Jim Marrs - The Rise of the Fourth Reich

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THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

“It’s a stretch even to call the law ‘well-intentioned’ given that its creators, including the Bush administration and the right-wing Heritage Foundation [Paul Weyrich, its founder, has been accused of ties to Nazi collaborators] want to privatize public education. Hence NCLB’s merciless testing, absurd timetables and reliance on threats,” commented USA Today education writer Alfie Kohn. “No wonder 129 education and civil rights organizations have endorsed a letter to Congress deploring the law’s overemphasis on standardized testing and punitive sanctions. No wonder 30,000 people [mid-2007] have signed a petition at educatorroundtable .org calling the law ‘too destructive to salvage.’ ” Like Hitler, the globalist creators of a new empire carry an innate distrust of education that might explain why their education programs appear to savage true learning. “I do not wish any intellectual upbringing whatsoever, knowledge may only demoralize youth,” Adolf Hitler once said. He echoed the statement of John D. Rockefeller, founder of the National Education Board, who said, “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.”

Hitler also felt that intellectuals might not only present a rival to Nazi ideology but could form a group separate from the common man through a feeling of superiority due to their knowledge and education. “What we suffer from today is an excess of education,” he stated in 1938. “What we require is instinct and will.”

Hitler’s sentiment was echoed recently by President George W. Bush.

Journalist Ron Suskind, writing in the New York Times Magazine, reported an incident in Washington: “Forty democratic senators were gathered for a lunch in March [2004] just off the Senate floor. I was there as a guest speaker. Joe Biden was telling a story, a story about the president. ‘I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,’ he began, ‘and I was telling the president of my many concerns.’ . . . Bush, Biden recalled, just looked at him, unflappably sure that the United States was on the right course and that all was well. ‘Mr. President,’ I finally said, ‘How can you be so sure when you know you don’t know the facts?’ Biden said that Bush stood up and put his hand on the senator’s shoulder. ‘My instincts,’ he said. ‘My instincts.’ ”