Header Addition

Readers will of course have noticed that I have added some old-fashioned words to the header of this blog. The "living constitution" exponents very obviously want those words to go away. This blog records the constant attempts to take away the liberties conferred by those words. I think all Americans should know those words by heart. It is perhaps a sad thing but those liberties do constantly need tooth-and-nail defense. And if people know the exact words of the constitutional guarantee of those precious liberties, they may be better able to leap to the defense of those liberties.




Schools: The New Police

We read:

"Administrators at Kirkwood High School suspended five students for what they wrote on the internet, from the privacy of their own home."

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And it's happening a lot these days. Even the ACLU thinks the schools have no right to do it but, as always, schools seem to think that they are a law unto themselves.




Biased History for European schools

France and Germany want to give their students an officially "agreed on" version of history:

"A school textbook designed to give pupils in France and Germany a common vision of postwar history is coloured by Gallic anti-Americanism, according to one of the historians who wrote it....

The Franco-German textbook, which is published today, was ordered in 2003 by President Chirac of France and Gerhard Schr"der, then the German Chancellor. They wanted to strengthen ties by eliminating differences in the perception of history. The work will be on the curriculum in both countries in the equivalent of the sixth form from September...

A substantial section of the work is devoted to the EU - a startling success story and a beacon for the rest of the world, according to the five German and five French scholars who worked on the project."

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No pretence of objectivity or balance there, it seems. Orwell would understand.




Orwell Must Have Foreseen Muslims

We read:

"A bloc representing the world's Islamic nations is marking World Press Freedom Day Wednesday by calling for urgent action to establish international law or a code of conduct aimed at preventing media from defaming religion.

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Sure. You celebrate press freedom by restricting press freedom. I get that! (NOT)




Anti-Abortion Messages Vandalized



We read of recent events at Princeton university:

"In a presumed instance of politically-motivated vandalism, the Princeton Pro-Life flag display in front of Frist Campus Center was destroyed early Thursday morning. The 347 flags on the north lawn were meant to represent the lives of students who might have become members of the University's Class of 2010 had abortion not been legalized".

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Coathangers were strewn around in reference to the largely mythical claim that coathangers were used in "backyard" abortions.

Apparently the police are "investigating". But don't hold your breath. And there's more. We read:

"Western Washington University is the latest to see violence and a pro-abortion student has been arrested. The WWU student did $2,700 worth of damages on Tuesday to a pro-life display set up on campus. David Janus Zhang, who is 21, jumped over a fence surrounding the display to destroy it. Dave Doughty, assistant chief of the Western Washington University Police Department, told the Bellingham Herald that Zhang then "went on a rampage" tearing and destroying the elaborate display of posters and billboards."

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No word on whether Mr Zhang is out on bail yet.