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Every day in school rooms across America children are being
taught that the secret boarding of a ship in the Boston Harbor
two hundred years ago, by colonials dressed as American Indians,
for the purpose of vandalizing and destroying private property
was an act of heroic patriotism. The very fact that the people
who committed this crime were disguised as Indians illustrates
the fact that they understood that what they were doing was a
violation of the law, and the underlying sleazy intention of the
disguise was to place blame on the native Americans, in the event
that the crime was discovered.
Should it surprise adults today that their children are copying
the example of lawlessness that they are taught in school? If
it is appropriate to overthrow the government because you don't
like it, when is it not okay to overthrow the government? This
is the real legacy of the American Revolution, utter and complete
confusion. What the schools are teaching is that obedience to
the authority of the republic is mandatory, yet the American people
are "free." It is one thing to obey a legitimate authority,
such as one's parents, but it is entirely another matter when
obedience is to a faceless bureaucracy. What is not taught in
school is that freedom in America is a cultural artifact of the
Anglo-American civilization and NOT a product of the republic,
and the very notion that American civil rights are "inalienable"
refers to the fact that it is not within the government's power
to revoke them.
One author pointed out some time ago that it is significant
to note that one of the principal targets for youth vandalism
is schools. The kids don't trash the video arcade, they trash
the place where they feel that their independence is being removed
from them. If the schools were doing nothing more than teaching
kids to read and write - which is their real purpose -
then probably none of this vandalism would occur; instead the
students would feel grateful for the enlightenment of their minds.
The fact that the youth strike out at the school system is a
direct statement that something is being done to them in school
that the school district is not telling their parents: They are
being introduced to the reality of the police state, and the fact
that dissent will not be tolerated except in ways that can be
controlled (such as by voting). Those who would suggest that
the students are acting irrationally, "destroying that which
is theirs," (which was also suggested of the rioters in Los
Angeles in 1992), are overlooking the truth that when people destroy
property, it is because they don't have any.
HIGH SCHOOL TRASHED BY STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING
THEIR RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY
By Dennis Kaiser
The mess is cleaned up, but Dana Hills High School is still reeling
from a break-in last Wednesday (3/4/98) in which vandals/burglars
left more than $5000 worth of damage in their wake. Assistant
Principal David Schlesinger was called to the campus at about
3:00 AM after a milkman making his deliveries apparently stumbled
on the suspects in the middle of their mayhem. "It was just
a mess!" Schlesinger said.
Principal Kay Rager said she was appalled by what was discovered as
officials began to tally-up the destruction. "They threw
the bleachers in the pool. They took the tables out of the mall,
the ones the kids eat at during lunch and ruined them. And we
don't have the money to buy new tables." (Suggestion
to Rager: Take a pay cut, and use the proceeds to
buy new tables. Put your money where your mouth is. DPO)
The suspects also took fire-extinguishers and sprayed the wall,
writing disparaging remarks about the school and some of the teachers
with the foamy substance. (Isn't it ironic that the only time
the students are able to express their opinions, it is in the
form of a crime? One cannot help but wonder if such crimes would
have taken place, if the administration of the school were more
sensitive to the young Americans put under their care. DPO)
Rager said the worst part was that the perpetrators used crowbars
to pry open about 130 lockers, removed books and notes and placed
them in a big pile, "It looked as though they were going
to set them on fire!"
Authorities in Dana Point are taking the crime very seriously.
Dana Point Police Services Chief (On-Loan from the Orange
County Sheriff) Lt. Paul Ratchford said the crime has been
classified as Felony Vandalism and burglary. "We haven't
figured out yet how much the damages will cost, (but) you also
have to figure in the man hours. It's pretty devastating."
(Of course, the determination of whether a crime of this kind
is a misdemeanor or a felony is entirely dependent upon the amount
of money lost. ODP)
Ratchford indicated that police are investigating the crime, and
"it won't take long for us to catch them." (Gee, officer,
just go to the school during daytime hours, and the culprits will
be there, sitting obediently at their desks learning how not to
ask embarrassing questions of authority figures. ODP)
"They left their fingerprints on the crowbars and other
tools
there are several other types of evidence they left
behind." The principal of the school publicly denies that
the perpetrators are her students (victims?). To show
that she means business, she has forced those students that have
remained obedient to raise $300.00 as a reward (for turning
in the heroes of the Dana Hills High School Tea Party).
SOURCE: This article is reprinted from the Dana Point News, where even urgent news is reduced to senseless gibberish by illiterate journalists. 12 March, 1998 issue. Reprinted in the public interest. |
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