don't shoot the pianist » American politics http://euge.ca he is doing the best he can Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:44:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Covering up http://euge.ca/2009/09/27/covering-up/ http://euge.ca/2009/09/27/covering-up/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:35:46 +0000 theProject http://euge.ca/?p=137 As a footnote to yesterday’s piece, the Burlington Township School District, where B. Bernice Young Elementary School is located, issued two letters to parents on Thursday and Friday:

September 24, 2009

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If there was a handbook on how to become a modern dictator, one of the first instructions would probably be to indoctrinate every person between the ages of five and twenty-five. History is littered with examples of regimes that used youth movements to acquire a stranglehold on power: the Hitler Youth; the Soviet Young Pioneers; China’s Hongweibing (Red Guards). In Iran, Islamist student groups were at the forefront of the 1980 revolution.

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