Hal Shurtleff

Director and Co-Founder of Camp Constitution.

Long Before the City of Boston Became A Haven for Illegal Alien Criminals, the City Encouraged Assimilation

 

The once great City of Boston is run by far-left, America hating Democrats.  It is a so-called “sanctuary city” for violent illegal alien criminals and its mayor and police chief refuse to work with I.C.E. officials when it comes to the most violent of the illegal aliens.  But it wasn’t always that way.  While we have to go back a long way to the 1920s, the City actually had a “Committee for Americanism” and published a book for legal aliens wanting to become U.S. citizens called A Little Book for Immigrants in Boston.  

A link to the book:  https://s3.amazonaws.com/campconstitutionbooks/A+Little+Book+For+Immigrants+In++Boston.pdf

 

The Weekly Sam: Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to Return Power Over Education to States and Local Communities

While I am not sure if those in Heaven are aware of what is happening here on Earth, but if they are, I am certain that our late friend and mentor Sam Blumenfeld is rejoicing over President Trump’s recent executive order defunding, with the goal of abolishing, the U.S. Department of Education.  I used to joke with Sam suggesting that if he became Secretary of the Department of Education, his first duty would be to obtain an auctioneer’s mallet. He then would sell the property owned by the unconstitutional department to the highest bidder, fire all of the employees, and resign.  Here is the news released issued by, we hope, the soon defunct department:

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon released the following statement following President Trump’s Executive Order to return education to the states:

“Today’s Executive Order is a history-making action by President Trump to free future generations of American students and forge opportunities for their success. We are sending education back to the states where it so rightly belongs.

“Education is fundamentally a state responsibility. Instead of filtering resources through layers of federal red tape, we will empower states to take charge and advocate for and implement what is best for students, families, and educators in their communities.

“Closing the Department does not mean cutting off funds from those who depend on them—we will continue to support K-12 students, students with special needs, college student borrowers, and others who rely on essential programs. We’re going to follow the law and eliminate the bureaucracy responsibly by working through Congress to ensure a lawful and orderly transition.

“With today’s action, we take a significant step forward to give parents and states control over their children’s education. Teachers will be unshackled from burdensome regulations and paperwork, empowering them to get back to teaching basic subjects. Taxpayers will no longer be burdened with tens of billions of dollars of waste on progressive social experiments and obsolete programs. K-12 and college students will be relieved of the drudgery caused by administrative burdens—and positioned to achieve success in a future career they love.”

This is a long time coming.  Ronald Reagan campaigned on abolishing the department only to see it grow under his administration.  The Department of Education is an unconstitutional entity that should never have been created.  I think that our late friend and mentor helped to make

 

I Testify: My Years as an F.B.I. Undercover Agent

 

Julia Brown spent nine years as an undercover agent for the F.B.I reporting on communist activity in the Greater Cleveland area.    In 1966, her book I Testify: My Years as an F.B.I. Undercover Agent was published.  She wrote that the Communist Party U.S.A. gave its members an order to support Martin Luther King, and that the party does not support anyone that it does not control.  Her book is out-of-print and listed on Amazon for $2,847.12. While I doubt few if anyone would pay that much, the book is an important expose on the late slain civil rights leader.  We have a PDF version of the book that we offer free-donations accepted.  For a copy, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com   Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage  https://www.campconstitution.net

In 1976, a federal judge ordered the F.B.I’s file (not to be confused with the F.B.I.’s assassination file) on King sealed for 50 years. King’s supporters wanted the file destroyed.   It is scheduled to be released next year.  If the file is still intact, it will prove King’s communist activities, and his moral depravity.

 

Camp Constitution in now taking donations of Teslas from owners who now hate Elon Musk

 

Camp Constitution, a New Hampshire based charitable trust, is now accepting donations of Tesla vehicles from owners who now hate Elon Musk.   A free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution will be given to all donors so they can see for themselves that budget and department cuts are constitution.   “Instead of taking a sledgehammer to the vehicles” said Camp Director Hal Shurtleff “Musk haters can get rid of their vehicles and support a worthy cause.”
 To donate, please E-mail Hal at campconstitution1@gmail.com or visit their website https://www.campconstitution.net
  

The Weekly Sam: Libertarians for Life

This is a link to a pamphlet from Libertarians for Life that Sam had in his library:

http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Other/Libertarians%20For%20Life.pdf

The Libertarian Party has long endorsed abortion as long as it isn’t taxpayer supported, but it always had a minority of members with strong moral convictions essential to a free society.   The party has also been a longtime supporter of so-called “same sex” marriage making the claim that governments should have no say in the institution.  This was a moral copout since the party had no campaign to get government out of marriage.  Party leaders thought that homosexuals would flock to the Libertarian Party’s ranks, but it never happened.  Instead, governments at all levels have been spending millions of dollars pushing the agenda of the totalitarian Alphabet Mafia, which uses the power of government to fire, fine, jail and generally make life miserable for those who don’t go along with its perverse agenda.

 

The Blumenfeld Archives

 

 

Debating a Liberal is as futile as putting talcum powder on a hog-But I sometimes still do it.

   While I agree with the late Tom Anderson who said with a distinct Southern drawl:  “Debating a liberal is as futile as putting talcum powder on a hog,” I occasionally do so.  Not that I think that my reason and logic will change the mind of a liberal, but to others who  may be reading or listening.  I recently had such a debate on a Facebook friend’s page:
John’s original post:
 If Maine is not the worst state in the United States, it is damn close to it!
Stephen (The “Liberal”)
 You want cheaper taxes? You old fart? Go live in a republican state! You will have a couple extra dollars in your pocket! But don’t ask for healthcare, education! Free rides to and from medical appointments! or meals on wheels! You will have to call trump for that kind of emotional support!!
Hal Shurtleff
Stephen:
 Free people don’t need “free rides” supplied by the government or inferior government healthcare or government schools that have become nothing more than far-left indoctrination centers.
 Stephen 
Hal Shurtleff:  the irony is!! it appears to me? that you’re the one that has been indoctrinated by the right!!!! and I hope you have plenty of money because when you hit 70 something years old, you can barely walk. Maybe you’re using a cane or a walker your kids are grown. Don’t call you!! because you’re right Wingnut job. You’re really going to appreciate things like Meals on Wheels! Because that’ll be the only contact you have with people!! if you have no money and nobody that cares about you.
Hal Shurtleff
 Stephen Thank you for your profound reply. Name calling always helps your case. You leftists are so brilliant.
Stephen 
 Hal Shurtleff:  if your idea of indoctrination is schools teaching things like? racial diversity, inclusion protect the environment! those kinds of things? Those issues seem pretty important to me and we should start young with our children so that their world is a better place to live when they’re older.
Hal Shurtleff
 Stephen:  Racial Diversity:  Hate whitey.  Inclusion:  All but conservative people of faith. Environment:  We are all going to burn up unless we give total power to the government.
Stephen
Hal Shurtleff do people who have no vehicle? need rides?
Hal Shurtleff
Stephen: Do you expect me to pay for your rides?
Stephen: 
Hal Shurtleff:  if you make enough money? Yes!!
Hal Shurtleff
Stephen:
 It works like this: Unscrupulous people promise to provide you free rides to the liquor store if you vote for them. They get elected and pass laws to buy an electric vehicle to take you and people like you to the liquor store. But in order to pay for the electric vehicle, maintain it, and hire people that will drive you and people like you, they need money. So, they pass laws forcing me and people like me whom you not only hate, but have been encouraging others to hate, to pay for all of this. The law is proposed and people who sell, build, and drive eclectic vehicles as well as those in the liquor industry lobby to pass the bill.
 The bill has a clause that reads “failure to pay the tax that takes Stephen and others like him to the liquor store is not only a felony but a hate crime.” When the elected officials discover that I refuse to pay the tax, they send out people with guns to arrest me or shoot me. You and people like you, get your free rides, and the unscrupulous people you voted for not only get reelected but pass other onerous laws. In a free market, a ride to the liquor store could have been provided to you for a small amount of money but now costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. You call it social justice. I call it communism.
Hal Shurtleff
 Stephen: Why is it right for people you hate to be forced to pay for your rides to the liquor store? And who determines if I make enough money? And how to you take this money from me?
Stephen:
 Hal Shurtleff:  who said the liquor store? I said doctors appointments. I never said liquor stores! And I never brought up Electric cars? You ok Hal? Little dementia kicking in?
Hal Shurtleff
Stephen:  Lefties have no sense of humor unless it is put down humor.
Hal Shurtleff
Stephen:  Good for you. More insults. That will show me. You can always ask Bernie Sanders for a ride. He is a multimillionaire. Or you can ask some local Maine socialists elected officials for a free ride. They know that they will be reelected. So, they don’t care about you, but you will still vote for them. They will be happy to voice solidarity with you, denounce the greedy doctors who must be MAGA, and Uber drivers and happily pass more restrictive laws to make practicing medicine and driving people more expensive. Or maybe you can ask some folks at the local church that have a ministry that takes people in need to their appointments. But don’t go to the churches with the Rainbow, Transgender and Black Lives Matter flags flying in front of them. Their members are far too busy lobbying governments to raise taxes, restrict free speech and do what their churches used to do before they went “woke.”
 Another option is taking the free market approach. There is a need, and the free market can meet that need. Your doctor could reach out to other physicians and maybe start a service to get patients who don’t drive to their appointments.  Or maybe organize a volunteer group to do it. But because you are a socialist at heart and hate people who don’t agree with your worldview, you choose to make nasty posts on Facebook.
Note:  I did not make any corrections to Stephen’s typos.

Russian Puppetry From Wilson to Obama-Biden

In the wake of President Zelensky’s disastrous visit to the White House, fake news outlets, Democrats and their Republican Neo-Con allies have regurgitated their ridiculous claim that Trump and his supporters are Putin’s Puppets” This false narrative began before Trump was elected and was proven to be a complete and total lie stemming from the fake Steele Dossier that Hillary Clinton purchased.  Obama used this discredited dossier to justify spying on the Trump campaign.

 

It was Hillary, and her boss Obama, which enabled Putin.  Hillary, as Secretary of State, facilitated the transfer of a percentage of our uranium to Putin. During a visit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Obama was caught on a hot microphone saying that after the election he will have “more flexibility.”  Medvedev. said that he will relay the message to Putin.  Mitt Romney, who hates Trump more than most, said that Obama’s comments were “alarming and troubling.”  It was the harshest thing he said against Obama during his weak presidential campaign.    But he never called him “Putin’s Puppet.”

 

Long before Trump entered the political scene,100 years actually, forces in the United States including Wall Street financiers and both Republicans and Democrats have been involved in aiding and abetting the communists in Russia.  Leon Trotsky was living in exile in New York City prior to the Bolshevik Revolution.   In March of 1917, holding an American passport given to him by the Wilson Administration, and a large amount of money, Trotsky boarded a ship in New York Harbor to eventually join with Lenin.  The Canadians detained Trosky and seized the ship after learning that Trotsky was going to get Rusia out of the war. This would have freed up thousands of German soldiers to fight on the Western Front where many Canadians were serving.    When Wilson learned of Trotsky’s detainment, he demanded that the Canadians free Trotsky. The Canadians relented.  After the Bolsheviks seized power, Wall St. bankers, using the Red Cross as a cover, went to Russia with large sums of money to help finance the revolution.  The reign of terror under Lenin began.

After Lenin’s death, Stalin seized power and picked up where Lenin left off with a vengeance.   The U.S. under Franklin Roosevelt established diplomatic relations with Stalin’s Russia.  Roosevelt, despite overwhelming evidence of Stalin’s atrocities, had a political love affair with “Uncle Joe.”  Pro-Communists reporters like Walter Duranty of “The New York Times” send stories to their papers praising Stalin to the hilt while overlooking the forced famine in Ukraine which resulted in the deaths of millions of men, women, and children, as well as other atrocities.

During World War II, we not only sent Stalin millions of dollars’ worth of weapons, and supplies, we gave them materials that made it possible for Russia to be a nuclear power.  This treachery was made known to us by Major Racey Jordan who was in charge of this project.   His book From Major Jordan’s Diary tried to warn the American people but it was smothered.

A link to a speech by Major Jordan:   https://youtu.be/Z9eYS0mxtpQ?si=1iJdDiQekrkZWpwg

At the Yalta Agreement Roosevelt not only handed Stalin the nations of Eastern Europe but agreed to forcefully hand over millions of people who had fled from the advancing Red Army.  This dark chapter in our history “Operation Keelhaul” is a little known event even to many World War II historians.  I made reference to “Operation Keelhaul’ in a letter to the “Brockton Enterprise” in 1988, and a survivor of this event reached out to me and gave me a firsthand narrative of this tragedy.

During the Cold War. President Johnson approved of sending supplies to satellites of the Soviet Union some of which made its way to the North Vietnam and used to kill American soldiers.  During the Nixon Administration, the U.S. sent technology to the Soviets making it possible for them to upgrade their nuclear missile system.  The technology included miniature ball bearing from the Bryant Company in Springfield, VT.  The company-the only one in the world at the time that made this ball bearing-initially refused to let the Soviets have them, but they relented due to the heavy hand of Henry Kissinger- who some believed was a Soviet Agent.  This is from a Wikipedia article:

“ Bryant’s Soviet contracts continued to be controversial that same year. Bryant’s sale of 45 precision grinders enabled the USSR to improve missile accuracy and MIRV their ICBMs. Objections to the sale were quashed by Henry Kissinger.

                   We also send the material to build the world’s largest truck engine factory in the world at the time in Russia:  The Kama River factory.  Engines from these trucks came in handy when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.  This comes right from the CIA’s website:

This treachery was documented by the late Professor Anthony Sutton in a series of books which include Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, National Suicide:  Military Aid To The Soviet Union, The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the three-volume book Western Aid to the Soviet Union 1917-1965.

A link to a speech by Professor Sutton:  https://youtu.be/9RNbM4tmKEY?si=jpz251XvRGGhUcsb

It always helps to make your case by finding  those involved corroborating your research.    Back in the early 2000s, I took a homeschool field trip to the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT with two of my children. In the museum’ lobby was a newsletter from United Technologies-the parent company of Sikorsky Aviation.  It contained an article by Igor Sikorski Jr, the son of the aviation pioneer, and patriot.  In the article,  Igor bragged abut selling equipment to the Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s.  I wrote to him and asked if he knew how many Americans died in Vietnam as a result of his equipment being send from Eastern Europe to North Vietnam.  For some strange reason, he neve responded to my letter.

While doing research for the article, I pulled out a file of newspaper articles from the 1980s and early 1990s and found this this:

That’s right.  Soviet generals being lectured by General Colin Powell, an anti-Trumper who supported Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden.

 

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden, or more likely his handlers, banned the sale of Russian fossil fuels to the U.S. but he did not break off diplomatic relations which we have had since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration.   Practically every U.S. President from Wilson to Obama has done their utmost to cater to the Russian communists.  The Democrats and their Republican Neo-Con allies like Liz Cheney, and Adam Kissinger have labeled Trump as a “Putin’s Puppet” for wanting an end to the war in Ukraine.  While most have rejected their false and ugly accusation, there are a large number of people who want to believe it.

I realize that simply exposing the misguided people who have bought into the “Putin’s Puppet” narrative to the above will not likely change their positions.  However, it will help give folks who oppose the war in Ukraine some needed historical background. Readers who would like PDF versions of Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, please E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com

When……………………….You Said Nothing

A friend sent this to me this morning.  Author unknown.
When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two-tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
When they passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine, you said nothing!
When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
When chemicals polluted the water in East Palestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
When billionaire and anti-American George Soros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps, you said nothing!
When they spent our tax dollars on inmates’ transition surgeries, you said nothing!
When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
When they gave free money, food and 5-star hotel lodging to illegals, you said nothing!
When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
When they covered up Biden’s rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
When they accosted the Jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
When they spent $45 million dollars on “Diversity and Inclusion” scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
When they let men play women’s sports, you said nothing!
When they chanted “Death to America” and burned our flag, you said nothing!
When they shut down our energy production, and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
When Joe Biden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
When they let a Chinese Spy Ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
When American citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
When Facebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
When Fauci and the WHO peddled covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
When they sealed the January 6th commission files or “lost them”, you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears
and all your fake hysteria now. For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts and you said nothing!

The Weekly Sam: Why the Federal Government Should Get Out of Education By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

 

 

The real issue is Limited Government versus Unlimited Government Most Americans want less government, smaller government and lower taxes. The only way to accomplish this is by abolishing federal departments and bureaucracies. As far back as the Reagan administration, Republicans promised to abolish the Department of Education. They couldn’t do it then because they lacked a majority in Congress. But whatever happened to the plan to abolish the Department of Education when Republicans became the majority? Not only did they forget their promise, but in September 1996 they passed the single largest increase in federal education funding: $3.5 billion. Who were the Republicans trying to impress? The National Education Association? The basic question is: Can good education be provided in the U.S. without the help or intrusion of the federal government? The answer is clearly yes. In fact, there is ample evidence indicating that the present decline in educational quality is a direct result of federal funding which has been used by the educators to fund more and more expensive educational malpractice.

A little historical background will help us understand why the federal role in education in America is more of an aberration than a natural development. There is no mention of education in the U.S. Constitution. However, in 1785 and 1787, while the United States were still under the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance Acts which provided for the orderly settlement of the Northwest Territory and encouraged the establishment of schools in the territory by stating: “Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be encouraged.” The new states were required to set aside the 16th section of each township to be used for educational purposes.

But there was no requirement that the schools be government owned and operated. Seventy-five years later, in 1862, Congress passed and President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land Grant Act providing each loyal state with 30,000 acres of land for each Senator and Representative, the land to be used for agricultural and mechanical schools under a measure proposed by Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont. Five years later, in 1867, a federal Office of Education was established. Its purpose was:

“To collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching as shall aid the People of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.”

It should be noted that the National Education Association had been founded ten years earlier in 1857 and that its members called for the establishment of a federal department of education at the founding convention. And it is obvious that in that statement of purpose was an expansionist view of the government’s future role in education. After World War I, the NEA began a long range campaign to get federal aid for public education. From 1867 to 1940–a period of 73 years–the Congress passed about 11 minor pieces of legislation related to education. The fear of federal control of schools kept most legislators from voting for federal aid to public education. But resistance was gradually broken down by such acts as the National School Lunch Act of 1946, the School Milk Program Act of 1954. But it was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 passed during the Johnson administration which opened the floodgates of the U.S. Treasury for the benefit of the education establishment.

From 1965 to 1983–18 years–there were 43 education acts passed by the Congress, including the establishment in 1979 of a U.S. Department of Education with cabinet status. In the year 1994 alone, there were about 180 educational restructuring bills before Congress! The three most important bills enacted were the Goals 2000 Act, the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, and the Improving America’s Schools Act, a reauthorization of the ESEA of 1965. All of this legislation was passed with much Republican help. In short, the Congress launched an avalanche of bills which virtually amounted to a cultural revolution. It seemed as if all restraints had been removed on government expansion and intrusion into education, and the Republican Congress did nothing to reverse the trend.

That is why the federal government has become a government of unlimited power. We must return to the principle of limited government if we wish to reduce the cost of government and its unwarranted intrusion in the education of our children. A limited federal government does only those things that cannot be done by the states or the private sector. The purpose of taxes is to pay for government, not change society. There is no doubt that the federal intrusion in education has harmed education and produced the dumbing down effect. Test scores attest to this bizarre phenomenon. Since 1962, SAT verbal scores have declined despite billions of federal dollars pumped into public education. In September 1993, the U.S. Department of Education revealed that some 90 million adult Americans have grossly inadequate reading and writing skills, despite compulsory school attendance.

The more federal money Congress pumps into education the worse it gets. Why? Because educational malpractice is very expensive, and without federal funding we’d have much less of it. The simple truth is that federal education programs cost the taxpayers billions of dollars, yet  not one of these programs has actually improved education. Claims have been made that HeadStart is a successful program. But research indicates that whatever gains children make in HeadStart are lost by the third grade. Federal education grants subsidize a liberal academic elite with its secular humanist, socialist agenda, thus violating the Constitutional prohibition against establishing a state religion: Humanism.

The Data Collection System of the National Center for Education Statistics threatens family privacy and freedom. Children are not a “national resource” to be monitored and controlled for use by the state or industry. They are individuals whose lives belong to themselves, not to “the economy.” The federal government has institutionalized educational malpractice by supporting unsound educational theories and practices which have found their way into the public schools via the federally funded National Diffusion Network. Federal aid to public education simply reinforces a socialist, government owned and operated education system which distorts market values and encourages monopoly union practices.

Meanwhile, the education establishment continues to grow and prosper. In 1982, the average public school teacher’s salary was $19,274. In 1995 it was up to $37,643., and in 2008 it us up to $47,602. In 1982, per pupil expenditure was $2,726. In 1995-96 the national average was up to $6,213, and in 2009 it was up to $9,963. In 1984, total expenditure for public education was $134.5 billion. In 2002 it had risen to $420 billion. In short, never has public education been more generously supported by the taxpayer and never have our schools seen more violence, academic disarray, and parental dissatisfaction than the present.

What is even more shocking is that over four million students must be drugged daily with Ritalin in order to be able to attend class. Today, well-connected change agents like Mark Tucker are busy imposing on America the new Human Resources Development System, exuberantly described by Tucker in an 18-page letter to Hillary Clinton when her husband was elected President. Tucker described his system as “a seamless web of opportunities to develop one’s skills that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone–young and old, poor and rich, worker and full-time student.”

And so, in place of academic excellence, we have Outcome Based Education, Whole Language, Multiculturalism, Skinnerian Mastery Learning, National Teaching Standards and Certification, School-Based Clinics, Attitude Assessments, Global Citizenship, and Socialized Medicine for every student. What is actually taking place is a cultural revolution engineered by behavioral psychologists, humanist educators, and socialist change agents using a whole galaxy of education programs to implement their agenda, financed by the federal government. And much of this has taken place when Republicans were in control of Congress. And that accounts for the extreme frustration of conservatives who vote Republican but get liberal results.

When will this change? The takeover of the White House and the federal government by radical leftists has finally awakened the American people to what has happened to this country since we started allowing the federal government to exceed all limits placed on it by the Constitution. But in order to succeed in restoring the principles of government held by our founding fathers, we must return to limited government. This can only be done if the American people realize the potential for tyranny inherent in a government education system. The most important institution in a socialist state is a government owned and controlled school system wherein children can be indoctrinated to accept a socialist way of life. And the best way to prevent this from occurring is to return to the concept of educational freedom in which the federal government has no role in education.

Local public schools can easily become private institutions governed by local trustees and supported by tuition fees. This would greatly reduce the tax burden on home owners and provide more than enough resources to pay for the tuitions of poor families. The costs of education would decrease dramatically since education would once more become reality based wherein the fundamental academic subjects would be taught without the added costs of educational malpractice. Individual intelligence would be enhanced, while collectivist group-think would be discarded.

Can this be done? Only if America’s conservative leaders demand that it should be done. The home-school movement has already proven that parents can actually teach better than our high-priced professionals, that children progress better academically when taught at home, and that the cost of educating a child at home is less than $1,000 a year. If Americans want to once more experience what it means to be free, they must burst out of the high-priced straitjacket imposed on them by the socialist education tyrants. If they want better education at lower cost, then the prescription for success is simple: get the government out of education.

(The above timeless article is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archive  http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm