They only thing that is worse than know-it-all teenagers who think they know it all, are know-it-all college students who are sure they do. Case in point, the student council at Orange Coast College in California, last week, voted 3-to-1 to eliminate the Pledge of Allegiance from their meetings.
According to news accounts, student Board member Jason Ball, a self proclaimed atheist, called the flag salute" irrelevant to the business of the student government”, and referred to a 2002 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on a possible "church-state conflict." Ball, wearing black boots, a beret and a hammer-and-sickle pin, was quoted as saying, "Nationalism is something that divides people."Isn’t that nice? It is isn’t it? It’s nice that we live in a wealthy superpower where its citizens enjoy freedoms that are assured by a volunteer army. It gives Mr. Ball the luxury to disparage the instrument of his freedom and the time to come up with boneheaded statements like “Nationalism is something that divides people.”
I doubt that if Mr. Ball had grown up in North Korea, he would have had the luxury, or the courage to be a dissenter. North Korea isn’t as kind to it's dissidents.
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It is the rhetoric of a Social Globalist.
You can not be a citizen of the World if you have a Nationalistic perspective, especially if you are loyal to the American Superpower, the root of all the World's problems. It is just staggering to me that the new generation is falling prey to the Marxist/Socialist philosophy. Make us all equal, except for the ruling elite, and we will all have peace, security and justice. But history says it will be by the sword of the despot (ala Cuba, etc) and to think all it took was four short life spans to believe our Founders were a bunch of greedy, weak minded fringe.
and that is precisely why orange coast college is called orange coast high school in those parts. it isn't anything more than a slightly glorified high school full of sun fried dummies.
that is why all those silly shows that the kids watch, the oc, laguna beach, that depict orange county as if it were something amazing...they are so blown out of reality.
you only have to live there a short time to realize it is way over crowded, over polluted, over illegal immigrantized, and full of wackos. i guess you get that way after a while, living the rat race in overcrowded rat colonies of filth on top of filth.......ugh.
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