The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

314 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH“It’s a stretch even to call the law ‘well-intentioned’ given that its creators,including the Bush administration and the right-wing HeritageFoundation [Paul Weyrich, its founder, has been accused of ties to Nazicollaborators] want to privatize public education. Hence NCLB’s mercilesstesting, absurd timetables and reliance on threats,” commented USAToday education writer Alfie Kohn. “No wonder 129 education and civilrights organizations have endorsed a letter to Congress deploring the law’soveremphasis on standardized testing and punitive sanctions. No wonder30,000 people [mid-2007] have signed a petition at educatorroundtable.org calling the law ‘too destructive to salvage.’ ”Like Hitler, the globalist creators of a new empire carry an innate distrustof education that might explain why their education programs appearto savage true learning. “I do not wish any intellectual upbringingwhatsoever, knowledge may only demoralize youth,” Adolf Hitler oncesaid. He echoed the statement of John D. Rocke feller, founder of the NationalEducation Board, who said, “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. Iwant a nation of workers.”Hitler also felt that intellectuals might not only present a rival to Naziideology but could form a group separate from the common man througha feeling of superiority due to their knowledge and education. “What wesuffer from today is an excess of education,” he stated in 1938. “What werequire is instinct and will.”Hitler’s sentiment was echoed recently by President George W. Bush.Journalist Ron Suskind, writing in the New York Times Magazine, reportedan incident in Washington: “Forty democratic senators were gatheredfor a lunch in March [2004] just off the Senate floor. I was there as aguest speaker. Joe Biden was telling a story, a story about the president. ‘Iwas in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,’ he began,‘and I was telling the president of my many concerns.’ . . . Bush, Bidenrecalled, just looked at him, unflappably sure that the United States wason the right course and that all was well. ‘Mr. President,’ I finally said,‘How can you be so sure when you know you don’t know the facts?’ Bidensaid that Bush stood up and put his hand on the senator’s shoulder. ‘Myinstincts,’ he said. ‘My instincts.’ ”