May 09 2007
Forced Brain Washing Of Students
I cannot believe I am seeing the forced brain washing of students, the kind that would make the Nazi propaganda wizard Joseph Goebbels smile in his grave.
To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore.
The science class requirement has prompted one conservative student to declare that “we should stop calling these schools ‘bastions of knowledge’ since they’re really bastions of leftist thought.”
Where is the freedom of thought and speech in America when students are forced to watch Al Gore’s Science Fiction movie that even scientists on the Human-Global-Warming side panned as all hype? (for a good debunking see here)
This is unacceptable. When will universities begin requiring the reading (and therefore acceptance) of Karl Marx and socialism? Just because some low level professor is hypnotized by the fanatasies peddled by the Kyoto-ites doesn’t mean forced propaganda is called for. People need to be able to make their own choices – not be forced to sit through Al Gore’s dementia. The school is in denial that there is any scientific doubt to man’s impact on global warming. Sadly a science degree from this school is not of very high quality.
Update: Latest science puts huge damper on Global Warming fanatics:
During the so-called Medieval Warm Period between about 900 and 1300 A.D., for example, the Vikings raised livestock on Greenland and sailed to North America. New cities were built all across Europe, and the continent’s population grew from 30 million to 80 million.
The consequences of the colder temperatures that plunged civilization into the so-called Little Ice Age for several centuries after 1300 were devastating. Summers were rainy, winters cold, and in many places temperatures were too low for grain crops to mature. Famines and epidemics raged, and average life expectancy dropped by 10 years. In Germany, thousands of villages were abandoned and entire stretches of land depopulated.
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The truth is probably somewhere between these two extremes. Climate change will undoubtedly have losers — but it will also have winners. There will be a reshuffling of climate zones on earth. And there is something else that we can already say with certainty: The end of the world isn’t coming any time soon.
Largely unnoticed by the public, climate researchers are currently embroiled in their own struggle over who owns the truth. While some have always seen themselves as environmental activists aiming to shake humanity out of its complacency, others argue for a calmer and more rational approach to the unavoidable.
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or one thing, the more paleontologists and geologists study the history of the earth’s climate, the more clearly do they recognize just how much temperatures have fluctuated in both directions in the past. Even major fluctuations appear to be completely natural phenomena.
Additionally, some environmentalists doubt that the large-scale extinction of animals and plants some have predicted will in fact come about. “A warmer climate helps promote species diversity,” says Munich zoologist Josef Reichholf.
Also, more detailed simulations have allowed climate researchers to paint a considerably less dire picture than in the past — gone is the talk of giant storms, the melting of the Antarctic ice shield and flooding of major cities.
The inconvenient truth is Al Gore is a blithering idiot. It is amazing the country survived with him as number two for 8 years.
Uh . . . AJ . . . if you get a degree in European History or economics, I can practically guarantee you’ll be asked to read Das Kapital and historical analysis of socialism (as well as mercantilism, capitalism, mixed economies and centralized economic systems).
Your premise is that exposure to an idea means students will unwittingly ACCEPT the premises therein – a proposition so preposterous as to make me think you’re trying to sound clueless.
I have faith the students will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to let the magic of market forces determine the ongoing operative data.
Read the article – there is no discussion of opposing views….
Sooth – notice our AG is still in his office??
Got anymore wonderful predicts for us??
Yes – he’s still in office – and due for another round of testifying under oath. Meanwhile, Monica Goodling has been granted use immunity in exchange for full testimony regarding USAttorneygate.
Interstingly enough, because she was only granted use immunity, under the law she will still be liable for criminal prosecution; the use immunity statute (18 U.S.C. § 6002) allows the government to prosecute the witness using evidence obtained independently of the witness’s immunized testimony (e.g., the 5,000,000 missing e-mails that will inevitably surface). § 6002 provides:
The Supreme Court upheld the statute in Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441 (1972). In so doing, the Court underscored the prohibition against the government’s derivative use of immunized testimony in a prosecution of the witness. The Court reaffirmed the burden of proof that, under Murphy v. Waterfront Commission, 378 U.S. 52 (1964), must be borne by the government to establish that its evidence is based on independent, legitimate sources:
Every day Gonzales is in office, support for Bush diminishes. And we haven’t even really waded into the criminal obstruction or voter fraud areas of the US Attorney debacle.
But that’s okay, AJ – keep on sipping that dee-licious Kool-Ade.
“When will universities begin requiring the reading (and therefore acceptance) of Karl Marx and socialism?”
They already are…in terms of brainwashing its students.
Who cares about the diminishing support, if any, of Gonzales? It’s just a job, especially with so few months left to go. Nah, we won’t find much nhew, such as criminal obstruction and voter fraud. What we will find once such news gain attention is the conservative bloggers will challenge these ” facts” as inaccuracies.
AJStrata does not need to drink “dee-licious Kool-Aid”.
So if she’s now liable for prosecution even with immunity on the table she can give the greatest political response to any question, “Sorry, I do not recall” . The foaming left are the only ones interested in these dog and pony shows. It was the Centrist Democrats who got the Dems their narrow hold on both houses, but push comes to shove and those blue dogs will vote more towards the right then the loony left. Any way as soon as Pelosi and the other punchlines surrender to the President on the war funding bill they will be spending an inordinate amount of time defending themselves from the torpedoes of moveon to even enjoy the show. Bite the hand that feeds you and you’ll feel the choker tightening on the neck.
Scaulen, I hope Bush will veto the end of July defense bill.
Along with Al Gore’s apocalyptic piece of drama, students should be required to read Revelations. Sooth wouldn’t object since he has “faith the students will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff”. And since they both have the destruction of the earth as their themes, I can’t see Sooth objecting anyway.
Isn’t it amazing about Leftists: they tout “diversity” and “inclusion” and “cultural diversity” etc., etc., etc….
When they have their little dinner parties, they proudly look around and go: “See, black face, white face, asian face, hispanic face, native american face, gay face, straight face, transgender face, Lesbian face, this is so great….!”
And then, in total synch, like complete automatons, in lock/goosesteping Borg-hive mind, they raise their glasses together and Recite the “talking points”/their Ten Commandments: “Bush is an idiot, Bush started a pre-emptive war, Cheney is Evil, Karl Rove is Bush’s brain; Halliburton is controlling Iraq’s Oil; Europe and the rest of the world hate us because of Bush; We MUST surrender to the Jihadis as quickly as possible; Islam is good, Christianity is Evil; We hate the troops, but will pretend the opposite; America is the root of ALL Evil in the World”.
Ah, isn’t it neat, in all their “diversity” and concern for their fellowman, there is NO room for the Christian Religion; diversity of THOUGHT, and unborn babies?
What a bunch of Morons!
Sooth,
“I have faith the students will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff” – This assumes the students will be given some wheat.
90% think-alikes on college faculties and MSM news staffs makes “unwitting acceptance” a reasonable expatation.
“expectation”
Geeze – yeah you’re right – we should place education in the hands of creationists, intelligent designists, religious imbeciles and apologists for corporate despoilers . . . there’s great idea.
AJ sorry that I have not been able to respond to any of your posts for the last week unfortuntaly I had emergency testicular cancer surgery but in the last day I have caught up. While I was reading I had cnbc on and almost had a heart attack when Maria B. asked her guests what face we should put up as the person for this rockin stock market and to my shock the panel actually indicated none other than Pres.G W Bush for the 2003 tax cut. Between this and the good news from Iraq
I agree the Dems are in big do-do.
we should place education in the hands of creationists, intelligent designists, religious imbeciles and apologists for corporate despoiler
And I was so sure you would agree since you want education placed in the hands of a snake oil salesman. And besides, Revelations is better written than Gore’s script…
Edit because the above looks like I said both…
And I was so sure you would agree since you want education placed in the hands of a snake oil salesman. And besides, Revelations is better written than Gore’s script…
As long as you have a sense of humor, Al Gore’s documentary is a good laugh.
Mr. Gore is an idiot.
Mr. Gore is an idiot.
Yeah, kinda scary that he came within a whisker of being the CIC, isn’t it?
I actually wouldn’t have a problem with “An Inconvenient Truth” being part of a science curriculum as long as the other side of the story was also. The problem though, I’m sure, is that the science department faculty at Roger Williams University doesn’t believe there is another side.
The purpose of a university, I believe, would be to teach it students that “An Inconvenient Truth” is one point of view.
I wonder how the ssorosite knows so much as in “we” haven’t even gotten into criminal obstruction and voter fraud…hmmmm. “We” huh? Exactly who is the “we”, pray tell?
Got your sorosite talking points for tomorrow yet?
You will not succed in destroying America. We have faced enemies much tougher than you.
Are these the same institutions of higher learning that allow students to attack invited conservative guests for their speech??
Yes..truthslayer…the “wheat” is communism..and the “chaff” is anything remotely resembling “our” country… We get it.
Failed hippies and the drugged out counter culturists still trying to change a world that doesn’t need changing, quixote comes to mind, along with hypocrite. A college degree doesn’t mean squat in the real world if your not taught to think. Let the Dems have the week minded fools that believe this tripe, the strong free thinkers will join society and make a difference. The others will give classes on diversity, and inconvenient truths, and deliver my pizza piping hot or not get a tip. When your young you think like a Democrat, when you grow up and start earning money, paying taxes, and start a family you realize how wrong you were.