All through elementary and high school, whenever I was taught about history, I always had to remember who did what and when. Do they still teach that? Is history and social studies all about remembering names of people, events, and the dates they occurred?
When you learn about Abraham Lincoln, are you taught about what he did? Does it make any difference in your life to learn about only the end results of historical facts? Not one stinking bit!
Do you know all of the books Abraham Lincoln read when he was growing up? Do you know anything about the education and upbringing of our country's founding fathers?
It is the framework of successful minds that must be learned, not the historical achievements of successful minds. Perhaps the reason is simply that all those people who did great things did so because they were rich enough already to have more free time on their hands than the rest of our ancestors who worked in factories.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Leahy’s Truth Commission
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy has convened his Truth Commission. While President Obama publicly stated he wanted to look forward, behind the scenes his staff released dozens of executive memos from the Bush Administration that literally suggested ways to undermine the constitutional rights of American Citizens and the human rights of countless victims around the world.
The notion that the past is behind us is an idea to which very few people subscribe, but they who do are usually not the victims, but associates of the perpetrators. The perpetrators have the luxury of hiding their crimes beneath a blanket of national identity, obscured by the vast bureaucracy of our government.
When the Truth Commission exposes the constitutional violations and identifies those responsible for the pain and suffering of countless victims around the world and here at home, the rest of us will be able to walk in broad daylight knowing we won’t be the victims of retribution.
So, if you have a problem with Senator Leahy’s Truth Commission, please keep a maximum safe distance from the rest of us. Thank you.
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200903/030409a.html
The notion that the past is behind us is an idea to which very few people subscribe, but they who do are usually not the victims, but associates of the perpetrators. The perpetrators have the luxury of hiding their crimes beneath a blanket of national identity, obscured by the vast bureaucracy of our government.
When the Truth Commission exposes the constitutional violations and identifies those responsible for the pain and suffering of countless victims around the world and here at home, the rest of us will be able to walk in broad daylight knowing we won’t be the victims of retribution.
So, if you have a problem with Senator Leahy’s Truth Commission, please keep a maximum safe distance from the rest of us. Thank you.
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200903/030409a.html
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