A Call From the Heartland- Drive Out The Bush Regime

(Mega- Church of 16,000 in the Houston, Texas)


World Can’t Wait:

Living in the small town I live in, and waking up and going to a public school where religious posters hang on the walls and school officials are paid with my tax dollars to organize a Christian Fundamentalist organization on campus makes me realize everyday why driving out the Bush Regime is so important.

Everyday I walk down the halls with fellow students who have been pretty well brainwashed from early childhood to now. In my Government class, kids bend over backwards to defend George Bush, not because they necessarily agree with his policies, but because their minds have been molded to believe that anyone who opposes the Bush regime is a “baby-killer” and is “disrespecting our troops”.

I attended Elementary School in a district where once a week, the Teachers walked the students across the parking lot to a church in which they were given a fundamentalist education on everything from Creationism to Anti-Birth Control, for two hours. Of course, this wasn’t “required”, but only two other students did not attend the class, and we were ridiculed by the other students, I can recall being asked “aren’t you afraid of going to hell?”

Talking to some of these people is really frightening. You can tell when anything critical of the extreme right-wing fascism they believe is brought up, they simply stop listening. They take the idea of “blind faith” to the extreme. I remember bringing up evolution with one kid, and he immediately put his hands over his ears, started moving his head back and forward and repeating “There is nothing you can say to get me to believe this…there is nothing you can say to get me believe this…”

There are a lot of students who don’t go along with this, but they know if they speak up there are lots of consequences. I can recall having Teachers scream at me and tell me I was “un-American” because I opposed the Iraq War. When I dared to bring up the evil things promoted in the Bible such as killing children who are disrespectful to their parents, one student responded by screaming “you are going to hell!”

This is the Bush plan for the schools of America. Change them from places where diverse ideas can be discussed, and diversity is respected, to training grounds for their new American Taliban, where every child is raised to believe that daring the question the strict fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible is a ticket to eternal damnation, so the best thing to do is simply to do as you are told and obey those in power.

I’m not going to let George Bush and Pat Robertson get away with this.

DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
Carl Miller, a youth from the Heartland

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