September 8, 2009: National Keep Your Child at Home Day

I am not going to compare President Obama to Hitler.  We’ll leave that to others and you can form your own opinions about them and their analogies.  I do not believe President Obama’s plans for our nation include genocide or gas chambers.  And the socialist I see in him is far from the National Socialists we see represented by Nazis.  However, we can learn a lot from the spread of propaganda in Europe that led to Hitler’s power.  A key ingredient in that spread of propaganda was through the youth.  And its not just Nazi Germany.  Totalitarian regimes around the world have sought to spread their propaganda and entrench their power by brainwashing the children.  I guess its easier to indoctrinate a six year-old instead of fighting a 26 year-old or being challenged by a 46 year-old in the voting booth.

Nazi Germany, Cuba, North Korea, China, The Soviet Union… all totalitarian regimes who use or used propaganda to children as a means of greater control and to quiet civil unrest.

That is why this video bothered me during the campaign.  That is why this video did too.  The motives might be innocent enough, but the image is frighteningly familiar to things we have seen before.  Couple those realizations with what we see today, and rightfully many patriots are afraid for their nation and our country’s youth.  Will tomorrow’s America look anything like today’s?

Before the election, a teacher in Asheville browbeat one of her students for supporting McCain.  At the inauguration, Al Gore told a group of school children that they knew more than their parents and their parents were wrong.  The U.N. wants to teach 5 year-olds about masturbation and 9 year-olds about abortion.  School systems in America are reading books about gay penguins and teaching children about homosexuality and transgender issues without parental consent.  Textbooks are being re-written to provide a more liberal world-view.  Parents are being denied the right to teach their children at home because of their religion.

Now the former Community Organizer and current President of the United States is making an unprecedented speech to the school children of our nation.  I’d like to believe his motives were pure and politics didn’t play into this.  But viewing this administration’s track record doesn’t afford such benefit of the doubt.  When the President browbeats property owners who want to protect their legal rights… when the President admits he doesn’t know the facts but impugns the integrity of a police force… when the President calls me a liar for reporting what is actually in the health care bills and encourages my neighbors to report me to some enemies list… when the President apologizes to nations around the world and bows to a Saudi king… he loses the benefit of the doubt.  As a socialist who has surrounded himself with Marxist and racist radicals all of his life, he loses the benefit of the doubt.

Without benefit of the doubt, the President doesn’t get to speak to my children unchallenged.  Surely we can’t trust the school system to challenge him.  Surely we can’t trust the school system to protect the interest and rights of parents.  So on September 8, 2009, when President Obama seeks an unprecedented audience with the nation’s youth, I would have no choice but to deny him access to my child.

Parents, you are responsible for your children.  You are responsible for teaching them right and wrong, instilling personal responsibility and an understanding of the founding of our nation.  It is your job to raise your children, not the federal government.  And when a socialist with a radical agenda seeks an audience with them, it is your job, not the school’s, to protect them.  It is your values that should be taught to your children, not the political agenda of any President or any political party.  If you can’t be there to watch the President’s address with your children and challenge them on the content immediately afterward, then it is also your job to consider keeping them out of school that day.

I shutter shudder to think how many schools would have prevented a similar address by President Bush.  Shouldn’t the same rationale apply?  If not then clearly there is an agenda at play.  Children are not a pawn in your political games, and certainly not a tool to enhance your political dominance.

Take control of your children and the values you hold dear.   Consider celebrating National Keep Your Child at Home Day on September 8, 2009.

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[UPDATE] I tried, I really did, but comment moderation is back on for this post.  Lefty blogs have been sending a ton of traffic here trying to astroturf and silence those with opposing views (and improving their traffic and SEO in the process).  But the last few comments of outright distortion, lies and calling people racists have gone too far.  If you comment more than twice you will likely be blocked as spam.  If you comment under multiple names, you will be blocked as spam.  If you call people who disagree with the President racists, you will likely be blocked as spam.  If you don’t further the debate, you will likely be blocked as spam.  Disagreements are fine.  Debate is fine.  It can even be heated.  But a lot of these comments on both sides have gone too far, and its time to step back in.  No one’s previous comments will be deleted or removed, but future comments are subject to review.