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Remember a few months ago when a Colorado high school teacher was suspended for comparing the Bush administration to Hitler's regime? In an article in the latest issue of "In These Times", Joel Bleifuss tells us that the Bush administration continues to promote its agenda to the American public via the "lie". Mr. Bleifuss reminds us of how the Hitler regime and the Bush administration view "lying" as a tool to remain in power. He offered the following quotes:

Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, once said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." Bush himself said much the same thing, though less eloquently, on May 24, 2005, in Rochester, N.Y., when out on the road trying to sell his Social Security scam. He told the crowd gathered at the Athena Performing Arts Center: "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

It's heartening to read that the Colorado high school teacher has been re-instated. The student, who recorded the teacher's comments during class and played back the recording to his father (who then demanded the teacher be fired), has now decided not to return to this school. It seems that a majority of students and parents agreed with the teacher's right to express his opinion. Perhaps this student and his father would be more comfortable in a different educational setting. I suggest a place where Fox News, talk radio, and neo-con websites would be available 24-7. Home school.