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Teacher Preaches War on Iran; Student Dissents

Here’s a video from a 12th-grade class. The teacher, somewhere in Pennsylvania, is a propagandist. At 3:50 a student says, “I think we should be noninterventionist.”


(Thanks to Travis Holte.)

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • http://www.facebook.com/william.n.grigg William N. Grigg

    River Tam LIVES!

  • http://www.facebook.com/JoePulcinella Joe Pulcinella

    Incredible. Solve the whole thing with bombs. When did that ever work?

  • David

    The teachers English suck “can’t do nothing”

  • Base

    How absolutely HORRIBLE. First of all this guy, besides being a war mongering ass, is setting the rules for these kids so that they are not allowed to even think. When they still try to he just says ‘its irrelevant’. How does he still have a job?

  • Jeremiah

    And here we have reason #1237 for parents not to imprison enroll their kids in the brainwashing gulags public school system.

    Much kudos to this young lady for having the rare good sense to recognize—and the even rarer courage to resist—state indoctrination. I wonder if she’s a Ron Paul kid.

  • At Odds

    She used the word “non-interventionist”. That’s a code word for she’s a Ron Paul Legacy.

    Sigh… Gone are the days where the government teachers were only major-league wrong on economics, watered down history, and taught that the Constitution is a living breathing document.

  • Anonymous

    Predictably, the youtube comments has a large number of jew-baiting comments.

  • J Cortez

    This is the worst video I’ve ever seen. This is the state of education today. What else can you call this but fascism?

  • Anonymous

    That was absolutely sickening. And I am not even joking. I actually had a profound disgust with what I was just listening to, so much so that I am actually angry and uncomfortable. This is pure and simple indoctrination and propaganda.

    The teacher also greatly limited everything other than her conclusion, by her “rules”, which is repugnant to any critically thinking individual. That isn’t education or even free discussion, that is nothing but pure thought control and brainwashing that is based upon authoritarian measures.

    I feel very sad for all of those kids, but at least one of them had the sense to record it and state her view (one that is rational in my opinion). Non-intervention is not doing nothing, it just rejects the notion that might makes right, thus it chooses not to blow innocent people to smithereens in order to further the aims of a small group that is at the reigns of power. Further, it actually promotes peaceful action through trade, commerce and cooperation with other nations. That is not “doing nothing”, it’s doing the just thing. That’s how humanity prospers and moves ahead and beyond our current condition.

    I so much wish that I was in that classroom that day (and everyday) so that I could show those kids that this woman is not their master, and then proceed to cut her down to size intellectually. Trust me, she would soon realize that she is not the master of these kids or anybody else. I hope that someday these kids realize this, too.

  • http://twitter.com/theverylastuser TheVeryLastUser

    With so many dubious assumptions built into the discussion, my brain could melt.
    Even if we grant that they certainly have nukes, why would military action then be necessary? Why can’t the response be, “so what?” What does it mean when a neighbouring country “wants” something? Is that the same as the government of that country wanting something?
    Sigh.

  • guest

    Fascism … Socialism … same thing.

    The Vampire Economy and the Market
    http://mises.org/daily/5963/The-Vampire-Economy-and-the-Market

    What is sometimes referred to as “authoritarian capitalism,” or fascism, is in fact a variety of statism, specifically socialism, the system of political economy in which the prerogatives of ownership over the means of production and distribution are vested in the state. Under the fascist economic system, private capitalists are nominally regarded as the owners of the means of production, meaning that they hold property titles to these assets and are referred to as “owners” of these assets. However, this so-called ownership is merely illusory. The actual prerogatives of ownership are vested, not in the private capitalist, but in the state and its bureaucracy.

    Woodrow Wilson (WW1) and FDR (WW2) were both Progressives. So was Churchill:

    The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Lecture 9 | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
    World War I
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Pb87v-BAc

    The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable
    http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/pearl-harbor-myth.html

    The Real Churchill
    http://mises.org/daily/1450

    None of them were for the free Market. But then, neither were Reagan, the Bush’s, Romney, Paul Ryan, McCain, Bachmann, Santorum, etc.

    Further, Neocon ideology comes from the Left, not from the free market:

    Republican In Name Only – Explained and Exposed (Neoconned Speech)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPknxZruPM

    The Neocons infiltrated the right under Nixon and have been manipulating the party ever since. Ron Paul exposes the puppet masters and their philosophy in front of Congress and sets the record straight.

    What you have to understand is that the Republicans THINK our wars are defensive, and so that’s why we mistakenly support our wars. But we have been lied to by the Left, who are NOT actually anti-war as they claim; They want wars so as to grow government and destroy free markets.

  • guest

    Close the public school system.

  • Anonymous

    You think?

  • http://www.ridingthetiger.org/ William van Nostrand

    There seems to be a myth that “propaganda” doesn’t exist in America or even in the West. The fact is, however, that Americans are so saturated by propaganda of one sort or another that it now passes as “news” or “entertainment”; people do not see the propaganda, in part because it is well disguised.

    From the way history has been re-written to favor the victors (the Civil War, World War II), to the way children are indoctrinated in schools, even down to how the rules of political correctness govern which ideas may openly be discussed and which may not, Americans are very much surrounded by propaganda.

  • Anonymous

    I got very lucky, the last history teacher I had in the day prisons was a Vietnam vet, and had a somewhat more jaded view toward war.

  • http://www.facebook.com/MickHippie614 Sean Hartsel

    Things like this and the teacher in CA that stomped on the flag a couple weeks ago are why, should the day ever come that I have my own children, I will home school them. It simply strikes me as morally repugnant to indoctrinate rather than encourage the future generations to think freely for themselves, to desire to cultivate the ideals of their communities, their states, and their nations… not when the power and responsibility of shaping a better society and world falls directly in the hands of each individual to be an agent for promoting the better inclinations of human nature.