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San Francisco schools may soon use a badly written and illustrated comic book as a history lesson. Why? Because it’s full of radical leftist diatribes, which pass for reality in some SF “minds”.

Reading, writing and anti-militarism? That may soon be the case in San Francisco where a new comic book pushing a political point of view is raising serious questions.
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Ronald Reagan hugging Osama Bin Laden, corporate America celebrating the spoils of war, a cartoon view of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal isn’t off limits in this comic book—“Addicted to War—Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism.”

It’s an undisputedly leftist view of the United States involvement in wars, and it may soon come to classrooms in San Francisco public schools.

Pete Hammer, San Francisco Unified School District: “The topic is one that a lot of teachers would have an interest in bringing into the classroom.”

Pete Hammer reviews new materials for the school district. He gave “Addicted to War” a thumbs up for use in the classroom.

Pete Hammer: “It hasn’t been adopted as material that every teacher has to use, teachers will have their choice about whether they want to use it or not.”

Frank Dorrel, Publisher, “Addicted to War”: “We’re really glad that the San Francisco School District, which is apparently against the war in Iraq, well not apparently, obviously is, has chosen to do this.”

Frank Dorrel is now helping to supply the San Francisco Unified School District with 4,000 copies of the book for use in high school social studies and history classes. The books are being donated by a local anti-war activist.

Aside from the fact that it’s propaganda, like most leftist pamphlets they like to accuse the US of all kinds of atrocities while ignoring the far worse genocide committed by socialists and communists, which continues to this day. Here we have a book making false claims that Reagan schooled Osama Bin Laden, ignoring entirely the Soviet adventurism which created the Afghan war that really created groups like Al Quaeda in the first place.

So SF schools want to take what amounts to a anti-American propaganda piece and use it to “educate” American children? Somehow, that doesn’t sound very American. 

San Francisco Public Schools are F-ed up, Hud.

I heard about this propaganda nonsense on the news a while back.  Stories are that at least 40% of the eligible SF student grade school body are enrolled in private schools by their parents because of nonsense like this.

My goodness!  On top of basically outlawing Junior ROTC, the SF Public School District thinks this is GOOD citizen-building class material for the kids?  Who’s electing or appointing these jerks?

It’s just going to turn the more weak-minded, dumber kids into welfare drones and/or bitter jerks… Dependent on the same government this material is scapegoating for every ill of the world.

This is not fair to those kids.

SF needs to make up its mind whether or not it wants to be a part of the U.S.  Part of me almost wishes they could send the Federal Army in to occupy SF and clean the political house of that city, but it’s just so out-of-whack and liberal as-is that I think that would only make the situation worse.

How do you solve a situation like this?  Does everybody with half-a-brain move out of the city?  Most SFers seem to like the city as it is and it just gets predictably more P.C. and out-of-the-mainstream as times goes by.

Posted by  on  02/19  at  11:45 AM

It’s what I call the I.Z., ideological zone. People who live in an area where almost everyone believes the same crap (be it Mecca or Havana), they reinforce the ideology of the place, making it easy to buy into a mass delusion. And that’s what ideology is, a delusion. Reality is often at complete odds with ideology.

The problem is exacerbated by leftists infiltrating school boards and only hiring like-minded people, so you end up with those who share a consensual reality that has no basis in facts. The believe a comic book like this is “history” when it’s just a reactionary tract.

Posted by  on  02/19  at  04:20 PM

“SF needs to make up its mind whether or not it wants to be a part of the U.S.  Part of me almost wishes they could send the Federal Army in to occupy SF and clean the political house of that city, but it’s just so out-of-whack and liberal as-is that I think that would only make the situation worse.”

I have to wonder if the Army would do that to not just SF, but also everywhere the Donks rule after we lose a city to a nuke or other WMD device.

Posted by Macker  on  02/19  at  05:44 PM

Substitute SF for LA and you have an episode of 24

Posted by  on  02/19  at  07:24 PM
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