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thedrifter
03-08-06, 07:18 AM
Hot For Teacher
By Erik Rush
March 8, 2006

"Do you see how this economic system is at odds with humanity? At odds with caring and compassion? It's at odds with human rights!" - Jay Bennish, instructor, Overland High School, Aurora, Colorado, January 29, 2006

There are some things that reach me on such a primal level that it is occasionally difficult for me to keep my emotions in check when they rear up. The last thing I want to do is provide the far Left with any more ammunition by intimating policies or actions that wax extreme or fascistic; hopefully I can avoid this to some degree by properly framing this episode in light of my personal experience -- and of course, logic.

Since I live in Colorado, not only am I often exposed to certain facts surrounding occurrences out here that don't always make it "down the lane" intact (read "accurately"), I also feel obliged to provide national readers with a local take on things that occur in my backyard.

As you probably know by now, Jay Bennish, a tenth-grade "World Geography" instructor at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado (a suburb of Denver) has made the national news due to the fact that an audiotape recorded on January 29 by one of his students was made public. The tape, which contained Bennish shrilling some of the most vile and seditious anti-American propaganda resulted in his being placed on administrative leave. He is, of course, suing the school district. I'm sure you're surprised.

At this point, transcripts and mp3s of this rant are available online and have been broadcast on radio and television. Yes, it is old, tired, Marxist-Leninist swill, but for my local conservative media buddies, this was big news. Now, I'm not one of those jaded conservatives who thinks that Fox News has (completely) sold itself out commercially; I'm still very glad it's out there, but the fact that certain issues don't seem to merit newsworthiness on the conservative side until they make "The O'Reilly Factor" bothers me, because incidents of this sort are absolutely rampant -- and have been for a long time. An Overland student told a Denver television news reporter that Bennish's Leninist oratory was "the usual thing in our school." Indeed.

One of the reasons I escaped from New York 20 years ago was to extricate myself from the choking miasma of liberalism in which I had been raised. Throughout my childhood in public education, I was exposed to things by "caring, compassionate" intellectual teachers and administrators that are prosecutable in civil court these days. When my children started public school, though I had long since moved to Colorado, I was still scared witless. So do try to put it into perspective when I say that if I were the parent of an Overland High student, I might very well be camped outside of Bennish's home with a ski mask and baseball bat.

Granted that there ought to be a somewhat greater degree of latitude with regard to adult discussions at the collegiate level. But these were high school sophomores being exposed to statements such as the U.S. being "probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth", and leading lines of questioning that one might expect from a cult leader or professional interrogator rather than a high school teacher. Never mind that Bennish's convictions are the quintessentially naïve, immature conclusions of a brainwashed member of the Left's deluded base. It's always all about "caring, compassion and human rights" until the people running this con come to power. Then let's see which system actually values and enhances human rights.

The Left has succeeded in essentially forging a weapon out of convoluted First Amendment logic - and they're beating America to death with it. People such as Bennish do not have the right under the First Amendment to indoctrinate students to hate their country, any more than a parishioner has the right to enroll those in the congregation to their church, or than one of my children has the right to lead a household insurrection.

This "educator's" words are seditious, as are the words of dozens of professional public speakers, hundreds of celebrities and perhaps hundreds of thousands of other international socialists who are manning the helm in our public schools during a time of war. As I indicated in my recent column, "Getting Ugly", however, the far Left has capitalized on the unprecedented, unconventional nature of the war we're in, convincing a large segment of our population that we're not in one at all.

So much for their spin; what is to be done about it? Ought the president issue an order empowering Federal authorities to impose sanctions upon such individuals? Think of what that would do to his poll numbers - even among his proponents - and the media firestorm it would ignite. Think about it: Law enforcement cannot even wiretap suspected terrorists based on substantiated probable cause due to the tick-like infiltration of the American Civil Liberties Union and other far-Left organizations and politicians into our political process. In the climate in which the executive, legislative and judiciary branches currently operate, it will probably take a catastrophe beyond their current ability to conceptualize before borders are sealed and the appropriate dissidents are deported or detained. By then, it will be martial law, and we'll all feel the attendant burdens and anxieties.

Perhaps all we can do is continue to write, talk and propagate our ideas. Maybe, just maybe, enough Americans will finally realize that our nation is indeed under attack from within, as are our families, our religious institutions, and our very freedom to think what we would think -- and they'll say "enough." The fact is that they have not as yet because they're still asleep. Short of them awakening, stay tuned for more of the same degenerate rhetoric and wholesale degeneration in America -- unless that aforementioned catastrophe does indeed occur.

Ellie