George Rebane
The Capitol assault reports are getting curiouser and curiouser. Instead of quickly blaming Trump supporters for the mob action while labeling them ‘seditious insurrectionists’, and then quickly calling the case closed, we keep having reports coming out documenting feds who now admit that they knew in advance that Trump haters were planning to enter the Capitol and visit violence in the midst of Trump supporters who would follow them in. Here is one such report that has yet to be censored. Readers should contribute their own pros/cons to such reports.
Also, the entire timing and preparations for the assault viz Trump’s speech is turning into a mendacious muddle. Law enforcement agencies report that the assault began significantly before Trump’s alleged call to march to the Capitol. And also that stores of assault equipments like crowbars, etc had already been stored in convenient locations for the perpetrators of violent entry into the building. We need to be reminded again of the House article that gave rise to the half-day snap impeachment. From my perch it sure looks like a historical political hit job has just gone down with pre-orchestrated rallying cries coming from both sides of the aisle. What the hell is going on? Is this Deep State on parade, while the rest of us are threatened with re-education camps?
California’s C19 vaccine distribution system is, predictably, one of the worst in the land. Last night FN reported on the relative amounts of received vaccines distributed by the states. California was next to the lowest with only 26% of its vaccines having been administered. With each passing day our political monopoly in Sacramento finds more ways to screw up and make life worse for every taxpayer within its borders. All of this is invisible to our local leftwing lackies.
Big business is making a sharp left turn, as we have noted in these pages. This is now being picked up (here) by national columnists like WSJ’s Kim Strassel who notes, “Corporate America took a big step this week, moving from captives of wokeness to active accomplices. The legal and political consequences may prove profound.” One political consequence that will fit the Dem socialists to a tee is that already corporatist big businesses will become protected extensions of the state, taking their operations marching orders from relevant (and possible new) cabinet departments, bureaus, and agencies. This is the established route from Hitler through Xi Jinping to America’s radical left now going through birthing pains as it spreads its tentacles over the land. None dare call it capitalism.
Last night on FN’s Bret Baier program we noticed something very shocking to us. The program’s balanced panel of commenters has recently ensconced Harold Ford Jr (former congress critter from Tennessee) as its reasonable liberal voice. The panelists currently join the program online from their homes. Ford broadcasts from his elegant living room from which the man accidentally and momentarily revealed his deeply held values. He pulled back his video camera so that it showed the room’s center-piece fireplace, and over the mantle on the wall, centered over the fireplace hung a large (Andy Warhol) portrait painting of a smiling Mao Zedong. The prominent place in a former congressman’s home afforded this killer of over 100,000,000 of his own people made our jaws go slack. This camera shot was quickly corrected as it became his turn to speak again. Nuff said.
Grand opening coming soon.
And then there's more suppressed news 'Media Mostly Silent As BLM Activists Clash With Capitol Police'.
[16jan21 update] Today The Union saw fit to publish my censored 6jan21 KVMR commentary. (more here)
The Left's cry of "Insurrection!!" continues as they have filled Washington with about two divisions of National Guard troops to counter the predicted assaults by armed citizens. There will be no such assaults, any more than the mob in the Capitol was the launch of an insurrection. As I've pointed out, those clowns didn't anticipate any success in getting into the building which was made possible by the mysterious melting away of the Capitol police. A planned insurrection has a few attendant requirements to make such a label credible. The most important would be to have a replacement government-in-waiting ready to assume the critical functions that communicates success to the tuned-in masses. The people milling in the halls of the Capitol couldn't even organize a Sunday school picnic if their lives depended on it.
‘Critical Ethnic Studies’, say whaat??!!
George Rebane
Former US Asst SecEd and Independent Institute senior fellow Williamson M. Evers lays the whole thing out in the 28aug20 WSJ – ‘Critical’ Ethnic Studies Returns to California. His report goes a long way to answer the perennial question of how our younger generation has turned out in the aggregate to be so uncritical, compliant, and just plain dumb. And for the country’s hardworking Orwellians, the adoption of this new mandatory curriculum into our high schools promises that for them the best is yet to come. No student will graduate without having passed this course. Dr Evers makes the case that “the state’s new curriculum prefers victimization to minority achievement, and Marxism to liberal values.”
Critical ethnic studies is actually making its second appearance at California’s Board of Education. The “radical and jargon-laced” 2019 version was sent back for a more “toned down” draft. Well, it didn’t work. The new and improved 2020 version not only didn’t correct any of the 2019’s “conceptual problems”, but has now been told by our state’s Dept of Education “to resuscitate” the really bad parts cut from the 2019 version.
Among the litany of dreadful stuff that our students will have rammed down their cognitive craws are the newly focused victim “groups that dominate the curriculum … African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and American Indians.” However, “excluded from California’s model curriculum are the white ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Poles and so forth)”. The course will actually “boil down to vulgar Marxism, identity politics, and victimology.” Among the identified bad people in the world will be America’s Irish and Jews; why? because they have “secured white racial privilege.”
As you might expect from such bilge water, “the revised model curriculum in California portrays capitalism as oppressive and gives considerable weight to America’s socialist critics.” These critics are portrayed as ideologically correct and pure, without a tinge of bad parts like racism or discrimination. Yet, as Evers reminds us, “history and political science show that the state can be used readily under socialism for racist purposes. Obvious examples include the Soviet Union’s 1948-49 purge of “rootless cosmopolitans”—that is, Jews—and its 1951-53 Doctors’ Plot attack on Jewish physicians. Under socialism, a bureaucratic elite controls all job assignments, news media, courts and the secret police. When that elite is envious, insecure or looking for a scapegoat, what chance does an ethnic minority have?” Other horrific examples are easily obtained from Nazi Germany, Red China, Yugoslavia, Turkey, … .
All this history is omitted, and will neither pollute nor divert our high schoolers. For our young minds the world out there will be exquisitely formed so that what they are carefully taught will stick when they hit the streets to look for a job, vote, and demonstrate. They will have all the correct answers they need to understand and interpret what they see and experience.
Dr Evers concludes his essay with –
The proponents of critical ethnic studies are so insulated by Marxism and identity politics that they miss insights from other fields. The new curriculum doesn’t give a balanced picture of America and, in these racially charged times, it could ignite truly ugly disputes. Perhaps worst of all, it gives short shrift to minority achievement and deprives students of the optimistic view of America. Following this curriculum, students would have no basis on which to understand Frederick Douglass’s defense of the U.S. Constitution as “a glorious liberty document” and his celebration of the potential of a country based on natural and inalienable rights.
All this, coming to a California high school near you. And some still wonder why SNAFU continues so perfectly to describe the state of our state. Now you need wonder no more.
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