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March 07, 2006
Jay Bennish Geography Pop Quiz (and more)!
Then read about Matt Lauer's "objective" interview with the now clean cut geography teacher.
Here are some choice quotes from his geography lecture on the 2006 SOTU:
BENNISH: Now, if we have the right to fly into Bolivia and Peru and drop chemical weapons on top of farmers' fields because we're afraid they might be growing cocoa and that could be turned into cocaine and sold to us, well, then don't the Peruvians and the Iranians and the Chinese have the right to invade America and drop chemical weapons over North Carolina to destroy the tobacco plants that are killing millions and millions of people in their countries every year and causing them billions of dollars in health care costs?
Tobacco is perfectly legal in Bolivia and Peru. His analogy is worthless.
BENNISH: Where in this definition does it say anything about capitalism is an economic system that will provide everybody in the world with the basic needs that they need? Is that part of the system? Do you see how this economic system is at odds with humanity, at odds with caring and compassion, it's at odds with human rights?
Economic systems do not function to provide basic needs. Capitalism has never promised to provide the world with basic needs; it is an extension of individual liberty represented in free markets. He is confusing economics with politics.
BENNISH: When Al-Qaeda attacked America on September 11th, in their view they're not attacking innocent people, okay? The CIA has an office in the World Trade Center. Pentagon is a military target. The White House was a military target. Congress is a military target.
And how about the people on the planes? Were they military targets? Moral relativism at its finest!
BENNISH: To many Americans, that flag is no different than the Nazi flag or the Confederate flag it. It represents people that came and stole their land, lied, brought disease, rape, pillage, destruction, et cetera.
Ah yes, the native population was just a peaceful lot at one with nature and wonderous caretakers of the environment. What a crock.
Posted by Aaron at March 7, 2006 12:37 PM
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