Santa Maria Sun / Letter To The Editor

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By Jan Lipski - Vandenberg Village

Readers under 45 years old should not continue! You would not understand the information presented here.

We have seen the first worldwide demonstration of indoctrination. Students walked out of classes to protest inaction on climate change. College students are free to demonstrate and miss class time. It's their dime. However, students as young as 13 took to podiums to recite the climate change mantra. My first point would be that students in taxpayer-supported schools do not have a right of civil disobedience. You must attend classes or be disciplined accordingly. You may disagree, but I think they are behaving like parrots. They lack the skills or even curiosity to challenge what they have been told to believe.

What we see here is Rules for Radicals, a guide of methods to disrupt society, being acted out. Saul Alinsky published this little handbook in 1971 as guide to overthrow government. If you have not read it you should. Barack Obama is BFFs with William Ayers, who would still be in an orange jumpsuit for terrorist acts against the United States, barring a legal technicality. Hillary Clinton excused and praised Alinsky, citing him in her thesis at Wellesley College. If all this doesn't scare you, well I don't know why.

What we have on the table is a repeat of the Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt administrations in the 1920s and '30s. The politicians, industrialists, and sheeple (the public) embraced socialism and eugenics (making a master race).

In The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, author Amity Shlaes chronicles how government can commandeer a country to its own vision and profit at the expense of the everyday citizen. A vision that is contrary to our founding: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people."

We have weathered these waters before, and a totalitarian government has been rejected in the past. But never have we had the influences of filtered news, filtered internet, scholastic indoctrination, and a population occupied with distractions of social media and gaming.

You may have lost the ambition to give a damn. However, if you have children and grandchildren, and in my case great-grandchildren, do you want them to live in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World? Should we live in fear of our government? Should life be snuffed when it's inconvenient whether at birth or old age? How cold and detached do you have to be to not celebrate life and freedom?

It's in our Declaration of Independence that we have the God-given right to life, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness (not guaranteed).

Dismiss this as the rantings of some old fool. Fear the consequence for your children. When asked what kind of government the Founding Fathers created at the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin replied, "a Republic, if you can keep it." It's the envy of people who seek freedom, from all over the world who want to come here. Why would you abandon such a gift?