BRAINWASHING OUR KIDS

The recent flap over Obama's lesson plan is taking on more baggage than he ever expected and I hope the momentum keeps going until the last nail is in his political coffin.

The address he intends to deliver on Tuesday September 8 from the Whitehouse is no more than a socialist rally by the most left administration this nation has ever seen. His address is designed to fit his social engineering plan for us. Let's just take a moment to review the plan for Communism as illustrated by Karl Marx. First control the capital, bank closures and takeover of financial institutions: control production, General Motors a now government institution: finally population control. Do we see any of this here? Yes, of course we do, every one of those three steps are well under way and some already accomplished. The brainwashing of kids is the step that spells the death knell for freedom.

I am reminded of a true experience I had before I retired. I was at the gate in Denver when a fueler entered my cockpit to verify his fuel load. I recognized his accent as Spanish and I inquired as to his origin. The story he related was incredible and a real lesson for us all.

This individual had been a pilot for Cubana Airlines based in Havana. His wife operated a gift shop in the terminal in there. Castro had come from the hills to save Cuba from the ravages of Batista. Most Cubans heralded his arrival as a sort of renaissance. Fidel was the messiah of change. Do we see any parallels in America today?

Our fueler and his wife began to see changes that troubled them. The greatest concern they felt had to do with their children. They noticed that the kids were watching more TV and that the programs featured the face and ramblings of Fidel Castro. Their concerns began to mount into fear of what was happening and they devised a plan to escape before it was too late.

He regularly flew trips that included stops in Miami and on to New York with a layover and returning VIA the same route the following day. On this occasion his wife and family joined him on his trip and the  wife and kids deplaned in Miami. She was ostensibly on a buying trip to Miami for her gift shop. Her husband continued to New York. The day he returned he abandoned his flight in Miami, joined his family and they went into hiding seeking asylum. That family were among the lucky ones and managed to escape from the tyranny of that Communist island nation. Their decision to leave was triggered by the propaganda being fed their children in an attempt to make them "good comrades"

The address to school kids via TV on Tuesday September 8 is not one iota different than the mind warping employed by Mr. Castro in Cuba in the 50s. Let us keep history in our minds as our guides and not let this administration lead us down the the left path to destruction of our basic fabric. A quip recently between Fidel Castro and Chavez was very much an indication of his standing among the communists of the hemisphere. Fidel said "he (Obama) is more left than we are.