The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~Ronald Reagan, 40th president of U.S.

She’s the perfect answer to any rightwinger saying conspiracies don’t exist ( see the Norman Dodd interview by Edgar Griffin, and the Reece report at her site,http://www.americandeception.com

" The Reece Committee Congressional Hearings related to the Investigation of the Tax Exempt Foundations, 1953-54 ( incredible sworn testimony regarding treason on all fronts) Copies of these records of the hearings were scooped up by the foundations in order to keep this information from the American people."

No wonder these weasels wouldn’t let her in Wikipedia.

[quote]jeffdirect wrote:
… wiesels …[/quote]

I love irony.

[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
jeffdirect wrote:
… wiesels …

I love irony.[/quote]

I laughed until it hurt. No need to do abs today.

Laugh all you want.

Charlotte Iserbyte is an accomplished author and has been ringing the alarm bells for the last thirty years when it comes to covert gouvernement policies.

There’s absolutely no justification to deny her entry in wikipedia.

She has a lot of people shaking in their boots.

[quote]jeffdirect wrote:
Laugh all you want.

Charlotte Iserbyte is an accomplished author and has been ringing the alarm bells for the last thirty years when it comes to covert gouvernement policies.

There’s absolutely no justification to deny her entry in wikipedia.

She has a lot of people shaking in their boots.[/quote]

I wasn’t laughing at Charlotte Whoeversheis. I was laughing at you via Zap’s reference to irony.

[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
jeffdirect wrote:
… wiesels …

I love irony.[/quote]

At first, I was like: huh?
But then, I was all: O.o
And now I’m like: I see what you did there!

[quote]Beowolf wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
jeffdirect wrote:
… wiesels …

I love irony.

At first, I was like: huh?
But then, I was all: O.o
And now I’m like: I see what you did there![/quote]

Maybe the Elie Weasel can straighten out jeffdirect. Or is he part of the Conspiracy, too?
No, Charlotte Somethingorother was thinking about jeffdirect in The Dumbing Down of America.

[Gouvernement? gouvernement?..Je crois qu’il n’est pas Americain.]

[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:
Beowolf wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
jeffdirect wrote:
… wiesels …

I love irony.

At first, I was like: huh?
But then, I was all: O.o
And now I’m like: I see what you did there!

Maybe the Elie Weasel can straighten out jeffdirect. Or is he part of the Conspiracy, too?
No, Charlotte Somethingorother was thinking about jeffdirect in The Dumbing Down of America.
[/quote]

How long you clowns can drag out this wiesel thing ?

Let’s see.

[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
jeffdirect wrote:
Laugh all you want.

Charlotte Iserbyte is an accomplished author and has been ringing the alarm bells for the last thirty years when it comes to covert gouvernement policies.

There’s absolutely no justification to deny her entry in wikipedia.

She has a lot of people shaking in their boots.

I wasn’t laughing at Charlotte Whoeversheis. I was laughing at you via Zap’s reference to irony.

[/quote]

Do you believe that our freedom is at risk given our current state? Conspiracy theories aside, do any of you actually believe that the way we are headed is conducive to freedom as we have known it? On the way to work there are more cameras than I can count at nearly every intersection. If someone wanted to abuse any powers of government, do you think doing so is possible now?

All I see in this thread is laughter about a situation that I truly don’t find to be that funny. I also don’t own any foil hats.

[quote]Professor X wrote:
All I see in this thread is laughter about a situation that I truly don’t find to be that funny.[/quote]

That, by the way, is another dumbing down technique: marginalizing of the subject by reducing it’s seriousness.

I don’t think you need to believe in conspiracies to see that freedom isn’t gonna stick around like gravity. I believe assholes and bureaucracy have done more evil than mustache-twirling mad scientists ever dreamed of. At this rate Orwell’s book might as well get re-released as 2084.

[quote]Majin wrote:
Professor X wrote:
All I see in this thread is laughter about a situation that I truly don’t find to be that funny.

That, by the way, is another dumbing down technique: marginalizing of the subject by reducing it’s seriousness.

I don’t think you need to believe in conspiracies to see that freedom isn’t gonna stick around like gravity. I believe assholes and bureaucracy have done more evil than mustache-twirling mad scientists ever dreamed of. At this rate Orwell’s book might as well get re-released as 2084.

[/quote]

The thing is, how long can they marginalize everyone who simply takes a look at the way things are going? Right now, I doubt I could go buy eggs without appearing on about 50 surveillance cameras. It is like people won’t START worrying about this shit until we actually have in home surveillance and legal wire taps of the population on all lines.

Are there people living who can’t see the potential for abuse? I guess the attitude is we will let our grandkids handle it?

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Right now, I doubt I could go buy eggs without appearing on about 50 surveillance cameras.
[/quote]

You been out to London at all? it’s even nuttier out there. They’ve got surveillance cameras watching other surveillance cameras. Australia is pretty heavily surveilled as well. From what I understand, a lot of it has just sort of manifested itself incredibly rapidly over the last 5 years or so. No one seems to complain, or even notice. The same attitude prevails stateside. That is a little strange.

[quote]Malevolence wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Right now, I doubt I could go buy eggs without appearing on about 50 surveillance cameras.

You been out to London at all? it’s even nuttier out there. They’ve got surveillance cameras watching other surveillance cameras. Australia is pretty heavily surveilled as well. From what I understand, a lot of it has just sort of manifested itself incredibly rapidly over the last 5 years or so. No one seems to complain, or even notice. The same attitude prevails stateside. That is a little strange.[/quote]

I didn’t even notice until I was riding my motorcycle around the city one day. They have, in a matter of months, installed at least 4-6 cameras at nearly every intersection (including suburban areas, downtown and the Galleria area) in Houston. If I walk out of my townhouse, I am on camera. Yet people are laughing about this?

Did anyone see the movie Enemy Of the State (the Will Smith version)? I remember a few people laughing when that movie came out as if it was impossible for the government to track down someone that easily.

Gee…not now.

WAR IS PEACE;

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY;

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Did anyone see the movie Enemy Of the State? I remember a few people laughing when that movie came out as if it was impossible for the government to track down someone that easily.

Gee…not now.[/quote]

I actually watched that movie very recently with a group of friends. We all made a similar realisation about how absurd the movie looked when it was first released, based on what we’ve seen since then and how believable it is now. It was kind of weird.

Also, about the intersection cameras, they are absolutely popping up everywhere. Not only that, but it seems like it has all just kind of materialised in under 3 years. I went on a couple month vacation, and in just a couple of months, 4 familiar intersections had cameras added to them.

Additionally there is increasing buzz about speeding cameras being installed around various streets. Yet, I can’t remember any planning commissions, town meetings, local newspaper articles, or county officials making any mention to any of this stuff. It just seems to pop up.

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Did anyone see the movie Enemy Of the State? I remember a few people laughing when that movie came out as if it was impossible for the government to track down someone that easily.

Gee…not now.[/quote]

Televisions will soon be designed to work both ways, so you can be watched.

[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Did anyone see the movie Enemy Of the State? I remember a few people laughing when that movie came out as if it was impossible for the government to track down someone that easily.

Gee…not now.

Televisions will soon be designed to work both ways, so you can be watched.

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I am already under the suspicion that camera phones can be used the same right now.

[quote]Professor X wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Did anyone see the movie Enemy Of the State? I remember a few people laughing when that movie came out as if it was impossible for the government to track down someone that easily.

Gee…not now.

Televisions will soon be designed to work both ways, so you can be watched.

I am already under the suspicion that camera phones can be used the same right now.
[/quote]

Well,a modern (GSM) cellular phone is already enabled to be used as a personal tracking device.
So they know where we are…all the time.