May 13, 2008

Criminally Insane

Totalitarianism will come to the United States via the efforts of government social workers like these in California. The story's from February but I just ran across it via the Sam Adams Alliance website.

The story got me thinking about the state of things in Tennessee and I realized something very, very chilling: It's not a very far leap to go from a state agency (like the Tennessee Department of Education) declaring home-school and church-related school diplomas to be "worthless" to a state agency (like, say, the Tennessee Department of Human Services) extrapolating from that declaration - which is now Department of Education policy - that children in home schools and church-related schools are victims of neglect or abuse at the hands of their parents, and then removing those children from their parents' care in order to force them into the public school system or pre-K.

We're not there yet, but we'll move one step closer if state Rep. Mike Bell's legislation to force the Department of Education to recognize home-school and church-related-school diplomas as equal to public and private school diplomas is not passed this session. And time is winding down.

Think I'm crazy? Well, a few years ago if someone had predicted to you the events in the article linked above you've have thought they were crazy too.

The first goal of a bureaucracy is self-preservation of the bureaucracy, and the best tools to achieve that goal are expanding the size and scope of the bureaucracy and extending its reach further and further into more and more people's lives.