Are Homeschoolers Tomorrow's Terrorists?
By Steve Farrell (09/26/04)
World Net Daily reported, the other day, a scenario that worries many, that is that those in power might use the broad federal powers of the Homeland Security Act to identify as potential terrorists, political targets which have nothing to do with terrorism, or anything else negative.
"In an federally funded exercise to prepare emergency responders for a terrorist attack, a Michigan county concocted a scenario in which public-school children were threated by a fictitious radical group that believes everyone should be homeschooled.
"The made-up group was called Wackos Against Schools and Education.
"The exercise in Muskegon, Mich., yesterday simulated a situation in which a bomb on board a bus full of children knocks the vehicle on its side and fills the passenger compartment with smoke.
"Dan Stout, director of Muskegon County Emergency Services, told World Net Daily the choice of the fictitious group certainly was not meant to offend homeschoolers."
It wasn't?
Or was it meant to taint homeschoolers as bad guys. After all, homeschoolers aren't under the state and federal thumb. They might learn at home about what the constitution really means, that the Constitution would never tolerate such an accumulation of arbitrary powers in the Executive as has been ushered in under the Homeland Security Act.
One needs to understand how dangerous such powers are, and why homeschooling is hated so much by certain individuals. It was one of Karl Marx's chief targets. He called it disgusting. Why? Because he understood that the family was the true transmission belt of a societies values. That to destroy the traditional family started with compulsory state education, where only one message could be heard, not many, and that message exclusively a secular, pro-socialist one.
Socialists fear many voices, fear the influence of parents and their religious and patriotic values, and nowadays, they no doubt fear the free wheeling and inexpensive access to the original writings and teachings of the Founders found on the Internet, and on CD's, that homeschoolers can spend their formative years accessing and coming to believe in.
The World Net Daily story indicates that the idea for this exercise against homeschoolers came from the FEMA website.
And while perhaps it indicates only the prejudices of whoever runs the site (which is hard to believe), even so, it also indicates the dangers of wide sweeping powers in the hands of a few individuals. For while today's leaders, today's administration might be trusted with such powers, what about tomorrows?
And that's the point.
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