God told the children of Israel the following in Hosea 4:6, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.  Unfortunately, we have the same type condition occurring in our republic as this article is written. The people of this collection of states are rejecting knowledge, and they are being destroyed because of that lack. We are no better than Israel, in that we not only have forgotten the law of the land, the Constitution of the United States, we are allowing those in elected and appointed offices to ignore its provisions and limitations on government.

The man in the White House is on record for saying that the Warren Court failed to “break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution.” He said the Constitution is “a charter of negative liberties” — it only says what government “can’t do to you.” He further said it doesn’t say what the government can do for you. Since this man was a constitutional lecturer, I shudder at the thought of what he taught to the young malleable minds in his classes. However, his performance since taking the oath of office may be indicative of what he taught, if the takeover of car companies, banks, wages and health care are relative to his thinking. If his behavior continues, our constitutional republic will be nothing but an appendage in the history books years down the road.

However, it isn’t believed by this writer that the man has a lack of knowledge. I believe he knows well the limits on government, but he chooses to ignore them since he knows that the people of this republic generally lack knowledge of the limits on government due to not being educated about the provisions of the Constitution. And he is using that knowledge to work against the very values and institutions that have made this country a viable player on the world scene.

But I am getting ahead of the subject of education a bit. The precursor for his being able to shove his agenda down our throats began years ago with two people: John Dewey, who influenced public education and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, author of the New Deal to cope with the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression of the 1930s.  

 © 01-09-2009 DEC

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