In the place of learning, what will be being learned?
a guest post by Peter Haddad
[My friend Peter Haddad was asked to speak at a Christian school in Milford CT recently. The school was about to lose its operating license for refusing to jab its pre-schoolers. Here’s what he had to say…]
For any educator here, and certainly for all parents here, you know the truth of this old adage, “More lessons are caught than taught.”
Kids are sponges... perhaps not for what you're trying to tell and/or teach them, but most certainly for all that they see from you and your decision making. They catch things... that's what the little sponges do. More lessons are caught than taught.
Since this is a school, I'd just like to review a few things that, if this and other mandates are allowed to stand, your children will be catching and so being taught, and will be leaning at this school, should these mandates be left to stand.
They are going to catch these following lessons from the government and from any whom allow the government to get away with that which we are here working to prevent.
This is not an exhaustive list, and is not necessarily in order but it includes the following things that the children will learn…
that the government, not Mom and Dad, are in charge of their healthcare.
that their bodies can be injected with unidentified substance against their wills, and even against the wills of their parents.
that any substance can be put into their bodies at the whim of a government official whom has declared that an emergency exists; rights notwithstanding.
They will learn…
that all children are expendable if deemed necessary, for “the greater good”.
that they are helplessness before some enforcement authority with guns, whether that thing that's being forced or enforced, is good or evil, right or wrong.
that they are not unique, nor uniquely created nor uniquely gifted, but are only a part of a greater collective, and that the collective takes precedent over their individual rights and their individual selves.
They will learn…
that Mom and Dad cannot be trusted to protect them from such interventions, even if those interventions can be demonstrated to pose a threat to the child, whom is by the way, looking to and counting on Mom of Dad to protect them against any such threats.
that their rights do not, as codified in our founding documents come from their Creator, but from some official or officials somewhere: some elected, some appointed, some merely hired.
that might makes right: that he who has the biggest stick, wins.
that, rather than decisions being made on what is right or wrong, or what is good or evil, such decisions will be made for them, not by their parents whom they love and trust, but by those government agencies to whom we, mom and dad, have surrendered the legal monopoly on the use of force — the biggest stick.
that Mom and Dad are impotent, and that their spiritual leaders also are impotent, and that those whom make the rules in their schools, houses of worship, libraries, stores, movie houses and theaters, are impotent before any governmental agency, with a bigger stick.
that Mom and Dad cannot be trusted to protect them.
that force and coercion are the proper means of persuasion, rather than persuasion through dialogue, reason and fact and truth.
that subjective choices by those with a monopoly on the use of force, take precedent over objective reasoning and objective truth.
The children will learn…
all manner of things that none of us, not even those enforcing the lesson plan, want even their own children to learn.
that principles do not matter, for they can be compromised at any time for any reason.
that the end justifies the means.
that some end goal, having been determined by someone not accountable to Mom and Dad, can then be enforced by any means necessary, and Mom and Dad can't stop it. Pastor can't stop it. No one can stop it.
that, not so unlike a drug dealer with a gun, a public health official with police enforcement power, can come and get them, force them to take the drugs, and Mom and Dad can do nothing about it.
And finally, they will learn…
that this church, to which they were brought by their own Mommies and Daddies, is not a safe place.
Should we fail in resisting this injustice, the children will learn that when united we do not stand, divided... We. Will. Fall.
With our children learning all of these things and more, it is easy to see that this is not after all, about shots, is it friends?
Thank you for your attention and God Bless You.