No Child "Left Behind": Code words for a children's cookbook?
Part 1: Recruiting for the "Trib Force"
Remember that Twilight Zone episode where the aliens arrived on Earth and presented our leaders with this glorious plan for the planet entitled "How to Serve Man". Well. In the final scene, "How to Serve Man" turns out to be a COOKBOOK!
For those of you familiar with the "Left Behind" series of books dealing with cult Christian longings for Armageddon, you will immediately recognize no child "Left Behind" as code words too.
According to www.leftbehind.com, the plot of the "Left Behind" series is basically that, "Passengers aboard a Boeing 747 en route to Europe disappear. Instantly. Nothing remains except their rumpled piles of clothes, jewelry, fillings, surgical pins, and the like. All over the world, in a flash, cars are left unmanned. Terror and chaos continues worldwide as the cataclysm unfolds. For those left behind, the apocalypse has just begun."
The book series goes on to describe what happens next. We who are left get stuck in "The Tribulation," a down-and-dirty war where life for the average American begins to resemble Fallugah and our children are brainwashed into fighting to the death for "Jesus".
In the series' children's books, the heroes are told that killing and killing and killing is the only way to worship God. Should they have doubts about this ACTUALLY being the will of a loving Jesus, they are immediately set straight! "Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan have decisions to make. Will they accept Christ's forgiveness, or will they blame God for abandoning them and taking away their families?" Sounds like a neo-con push-poll, doesn't it.
The future that "born again" George Bush and his friends have in store for us and our children is endless war. Are we fighting for Jesus? Hardly. We are fighting so that rich men like Bush and Cheney can get richer. The whole Jesus con is a trick with smoke and mirrors. It is a cookbook designed for us -- and for our children.
Neo-cons and cult Christians are embracing the idea of boot camps for children in a big way. They appear to think that it's a good idea to have a supply of fresh meat available to the "Trib Force" -- brainwashed new recruits all psyched up for "Endless War".
"What exactly," your next question may be, "are these kiddie boot camps like?" Aside from being training grounds for future cannon fodder, they are prototypes of what life will be like during The Tribulation -- stark and hard places where no love is ever shown. One children's boot camp in Florida run by neo-con "Christians" has been accused of torture, rape and starvation. Images of Abu Ghraib come to mind.
Are these camps toughening our children up for when they miss The Rapture and have to stew in the cauldron of The Tribulation? You bet.
Part 2: Throw-away Children
Another sad thing about the new "send your child off to boot camp" movement is that it is creating a whole new generation of "throw-away children". Tired of being a parent? Buy your way out.
Affluent adults are now sending their children off to the Utah desert or the swamps of Florida as a response to normal everyday-life parent-child situations. Twenty years ago, if Junior broke the crockery, he would have been sent to his room. Now he is tortured and starved instead.
My daughter's friend "Jordan" recently disappeared down the rabbit hole to boot camp. We just found out that he will be there until he turns 18 -- THREE MORE YEARS. What kind of a person will he be when he gets out? One cannot even begin to imagine.
When we FINALLY got a letter from Jordan, he said, "If my father wanted to spend all that money on me [boot camp is $400 a day!], he could have sent me some place that might actually have helped me." Julliard comes to mind. Or Harvard. Or even a trip around the world. Instead he gets abused and starved and put in with a bunch of drug addicts for three years. So much for the idyllic life of a happy American teenager.
There will be no football games and proms for these throw-away children. According to other teen boot camp survivors, Jordan will be lucky if he returns with his sanity intact -- not to mention the nightmares.
The new "Throw Away" concept of parenting is this: If a robust energetic enthusiastic boy is being a bother and the Ritalin isn't working, send him off to boot camp.
When I was a kid, we had girls in our school who would disappear -- allegedly to "visit relatives" for eight or nine months. They would always come back looking older and sadder.
Now it is our boys who disappear and come back looking older and sadder. Whenever a boy re-appears at my daughter's school with that "deer in the headlights" look in his eyes, we know there has been a boot camp involved. And that this child had not been "Left Behind" either.
Part 3: Send a letter to Jesse
Want to help? Just becoming aware that there is a problem is a good start.
Or take a bigger step and help just one child: Send a letter to a boy stuck in "Wilderness Therapy". His name is Jesse Collins Zipperman and he is at the Aspen Achievement Academy in Loa, Utah. Tell him the gossip, chit-chat about the weather and sign it Aunt or Uncle Your-Name-Here (Be aware that all mail is heavily censored). We just got a letter from Jesse; he is truly miserable and could use some cheering up! Address: Aspen Achievement Academy, Loa, Utah 84747. Or send him a post card. Or fax a letter to 435-836-2452 or 435-836-2477. Or e-mail him at admissions@theaspenacademy.com He's somewhere near Zion National Park. Take a vacation. Go try to visit him.
Or think BIG. Call your Congressperson. Vote. Run for School Board. Let's give our schools enough money to actually TEACH our kids. And let's help parents too. EVERY child should have at least 20 people ready, willing and able to help him or her grow up to be a pride to America -- not just another victim.
International Survivors Action Committee: http://www.isaccorp.org/ Thousands of children are currently in privately owned "behavior modification" programs. Unfortunately, the "treatment" offered at some of these programs could be considered child abuse. Kids end up in behavior modification programs, boot camps, wilderness camps, and drug rehabs for all kinds of reasons..... For the kids who end up in a harsh, abusive program, it can be the beginning of a life-long battle with nightmares, depression, rage, and thoughts of suicide.
Suicide in Montana, American children kept in dog cages:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041008/laf082_1.html Suicide
Comments on the Aspen Achievement Academy: "I desparately want to find out anything I can about the Aspen facilities. My adorable 14 year old granddaughter was recently kidnapped (at her parents' request), and wisked off to a wilderness camp in Idaho run by SUWS (now owned by Aspen), and then sent to an Aspen boarding facility, which I think is probably in Utah. I am completely heartsick because this little girl has never been into drugs, alcohol, never been on a date, let alone had sex, never been in trouble with the law, etc. Her only sin has been talking back to her dictatorial, arrogant stepfather, who did legally adopt her so can do whatever he wants with her. She was sent away prior to any form of traditional counseling being attempted. I can't believe that these kids can be taken over state lines against their will and incarcerated without due process, all at the wim of a parent who is the one who needs the behavior modification." http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:1F0v491BX9oJ:fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php%3Ftopic%3D6233%26forum%3D14%26Sort%3DD+%22loa,+utah%22+aspen+achievement+academy&hl=en Good news: Someone else in my same postition has filed a Guardian Ad Litem and Habeas Corpus writ to try to get a child released from one of these programs on the basis that the child is behing held in involuntary servitude in violation of the 14th Amendment. The hearing is in federal court next week. If the writ is granted, it will mean that non-guardians can have input into whether or not chidren can be carted away to boot camps by their parents with no repercussions from the community. (See Feldman v. Youth Care of Utah et al, Case No.: 2:04-CV-00933PGC)
Then there's the CYA: With regard to children who have no sugar daddies to send them off to "Boarding School," poor children are not being left behind either. Their schools are being systematically un-funded and instead of Boot Camp, lower income youth have the California Youth Authority to teach them about The Tribulation!
College tuition: I am about to go into debt for the rest of my life -- and my daughter is about to go into debt Bigtime too -- so that she might possibly go to college next year. That's not right! Let's give our child free college tuition. It is the BEST way to keep America safe. Visualize a healthy future for our children and for America too: http://www.clowntech.com/win04/vote.htm
Great new book: Iraq, Inc. A Profitable Occupation. http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100484530 "Pratap Chatterjee takes us into the fast-spinning revolving door between the government officials who attacked Iraq and the corporations who have profited so handsomely from the war. A powerful combination of investigative research and on-the-ground reporting, Iraq, Inc. is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has really gone wrong in Iraq."
—Naomi Klein, author No Logo, columnist The Nation
From Michael: To me, the No Child Left Behind ploy was a signaling to the end of the Department of Education. While in DC did you happen to see the DOE Building? It was virtually lifeless. Absolutely no activity whatsoever.
The "How to Serve Iraq" cookbook: What is happening in Iraq is not a war. It is a massacre. Thanks to the Bush cartel, every man, woman and child in Iraq has become a member of the underground resistance. And when our children come back from murdering civilians in Iraq as part of their "wilderness therapy," they will need years of counseling to get over their nightmares.
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Is George Bush the Anti-Christ? Seems to me that God could come up with a better Anti-Christ than him. If he is the Anti-Christ, Dubya is the most shabby and incompetent AC we ever had! Can you imagine an Anti-Christ who had to wear a wire at the debates because he couldn't even remember his lines? We deserve a better Anti-Christ than that! You could buy a better one at Wal-Mart. Humph.
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When Bush doesn't get elected in 2004 (and is "persuaded" not to stage a coup), expect MAJOR document shredding at the White House! Boy would I love to be a fly on the wall. Not since the Nixon evacuation will we have seen such fun.
"Imagine a world where EVERY child is wanted, nurtured, protected and loved: World Peace in one generation!"
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Gee, won't it be great for American citizens to be able to tour the White House again. It could happen. And let's all visualize Oprah and Theresa having lunch with us in the Rose Garden!
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Let's jail George Bush today!!!! Call your Congressional representative!
I just read an article that said all we need is one (1) Congressperson to introduce a bill to impeach George Bush. And boy do we have grounds! Clinton was charged with "Abuse of Process." There's a precedent here! How often has George abused his "process" -- let me count the ways! Ignoring the Constitution comes immediately to mind. Then there's the time he violated Congress's authorization to use military force against Iraq -- http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/iraqwar.html. And we got that Valerie Plame thing going on. And faulty WMD intelligence, commandeering Air Force One for his own political purposes, using his influence for Enron, taking money away from vets and shortchanging the Florida hurricane victims. And he probably abused the Lincoln bedroom too!
Call your Congressperson this very morning -- even before you go to Starbucks for your mocha latte or go out to milk the cow -- and BEG him or her to introduce articles of impeachment NOW!
Find your Rep's number or e-mail address at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/Rep. Or call MY rep: Barbara Lee: 202-225-2661. Even if your rep is a raving neo-con like Tom Delay, give him or her a call! If our reps get enough calls saying, "Impeach Bush," they may get the hint that Bush needs to go! Rep. John Conyers: 202-225-5126; Rep Henry Waxman: 202-225-3976
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Solution to the Darfur crisis: Let's ask the UN to divide Sudan into two countries: The north would be called Sudan and it would be governed by the George Bush/Saudi/oil company/Janjaweed alliance in Khartoum (the same idiots who brought us Nigeria, Afghanistan and Iraq!). The south would be called Darfur and its new oil discoveries would be controlled by the people who have lived there before oil was discovered. End of problem!
Oil is, however, still a BIG problem for the world. We need to come up with a more long-range, less mean-spirited solution to the energy crunch than wars-for-oil. We're smart people. We can do it!
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It's time for our military to stop acting like bandits holding up the convenience stores of the world for oil.
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