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2003-07-15 Fifth Column

Bush is "Dictator of the World" in Teacherâs âHidden Agendaâ Deck

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Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-07-15 11:52:57 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope that credit card has a 19% interest rate.

Posted by seafarious 2003-7-15 12:06:02 PM|| 2003-7-15 12:06:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The more I ponder this, the more upset I become.

She said her cards reflect the teachings of Catholicism, that "no war is justified."

Given that Ms. Eder is a teacher of social justice at a Catholic school - and in the Jesuit "seek the truth" tradition - what does it tell you about her agenda in that she completely ignores the almost 1,600 year "just war" philosophy first propounded by St. Augustine? It is one thing to advance your agenda, it is quite another to disavow your chosen profession of teaching truth.

See: "A Fact Sheet on Just War":
http://www.breakpoint.org/Breakpoint/ChannelRoot/Home/A+Fact+Sheet+on+Just+War+Theory.htm

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-7-15 12:09:27 PM|| 2003-7-15 12:09:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Good, good, we need all the moonbats to start barking in public - saves us the time of having to root 'em out ourselves. In case you missed it on Drudge, our local community college boasts a professor who incited his students to send emails with "..kill the president". Oh of course he defends himself by saying "...we didn't say kill George Bush". Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Who did you mean.....Clinton? We're all so proud here in Santa Rosa. Must be. I only saw one letter to the editor on the matter. Of course, our local paper is owned by the NYT. Go figure.
As maddening as it is....these stories are encouraging - not to mention entertaining at times. The loons are panicking...and they're getting more and more desperate.However, this Eder broad is simply full moon loony. Somebody get her some meds!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-7-15 12:10:59 PM|| 2003-7-15 12:10:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 A Catholic School? No unions there. Real easy to can her sanctimonious ass.

Posted by tu3031 2003-7-15 12:15:03 PM|| 2003-7-15 12:15:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, it pleases me that she has gone into debt for this. It wastes her credit that she might use more-effectively in some other way. I suspect that most of the boys in her classes have already recognized that she's rabid and foaming at the mouth.

Posted by Tom 2003-7-15 12:25:03 PM|| 2003-7-15 12:25:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Here are the current conditions for a just war as first defined by St Thomas Aquinas and amended by the Catholic Church. She has no idea of what she's talking about. I'm sure she could sell her left over cards for a profit to the readers of The Nation or The Progressive.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-15 2:13:17 PM|| 2003-7-15 2:13:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 hey wait a minute - this is a Catholic school, why are the local pols talking about it. Isnt this something for the local CATHOLIC hierarchy to resolve? Or do they have their hands full?

Frankly i doubt we'd see anything like this at the public schools, at least where i live. And i would point out that the American Federation of Teachers was supportive of the war (now NEA maybe another thing - what can you expect from a group of people claiming to be a professional association instead of a union, and practicing dual unionism at that?)

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-15 2:54:07 PM|| 2003-7-15 2:54:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 " ... the American Federation of Teachers was supportive of the war ..."

The following is from the AFT's resolution on Iraq - See: http://www.aft.org/about/resolutions/2003/iraq.html

"We believe that the president has not fulfilled his responsibility to make a compelling and coherent explanation to the American people and the world as to why military action in Iraq is necessary at this time. We are also gravely concerned that the president is pursuing a deeply partisan domestic agenda at a time of prospective war. The Bush administration's use of the Iraq issue, as admitted by Republican strategists, is deplorable. The country needs leadership that rises above partisanship."

Maybe in Liberhawk's mind this counts as non-partisan support for the Iraq war, but most rational people would dispute that assertion. The AFT's statement is not unlike that of Daschle's or Byrd's et al.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-15 3:29:57 PM|| 2003-7-15 3:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I found the following on the AFT's website which can be construed as a strained endorsement of the war but, God forbid, not support for the Commander-in-Chief:

http://www.aft.org/press/2003/012403a.html

"AFT supports the U.N. resolution with the hope that war can be avoided, but with the sober recognition that military conflict may become unavoidable as a last resort," reads the AFT resolution. It expresses the AFTâs strong preference that "military action in Iraq be taken in concert with an international coalition of allies or the United Nations," but "recognizes that the United States may at times have to act unilaterally in defense of its national security."
The resolution also acknowledges the Executive Councilâs concern that President Bush is pursuing a partisan domestic agenda at a time of war. "Nevertheless," the resolution states, "we know that our position on national security issues must be taken in response to security threats and not from our disagreement with the administration on other issues."

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-7-15 3:36:05 PM|| 2003-7-15 3:36:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ave Imperator!

Posted by SPQR 2755 2003-7-15 4:16:02 PM|| 2003-7-15 4:16:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 By the way, Rex, if you're interested in the Santa Rosa professor story, blogger Emily Jones covered it, and the professor replied in her comments! He 'splained himself at length, concluding:

And finally, as to the charge that I'm incompetent? I'll let the quality and persuasiveness of my arguments speak for itself...

And, unfortunately for him, it does.

Emily replies to his comments in a separate post here.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-7-15 4:46:51 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-7-15 4:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 " ... she was simply called upon by God to tell "the truth," as she sees it."

Does that statement strike anyone else as the kind of idiotic drivel that spews from Oral Roberts or Pat Robertson? We knew we had right-wing religious zealots and - lo and behold - here we have one residing firmly on the left.

Posted by MusicMan 2003-7-15 5:05:14 PM|| 2003-7-15 5:05:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, it pleases me that she has gone into debt for this. It wastes her credit that she might use more-effectively in some other way. I suspect that most of the boys in her classes have already recognized that she's rabid and foaming at the mouth.
Posted by: TomÂ 2003-7-15 12:25:03 PM

Unfortunately there is a market among the loony left for this garbage. If she has more than 3 brain cells she could make a profit.

Posted by Dexter M. Duck 2003-7-15 10:26:08 PM|| 2003-7-15 10:26:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ave Imperator!

Why would the Senate and People of Rome hail any Emperor, if they didn't have to, and particularly in this context?

Or, what's the Latin for "non sequitur"?

Posted by Mark IV 2003-7-16 12:10:55 AM|| 2003-7-16 12:10:55 AM|| Front Page Top

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