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As an American
citizen or college student attending school in the United
States, your needs are irrelevant; this foreign power determines which issues are
truth, their pertinence or relevancy. Its truth, not the truth, this
is the evil of censorship.
This scenario
finds its origin in fact, not fiction. Republican
Representative Peter Hoeksta of Michigan, the sponsor of HR 3077
serves our higher education system on a platter to the interests
of a foreign country financing and lobbying this resolution. In
effect, our education system becomes occupied territory and our
professors the puppets of a foreign regime prevented financially from
exercising free speech, effectively censoring the classroom, community and press.
On September 17,
2003 the House Subcommittee on Select Education unanimously
approved H.R. 3077, the International Studies in Higher
Education Act. Known as "Title 6," after the article in the
Higher Education Act empowering the government to fund selected
international studies and foreign language centers at
universities. Its grants, up to $500,000 are used to train
experts for national security, government service and educate
the public on international affairs. This act advocates a
seven-member advisory board, similar to a Warren Commission with
the power to recommend cutting federal funding for colleges and
universities that are viewed as harboring academic critics of
the foreign power lobbying this resolution. Simply put, if this
foreign power finds the professor to be teaching anything
failing to fit the agenda or cultivated image that country
wants, the professor may be censored and the school eligible for fines through
the removal of federal funds.
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Our House
Representatives agreed through their passing of HR 3077, on
October 21, 2003 the truth constitutes an acceptable casualty in
favor of this foreign power's vanity. In passing this
resolution, congress blessed a foreign country with the right to
ignore the first amendment rights of Americans and determine
what we teach, speak and write in the United States.
1st Amendment
(Freedom
of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly & Petition)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances. (1791)
And they did this
surreptitiously by not registering who voted for it and who voted
against, protecting the McCarthyites from their constituencies.
Intrinsic to this resolution, now heading for the Senate are
three very serious issues aside from simple curtailment of
speech: Dual Loyalties, Treason and the influence of Special
Interests on our Educational System.
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1. Dual-loyalties:
The House of Representatives is willing to strip Americans of
their constitutional rights, transferring those to a foreign
power with the ability to mold our opinions.
This is not a grassroots
resolution brought about by US citizens concerned over
curriculum. Its supporters and underwriters are lobbying
groups for a single foreign country. Our professors of political
science, history and international law are bound by our own laws
not to lie, defame or purposely mislead. We have laws that
prosecute persons for this. The professors angering this foreign
government speak and teach the truth based upon international
law, documentation, footage and current events. It is a truth
this foreign government does not like. Knowledge of this truth
exposes multiple war crimes
and crimes against humanity, policies once realized and understood
result in Americans hacking the financial umbilical cord for
good. Americans have a history of opposing morally
abhorrent behavior.
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Like most attempts at control, this is about money, keeping it flowing
into foreign
coffers and back into the campaign funds of those serving our
government unquestioning in their support with full solidarity
to this foreign power. Our House prefers to
relinquish American rights for foreign favor, an objective
residing in tyranny: stifle public debate and discussion about
its policies at the root thus eliminating criticism and
investigation. The professors and educators
responsible for teaching America's leaders critical thinking,
factual information and a sound understanding of all affairs,
foreign and domestic provide this information, insight and
varying opinions. Place them on mute and the questions
stop.
When a country invades
another, its leaders, educators and clergy find themselves
endangered species. Educators, academia assist the masses
in understanding their areas of expertise. Kill them or their
message and the population becomes easily manipulated to the
message of those orchestrating the information. With
this censorship through HR 3077, much more is at stake
than appears.
The question to our
congress:
Mr. Congressman, how does this resolution, which keeps
information from the public, censors public debate and requires
a foreign government approve our curriculum and opinions
strengthen the United States and our people?
We see how it strengthens this foreign country by letting
them continue to hide the truth, but how does it help the
American people if our future leaders in national security
and government service are only allowed to learn what a
foreign country wants them to learn? Whose interests are you
protecting, theirs or ours?
2. Treason:
Congress, the Senate and the President of the United States
have one job and one job only:
support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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US Federal Oath of Office:
I do solemnly
swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I
will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take
this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter:
So help me God.
Every Congressman, Senator and the President of the United
States swears this oath of office, instituted in the 1860's. Its
principles as set forth in the US Constitution drafted by Civil
War-era members of Congress are worded specifically with the
intent of ensnaring traitors within our government. Resolution
3077 patently violates this oath and shows the interests of
those in our government pushing it through egregiously failing
in the only job they have: Protect and Defend the US
Constitution. Foregoing American interests in favor of a
foreign agenda is treason. Our House of Representative
sacrificed our rights in favor of the needs and desires of a
foreign country. This resolution does not help Americans.
It helps the foreign country control our free flow of
information and thus our opinions, facts and debate.
Keeping information from the American public never helps us. We
have the right to decide what is good information and what is
bad information. No foreign government, special interest or
lobby under our Constitution is allowed to circumvent this
fundamental right. Any government official who sells our
rights to others, whether for campaign funds, endorsements or
favors neglects his office and places us as a nation
in peril. This is treason. Why would a
representative of our government care what is taught about other
nations in this country? They do not represent that country.
They are not employed by that country. An idea like this
should not matter leaving one to ask, why does it to such an
extent a resolution is drafted to curb discussion? Allowing another country
or its proxy to mold our thoughts and what we learn is placing
us as a nation at risk. Nobody has the right to tell an American how to
think!
Nobody has the right to tell us
what or how we learn.
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The question to our
congress:
How does passing a resolution abridging the freedom of speech
and our right as citizens to openly debate issues support and
defend the First Amendment of the United States which states:
Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech?
According to your oath of office, Mr. Congressman, failing to
protect this right from enemies domestic and in this case
foreign, constitutes treason. Please explain to the American
people why you are sacrificing us by allowing a foreign
government to play thought police and nullify the US Constitution.
3. Undue influence of
Special Interest
on our Education System: Freedom of education represents
a fundamental American value, the cornerstone and bedrock of a
republic.
The strength of a people
directly relates to the level of education, whether formal or
acquired, and its awareness of all aspects surrounding
decisions. Information represents the single most valuable asset
for any country, company or individual. Stifling education and
debate is oral book burning, destroying the book before it can
be written. It is mind control in the most basic sense. The
ability to learn and exchange ideas in a free society is a
right, not a privilege. This country was not built on gag
orders and intimidation. It was built on ideas and ideas need
freedom to flourish.
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The fact that this
resolution exists illustrates how seriously warped our
government's values have become. We the People no longer
exist and if we do, we are an after-thought, a piggy bank or the
building materials of our representative's power and wealth, the
means to their hedonistic ends. The fact that the interests of a
foreign government supercede American rights is astonishing! The
fact that a foreign power holds enough clout over our
representatives for them to consider HR 3077 a good idea,
willingly violate their oath of office and commit treason to
satisfy this single lobby is terrifying.
Does it surprise anyone to discover this foreign country does
not want us discussing this power in any terms other than those
it agrees with?
Will it now require that
political sciences, law and international studies in
Universities be funded by outside sources, simply so Americans
can decide what we learn without being influenced by the agendas
of those out to destroy our Constitutional rights?
The question to our
congress:
Why Mr. Congressman are you allowing a foreign
government to dictate what we teach in our schools?
Why does
this single country have the power to ignore the US Constitution
and enough influence to persuade you into breaking your oath to
us?
HR 3077 isn't the first
resolution to destroy our rights. Capps
II and the Trusted Traveler violate our 4th and 5th
Amendment rights and many others precede these. Their passage
as well, according to the oath of office is treason. Our
rights, the foundations of democracy fall by the wayside, more
every day. In January 2004, the United States achieved a new
milestone. We now fulfill all
fourteen points of Fascism.
This resolution, HR 3077 Orwellian in nature fortifies these
points through the limitation of information and extraction of
meaningful debate.
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Now HR 3077 heads to the Senate and this foreign government
continues to lobby hard and ruthlessly for its passage. They
usually get their way. The last time they didn't involved
the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia in the early 1980's. The
question is, will our senate
support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic by destroying this attack on
our First Amendment? Or will our Senate remain the pawn, the
mouthpiece and Occupied Territory of this foreign insurgent so
many already accuse and believe it to be.
America, if this idea that a
foreign government can dictate what we learn, discuss and debate
in this country angers you, write your Senators today and
express to them under no circumstance will we sacrifice our
freedom of speech to any country, lobby or special interest.
Tell your Senators: No! on HR3077.
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