would make sense in.....the UK; but we are Americans so only self-hating liberal trash would call ourselves terrorist. To fix your analogy, it would be like the residents in NW Pakistan teaching their children they are terrorist (which they are).
So, Texans are self-hating liberal trash for calling the founding fathers terrorists.
Get on the next plane to Dallas, get a megaphone, and stand on the street telling them.
Funny thing is those terrorists in Pakistan (a nation of 175 million people by the way) they say the faggot punjabi's are self hating liberal trash for cosying up to the American's.Only a self hating traitor to creed and nation would let NATO drop bombs on their fellow countrymen over gay liberal shit like womens rights and democracy.
legality like beauty is in the eyes of beholder, especially if he wears a judge's robe.
Most judges are old so we don't have a mad desire to see what's under the robe!
Beauty bitchez, is always hidden in secret places. And the judge is no exception; when he gives you a dirty decision you look desperately for some beauty.
Pass me the tea leaves and the lady who goes with it.
Bad analogy--we are invading Pakistan, but we didn't invade Britain at any time. We were merely defending ourselves.
If your British, the Chinese not buying our smack. What do they grow in North West Pakistan again?
Fill in the blanks. Ipso Facto means the Tea Party is a _________ organization?
tipsy turvy...to say it politely.
History is written by the victors....
and taught to subsequent captives.
Is there anything people do en masse against the government that ISN'T a terrorist act?
Did someone report the part where the previous book versions are burned? Fahrenheit 451 bitchez.
Kindle. . . redacted.
This is a TX issue, not a Federal issue. The Feds don't create curricula or write textbooks.
States' rights and all that jazz.
I think in health-class they teach that babies are gifts from God, too, so this really shouldn't be any kind of shocker.
Not true, the Feds have increasing input into textbooks and curriculum, generally known as leftist propaganda.
Nah, you're just making shit up. The Feds make recommendations, that's all. The school-boards are responsible for these decisions. The Dept of Education has never had any enforcement authority.
Obviously we have a bunch of States-rights haters around here.
It's easy enough to junk me, but finding out what's true is a real challenge, I know. Not worth the trouble, generally.
when yer govner is a build-a-burger, in office for over a decade, can't really be surprised when a sort of UN-reality begins to take over. . .
a-yup. *spits*
He's not just a build-a-burger, either. He's a dicktater type too, vaccinating hundreds of thousands of girls without permission, and encouraging them to start having sex by giving 'em protection against HPV.
Maybe they'll secede soon and he can finally crown hisself king.
heh, I wasn't going to go there, as it would be seen as *eye roll* predictable for me to do so, but since you graciously opened the door, yes, promoting females as young as nine get prick'd with Merck & Co. money shots, and no mention of the most common form of delivery that can cause cervical cancer - the unsheathed penis, because we can't have SEX ED as it promotes the nasty. . .
what also defies logic is the whining about "free contraceptives" when bowls of FREE CONDOMS are so ubiquitous in these clinics, and elsewhere. and freely ignored.
when bowls of FREE CONDOMS are so ubiquitous in these clinics, and elsewhere. and freely ignored.
This isn't surprising since Texas only teaches children about abstinence, they, the children wouldn't know what a condom is for. Texas has the 4th highest rate of teenage pregnancies by state. California by comparison does sex education properly and has a lower and far faster falling teenage preganancy rate. Those Californian teachers are terrorists, teaching children what their genitals are for, shocking.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned where Texas is in the national education league tables. Something like 47th worst. Clearly very little is getting through to students anyway, rewriting history won't change much.
aye, "abstinence" in words, but clearly targeting young girls only as sexualised objects, and no man-datory special shots for the boys, in fact no sex ed, no condoms, no attention paid at all it would seem.
working as intended, with pharma profits - win win. . .
Texas schools beat California in every possible metric. Department of Education stats here for 2010-11:
http://eddataexpress.ed.gov/state-report.cfm/state/CA/
http://eddataexpress.ed.gov/state-report.cfm?state=TX&submit.x=17&submit.y=7
Both states are overrun with Mexicans so its pretty much a fair fight demographically. As you can see in every category Texas students beat California on national standardized tests.
4th grade reading NAEP basic: 64% Texas, 56% California; 4th grade reading NAEP proficient:28% Texas, 25% California
4th grade math NAEP basic: 85% Texas, 74% California; proficient 39% Texas 34% California
8th grade reading NAEP basic: 74% Texas, 65% California; proficient 27% Texas 24% California
8th grade math NAEP basic: 81% Texas 61% California; proficient 40% texxas 25% California
In every single category across the board Texas wiped the floor with California. Look at the graduation rates, same there also.
Ok, ok, point taken, but maybe if TX freezes property taxes and waits a few decades they can get back in the running for "worst schools."
Someone's gotta do something. There are a few states getting complacent the past decade or so...
Houston is a loyalist hive of progressives...they could use some terrorizing c.1773!
OK who is the leftist twit that dinged me?! Throw your ass into the water with these stupid school books!
Terrorism is a label that legitimately fits many human endeavors.
Cavalier ignorant fool is a label reserved for the few. Congratulations.
Smug and ignorant is so much better. Congratulations.
Dude, look at the counties that overwhelmingly voted for Obama. Harris, Tarrant, Dallas, and Bexar.
Any major metropolitan area is a loyalist hive of progressives.
Now we have to re-write all those history books...again
CTRL-C, CTRL-V, CTRL-P
Literary equivalent to "broken windows" stimulus.
The space program was derailed by the petrol dollar, with assassination after derivative assassination, by spook or by crook. You'll have that, and whatever the empire wants to write in its History books. But not everyone was born in the casino, destined to remain there until death.
Raising taxes in a recession is terrorism.
Maybe all forms of government are terrorists. Terrorism against the nation, the citizens and the free market.
Communism in progress. A paranoiac statist mentality seeing and looking for enemy everywhere around. It's necessary to find some to blame for statist's own failures.
Bringing partisan party politics to the classroom...get to the kids an indoctrinate them early, breed out of them the ability to question and consider anybody who questions authority a terrorist.
Instead of "counter-revolutionary" or "bourgeoisie capitalist and enemy to the revolution", we get "terrorist". Sounds like the Stalinist/Maoist formula if you ask me.
Steal one generation of kids and teach them bad stuff... always been the plan bro.
We were always at war with Boston,Mass.
These teachers are confused with what country they are in if this is in fact Texas USA.
Now the Tea Party name is being demonized. The forms of lower lower education and the teachers union, with the help of the teachers unions, with aide from the media embraces socialism and communism.
money for nothin'-pensions for free
Get drunk and break shit!! Haha. Terrorism, my ass. That's just some good old American fun.
Its taught in Spanish...so it must be true
King George was a benevolent leader, ordained by God and his noble blood to rule.
Those terrorists in the colonies were clinging to their religion and guns, and had to be put down.
Where would the school system be if this rabble were allowed to eschew the righteous taxation of the Motherland?
Texas of all places?
That's not all. Get a load of this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html
that whole article is full of "wow" -
the idea was a mistake, but can't be fixed because everyone agreed on it!!!
*shakes head*
All that means is that they were rejecting a part of the school curriculum that would include the discussion of ideas. Instead, they took the easy route (for Federal dollars, by the way...) and started teaching for the TAKS test. It doesn't mean they don't learn anything, it just means that they cannot discuss it because "critical thinking" is not part of the test and they can't waste time learning how to discover things on their own.
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okay. can't tell whether your intention is to defend the position or not - but at least you are acknowledging that "critical thinking" - using ones mind to address what is being stuffed into it as unquestioned truths - is not part of the curriculum nor part of the Repub team party doctrine.
which is fine, if thoroughly acknowledged, and extrapolated to the other "teachings" they seek to enForce.
certainly not to be defended or celebrated as a viable reality though?
Folks in Texas don't want or need no stinkin' ideas.
ZH ... breeding ground for ... ter-r-sm !
Lobotomies, lobotomies, step right up folks.
What you don't know ain't gonna hurt you ... or at least you ain't gonna know yur gettin hurt ...
According to Bernstein, they weren't even freedom fighters, and actually were the equivalent of DC lobbyists...