Rob at the Say Anything blog was asked why he was a drug addict by his own child after her day of indoctrination at a public school anti-drug program.
The other day I picked my daughter up and, while driving home, was talking to her about what she’d been doing in school (she’s in the 1st grade). She told me that it was “red ribbon week†in her school and that they’d talked about how drugs were bad. Which was ok with me, until she started telling me about which drugs were bad.
My little girl told me that cigarettes and alcohol were both drugs, and then wanted to know why I did drugs. Because I have the occasional beer at home, I guess.
I find this “mission creep†in the school’s anti-drug efforts a little irritating. I realize that smoking isn’t healthy and, to a much lesser extent, neither is drinking alcohol really (depending on the level of your intake). But the thing is that those activities are legal, yet they’re being lumped in with things like cocaine, heroin and meth. And I have to tell you, it was a little hard to explain to my confused six-year-old that daddy having a beer on Friday night wasn’t quite the same as shooting up a bunch of heroin.
That is because to her brainwashers, a heroin addiction and a Friday night beer are the same things. They will teach what they believe, and your child will believe what they teach.
Because you told them to listen to a stranger.
Calling this kind of indoctrination “Mission Creep” is an understatement of magnitude.
Rob doesn’t mention it in his post, but I do wonder if he questioned his daughter about what questions about the parents were asked of the children? Was his daughter asked about his habits?
And if she was, would she tell him, or was she told not to tell?
Mission Creep. Strange you should write about that, as I was going to send you info about a poster I saw at my Physical Therapy clinic the other day.
It was about getting your doctor involved in helping you with spousal abuse (if you’re a woman). The doc is then required, by law, to report the abuse to the police, who are required, by law, to arrest you. An ARREST (only) for spousal abuse terminates your Second Amendment rights in OR, and you have to have the charges dismissed (with prejudice) or beat them in a full-on trial to get those rights back.
The poster had some symptoms of spouse abuse on it:
1. Your hubby beats you up. Check, that’s a symptom.
2. Your hubby pushes you around or twists arms, etc. Check, that’s a symptom.
3. Your hubby puts you down, verbally. Say WHAAAAT?
Last time I checked, we had a First Amendment in this YouNighty States. Saying something to anyone (excepting the horrible “hate speech” laws) is NEVER a crime, as ALL speech is protected by the First (and in OR, the First is also interpreted to mean some things that are NOT speech, such as titty dancing).
Perhaps it’s time to consider that we also have a Second Amendment, put there to protect the First, AND USE IT!
If anyone thinks the Prohibitionists were defeated by the passage of the 21st Amendment, they are sorely mistaken.
Another example of the nanny-state mission creep: docs (pediatricians, usually) grilling your kids about the presence of those eevvilll guns in your house. None of their f*cking business, IMNSHO, and I said so (more politely) to the last doc who asked my youngest that kind of question.
The socialists can’t win at the ballot box, so indoctrination of the next generation is the only alternative.
Same thing happened with my daughter, only she announced to a bunch of my coworkers during a lunch break that I did drugs. I had to explain to them that it was tobacco, and explain to her the difference between legal and illegal.