Marxist-founded Demos is terrified that schoolchildren are questioning the establishment

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Government front group Demos, an integral part of the British establishment which was founded by Marxists, is terrified that children are using the Internet to question what they are taught in school, and has vowed to abolish any such critical thinking to reinforce the education system’s role as a tool of indoctrination.

A BBC News report reflects Demos’ panic at “conspiracy theories” (ie any critical thought that questions the official consensus) being brought into the classroom.

It’s a delicious irony that we’ve highlighted many times before and it underpins the entire education system. While complaining that children are not engaging in “critical thinking,” Demos, a government front group, is abolishing any notion of critical thinking by telling students that they should only believe what the government and the mainstream media tells them is true – the same establishment that has been caught proliferating lies time and time again.

In reality, it is the very fact that students are increasingly engaging in “critical thinking,” ie questioning the official version of events, that has the likes of Demos so petrified.

Having been caught lying and covering-up all manner of scandals, from the WMD farce, to Climategate, to the death of Dr. David Kelly, the British establishment and its sycophantic media cheerleaders like the BBC are losing credibility fast, that’s why young people are turning to alternative sources of information to try and get the truth, something deemed intolerable by the system.

While young people are being intimidated out of critical thinking, they are simultaneously being bombarded with the likes of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, which was sent by the government to British schools in 2007, a documentary found by a British high court judge to contain nine significant errors while making claims in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration.”

It seems believing in “conspiracy theories” is only acceptable for the likes of Demos and the British government if those “conspiracy theories” are generated by and supportive of the state.

Indeed, a University Professor in the United Kingdom recently conducted a comparative analysis of a BBC documentary on 7/7 “conspiracy theories” and an independent documentary in which the official story behind the London bombings is questioned. The Professor concluded that the documentary produced by “conspiracy theorists” was more accurate and more likely to be a truthful representation of the events of 7/7, but don’t expect the government to recommend it be included on the curriculum any time soon.

Other government front groups have also launched state-funded projects to “demolish conspiracy theories” about events like 9/11, or in other words ‘abolish’ any critical thinking about the event and reinforce official propaganda through the school curriculum.

Demos is a front for the insidious Common Purpose network, a group that Lt Cdr Brian Gerrish has exposed as playing a fundamental role in the advancement of Britain’s role in the new world order. Julia Middleton, Chief Executive of Common Purpose, sits on Demos’ advisory council.

The group has waged war on “conspiracy theories,” particularly the suggestion that 7/7 and 9/11 involved state complicity, and has urged the government to “fight back” by infiltrating conspiracy websites to spread state propaganda. Demos has also characterized people who question the official fable of 7/7 and 9/11 as extremists and terrorist recruiters.

The strategy mirrors that advocated by White House information czar Cass Sunstein, who in a 2008 white paper similarly called for conspiracy websites to be infiltrated and undermined in order to dilute their influence. In the same report, Sunstein also called for taxing conspiracy theories (any viewpoint that differs with the official version) and outright banning free speech of which the authorities disapprove.

Demos was founded in 1993 by marxists Martin Jacques and Geoff Mulgan, and was closely affiliated with Tony Blair’s Labour government. Mulgan went on to work inside Downing Street in 1997. Current British Prime Minister David Cameron also works closely with Demos and has given speeches at the group’s events.

Demos has routinely acted as a platform for elitists who wish to drastically alter society, eliminate freedoms, and sacrifice British sovereignty in pursuit of global government. On August 9, 2006, British Home Secretary Dr John Reid, another former marxist, gave a speech at a Demos conference stating that Britons “may have to modify their notion of freedom”, claiming that freedom is “misused and abused by terrorists.”

Demos is partnered with numerous other globalist organizations from government and industry, including IBM, The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and Shell International. The organization’s logo includes an all-seeing eye within its design.

Although the group poses as an independent think tank, Demos is little more than a public relations firm for the British government and security services. Its efforts to demonize conspiracy theories in order to “increase trust in the government,” as its own report states, is a transparent ploy to do the bidding of its masters, by demonizing anyone who challenges a corrupt, lying state and its nefarious activities as an extremist and a potential domestic terrorist, while infiltrating schools and acting as thought police to ring-fence what ideas children can and cannot entertain.

I just had a look at Leggy’s blog after writing that first paragraph and saw that he has written about some of the things I was about to write about. My dilemma now is whether to suggest you just read his post, try to write my own without copying bits from his, or forgetting it altogether and sticking on one of my classic comedy DVDs and relaxing.

What to do? What to do?

Actually, some of these latest news stories are crazier than the things that happen in Fawlty Towers, George and Mildred and even Red Dwarf.

The other day, I finished watching all 112 episodes of Tales of the Unexpected. You may be wondering what heinous crime I committed to warrant such a cruel and unusual punishment. A few were excellent and some were woeful and the rest somewhere in between.

But not much is unexpected nowadays, so when the Liverpool Daily Post announces that,

A-Level results went up for the 29th consecutive year

It isn’t unexpected, because it has been obvious for years that it’s a stitch up,

…the number of A-level students getting top marks nearly doubled between 1997 and 2010.

The reasons for this are numerous – A-level papers have got easier, examination boards are more lax, teachers are better at teaching to the test – but few people believe it’s because our children have actually become more intelligent. If you compare the performance of 15-year-old British schoolchildren to their counterparts in other developed countries when it comes to reading, science and maths, they’ve got worse, not better.

Why does the government want to make youngsters believe that they are more intelligent than they are? It is right to encourage children and to praise them, but not to lie to them. Not to give them false hopes that they can go to university and get a degree and become a brilliant whatever it is they want do be, when the reality is that if they aren’t up to it they will end up deep in debt and unable to get a job that earns enough to pay it back. They will have wasted years of their lives when, if the system was run honestly, they could have learned a useful trade instead or been otherwise employed.

My feeling is that this whole charade has been devised to produce a shortage of workers as an excuse to increase migration and also to get as many people as possible into debt to prepare them for a lifetime of servitude to the ’system’ perhaps eventually to try and make them more compliant to being ‘chipped’ at some stage in order to keep getting credit and able to buy the necessities.

Whatever the ulterior motives, sending half of school leavers to further education – after they have already received twelve or thirteen years of education (allegedly) – seems no way to ensure we have a productive economy.

But we know that the economy doesn’t matter to the elite, because another thing they expect us to believe in is the manmade climate change fraud, which is just another way to de-industrialise us while squeezing out yet more money from us in “green” taxes.

So even more old folk will die of the cold in winter with increased electric and gas bills, but like the thousands of teenagers whose lives are blighted unnecessarily by debt, most politicians will turn a blind eye to it all.

And talking of climate change, the climate surrealists are now so desperate to sell their wares to an increasingly savvy public, that they have been coming out with even more hot air than Al Gore in his fantasy ‘documentary’ An Inconvenient Truth.

This was the film that was sent to every secondary school in Britain and which so upset Stewart Dimmock, a school governor from Dover, that he took the Government to court for brainwashing children with it – and won. I bet the BBC hated having to cover that story, because as the government’s propaganda arm, it has to perpetuate all sorts of myths.

One of Gore’s fraudulent claims in the film was the idea that:

for the first time, polar bears had actually drowned “swimming long distances – up to 60 miles – to find the ice”. The judge said: “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.”

But despite no evidence at all, how many people still believe that polar bears are drowning for lack of ice?

Now we are expected to believe that overweight people are responsible for climate change.

But first prize in the things they expect us to believe category must go to NASA, who are suggesting that aliens might destroy the earth – not because, as Leg-iron suggests:  “Perhaps the scientists are worried that aliens will see fat people from space” – but because our carbon emissions could be considered a risk to their civilisations.

Even though carbon dioxide levels were much higher in Earth’s past and even though any alien civilisation on some far-flung planet would not be affected in the slightest by our use of incandescent filament light bulbs, we are to be afraid of angry monsters from outer space.

Some people believe that governments will announce a fake alien landing in order to panic the public, thus allowing them to bring in martial law on a global scale. I wrote about the possibility of this last year, after another extraterrestrial claim by NASA which was nothing of the sort, but nevertheless, still helps keep the possibility of ‘alien’ life alive in people’s minds.

But to believe there are all sorts of aliens out there is to believe in something else quite unbelievable: The Theory of Evolution. Consider what I wrote at the time:

People need a paradigm shift here. I speak as a Creationist, of course, but I believe there are dangerous misunderstandings which surround evolution. I don’t think “life” can occur as readily as many people have been led to believe.

There is a Law of Biogenesis which states that, “life arises from pre-existing life, not from non-living material”.

To believe contrary to Louis Pasteur’s Law is hardly a new idea, “The ancient Greeks believed that living things could spontaneously come into being from nonliving matter, and that the goddess Gaia could make life arise spontaneously from stones…”

This is especially interesting as we are again living in an age where Gaia worship is widely practised, this time in the form of devout environmentalism.

But I suspect that NASA will keep putting out “alien” stories, especially in times where money is tight, to keep the government funding coming through.

And it is vital to keep up the pretence if a government ever stages an “alien” invasion as a pretext to removing the remaining freedoms even the bin Laden fearmongering couldn’t reach.

And this brings me nicely onto my final topic, the attacks of 9/11 (Osama bin Laden was not considered a suspect by the FBI).

It amazes me how many people can watch the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 and think buildings fall this way due to fire. WTC7 was not hit by a plane yet came down on the afternoon of 11th September 2001 like a controlled demolition in near freefall speed onto its own footprint. I know people are in denial when they will not even admit that it looks peculiar. The only time they will ever have seen a building collapse like WTC7 will have been a controlled demolition using carefully pre-planted explosives. But to admit government involvement to themselves would be to acknowledge that the world is a scarier and more unpredictable place than they thought it was; than they want it to be.

But what is really scary are the consequences of not facing the truth. The consequences are exactly as we are seeing actually happening to us: climate change used against us to tax us even further and shut down our industry; a country and its people steeped in debt; unjust laws and restrictions put on us to fight the “War on Terror” – and a global government to oversee all these things.

It is best to face the truth sooner rather than later.

When I try to explain the homosexual agenda, many normally sensible people cannot understand the damage it is doing. They think I am overreacting to what is, essentially, an “equality” issue. But homosexuals already have equality. What they crave now is for the whole of society to be re-engineered around them and for everyone to accept their behaviour as normal and thus for all opposing views to be silenced. The way they are trying to achieve this now is through using teachers to indoctrinate children.

Stonewall have sent out ‘teacher training packs’ to staff at primary schools,

Children as young as five should learn about gay relationships in schools and boys should be allowed to express their feminine sides by dressing in frocks or becoming cheerleaders, according to a Government-funded initiative.

The new pack was created by the gay rights organisation Stonewall with the help of a £25,000 grant from the Government’s teacher training body, the Training and Development Agency for Schools.

This is taxpayers’ money being used to make children question their gender and role.

And notice the veiled threat:

Schools and local authorities are urged to use the material to demonstrate they are complying with the Equality Act 2010, which obliges public bodies to promote equality.

Many people still defend Stonewall and the homosexual lobby with the old argument that what goes on in the bedroom is nobody else’s business, and that it doesn’t affect them, but things went well beyond that stage years ago. What Stonewall does affects each and every one of us because they are very effectively changing the norms of society.  We have already seen how they also threaten freedom of speech, freedom of association and the property rights of those who disagree with them.

One of the scariest ways this agenda impacts on us all can be heard in the video, and that is the teaching of children to resist the values of their parents and grandparents. We have witnessed the same agenda when it comes to encouraging children to seek contraception and abortion behind their parents’ backs. The State also wants children as young as five to be given sex “education” with no opt-out for the parents.

The State owns your children now. They have assumed the role of surrogate parent.

One of the teachers in the DVD says that some of the boys “really loved wearing the dressing-up dresses and it went on for several weeks.”

Are the parents told? Told – not asked, obviously. But are the parents being told that their sons are parading about in dresses while at school?

So creepy.

One very popular tactic apologists use when trying to justify same-sex acts is by alleging that some animals are homosexual and insisting that humans ought to take behavioural lessons from dumb animals. One of the picture books being promoted to teachers is “And Tango Makes Three,” about a penguin chick raised by two male penguins. It was based on a true story from New York’s Central Park Zoo, however, one of the “gay penguins” found a female mate. It seems that the penguins weren’t homosexual, just lonely.

But don’t expect a rewrite of the book for future editions. School isn’t for learning the truth, it is about indoctrination and being confused about right and wrong.

This is all about changing the perceptions, instincts and values of the next generation. This is a very serious re-engineering of society. Please do not underestimate what is going to happen when future generations reach adulthood with these negative views on family life and whose brains have been hardwired to accept state propaganda as the final word.

And as I keep saying, this is not about religion. Homosexual acts have been taboo all over the world because normal family bonds are what keep the community strong. The weaker these bonds have become in the UK, the more society has become fragmented.

Stonewall are by no means the only culprits, but the longer they are permitted to pervert the minds and souls of the next generation, the worse this fragmentation will become. That’s why everyone will pay the price. What else can we expect for treating children so appallingly?

How much worse will you let it become before you too speak out against it?

Stonewall - using your children to re-engineer society in their image

H/T – Video noticed and title pinched from here.

It reminded me that I meant to post this video of Johnny Ball on the BBC’s Daily Politics last week. He has noticed that a GCSE Chemistry book is full of climate change propaganda.

He rightly says that the “lunatic energy policies which have been thrust upon us by politicians… are making every child and every family poorer.”

So, rather than filling children’s heads with doom and gloom, he says:

The future for our kids is brighter than we can yet imagine and that’s the message we should be delivering to every child.

If only we didn’t have politicians with other ideas.

I have rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco and a pack of Henri Winterman’s Half Coronas. That should allow almost continuous smoke production throughout the day. If it’s fine I’ll fire up the chimenea too.

Our local weekly paper came out yesterday and contains a full-page “Smoking Feature.” There are two articles, plus an advert from “Healthier Scotland” part of the Scottish “Government”.

The first article’s headline is “New smoking laws to come into force”.

New laws are coming into force on 1 April 2011 which will affect around 47,000 under 18s in Scotland.

The new laws will also have consequences for the general public.

As of 1 April it will be an offence for:

Anyone under 18 to buy or attempt to buy tobacco products or cigarette papers.

Anyone under 18 who is in possession of tobacco products or cigarette papers in a public place to fail to comply with a request from the police to surrender these items or to supply a name and address.

Anyone 18 or over to buy tobacco products on behalf of anyone under 18.

And there is an extra warning to retailers – they must sign up to the Scottish Tobacco Retailer Register by 1st October or it will be illegal for them to sell tobacco, and those found to be selling tobacco “illegally” could be fined up to £20,000 and sent to prison for six months.

The other article is, “Youngsters urge smokers to put out their cigarettes.”

The children took part in a Smokefree Homes pilot project aimed at reducing their exposure to second hand smoke.

Smoking Prevention Officer, Abbie Wallace, presented Primary five to seven pupils with information and awareness on the dangers of second hand smoke in the home.

The Primary five pupils and their teacher were so enthusiastic about the topic that they decided to make their own leaflets to inform people of the dangers.

Some of the leaflets were so good that the Smoking Matters service has used some of the art work and literature to develop a poster highlighting the dangers of second hand smoke in the home.

The poster will be used as part of a region wide campaign aimed at reducing children’s exposure to second hand smoke.

And the youngsters are hoping that parents who smoke will stop and take notice of their message and put out their cigarettes.

Quotes from the pupils involved included: “I told my dad that the tar from the cigarettes sticks to your tongue and goes all black. He didn’t like that and now he’s down to one cigarette a day. My asthma’s too bad for me to ever smoke.”

The quarter-page advert basically says the same as the editorial.

I’ll tell you what I have against this, and that is using impressionable children to dictate to their parents. And what will happen when the Smokefree Homes project fails via this sort of “encouragement?” Why, of course, smoking will be banned in homes and children will be encouraged to report their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles to the “Smoking Prevention Officer” and the police.

Cllr Chris Windows (Tory) said that he thought it was wrong to allow “a certain actor” (i.e. Sir Ian McKellen) to become a potential role model to impressionable young people based on his sexuality.

Whether you agree with him or not, and of course I do, he is surely entitled to express his opinions in the council chamber without being abused with shouts of “disgusting” and “bloody disgraceful, that is”.

But of course Stonewall think they are allowed to bully the general public as do their supporters who, unfortunately, seem to include most politicians who have either bought into the “homophobic bullying” scam or are too afraid to disagree. Notice that Cllr Windows didn’t get any support.

The soppy leader of the Labour Group begins her response with, “Oh dear… oh dear”. She goes on to say that with comments like Cllr Windows’ young people are going to be put off “coming out” while they’re young. More on that later.

Alex Woodman (Lib Dem) said: “I wholeheartedly, unequivocally condemn the outrageous homophobic remarks by Cllr Windows. He should be utterly ashamed of himself.”

Chris Windows came back and explained, amid some further heckling, that he didn’t like undue pressure being put on youngsters. This is what concerns me too. While all those right-on councillors are busy condemning Chris Windows, they are obviously unaware of the damage promoting homosexuality to teenagers could do. A large number of children have some experience of same-sex desire, so putting pressure on them to “come out” early is grossly irresponsible and has been linked to increased teen suicide.

But this is a tribal thing. Stonewall clearly care about their “own” and nobody else.

Psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Satinover says,

[W]ithout any intervention whatsoever, three out of four boys who think they’re gay at age 16 aren’t by 25. So if we’re going to treat homosexuality as a state, 75% of ‘gays’ become ‘non-gay’ spontaneously. That’s a statement which I consider ludicrous, but if you accept this tacit proposition—that being gay is an actual state, like being short or being tall, black or white—then in three out of four people that condition changes itself spontaneously. . . That’s with no outside intervention, just the natural processes of development.

So what do we do about this alleged epidemic of “homophobic bullying”? Lie to kids and tell them that homosexual and bisexual behaviour is normal and acceptable or seek to stop ALL bullying and stop interfering with youngsters while their hormones are playing up?

Of course, the latter is the more sensible and sensitive option, but it is not “right-on” for Labour and Lib Dem politicians, and an increasing number of Tory ones too, who desperately want to get brownie points from Stonewall.

Gary Hopkins was one of the councillors who invited Stonewall in because their “research” showed there “was a problem” in the Council and also “unacceptable levels of homophobic bullying in schools which needed to be addressed.”

Stonewall speaks and everyone jumps: councillors, the police, businesses – all itching to be seen to be toeing the line. They don’t understand teenagers – they have just been manipulated to jump to attention when the words “equality and diversity” are uttered and anyone who can still think for themselves and say, actually maybe that isn’t such a good idea, is immediately branded “disgusting” and “homophobic”.

Cllr Chris Windows has been suspended from the Tory Party over the “incident”. Philip Lardner, the Tory candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran in this year’s General Election was also suspended simply for stating on his website that he believes in traditional sexual morality.

If you want to get anywhere in politics these days, you need to leave your brain in a box on top of the wardrobe and your conscience out for the bin men.

Everyone’s favourite Tory, Boris Johnson, wrote this a few years ago:

If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.

But this was him leading the 2008 London “Gay Pride” parade.

This is probably what Chris Windows must now do to try and regain the “respect” of his fellow councillors. Meanwhile, Stonewall continues to get access to children to peddle their lies and gain recruits when they are at their most vulnerable.

Just a decade ago, seven out of eight voters in Brian Souter’s private referendum in Scotland wanted to keep the Clause that protected schoolchildren from being subjected to the promotion of homosexuality. Mine was by far the majority view. I am certain that had we known then how far things were to go (and we were assured that removing the Clause would not lead to homosexuality being promoted) the poll would have been even more in favour of keeping this safeguard in place.

Most Tories still fall over themselves to praise Maggie Thatcher, when introducing Section 28 was one of her governments’ finest achievements, but now many have succumbed to the all-controlling Marxist philosophies their heroine abhorred.

Stonewall – stop perverting the minds and souls of the youth.

Tories – stop being cowards and closet socialists.

Takeaways are to be banned near hundreds of schools in a new drive to curb teenage obesity.

Councils across the country are rewriting planning rules to stop junk food outlets operating next to schools and tempting children away from revamped healthier canteen meals.

Stop right there. It was the Tories that introduced these “canteen meals.” We used to sit down to proper meals, and if we were fortunate, this included caramel cake and custard!

The measures follow a legal ruling this summer which clarified that councils can take into account the health and well-being of schoolchildren when considering planning applications from takeaway outlets.

A judge ruled that Tower Hamlets Council in East London ‘acted unlawfully’ when it allowed ‘Fried & Fabulous’ to open just 500 yards from a secondary school.

Just 500 yards from a secondary school!! The shock and horror of it: there’s a chippy a little over quarter of a mile away from a school. Why, it’s almost as bad as heroin being sold in the classrooms.

Studies have previously shown how junk food outlets cynically target pupils with child prices and multi-buy deals, while promotions on products such as pies and pizza slices drastically undercut prices available in school kitchens.

I hardly think tailoring your products to the local trade is cynicism. What I would like to know is how small businesses with little buying clout can drastically undercut prices available in school kitchens. Perhaps because the catering is now done by private companies: another bright idea from the Tories, although this still doesn’t explain the drastic price difference.

And maybe the children want to leave their indoctrination camp for an hour at lunchtime!

Waltham Forest Council, also in East London, last year became the first local authority in the country to ban fast food outlets from opening within a 400-metre ‘exclusion zone’ around schools, leisure centres and parks.

Sounds like Waltham Forest isn’t the place to go to start that new catering venture. Best try another area, oh but…

Now dozens of other local authorities are adopting similar policies, a poll of councils reveals.

More than half of 50 councils in the survey had already revised their planning policies or were in the process of looking at them again.

Barking and Dagenham has brought in supplementary planning rules which include a hot food takeaway exclusion zone set at 400 metres from secondary and primary schools.

Councillors in Medway, Kent, are investigating restrictions on fast food outlets ‘operating near schools, parks and leisure centres’ after becoming concerned at rates of childhood obesity in the area.

School food campaigners welcomed the measures after highlighting concerns that a crackdown on poor quality school dinners was being undermined by easy access to calorific and fat-filled snacks in local outlets.

Following celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s 2006 TV series, schools have introduced new menus, replacing processed and fried foods with lean meat, pasta and salad.

Why did it take a celebrity chef to produce a change? What forces acted against those school food campaigners in the past? Perhaps those in charge wanted to get on the telly to show how responsible they are.

However research by the School Food Trust suggests that measures to curb takeaways will take a long time to have an effect.

It found that secondary schools have on average 23 junk food outlets in their neighbourhoods, with some surrounded by 46.

I’m confused as to how allowing others to open will have any effect other than to prevent honest working folk from running a business. And is there a veiled threat here that long-established takeaways will also be given the chop?

Brent Council, North West London, is encouraging takeaways to use healthier ways of cooking dishes that school children gravitate towards when they come in for lunch or after-school snacks.

It is also investigating how fast food outlets near schools can be controlled through the planning system, with a report due later this year.

Control is always what it is about.

Councils with no plans to change their policies include East Sussex, which said it had instead concentrated on improving the range of food on offer in school canteens and promoting stay-on-site policies, where children are effectively locked in during break and lunchtimes.

Somebody can still think, then?

A spokesman for the School Food Trust said: ‘When children eat better, they do better, so limiting their access to unhealthy food around school is common sense; a survey for the Trust suggested that there’s an average of 23 takeaways for every school in the UK.

‘We’ve consistently supported local authorities that are taking steps to use planning regulations in making sure the hard work to improve school meals isn’t undermined by easy access to takeaway food right outside the school gates.’

Hundreds of yards away is not right outside the school gates! The explosion in the number of takeaways is mainly due to the laziness of the modern adult. Sales of potatoes are way down because people can’t even be bothered to peel them anymore. Banning new ventures within 1/4 mile of any school, park or leisure centre is going to deprive people of new local takeaways in large parts of most towns. The modern high street consists largely of takeaways, estate agencies and charity shops. The charity shops bring in little business and provide few real jobs; estate agencies are closing down (round here at least) and so it’s the takeaways to be targeted… for the cheeldren, naturally.

It is government that replaced healthy school meals with burgers and chips and sold off thousands of playing fields, but it is the small businessman in the high street who gets the blame for the childhood obesity ‘epidemic’.

In the 70s, we had good quality school meals at a price our parents were willing to pay. Then the politicians decided to play games with our health. Now the chip shop owners get the blame. A further nail in the high street’s coffin?

What on earth are they teaching our kids in the government-run public school system?

The answer is, ‘Not much.’

Several generations of America’s children have gone through 12 grades without knowing a thing about the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, Joseph Stalin’s mass murder of nearly 30 million Russians, or Chairman Mao’s mass murder of upwards of 80 million Chinese.

In fact, many if not most of the ‘dumbed down’ actually think that Communism is a good thing.

This week has brought us yet another example of the shenanigans occurring at taxpayer-funded schools.

6th graders in the Wellesley, Massachusetts public school system were treated to a field trip to a mosque.  The children were placed along side of Muslims in the kneeling position as they bowed and prayed to Allah.  Teachers did not intervene. Parents were not notified to give prior approval.

Further, the children were subjected to a lecture by a Muslim who proceeded to totally misrepresent the nature of Islam, directly contradicting known and proved facts concerning the oppressive nature of the religion.

Several pertinent questions come to mind concerning this outrageous attempt by a government-run school system to tarnish young minds concerning Islam.

What if this had been a Pentecostal Christian Church?  Would school officials be as accommodating?  Would there be an intervention when children were placed along side of Christians speaking in tongues?

What about a Jewish synagogue?  What if a Jewish rabbi had presented a lecture on the horrors committed by Muslims toward the Jewish community?  Would school officials have intervened?

The sad truth is that the school system would never remotely consider a field trip to a Pentecostal church or a Jewish synagogue.  And were such a trip planned, it is safe to assume that parents would have been notified in advance, giving them opportunity to opt their children out of such a trip.

But when it comes to Islam in America today, Leftists will take every conceivable opportunity to promote it.  Totalitarians share a strong bond, whether they be religious or secular.

Be sure to catch my blog at The Liberty Sphere.

UPDATE 1.0 pm A Labour supporter has sent me this tweet:

British kids still learn about Hitler and Stalin. And they visit synagogues and churches. #IwasaschoolgovernorIshouldknow

I replied with, “They shouldn’t have to visit churches like they are alien places!! Do you see what’s happened?”

It’s everyone’s business, except that you are now presumed to be a paedophile unless you are state-approved. Anyway, let the madness begin…

The Government today set out the next steps to make sure behaviour is good in all schools, so that pupils are free to learn and teachers are free to teach.

It’s another of those we’ve-been-in-government-for-13-years-and-will-now-put-things-right moments. Just before the election. Who’d have thunk?

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls and Schools Minister Vernon Coaker launched a package of measures aimed at supporting teachers and dispelling myths around behaviour in schools. They will say teachers should not be afraid to use the powers the Government has given them to control unruly pupils.

“A package of measures” always sounds like you’ve really thought about it and come up with the best ideas: like allowing teachers to take their belts to those who are being naughty? That’s how my teachers used to control unruly pupils. And it worked, but it didn’t involve the police, social workers and the courts. No, it gave all the power to the teachers instead, which is absolutely no good to a State that now lusts after total control.

And it seems to me that the only powers the Government has given teachers are to pull their hair out and bang their heads against a brick wall. The power balance has been shifted in favour of the pupils and the ones who want to cause trouble know it. They know there is no chance of the instant pain and humiliation of the belt or cane for their misdeeds.

I had a very timid French teacher in either first or second year (I forget which) and who wouldn’t use the belt on anyone, but even she could control the class by sending an unruly child to the next classroom to get a few whacks from Mrs Falk.

The package, announced by Ed Balls at the Association of Teachers and Lecturer’s conference today in Manchester, includes:

* the first 20 of 100 Lead Behaviour Schools that will drive improvements in behaviour for the weakest schools
* guidance for teachers on how to maximise partnerships with exemplar schools
* a new report from Sir Alan Steer calling on schools to make better use of Home School Agreements to engage parents when improving behaviour.

It’s just more buzz words and a new report.

Lead Behaviour Schools

The first 20 of 100 Lead Behaviour Schools with exemplary behaviour were announced, who will receive £40,000 a year to mentor other schools to help improve behaviour across the country. Schools struggling with bad behaviour will be expected to learn from Lead Behaviour Schools and their innovative approaches to tackling behaviour problems.

This is supported by new Behaviour and Attendance Partnership Guidance, advising schools how to harness the expertise of other schools, police and children’s services to improve behaviour in the classroom.

See what I mean? It’s about getting children into the system. Get the cops involved. Children’s services. Anything but let the teachers take control of their classrooms. Teachers who do not have really good skills with children and know how to get their own way more than they do are now expected to take control, not by sending them next door to Mrs Falk to sort it out in half a minute, but to drag the child through the state system.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls said:

Today I am naming the first 20 of 100 schools leading the way in behaviour policy across the country. These schools are using a range of innovative approaches, and the powers the Government has given them, to turn around poor behaviour in the classroom.

The expert schools will be twinned with schools struggling to control behaviour and there will be an expectation for schools with behaviour problems to learn from the Lead Behaviour Schools.

It won’t work. These things rarely do.

Schools Minister Vernon Coaker said:

However it is not just for Government and schools to drive improvements in behaviour, and parents must play their part.

Are these the same parents who are considered perverts for videoing the school nativity play? Or have their requests for their children to opt out of certain dubious lessons rejected? Even the parents are being emasculated. If New Labour had their way, parents wouldn’t even be allowed to smack their own children.

This is why I welcome Sir Alan’s report which shows how invaluable the Home School Agreement can become. For headteachers to have the power to take court action against parents whose children continue to behave badly, disrupt lessons and impact on other pupils is a vital step in the right direction.

The right direction leading to an all-intrusive state. We are not supposed to just sort things out between ourselves and then get on with our lives. Oh no. That would never do.

The British Humanist Association are furious that some schools want to teach about sex and relationships according to their ethos.

The BHA, the Children’s Rights Alliance for England and the Accord Coalition have condemned a new Government amendment to its own Children, Schools and Families Bill, describing it as discriminatory.

It is discriminatory, yes. Just as forcing people to accept beliefs and behaviour that are at best alien to them discriminates against them. But that’s all right, isn’t it? This is how it works. Nobody is allowed to be discriminated against except those people who don’t do as they are commanded by the state. No matter how unfair or crazy.

A great myth has grown which says that discrimination is wrong. Any discrimination. Personally, I discriminate all the time, don’t you? Some food I love and others I detest. Some people I find are wonderful and others I avoid. How many parents don’t discriminate when it comes to choosing a babysitter? Fortunately, not many.

I have looked at the members of the aforementioned Accord Coalition on their website. They include The British Humanist Association themselves, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Hindu Academy, The Lesbian and Gay Christian (sic) Movement, The Socialist Education Association and the admittedly feminist Women Against Fundamentalism.

In other words, this is a political/religio-political attack on faith schools to further an atheistic/secular/humanist/socialist agenda. Dress it up as children’s rights and they think they can get away with anything.

The BHA encouraged its supporters to email their MPs,

Please do this today to ensure all young people have access to accurate, balanced SRE that promotes equality and diversity, and to prevent faith schools from teaching that same sex relationships and the use of contraception are wrong.

They go on to elaborate on the importance of promoting equality, diversity and rights: three of the main pillars of political correctness.

Ian Dunt, writing for politics.co.uk, was also upset. He wants faith schools ‘banned’. As I commented under his article,

I’m not sure if this is meant to be satirical, but it sounds like it. Mr Dunt is a ‘libertarian’ (he says) who naturally hates government interference – except when it comes to parents’ choices in how their children are educated, then they should have no choice. Despite the majority of the population having a faith, the author thinks their children should be herded into secular state institutions to be conditioned not to be ‘too religious’. I wonder what he thinks about the news that faith schools are best at building social unity:

“It found that secondary schools run by faith groups scored eleven per cent higher for their promotion of community cohesion when compared with secular schools.

“The report also concluded that faith-based schools outperformed secular schools by almost nine per cent when it came to tackling inequality.”

The Dunts and Dawkins of this country need to mind their own business when it comes to how parents bring up their own children. Oh, and stop using people’s aversion to homosexuality as a reason for getting your own angry way.”

And this is another great myth, that people who are against homosexuality being approved to children do it on grounds of hatred. We get this word discrimination as usual. That’s exactly what it is – like the babysitting example I gave above, parents and schools discriminate because they see it as the right thing to do by their children. This is their right.

Then the word homophobic gets thrown around. Never religiophobic (if that’s a word), because religious people are now, by default, in the wrong. Let us not be misled; when humanists promote homosexuality as normal, they do so against the biological evidence. Theirs is also a belief system. They believe it is right and I believe it is wrong. Why do they expect their beliefs to carry more weight than mine?

To conclude, then, what is next? How much more diversity are we meant to teach children, or be accused of the next invented ‘phobia’? Some children are already being groomed to be dysfunctional through state sex education that tells them anything goes and here are your free condoms and this way to the abortion clinic – your parents won’t find out.

This increases the underclass dependent on state intervention at every turn: the single mothers on handouts, the unemployed and unemployable, the depressed, the diseased, those for whom life has no meaning because they are used to their every whim being catered for and being shielded from the real world.

This attack on freedom of conscience and parental responsibility is demonic. For what benefit?