Day: March 10, 2007

Since 1938, when Hitler banned it, homeschooling has been illegal in Germany, and, indeed, one German family is now suffering from a Nazi law still hanging around. When I posted about this before, I said,

Not here–yet!–but given the antipathy the “prisons for kids” system of public “education” has for homeschoolers (and the justifiable fear politicians and others have of citizens who can actually think), can it be far off?

Well, it’s not far off, and in fact, it is here, now.

New Jersey Judge Orders Penal Charges Against Mom for Home-Schooling

Why do I characterize the judge’s actions as “Hitlerian” (if not outright Nazi-like)? Well, do note that Hitler’s edict forbidding homeschooling was just that: an edict without legislated law. The judge in the New Jersey case specifically disparages New jersey statute law allowing honmeschooling and preventing state interference, and simp-ly issued an edict punishing the mother by requiring her to take actions the law does not allow the state to impose.

And he is getting away with this sort of high-handed “screw the law, I’ll do what I want” attitude/action because… ?

Tar. Feathers. Rope. Tree. Some assembly required. At least, that’s the nature (if not the exact) of response the colonists had when such high-handed, contra-legal actions were taken by a king usurping the People’s rights.

Add this one to the “long train of abuses” stacking up as normative for a governmental attitude that’s ever more abusive of its citizens… at every level of government.

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Being hammered by SPAM again, so if your post tb/comment hasn’t registered in my weekend (or other) linkfest or on the post you commented on

1.) Your comment WAS SPAM (in which case, I doubt you’d read this post *heh*)

2.) Your comment/trackback is welcome by me but fit one of the parameters of my SPAM filters AND it was hidden in a batch of more than 500 comments/trackbacks labeled as SPAM by my filter and I just deleted the batch without skimming them all, cos I just don’t have that kinda time, even setting the scan rate to as fast as my eyeballs can flicker.

If you believe your comment/trackback fits into category #2, do as Bernie at Planck’s Constant did and let me know. Here’s his trackback, apparently missed in a batch of over 500 or so in my SPAM queue:

Barry Chamish and the Ringworm Children Hoax

Oh, and tracking back your own linkfest to a linkfest post? Here’s a hink: I consider that a legit linkfest trackback IF your linkfest is a dual-purpose post, that is, it has some content beyond just :Link me! Link me!” OK? Otherwise, why link it to another linkfest? Nobody’ll read the thing. Hit up Linkfest Haven Deluxe for that.