Federal Control: Indoctrination

Teachers insist: Being ‘gay’ good

A nationally distributed training video produced by a "gay" advocacy group – which claims it’s been shown on more than 100 public television stations – advises teachers to promote homosexuality as normal and healthy to children as young as kindergarten age, regardless of what values the child has been taught at home.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 29, 2007

Islam and the Textbooks

Since 2003, several reports have documented bias and evasions in world history textbooks. Textbooks misrepresent Islam past and present, critics agree. They contain fallacies and untruths about jihad, sharia, slavery, status of Muslim women, terrorism, and international security.

Source: American Textbook Council, "Islam and the Textbooks"

Report: Islam and the Textbooks

Starting in the summer of 2001, the American Textbook Council undertook a comprehensive textbook review in world history. World history is a controversial social studies mandate that is rapidly expanding at the state level. Islam and the Textbooksgrows out of this larger work still in progress surveying many aspects of world history textbook content. How widely adopted world history textbooks cover Islam and the history of the Middle East is a timely and important subject for students to learn about.

Source: American Textbook Council, February 2003

In ‘docu-ganda’ films, balance is not the objective

The days when "documentary" reliably meant "inform the audience" – rather than "influence the audience" – are no more. The makers of such films today see their cinematic contributions as an antidote to media consolidation that, they say, restricts topics and voices to the bland and the commercial. As such, they feel little or no obligation to heed documentary-film traditions like point-by-point rebuttal or formal reality checks.

Source: Christian Science Monitor (online), June 2, 2006

Law Requires Lessons on Constitution

It’s not often that first-graders, CIA agents, agriculture inspectors and airport security workers from coast to coast all receive a lesson on the same topic — and on the same day — but that is what’s in store this September.
The subject is the U.S. Constitution, thanks to a new law fathered by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), who is worried that so many people don’t know the first thing about the country’s governing document that he decided to try to make sure they do.

Source: Washington Post (online), July 19, 2005

CIA: U.S. Lied to Explain ‘UFO sightings’

U.S. national security officials systematically lied to explain reports of UFOs at the height of the Cold War, a study released by the CIA says.
In what amounts to the first admission of federal deception on the issue, the survey said most reports of unidentified flying objects in the 1950s and 1960s stemmed from glimpses of supersecret U.S. spy planes, the U-2 and the SR-71 Blackbird.
Rather than disclose the existence of these aircraft, developed to photograph enemy targets from high altitudes, the military put out false stories, the survey said.

Source: Yahoo News August 5 [no year given]

Smithsonian Goes PC

The Smithsonian Museum, according to an article in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition for July 29, 1997, is installing signs on its exhibits to warn visitors that some of the exhibits are contaminated with social ideologies considered undesirable by the government. The examples given in the article include the following.

• "Female animals are being portrayed in ways that make them appear deviant or substandard to male animals".
• "A beloved family of lions at a watering hole is also branded for sexism because the standing male and reclining female suggested to the museum’s gender police a pre-feminist division of labor".
• "A leaping Bengalese tiger is dismissed as too predatory".
• "Next door at the National Museum of American History, visitors encounter an America characterized by rigid class barriers, ever-growing economic inequality, predatory capitalists and oppressed minorities."
• "Several blocks away, curators at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum are busy exposing art as just another ‘social text’ masking illegitimate power relations."

Source: The Washington Times (online), July 29, 1997

Air Force Says Dummies Used in Parachute Tests Were Mistaken for Aliens

The Air Force on Tuesday offered what it hopes is the final word on claims by UFO buffs that alien bodies were recovered at a crash site in New Mexico in 1947: The “bodies” were not aliens but dummies used in parachute tests.
Source: The New York Times (online), June 24, 1997