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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Monday, Aug. 11, 2003

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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein

This would be the Monday when school starts across the nation. This will also be the Monday when your precious little rug rats will get their annual leftist indoctrination against basic property rights.

I hit this particular topic every year about this time. To really get the point across I like to focus on first-graders - the first year in a government school.

About a year ago I wrote a column for World Net Daily detailing your child's first day of school. Here is part of what I had to say then. It's just as true, if not more so, today:

Do you remember those weeks before school started for your first grader? There you were, you and your proud new student walking the aisles of the local Costco with your list of school supplies in hand. You checked off the pencils, a ruler, a compass, paste, construction paper, a pencil holder, notebooks and erasers. At home, your first grader takes the supplies into his room and spreads everything out on the bed. Arranges them this way - then that way. Pencils next to the erasers, glue and construction paper lined up over here, compass and ruler lined up over there. These are his supplies. His! Do you hear? And tomorrow he is going to take them to school. He couldn't be more proud.

Finally, the first day of school arrives. The night before all of the school supplies are packed, repacked, unpacked and repacked again. Then, that morning, just one more unpacking and repacking to make sure everything's still there and undamaged. OK! It's off we go to school! Apprehension mixed with pride. Your young man or woman is taking another grand step toward adulthood! What could go wrong?

Plenty. Remember, it's a government operation.

The students are seated, the bell rings. As fast as you can say the Pledge of Allegiance without the "under God" part, the indoctrination begins. The government teacher steps in front of her virtual hostages and promptly delivers the first raw lesson in the power of government. The students are instructed to bring all of their precious school supplies - their property - to the front of the classroom and put them into a huge box. They are told that the supplies belong to all of the class now, and the teacher will assume the responsibility of distributing the supplies as they are needed.

"Whoaa! Hold on a minute here! These are my supplies. My daddy bought them for me. You can't have them! They're mine!"

Nope. Sorry! They were yours. Now all those supplies belong to - guess who? The government!

There's a method to this madness. Your child is being taught that there are some severe limits to the concept of private property. It is perfectly OK, for instance, if the government just steps up and seizes your property if there are other people who might need some of your stuff. After all, it's just not right for you to have something that other people don't have or can't share in, is it?

This whole "dump your supplies into this box" is not an innocent exercise. Your child's teacher might not even be aware of it, but this lesson in government power is a time-honored method of introducing your child to the concept that there is something basically wrong with owning private property - but everything will be OK if you just let your superiors even things out a bit by taking some stuff from you and giving it to someone else.

How did Marx present this concept? I think it was something like "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need."

Day number one, lesson number one: Your rights to your property exist only so long as government will allow, and it's just not fair to have more stuff than someone else.

And this is just the first week! More surprises in store! Wait until you get that call from your child's teacher with vague, dark hints of a better world for your child if only he was on Ritalin.


Aren't government-operated schools just wonderful!

NOW .. IF A REPUBLICAN HAD SAID THIS

Drudge is telling us today that over the weekend a spokesman for the California Democratic Party issued a warning to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bob Mulholland said that "real bullets" would be coming his way during the current campaign for governor.

Real bullets? Obviously Mulholland is making a contrast to the fake bullets used in Arnold's movies. The warning is clear. The bullets that may come your way during this election won't be fakes.

Nice, huh? This is from the very political party that has worked so hard to remove the Second Amendment form our constitution. This is also from the party that has lost several revered politicians to gunfire. Robert Kennedy was gunned down in California. So, isn't it so very special that we have a California political hack warning Arnold that the Sam may be in store for him.

Now ... we don't really have to get into what would be happening if some Republican had said this about a Democrat, do we?

AND WHILE THE BULLETS ARE FLYING

The Democrats are turning over every Hollywood leaf they can find to come up with some video of Arnold being less than gallant to women. There are rumors of a video of Arnold fondling a female reporter's breast. I guess they want to get even with all of those videos of Bill hugging Monica. If they do find such a video, and if the reporter is Helen Thomas, I think Arnold should pull out immediately - as any decent man would. Any other reporter and I would just remind the Democrats of what they tolerated with Bill Clinton. So far as I know there is no suggestion that Schwarzenegger has raped anyone and left her bleeding on a hotel room bed with the kind suggestion that she should "put some ice on that."

BY THE WAY, ARNOLD IS THE WRONG CHOICE

The right choice in California is State Senator Tom McClintock. [http://www.tommcclintock.com]. I know that California is immersed in the celebrity thing ... but it takes more than celebrity to turn a fiscal train wreck like California around. Celebrity will rule, however, and Arnold is still the man. Think about it ... this isn't a state where the electorate has shown particular brilliance in the past 20 years or so.

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

Arianna Huffington is truly a nut-case. We now know that the most dangerous place in California is between Huffington and a camera. She apparently has some sort of scouting posse hired to notify her when a camera shows up. She then rushes to the scene and bulls her way into the picture. She showed up at an Arnold Schwarzenegger event this past weekend and managed to knock over a podium full of microphones wedging her way into the picture. Suspicions confirmed, Huffington is a strange woman whose main drive seems to be publicity. Now I understand what happened to her husband.

And just how is Arianna doing at the polls? She's just about tied with Larry Flynt.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's Friday's Best of the Web.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003862

Robert Bartley of The Wall Street Journal tells you what the mainstream media won't ... our economy is doing rather well of late, in spite of what Greenspan has predicted.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110003871

Novak says that there is going to be an announcement in September .. an announcement about successes in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Dangerous game here. Public expectations are going to be pumped up with statements like this. If the administration doesn't deliver it could be another blow to credibility.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030809.shtml

We keep hearing about the hunt for Saddam's weapons, and the attacks on American soldiers. In the midst of all of this the Iraqis are really getting into this freedom thing.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030810-115911-2417r.htm

Michelle Malkin addresses some of the new rules for keeping an eye on potential terrorists flying into and out of the United States.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030810-103930-4642r.htm

George Will takes on those Berkeley academics who think that they have figured out just what makes conservatives tick.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20030810.shtml

Who do the Democrats have to blame for extreme leftist Howard Dean? Bill Clinton, that's who.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003870

Does your daughter hang out at the mall? That's where pimps are targeting teen girls for prostitution. The FBI reports that the average age of a new recruit is 13, and many are coming from middle income homes where they have suffered no abuse whatsoever.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=617800&TICK=NEWS&STORY=/www/story/08-10-2003/0001998144&EDATE=Aug+10,+2003
 
 

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