back off, man

[Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>]

Dear visionaries,

Tom Hansen asks for a specific instance where the schools refused
voluntary assistance from a well-intending parent. Before doing so,
mindful of what Doug Jones aptly labeled as the paradigm issues involved
here, let me ask for a definition of "well-intended." What does
it mean? In full agreement with the MEA? Docile? On Ritilin like the
kids?

Carl Westberg wanted me to give credit where credit is due for the Latin,
which I am happy to do. Agite, Vandales! The Vandals being a
barbarian tribe, I just made up a vocative for them.

Mary Jo Hamilton says that my claim to be speaking "cost free"
is baloney, and points to the tax immunity of churches. Notice the
legerdemain. When a private entity gets to keep its own money, this is
called a subsidy from the government. If a mugger in the alley
didn't get to the twenty dollars in my shoe, is that my birthday present
from him? And when privately earned money is taken by force to subsidize
an education in a worldview I reject, that must be a contribution or
something. Here is the basic question: is it possible for the government
to ever be guilty of theft?

And now, to the issue of propaganda. I am sorry for the Latin again, but
propaganda simply means that which is to be propagated. I agree
that the phrase public schools is a widely accepted phrase, one
used by those who seek to propagate the notion that the schools
are worldview neutral -- a nice, grassy public place like East City Park,
where butterflies meander and pleasant things happen all day long. The
phrase government schools is gaining currency, particularly among
those who see that the government owns them, runs them, taxes us to pay
for them, and inculcates in them the prevailing democratic ideology of
the regime. We want to propagate this view of things, believing it
to be accurate. So sure, the phrase is our "propaganda." But I
would deny the pejorative connotations the term has picked
up--connotations of deceptive and empty words. Douglas Wilson's house is
a reasonable description of the house I own. What would you call a school
owned by the government? 

And, since nobody ever addressed the real issues in my previous post, was
Pravda simply a public newspaper?