This one I love. The press release was emailed to me direct from the Libertarian Alliance in what I suspect is a clever and successful way to get bloggers talking about their point of view. No need for me to say anything other than to reproduce the press release in full:
MORE IN THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX: POLITICAL BRAINWASHING OF UK CHILDREN
The Libertarian Alliance, the radical free market and civil liberties policy institute, today denounces the new policy of the British Government to indoctrinate all schoolchildren with the lies of the global warming lobby.According to The Independent newspaper on Friday 2nd February 2006, “The plans, to be published on Monday, will ensure that, for the first time, issues such as climate change and global warming are at the heart of the school timetable. Pupils will also be taught to understand their responsibilities as consumers – and weigh up whether they should avoid travel by air to reduce CO2 emissions and shun food produce imported from the other side of the world because of its impact on pollution.”
Libertarian Alliance Director, Dr Sean Gabb, says:
“This is political indoctrination lifted in all but its content from Soviet Russia. Children are to be taught the at best highly questionable claims of the global warming lobby as if they were facts. They are then to be marked up or down in their examinations according to how well they can
parrot these alleged facts.
“To environmentalism is to be added propaganda about racism and sexism, and every other politically correct obsession. Ten years into the creeping
totalitarianism of New Labour, the final link is to be severed between state schooling and education of children in the values of their parents. From now on, the function of schooling will be to produce a new nation, created in the image of George Monbiot and Yasmin Alibhai Brown.
“Our ruling class has taken to heart the old Jesuit maxim: ‘Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man’. The only difference is that raising the school leaving age will give them the child till he is eighteen.
“The Libertarian Alliance calls on all parents to resist the brainwashing of their children.”
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If you liked that then you will love this:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html
“No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation – the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet – for global warming,” So wrote Seattle parent Frosty Hardison in an e-mail to his local school board on learning that one of his daughters would be watching “An Inconvenient Truth” in her seventh-grade science class. Mr Hardison is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is “one of the signs” of Jesus Christ’s imminent return for Judgment Day. His angry e-mail (along with complaints from a few other parents) stopped the film from being shown to Hardison’s daughter. Indeed the teacher who has planned to show the film said that after Hardison’s e-mail she was told by her principal that she would receive a disciplinary letter for not following school board rules that require her to seek written permission to present “controversial” materials in class.
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