Just “Following Orders”
Do people study history any more? Or, perhaps I should ask, “Do people study historical FACTS any more?” I remember studying about the Nazis and the holocaust. I remember clearly those horrible pictures of the bodies piled high. And I remember studying how it came about. I remember learning about how Hitler got the support of his people — with words and charisma. And I remember how, after the war, people who participated in these death camps were punished. One thing that always stood out to me, which was reinforced when I was in the military, was that you cannot claim that you were “just following orders.” If something is wrong, it’s wrong, no matter who tells you to do it. And many Nazis were put to death after the war because they claimed they were “just following orders.”
Those words were echoed today by Paul Lalley, an attorney in Pennsylvania:
We don’t make that statute…We just make sure it’s carried out.
In other words, “We’re just following orders.”
Keep in mind, now, when that excuse was used by Nazi soldiers, it was bolstered with “Geez, if we didn’t follow orders, we would have been shot and killed on the spot.” That excuse didn’t work for them. Today’s excuse is, “Geez, if we don’t follow orders, we won’t get paid.”
So, what are the orders in this case that the lawyers and bureaucrats are going to carry out because they’re paid to carry them out? They’re going to use guns and men with guns to arrest people, throw them in jail, or shoot them. They’re going to seize children from their parents. They’re going to jail the parents (or kill them if they resist). They’re going to separate the children from their parents and place them in state custody. And what have the parents or children done? Are they abusing the children? Are they molesting them? No, they’re teaching them without asking the state’s permission.
Seriously.
The state has decided that the state will determine what children are taught, regardless of your personal opinions and regardless of your religion. If your religion teaches, for example, that homosexuality is wrong, you will NOT be allow to teach that to your children. And you will NOT be allowed to stop the state from teaching them that homosexuality is approved by the state. In the state of Pennsylvania, you will be fined, arrested, jailed, or killed if you do that. And the federal circuit court says that you do NOT have the right to have religious teachings, either.
Four years have been wasted in the courts as the state insists it, and only it, has the right to teach your children. You have no freedom, and clearly have no religious freedom in America. After all, they’re just “following orders.”
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