- An article in The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, dated
2/1/04 entitled "Regional Efforts Taking Root" says "About
50 elected officials, planners, natural resources advocates and economic
development specialists gathered from every town in Sagadahoc County, Brunswick
and Harpswell Thursday to talk about regionalism, a concept that is being
encouraged statewide by Governor John N. Baldacci." (Note: Maine's
Governor Baldacci had one of the most, if not the most, socialist voting
record of any Congressman during his tenure in Congress. Shouldn't that
be adequate warning to our elected officials to at least keep this concept
of regionalism at arms length and not to embrace it without studying its
origins, unless they themselves are socialists?)
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- The article goes on to quote an elected official on the
Town Council as saying: "A first step will be to educate the public
about the importance of regionalism so citizens will support these efforts.
We need to shock people a little bit."
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- Well, she sure shocked me with that comment. She has
also given us fair warning that resistance to this change in governance
willl not be tolerated; we must be educated to see the benefits of failed
socialism (regionalism) over those of our highly successful republican
form of government which is designed to protect the rights of the individual
rather than those of the group (state).
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- This article was a reminder I'm really getting old. I
feel great and never think much about my age until I run across articles
such as this one which covered a meeting during which well-meaning "younger-than-I"
elected or unelected officials casually discuss changes in government which
will spell economic, political and social ruin for our cities, towns, and
nation (which means "us").
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- These well-meaning individuals who are recommending regionalism
to solve financial and planning problems, have, through no fault of their
own, been deliberately dumbed down (denied an education in the workings
of our republican form of government which is the antithesis of the form
of governance they are considering. I know "maleducation" is
a fact due to an incident in 1974 when my son's 11th grade public school
teacher, a so-called "conservative" Republican, by the way, gave
his class an assignment to write a paper on different forms of governance.
My son wrote his paper on regional government and received a D for his
politically incorrect effort. His conclusions, which were based on the
scholarly research of the late Jo Hindman (The Metrocrats, Blame Metro,
and Terrible 1313 Revisited, Caxton Printers, Ltd.) were that regional
governance cannot coexist within a republican form of government since
regional governance does away with or dilutes local representation and
eliminates borders between towns, counties, states, and even countries.
The latter can be observed in Europe with nations ceding their sovereignty
and distinct cultures to the European Union (region), which former Soviet
President Gorbachev enthusiastically refers to as the "New European
Soviet". Gorbachev also said in a speech to the Soviet Central Committee
on November 2, 1987 "We are moving toward a new world, the world of
communism. We shall never turn off that road."
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- Regional Governance emanates from the United Nations,
which was formed in 1945 by a majority of communists, and it is essential
for United States participation in the world government (international
redistribution of wealth socialist state) being implemented right now under
our very noses. Example: European Union, NAFTA, GATT, and CAFTA, (the Central
American Free Trade Association which Congress will vote on shortly, etc.
Contact your congressman and tell him to vote no on CAFTA!)
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- In "The Globalists,The Power Elite Exposed",
page 304, Denis L. Cuddy, Ph.D, says "Most members of the European
Union are already members of The Socialist International, and if other
nations around the world can be moved toward socialism and regional economic
arrangements, then these regional groupings can be more easily merged into
a world socialistic government. This scenario is quite similar to the three-stage
plan outlined by Stalin at the 1936 Communist International. At that meeting,
the official program proclaimed: "Dictatorship can be established
only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries,"
after which there would be federal unions of the various groupings of these
socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these
regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations.
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- Readers of this article are surely asking: "But
she's talking about Stalin and international regional government...what's
going on at the local county level has nothing to do with that. Anyway,
Communism is dead." The most incriminating evidence regarding regional
government being communism is found in "Planning is Socialism's Trademark"
by Morris Zeitlin which appeared in the Communist Daily World, November
8, 1975. Zeitlin says "We (U.S.A.) have no regional government and
no comprehensive regional planning to speak of. Regional government and
planning remain concepts our urban scholars and planners have long advocated
in vain...In socialist countries, metropolitan regions enjoy metropolitan
regional government and comprehensive planning. Of the many regions on
the vast territory of the Soviet Union the Moscow Region commands special
attention, for it has been, since the 1917 Revolution, the country's economic
and political center. The economic and functional efficiencies and the
social benefits that comprehensive national, regional and city planning
make possible in socialist society explain the Soviet Union's enormous
and rapid economic and social progress. Conversely, our profit-oriented
ruling capitalist class makes comprehensive social and economic planning
impossible, causing waste and chaos and dragging the entire nation into
misery and suffering as its rule deteriorates and declines."
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- In January of this year "a new world organisation,
United Cities and Local Governments, (certainly a regional government association
if ever there was one! ed. ) was launched which will be the interlocutor
between local government and the United Nations and will ensure the political
representation of local government to the international community. It will
progress (sic) local government policies in the key areas of decentralised
cooperation, sustainable development, urbanisation, social inclusion and
poverty eradication. IULA's Founding Congress will take place in Paris
in May of this year." Go to www.iula-int.org/iula/news.asp for this
press release and more information.
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- I'm glad I'm getting old and won't have to live too many
years under this "failed" socialist system which for some reason
unknown to this writer is being accepted by persons on the right as well
as the left. President Bush is one of its greatest supporters! I question
how our elected officials at the local, state and national level who are
implementing this totally alien FAILED system of government, can, in good
conscience, pass it on to their children and grandchildren.
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- Thomas Babington Macauley, London, England, writing to
an American on May 23, 1857, said "...Your republic willl be...laid
waste by barbarians in the 20th Century..."
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- © 2004 Charlotte T. Iserbyt - All Rights Reserved
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- Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt
served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and
Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan
Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology
initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt
is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and
research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to
2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during
the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and
in the Republic of South Africa.
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- Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985
booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum
and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education
Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education
Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer
and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The
Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.
Website: www.deliberatedumbingdown.com E-Mail: dumbdown@blazenetme.net
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- Comment
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- From Ed Sparks
2-5-4
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- Charlotte - Thanks for your Regionalism article. It points
out a lot I had missed. Here in Indiana we're seeing much the same thing.
A few weeks ago there was a movement to cancel all the Townships throughout
the states, over a thousand local governments would have been eliminated.
This fits in exactly as you describe the Regionalism in Maine. If the Township
governments are eliminated, government gets that much farther from the
people and the people get farther out of touch.
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- Also there is a movement to install full-day kindergarten.
At first it will be voluntarily for the parents. But in the Indiana P-16
Plan there is a requirement for mandatory full-day kindergarten for ALL
the children in the state. The state has recommended taking $150 million
from the state teachers retirement fund to pay for this kindergarten start-up.
It is being held up by my local state representative.
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- Today, I called his office and urged him to hold on.
The office wanted to know who I was, I told them and told them about my
web site. Then I asked them if they knew about the Indiana P-16 Plan. They
didn't know a thing about it. I again urged them to resist the pressure.
They assured me that the representative was interested and intended to
view my site this afternoon although it is no where near completed.
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- Your article on Regionalism fits in and describes quite
nicely what is going on here in Indiana. Keep it up, you help me to understand
what is going on here quite well. It's all the same.
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