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| America's Elites and Saudi Money |
| 2006-04-20 |
| On March 29th, 2006 the drive-by media failed to report the scuttling of a new bill in the House of Representatives. H.R. bill 609 would have amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 and required Americaâs colleges and universities to report any donations received from Saudi Arabia as part of the Title VI international education bill. The new bill, dubbed the Burton Amendment to the College Access and Opportunity Act, was put before one chamber of Congress by Congressman Dan Burton [R-IN], and would have required US colleges and universities to report such donations through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), a publicly available and searchable database. In what should have been a shoo-in, the amendment was voted down at the last minute on a roll call vote 306 to 120. This illustrates the sway of Saudi money â even in our own Congress, the âvoice of the people.â Our educational system is, if anything, worse. As we are working hard to secure our borders from terrorism and fighting terrorist movements overseas, the same people who are financing much of the worldâs terrorism are pouring money into American colleges and universities with the intent of undermining support for our governmentâs efforts in the War on Terror. American universities â those idealists who claim racism, misogyny, religious persecution and violations of human rights are antithetical to their mission â are more than willing to accept funding from the Wahhabist Saudi regime that practices such behaviors. The funds go to set up Middle East Studies centers that serve to indoctrinate future generations of American college students to support the goals of overseas terrorists and dictators. These centers also promote outreach programs in which teachers and professors in our local communities are trained and provided with curricula that preach a radical anti-democratic, anti-American, and frequently anti-Semitic agenda in our primary and secondary school classrooms. Our children are their targets. Saudi expenditures in American colleges have far exceeded the funding spent on propaganda by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Yet for all the âeducational assistanceâ sent abroad, Saudi Arabiaâs own illiteracy rate has remained at nearly 50% of its population. Rather than spending money to teach their own people to read, the Saudis are busy with a public relations campaign to export support for their despotic regime to the US. Future generations of Americans are being indoctrinated because college administrators just want the money. Imagine if during the Cold War, Congress stood by and allowed the Soviet Union openly to pour millions of dollars into our nationâs colleges and universities to promote anti-American textbooks endorsing communism in our classrooms, or if Hitler had staffed German Studies departments with Nazis to promote the glory of the Third Reich during the Second World War, and you can get the picture. Meanwhile, Saudi propaganda, in their own television and print, still vilifies the West and Jews and continues to roil the conflict in the Middle East against Israel and our presence in Iraq. Congressman Burton intends to reintroduce his bill in the near future. It is high time the public rises up and demands it be passed. Meanwhile, a bill exposing who gets campaign money from Saudi Arabia in Congress should be the next thing on the agenda. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #2 cut the air conditioning in the capital June to October - for Kyoto...heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-20 19:36 |
| #1 Got to have term limits and move the Capital every 10 years but not the federal workers. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-20 19:07 |