Michael Moore's Children
The words of babes often reveal the inner secrets of the heart concealed by their elders' lips. Now, a class of 12-year-olds have given the lie to the old leftist canard that left-wingers "oppose the war but support the troops." A group of 21 sixth grade students at Brooklyn's Junior High School 51 (Park Slope) wrote letters to PFC Rob Jacobs as part of a class project. And what did the 12-year-old kiddies write? The New York Post reveals a few excerpts:
One girl wrote that she believes Jacobs is "being forced to kill innocent people" and challenged him to name an Iraqi terrorist, concluding, "I know I can't."To make this display of hatred more superfluous yet, PFC Jacobs is stationed in Korea. The Post quotes the soldier as saying, "I want to think these letters were coached by the teacher or the parents of these children."
Another girl wrote, "I strongly feel this war is pointless," while a classmate predicted that because Bush was re-elected, "only 50 or 100 [soldiers] will survive."
A boy accused soldiers of "destroying holy places like mosques."
The students' teacher, Alex Kunhardt, has not said whether he read these love letters before sending them to a man in the line of fire (on another front)...which speaks volumes.
These letters provide a glimpse into the fevered mind of the Left. These pre-adolescents are not sophisticated enough to utter the niceties that opposing the troops' objective is the highest form of support for the troops, or that while they "vigorously dissent" from this war they hope American troops are never again demonized "as they were during Vietnam." (This is always noted in the third person passive, as though the troops were spontaneously dehumanized. Who was it who was spitting on 19-year-old draftees and calling them "baby-killers"?) These children show the leftists' rhetoric when it's taken home, out of view of the camera, and vented in all its fury -- though we do not know whether by their parents or their teacher (or both).
Unfortunately, these students' sentiments are all-too understandable if one looks at the anti-American curricula taught in the nation's public middle and elementary schools. The Left is looking to indoctrinate public school children, the younger the better. This makes our fight against political indoctrination all the more pressing.
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This is truly sickening. I've dealt with many people who question my decision to join the military, my support for the war, and my opinion of the terrorists we're fighting. One of the things that sickens me the most about the terrorists is their use of kids to fight for them. I see that the left has learned a lot from their allies.
Hi, Ben:
Interesting post, but a couple of points stand out.
- There's no indication what this topic has to do with Michael Moore. He's a guy who makes films, not a teacher.
- You close with, "This makes our fight against political indoctrination all the more pressing." And with what weapons do you intend to fight? Threats to tenure and blacklisting for those that disagree with your viewpoint? Reduced funding for public education? Or more political indoctrination?
The teacher should've vetted those letters, no question about it. The guys on the line (whether in Okinawa, Korea, or Basra) have no use for such things as described here and in the Post. But to hold that as some sort of barometer of public education is jumping at shadows.
Regards,
GuyFromOhio
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"Yep. He's another one."
I would disagree with the assumption that Moore has nothing to do with this topic. As the overgrown and unkempt poster boy for the left-wing hate-America crowd, he is most definitely relevant to a discussion about a group of indoctrinated school children. He's the enfant terrible, the embodiment of the mindset that leads to sixth graders writing the sort of vile letters we're discussing here.
As for Moore not being a teacher, I submit that he most definitely is, albeit not in a traditional classroom. He's a teacher in the most obnoxious form, a perverter of education, a purveyor of falsehoods and hatred, a propagandist in the most extremely corrupt form. What Moore teaches is precisely the sort of baseless hatred which manifests itself in some of the letters we're discussing.
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Is this really that suprising, and isn't it sad that it's not?
In the New York Post article, PFC Jacobs said,
"If I were in Iraq and read that the youth of our nation doesn't want me to be there and doesn't believe in what I'm doing, it would mess up my head,"
With all do respect Private, knock off the histrionics, and if you cannot, perhaps you should stay in Korea. You will be of no good to your unit in combat if your skin is this thin. Who cares what a bunch of twelve year old parent failures, or their leftist teachers think. Your job over their is to protect "all" these children.
This is not surprising coming from NYC. The young are getting a poor education.
A kid thanked me the other day in Union Square Park. That is the first time I heard the Israeli side of the story. The kid was 16 years old and intelligent.
I met twenty year olds who swore they never met a local Republican. There was disbelief that someone with a Brooklyn accent could be a Republican.
It is obvious that the teacher had a BIG hand in "helping" the students write the letters. That in my view is reason enough for him/her to be fired
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