Every day in school rooms across America children are being taught that the secret boarding of a ship in the Boston Harbor two hundred years ago, by colonials dressed as American Indians, for the purpose of vandalizing and destroying private property was an act of heroic patriotism. The very fact that the people who committed this crime were disguised as Indians illustrates the fact that they understood that what they were doing was a violation of the law, and the underlying sleazy intention of the disguise was to place blame on the native Americans, in the event that the crime was discovered. Should it surprise adults today that their children are copying the example of lawlessness that they are taught in school? If it is appropriate to overthrow the government because you don't like it, when is it not okay to overthrow the government? This is the real legacy of the American Revolution, utter and complete confusion. What the schools are teaching is that obedience to the authority of the republic is mandatory, yet the American people are "free." It is one thing to obey a legitimate authority, such as one's parents, but it is entirely another matter when obedience is to a faceless bureaucracy. What is not taught in school is that freedom in America is a cultural artifact of the Anglo-American civilization and NOT a product of the republic, and the very notion that American civil rights are "inalienable" refers to the fact that it is not within the government's power to revoke them. One author pointed out some time ago that it is significant to note that one of the principal targets for youth vandalism is schools. The kids don't trash the video arcade, they trash the place where they feel that their independence is being removed from them. If the schools were doing nothing more than teaching kids to read and write - which is their real purpose - then probably none of this vandalism would occur; instead the students would feel grateful for the enlightenment of their minds. The fact that the youth strike out at the school system is a direct statement that something is being done to them in school that the school district is not telling their parents: They are being introduced to the reality of the police state, and the fact that dissent will not be tolerated except in ways that can be controlled (such as by voting). Those who would suggest that the students are acting irrationally, "destroying that which is theirs," (which was also suggested of the rioters in Los Angeles in 1992), are overlooking the truth that when people destroy property, it is because they don't have any. HIGH SCHOOL TRASHED BY STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING THEIR RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY By Dennis Kaiser DANA POINT NEWS The mess is cleaned up, but Dana Hills High School is still reeling from a break-in last Wednesday (3/4/98) in which vandals/burglars left more than $5000 worth of damage in their wake. Assistant Principal David Schlesinger was called to the campus at about 3:00 AM after a milkman making his deliveries apparently stumbled on the suspects in the middle of their mayhem. "It was just a mess!" Schlesinger said. Principal Kay Rager said she was appalled by what was discovered as officials began to tally-up the destruction. "They threw the bleachers in the pool. They took the tables out of the mall, the ones the kids eat at during lunch and ruined them. And we don't have the money to buy new tables." (Suggestion to Rager: Take a pay cut, and use the proceeds to buy new tables. Put your money where your mouth is. WFI EDITOR) The suspects also took fire-extinguishers and sprayed the wall, writing disparaging remarks about the school and some of the teachers with the foamy substance. (Isn't it ironic that the only time the students are able to express their opinions, it is in the form of a crime? One cannot help but wonder if such crimes would have taken place, if the administration of the school were more sensitive to the young Americans put under their care. WFI EDITOR) Rager said the worst part was that the perpetrators used crowbars to pry open about 130 lockers, removed books and notes and placed them in a big pile, "It looked as though they were going to set them on fire!" Authorities in Dana Point are taking the crime very seriously. Dana Point Police Services Chief (On-Loan from the Orange County Sheriff) Lt. Paul Ratchford said the crime has been classified as Felony Vandalism and burglary. "We haven't figured out yet how much the damages will cost, (but) you also have to figure in the man hours. It's pretty devastating." (Of course, the determination of whether a crime of this kind is a misdemeanor or a felony is entirely dependent upon the amount of money lost. WFI EDITOR) Ratchford indicated that police are investigating the crime, and "it won't take long for us to catch them." (Gee, officer, just go to the school during daytime hours, and the culprits will be there, sitting obediently at their desks learning how not to ask embarrassing questions of authority figures. WFI EDITOR) "They left their fingerprints on the crowbars and other tools… there are several other types of evidence they left behind." The principal of the school publicly denies that the perpetrators are her students (victims?). To show that she means business, she has forced those students that have remained obedient to raise $300.00 as a reward (for turning in the heroes of the Dana Hills High School Tea Party). SOURCE: This article is reprinted from the Dana Point News, where even urgent news is reduced to senseless gibberish by illiterate journalists. 12 March, 1998 issue. Reprinted in the public interest.