TTSR Wars Over Values

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 45-47, Wars Over Values

We talk of world peace and of wars fought in distant countries but the truth is, cultural warfare is being fought all around us invisibly.  The aggressors in this war claim to want social equality and prosperity, while their true desire is to gain power and recognition among the simple, something not hard to do when government lies are taught as truth. 

For example, there is a feminist movement pushing to gain equal ‘rights’ for women in military combat, but the leaders of this movement are not campaigning so that women can physically fight in battle.  What they are after is a position of authority where they can make the decision.

In the tax arena, the Federal Government now chooses where tax funds are channeled no matter what the actual tax payers want it spent on.  On March 19th 2011, over two thousand people gathered on the steps of the Alberta Legislature to protest Alberta’s Education Minister, Thomas Lukaszuk’s new Education Act to restrict parents from teaching their children academically that homosexual lifestyles are sinful.  In spite of the upset citizens, who fund his salary, the Education Minister smilingly told them that they shared the same goals, and the bill would not be changed.  The bill did not go through, however, not because Thomas Lukaszuk listened to the people, but because of the upcoming election.
 
It did not matter whether parents could teach their children about homosexual lifestyles or not, the underlying reason was to gain authority over Home Schooled families.  The government recognizes that Home Schoolers are removed from the propaganda and control that exists in government schools.  This bill would have given the government more authority than that of parents and it would have opened the door to government control over Home School families.  When the Government sees something it does not control, it seeks to gain dominion over it and to restrain it with systems, laws, and so called “Rights”.