A Wrong Turn Left

A Wrong Turn Left
It just gets better and better. Many of you know perhaps one of my biggest rants and raves lately is just how absolutely political the college-classroom has become. Taking a shot in the dark, I would almost guarantee at least 75% of college professors vote democratically, and I would go even further to say at least 50% of them have or consistently are using their classrooms as a platform for the democratic agenda. I’ve suggested this before, but now I am almost advising it of you. If you think my numbers are skewed, just try it out. Go to 10 college classes this year with a friend if you aren’t in college, or with your son or daughter, or just go sit in a liberal arts class, a political science class, a history class, just about any class you can imagine. Almost guaranteed the professor will find some way to get their views across. The craziest part? The class can have nothing to do with any sort of political view or politics in general, yet somehow, magically, the platform is constructed and justified in just about any imaginative way you could think up. Believe me; I heard it first hand from a professor at my school. Let me give you some examples of just exactly what I am talking about.
This semester, I signed up for a history class that I am required to have in order to graduate. The class is History 111, and the content base was going to be over the pre-civil war era. So, off to Saturday morning class I went, completely unaware of just how politically motivated and spiteful someone at a publicly, government supported institution could be. Little did I know. The first words out of the adjunct professor’s mouth? A shot at Idaho for being ultra-conservative. Then, some more political bias with some hateful words for George Bush, followed by shots at even God. I don’t think anything conservative based in this man’s mind is an option to even consider as a right, just cause. By the end of the class, I was itching to hop onto my student account and with-drawl from his class and his vile-speak about republicans, Christians and the United States in general. So what you say? The professor may have been biased, but the content of the class couldn’t be, right? Well, considering the text required and main one used in the class was a Howard Zinn work, I got the picture of how this class would be run. (And if you don’t know who Zinn is, check out his Wikipedia profile and you’ll get the overall gist of his views in a toned down manner.) Oh, and this is just the start.
The week before my encounter with that wonderful history class, I learned that a nursing professor had given her students a very interesting assignment. Her students were to attend either the Jesse Jackson or Al Gore presentation, as both of them were in Boise around the same weekend. No alternative speaker with an alternative point of view, either Al Gore or Jesse Jackson. Yes, the 2 far-left former presidential hopefuls. Now, Jesse Jackson, supposed to be here for Human Rights week right? Well, I just wonder what calling President Bush a Chicken-hawk and inserting anti-Iraq war-speak that you get every-day from NBC, MSNBC, CNN and CBS have to do with Human Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr.? When I asked the professor about why, her reasoning did not surprise me. The aim? As far as the Jesse Jackson assignment went, it was to get the students a dose of “diversity” that was “very different from the population in Idaho.” And to the Al Gore side of things? That the environment is a concern for nurses, especially public health nurses. Now this is a nice way of putting it, but I think we know the underlying theme here. Of course the professor stated that the students never have to agree with her view points, but that this was a part of the “higher education excitement and privilege”. BULL. It was a way to force students to hear an agenda, one that is spread every single day on the campus by numerous professors. I could have told you the day Boise signed up to have these 2 men come and speak what the speeches would entail. Sure Jesse Jackson would blanket it with scripture and human rights rhetoric, and make references to Martin Luther King Jr., and the Al Gore concerns about the environment was a nice cover-up to relate the speech to nursing and public health and our community, and it would have been nice if that was the end of it. But did anyone seriously have any doubts what both speeches would be? No, and if you think otherwise then you are lying to yourself. I don’t want to hear about the “diversity opportunity” and “other side of the issue” that the students had by listening to Jesse Jackson. They get the other side every time they turn on their TV and listen to the news. I don’t want to hear about how Al Gore’s concerns about the environment are legit, because they aren’t. The real Inconvenient Truth is that Al Gore is using an environmentalist issue as a political plug for himself, in which he was completely off base, and the general scientific community agrees.
Something that I’m noticing is coming as a surprise to many people is the dating system that the public university seems to be converting to (although it really isn’t a conversion because they are using the same point in time as their measuring device, let me explain.) Many of my text books and teachers now have gone to the BCE/CE dating-system, and don’t acknowledge the traditional BC/AD system that we have used since…forever. BCE/CE stands for Before Common Era and Common Era. So, there they go, trying 2 deny a system based solely on the fact that BC stands for Before Christ. Yet, perhaps the irony of the situation escapes their minds, because BCE and CE are still based on one thing…the Birth of Christ. So, maybe instead of using that system, they should be using the Big-Bang theory system, which states the universe is 4.6 billion years old, so maybe instead of dating my paper 1/1/2007, I should be dating my paper 1/1/4,600,000,000. Maybe that will satisfy them a little more. I mean, if you are going to pretend that calling it the BCE/CE era takes away the focal point of when the date-system it uses started, then why not go all out and just do away with the fact that we are living in 2007.
Hopefully this enlightens any of you who are unaware of just how far left college campuses are going. It is getting out of hand, and the conservative voice on a college campus are becoming few and far between thanks to the success of Anti-Bush propaganda spread by the national media. And my school isn’t even far reaching as some of the “elite” universities, so I would die to know what they are saying there. Oh wait, I do know. “Hate the war, hate the president, global warming, Pelosi is a Goddess, Hillary in ’08, Obama is the savior of the world, and ah yes…Katrina is Bush’s fault”. You know how I know? I listen to the media and my college professors. But, don’t take my word for it. Listen for yourself. But just be careful…if you disagree, you are a horrible human being who doesn’t want to save lives by killing embryos, see the amazing victory we’ve already had in Iraq, and embrace the fact that the USA is the greatest country on Earth in this here year 200…oh wait, this here year 4,623,289,120. -AJW

A Dead Leader, A New Plan

December 30th, 2006 will go down as one of the most important days in the history of the world. The Iraqi government put to death its former dictator, convicted murderer, and terror minded leader Saddam Hussein. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum you are on, I would hope that anyone who understands how humanity works would realize that the fact that Saddam is gone is a great thing. Now before anyone jumps all over me for being pro-death penalty, I want to get this out there right now. The death penalty is one of the very few areas that I tend to stray from the right a little bit. Honestly, I am never sure how I really feel about it, because I try to put myself in someone’s position like a mother or father, and imagining my child being killed, how would I feel about the person that committed the horrendous crime and would I be able to say no, I don’t want them dead. It would be an incredibly difficult situation, one I pray I never have to go through. To be honest, it comes down to my faith.
Many of you know I am Christian, and my reservations about the death penalty are directly attributed to that and that alone, because my hope would be that the person who killed someone would somehow be able to give their heart to Christ while incarcerated, that they would be able to truly have a changed heart. Whether that is possible in a true, evil, murderous person is beyond me, and only God knows the final outcome of any of us. So, back to Saddam. Hearing about his execution, I had very mixed emotions. I usually side on the non-death penalty side, but something hit me when watching the news that night as the minutes passed leading to his execution. I didn’t have those feelings of reservation as I normally would. I thought about the over 1 million people according to many sources that Saddam had killed. Whether he pulled the trigger or not is irrelevant: his words were the trigger. And, on December 30th, the final trigger in the Saddam era was pulled, and the bullet was a rope around his neck. So who is the victor here? Usually in a death penalty case, no-one comes out a winner. However, this is not a usual case. Here we had a man that had terrorized a nation for decades. If you didn’t vote for him in elections, your life was at risk. If you joked about him in an unflattering manner, you jeopardized you and your family’s lives. Everything you said about him was listened to, and reported to someone, and if word got around you were a dissenting voice to him, death was almost inevitable. Here we had a man not afraid to use chemical and biological weapons against his own people in his own country, and he did so. Millions died on his clock. Millions were terrified into living a life of fear and hopelessness all at this man’s hand. That all became impossible for that man to ever do again on December 14th 2003, when, like the coward he really was, Saddam was found in a hole in the ground, whimpering in a corner, unclean and unshaven, scared and hopeless, afraid for his life. Fitting, isn’t it?
So, almost exactly 3 years later, Saddam was hung, with chants around him that mocked him, that insulted him, that ridiculed him. And millions of people almost instantaneously felt a sense of justice, although not comforted. However, for those millions of people, a sense of fear was lifted. Never again could the man that made them live in horror for decades be in charge. He would never kill again. So if you ask me am I for the death penalty? I guess sometimes, I may just be. Moving on.
Last night, President Bush got on national television and outlined the plan to try and make Iraq what we’ve been hoping for since the beginning of the war. Of course, within hours, we had the skeptics coming out and saying why it wont work, how it isn’t different from the current strategy and all the main liberal speak you typically hear anytime after the President opens his mouth. You have Democratic leaders already threatening to cut funding and to do everything they can to make sure that we lose this war. Of course they won’t say that, but it is becoming more and more obvious that the Democrats are playing politics with the Iraq situation, and that a loss would perceivably help them in years to come. You see, they want to come across as supportive and pro military. They want the country to believe they love our troops. But, that’s going to be hard to if they truly attempt to STOP FUNDING them. I have a prediction. Regardless of the outcome in Iraq, the liberal media is going to play this out as a losing effort. They will show the horrific images coming out of Iraq, they will flash the dollar signs and costs of the war in Iraq, they will shove people like Cindy Sheehan in the spotlight, they will let Hillary get the publicity, and all the good that has been done will get nothing. The schools built, the people freed and most importantly, the executed dictator who is the reason behind all this, will not be talked about, unless it is in a negative light. You notice the discussion is not about us taking out an insane terror-minded dictator, but about how well (or how not well) his execution went. Forget the millions of people he tortured and killed, and the families which will never recover because of him. No, the discussion was about his rights and how fairly or not fairly he was treated. And unless the Democrats win the white house in 2008, the if-it-bleeds-it-leads mentality of the media will continue on, portraying just how “bad” the job the republicans are doing is. Bush will be made out as a fool, as arrogant and ignorant of the Iraq situation. Even with a clearly defined plan, a clearly defined objective and a clearly defined motive, we will not hear about it. The Hillarys out there will continue to completely mislead the people that hear them to gain political advantage in their attempt to take over in 2008. If they do somehow win the ’08 bid for the white house, then they’ll be made out to be hero’s and saviors, that they’ll save lives with embryonic stem cells, that they are the ones who will save our sons and daughters from being killed in war and that they are the ones who will keep our economy alive. The media will do a 180, turning into optimists and hopeful, and rejoicing in their victory (even though most of it will be behind closed doors). I hope that we are all smart enough and vigilant enough to understand what is going on here, to understand what is truly at stake. Not just a free country in the middle east. Not just the only democracy in a war-torn area. Not just millions of liberated people, no. We need to understand that support now for our president, for our troops and military, and for what is right is essential in making sure that the world knows we stand for what is right, and what is good, and what noble: that the politics have to be put down, and that there are millions of lives at stake here, ours and our cross-sea allies. If you listen to the Democratic-leadership, you would think we are sending out troops to their death-beds. But, I bet if you ask the troops, they’ll differ in opinion. They know we are fighting a just cause, fighting to protect us here on the homeland, fighting to keep the rights we have intact. You won’t hear it, but I hope everyone who listens to this or reads this sees beyond the political-motivations of the left, and can see that we CAN win. I wonder, do they even want us to win? We are waiting for your support Hillary, Joe (Biden), Michael, Al...oh wait, they aren’t listening. They are busy not supporting right causes, but doubting our military, our president, and most of all, what America stands for: freedom and justice. – AJW