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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

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Americans Are More Than The Language They Speak

Stephane Hessel, who inspired #Occupy and the Arab Spring, wrote that "no one is ever just 'French' or 'German.'" Or American?…
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Who are we? According to Republicans, if you don’t speak English, you aren’t an American. They demand immigrants “assimilate,” which is their way of saying they must become conservatives; walk the walk, but also talk the talk.
They didn’t start it. Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, called for a national language as the logical conclusion to our political revolution, and suggested that if we’re not all speaking the same language, we’re committing treason “against the character and dignity of a brave an independent people” – ourselves.
What is the link between language and culture, or language between and identity? Are, for example, French Canadians less Canadian than speakers of English? And if not, why are Spanish-speaking Americans less American than English speakers?
Scholar Greg Fisher, studying the place of Arabs in the Roman-Persian world of Late Antiquity, notes that “the dominance of language as a marker of ‘ethnic’ identity in the modern world is so powerful and familiar a phenomenon that we might wonder if the same held true in antiquity.”
Sure, the ancient Greeks chided the Macedonians for speaking a barbarian tongue, and sure, even in the polyglot Roman Empire, Greek and Latin were the languages of government, but you could speak Syriac and be a Roman citizen. The Romans felt superior, but language was less a national identifier. They might have liked to make broad generalizations about various “races” but they would follow an Arab emperor.
Fisher points out that “linguistic nationalism is a modern idea.” In the Republican Party, it is tied to ethnic nationalism, and nobody should need convincing that we won’t see Americans elect an Arab president any time soon, though his ethnicity might be less an issue than his religion.
A black man with an odd-sounding (to English ears) name has the same problem. Indeed, even though his English is more refined and concise than that of many of his critics (he knows “moron” is not spelled with an ‘a’ for example), Barack Hussein Obama can’t be an American, critics say, because his skin is the wrong color and he isn’t the right kind of christian, if he is christian at all.
Stephane Hessel, who was a member of the French Resistance as well as a concentration camps survivor, who inspired #Occupy and the Arab Spring, and who moreover was born German but became French, wrote that “no one is ever just ‘French’ or ‘German.'”
Or American? (And I won’t even get into the issue of Americans who barely speak an intelligible English)
Indeed, in the antebellum South, you were not just an American, but a Virginian, perhaps more so the latter: Robert E. Lee’s devotion was to a state, a geographical location rather than a lofty ideal of states united.
Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, who lost his country, and as an emigre wrote in French, said that, “One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland — and no other.”
Hessel, citing Cioran’s words, pointed out that, “Since I speak three languages, I have chosen to have as many home countries as languages I speak – and since two of those languages are spoken globally, my sense of belonging perhaps extends beyond the mere borders of my home nations.”
You could go further than that. According to Plutarch, Athenian philosopher Socrates said, “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” Socrates didn’t have to speak all the languages of the world to believe that. He likely spoke only Greek. But his thought transcended the limits of his language.
This is not something Noah Webster would have understood. And it is all nonsense to Republicans, of course. There is no room in such thinking for nationalism, let alone American exceptionalism. Yet my great-great grandfather, who spoke Swedish and not English, came to this country from Sweden and fought for his adopted country in the Civil War. Many of the Republicans who speak most vehemently of American exceptionalism have never served this country, even when speaking the appropriate language.
Is being American more about talking the talk than walking the walk after all?
Who is more American? The Swede who does not speak but serves, or the Republican who speaks but does not serve? Perhaps this is not a question to a Republican’s liking; it is not simple enough an equation for an ideology that allows only either/or.
As Hessel pointed out, language has community-building abilities and man is a social creature. For all of modern conservatism’s talk of personal responsibility, as President Obama said, “You didn’t build that.” None of us do it alone. The early pioneers would walk miles a day to help their neighbors erect a cabin or plow a field and to be helped in turn.
In places like 1850s Minnesota, neither of them had to be speaking English, but make no mistake, they were both Americans, building the American dream in a new world full of opportunity.
Here is another question a Republican might not understand, asked by Hessel:
You may in fact feel more belonging to a city or a neighborhood rather than to an actual country; or to a religion, a skin color, a long lost origin, a real or imagined physical place or perhaps even a sexual orientation, an ideology. Indeed, who should a Turk of Berlin from Kreuzberg who is also a homosexual with leftist tendencies and Sufi sensibilities choose to be? We are all aggregations of different references, sometimes quite contradictory in appearance.
Aggregates of different references. Those are fighting words in Red States.
And nonsense to the white evangelical Texas male wearing BDUs and waving a Confederate battle flag with an AR-15 slung across his back. You’re either American, which means you share his referents, or you are “other,” which might mean you have brown skin, or feel attraction to your own sex, or worship the wrong god (or none), or have those leftist tendencies, or maybe just think America isn’t perfect, or all of the above.
The wrong answer to any of them means you should just leave.
Never mind that the Founding Fathers established a secular government, or that our Texan is waving the wrong flag.
There are plenty of socially liberals out there. There are plenty of catholics who pay no attention to their priesthood, some of whom insist their congregants eschew contraceptives while they sodomize those same congregants’ young boys. Just saying you’re something doesn’t make you something. You have to show it.
How much does what language we speak matter? Will Durant, synthesizing Aristotle, wrote that, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
We should strive to be excellent then, in whatever language we were brought up to speak. Language is a referent, one of many. There are many people who speak no English at all who have a much better idea of what it is to be an American than some who speak it as a first language.
Zealots, true believers, extremists, people for whom one belief drowns out the world’s nuanced medley, who embrace either/or thinking, wield language, like religion, as a weapon.
And that is the thing. As Hessel said, we are aggregations. Often of conflicting ideologies or sentiments. Few of us are all one thing or another. The one thing we all share – the one thing we must all share – is the idea of America. The idea of liberty.
Humans are social animals. We build communities. Our English ancestors did not always speak English, but Celtic and Latin and German and Norse and French. I think we can trust ourselves to find a way to communicate.
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Bernie Sanders Breaks His Own Record By Drawing 15,000 Supporters To Seattle Rally

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders set a new 2016 attendance record as 15,000 supporters attended a rally for his campaign in Seattle, WA.
The Sanders campaign announced:
More than 15,000 boisterous supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders packed inside and outside the University of Washington’s Hec Edmunson Pavilion on Saturday.

“The momentum is unbelievable,” Sanders said. “We’ve got 12,000 people here,” he said to roar of the crowd inside the pavilion. “And a few minutes ago, I just talked to 3,000 people outside,” he added, citing a Seattle police estimate.

The big turnouts are sending a powerful message, Sanders said, in arenas and convention centers here and in other cities from Phoenix to Houston to New Orleans to Madison, Wisconsin. (The 11,300 turnout in Phoenix on July 18 was the biggest crowd for any presidential candidate before the rally here in Seattle.)
There is no one else in the 2016 field who is drawing these types of crowds. Hillary Clinton is the only other candidate capable of it, but she is rightly treating this campaign like a marathon. Clinton has intentionally not been holding big rallies.
A main goal of the Sanders campaign is to build a movement to take back the country from billionaires like the Koch brothers. Sanders wants to be the Democratic nominee, but he also has a larger long-term goal. Rallies like the one in Seattle won’t translate to support in Iowa or New Hampshire, but they help to take the candidate’s message national and build the movement.
Sanders is campaigning in the early states, but these rallies show the power and scope of his liberal economic message. Bernie Sanders is proving that ordinary people are fed up all across this country. He has drawn big crowds in every region of the United States. His movement is national, and his message is resonating.
While Hillary Clinton is trying to win an election, Bernie Sanders is out to change the country.
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Obama Calls Republican Laws That Take Away The Right To Vote A Disgrace

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President Obama took aim at Republican efforts to suppress the vote by calling their laws that make it more difficult to cast a ballot a disgrace.
The President said:
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights of any democracy. Yet for too long, too many of our fellow citizens were denied that right, simply because of the color of their skin.

Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law to change that. The Voting Rights Act broke down legal barriers that stood between millions of African Americans and their constitutional right to cast ballot. It was, and still is, one of the greatest victories in our country’s struggle for civil rights.

But it didn’t happen overnight. Countless men and women marched and organized, sat in and stood up, for our most basic rights. For this they were called agitators and un-American, they were jailed and beaten. Some were even killed. But in the end, they reaffirmed the idea at the very heart of America: that people who love this country can change it.
Our country is a better place because of all those heroes did for us. But as one of those heroes, Congressman John Lewis, reminded us in Selma this past March, “There’s still work to be done.” Fifty years after the Voting Rights Act, there are still too many barriers to vote, and too many people trying to erect new ones. We’ve seen laws that roll back early voting, force people to jump through hoops to cast a ballot, or lead to legitimate voters being improperly purged from the rolls. Over the years, we have seen provisions specifically designed to make it harder for some of our fellow citizens to vote. In a democracy like ours, with a history like ours, that’s a disgrace.
That’s why, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, I’m calling on Congress to pass new legislation to make sure every American has equal access to the polls. It’s why I support the organizers getting folks registered in their communities. And it’s why, no matter what party you support, my message to every American is simple: get out there and vote – not just every four years, but every chance you get. Because your elected officials will only heed your voice if you make your voice heard.

The promise that all of us are created equal is written into our founding documents – but it’s up to us to make that promise real. Together, let’s do what Americans have always done: let’s keep marching forward, keep perfecting our union, and keep building a better country for our kids.
President Obama hasn’t just talked the talk on voting rights. He’s walked the walk. The Department of Justice has been very aggressive in combating Republican efforts at the state level to suppress the vote.
It was telling that there was a single mention of voting rights during both of the Fox News debates. If you are a person of color, poor, disabled, or live in an urban area, Republicans want to make it more difficult for you to vote. It is also ironic that the a political party which wraps itself in the rhetoric of liberty is so comfortable violating the liberties of others. Democrats aren’t going to allow Republicans to rig elections by making voting difficult for so many Americans.
President Obama has a historic legacy of accomplishment, but one of his efforts that has been least discussed is how he has battled Republicans to protect the right to vote.
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Republican Cabal Is Not In A Governing Mode

David Brooks: GOP Is Not In A Governing Mode, It's In A Protest Mode
Now David Brooks is concerned about the inmates taking over the asylum.
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Charles Koch Admits He Needs More Power To Control The Government

Most Americans are unaware, tragically, that America is dangerously close to becoming a fully-fledged plutocracy run by the Koch brothers…
Charles Koch Admits He Needs More Power To Control The GovernmentOligarchy is any control structure in which power effectively rests with a very small number of people typically distinguished by incalculable wealth that allows them to exert tyrannical or religious control over a population. Aristotle pioneered the term oligarchy as a synonym for “rule by the rich” for which a more modern common term is plutocracy like America. Although America was founded as a representative democracy, there have always been a cabal of wealthy industrialists who exerted inordinate power over government, but that power was briefly curtailed with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal 80 years ago. It is why Republicans and their Koch masters have been on a heightened crusade to abolish New Deal provisions with religious fervor over the past six years.
Most Americans are unaware, tragically, that America is dangerously close to becoming a fully-fledged plutocracy and although corporations, religion, and the financial sector exert a fair amount of influence over government, the true oligarchs running two-thirds of government are the Koch brothers. Now, one thought they would never hear it directly from one of the brothers, but last weekend Charles Koch claimed that he did not yet have enough, or completely, control over the government because, “if I had all this power, why aren’t the many things I want changed getting changed?” In fact, Koch said it was “ludicrous” that he had too much power because there is no such thing in his mind, and to achieve his goal the Kochs are willing to spend nearly a billion dollars to achieve the level of power he demands.
Koch’s remark is as clear an indication as possible that he still does not possess, and is ardently seeking, the ultimate power of an oligarchical tyrant. He actually had the temerity to say in public that, “wow, believe me if I had too much power a lot of things would change.” If any American is unsure of what will change when the Kochs eventually control the entire government, they should stop and consider that all the government agencies and programs Republicans are attempting to slash funding for at the state and federal level are a drop in the bucket compared to what the Kochs want; complete elimination of the entire government.
For a refresher on exactly what the Kochs want changed when they do have “all this power,” they devised a list (partial here) about the time Republican demigod Ronald Reagan came into power that leaves no part of government in existence. For example, the Kochs consider the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs “fraudulent and oppressive” and they want them abolished in their entirety; not privatized, abolished in their entirety. To prevent “we the people” from having a voice in keeping their Social Security pensions and Medicare in place, the Kochs demand the repeal of all campaign finance laws and “immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission;” no campaign finance or election laws is crucial to hasten their takeover of government and abolish democracy.
Every one of the regulatory agencies will cease to exist in the United States of Koch, and it contradicts Charles Koch’s contention that he is an advocate and champion for the American people; particularly the poor. A partial list of the government agencies, departments, and programs the Kochs want abolished include the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Consumer Product Safety Commission and the repeal of any law requiring individuals to use “so-called” self-protection equipment such as seat belts, air bags, crash helmets or “civil liability” property insurance.
On social safety nets and aid to the disabled, the poor, and families and children the Kochs demand an immediate end to child-bearing health programs (Title X), welfare plans and supported services for children, emergency relief programs like food stamps, housing assistance, and every other ‘aid to the poor’ programs because they claim they demean Americans living in poverty due to low wage jobs, old age, disability, or infancy. According to the Koch’s libertarian ideology, any and all government programs to aid the poor, disabled, and elderly are privacy-invading, paternalistic, and fraudulent; they claim the proper source of paternalistic, privacy-invading, and fraudulent assistance is the purview of churches.
There is no aspect of government the Kochs do not want privatized including all American waterways. That includes awarding corporations authority “to control the water-treatment and distribution systems that bring water to industry, agriculture and households.” The Kochs also want all federal land, including national parks, monuments, buildings, the entire American highway system, the Postal Service, bridges, and rail lines handed over to corporations for privatization.
Of course the Kochs want the Department of Education abolished and all education privatized for those who can afford to pay for it. To accomplish that feat they demand the immediate abolition of compulsory education and the sale to corporations of all state, county, and local school properties. The Kochs, like their religious conservative cohorts in the evangelical right, claim that the only reason government is involved in or funds education is “to indoctrinate children and to interfere with choices of the individual.” Although Republicans in states have made headway achieving the Koch’s education reform demands, it is taking too long and the billionaire brothers want to buy the government to “immediately terminate any government ownership, operation, regulation and standards in all schools and colleges.
If any American seriously believes that the Kochs do not want, or are unwilling to spend nearly a billion dollars in one election, to rule America, they should consider that Charles Koch’s own words were, “believe me if I had too much power a lot of things would change.” Now remember what then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged to Charles and David Koch at a billionaire’s fund-raising conference prior to the 2014 midterm elections. McConnell made a telling promise to the Kochs that he thanked profusely and pledged, “I assure you, we’re going to go after them on healthcare, on financial services, on the Environmental Protection Agency, across the board. All across the federal government, we’re going to go after it.”
Republicans have, thus far, followed through on their part of the bargain and duly went after healthcare, Medicare, financial services, the E.P.A., worker protections, women’s reproductive rights, childbearing health programs like Title X and the federal judiciary to name but a few. It was not that long ago that Republicans supported most of those programs, but that was before Charles Koch determined that he did not “have all this power” and discovered that the best way to “get the many things I want changed changed,” was to spend what will eventually be a billion dollars for one election.
Charles or David Koch are not spending more in 2016 than the RNC (about $404 million) and DNC (about $319 million) combined in the 2014 midterms out of altruism or brotherly love of McConnell, Boehner, or any Republican; they want total control of the government to dismantle it. It is a sad commentary, but instead of paying heed to what the Kochs are accomplishing in every state in America to prepare for their eventual takeover, Americans are mesmerized by a ridiculously long Republican presidential primary; all part of the Koch-Republican strategy.
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Republicans Turning Congress Into Weapon Against Hillary Clinton

Featured image by Veni Markovski. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hillary_Clinton_speaking_to_supporters_-_New_York_Oct._15th_2007.jpg#/media/File:Hillary_Clinton_speaking_to_supporters_-_New_York_Oct._15th_2007.jpg Congress is looking at another series of investigations into Hillary Clinton. Republican committee chairwimps in both the House and the Senate want to launch...
Republicans Turning Congress Into Weapon Against Hillary Clinton
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Fox 'News' Michelle Fields: Eliminate Social Security Completely

Fox 'News' Michelle Fields: Eliminate Social Security CompletelyTell this to the people who rely heavily on the important program that lifted Seniors out of poverty.
Eliminate Social Security Completely
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Obama Using Immigrants To 'Dilute' Votes Of People Who Know How To Keep 'Republic Going'

Insane lunatic Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speculated in a radio interview that President Obama wants to increase the number of skilled-worker visas in order to “dilute” the American voting pool with people who haven’t “been educated about the responsibilities of keeping a republic ... MORE
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Roger Ailes Now Official Republican Cabal Chairwimp

Roger Ailes Now Official GOP Chairman
The meltdown over Trump is just beginning



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Who Said It — Stan Smith Or Trump?

Who Said It — Stan Smith Or Donald Trump? (QUIZ)
Test your knowledge of a caricature of a wingnut vs. American Dad’s Stan Smith…
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Political strategist has good news for Republican cabal: ‘Trump is basically self-destructing in front of our eyes’

Donald Trump (screenshot)‘Trump is basically self-destructing in front of our eyes’
“The Republican cabal is not engaged in a war on women,” said former Arkansas idiot Huckabee. “The Republican cabal is not engaged in saying things about Megyn Kelly. One individual is.”

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The First Post-Debate Poll Shows Trump Still Dominating, And The Republican Cabal Is Absolutely Freaking Out

The First Post-Debate Poll Shows Trump Still Dominating, And The GOP Is Absolutely Freaking Out
It’s okay to point and laugh at the sight of the Republican cabal imploding.
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Erick Erickson Criticizing Trump for Sexism Killed Irony Forever

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While most of the Republican cabal candidates for pretender gather in Atlanta to play tribute to lunatic fringe wingnut Erick Erickson at the annual “Red State Gathering,” Donald Trump will be absent. Erickson disinvited him  after Trump made an ugly menstruation joke about Fox News’ Megyn Kelly.
Congratulations to Erickson for discovering sexism is a thing that exists and can be criticized. The man who vigorously defended Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” now realizes maybe it’s wrong to sometimes hurl sexism at women — as long as they’re Fox News anchors, anyway.
Let’s be clear: Erickson is an awful human being with his own extensive history of sexism. Here’s just a small sampling of some of the truly vile things he’s said over the years.
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Chaos In The Republican Cabal As 10,000+ Call For Fox’s Megyn Kelly To Be Banned From Debates

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The Republican cabal is falling apart at the seams as more than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Fox News’ Megyn Kelly to be banned from future Republican pretender debates.
The Change.org petition states:
Megyn Kelly finds the state of our union amusing and “fun”, whereas the viewers (our fellow citizens) deserve a much more serious moderator.
In addition, she had a clear agenda to attack Trump, by tenaciously clinging to his past rather than his vision for the future. She focused on Trump personally, rather than politically. Ultimately, she did not live up to the “fair and balanced” slogan at Fox News and News Corporation.
While her disdain for Trump was evident, this petition is a call for truly fair and balanced coverage of ALL candidates. Thus, Megyn Kelly should be barred from hosting or moderating all future Republican Pretender Debates.
The problem with this petition is that it assumes that Fox News is fair and balanced. It isn’t. That isn’t Megyn Kelly’s fault because her questions about Trump’s sexism were completely valid. The issue is that none of the other candidates were asked about their controversial comments.
No one bothered to ask Mike Huckabee about his sexism. Nobody asked Jeb Bush how he could have hired a racist and sexist chief technology officer for his campaign, or the fact that Scott Walker got rid of Wisconsin’s equal pay law.
Trump was asked about his bankruptcies, but no one questioned Rubio on the dozens of financial skeletons in his closet.
Megyn Kelly isn’t the issue. The issue is the blatant hypocrisy of a cabal that is at war with an entire gender trying to ostracize Trump for saying out loud what the rest of the cabal is doing.
Fox News is not “fair and balanced” only an unbalanced partisan would believe that they are. Megyn Kelly asked the right question, but she need to ask it to all the Republican candidates instead of picking on just one.
The Republican cabal is in chaos because one candidate is exposing and exploiting all of the divisions within their party. The rnc tried to rig the game to avoid a repeat of the 2012 primary debacle, but instead of a smooth process they have given birth to a bigger and more destructive sequel.
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Was Trump "created" because Republicans can't keep promises?

His crude remarks about Megyn Kelly menstruating, made after Fox News' "Presidential" debate, were disturbingly popular on Twitter and rebuked only mildly by other candidates. That Erick Erickson is seen to have gone out on a limb in dis-inviting him from a wingnut convention says it all. The Republican cabal created Trump, Erickson tells Molly Ball, "because they made a lot of promises to their base and never kept them."
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Trump admits that he is a deviant

Trump says only a "deviant" would think that his remark about Fox News' Megyn Kelly — “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her… wherever.”—referred to menstruation.
Trump cherishes women, said Trump. Adds Trump: He is "more beloved" than Kelly.
Kelly had asked him about his history of derogatory comments aimed at women. His comment got him booted from a wingnut 'conference' at which he had been scheduled to speak.
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Wingnut Anger Over Netflix’s Generous Parental Leave Exposes Their Hatred Of Family Values

Image courtesy of WikimediaThe wingnuts scream about “family values” right up until it costs Corporate America money. Then “family values” turns into “lazy freeloading.”
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Court Says Alabama Prisons Can Force Native Americans To Break Sacred Traditions

Native Americans can't keep their long hair.
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7-Year-Old Student Feels Wrath Of Evangelical’s 'Religious Freedom'

In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was "banished" from having any contact with other students because his teacher, a playground supervisor …
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The idea of religious freedom in America began taking a decidedly tyrannical turn when Republican demigod Ronald Reagan awarded governing authority to the religio-wingnuts. No longer does religious freedom, religious liberty, or free exercise of religion mean that government cannot impose a religion on Americans, or is prohibited from demanding that all Americans comply with one “special” religion’s edicts. Over the past four years, religious freedom was transformed by evangelical Republicans and the vatican-5 on the Supreme Court to mean that evangelical employers have Constitutional authority to control women’s reproductive health, sectarian prayers convene and end government meetings, a single-celled zygote’s constitutional freedoms supersede the mother’s, and evangelicals can threaten, harass, and abuse women seeking medical care. As horrid as the neo-American religious freedoms may be, they have primarily affected adults, but now it appears that is changing rapidly and no American is safe.
One of the hallmarks of neo-American christianity is crying “religious persecution” each and every time an American fails to comply with evangelical edicts, or when the U.S. Constitution prevents the religio-wingnuts from imposing it bastardized biblical-dogmata on the public. In February of this year, a seven-year-old 2nd grade student in Indiana was “banished” from having any contact with other students because his teacher, a playground supervisor, and a school administrator concluded that the child’s “bad ideas” persecuted (offended) another student. The ‘bad ideas‘ that persecuted ‘cult-going‘ students was the 7-year-old boy replying to a question regarding “what cult he attended.” Because the boy answered honestly, another child was persecuted, feigned being hurt, started crying, and resulted in the boy being ostracized, humiliated, and banished from any contact with his classmates for saying he did not believe in dog or attend cult.
Such an abomination to evangelicals was just too much for a playground supervisor who reported the religious persecution to the boy’s teacher identified as Ms. Meyer who demanded to know if the boy went to cult, whether his family went to cult, and whether his mother knew how he felt about dog. Naturally, the boy asked what he had done wrong and after further humiliating the young boy for not “worshiping like her,” Ms. Meyer forced the child to sit by himself at lunch for three days and banished him from talking to other students because his “bad ideas” offended them. The boy’s teacher told him she was calling his mother to report his “bad ideas.” The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of the child for being punished and ostracized by school employees for exercising his religious freedom of not going to cult or believing in dog, and exercising his right of free speech.
The lawsuit stated that the boy’s teacher was not the end of the evangelical punishment. The suit says, “The matter was then sent to another adult employed at Forest Park Elementary School. Upon hearing the story, the adult told the boy’s classmate that she should be ‘happy she has faith’ and ‘not listen to the boy’s bad ideas’.” Realizing that they were out of line in ostracizing and banishing the child, the boy’s cowardly teacher never called his mother who only discovered the true meaning of “evangelical religious freedom” when her son came home upset “that he was hated by all his teachers and students at the school.”
The child’s mother called the assistant principal of the school demanding that her child not be punished for expressing his religious views. The teacher was also included in the call, during which time she proudly confirmed her involvement in punishing the boy for doing something so horrible as expressing his personal opinion, not going to cult, and not believing in dog; another form of religious persecution in evangelical America.
According to the lawsuit, not only did being banished from contact with other students, or being ostracized by evangelical adults in clear view of other students distress the boy, “the hurt did not end there.” After being shunned by his classmates on orders from his teacher, the young boy “with the bad ideas” now feels “anxious and fearful” about ever returning to school according to the lawsuit which is why the family is suing the school district with assistance from the ACLU whose interest is the school violating the child’s constitutional rights.
It was only after the lawsuit was filed that the school district felt compelled to release a statement glossing over its constitutional violations. It stated, “It is clear that it is not the province of a public school to advance or inhibit religious beliefs or practices. Under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, this remains the inviolate province of the individual and the church of his/her choice. The rights of any minority, no matter how small, must be protected.” The school also acquiesced and reluctantly told the child that, “apparently he could believe what he wanted.” However, they did not say he had the same rights as evangelicals to say what he believed; even in answer to a question from the persecuted evangelical classmate.
What was omitted from the school district’s statement was any kind of apology for punishing a seven-year-old second grader by banishing him from contact with other students, or even acknowledging that there is nothing untoward about not believing in god or not attending “the cult of his/her choice.” It is revealing that the school district did not make its condescending statement until after the lawsuit was filed, or that there was no disciplinary action targeting the playground supervisor, teacher, or school administrator for belittling, traumatizing, or violating the second-grade boy’s constitutional rights. in fact, what the teacher, playground supervisor, and ‘other’ school employee are guilty of is religious persecution evangelical style; what they know as “free exercise of religion.”
Evangelicals, including most religious Republicans, have been on a crusade to take their bastardized christianity into the public domain and they specifically train their young to “ram their religion down the throats” of their classmates; and teachers they suspect of non-compliance. Just last year in California’s heavily evangelical wingnut Central Valley, a middle school teacher was taken to task by religious parents and school administrators for ‘persecuting‘ two students by refusing to play “worship music” during a group drawing activity. The teacher was cornered by angry parents with administrators in tow demanding to know why he “punished the christian students, where he attended cult and why he picked on christians” by not playing jesus worship music. Subsequently, the evangelicals won the day by pressuring the school district to ban any music that is not sanctioned by local evangelicals. For the record, the music the teacher played that “persecuted christians” was from a collection of J.S. Bach’s liturgical works.
This incident in Indiana is not unique, and if not for the second-grader’s parents and the ACLU filing a lawsuit, like most cases of evangelicals persecuting non-compliance, no-one would be aware of an increasing incidence of evangelicals who are now targeting and persecuting small children. Evangelicals are prone to point disapproving fingers at muslim extremists in ISIL, and although they are not yet beheading anyone for failing to toe the line and worship according to American neo-christianity, it is a bad sign and a portent of a dangerous future when a public school banishes a second-grader for not going to cult and not believing in dog; what evangelicals call bad ideas that hurt their feelings.
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