Centralized Brother's Keeper, Through the Children

By Douglas V. Gibbs

I once read a book by Ira Levin, published in the early 1970s, about a future dystopia titled "This Perfect Day."  In the book, society is a big family, required to live based on the standards dictated by the ruling class.  The citizens call their membership to society "the family."  Individuality is crushed through injections, and members of the culture are expected to turn in their friends and neighbors if they begin to act like they are "sick," a term used for those that try to act outside what is expected.  The terminology used in the story regarding their obedient behavior, and turning in their friends and neighbors to "advisers" if they are thought to be "sick," is that folks are supposed to be their "brother's keeper."

In 2010, President Barack Obama instructed Americans to be each other's "brother's keeper."  Combating accusations that he was Muslim, or at least not a Christian in the traditional sense, Obama claimed he's a Christian because of the precepts of the teachings of Jesus Christ, of which he indicated that one of those precepts is being one's brother's keeper.

Right out of a science fiction novel about a dystopia ruled by powerful overlords.

Of course, Obama's version of what being "My Brother's Keeper" is not consistent with what the term really means, according to the Holy Bible.  While Christianity teaches we should be loving, kind, giving, and charitable, there is no passage that indicates these traits must be mandated through government, or that we should be our "brother's keeper."

"My Brother's Keeper" comes from the story of Cain and Able, two of Adam and Eve's sons. Cain, out of jealousy of his brother, murdered Able. When confronted, he denied the action by saying he didn't know the whereabouts of his brother, and then asked, "Am I my brother's keeper?" In other words, "am I supposed to be so responsible for my brother that I am supposed to always know his whereabouts?" The passage is in no way a command that we should be our brother's keeper in the sense that the government in Levin's book, or in the sense the Obama administration, means it.

Jesus never taught we must be our brother's keeper. It is our brother's responsibility to take care of himself. Like Salvation, the Christian's choice is voluntary, and the result of a decision made with both the mind, and from the heart.

Christians understand the context of the story of Cain and Able, and the "brother's keeper" passage. They understand why Cain said what he said. The lesson is as elementary for Christians as is learning the ABCs for school children.

The Obama administration follows the age-old statist narrative that if the central government does not have a hand in something, it will never get accomplished.  The people are too stupid to individually run their lives, so government must do it for them.  Be obedient, and government will reward you by not throwing you out of the family.  You can't even be trusted to raise your own children, properly.

Hillary Clinton takes it a little farther, proclaiming it "takes a village to raise a child."

The way to control a society, or at least to get society to the point where they welcome the necessity and mandate to be obedient to a ruling elite, is to train the children up in the way of statism.  As Hitler quipped, "When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"

The Obama administration's allies in the United Nations concur.

According to the dictatorships and repressive regimes of the United Nations, educational freedom is a danger to their narrative, so in the name of "human rights," the UN “Human Rights Council” passed a resolution this month calling on governments worldwide to “monitor” and “regulate” non-government education (you know, those pesky private schools and homeschooling programs). According to the UN bureaucrats and government representatives, governments should impose “standards” on private schools.

You know, like Common Core, the leftist educational curriculum that is, as we speak, infecting the American public school system with statist indoctrination that would make famed communist genocidal maniac Josef Stalin blush.

Following the prescriptions outlined by Karl Marx (the father of communism), the United Nations, as well as the Democrats in the United States, are prepared to ban any forms of non-government-run education.

In the name of "human rights," the United Nations urges governments to “fulfill the right to education” by, among other schemes, “putting in place a regulatory framework guided by international human rights obligations for education providers that establishes, inter alia, minimum norms and standards for the creation and operation of educational institutions.”

In other words, if they dumb down the kids now, they won't have to kill them later for being too educated (and therefore, able to think) like Pol Pot, or other vicious dictators have, in history.

The education being called for by the United Nations falls right in line with Common Core.  None of this is about education at all, but about indoctrinating children so that they are obedient to their new “values,” “attitudes,” “beliefs,” “sustainability,” and “global citizenship.”

Remember, these are the same people who wish to stamp out individuality and choice, so as to replace such thinking with concepts of globalism and statism through schools worldwide.

"The UNESCO-led UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which began in 2005, was explicitly intended to instill in every human being ‘the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values necessary to shape a sustainable future,’” UNESCO chief Irina Bokova, a Bulgarian communist, boasted in a recent column.

“What is needed now is a global movement, with every student in every country learning about sustainable development from well-trained teachers, equipped with the appropriate curricula and resources,” Bokova continued, with “sustainable development” meaning a radical redesign of human society toward collectivism, central planning, humanism, population control, and global governance. In the same piece, Bokova bragged that her agency, which she regularly boasts promotes global humanism, was also “promoting climate-change education in schools.”

Children outside their control, however, can be a problem for them.  Those children will be able to think independently, and those kinds of “attitudes and values” are not shaped by the accelerating indoctrination efforts, and are not acceptable to the centralized planners.

Statists and internationalists are humanists, and they reject the concept of "God-given rights."  Rights, from their point of view, come from governments, treaties, and international organizations. Rights, according to the power players of social engineering and centralized planning, can also be restricted or abolished by government at will under virtually any pretext.  In no circumstance may “rights” be used contrary to the “purposes and principles” of the United Nations.

Freedom of Religion or Speech, or the American concept of State Sovereignty does not exist, in the minds of the statists.  Only the ruling elite can perceive what is best for society, and it is their job, through government control, to mandate and control, which includes control over all forms of education.

Let's not forget that homeschooling was outlawed immediately by communist regimes, and Adolf Hitler, upon those tyrannical systems taking control.

The UN and its member governments around the world have big plans to indoctrinate your children into becoming “green” and “global” citizens.  They openly boast about it.  They know that once they have your children, and your children stand in the new camp, nothing, save for a bloody rebellion (and even the success of such an insurrection would seem doubtful), will be able to stop them. . . that way, the children can be better members of the family, and obediently be their "brother's keeper."

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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