MSNBC ‘Parens Patriae’ of your children
If you haven’t seen it or read it, I encourage everyone to take a close look at the recent statements of Professor Melissa Harris-Perry endorsed and used as a promo for MSNBC, itself.
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had a private notion of children, your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children.
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the household’s we start making better investments.
First off, I must say this works as a timely reminder that parents should check out Ron Paul’s new homeschooling curriculum as an inoculation against this kind of tyrannical philosophy. That being said, it’s tempting to just laugh off this kind of liberal propaganda. That would be a mistake. This notion has a long and creeping history–tracing it’s roots to the British monarchy.
Parens patria is the doctrine originating in English courts that the sovereign (or State) may take legal responsibilities over children and incapacitated adults. Here is the definition as given by Law.com:
n. Latin for “father of his country,” the term for the doctrine that the government is the ultimate guardian of all people under a disability, especially children, whose care is only “entrusted” to their parents.
So remember, the same government that brought you The War on Drugs, Poverty, Terrorism, The Department of Education and liberated the peoples of Iraq (except for all of those pesky Christians and others who had to flee) is now, with the helping hands of the folks over at MSNBC, ready to take on the “ownership” of your children. What could possibly go wrong?
Isn’t it time for a targeted boycott of MSNBC sponsors?