The Right to Brainwash

Thursday, July 31, 2008

"The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled...[we]will give [our] youth to no one, but will [ourselves] take youth and give to youth [our] own education and [our] own upbringing."

Does this inspire you? If I didn't know better, I'd think it were written by someone who had the best interests of children in mind. Perhaps I'd even guess that it might have been written by a Christian or parental rights advocacy group.

But no, those words were spoken by Adolf Hitler in 1937. He was referring to the Third Reich and his plan to indoctrinate the youth of Germany with his grand Aryan ideas.

As I said in a previous post, Hitler may be dead and gone, but his policies on education never left Germany. Educating one's children at home, for religious reasons or otherwise, is illegal and punishable by fine...or even, in this most recent case, imprisonment.

That's right, I'm speaking of the imprisonment of the parents of home educated, intelligent children, whose knowledge of ABCs and 123s has no bearing whatsoever on the government's decision to lock their parents up for months.

In this article, it states that the parents paid previous fines to the government for refusing to enroll their children in German public schools. But that wasn't enough. Now, the prosecutor in their case has decided that jail time is what these parents deserve. They could even lose their children, as did another German homeschooling family in recent years. Why? What have they done that is so horrible, so detrimental to society?

According to Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, the government "has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion."

Well, now the truth comes out. This isn't really about education at all. It's about brainwashing. Religion (Christianity) is the enemy of the state in Germany. They don't care how well the children perform on standardized tests. They want the hearts and minds of German children. This is beyond disturbing.

And if we're not careful, this could happen right here in America, in our own back yards. As the article states, if the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is ever ratified, those of us who educate our own children can expect to be subjected to the same treatment as the families of Germany. One of the provisions in the UN Convention states that a child has "rights to adequate food, shelter, clean water, formal education, primary health care..." and so forth. This means that it will be up to our government to decide what is and is not acceptable, under the headship of the United Nations. And we all know that "formal education" does not likely include home education, but will be operated by the state.

Though I'm sure that some of the provisions in the UN Convention could be beneficial to children around the world, who is to enforce these laws against abuse? Who is to make sure they all get clean water and food? (Don't they already have programs in place that are supposed to accomplish these things through the UN?) Oh, that's right, the ones in charge would be the corrupt governments of the nations already hoarding food from the masses. And as for preventing abuse, well, don't run to the UN peacekeepers for help--they've been the abusers of refugees in the past.

No, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is really just another way for the government to decide what's "best" for our children, and if we don't comply, they'll take them away from us.

Think I'm exaggerating? Tell that to the families in Germany whose children have been put in foster care.

Here in America, every voice counts. Every election counts. We will either elect people who view our American rights as subordinate to "global rights" or we will elect people who hold our values of American freedom. If we vote for big government, we'll get what we voted for...and don't think that just means "more free stuff" for poor people. With every "gift" there's a string attached. The more dependent we are on our government, the more control they can exert over our lives.

It's just that simple.