Sex Research Group Linked to Pedophiles Granted UN Recognition

NEW YORK, January 24 (C-FAM): An academic group whose research was obtained from pedophiles and launched the sexual revolution in the U.S. has received accreditation by the United Nations.

The infamous Kinsey Report was the basis for relaxing attitudes and penalties for sex crimes against women and children, and for comprehensive sexual education that teaches small children about sexual acts.

This week the Kinsey Institute went before the UN committee that accredits groups to participate in the UN. This comes as abortion groups are lobbying for comprehensive sex education to be a major part of the UN’s policy agenda and development work.

Alfred Kinsey claimed children are sexual from infancy. His primary sources were adult men who recorded details of their sexual contacts with children for his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

One man provided Kinsey details of his abuse from 1917 to 1948, shown in Table 34 in Kinsey’s book. It records the number of “orgasms” in certain time periods by children as young as 5 months up to 14 years.

Orgasm is defined as “violent convulsions,” “sobbing, or more violent cries, sometimes with an abundance of tears (especially among younger children),” “excruciating pain,” “will fight away from the partner and may make violent attempts to avoid climax although they derive definite pleasure from the situation.”

Another Kinsey source beginning in 1943 – during WWII – was a German Nazi officer, Fritz von Balluseck who in 1957 was convicted of abusing children for over 30 years. The judge reportedly said, “I had the impression that you got to the children in order to impress Kinsey and to deliver him material.”

Kinsey claimed 95 percent of men committed sexual crimes, so society should redefine “normal” and reduce penalties for sex offenses. He testified on behalf of child molesters and his work helped change laws to be lenient on sex offenses.

“Of course, we knew when we interviewed the pedophiles that they would continue the activity, but we didn’t do anything about that,” Paul Gebhard, a Kinsey associate, told a newspaper. “There couldn’t have been any research if we turned them in.”

Gebhard, who became director of The Kinsey Institute, later said, “It was illegal and we knew it was illegal and that’s why a lot of people are furious.”

Kinsey assured “his informants of anonymity” and avoided “any value judgments of their behavior,” stated Kinsey Institute director John Bancroft.

One victim of a Kinsey child molester has come forward. When “Esther White” (a pseudonym) was 9, she found a sheet of paper “and my father was checking off things he was doing to me.” After Kinsey interviewed Esther, he handed her grandfather a check for about $6,000.

In 1964, The Kinsey Institute launched SIECUS to promote Kinsey’s ideology through sex education. SIECUS already has UN recognition and has become very influential there. SIECUS’ Comprehensive Sexuality Education teaches 5-year olds about masturbation, and engaging in sexual behavior with others shows caring.

The Kinsey Institute provides scholarships honoring John Money, a pioneer of “gender identity” and responsible for the sex “reassignment” of an infant told in the book The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl. The boy ultimately committed suicide. Money’s gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital was shut down by his successor.

The homosexual group ILGA lost its UN accreditation in 1993 due to its links to groups that promote pedophilia.

Wiki-leaked document titled “Pedophilia Certification,” shows the U.S. conducted a “thorough review” in 2010 and UN agencies certified that none had accredited any organization that promotes or condones pedophilia.

EDITORS NOTE: This column was written by Wendy Wright, Vice President for Government Relations and Communications, C-FAM.

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Open letter to FL Gov. Rick Scott: Common Core amounts to “Felony Assault of Child Abuse”

The implementation of Common Core State Standards in Florida is a heated topic. A growing number of parents, teachers, educators and concerned citizens are standing against its implementation. Over 25 county Republican Executive Committees and the Republican Party of Florida have passed resolutions against Common Core. Florida Governor Rick Scott has tried to silence the opposition but has failed so far. Even when the Florida Department of Education changed the name of common core to “Florida Standards”, we called it putting lipstick on a pig.

There are indications that if Scott does not state firmly that he is against Common Core and support FL Rep. Debbie Mayfield‘s proposed legislation HB 25, which stops implementation until certain actions are taken, he will lose his base. The same base that got him elected Governor as the non-establishment candidate. Governor Scott is up for reelection in November and some see his failure to oppose Common Core as pandering to teachers unions and Jeb Bush supporters for votes. His pandering strategy may backfire.

To understand just how angry people are we decided to post one of the dozens of email letters being sent to Governor Scott. The letters were prompted by a column we posted titled, “FL Governor Rick Scott pressures Republicans to not oppose Common Core.

Don Kempus from Orlando, in an open letter sent to Governor Rick Scott, states “Implementation of the CCSS amounts to Felony Assault of child abuse on the Charges to be  brought upon you as individuals and as legislators.” Kempus signs the letter as a “Patriot,  Oathkeeper and John Birch Society member.” When asked if he will file a lawsuit against Governor Scott, Kempus replied, “I will not file a lawsuit, but will be filing criminal charges thru a grand jury in the near future.”

Following is the full text of the Kempus letter sent to us.

Dear Governor

It seems to me that all, and I mean all of the current crop of so-called legislators (people who act upon but never read their bills they vote on) ,  don’t have the least bit of idea what the end result of the common core standards are about or what they will do to the school children of this state. Why not call a SPADE, a SPADE.? All you guys care about is getting money to be reelected and don’t give one iota about the children being affected by your actions. Implementation of the CCSS amounts to Felony Assault of child abuse on the Charges to be  brought upon you as individuals and as legislators. When the kids start graduating ( merely being passed thru) from high school to college, I guarantee you they will come back and sue all of you for the lack of an adequate education to live a life of freedom, liberty and a pursuit to happiness that will never be enjoyed due to their inherently taught ignorance of history and COMMON SENSE LIVING . You all should be ashamed of yourselves for implementing a program that you know absolutely nothing about. You have been sold a bill of goods from that socialist Jeb Bush who is making a ton of money and soliciting prestige for his connections while forcing the issue on implementing the CCSS. To me, this is treasonous extortion and blackmail. Goes along with his other crimes of fraud, deceit and theft of the public trust.

I defy any of you to give a brief explanation of the CCSS and what it is teaching our kids in the critical thought process without notes and in person.  It has been proven that they are being taught to come up with answers that have no correct answers to them. There are seniors coming out and openly decrying the damage this system is doing to their educational psyche. They are begging you to stop it now. The sad part about this is, you legislators are not listening. The kids are starting to cry to their parents about the problems with trying to learn something that has no answers. You have a bunch of egocentric state and federal government legislators forcing their will for the sake of the almighty dollar in their pockets. Over the past 100 years, we have taught a classical education strong enough to enable 4  generations of individuals to accomplish the impossible, make great advances in science, industry, medical  and strides in the health and welfare of the American people and created the greatest nation ever to live in the history of mankind. It was not until the Federal government put their fingers on the education of our children that the system began to fail. Add in the legislation of non-educators and we were on a road to ruination.

We put people on the moon for God’s sake and sent them countless times into space and back. This was not due to some Marxist/socialist, homocysteic and fascist ideology that is hell bent on destroying that which has made us great. This was done on the back of a hard working, capitalistic, free society that had hope, love and compassion for their fellow man and a strong will to do the right thing.  Now you want to openly coerce your local political organizations not to oppose a system that is proven to be destroying your kid’s education.  WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN,  WHERE IS THEIR VOICE?  WHO WILL LOOK OUT FOR THEM!!! I can tell you that many parents are waking up and you will eventually be sued for your gross negligence and malfeasance of office. We can prove that the CCSS is not state led, but extorted into place by a federal government that is openly extorting your permission to implement the program by dangling a few dollars in front of your noses.    Tell them to keep it and change how you measure the amount that the State of Florida should be paying to the Federal overreach. Do not pay them for overstepping their bounds.     The Federal DOJ is now going to tell you how to discipline our school children? What’s next? Telling the parents how to raise the children! Taking the kids and sending them off to factories and fields to do the work of slaves!! To what end? All for the rich corporate snobs that contribute illegal contributions is outrageous quantities to your so-called Super PACS. This will stop soon in the future as well. We are being made aware of the fraud and deceit in this program as well and will be fighting to change it. It is time as one potential Republican, Joshua Black said,  “ It is time to call out the government regulators and president for their treasonous actions, convict their guilt and have them openly hanged.” After we clean out Washington, we should also clean out the state and local frauds and liars as well.  Florida is a political disgrace. I also think we need to clean out the Curry’s and Scotts (removal of Finch without proper cause and investigation) out of office as well. They don’t have the right to silence and remove someone from the party, but have a right not to listen to them is they choose. Their latest actions are far worse than Mr. Black’s open truthful comments.

I urge you to pass Debbie Mayfield’s HB 25 and later get on the bandwagon to stop the Federal government’s projected attempts to take away our 2nd Amendment rights and not allow them to go to the U.N. We will not register our arms nor will we give them up to lawless regulations and legislators.  REMEMBER IT IS THE CHILDREN WHOM WE ARE LEGISLATING FOR, NOT JEB BUSH, NOT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND CERTAINLY NOT THE CORPORATE WORLD.    It boils down to who is more important,  Common Core or The Children????

Don Kepus,
Patriot,  Oathkeeper and John Birch Society member
Orlando, Florida

Governor Rick Scott was in Orlando last year to address the Americans For Prosperity 7th Annual Defending the American Dream Summit. Near the end of his prepared remarks he addressed education in Florida. At that point the shouts to “stop Common Core” became louder and louder. At one point the entire room of over 1,000 attendees began to applaud those heckling Governor Scott about Common Core.

Please watch Governor Scott’s remarks at the AFP summit. At 15:30 minutes into his talk he mentions education, at that point the heckling against Common Core began:

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On January 20, 2014 the Republican Party of Duval County Voted unanimously to Oppose Common Core Education Standards. Here is the official statement and video of event:

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White Paper: Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement

Lately, the gay movement seems to be making large gains in its war on America’s Judeo-Christian culture. Gay characters have become the norm on sitcoms; it has become fashionable to attack the Boy Scouts; homosexual propaganda inundates many of our public schools; nearly all the mainstream religious denominations have “revised” their understanding of Biblical teaching concerning homosexuality; and the gay “rights” legislative agenda is succeeding beyond the advocates’ wildest imaginations.

And yet the destructive impact homosexuality has upon Western Civilization is rarely discussed by columnists, reporters, religious leaders, politicians or by anyone else for that matter. Even some conservative publications choose to ignore the issue and instead have published articles arguing for greater tolerance of the gay lifestyle.

Indeed, on the homosexual issue, conservatives seem divided between a “live and let live” attitude and one that concludes that the homosexual agenda will have to be curtailed if the Judeo-Christian culture is to survive. However, overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our culture. A vast amount of data demonstrating the deviant nature of the gay lifestyle is ignored by the media as well as the leadership of the psychological, psychiatric, and medical professions.

It is difficult to convey the dark side of the homosexual culture without appearing harsh. However, it is time to acknowledge that homosexual behavior threatens the foundation of Western civilization ─ the nuclear family. An unmistakable manifestation of the attack on the family unit is the homosexual community’s efforts to target children both for their own sexual pleasure and to enlarge the homosexual movement. The homosexual community and its allies in the media scoff at this argument. They insist it is merely a tactic to demonize the homosexual movement. After all, they argue, heterosexual molestation is a far more serious problem.

Unfortunately, the truth is stranger than fiction. Research confirms that homosexuals molest children at a rate vastly higher than heterosexuals, and the mainstream homosexual culture commonly promotes sex with children. Homosexual leaders repeatedly argue for the freedom to engage in consensual sex with children, and blind surveys reveal a shockingly high number of homosexuals admit to sexual contact with minors. Indeed, the homosexual community is driving the worldwide campaign to lower the legal age of consent.

This trend comes at the expense of our children’s safety. The incident in Los Angeles involving group homes operated by the Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) exemplifies this danger. GLASS receives taxpayer monies to take in troubled youth referred to them by the social service departments of various southern counties in California.

GLASS’s own website should have been warning enough. GLASS believes that some children are born gay (a view not backed by any science) and announced that they target “youth who are confused about their sexual identities.” The website links to a myriad of gay sites targeting the youth, including one promoting a book that promotes sex with children. GLASS’s founder and former executive director, Teresa DeCrescenzo, edited a book that helps youth discover their homosexuality.

It came as no surprise that the California Department of Social Services found “on numerous occasions beginning at least as early as 1994, adults affiliated with GLASS, including staff members, members of the GLASS board of directors and volunteers, sexually abused or molested children who were placed with GLASS.” The Department of Social Services found that DeCrescenzo, aware of the allegations of molestation, determined staff conduct not to be inappropriate. Apparently, DeCrescenzo believes molestation is part of the “coming out” process that she glorifies in her writings.

One would think that a molestation factory disguised as a group home would be a good reason for the State of California to shut down the whole GLASS group home operation. Remarkably, the state of California, allowing GLASS to continue operation, removed a few individuals and placed GLASS on probation. Even though additional molestation incidents occurred at GLASS facilities in 1999, they remain in operation until this day.

A Los Angeles Times investigation found that, in some cases, “it appears authorities never fully investigated those reports.” Indeed, not one person has been charged with child molestation or endangerment by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer, an avid promoter of the gay agenda. After all, that would be hateful. If such a group home were operated by heterosexuals, the facilities would be shut down, any existing licenses revoked, and numerous criminal charges filed.

Homosexuals are targeting not just youth group homes, but all groups that work with youth. When a California family sued the Scouts in 1993 for exposing their son to a Scout leader who molested him, the Scouts were ordered to turn over 25,000 pages of documents to the plaintiff. This unprecedented glimpse into the world of Scout pedophiles revealed that thousands of boys had been molested by Scout leaders and other volunteers between 1971 and 1991 resulting in the expulsion of over 1,800 Scout volunteers for pedophile activity. The documents show that some Scout leaders molested over forty boys before getting caught and that many, once caught, simply moved to a different Scout troop and continued abusing boys.

Gay activists have spun the Scout molestation epidemic as a heterosexual problem. Examination of many of the higher profile cases, however, reveals that Scout molesters are attracted exclusively to boys and many lead mainstream gay lifestyles. John Hemstreet is a typical example. Hemstreet is a convicted child molester, former Boy Scout leader, and currently the President of the Toledo, Ohio chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). PFLAG is one of the groups leading the nationwide attack on the Boy Scouts of America.

Incredibly, the pro-pedophile group, North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which calls itself a homosexual group, wrote a letter to the national Scout office urging “the Boy Scouts of America to cease its discrimination against openly gay or lesbian persons in the appointment of its scoutmasters and scouters and in its membership. This will permit scouts to be exposed to a variety of lifestyles and will permit more of those individuals who genuinely wish to serve boys to do so.”

Using twisted logic, pro-gay academics argue in various social science journals that the molestation of boys is not a gay lifestyle issue and that such men are not really homosexuals. It is simply amazing that gay propagandists and sexology “experts” are successfully bamboozling the public and the media into believing that a man’s exclusive focus on young males should not be defined as homosexuality! But if an exclusive attraction of a male to other males of any age is not homosexuality, what is?

On one hand, homosexuals publicly claim that the molestation of boys is not part of the homosexual lifestyle. On the other, they are quietly establishing the legal parameters exempting the molestation of boys from prosecution on anti-discrimination grounds. For example, in Nevada a forty-two year-old man was arrested for molesting a sixteen year-old boy but was not charged by the district attorney. The reason given was that to do so would “discriminate against a class of people.” The deputy district attorney added that to charge the man “would be singling out homosexuals.” For years, conservatives have argued that so called anti-discrimination laws would eventually lead to granting legal protections for various homosexual deviances. It appears that time is coming sooner than expected.

Research on the homosexual lifestyle confirms it is almost exclusively a youth oriented culture. Very few gays exhibit a preference for older men. Some admit to a focus on teenage boys, some on prepubescent boys, and many cross over between categories. All are subsets of the homosexual deviancy. Moreover, most pedophiles consider themselves to be gay. In a 1988 study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, 86% of pedophiles described themselves as homosexual or bisexual. Child prostitution expert Dr. Jennifer James reports that the number of boy prostitutes who identify themselves as homosexuals has risen from 10% to 60% in the last fifteen years.

Most of the public is by now aware of NAMBLA, a group that openly promotes sex with minor boys and claims that boy-lovers respond to the needs of the boys they love. NAMBLA is currently the target of a class action lawsuit by parents of children molested and, in one case, murdered by individuals associated with NAMBLA. Publicly, the mainstream gay organizations distance themselves from NAMBLA. Clearly, this is merely a public relations ploy as the gay leadership realizes its agenda would suffer greatly if the public knew the truth.

The reality is that NAMBLA not only describes itself as part of the gay rights coalition, but its literature states that one of its goals is “cooperating with the lesbian, gay, and other movements for sexual liberation.” NAMBLA even “provide[s] financial and other assistance to GLB [Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual] youth organizations . . . .” Indeed, some NAMBLA chapters meet at mainstream gay centers such as Philadelphia’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center. NAMBLA’s meetings and conferences always feature mainstream gay leaders and speakers. For example, Don Kilhefner, of the Los Angeles Gay Community Service Center, gave a speech to Los Angeles NAMBLA members on the subject of “The Significance of Man/Boy Love in the Gay Community.”

The most comprehensive gay networking website, the Queer Resource Directory (www.qrd.org), links every gay group in the country including NAMBLA and other homosexual groups that focus on youth. NAMBLA marches in gay pride parades with the consent of the gay leadership. Many of the homosexual movement’s most prominent leaders endorse NAMBLA and its goals. Gay authors and leaders such as Allen Ginsberg, Gayle Rubin, Larry Kramer (founder of ACT-UP), Pat Califia, Jane Rule, Michael Kearns, and Michel Foucault have all written in favor of either NAMBLA or man-boy relationships. Harry Hay, whom many consider the founder of the American homosexual movement, invited NAMBLA members to march with him in the 1993 “March on Washington” gay rights parade. He also marched in the 1986 Los Angeles gay parade wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words “NAMBLA walks with me.”

Leading mainstream homosexual newspapers and magazines such as the Advocate, Edge, Metroline, The Guide, and The San Francisco Sentinel have not only published pro-NAMBLA articles and columns but also many have editorialized in favor of NAMBLA and sex with children. The editor of The Guide, Ed Hougen, stated in an interview with Lambda Report, “I believe they [NAMBLA] are generally interested in the right of young people to be sexual . . . . I am glad there is a group like NAMBLA that is willing to be courageous.” The San Francisco Sentinel was more blunt: “NAMBLA’s position on sex is not unreasonable, just unpopular. [W]hen a 14 year old gay boy approaches a man for sex, it’s because he wants sex with a man.”

There is also the matter of NAMBLA’s membership status in the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), recognized at one time by the United Nations as the official Non-Government Organization (NGO) representing the gay community worldwide. When NAMBLA’s ILGA membership became public, a whirlwind of international controversy erupted. Some gay leaders viewed this attention as harmful to the gay movement’s image and goals and urged the expulsion of NAMBLA for purely political purposes.

However, the media failed to report that ILGA itself had hosted workshops on pedophilia and passed resolutions in 1985, 1988, and 1990 to abolish age of consent laws claiming that “same sex age of consent laws often operate to oppress and not to protect” and supported “the right of every individual, regardless of age, to explore and develop her or his sexuality.”

Eventually, reacting to congressional legislation threatening the reduction of $119 million in financial support, the United Nations kicked out ILGA in 1995 for refusing to sever ties with a half dozen member groups that advocated or promoted pedophilia. Revealingly, even though ILGA did expel NAMBLA (many say it was for show), it could not muster enough support among its membership to expel other more powerful and discreet pro-pedophile organizations from Germany and other countries. It is extremely revealing that the majority of members of the world’s leading homosexual coalition, the ILGA, decided they would rather be excluded from UN deliberations than vote out groups that advocate sex with children.

Aside from support for NAMBLA by the mainstream gay community, there is a wealth of evidence that homosexuals are the prime force behind the escalating child molestation epidemic. Indeed, over the last fifteen years the homosexual community and its academic allies have published a large quantity of articles that claim sex with children is not harmful to children but, as stated in one homosexual journal, “constitute an aspect of gay and lesbian life.” Such articles have appeared in pro-homosexual academic journals such as The Journal of Homosexuality, The Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and The International Journal of Medicine and Law. The editorial board of the leading pedophile academic journal, Paidika, is dominated by prominent homosexual scholars such as San Francisco State University professor John DeCecco, who happens to edit the Journal of Homosexuality.

Indeed, the Journal of Homosexuality is the premier academic journal of the mainstream homosexual world and yet it published a special double issue entitled, Male Intergenerational Intimacy, containing dozens of articles portraying sex between men and minor boys as loving relationships. One article states that parents should view the pedophile who loves their son “not as a rival or competitor, not as a theft of their property, but as a partner in the boy’s upbringing, someone to be welcomed into their home.”

Similarly, mainstream gay publications make no effort to hide their pro-pedophilia views. For example, BLK, a leading black homosexual publication, defended pedophilia with an article entitled, “Must Men Who Love Boys Be Guilty of Sexual Misconduct?” San Francisco’s leading homosexual newspaper, The Sentinel, bluntly editorialized, “The love between man and boys is at the foundation of homosexuality.”

In 1995, the homosexual magazine Guide stated:

We can be proud that the gay movement has been home to the few voices who have had the courage to say out loud that children are naturally sexual, that they deserve the right to sexual expression with whoever they choose . . . [w]e must listen to our prophets. Instead of fearing being labeled pedophiles, we must proudly proclaim that sex is good, including children’s sexuality . . . . We must do it for the children’s sake.
Without equivocating, the Guide is saying that gays must molest children for their own sake!

While the mainstream media has apparently refused to engage in any kind of investigative expose of the gay movement, it is not difficult to find support for child sex among key homosexual leaders in their publications and literature. For example, the founder of the infamous homosexual group, ACT-UP, Larry Kramer, wrote in his book, Report from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist, “In those instances where children do have sex with their homosexual elders, be they teachers or anyone else, I submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps even solicits it.”

In a letter to the editor of a gay newspaper, Andy Humm, a key leader of one of America’s largest gay youth groups, Advocates for Youth, said, “No one should be denied basic civil rights because of his or her orientation, whether the person be homosexual, heterosexual, transsexual, transvestite, pedophile, sadist, masochist, asexual, whatever one can imagine . . . . They are in themselves natural variations.”

A 1995 content analysis by Dr. Judith Reisman of the Institute for Media Education, focusing on advertisements in the nation’s most influential homosexual newspaper, The Advocate, reveals that 63% of the personal ads sought or offered prostitution. Many of them openly solicit boys. The Advocate also advertises a “Penetrable Boy Doll . . . available in 3 provocative positions.” Reisman found that the number of erotic boy images per issue of The Advocate averaged fourteen. Some homosexual publications, such as the southern Californian newspaper Update, are brazen enough to advertise for donations for the legal costs of homosexuals arrested for child molestation.

Indeed, NAMBLA and other pro-pedophile literature can be found wherever homosexuals congregate (homosexual bookstores, bathhouses, festivals, gay bars, etc.). When Americans for Truth About Homosexuality leader Peter LaBarbera asked the manager of one of Boston’s leading gay bookstores, Glad Day Bookshop, to quit selling pedophile literature he replied, “Our policy is to sell everything that’s available to the [gay] community.”

The owner of a prominent Philadelphia gay bookstore, Giovanni’s Room, pulled NAMBLA’s literature off its shelves only due to boycott threats but commented, “I think it’s a strange day for gay culture when we start banning something because it makes us uncomfortable . . . especially when that thing is a foundation of gay literature. If we pulled all the books that had adult-youth sexual themes, we wouldn’t have many novels, memoirs, or biographies left.”

The most popular gay fiction books on the market today are rich with idyllic accounts of intergenerational relationships according to writer Philip Guichard in a Village Voice article. Doubleday published a book in 1998, The Gay Canon: Great Books Every Gay Man Should Read, which recommends numerous works that portray sex with boys in a positive manner. The Border bookstore chain sells a book, A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, which includes a chapter devoted to the history of pro-pedophile literature as an indisputable part of homosexual literary history.

The Gay Men’s Press publishes a best seller list on which appear such books as Dares to Speak: History and Contemporary Perspectives on Boy-Love, Some Boys, and For a Lost Soldier. All these books can only be described as pro-pedophile. The authoritative Encyclopedia of Homosexuality claims to acknowledge, “the fact that until very recently man/boy love relationships were accepted as a part, and indeed were a major part, of male homosexuality.” The leading dictionary of the homosexual culture, The Queens’ Vernacular, lists 254 of its 12,000 words as having to do with sex with boys.

One of the nation’s largest publishers of homosexual literature and books, Alyson Publications, also publishes pro-pedophile books such as Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men. This book contains detailed instructions for homosexuals on how to avoid discovery and arrest when having sex with boys: “Avoid situations where a number of men are having sex with the same boy, or group of boys, over a period of time.” Unknown to most people, Alyson Publications is also probably America’s largest provider of pro-gay literature and reading material to public schools. Unfortunately, this market is growing at a tremendous pace. The infamous Heather has Two Mommies, currently being used in many public school systems to educate children about homosexuality, is an Alyson Publications book.

Even the alleged birthplace of the modern day homosexual movement, the Stonewall Bar in New York City, was notorious as a place where older homosexuals arranged to meet young boys for sex.

“Mainstream” homosexual conferences commonly feature speeches about intergenerational sex as it is now called. For example, at one of the nation’s largest homosexual gatherings, the annual National Gay Lesbian Task Force convention, featured a workshop at its 2001 confab entitled, Your Eyes Say Yes But the Law Says No, which included a speech by an S&M activist about laws affecting intergenerational sex. The convention also featured another workshop entitled Drag 101: How to Turn Kids in Make-up into Kings and Queens.

Pick up any gay newspaper or gay travel publication and one finds ads for sex tours to Burma, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and other countries infamous for boy prostitution. Published exposés on such tours by former homosexuals reveal that thousands of American gay men are patronizing boy prostitutes around the world. The most popular travel guide for homosexuals, Spartacus Gay Guides, is replete with information about where to find boys for sex and, as a friendly warning, lists penalties in various countries for sodomy with boys if caught.

The government of Sri Lanka announced that more than 10,000 boy prostitutes work its beaches as a result of the high demand created by affluent Western homosexuals. But the dirty little secret of the American homosexual community is the thousands of boy prostitutes who service them within our borders. A book exposing the boy prostitution world, For Money or Love, Boy Prostitution in America, reveals that boys are selling themselves not only in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, and New Orleans, but also in smaller towns across the country. In street jargon, the boys are known as “chickens” and their customers are known as “chickenhawks.”

Homosexual Internet sites are no different. A quick search using the words “gay” and “boys” easily locates thousands of homosexual sites that promote sex with young boys and/or contain child pornography. Indeed, it is the mainstream homosexual groups who filed suit to block Virginia Legislation, passed in 2001, restricting Internet use that proves harmful to children (such as chat rooms commonly used by pedophiles to find victims). Similarly, a pedophile’s conviction in Iowa for showing pornographic videos to five minor boys sparked widespread protests from homosexual activists when the conviction was upheld on appeal by the Iowa Supreme Court.

The Holy Grail of the pedophile movement is the lowering or elimination of all age of consent laws. The main warriors in this political and legal battle are “mainstream” homosexual groups. Robert Knight and Frank York of the Family Research Council have thoroughly documented this in a report. “As far back as 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations adopted a ‘gay rights platform’ that included a demand to ‘repeal all laws governing the age of sexual consent.’”

It is homosexual activists within the United Nations who are lobbying to give sexual rights to underage children. In England, the campaign is being led by Outrage! and Stonewall, both homosexual organizations. The Dutch homosexual group, Association for the Integration of Homosexuality, has succeeded in lowering the age of legal sex to twelve in Holland. Assisting them was another homosexual group, the COC, which stated:

The liberation of pedophilia must be viewed as a gay issue . . . [and that] ages of consent should therefore be abolished . . . by acknowledging the affinity between homosexuality and pedophilia, the COC has quite possible made it easier for homosexual adults to become more sensitive to the erotic desires of younger members of their sex, thereby broadening gay identity.

In Canada, the effort is led by homosexual activist and NAMBLA defender Gerald Hannon. In America, aside from NAMBLA, the effort is supported by most of the major homosexual organizations such as the National Gay Task Force. Indeed, the annual homosexual “March on Washington” invariably releases a “statement of demands” which includes abolishing age of consent laws. Homosexuals in Hawaii have already successfully lowered the age of consent there to fourteen. To be frank, it is difficult to find an advocate of lowering the age of consent laws in the United States or elsewhere who is not a homosexual activist.

What then does the academic literature say about the relationship between homosexuality and child molestation? Quite a bit, actually. Scientific studies confirm a strong pedophilic predisposition among homosexuals.

Family Research Institute founder and psychologist Paul Cameron, reviewing more than nineteen different academic reports and peer reviewed studies in a 1985 Psychological Reports article, found that homosexuals account for between 25% and 40% of all child molestation. Sex researchers Freund, Heasman, Racansky, and Glancy, for example, in an 1984 Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy article, put the number at 36%. Erickson, Walbek, Sely, in a 1988 Archives of Sexual Behavior article, places it at 86% when the children being molested are male.

However, it should be noted that homosexuals account for only 2% of the population which statistically means that a child molester is ten to twenty times more likely to be homosexual than heterosexual. In other words, heterosexual molestations proportionally are a fraction compared to homosexual molestations. More recent studies confirm this statistic. In 2000, the Archives of Sexual Behavior published an article by seven sex researchers concluding that ‘‘around 25-40% of men attracted to children prefer boys. Thus the rate of homosexual attraction is 6-20 times higher among pedophiles.”

Sexual violence expert and professor of psychiatry Eugene Abel, in a 1987 study published by the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, concluded that homosexuals sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is five times greater than the molestation of girls.

In a 1992 study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, sex researchers K. Freud and R. I. Watson found that homosexual males are three times more likely than straight men to engage in pedophilia and that the average pedophile victimizes between 20 and 150 boys before being arrested.
Other data has come to the forefront confirming that sex with young boys is a way of life for many homosexuals. In 1993, the United States Army, Office of Judge Advocate, issued a study that analyzed 102 court martial convictions having to do with soldiers involved in homosexual acts over a four-year period. The study found that in 47% of the cases, homosexual men victimized a youth.

A content analysis of molestation stories by the Family Research Institute involving five major newspapers found around 40% involved homosexuals, but this number is low due to the fact that many reporters will not report if a child molester is homosexual even if he knows that to be the case.

A study by sex researchers Alan Bell and Martin Weinberg found that 25% of white gay men have had sex with boys sixteen years and younger. The Family Research Institute conducted a similar study and found that “11 times more gays than exclusively heterosexual men reported sex with a man while they were under the age of 13.” A study by homosexual activists and researchers Jay and Young revealed that 73% of homosexuals surveyed had sex with boys sixteen to nineteen years of age or younger.

In a study on male rape published by the American Journal of Psychiatry, it was found that 6% of rape victims reported to a Philadelphia rape crisis center were boys under sixteen years old. And women are not raping them.

This type of behavior, however, is considered normal in psychiatric circles due to the influence of homosexual psychiatrists within the American Psychiatric Association. It is the homosexual caucus within that body that pushed to rewrite the diagnostic criteria for pedophilia. The new definition defines sex with children as a psychological disorder only if it causes “clinically significant distress” for the molester! Under that definition, most molesters are perfectly normal people!

The American Psychological Association appears to have similar sympathies when it published a sloppy and error-filled article in its Psychological Bulletin in July 1998, arguing that there is no research documenting that sexual child abuse is harmful to children and that “a willing encounter with positive reactions would be labeled simply adult-child sex” instead of using terms such as child abuse and victim. There was no outcry from the homosexual community. Indeed, they either remained silent or publicly defended the article. One of the nation’s most prominent homosexual journalists, Andrew Sullivan, attacked critics of the study in the New York Times. In the National Journal, gay journalist Jonathan Rauch strongly defended the study and argued that child molestation should be called “adult-adolescent sex.”

The epidemic in male child molestation occurring simultaneously with the rise of an aggressive homosexual subculture is not coincidental. Due to the AIDS virus, molestation is often a death sentence. Further, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 50% of male AIDS victims reported having sex with an adult male by the age of 16, and 20% had sex with an adult male by the age of 10.

The Center of Disease Control (CDC) recently reported that as of the year 2000, there are now 31,293 AIDS cases in the 13-24-age category. The HIV/AIDs Surveillance Reports maintained by the CDC demonstrate that for the last few years around half of the age group 13-24 HIV victims were infected with the disease as a result of sex with adult men. However, one must bear in mind that due to the incubation period of the HIV/AIDS disease, many of these boys and young men were infected as long as ten years previous to the reporting of their cases. This translates into roughly 15,000 boys that have been infected by adult men since the CDC started to compile this information. This is an epidemic no one seems to want to talk about.

Indeed, the response instead has been an escalating effort by the homosexual community to compromise every major youth group possible and to inundate our public schools with pro-homosexual curricula, counseling, and social activities. The YMCA, Girl Scouts, and the Big Brothers, despite also being plagued by molestation incidents, have all capitulated to homosexual pressure campaigns. Indeed, Girl Scout leaders writing in the 1997 book, On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on their Scouting Experience, reveal that the Girl Scouts are inundated with lesbians─a third of its professional staff is lesbian─and they have even initiated a lesbian mentoring program! The Boy Scouts now stand alone among America’s major youth groups in resisting the homosexual agenda – and that explains why they are under such ferocious legal, legislative, and cultural attack.

Moreover, the liberal media omits any mention of a person’s homosexuality in covering molestation stories. This is reinforced by pressure from homosexual groups. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) disseminated a “media guide” to reporters nationwide in which they urge:

A criminal’s . . . sexual orientation is not always obvious (or relevant) based simply on the circumstances of a crime . . . . [A]s a rule avoid labeling an activity or emotion as “homosexual’’ unless you would call the same activity “heterosexual” or “straight” if engaged in by someone of another sexual orientation.

The homosexual community knows that the capture of all major youth groups is absolutely necessary to the expansion of its movement. They know what most social scientists and sex researchers know but refuse to talk about: homosexually-molested children are likely to become homosexual. After all, one of the most common characteristics of homosexual molesters is the fact that they were molested themselves during boyhood. An article published by the American Medical Association reported that, “Abused adolescents, particularly those victimized by males, were up to 7 times more likely to self-identity as gay or bisexual than peers who had not been abused.”

It is high time that America’s elected officials, health authorities, education leaders, and law enforcement officials act to not only tell the harsh truth─the homosexual community has targeted America’s youth─but act now to counter this horrible trend. Failure to do so will have disastrous consequences for both our culture and for the health of our children.

EDITORS NOTE: To print a downloadable copy of this white paper with references click here. This paper originally appeared in Regents University Law Review in 2002.

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FL Governor Rick Scott pressures Republicans to not oppose Common Core

Esther Rachwal, a member of the Republican Party of Sarasota Executive Committee, in an email states, “I can tell you that at the last REC meeting, Tad Mackie presented a Resolution in support of Florida bill HB 25 [which would stop implementation of Common Core] that most of the people there agreed with. However, then Joe Gruters [RPOS Chairman] said that Governor Scott does not agree with this bill. He agrees with part of it but does not want this resolution to pass.  It went back and forth several times and then Jamie Miller said that if we don’t support the Governor he will have a hard time winning re-election and the Governor explicitly said he does not want Republican Clubs to pass this resolution. Others then felt that we ought to support the Governor and even after a hand count, we lost.”

To read Florida Representative Debbie Mayfield’s bill HB 25 click here. HB 25 “Prohibits [the] State Board of Education from continuing to implement common core standards until certain requirements are met…”

Jamie Miller, Vice-Chair of RPOS, stated in an email, “More than 80 percent voted to table this resolution due to its poor wording and controversial nature.  Some voted to lay on the table because they believe all resolutions are outside the scope of the REC. After the very vocal minority threatened to leave, raised their voices and made other threats about going to the press; Gruters agreed to vote on the resolution which was defeated with 60 percent of the vote with many choosing to abstain.”

I reviewed the resolution as presented and found it to be clear and concise. It “strongly requests” all members of the Sarasota delegation to become co-sponsors of HR 25. To read the RPOS resolution click here.

Brenda Pastoric in an email states, “I was at this REC meeting last November [2013], because this resolution was going to be discussed to support Debbie Mayfield’s bill HB 25.  It was obvious that Joe Gruters and [FL Rep.] Ray Pilon (who was present that night) were both there to suppress this issue.  Joe even stated that night that the Gov. was not in favor on this bill.  Ray stepped in and said there was no need to press the issue that night that it could wait until the Jan. REC meeting. The REC Christmas Party was in place of regular meeting in December and even though several members tried to get a quick vote before the party stated that request was denied – it was no surprise to me that it did not get passed, even though this very same REC had previously passed a resolution against Common Core.”

“You should also know that confusion was evidently caused at the REC by statements that amendments could be made to HB 25.  It is true that we had hoped to amend it to make it stronger, but somehow that possibility was used to cause concern and not to reconfirm our position,” notes Pastoric.

It seems that Governor Scott lives in an alternate universe claiming Floridians going to let the Federal Government dictate our education programs.  That is EXACTLY what is happening with Common Core implementation. Minor tweaks to the federally imposed Common Core standards are now approved. We are dancing like puppets on their money string and mainlining our kids with government propaganda.  Huge, unbudgeted  expenses for the new programs which are unconstitutional, are like the analogy of printers and printer ink.  We’ll give you the printer and the expense of the ink will make it up. That is what Microsoft and Pearson are doing.

Governor Scott needs to pick a side, OUR side, the Constitution side, the KIDS side … and stop pandering to the Jeb Bush cabal! Much as I would like to support Governor Scott, this is a telling issue.  Will he listen to the people? Or will he pander to power brokers who stand to gain billions from supporting Common Core?  So far, the answer has been a stiff arm to his base and the touchdown pass to Jeb Bush.  We need to throw the penalty flag and kick him out of the game for a personal foul!  This is NOT a game and our kids and our future cannot be bargained away in backroom deals.

Following are the meeting minutes from the Republican Party of Sarasota website:

Subj: Minutes from the Quarterly Meeting, January 10th and 11th 2014

Friday, January 10 / Caucus District 16 meeting / 3-4:00 pm / Joe Gruters, Chair

Discussion took place relative to Manatee County’s Lincoln Day event and Sarasota County’s Lincoln Day and Statesman events.  They are all very close together, but due to speakers’ schedules, there was no choice or flexibility relative to the Sarasota events on February 12 and 20.  The two Executive Committee chairs will try to work out an arrangement for trading tickets to the events.

Friday, January 10 / Political Committee / 5-6:00 pm / Stafford Jones, Chair

The meeting was determined to be “closed” as explained by the chair so that open discussion could take place among its members. Discussion took place about the message Republicans are trying to get out.  We need to put out a positive image, unity, rather than selecting issues and appearing to be divided. Reagan portrayed a positive image.

We need a strategy against the Dems who are trying to splinter us with Tea Partyers, Libertarians, etc. Resolutions are dangerous w/o sufficient vetting.

Mike Grissom of the Florida Chamber (former Exec. Dir. Of the RPOF) talked about branding and its importance.    Where are we focused and how are we doing? Chamber is focused on re-electing the Governor and pro-business legislators. Mike Hightower is his chairman. There are 3 million affiliated in the State. We are beyond Common Core and support Florida Standards. We need to focus on electing folks and not policy.

Friday, January 10 / Joint Committeemen/Women & Chairmen Caucus / 6:00 pm

Remarks were made by RPOF Chairman Lenny Curry, National Committeewoman Sharon Day, National Committeeman Peter Feaman, Florida Federated Republican Women President Cynthia Henderson and Jesse Phillips of Restore Justice.

Friday, January 10 / Committeemen/Women Caucus / 6:30-8:00 pm / Jonathan Hayes, Chair

The majority of the meeting was taken up with two discussion, a Resolution opposing Common Core and the other issue relative to the Internet Tax.  Most of the time was taken up with comments made by the members. It was quite contentious with numerous motions made and Roberts Rules invoked. Ultimately the Resolution opposing Common Core was approved and the Internet Tax tabled.

Comments were frequently expressed that we need to move beyond issues and focus on getting Republican elected.  These issues are divisive and counterproductive to our mission. The Legislators have been clear on their position relative to Common Core and that they will not let the Federal Government dictate Florida policy.   Gov. Scott reinforced that philosophy. Due to the amount of time discussion took, the Open Mic Time on the agenda was waved.

Saturday, January 11 / Annual Executive Committee Meeting / 9 am-Noon

Meeting was called to order, followed by invocation and pledge. Credentials Report verified 158 members present of 253 possible, constituting a quorum.

Lenny Curry – We need to re-elect Gov. Rick Scott and the cabinet.  We have 6.4% unemployment; 440,000 private sector jobs created.  He’s done what he promised. The Surrogate Program is in full force, which provides talking points.  The new website is up. We are using microdata and developing many sophisticated microtargeting programs. The Hispanic team has identified key leaders. The Party raised $6 million to the Dems $1 million. We’re in good shape Justin Johnson, the new Exec Director, and his team are doing a great job.

Gov. Rick Scott – lauded everyone and thanked the grass roots for their efforts. He mentioned all the good things that have occurred: 42 year low in crime rate thanks in large part to the job Pam Bondi is doing. She’s also tireless in her efforts to curb human trafficking.

Talked about Common Core and efforts by Debbie Mayfield, John Colon, and Education secretary Pam Steward. They travelled around the state and listened and took in a lot of feedback. Pam Steward and her team are working on Florida Standards and if you’d like to give your input, there is still time to contact her. We won’t have the Feds telling us how to run our education system. No unnecessary information will be collected on students. We are working on a Data Security bill. Curriculum will be controlled locally. Everybody who’s involved really cares.

Attorney General Pam Bondi – Enthusiastically talked about all the areas she is working on, i.e. military fraud, human trafficking, pill mills, etc.  She is relentless against crime and will not stop until she’s done everything in her power to safeguard Floridians.

Congressman Steve Southerland – Talked about Washington and his areas of interest, i.e. land, water, fisheries.  Obama wants to strip Congress in these areas. He thanked the assembly for their grassroots hard work. He referred to DC as Debts – Deficits – Despair. 46 Million Americans live in poverty. 49.3% increase on food stamps. Public debt increased over 89%. Income is down 5%. Prices are up 10%. Obama is attacking industry. FEMA has erred greatly on flood insurance. His father drilled into him, “Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

State Senator Tom Lee – The State is investing in education and business, our ports and airports. Billions have gone into reserve account. Education costs have been cut by utilizing technology. They are aware of Federal overreach in K-12 and we will maintain local control. Also making an investment in public safety and depopulating Citizens.

Legislator Jason Brodeur – the State has created UF on line for a degree program that would cost $10,000. State debt is down $1.6 billion. Stand Your Ground hearing are complete. Nineteen went around the state and listened. They recommended citizens have a right to feel safe in our State and have a right to stand their ground. Regarding expansion of Obamacare, the State will stand firm. University of Oregon found there was no improvement after 2 years on Medicaid. We have pulled out of PARCC. We will drive the train ourselves. Pension reform has to occur. “We have the best cabin on the Titanic.” Actuarially it’s sound today. Changes can be made that will not affect anyone currently in the system, only folks entering the system. We won’t break our promises. We need to address the $500 million the state pays in additionally each year.

Next meeting will be in Tampa, May 30-31.

Submitted by State Committeewoman Casey Pilon

1-18-2014

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UPDATE 1/22/2014: The following comments are from Tad Mackie, Member, REC/RPOS Prct 215, Policy Committee Chair:

Draw what opinions you may, but I think some facts need to be clarified.

The REC standing rule about resolutions is clear and settled until such time as it may be amended. To paraphrase:

ALL resolutions, once passed by the REC Policy Committee, are introduced at the next regular REC business meeting then automatically tabled, to be brought off the table, debated and voted on at the following regular REC business meeting. (This process is used to allow adequate time for REC members’ thorough review of, and preparation of amendments for, the resolution in question.)

A resolution, supporting Rick Rcott’s executive order, Re: Common Core, and Rep Debbie Mayfield’s HB25 was introduced at the November REC business meeting. A motion to suspend the rules, to facilitate debate and vote prior to the holidays, was considered by the whole committee and failed to garner the 2/3 majority vote, required to suspend, by an unquestionably clear voice vote. The resolution, per standing rule, was tabled.

I tend to disagree with Ms. Pastorick’s expressed cynicism of Joe Gruters’ and Ray Pilon’s motives and comments:

First, due to the standing rule to table, there would have been no preconceived need to speak either for or against passage.

Second, even though I was standing right next to him, I do not recall Joe making any statement about Rick’s support of HB25.

Third, Ray is a regular attender, at REC mtgs, anytime he is in Sarasota and, while the gist of Ray’s comment is accurately reflected in Ms. Pastorick’s rendering, it fails to mention Ray’s inclusion of the fact that House committee bill assignments would not occur until after our Jan. meeting. This effectively reduced the urgency to vote, giving the committee plenty of room to breath, regardless of whether there would be a business mtg in Dec, or not.

Due to the REC annual Christmas party preparations, coupled with limited space at the new Osprey office, the Dec. regular business meeting was cancelled. There was some minor confusion due to a few members not realizing their would be no bus. mtg. until they arrived for the Christmas Party. I, even though I had missed the REC Board mtg, 4 days prior to the party, knew there would be no business mtg, well ahead of the night of the party as did, to the best of my knowledge, most members.

To clarify and expand on Vice-Chair Miller’s comments and the debate on the HB25 resolution at the Jan REC bus. mtg.:

Debate was opened by Chairman Gruters with the information that Rick Scott had requested we not pass the resolution and argued opposition.

I argued support to push the issue against CC to our Legis Deleg and the Gov whether they wanted to hear it or not.

Mr. Miller moved to table and a too-hasty, 80% support to table voice vote was taken. A division of the vote was called for and, quite appropriately, overruled by the Chair.

However, the motion to table was out of order due to the standing rule and in the haste of the vote, many members were confused about what they were voting on. Consequently, that 80% vote was rendered null and void and acted on accordingly by the Chair.

Mr. Miller then moved to suspend the rules but the motion failed due to no second.

The spirited debate continued, was completed and a voice vote was called for the No’s.

Emotions were running high among a tired group. Anger and dismay at the Chair’s handling of the debate/votes was loudly expressed by a few.

A division was called and a hand-count taken. Of those voting, it was roughly 60% No’s – 40% Yay’s, defeating the resolution. However, a full 40+% of the members present, abstained.

In my experience, abstentions of that magnitude are unheard of. We passed two other resolutions that night, with full participation and only 1 no vote between them, even suspending the rules, by unanimous consent, to intro and vote on one of them.

Suicide Bombings at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia and at Super Bowl XLVIII in New York?

There is a real possibility Islamic based terrorists and their supporters will conduct suicide attacks at the 2014 Winter Olympics beginning on February 6th in Sochi, Russia. Islamic groups have already boasted about their intentions during the Olympics. No amount of KGB, Russian police, Russian military or U.S. security assistance will prevent an attack at Sochi if it has been scheduled by the terrorists to take place. American athletes and U.S. media corporations will be the primary targets.

Americans should be gravely concerned about a very realistic threat of an Islamic terrorist attack at this years Super Bowl being played at the New York Giants Stadium on February 2nd.

Islamic terrorists have the desire to destroy America and what we stand for – freedom. They have the funding to carry out an elaborate attack at the stadium. Funding and support comes from organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, MANA, MAS, and MSA to name a few terrorist supporting Islamic organizations in America.

More importantly Islamic terrorists have the weapons to carry out a major attack at the Superbowl. There are U.S. security officials from dozens of law enforcement acronyms who are working behind the scenes to prevent an attack. Many of these professionals truly believe they can prevent an attack. The smart ones know an attack can’t be prevented if it is the desire of Islamic terrorists to carry it out. sadly there are few of the ‘smart ones’. The vast majority of U.S. security professionals are not properly trained in the ways and methods of Islamic terrorists. Many are naive, and many are just simply liberals who believe deep down that Muslims the world over love Americans.

In order to defeat Islamic terrorists you have to have studied the very same materials they study. You have to understand the mindset of an Islamic terrorist. Their way of thinking and acting is more on the animal level than on the human level. They set their goals, stick to their goals, and the foot soldiers carry out their leaders goals even if it means their death. Life is not important to them. Islamic terrorists have no sympathy or emotions about women and children being killed or that the hundred plus thousand at the Superbowl have nothing to do with the U.S. government.

The brother (Hassan) of Mohammed Odeh Al-Rehaief, the Iraqi lawyer who helped rescue Private Jessica Lynch in 2003 in Iraq, once told me that Islamic terrorists have what is called a ‘black heart‘. They have no love, feelings, emotions, or concerns about any person.

Islamic terrorists are Muslims who practice their faith the way Prophet Mohammed desired them to practice Islam. Nothing but the after life is important to them. This is what makes them dangerous. This is why they can overwhelm super powers like Russia and America. Don’t let the media mislead you into believing we won the war in Iraq or are winning the war in Afghanistan. We lost both.

The only way we can prevent an attack at the Super Bowl, if this is what Islamic terrorists have planned, is to move the location of the Super Bowl in the last few days leading up to the event.

Islamic terrorists are not naive, ignorant, or do not have the know how to conduct major terrorist attacks. If you look at the picture of the Giants stadium above you will see there are tens of thousands of places bombs could be placed to take down the entire stadium. Islamic terrorists will have already placed the bombs weeks or months ago at the stadium. They are not naive enough to believe they can walk into the stadium on Superbowl Sunday and place bombs at strategic points.

If the Islamic terrorists were to fail at carrying out a major attack either in Sochi or at the Superbowl, they will never give up. Their intentions are to take down America financially and emotionally. Billions of dollars a year are spent on preventing Islamic attacks in our country. If they were to begin suicide attacks in America everyday and in all areas of our country, we have leaders who would wave the white flag before they would engage them in America.

An Imam in Brooklyn, NY said it the best. “The American government will bomb us in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they can’t bomb us in America. The Muslims in America are the most strategically placed Muslims in the world”.

This Imam is Siraj Wahhaj.

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Florida changes name of Common Core: Putting lipstick on a Pig?

The Tampa Bay Times’ Kathleen McGrory reports, “The state education department tried to distance itself from the controversial Common Core State Standards last week by recommending changes to the benchmarks and giving them a new name. ‘The proposed standards are truly our own,’ Deputy Chancellor Mary Jane Tappen said during a Tuesday workshop on the freshly named ‘Florida Standards’.”

Is this Florida’s attempt in an gubernatorial election year to put lipstick on a pig named Common Core?

“’At their heart, the standards in Florida are still Common Core standards,’ said Anne Hyslop, a policy analyst with New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program, noting that many of the proposed changes are minor. Hyslop added: ‘The rebranding and messaging is largely political,'” writes McGrory.

Everyday new revelations about the Common Core State Standards are hitting the news wire. Just in the past week Breitbard reported that “Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) seemed to hint this week that his state would drop the Common Core standards, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) gave a clear signal Thursday that she was determined to drop the new education initiative that has grown intensely controversial.”

Breitbart’s Susan Berry reported, “A Common Core-aligned elementary school homework assignment in a Jefferson County, Colorado school district tells children that by 2512, Kansas will be an oceanfront state, that the ‘Smokey’ Mountains [sic] will become the ‘Smokey’ Islands [sic], and that a sharp decline in the human population will take place, all due to man-made global warming. According to Complete Colorado, the assignment, labeled as ‘Common Core Comprehension Grade 5,’ given at the Fremont Elementary School, is identified as a science fiction exercise in reading comprehension, but in ‘no part of the material, including a sheet of follow-up questions’ is there ‘any critical thinking ‘pushback’ against the narrative provided in the exercise.’”

Even George will in January 15th Washington Post column titled “Doubts over Common Core” notes, “Nevertheless, what begins with mere national standards must breed ineluctable pressure to standardize educational content. Targets, metrics, guidelines and curriculum models all induce conformity in instructional materials. Washington already is encouraging the alignment of the GED, SAT and ACT tests with the Common Core. By a feedback loop, these tests will beget more curriculum conformity. All of this will take a toll on parental empowerment, and none of this will escape the politicization of learning like that already rampant in higher education.”

Governor Rick Scott and the Florida legislature should be forearmed because they are now forewarned. Putting lipstick on this pig will get you stuck in the mud, with the pig.

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What did Reverend Martin Luther King think about homosexuality?

Martin Luther King Day 2014 will be filled with politicians, pundits and stories about his “I have a Dream” speech. Dr. King was a pastor, a man of faith, a believer in God the Almighty first and foremost.

Perhaps it is appropriate to look at what Dr. King taught about homosexuality. His remarks are not unlike those of Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty. King explained that “just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”

CNN’s John Blake in 2012 wrote:

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was writing an advice column in 1958 for Ebony magazine when he received an unusual letter.

“I am a boy,” an anonymous writer told King. “But I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don’t want my parents to know about me. What can I do?”

In calm, pastoral tones, King told the boy that his problem wasn’t uncommon, but required “careful attention.”

“The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired,” King wrote. “You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it.”

We know what King thought about race, poverty and war. But what was his attitude toward gay people, and if he was alive today would he see the gay rights movement as another stage of the civil rights movement?

That’s not the type of question most people will consider on this Monday as the nation celebrates King’s national holiday. Yet the debate over King’s stance toward gay rights has long divided his family and followers.

Christine Thomasos from The Christian Post wrote, “Rev. Bernice King led a march to her father’s graveside in 2005 while calling for a constitutional ban on gay marriage. She was joined by Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Georgia, where she served as an elder at the time. Long, who recently settled out of court with four young men who filed lawsuits claiming he coerced them into sexual relationships, publicly condemned homosexuality… During a speech at a church meeting in New Zealand, she said her father ‘did not take a bullet for same-sex marriage.’”

Ambra Nykol from The New Black Magazine writes, “It wasn’t until my lesbian college American History professor pointed out in class how ‘conservative’ King was that I came to realize that the social activists of the left may have fraudulently appropriated his legacy. There is a debate raging in the atmosphere about whether or not Dr. King would have been in favor of a ban on same-sex marriages.”

Nykol concludes with:

A great success of liberal groups has been to disconnect the work of Dr. King with the fact that he was a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. People love to call King “Doctor” but rarely do they refer to him as “Reverend”.

We don’t hear a great deal mentioned about King’s ministry and his sermonizing from the Bible. There was once a day when “social justice” and politics were closely tied with the “black church”.

Based on the fact the King was a Bible-believing Baptist (and assuming he didn’t subscribe to the private interpretation methodical, choose-your-own-adventure brand of Christianity), we can deduce that he probably did not condone homosexuality as a lifestyle.

Although, Liberals will point to the fact that one of King’s top advisers and organizers for the March on Washington, Bayard Rustin, was an openly homosexual man as proof positive that King was in favor of homosexual marriage. The reality is, this example merely shows us that King was in favor of showing an attitude of love towards all people, regardless of their sexual orientation.

This is simply the cause of Christ. However, the philosophy of King is currently being distorted to support the homosexual agenda.

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Common Core: Will Florida Politics Trump Truth?

While opposition to Common Core is not just a conservative issue, we must agree that conservatives have carried a heavy load in this battle against nationalizing education so far.  It is shocking that with a Republican Governor and state legislature, conservatives who oppose Common Core have been ignored and vilified.

Last Saturday I was part of a large meeting of leaders against common core from every corner of Florida. Nearly half were, or had been educators. This group is not “misinformed” as proponents of Common Core continually say to disparage our efforts.  These people do not wear tinfoil hats, but are the foundation of our communities and they know how and why Common Core is an existential threat to our children, our country and our future.  They are driving for the truth to trump the heavy hand of politics so clearly involved in the issue of Common Core.

As a result of pressure on Governor Rick Scott and state legislators by groups opposing Common Core, the Governor issued diversionary and misleading executive orders to hold just three hearings in the entire state,October 15-17, 2013, and stated they would listen to input on the national Common Core standards.  Nineteen thousand comments were registered and roughly eight hundred people attended hearings in person at great expense and lost time.  Leaders of the Stop Common Core movement brought world recognized experts on education standards to meet with Commissioner Stewart, the fifth Commissioner in just three years, and her team for two hours, hoping the facts would alter our disastrous course of ceding control over education to our federal government.  The hearings were to divert our attention and our support and pretend our input made a difference.  It worked for many and we lost 3 months wanting and waiting for our governor to listen.

On January 14th, the Florida State Department of Education held a “workshop” to discuss their proposed changes as a result of the hearings and comments to Common Core Standards implemented already.  The minimal changes to be discussed were revealed less than twenty-four hours before the required “workshop” was to take place and obscurely buried in the FLDOE web site.

Calling in to participate in the “workshops” was a logistical mess requiring four calls to get through for this writer, and once in, it was only a half hour reading of the changes without the ability to comment.  We were stiff armed again and Common Core implementation in Florida did not even have a hiccup.

Where do we stand now?  Next week, the Florida Department of Education will meet in Miami Lakes January 21, 2014.  Input is needed and will likely be ignored as they continue to steamroll Common Core implementation.  Opposition is growing exponentially as parents, teachers, administrators and patriots experience the problems of Common Core first hand.  Horrific stories about the disastrous results in other states such as New York and Kentucky are fueling a move for organizations in the entire country to unite.

One can only come to the logical conclusion that Governor Scott’s illogical position has been influenced and controlled by Jeb Bush whose foundation took $501,000 to support Common Core before it was ever created. Bush still has ways of extending his political tentacles and opposing him comes with a price. His hopes for national election are tied to the same supporters who stand to gain billions through implementing Common Core.

The Gates Foundation paid off the PTA, Jeb Bush, the Fordham Foundation and so many others to put the nefarious plan to implement national education in place.

Pearson is the British education conglomerate (third largest shareholder is the government of Libya) that stands to gain BILLIONS from Common Core which is spawned by UN Agenda 21 and explained in chapter 36. It’s no wonder Common Core lessons teach social justice and that Islam is the “way.” Pearson bought out nearly all education companies in the US, but kept their names in place to obfuscate this move.  Both Pearson and Gates are major supporters of Jeb Bush.

But if Governor Scott opposes his core constituents, he will also pay a price. The truth is that Governor Scott needs to listen to the twenty-seven County Republican Executive Committees who resolved to oppose Common Core, the Committeemen and Committeewomen from the entire state, the Republican National Committee, the Republican Women Federated, some teachers unions and dozens of think tanks.

Those opposed to Common Core have researched this nationalization of education called Common Core and found it unconstitutional, unwise, untested, unaffordable, intrusive and ineffective. National education has been used by tyrants and despots as a vehicle for propaganda since the beginning of civilization to create a compliant citizenry.

This is an existential threat to all of us, our children and our country. It’s Obamacare for Education, but worse. The hearts and minds of our children are being stolen. If Governor Scott continues to alienate his base of conservative voters in favor of the Jeb Bush cabal, it is highly likely he may lose his bid for reelection.

Governor Scott can’t ignore the reality of the facts and the rising tide of opposition.  He must take a side and it better be ending Common Core, not pausing it, not tweaking it, but restoring parental and local control.  To us it is not just an “issue” or a political calculation.  It is our kids and the future of our country.

Please go to www.stopcommoncorefl.com and join the army of parents, teachers and concerned citizens to END Common Core in Florida and beyond!

VIDEO: Common Core: Based on UN Agenda 21, UNESCO Standards

Rally sites set for Operation American Spring in Washington, D.C. on May 16th

If you are participating in Operation American Spring on Friday, May 16th, 2014 in Washington D.C. we grasp your hand and welcome you aboard. Please join us in the first step to return our nation back to a Constitutional Republic.

As for all the over paid, over indulging politicians who are eviscerating the US Constitution and ignoring the people, OAS will demonstrate that you no longer represent us. We need to start over.

President Obama, you stated you will initiate a way around the Congress with Executive Orders to ram through unconstitutional dictates. Wrong answer. There is no constitutional provision nor statute that explicitly permits executive orders. There is a vague grant of “executive power” given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 5. Nothing more. EO’s mean nothing.

We expect you to be removed and or impeached from office as per the authority vested in us “We the people” using ALL our constitutional means and we are going to use them.

Operation American Spring (OAS) participants will be mustering at the below locations in Washington D.C. starting at 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday, May 16, 2014. Please pick your place of protest. We will not leave our posts in Washington until the President has been removed from office for constitutional treason.

Set up a chain of command and follow the Rules of  Engagement published previously.

SIX OAS MUSTERING – RALLYING – PRAYER POINTS:

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For a larger view click on the map.

Just another reminder on the Rules of Engagement. NO WEAPONS or AMMUNITION. But you do have a right to defend yourself. You have a God given 2nd Amendment right as an American. When the progressives have been voted out we will restore the Constitution in Washington D.C.

Bring video cameras and other devices that can record our peaceful activities.

We need attorneys willing to work pro bono to help release any Americans harassed while peacefully demonstrating.

Do not hide from the government. Operate within the God given laws of the US Constitution. Always post your location and phone number in all correspondence you send to me. I cannot return every call I receive, I am getting hundreds, but I do listen to all your voicemails.

Militia Commanders take charge of your units. TEA Party leaders take charge of your groups. Civilians participating please follow the law. Keep preparing for mobilization.

We are living in an unconstitutional police state. Our nation is in very bad shape politically and financially so we will now take the appropriate constitutional actions to take our country back. Its starting.

Be strong and be ready for a long siege of defense. I expect all retired military officers – senior enlisted coordinating across the country with us to implement logistic and other readiness requirements to ensure mission success. Our government is no longer our government. The current government is AGAINST the people not for the people.

If you are unable to make it to Washington please mobilize and march on your local court houses, state capitals, and offices of your Senate and Congressional representatives in your towns. DO IT !!! If your state laws permit weapons bring them. Follow the laws of your state!

The President of the United States is a threat to our Constitutional republic. Do not believe a word he says –  he lies. His entire Presidency is a series of lies that threaten freedom. The Congress refuses to do the job we pay them to do, so we are coming to Washington D.C. to insure they hear our voices from a closer proximity. See you there.

I will be at base point #3.

RELATED COLUMN: Americans rising up against government – USA Today

The Two-State Solution is Dead. Long live what?

Ted Belman, editor and publisher of the blog Israpundit writes: The Two-State Solution is dead.  All that remains is for the US to declare it so. Palestinians leaders and Israeli leaders have made it clear.

In a speech on Jan 10/14, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud  Abbas made it crystal clear that he would never abandon the “right of return”, would never recognize Israel as a Jewish state and would never make a deal unless East Jerusalem was given to the Palestinians as their capital, all of which cross Israel’s red lines.

When the latest “peace process was getting started, Israeli leaders kept referring to Abbas as a moderate, contrary to the truth, and even referred to him as a partner in peace, also not the truth. No more.

Upon Israel’s release of the third batch of murderers in December and in response to the leaders of the PA celebrating them as heroes, PM Netanyahu said:

“Murderers are not heroes. [..] This is no way to educate toward peace. This is no way to make peace. Peace can be achieved only when the education toward incitement and toward the destruction of Israel is stopped. There will be peace only if our security and settlement interests are ensured. Peace will be established only if we could defend ourselves, by ourselves, against any threat.”

In the past week, Netanyahu, Yaalon and Bennett all criticized Abbas.

Netanyahu told VP Biden that recent comments by Abbas were proof that he does not want peace.

Min of Defense Boogie Yaalon said, Mahmoud Abbas “lives on our sword,” “Once we leave Judea and Samaria, he is finished. In fact, throughout the recent months, there is no negotiation between us and the Palestinians – but rather, between us and the Americans. The only thing that can ‘save’ us is that John Kerry will get a Nobel peace prize and leave us alone.” and “I live and breathe the conflict with the Palestinians, I know what they think, what they want and what they really mean,” he went on. “The American security plan that was presented to us is not worth the paper it was written on.”

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett denounced Abbas as “no different than Yasser Arafat,”

The fact that Yaalon was forced to apologize does not invalidate the truth of his remarks.

No doubt that Kerry is now looking for an exit strategy from his doomed efforts to force Israel to make concessions.

If not the Two-State Solution, then what?

Wm Galston writing in The New Republic on June 2011, said: “Benjamin Netanyahu offers no viable alternative to the status quo, and the opposition offers no viable alternative to Netanyahu. [..] The majority of Israelis actually seem comfortable to the point of complacency with today’s de facto truce and limited Palestinian autonomy.”

He was right. Netanyahu, Yaalon and many Israelis, though they prefer the Two State Solution on their terms, in its absence, are quite comfortable with maintaining the status quo.

But not everyone embraces the status quo. They fear Israel’s further isolation and deligitimation. They are clamouring to be pro-active rather than passive or defensive.

They all want to annex Judea and Samaria (West Bank) but differ on what to do with the Arabs that live there.

Deputy Minister of Transportation, MK Tzipi Hotovely recently said:

“The goal is for Judea and Samaria to be under Israeli sovereignty. It is ours and it was acquired legally in a bloody, defensive war. We must now implement the vision of the Greater Land of Israel and begin to apply sovereignty in all of the territory. This is the vision reflecting belief in the holy precept that the Land of Israel is ours and we have no right to revoke this precept. It is fidelity to the ideology of the Right and the religious public, which believes that this is our land.”

“We must begin a gradual process of 25 years under the heading of ‘annexation-naturalization’.”

‎” We must bear in mind that this is a hostile entity and it is impossible to ‎turn them into citizens overnight.”

Caroline Glick recently published her latest book, ‘The Israeli solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East’ arguing that whereas in Israel, the conversation has begun about alternatives to the ‘Two-State’ model, no such conversation is taking place in America. Instead American policy beginning with Nixon was and is to appease the PLO, now PA, at Israel’s expense.

“The only thing that should interest us is that Judea and Samaria is Israel,” she says and notes that even though providing the Palestinians with permanent residency and the right to apply for citizenship is not a perfect solution and will damage Israel on certain levels, “it is absolutely clear that it is better than establishing a Palestinian state. Such a state would be the ruin of Israel.”

Prof Martin Sherman, while totally supporting the annexation of Judea and Samaria, warns Glick and Hotovely, to “look before you leap” for reasons he makes clear.  He is adamantly against offering citizenship.

“Topping the list of bad ideas is the notion that, given the proven infeasibility of the two-state paradigm, Israel should extend its sovereignty over the entire area of Judea-Samaria and offer “immediate permanent residency to all its [Arab] Palestinian residents, as well as the right to apply for citizenship.” This is an approach so fraught with manifest disaster that it pains me that someone of the caliber of Caroline B. Glick, for whom I have the utmost regard and with whom I am seldom in disagreement, has chosen to advocate it.

“An almost childlike naiveté is required to entertain the belief that Israel could sustain itself as a Jewish nation-state with a massive Muslim minority of almost 40% – as the societal havoc that far smaller proportions have wrought in Europe indicate.”

Instead, he argues for a  “humanitarian solution” which envisages voluntary Arab emigration induced by generous compensation.

Glick rejects this and the Jordan Option as “irrelevant ideas that no one will accept, especially the Palestinians themselves.”

But were Sherman’s idea be adopted by the US and the EU, the conflict would be fully and finally solved in a decade.

Kerry for his part has resorted to threatening Israel with dire consequences should she not capitulate. In a November interview in Israel he said: “If we do not resolve the issues between Palestinians and Israelis, if we do not find a way to find peace, there will be an increasing isolation of Israel, there will be an increasing campaign of delegitimization of Israel that’s been taking place on an international basis,” In fact Governmental sources report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is behind the European boycott threats on Israeli products and companies operating in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

At the Saban Conference in November, he said “Force cannot defeat or defuse the demographic time bomb.”

What Demographic Bomb

While the left, the EU and the USA continue to threaten Israel with claims that Israel is losing the demographic war, the opposite is the truth.  Amb (ret) Yoram Ettinger has been studying the demographics in Israel for a decade and has often written that the demographic trend supports Israel now in the foreseeable future. According to him, Jews outnumber Arabs from the river to the sea, excluding Gaza, by a 2:1 majority and the numbers will only get better.

But the Two-State Solution carries with it a real demographic bomb. If a  Palestinian state was created, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan would demand that the descendants of the original refugees now living in their countries, numbering now over 4 million, be returned to Palestine. If the PA gives up the “right of return”, and most of these “refugees” were to return to Palestine, both Palestine and Israel would be greatly destabilized. So much so, as to require no return to Palestine either.

Glick advises:

“I brief the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate several times every year. Each time I present this plan on Capitol Hill, the response borders on euphoria. In the United States, just as in Israel, there are millions of people who understand that the ‘Two-State’ solution is a disaster. They are just waiting for someone to tell them that they can abandon it. My book gives them, and the Israeli public as well, the alternative that they are waiting for.”

Let’s hope they adopt it.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on The New English Review.

Confronting Common Core in Georgia

More than 120 people drove through heavy rain to hear the panel discussion “Confronting the Common Core” in Gainesville, Georgia, on January 13.  The event was sponsored by Concerned Women for America and American Principles in Action, and featured Jane Robbins, Senior Fellow at the American Principles Project; Dr. Terrence O. Moore, History Professor, Hillsdale College; and William Ligon, Georgia State Senator, Third District.

Jane Robbins: “The progressive’s dream is to know everything about every child so they can determine his future.”

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William Ligon and Jane Robbins

Common Core is “outcome-based education, round two.”  Outcome-based education was the fad of evaluating students based on their attitudes and dispositions rather than knowledge.

The purpose of Common Core is to train students for entry-level jobs.

Terms have been redefined: “Rigor,” once associated with knowledge has come to mean the ability to grapple with something that doesn’t have a defined answer.  “Critical thinking” now means the ability to be critical (usually of traditional ideas and values), instead of the ability to analyze.

Companies who are producing curricula and computer technology stand to make billions.

Claims that the standards were adopted by the states because they were adopted by the National Governors Association are false.  The NGA is a trade association that has no legislative grant.  It’s a quasi-governmental organization that does not release its membership list.

Much of the funding, primarily for marketing Common Core, comes from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the low-ball figure of $170 million spent so far.  Among the organizations funded are the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, an affiliate of the Chamber of Commerce and Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education.

The “standards” are untested. The director of Achieve, the non-profit that designed the standards, said we would know the outcomes in 13 years.  In other words, we won’t know if the standards work until we have an entire generation educated under them.

The new standards had no input from K-3 teachers.  They flip common sense.  Young children are asked to think abstractly, while high school students get simplified material.  “Fuzzy math is back.”  Science and social studies standards are coming soon.

The dangers of data tracking: Students will be tracked on over 400 data points that go well beyond academics, to such things as health and family voting patterns.  Common Core calls for identical data systems between states, so in effect having a consistent federal data base, with various government departments of Justice, Education, Labor and others sharing data with each other.

Dangerous technology: “affective computing” and “interactive platforms.”

“The progressive’s dream is to know everything about every child so they can determine his future.”

 Terrence O. Moore, “Appendix B looks like the Oprah book club.”

Terrence O. Moore

Terrence O. Moore

Terrence Moore was principal of Ridgeview Classical Schools, a K-12 charter school in Fort Collins, Colorado, whose high school was twice ranked the number one public high school in the state.  He now is an advisor to the Barney Charter School Initiative at Hillsdale College, in addition to being a professor there.  He is helping to set up a classical school in Atlanta.

Common Core is the opposite of greatschools.

The timing of Common Core is “purposeful,” intended to prevent us from seeing what works with charter schools just as they’re being set up.

The name “Common Core” is used to the opposite of its meaning: to have a common list of works that are read and discussed.  The name itself is intended to confuse.

The purported aim of “college and career readiness,” is a new concern among educators.  “It has not been an aim while I’ve been in education.”

Another buzz phrase is the “21st century global economy.”  But the founding fathers believed in an education based on the classics that prepared citizens for their eighteenth-century global economy.

Art and music are dying a slow death.

In regards to 21st century literacy, did people become illiterate after Y2K?

The standards are written in eduspeak (with terms like “scaffolding,” which means teaching and help), but they are failed pedagogical methods, like group work.

Appendix B of the standards, which offers suggested readings of appropriate text complexity, is window dressing with a scattering of classical authors intended to throw off critics.

We need to look at what was left out: Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Franklin, or anything inspired by Christian faith, such as Dante and Milton.

Complexity was determined, by Lexile Frameworks, so that The Grapes of Wrath is put at the third grade level.  Professor Moore demonstrated the absurdity of assigning the novel to third-graders by reading a random passage.

“Appendix B looks like the Oprah book club.”

Common Core-compliant textbooks are disturbing.  A passage on the Constitution is intended to mislead students on the intentions of the founders and the meaning of the Constitution.  As in much of the historical material (now taught in English class), more space is taken up in the Common Core textbook by modern commentators than the original work.  Such commentaries were filled with references to the founders being a “vicious” “master class.”

Rather than being presented accurately as a document intended to expand the franchise the Constitution is presented as “evolving.”   Students are not even given the three-fifths compromise to read, but are directed toward a negative view of the founders through commentary. The goals are clearly ideological.

Similarly, for the fiction that is presented along with teachers instruction.  With Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour,” teachers are told to give students leading questions toward a negative view of nineteenth-century marriage.  (The story concerns the elation a woman feels upon hearing about the death of her husband.)

Common Core is about superficiality and urges political and social dogma.  “If you control the stories, you control the regime,” Moore concluded by citing Plato.  Learn more in his book, The Story-Killers: A Common-Sense Case against the Common Core, which I reviewed here.

Senator Ligon: Federal Control: Where do you go if you have a concern?

What is taught in Georgia should not be determined by forces outside of Georgia.  Until 1985 education standards were determined locally.  Federal control of curriculum means that citizens have no control.  Where do you go if you have a concern?

A false crisis was created to sell the new standards.  There was no standards crisis.  In fact, new standards had just been created in 2008.

The state of Georgia spends $13 billion a year on education.  The $400 million received in federal stimulus funds over a four-year period were a “drop in the bucket.”

The Common Core standards did not receive much input from Georgia teachers.  Out of a total of 20,000 math teachers only 96 commented on the standard.  Out of a total of 17,000 English teachers, only 142 commented.  The vast majority of those commenters, however, disapproved of the standards.

The standards are not internationally benchmarked.

Senator Ligon is introducing two bills this session.  SB 167 would withdraw Georgia from the standards and SB 203 would prevent data collection.

Who is Carlos Lopez-Cantera the new Lieutenant Governor of Florida?

Governor Rick Scott with Carlos Lopez-Cantera. Photo courtesy of The Shark Tank.

Many Floridians are scratching their heads about Governor Rick Scott’s selection of Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his running mate. Some see this as a pure political move to pander to Hispanics. Others are just wondering who is Lopez-Cantera, the now former Property Appraiser for Miami-Dade County turned Lieutenant Governor of the sunshine state.

Governor Scott released this biography of Lieutenant Governor Lopez-Cantera:

Carlos Lopez-Cantera was born in Madrid, Spain on December 29, 1973. He was born two months premature and was returned to his intended birthplace of Miami, Florida once he was healthy enough to travel. Lopez-Cantera graduated from Miami-Dade College and continued his studies at the University of Miami, where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration.

In August 2012, the citizens of Miami-Dade County elected Carlos Lopez-Cantera as the Property Appraiser of Miami-Dade County. Carlos campaigned on a platform to make interaction with the office of the property appraiser easier, increasing community outreach and being more responsive to the needs of the residents of Miami-Dade.

From 2004 through 2012, Carlos served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives. Over the course of his 8-year term in the Legislature, Carlos served as a member of the Governor’s Property Tax Reform Committee, the My Safe Florida Home Advisory Council and the Miami-Dade County Mayor’s Mortgage Fraud Task Force. In the Florida House of Representatives, he chaired the Committee on Business Regulation and the Government Affairs Committee. Carlos served as Majority Whip from 2009 through 2010 and as the Majority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives during the final two years of his term from 2010 through 2012.

Carlos has been married to his wife Renee since 2005 and they have two young daughters.

Marc Caputo from the Miami Herald found something interesting when researching Lopez-Cantera. Caputo reports, “It’s easy to find home- and land-owner information on the website of Miami-Dade’s Property Appraiser, with a notable exception: the house where the county’s elected property appraiser lives. Details about Property Appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera’s home value and taxes are simply impossible to find with his website’s search engine. That makes him an exception in South Florida… The Miami Herald accidentally discovered the issue Monday while researching Lopez-Cantera amid word that Gov. Rick Scott plans to tap him Tuesday to fill the long-vacant post of lieutenant governor.”

“Even though Lopez-Cantera’s home information is nearly impossible to find, it doesn’t mean that he broke public-records laws, Parrish said, because the property appraiser’s website is offered as a courtesy to the public, not as a right mandated by Florida statute,” notes Caputo.

Caputo states in a Tampa Bay Tribune column, “Lopez-Cantera served under Rubio in the state House and served as majority leader through 2012, after which term limits forced him from office. He then ran for and won the relatively new elected position of Miami-Dade property appraiser… Lopez-Cantera has shown he can win in the county, is well-liked by conservatives throughout the state from his time leading the GOP in the state House, has helped lower property-tax values — thereby helping cut taxes —and has a scandal-free reputation in a county known for scandal.”

Lieutenant Governor Lopez-Cantera is the first American of  Hispanic descent to hold that office.

As this year progresses there will be more information coming to light about Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera. Stay tuned.

How did the FL Congressional Delegation vote on the $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill?

It seems Congress just can’t cut spending or the debt these days. Of course, it is an election year and you would think with all the Florida Congressional delegation members up for reelection in 2014 they would be just a little bit fiscally conservative. If you believe that I have a bridge from Miami to Cuba to sell to you.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 (H.R.3547), better known as the omnibus appropriations package, increases base discretionary spending by $24 billion in FY 2014. Heritage Action states, “The omnibus takes the country in the wrong direction, both in terms of policy and overall spending levels.”

This omnibus bill funds a Tamiami Trail Project (subject to availability of funds) and acquiring lands for Everglades restoration. The word “abortion” appears twenty-seven times in the bill. The word “sterilization” appears six times and the words “subsidy and “healthcare” eleven times each.

Sorry no tax refunds are in the bill for us Floridians.

“On top of increasing overall spending the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill irresponsibly increases funding for failing programs like Head Start, funds flood insurance subsidies, and pays for ineffective green energy projects. Additionally, an Obamacare funding loophole could provide subsidies to health plans that cover abortion,” notes Heritage Action.

Heritage Action reports, “Lawmakers and their constituents had less than 48 hours to read the 1,582-page bill before the House voted. On Wednesday, the House passed the $1.1 trillion spending bill, 359 to 67 (with three liberals voting no). Now the spending bill moves to the Senate, where a vote is expected this week. The omnibus takes the country in the wrong direction, both in terms of policy and overall spending levels.”

So how did the Florida Congressional delegation vote? Here are who voted YES, NO and DNV:

Voted YES on Omnibus Spending Bill:

FL 19 REP. TREY RADEL (R)
FL 1 REP. JEFF MILLER (R)
FL 15 REP. DENNIS ROSS (R)
FL 7 REP. JOHN MICA (R)
FL 3 REP. TED YOHO (R)
FL 12 REP. GUS BILIRAKIS (R)
FL 2 REP. STEVE SOUTHERLAND (R)
FL 17 REP. TOM ROONEY (R)
FL 10 REP. DANIEL WEBSTER (R)
FL 4 REP. ANDER CRENSHAW (R)
FL 25 REP. MARIO DIAZ-BALART (R)
FL 27 REP. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R)
FL 9 REP. ALAN GRAYSON (D)
FL 5 REP. CORRINE BROWN (D)
FL 14 REP. KATHY CASTOR (D)
FL 22 REP. LOIS FRANKEL (D)
FL 23 REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D)
FL 21 REP. TED DEUTCH (D)
FL 18 REP. PATRICK MURPHY (D)
FL 24 REP. FREDERICA WILSON (D)
FL 20 REP. ALCEE HASTINGS (D)
FL 26 REP. JOE GARCIA (D)

Voted NO on Omnibus Spending Bill:

FL 6 REP. RON DESANTIS (R)
FL 11 REP. RICHARD NUGENT (R)
FL 8 REP. BILL POSEY (R)

Did not vote (DNV) on Omnibus Spending Bill:

FL 16 REP. VERN BUCHANAN (R)

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Marie Winkelman’s Case demands Litigation, not Mediation, to protect her Life, Liberty and Property?

This is the second column I have written about Marie Winkelman. Read the first column by clicking here. Marie is the author of a book about her experiences as a Holocaust survivor in Poland titled “Keeping A Promise: To Tell My Story of Survival in Warsaw During WW II.”

Marie is another victim of financial guardianship abuse.  The first I wrote about was Al Katz, the father of Beverly Newman, another Holocaust Survivor.

What is at stake here? A woman’s life, liberty and her property valued in excess of $3 million… in this case, a Holocaust Survivor who in childhood was robbed of her property and stability and now is re-living the traumas of betrayal and asset seizure.  Who benefits from Marie’s guardianship? Robert and Corinne Szychowski and the State of Florida’s guardianship system.

What is happening? The systematic financial abuse of an elder.

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Audrey Bear, PA.

Audrey Bear, Marie’s lawyer, at a court hearing before Sarasota County Probate Court Judge Deno Economou on January 8, 2014 agreed to “mediate her clients capacity” with lawyers representing Robert Szychowski. This is not what Marie wants according to Beverly Newman, Director of the Al Katz Center.

Emails were sent to Chief Judge Lee E. Haworth, 12th Circuit Court and to Elida Mujic, Client Relations Coordinator, FL Department of Children and Family Services requesting any legal authority for mediation in matters of capacity but no legal authorities were given.

Chief Judge Haworth replied, “Any action or issue in a case can be ordered to mediation. But it is not like arbitration where the arbitrator’s decision is binding on the parties. A mediated agreement cannot be forced upon the participants. They must consent to any resolution. It is designed to avoid protracted and painful litigation and can often serve as a way for parties to find remedies beyond those the court can fashion.  Since the discussions are confidential, not to be disclosed upon penalty of contempt, it allows for a free exchange of ideas and concerns with the consideration of evidence that may be inadmissible at a trial.  The mediator is a neutral party whose role is to explore all reasonable grounds for settlement.  A surprising number of intractable appearing cases have been settled at mediation, but only when parties agree. It only takes one to veto. If the mediation is at impasse, it proceeds to trial, the judge none the wiser about what was discussed in the mediation conference. In regard to mediating capacity, since capacity is a fluid, evolving condition, it might be daunting to construct a mediated agreement of long lasting duration, or one acceptable to all sides.  But I see no legal impediment to the parties being required to make an effort to do so.”

Ms. Mujic stated, “I would encourage you to contact 12th Circuit Court office or an attorney concerning any legal assistance with Ms. Winkleman’s situation. I am not able to provide you with any legal advice. If you are willing to provide me with additional information concerning Ms. Winkleman, I will do my best to assist you.”

In an email Beverly Newman questioned using mediation to deal with Marie’s case. Newman points out the following:

1. Mediation is a completely closed legal proceeding, with no recordings or records allowed and confidentiality forms that must be signed prior to the mediation.

2. In Marie’s mediation of November 25, 2013, one of the signatories to the mediated settlement agreement described it as “blackmail.”

3. There is no due process in mediation, as there is no sworn testimony of witnesses, no judge present, no public record, no evidence put on the record, and no cross-examination of witnesses.

4. Marie’s attorney (Audrey Bear) was hired to litigate the Court’s incapacity and guardianship order dated December 3, 2013, but she has refused to set for hearing her own motion to vacate said order and chose mediation instead.

5. Fl. Stat. 744.331 states:

(5) ADJUDICATORY HEARING.—
(a) Upon appointment of the examining committee, the court shall set the date upon which the petition will be heard. The date for the adjudicatory hearing must be set no more than 14 days after the filing of the reports of the examining committee members, unless good cause is shown. The adjudicatory hearing must be conducted at the time and place specified in the notice of hearing and in a manner consistent with due process.
(b) The alleged incapacitated person must be present at the adjudicatory hearing, unless waived by the alleged incapacitated person or the person’s attorney or unless good cause can be shown for her or his absence. Determination of good cause rests in the sound discretion of the court.
(c) In the adjudicatory hearing on a petition alleging incapacity, the partial or total incapacity of the person must be established by clear and convincing evidence.

6. Marie Winkelman never had an adjudicatory hearing in which any evidence was presented on her behalf.

7. The settlement agreement that the court adopted in its order was not seen by Marie until after it was signed and was never explained to her by her former attorney, Barry Spivey. The court held an incapacity and guardianship hearing on said mediated agreement on December 2, 2013, at which Marie was not present since her attorney (Spivey) did not inform her of said hearing.

The question: Is mediation the proper way for Marie to protect her life, liberty and property or is litigation a better pathway?

Chris Christie coming to Florida: Democrats Freaking Out, Name Calling and Fundraising

Chris Christie is coming to Florida to help Governor Rick Scott with his 2014 reelection bid. The Florida Democrat Party has sent out an email trying to make hay while Christie is in the sunshine state.

Allison Tant from the FDP in an email states:

Chris Christie is coming to Florida for Rick Scott next week. This is the same guy whose senior staff shut down part of a bridge in retaliation for the mayor endorsing Christie’s opponent. Christie’s bullying tactics have no place in New Jersey or here in Florida.

That’s why we are determined to tell Christie he isn’t wanted here. By the end of the week, we need 25,000 Floridians to stand up and tell Christie he isn’t wanted in Florida. Can you click here and add your name to our petition today to tell Christie to stay in New Jersey?

Christie may operate his state like he’s the biggest bully on the block: exacting political revenge by delaying children on school buses, delaying emergency services for an entire town, and making people wait 4+ hours to get across the busiest bridge in the world. But that isn’t right and it sure isn’t the kind of behavior we need or want in Florida.

Add your name and stand up to a bully now!

This is the same guy who yelled at a teacher. That’s right – he yelled at a teacher who didn’t agree with his political views. It’s no surprise that his staff shutdown a bridge to exact political revenge.

It appears the Dems are freaking out and fundraising at the same time. Can you tell this is an election year?

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