Posted by
Charles Lewis on Friday, September 18, 2009 2:17:05 PM
Congress's ACORN Shell Game
Bill that bans direct funding establishes total fed
takeover of higher ed, universal ACORN-style army among loan
recipients
by Charles R Lewis
In what was mostly advertised as a rebuke to the
now-thoroughly tainted ACORN (of which your prez was national training
director), the House of Representatives yesterday passed what in actuality is at
once its most draconian and most unconstitutional piece of legislation ever
rammed through under the collective noses of the unsuspecting, uneducated
American public. And, once Mr Obama finishes packing the Supreme Court with
Sotomayor and Sunstein types (and quite likely under the current lineup), forget
about that august body nullifying that act of tyranny. To wit:
The bill (incredibly) establishes the federal government
as the only legal source for student loans for college. No more loans from
private banks and the like. What this means is a twofold scenario of despotism
worthy of the worst of a Nazi Germany or a communist Cuba:
- Lotsa luck if you think this government will approve
loans to any of the few remaining traditionalist schools like Hillsdale or
Patrick Henry. Not unless they abandon their conservative principles and join
the rest of the American higher education system in terms of the predominance of
far left teaching staffs and the promotion of communism as the only acceptable
ideology. If not,such institutions will wither on the vine for lack of funding
and most likely be forced to close their doors,
- Even more ominously, one will recall that when Obama
first proposed (again it's amazing how fast even the most revolutionary of his
proposals have moved forward) making the federal government the source of all
student loans, he tied receipt to "community service." Having researched such
programs (see http://www.edwatch.org/index.html and
http://www.edwatch.org/index.html), I
have no doubt that such "service" will involve the promised 6-week
AMERICORPS-style indoctrination camps followed by the ACORN-style leftwing
activism of Obama's coveted "civilian national security force that's just as
powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military. In other words,
a heinous "brownshirt" army - worthy of those of a Castro or Hitler, pledging
its allegiance not to the Constitution but to our fearless leader - set loose on
the America populace, with Christians, conservatives, constitutionalists,
libertarians, and those who want to cling to the Bill or Rights defined as the
"terrorist" enemy - with determined participation a requirement for admission to
college.
As usual, the media - even the "conservative" media - is
focused on the entirely irrelevant red herring of the rider that de-funds
ACORN. (Never mind that ACORN as such is presently just a small part of a nexus
of innumerable groups under the same umbrella that will easily pick up the
slack.) The total federal (and, effectively, communist) takeover of
post-secondary education is the real story here.
It is a stunning move, worthy of the most authoritarian of
totalitarian states. It dwarfs in significance the previous takeovers of the
likes of the banking and automotive industries. Under the guise of freeing us
from the corruption of ACORN, it creates in effect a mega-ACORN, encompassing
nearly all of our youth with college aspirations.
Limbaugh noted it in passing, but, characteristically,
only emphasized it in the sense that the feds would now be able to set interest
rates sans competition, utterly ignoring the likelihood that
conservative schools will be put out of business, or the looming "community
service army" factor. I'm an ardent Glenn Beck and Jim Quinn listener, and I
haven't heard either breathe a word on the topic.
This most devastating American legislation ever passed
threatens to turn our progeny into our enemy, spying on us and perhaps even
assaulting us at the behest and whim of an ever stronger dictator (Opinion
Dynamics - even after all the revelations and Tea Parties and Town Halls and the
like - has him at 54% approval - 2% more than he got in the election, Heaven
forbid!). We need to get on our knees and ask, nonstop, for forgiveness and a
miracle.