Edu-Terrorists - An ALEC Policy Item?

BURNING books - would never be accepted by our society.
So the conservative movement appears to have hatched a new way of "burning books" - remove the books from circulation.

Three things that I want to bring to your attention before we start this entry.

1.

ALEC is an organization of ultra-conservative right wing extremists.

ALEC is an extremist organization – they are NOT centrists or moderates.

2.

Many ALEC members are on the Board of Regents of universities across the United States.

3.

Being exposed to alternate views of thinking is a way of refining your thought process.

People who don’t look at alternative views – end up like the zombies that watch Faux News.

If what you see, doesn't agree with what you think - remove it from society.
What a horrible slippery slope that could become.

Critical thinking and being exposed to alternative views is part of a liberal arts education.

Critical thinking and being exposed to alternative views as a part of a liberal arts education develops the ability to think and not go through life mindlessly believing everything that people tell you to believe.

Remember –this was never supposed to be known, by “the public”

From Democracy Now (my emphasis):

Howard Zinn died at the age of 87 on January 27, 2010. Less than two weeks after Zinn’s death, then-Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels sought the removal of Zinn’s work from the schools of Indiana.

In an email exchange with top Indiana education officials, Daniels wrote, quote, "This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away." After he described A People’s History of the United States as a, quote, "truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page," Governor Daniels asked, quote, "Can someone assure me that it is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history?’’ Daniels asked.

“FINALLY passed away” – what an incredibly horrible and insensitive thing to say!
             May the same be said of Mitch Daniels some day.

"truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page,"           
            – ONE man’s opinion – unfortunately, a man who has a great deal of power

“totally false version of our history”
– if you were to accept that biased assertion – that means any type of fiction should be removed from the education system- even the historically great writers of our time
Who would define what is acceptable?  Why them?

Governor Daniels’ comments have sparked outrage within the academic world, in part because he recently became the president of Purdue University, the second largest school in Indiana. On Friday, the American Historical Association issued a statement saying it, quote, "deplores the spirit and intent" of Daniels’ emails.

American Historical Association issued a statement saying it, quote, "deplores the spirit and intent" of Daniels’ emails.

Hallelujah!!!

The association wrote, quote, "Attempts to single out particular texts for suppression from a school or university curriculum have no place in a democratic society."

ANTHONY ARNOVE: It didn’t surprise me at all. I mean, if you look at what Mitch Daniels has done in Indiana, it’s been a consistent attack on teachers, consistent attack on unions. He really laid the basis for the model that Scott Walker has been trying to implement in Wisconsin, with an early executive order eliminating collective bargaining rights for union workers in the state, making Indiana the 23rd—I hate to use the expression of a right-to-work state; it’s really a right to disenfranchise workers, rather than a right to work—but making Indiana the 23rd so-called right-to-work state, and consistently going after schools of education. There’s a national attack, which Daniels is part of, to say that schools of education are polluting the minds of teacher educators. And right after he sent that email that you quoted, he went after a teacher training program that was taking place at Indiana University in Bloomington in July of 2010. And he claims, "Oh, I was only talking about the teaching of K-through-12 students. I didn’t—I want to protect K-through-12 students." He was actually going after a program that was about teacher training, in which people were reading Howard Zinn as part of understanding how to open up students to different perspectives on American history.

Governor Daniels – now president of Purdue University,

Not noted in the interview is

ALEC Governor Daniels – now president of Purdue University,

Mitch Daniels was on the cover of InsideALEC - April 2011 – ALEC’s bi-monthly propaganda magazine.

He was a keynote at the meeting where ALEC indoctrinates new state legislators (2 from every state – all expense paid trip to be inculcated into the ALEC cult).

             2008 States & Nation Policy Summit,

             Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniel was the first to lead the charge de-funding Planned Parenthood – an ALEC agenda item since 2005.

So ~ ~ ~  ~~ ~

As educated people knowing that Mitch Daniels follows the ALEC policy & procedure manual -

     wouldn’t it be fair to assume that burning books that promote 

    critical thinking, alternative views could be a silent agenda of the 

    ultraconservative right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council?

Remove critical thinking, and you produce a citizenry that can no longer think and will blindly accept the policies of the ultra-conservative, pro-corporate, extremist right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council.

And yet removing critical thinking from education was/is a part of the Texas GOP Platform.

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills

ALEC has already defined who they consider eco-terrorists.

  People who look critically at what is happening to our environment
   and through their works produce alternative ways of thinking
   about all things ecological.

What’s next for ALEC?  Edu-terrorists?

  Intentionally demonizing people who actively seek to help others look at
  what is written and what is spoken and analyze those words through the
  lens of many different points of view.

OR maybe they already use that term at their ALEC meetings?

1.

ALEC is an organization of ultra-conservative right wing extremists.

ALEC is an extremist organization – they are NOT centrists or moderates.

ALEC legislative members hold a biased, partisan, ultra-conservative agenda that was grounded in the megalomaniac psychopathology of the man who founded the Moral Majority, Paul Weyrich, and continues today through the actions of right-wing, ultraconservative, extremist ALEC Legislators in every state

 


If what you see, doesn't agree with what you think - remove it from society.
What a horrible slippery slope that has become. 

And ALEC's game plan.