While reading through the MSM reports this morning I came across yet another example of the slow incremental shift being made in the USA towards the
post national model. All the usual signs were there. The target was children. The means was revisionist. The idea being hidden or erased was once again God and morality.
From
FOXNEWS:
School Removes “God” From Lee Greenwood Song
By Todd Starnes
Parents at a Massachusetts elementary school are furious after educators first removed the word ‘God’ from the popular Lee Greenwood song, “God Bless the U.S.A.” and then pulled the song all together from an upcoming concert.
Fox 25 in Boston is reporting that children at Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham were told to sing, “We love the U.S.A.” instead of “God Bless the U.S.A.”
After parents started complaining, school officials removed the song from the school assembly concert. The school’s principal released a statement to Fox 25 stating they hope to ”maintain the focus on the original objective of sharing students’ knowledge of the U.S. States, and because of logistics, will not include any songs.”
Greenwood released a statement to Fox News condemning the school’s actions.
“The most important word in the whole piece of music is the word God, which is also in the title ‘God Bless The USA,” Greenwood said. “Maybe the school should have asked the parents their thoughts before changing the lyrics to the song. They could have even asked the writer of the song, which I of course, would have said you can’t change the lyrics at all or any part of the song.”
Greenwood said the phrase “God Bless the USA” has a “very important meaning for those in the military and their families, as well as new citizens coming into our country.” He said it’s also played at every naturalization ceremony behind the national anthem.
“If the song is good enough to be played and performed in its original setting under those circumstances, it surely should be good enough for our children,” Greenwood said.
An online poll taken by the television station indicated more than 80 percent of viewers were outraged by removing God from the song.
“I don’t have a problem with the song if somebody else does I guess it’s there business,” resident Patrick Grudier said. “I mean It’s on our currency (God).”
But not everyone agreed – including parent Matthew Cote.
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with changing the song,” he told the television. “It’s a public school. If you want to have the word God in the song, go to a private school.”
Reaction on Facebook has been overwhelmingly in favor of the traditional patriotic song.
“Here we go again, more war on Christianity,” wrote one Facebook user. “You can remove God all you want, but the good news — there is still a loving God and He lives.”
Another Facebook user called it sad and disgusting. “I’d like to say unbelievable — but it is so totally believable.”
LEE GREENWOOD’S STATEMENT TO TODD STARNES
“Maybe the school should have asked the parents their thoughts before changing the lyrics to the song. They could have even asked the writer of the song, which I of course would have said you can’t change the lyrics at all or any part of the song. The most important word in the whole piece of music is the word God, which is also in the title God Bless The USA. We can’t take God out of the song, we can’t take God out of The Pledge of Allegiance, we can’t take God off of the American currency. Let us also remember, the phrase God Bless the USA has a very important meaning for those in the military and their families, as well as new citizens coming to our Country. The song is played at every naturalization ceremony behind The National Anthem. If the song is good enough to played and performed in its original setting under those circumstances, it surely should be good enough for our children.” – Lee Greenwood
My thoughts?
'Love it, or leave it!' An expression I have heard many times from American friends over the years.
No, it was not directed at yours truly, who was at best a long term guest of that Republic. A student for a while, a working resident, but never with the intention of becoming American, staying, or somehow ALTERING the path of that nation.
It was a saying that meant people who lived in that country should embrace it's history, traditions and purpose, or find somewhere more suitable to live. Those people who did not share the 'American dream' where asked politely to leave; or sometimes abruptly, asked to not let 'the door hit them in the ass' as they left. This included but was not limited people born in the USA.
You might think, as a British Canadian, this idea would seem offensive to me?
On the contrary.
It was one of the most endearing characteristics of the place and her people. The Americans were proud of who they were in those glory days.
There was none of the self-loathing that is so apparent in the modern American (and most Western) culture. True, sometimes it seemed to blind the US to the obvious, and other times it has been the source for revisionist nonsense and 'hero worship' cults of personality - but in all, it seemed to me, a strength, not a weakness.
Sadly, this saying and the sentiment that drove it on seem to be waning. The globalist / internationalist garbage being taught to children all over the western world seems to be bearing it's toxic fruit in the form of educators. Time and again we see the education systems of this grand nation removing all the underpinning values of the Union.
Family is attacked, under the pretence of 'tolerance'. Equality and racial harmony are attacked under the pretence of 'diversity'. Faith and religion are attacked under the pretence of science. These are all pretensions. That is to say, they are deceptions born of an arrogant and increasingly naked agenda of a growing cadre of people who wish to eliminate the connections of the students to the principles and traditions of the 'nation state'; in the case at hand we are specifically discussing the USA.
Find it hard to believe? Have a look over the 'pond' to the 'EU'. Ask your German, British, Dutch, or French friends what they are taught about their own history. Ask them about the 'shame', and how patriotism is seen as 'rude' and 'crass'. Ask them what a 'right winger' is.
It may still be acceptable to be 'right' here in the New World, if somewhat rebellious and considered counter to 'progress' - but try it in the UK or many other nations in the EU. They will put you on a watch list.
We may have people in the peer reviewed academic circles suggesting that people who do not buy into certain globalist policies should be medicated or even institutionalized, as
Prof Gorpy Face suggests. But you can still get a job or run for politics if you stand against such policies as global eugenics, the 'green' (resettlement and pop reduction) programs, increased prison capacities, more laws, more tax etc etc. Well, almost any job.
Some positions are a little more 'protected' and insular than others. The academia is a prime example of this self perpetuating political wave. I could not begin to state how profound of a shift I have seen visiting and working with my US colleagues. Once proud and loud pals are now very quite, and speak of their ideas in whispered tones - afraid of being called 'conspiracy nuts' or 'flat earthers'. Worse still, they might be called 'racist' or 'elitists' for suggesting that race should not be a basis for special treatment or special punishment. But by WHO you might ask, would suggest.
Ironically it is by the racist elite who call themselves 'liberal' and 'progressive'.
Week after week my inbox is filled with emails from these friends who send me links to articles about imbalance, misdirection, Machiavellian and Hegelian power grabs. The trend seems to have a common thread or spine.
The plotting, cliquish attacks, and legalese bullying all seems to be aimed at the traditional, functional, and practical aspects of the US Republic.
I could catalogue many of these events here, but I would suggest you have read about most of them - but perhaps never with an over all picture in mind. They are the things that make you think: "What the hell is going on with the world? Has the country gone CRAZY?"
From trying to remove the flag and crosses/stars from a war memorial site, to mass marches of people with foreign flags in the US capital, to people marrying THEMSELVES, to the government forcing insurance mandates on the populace and morality on the Churches, to the general war on faith, honour, tradition, and morality.
Whether it is sexualizing children in the class room, or vilifying past glories; espousing collectivism, or pushing for 'gun control'; pushing a favoured 'science', or directly mocking a child's traditional faith - the schools seem to be in the general business of erasing the exceptionalism that has characterized the national ideology of the USA (and indeed many Western nations). That is to say, they do not want you to think your special or exceptional in any way, unless you meet their ideological standards.
Once you do, you are ALL special.
Meritocracy is replaced by conditioned OBEDIENCE.
This egalitarianism is blatantly globalist in it's ambitions. It is a brain-child of such organizations as the UN.
So? Break down the nation, destroy the faith, redefine morality, in order to create WHAT?
The dreaded 'NWO'? A new Power-Block? Reinforce an elite? Or just for the sheer HELL of it?
No matter the reasoning, which is a straw man anyway, the point is it must be stopped.
Americans, Canadians, Britons, and all civilized nations must arrest these trends and reassert the REAL meaning of the term 'progress'.
The need is to take the minds of our children back from these tools; to FREE them of this ideological racism, elitism, and barbarous culture of death being spewed at them in class rooms and colleges across the US and Canada.
