Providence, the Brown University Shooting, and the Democrats We Used to Have by Alex Destino
Providence longs for its former mayor, Vincent “Buddy” Cianci. If he were mayor today, the Brown University shooter would not still be at large.
More than three days after the Brown University shooting, Providence has no suspect in custody, little public clarity, and growing uncertainty—despite a campus saturated with cameras, security infrastructure, and institutional resources. Under Mayor Brett Smiley, the response has felt hesitant and unfocused, raising serious questions about leadership, priorities, and how profoundly both the city—and the Democratic Party—have changed. To understand that shift, it helps to look backward. Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr. was the former mayor of Providence and the first Italian-American ever elected to lead the city. He won office in 1974 at just 33 years old, emerging from a hard-edged, working-class political culture. Cianci was a classic urban populist. His governing priority was simple and unapologetic: keep the city clean, orderly, and safe. Cianci famously argued there wasn’t a political way to run a city—just the right way to run a city. He regularly pointed to Providence’s standing among America’s safest cities during his tenure as proof that results, not ideology, mattered most. One couldn’t help but respect how remarkably non-partisan he was in practice. Cianci shunned the “D” label during his first term despite it being the surest path to victory in Rhode Island. He governed as a true independent and made a point of earning the respect of people across political lines. He led with a distinctly masculine, command-driven style. Police were empowered and highly visible. Disorder was not tolerated. Everyone knew who was in charge. Working-class citizens loved him because they felt protected—and because City Hall worked for neighborhoods, not elites. Cianci also operated comfortably in Providence’s political gray zones, including relationships with power brokers tied to organized crime. Yes, he was deeply flawed and ultimately corrupt. But his governing philosophy was unmistakable: a city cannot function if people do not feel safe. Cianci was not an outlier. He was part of a governing tradition. Old-school, working-class Democratic mayors like Frank Rizzo in Philadelphia, Richard J. Daley in Chicago, Kevin White and Ray Flynn in Boston, William Donald Schaefer in Baltimore, and Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco believed the same thing: cities survive only when order is enforced. The most successful modern practitioner of that model was a Republican—Rudy Giuliani. He didn’t invent the approach; he inherited it, applying those same principles to produce historic crime reductions in New York City. That governing tradition didn’t fade gradually. It was deliberately replaced. Providence today is led by a very different kind of Democrat. Mayor Brett Smiley represents a post-Obama Democratic Party shaped by elite institutions, academic culture, activist priorities, and identity politics. His public-safety agenda emphasizes inclusivity and the clarification of police roles through executive actions like “A Safe Providence for All,” but stops short of the blunt law-and-order posture that once defined Democratic urban governance. Public safety is now treated as one concern among many—balanced against messaging, optics, and coalition sensitivities. That shift is now impossible to ignore. More than 3½ days after the Brown University murders, the shooter remains at large and armed, with no known location—yet city leaders continue to insist the public is not in danger. This, on a campus saturated with surveillance, where the only video released so far has come not from the university’s security system but from nearby residents. The expectation that government would act decisively, communicate clearly, and answer first to the public no longer exists. That alone reveals how Providence—and the Democratic Party that governs it—have changed: from a party rooted in working-class accountability to one oriented toward institutional power, lobbyists, NGOs, and money—no longer answering first to the citizens, the sovereign they are meant to serve. |
Christmas mangers should bring joy not debate by Lou Murray
How very sad that a Dedham Catholic parish has used a Christmas manger scene to attack law enforcement and promote open borders and illegal immigration. The teachings of past Boston Cardinals and the Universal Church have much more in common with President Donald Trump’s America First policies than with the angry social justice warriors who have effectively desecrated a church.
In a famous post-World War II sermon at the Boston Cathedral of the Holy Cross to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Cardinal Cushing summed up real Catholic teaching very well: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The same law which calls us to love all, even enemies, binds us to love more intensely those who are nearer to us in kinship or in association. Hence, the love of our fellow citizens and of a civil society which they have organized for their common good — which society we call our country — is a derivative of the Divine law of charity itself.”
Further, Saint Thomas Aquinas made a philosophical study of immigration and clearly reasoned that “if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners, not yet having the common good firmly at heart, might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
The evil of 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing bear out the wisdom of Aquinas. The Tsarnaev brothers travelled back to Chechnya, a country they had sought “fake” refuge from for jihadi training. The 9/11 Commission concluded that 15 of the 19 hijackers were vulnerable to potential foil by authorities because of their immigration status. That commission also concluded that targeting travel is at least as powerful a terrorism fighting weapon as targeting terrorist funding.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states clearly in section 2241: “Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various judicial conditions (laws), especially with regard to the immigrants’ duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.”
There are so many ways that illegal aliens do not obey our laws. However, the greatest evil that illegal aliens have brought to South Boston, Brighton, Dorchester, Roxbury, West Roxbury, Dedham, and Roslindale is the drug and fentanyl trade.
The key ingredients of fentanyl and methamphetamine are smuggled by Mexican drug cartels, who also profit from smuggling people into the United States. The Boston Police Department leaked their regional Drug Trafficking Report in 2016, it said, “In 59% of the cases where the suspect listed Puerto Rico as their place of birth, there were signs of identity fraud or use of aliases. This would suggest that heroin trafficking in Boston is largely controlled by Dominican drug organizations.”
Many great families in and around that misguided parish in Dedham will be yearning for a missing loved one this Christmas. A loved one who was caught up in the ugly spider’s web of addiction, incarceration, and death that springs from the opioid trade.
Organized crime is alive and well in Greater Boston. These mafioso are illegal alien drug traffickers. Their crimes are being propped up by the ACLU, social justice warriors, progressive judges, liberal politicians, liberal churches, and liberal clergy who champion illegal immigration and demonize law enforcement.
Sadly, ideologues like the pastor of Saint Susanna’s Church in Dedham are even willing to obscure the joy of our Savior’s birth with anti-ICE rhetoric. Maybe the best way to answer Father Feelgood and his ilk this Christmas is to make a special visit to the infant Jesus in the creche at your local church and say a prayer for the brave men and women of ICE … and the Border Patrol.
Louis Murray is a friend of Camp Constitution, Bostonian and a Roman Catholic. He tweets on the social media platform X. Follow him @LouisLMurrayJr1.
‘No disruption. Just ministry’: Christian gets handcuffed for preaching Jesus at major U.S. city bus station
A premier legal team focusing on religious and other rights across America is warning the Houston bus authority that it is violating the U.S. Constitution with its scheme to censor the speech of a Christian.
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that confirmed it has sent a warning letter to the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
For nearly two years he “has ministered at an outdoor Houston bus terminal. His ministry is simple: preach, pray with people, hand out bottled water and food, offer encouragement, and share the hope of Christ with anyone who wants to hear it. No fees. No obstruction. No disruption. Just ministry.”
Then came Sept. 19. Officials dispatched authority police to order him to get a “permit.”
“When he questioned why he needed government permission to share his faith in a public space, the officers declared the bus terminal ‘private property.’ Moments later, they handcuffed him, detained him, and issued a criminal trespass warning. They told him that if he ever came back to preach the Gospel again, he would be arrested. They never cited a single rule he violated. They never gave him a written citation. And to this day, the trespass warning remains in effect,” the ACLJ explained.
The legal team’s new demand letter insists that METRO retract the unconstitutional trespass warning and restore Camp’s First Amendment rights.
Explains the letter, “Mr. Camp has already suffered irreparable injury as a result of METRO’s unconstitutional actions, and he continues to suffer ongoing harm so long as the trespass warning remains in effect. ‘The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.’ Mr. Camp has been effectively banished from a public forum where he has a constitutional right to speak. He has been threatened with arrest and criminal prosecution if he returns to exercise his rights. This chilling effect on his speech is a direct and ongoing violation of the First Amendment.”
The ACLJ noted that the Constitution doesn’t simply vanish if someone steps onto government-owned transit property.
“Public sidewalks, streets, and outdoor terminals are places where Americans have always been free to speak, hand out literature, and share their faith. Religious speech lies at the very heart of what the First Amendment protects,” the legal team explained.
And METRO cannot simply call the terminal “private property.”
“Even if METRO wanted to regulate sound amplification, it must do so through clear, content-neutral rules – not by allowing officers to silence disfavored speech whenever they please. METRO has no such rule for outdoor areas. This was not policy enforcement. It was censorship,” the report charged.
“If it can ban Howard Camp from a public bus terminal because it doesn’t like what he’s saying, then any citizen – Christian or not – can be silenced the moment their message becomes inconvenient. That is not how the First Amendment works,” the ACLJ said.
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NY Forces Christian Businesses to Close
The following is a news release from Liberty Council http://www.lc.org
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul forced businesses to close because of their Christian faith
Liberty Counsel is holding Hochul accountable to the U.S. Supreme Court.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul believes that she has the power to REVOKE the religious freedom rights enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and protected by federal law any time she wants.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul forced a Christian nursing home out of business, specifically because of the home’s Christian mission.
Liberty Counsel has teed up Hochul’s unlawful order to the U.S. Supreme Court. This coming Friday, the High Court will conference on this case again to determine if they will take up this case this term. This is the SEVENTH time the Justices have conferenced on this case, and I believe it to be a good sign that they will put this case on the calendar for oral arguments soon. We need your prayers and direct financial support to win!
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For 50 years, Pinecrest Home for Adults provided round-the-clock skilled medical care to the patients in their Christian nursing home. Patients and staff alike chose Pinecrest specifically for its Christian environment, and they became like family, daily serving and worshipping the Lord together.
If we lose this case, the consequences will be staggering — not just for New York, but for every American.
The Case: Does v. Hochul
Peter Hanan, a faithful Christian who ran a small senior living center in New York, was told he and his staff must violate their religious convictions or lose their jobs and business licenses. Despite clear federal protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, NY Gov. Hochul ordered employers like Pinecrest to deny ALL religious exemptions to the COVID shot — or face daily fines, license revocation, and forced closure.
She ran them out of business over their faith…
Peter and the Pinecrest board of directors refused to force their employees to violate their Christian convictions against taking an untested, abortion-linked, and now-proven-dangerous shot. Not only would such an action be in violation of federal Title VII religious freedom law, but it also went against everything this Christian business stood for over 50 years.
Don’t let woke governors run Christians out of business!
Pinecrest was facing fines of 1,000 dollars per day per employee for honoring their Christian convictions. Peter met with the board of directors for guidance. They could not afford to pay the fines. They could not violate clear federal law. Most of all, they could not violate their consciences and Christian beliefs.
Pinecrest was forced to close the nursing home and scramble to help families find places for their elderly parents and grandparents to live. Many of the patients were “memory care” patients, which made moving even more tragic.
Hochul’s actions were a direct violation of federal law, and it’s not just affecting Peter and Pinecrest employees. Thousands of health care workers were fired for refusing the shot on religious grounds. Hochul allowed medical exemptions — but unlawfully banned religious exemptions.
Another one of our plaintiffs in this case had received a religious exemption from vaccines, including COVID, for each of the last 10 years. But despite working remotely from home, his exemption was revoked during COVID and he lost his job, thanks to Hochul’s abuses.
Five years after the COVID crisis, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is still trampling religious freedom. She refuses to accept clear federal law and enumerated constitutional rights that guarantee religious freedom. This is not just about COVID anymore. It’s about whether any state can override federal law and force citizens to violate their deeply held religious beliefs.
If Hochul’s actions go unchecked, any state could revoke federal and constitutional religious freedom rights at will.
We cannot allow that to happen. Help us stop NY Gov. Kathy Hochul — and all other abusers of religious freedom — in their tracks.
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American Minute with Bill Federer Veterans Day “The Soldier is required to practice the greatest act of religious training–Sacrifice” -General Douglas MacArthur
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The Weekly Sam: Christianity Versus Islam By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Because we live in such a highly secularized society, we cannot believe that America could ever become
involved in a religious war in this day and age. Yet ferocious religious wars have been going on all over the
place: in Northern Ireland, in Israel, in the Balkans, in Sudan, in India, in Kashmir, and in Russia. But
history is a very harsh taskmaster and refuses to let us Americans escape into our secular fantasies and
liberal hot houses for long. Thus, it is vitally important for us to reconnect with the human race’s never
ending history of religious struggle. That a group of Islamic terrorists, trained in a remote war-torn, famine
ridden, hell-hole in Asia, could organize the kind of mind-boggling attack against America that took place on
September 11, 2001, means that America is not only not exempt from history, but has been dragged
kicking and screaming back into the middle of it.
Back in 1588, Christopher Marlowe, master of historical drama, wrote his famous Tamburlaine 2. In it there
is a fascinating scene in which the Christian King Sigismund of Hungary and Orcanes, the Muslim King of
Natolia, both former enemies, decide to establish peace between them in order to join forces to defeat
Tamberlaine the Great, the cruel, pagan conqueror of Asia.
Both men confirm their commitment with an oath. King Sigismund vows:
By Him that made the world and sav’d my soul,
The Son of God and issue of a maid,
Sweet Jesus Christ, I solemnly protest
And vow to keep this peace inviolable!
King Orcanes vows:
By sacred Mohamet, the friend of God,
Whose holy Alcoran remains with us,
Whose Glorious body, when he left the world,
Clos’d in a coffin mounted up the air,
And hung on stately Mecca’s temple-roof,
I swear to keep this truce inviolable!
But as the story goes, it was King Sigismund who later broke the truce and was defeated and killed by the
Muslims.
While the history of the struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of Europe was for a time
settled after the Muslims were expelled from Spain in 1492, and driven back from the gates of Vienna to
Asia and Africa, the Islamic enclaves that remained in the Balkans led to the recent wars in Bosnia and
Kosovo. The Serbs had considered themselves as the Christian bulwark against further Islamic incursions
in Europe, and therefore could not understand why they were being bombed by fellow Europeans and
Americans.
You had to know history to understand what Bosnia and Kosovo were all about and what bin Laden’s men
were doing in the Balkans. That conflict proved that the war between Christianity and Islam has never
ended. Over the ages, it simply took on different forms. The rise of European power put a lid on Islamic
ambitions and the Muslim world became the backwater of history until the discovery of oil in the twentieth
century. But in the nineteenth century, the Islamic Barbary states of North Africa could still make trouble for
the Infidel. They took possession of American and European commercial vessels, held their crews for
ransom, and enslaved other Christians. Our first war after independence was fought during the Jefferson
administration against the Muslim pirates and kidnappers of Tripolitania. It is known in the history books as
the Barbary War, in which U.S. Marines staged their first invasion of foreign soil. Hence, the Marine
anthem: “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”
In order to finally put an end to the piracy and barbarism coming out of North Africa, France decided to take
over Algeria. During the 1830s and 1840s, the French imposed their rule over the territory, encouraging
Europeans to settle there. The result was a flourishing French colony and an end to Barbary piracy. France
maintained order in North Africa until the end of World War II, when the anti-colonialist movement got
underway. Both liberals and communists joined in forcing the European powers to give up their colonies.
In Algeria, however, over a million Europeans had settled in the territory and the coastal departements
were considered an integral part of France. However, when Charles de Gaulle gained power at the height
of the Algerian uprising, he decided that France should quit Algeria because the Moslems could never
become true Frenchmen. And so France abandoned Algeria, and a million Europeans took to the boats.
Today, the invasion has been reversed. Five million Muslims, mostly Algerians, live in France. They make
up ten percent of the population and are part of the resurgent Islamic power in Europe. Christianity is now
so weak in France that one wonders if it is capable of resisting the assumption of Islamic power.
We have been told by our leaders and the media that we are not at war against the Islamic religion. We
are at war against terrorism. But what they all prefer not to recognize is that the spiritual power behind that
terrorism, the power that drives otherwise intelligent human beings to undertake suicidal missions against
the infidel is the religion of Islam. Of course, there are millions of Muslims who just want to lead normal
lives. Unfortunately, after September 11, 2001, nothing is “normal” anymore.
In an alarming article in the November issue of Commentary magazine, Daniel Pipes contends that
Islamist militants are serious about their plan to conquer America. He writes:
“The first missionaries for militant Islam, or Islamism, who arrived here from abroad in the
1920’s, unblushingly declared, “Our plan is, we are going to conquer America.” The
audacity of such statements hardly went unnoticed at the time, including by Christians who
cherished their own missionizing hopes. As a 1922 newspaper commentary put it:
To the millions of American Christians who have so long looked eagerly
forward to the time the cross shall be supreme in every land and the people
of the whole world shall have become the followers of Christ, the plan to win
the continent to the path of the “infidel Turk” will seem a thing unbelievable.
But there is no doubt about its being pressed with all the fanatical zeal for
which the Mohammedans are noted.
Pipes writes further:
“As a teacher at an Islamic school in Jersey City, near New York, explains, the “short-term
goal is to introduce Islam. In the long term, we must save American society.” Step by step,
writes a Pakistan-born professor of economics, by offering “an alternative model” to
Americans, Muslims can transform what Ismail Al-Faruqi referred to as “the unfortunate
realities of North America” into something acceptable in God’s eyes.
The irony in all of this is stunning. For years the Christian right has been trying to get Americans to live
godly lives, but with very limited success. The fact that 85% of American parents put their children in pagan
public schools is an indication of how strong our liberal secular culture is. It controls the curriculum in our
schools and universities. It controls most of the print media, the electronic media, and most of what comes
out of Hollywood. And American schools are now teaching American children all about Islam. While the
Bible has been eliminated from the classroom, apparently the Koran hasn’t. How else can you teach about
Islam?
Recently, the Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief agency, called
Islam “wicked and violent.” He said, “I don’t believe this is a wonderful, peaceful religion. When you read
the Koran and you read the verses from the Koran, it instructs the killing of the infidel, for those that are
non-Muslim.”
As the son of Billy Graham, Franklin is the designated successor to his father’s longtime evangelical
ministry. He delivered the benediction at Bush’s inauguration. But now he’s in trouble with the White
House, which sponsored a Ramadan dinner for 50 ambassadors from Islamic countries with a traditional
meal and prayer. Also, the Muslim chaplain of Georgetown University recently officiated at the opening
prayers of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill.
The moral seems to be that if Islamist terrorists bomb the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and kill
5,000 Americans, other Islamists get invited to the White House for a special dinner prepared to their
specifications: no pork. Now that Americans are being invited to be kind to Muslims, where will all of this
lead?
Graham said, “It wasn’t Methodists flying into those buildings, it wasn’t Lutherans. It was an attack on this
country by people of the Islamic faith.” And that’s why the latter are now favored guests at the White
House! Of course, the President is doing this to keep the Islamic states in line while we war against the
terrorists which these states harbor.
But if we are being encouraged by our born-again President to be kind to our Muslim neighbors, shouldn’t
Christians see this as a missionary opportunity? Why not introduce Muslims to the loving grace of Jesus
Christ? One of the reasons why Americans find it difficult to become friendly with Muslims is because
sooner or later their rabid hatred of Israel will surface. Americans in general don’t like to hate anybody, and
they are uncomfortable with people who are haters.
Christianity preaches love. Islam preaches hate. That is why hatred of Israel fills the psyche of so many
Muslims. Abnormal, pathological hatred is not healthy. It requires constant energy to be sustained at the
level it exists among Muslims. And that is why life is so miserable in many Islamic countries. And that is
why Palestinian refugees have preferred to remain in refugee camps for 50 years rather than do something
constructive with their lives. They prefer to live with festering, enduring hatred, and teach it to their
children, rather than accept forgiveness and peace. No true Christian could ever waste his life that way.
Yet, the United Nations aid agency accepts these refugee camps as perfectly normal for the Arab Muslims.
After World War II, millions of displaced persons found new constructive lives in countries all over the
world. But in the Middle East, Palestinian hatred is used to torment the world about Israel.
It is to be hoped that one of the first things the new government of Afghanistan might do is recognize Israel
and establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. It would signal a dramatic change in the attitude of
Muslims toward Israel.
Indeed, let us be loving and concerned with the well being of our Muslim citizens, and let us convey to
them that Jesus will save them from their sickening hatred and grant them life renewed.
(This article came from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives: The Blumenfeld Archive
The Blumenfeld Archives
“Squanto … was a special instrument sent of God American Minute with Bill Federer
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The Weekly Sam: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Written by Sam Blumenfeld
Charlotte Iserbyt has put her great exposé of the dumbing-down
agenda of American education on the Internet, so that anyone
can now read it and download it free of charge. The Deliberate
Dumbing Down of America is a big book and so very important
that anyone interested in the future of this country must read it.
I wrote a Foreword for the book that basically explains what
Charlotte achieved by her incredible research based on
documents she took out of the files of the Department of Education in Washington, where she worked as a Senior Policy
Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) during the first Reagan administration. She is
the consummate whistleblower, with an overwhelming sense of responsibility as a public servant and a parent. Here’s
the essence of what I wrote:
“Charlotte Iserbyt is to be greatly commended for having put together the most formidable and practical compilation of
documentation describing the “deliberate dumbing down” of American children by their education system. Anyone
interested in the truth will be shocked by the way American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying
the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world
government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.
Mrs. Iserbyt has also documented the gradual transformation of our once academically successful education system into
one devoted to training children to become compliant human resources to be used by government and industry for their
own purposes. This is how fascist-socialist societies train their children to become servants of their government masters.
The successful implementation of this new philosophy of education will spell the end of the American dream of individual
freedom and opportunity. The government will plan your life for you, and unless you comply with government restrictions
and regulations your ability to pursue a career of your own choice will be severely limited.”
What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes.
In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly
financing through federal grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing
our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order. It reminds one of how the Nazis charged their
victims train fare to their own doom.
One of the interesting insights revealed by these documents is how the social engineers use a deliberately created
education “crisis” to move their agenda forward by offering radical reforms that are sold to the public as fixing the crisis
— which they never do. The new reforms simply set the stage for the next crisis, which provides the pretext for the next
move forward. This is the dialectical process at work, a process our behavioral engineers have learned to use very
effectively. Its success depends on the ability of the “change agents” to continually deceive the public which tends to
believe anything the experts tell them.
And so, our children continue to be at risk in America’s schools. They are at risk academically because of such
programs as whole language, mastery learning, direct instruction, Skinnerian operant conditioning, all of which have
created huge learning problems that inevitably lead to what is commonly known as Attention Deficit Disorder and the
drugging of four million children with the powerful drug Ritalin.
Mrs. Iserbyt has dealt extensively with the root causes of immorality in our society and the role of the public schools in
the teaching of moral relativism (no right/no wrong ethics). She raises a red flag regarding the current efforts of left-wing
liberals and right-wing conservatives (radical center) to come up with a new kid on the block — “common ground”
character education — which will, under the microscope, turn out to be the same warmed-over values education alert
parent groups have resisted for over 50 years. This is a perfect example of the Hegelian Dialectic at work. (Karl Marx’s
communist philosophy is called “Dialectical Materialism.”)
The reader will find in this book a plethora of information that will leave no doubt in the mind of the serious researcher
exactly where the American education system is headed. If we wish to stop this juggernaut toward a socialist-fascist
system, then we must restore educational freedom to America. Americans forget that the present government education
system started as a Prussian import in the 1840’s–’50’s. It was a system built on Hegel’s belief that the state was “God”
walking on earth.
The only way to restore educational freedom, and put education back into the hands of parents where it belongs, is to
get the federal government, with its coercive policies, out of education. The billions of dollars being spent by the federal
government to destroy educational freedom must be halted, and that can only be done by getting American legislators to
understand that the American people want to remain a free people, in charge of their own lives and the education of their
children
And since finally conservatives in Congress are seeking ways to reduce the size and cost of government, a good place
to start is in dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. That’s one way to stop financing the deliberate dumbing
down of America.
To get to the free download of Charlotte’s book, click here: https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf
You can still buy the book if you prefer to have a hard copy
that you can read at your leisure and pass on to friends and relatives. And if you still have children in the public schools,
you’ll know exactly what is going on inside those walls.
(Editors note: This came from the Sam Blumenfeld archive. It was originally published in 2011. A link to the archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
The Blumenfeld Archives
The Weekly Sam: Let the Counter-Revolution Begin! Implementing the Tea Party Agenda By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
(The following article is from Sam Blumenfeld’s archive written in 2012)
The first American Revolution officially began on July 4th, 1776, when the Thirteen
Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. And it didn’t end until 1781,
when General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, and the Treaty of Paris was signed
with Great Britain in 1783. In other words it took seven years of hard struggle before
the colonists could become the free and sovereign United States of America.
At first the new government was ruled by the Articles of Confederation, ratified by the
states in 1781, which provided virtually no power to the central government. The leaders
of the new confederation then decided to construct a more efficient and viable form of
government under a new Constitution. The result was a Federal Republic in which power
was effectively separated into three branches: the Executive headed by a President, the
Legislative composed of a Congress with a Senate and a House of Representatives, and
the Judiciary, a federal court system headed by the Supreme Court.
Thus, was formed a government of limited powers in which the basic freedoms of
American citizens were constitutionally protected against encroachment by any branch of
government. All of this worked fairly well until the turn of the last century when
socialists began a long-range conspiracy to change America from a Constitutional
Republic with limited powers into a European style Social Democracy with unlimited
powers, thus abolishing our God-given individual liberties. This was done through
incremental steps that expanded the power of the federal government in all areas
Which brings us to the present. The socialists finally took complete legislative power in
Washington with the election of Barack Obama as President and a Democrat controlled
Congress. Their plan was to end our Constitutional Republic. But what the socialists
didn’t count on was the rising up of the majority of the American people in opposition to
their scheme. That uprising became the Tea Party Movement, made up of ordinary and
extraordinary Americans who are determined to restore America’s form of government to
what the Founding Fathers gave us.
And in November 2010 the Tea Partiers gained control of the House of Representatives,
marking the beginning of their Counter-Revolution. But the socialist revolutionaries
used the lame-duck Congress to push through as much of their agenda as possible.
What should the Tea Partiers do when they take their seats in Congress in January of
2011? First, they must repeal all of the socialist legislation that virtually ended our
Constitutional Republic. This initial effort may be vetoed by our Alinsky-trained
President.
But in 2012 the Tea Partiers may be able to get rid of this Marxist
revolutionary at the top. Next, they must begin to dismantle all of those federal
departments and bureaucracies created by previous liberal administrations to expand the
control of government over the lives and activities of the American people. But where
to start? A good place to start is by abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, created
by Jimmy Carter in 1979 via the Department of Education Organization Act, approved by
a liberal Congress.
Actually, a Department of Education had been created in 1867, but a year later was
reduced to a mere Office collecting education statistics, a minor bureau in the Department
of the Interior. In 1939, the bureau was transferred to the Federal Security Agency where
it became known as the Office of Education.
Upgrading the Office of Education into a cabinet level department was opposed by
Republicans who saw the Department as unconstitutional since the Constitution didn’t
even mention education. But when Ronald Reagan became President in 1981 and tried
to abolish the Department, he was prevented by a Democrat dominated House of
Representatives. He was also sabotaged by his own RINO statists.
During the 1980s, the abolition of the ED, as it is now called, was part of the Republican
Party platform, but President George H. W. Bush declined to implement the idea. In
1996, the Republican Party made abolition of the Department a cornerstone of their
campaign promises, calling it an unconstitutional federal intrusion into local, state, and
family affairs. The GOP platform stated:
“The Federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in school
curricula or to control jobs in the market place. This is why we will abolish the
Department of Education, end federal meddling in our schools, and promote family
choice at all levels of learning.”
During Bob Dole’s run for the presidency in 1996, he promised to abolish the ED. And
in 2000, the Republican Liberty Caucus passed a resolution to abolish the Department.
But when George W. Bush became President, instead of initiating an effort to abolish the
Department, he joined with liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy to enact the No Child Left
Behind act, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
passed by Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society administration.
It was George W. Bush’s big government Republicanism which disillusioned many
conservatives with the GOP and led to the election of Barack Obama. But what makes
the abolition of the Department of Education much more possible now are two things: the
huge federal debt and the need to cut the cost and size of government; and the fact that
the Department has not improved education. In fact, it has made it worse.
Indeed, it was Charlotte Iserbyt, a former Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of
Education during the Reagan years, who blew the whistle on the ED’s nefarious activities
by writing the Deliberate Dumbing Down of the American People, based on
documentation she found in the Department‘s own files. In her expose she proved that the
Department was financing the dumbing down of Americans through grants to socialist
academics in our universities. In other words, the Department of Education had become
destructive of the American mind, and therefore should have long been abolished for that
reason alone. (Iserbyt’s book can now be downloaded free of charge on the Internet https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf
So there is now more than enough evidence that the Department of Education is a
destructive force with power to dictate what goes on in American schools. The sooner it
is gotten rid of, the sooner Americans will be able to achieve one of the Tea Party’s chief
goals: a free nation, enjoying the benefits of educational freedom, without federal control
over our schools.
Yet read the Constitution and you discover a document that carefully creates a national
government with limited and enumerated powers. In contrast to state governments,
federal authority is constrained. Washington does not have general jurisdiction, or the
so-called police power, authorizing it to intervene in any matter not explicitly barred by
law or constitution.
None of the 27 amendments expanded federal power in this regard. The 13th, 14th, and
15th Amendments, passed in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, did transform
federal-state relations: the United States went from being a plural aggregation to a single
unit. National power expanded insofar as it protected individual liberty in the states. The
constitutional changes did not expand Washington’s authority to infringe the liberty of the
same individuals.
John McManus writes:
For decades, our federal government has annually poured tens of billions into education
and the product continues to worsen. The same elected geniuses started a Department of
Energy when imports totaled 30 percent. The import total is now 70 percent. Federal
housing policies convinced many Americans they could own a home with little or no
down payment and the resulting housing crisis ushered in the current recession. Other
geniuses started providing food stamps for several hundred thousand in the 1960s while
assuring everyone that the number of recipients would never grow larger. Now, over 40
million — one in seven Americans — are on this form of handout. We could go on. But it
has to be obvious that whatever the Federal government undertakes beyond its
constitutionally authorized powers turns out to be a bust.
What Shall We Cut?
Abortion may soon be more readily available than ever before, thanks to a new
requirement from Planned Parenthood that more of its centers nationwide offer the
service. At least one local chapter so far has decided to withdraw from the network rather
than comply.
A local office of Planned Parenthood in South Texas is dropping out of the nationwide
network of “America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care” starting
January 1.
According to local news reports, Planned Parenthood is planning on standardizing all of
its agencies, which includes requiring that every single one offer abortion services. The
CEO of the Coastal Bend office, however, said in a media interview that her center has
never provided abortions in the past, and doing so now is unnecessary.
“Our position is that if that is a need in your community, fine,” said CEO Amanda
Stukenberg. “There are far greater needs in our area than abortion. We feel that women
here have options. We don’t need to duplicate services.”
When contacted by The Daily Caller, Lisa David, senior vice president of Health
Services Support for Planned Parenthood, said that the organization is implementing a
broad “new patient services initiative.”
“From well-woman exams to lifesaving breast and cervical cancer screenings, more
patients will now have access to the full range of Planned Parenthood services,” said
David in a statement. “To meet the needs of our patients, Planned Parenthood affiliates
will now offer a unified set of core preventive services.”
In the next year, according to David, Planned Parenthood will expand immediate access
to testing for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI’s). During the next two years,
all Planned Parenthood centers will begin to “provide the full range of birth control
method options, such as the IUD, in addition to well-woman exams including critical
cancer prevention screenings.”
She went on to say that abortion services will be offered in at least one clinic per affiliate.
However, a waiver may be obtained in the case of “unique local circumstances.”
Some, however, argue that the expansion of abortion services is more about lining
pockets than making women feel safe and secure. “Planned Parenthood claims they’re
concerned with women’s health and family planning,” a spokesperson for the Family
Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that advances “faith, family and
freedom,” told The DC.
“We’ve been hearing rhetoric lately that abortion should be safe, legal and rare, but [with
this requirement] we can see the writing on the wall. The bottom line is there is no place
in the U.S. where a woman would have difficulty getting abortion if they want to.”
The spokesperson went on to say, “This is about expanding services and bringing in more
money…they try to create a public image where everything focuses on STD’s, family
planning, etc, but abortion is a profitable endeavor.”
Right now, Planned Parenthood has 817 health clinics throughout the U.S. One hundred
seventy-three of those already perform surgical abortions, and 131 perform chemical
abortions. The Planned Parenthood network is made up of 87 locally-government
regional centers, which then oversee hundreds of other clinics.
Earlier this month, Planned Parenthood released its 2008-2009 Annual Report, revealing
that it received $363 million in federal funding that fiscal year.
The Blumenfeld Archives
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown October 19, 1781
Washington instructed the Marquis de Lafayette, who was in Virginia with an American army of around 5,000 men, to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown by land. In the meantime, Washington’s 2,500 troops in New York were joined by a French army of 4,000 men under the Count de Rochambeau. Washington and Rochambeau made plans to attack Cornwallis with the assistance of a large French fleet under the Count de Grasse, and on August 21 they crossed the Hudson River to march south to Yorktown. Covering 200 miles in 15 days, the allied force reached the head of Chesapeake Bay in early September.
Meanwhile, a British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves failed to break French naval superiority at the Battle of Virginia Capes on September 5, denying Cornwallis his expected reinforcements. Beginning September 14, de Grasse transported Washington and de Rochambeau’s men down the Chesapeake to Virginia, where they joined Lafayette and completed the encirclement of Yorktown on September 28. De Grasse landed another 3,000 French troops carried by his fleet. During the first two weeks of October, the 14,000 Franco-American troops gradually overcame the fortified British positions with the aid of de Grasse’s warships. A large British fleet carrying 7,000 men set out to rescue Cornwallis, but it was too late.
On October 19, General Cornwallis surrendered 7,087 officers and men, 900 seamen, 144 cannons, 15 galleys, a frigate and 30 transport ships. Pleading illness, he did not attend the surrender ceremony, but his second-in-command, General Charles O’Hara, carried Cornwallis’ sword to the American and French commanders. As the British and Hessian troops marched out to surrender, the British band played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.”
Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters, the Patriot victory at Yorktown effectively ended fighting in the American colonies. Peace negotiations began in 1782, and on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally recognizing the United States as a free and independent nation after eight years of war.
This is from This Day in History: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cornwallis-surrenders-at-yorktown
