Why governments target kids for mind control

Editor’s note: Another Viewpoint is a column The News-Herald makes available so all sides of an issue may be aired. David B. Genis resides in Painesville.

Since ancient times, it’s been demonstrated that governments who control the minds of children control the future. Examples: Members of the Hitler Youth group was instructed that Germans were the master race and all others were subhuman. The invaders on the western front were uncivilized barbarians. More on Hitler Youth later.

The 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx reads, “Free education for all children in public schools.” Free education is a fallacy — there are teachers to pay, buildings for schools, transportation for students, cost of electricity and water, and much more. It should also be noted that the Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, a strong advocate of Marxism, stated, “Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.”

The United States is a republic that calls itself a democracy ever since Woodrow Wilson took us into World War I “to save the world for democracy,” which was also a fallacy, in my opinion. Nowhere in our founding documents will you find the word democracy.

Who can ever forget, “It Takes a Village” by Hillary Clinton; then came No Child Left Behind; then the Race to the Top; and now Common Core. Sound familiar? All federal government education programs. In my humble opinion, public schools sound more like indoctrination centers than educational facilities.

Back to the Hitler Youth — my brother Carl during World War II participated in the invasion of southern France after D-Day. As they proceeded through France, it was common for the soldiers to give candy and gum to the children from their C-Rations, but when they entered Germany it was a different story.

The young German children would race out into the street with one hand out begging for candy and the other behind their back with a pistol and they would shoot the soldier when he was handing candy to the child. This changed shortly. Their rifles were off their shoulders and they had to do what was necessary to survive. Imagine living with this the rest of your life.

Carl was in the liberation of Dachau, the death camp near Munich, Germany. They could smell the stench a mile away and when they reached trench after trench, the stench was unbearable.

This was when he hauled down the huge Nazi flag that flew over Dachau — he sent this flag home to remind us of the evil that was done by a totalitarian government. His story does not end there. My brother was like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the sweetest before the war to a combative anti-social after the war.

When he came home after the war he was very unstable, always stripping his shirt and bathing his upper torso, face and head, he was so irritable, nobody said anything. He would go to a bar and drink and ask different people “Do I stink?” and they would say, “No Carl, you don’t stink.” And he carried this with him the rest of his life.

A year or so before my brother died, my other brother asked why he was always bathing and he finally confessed: The stink from Dachau never goes away. Ultimately he became a full-blown alcoholic. I guess drinking was his way to relieve the pain he endured for almost 50 years.

Recently I gave the flag from Dachau to my oldest grandson and told the story behind the flag, never to forget it and pass it on to your children because this represents the horrors of war.

The moral of this story is if any country can control the minds of the children via the educational system, it will control the destiny of the nation — whether it be a democracy, parliament, republic, a fascist or communist.

If a person or a group gets total control, without checks and balances that spells totalitarianism.

The theme of this column was public education and why I believe there a growing exodus from the public schools to private or home schooling.

Could it be the dangerous environment in public schools — such as physical, academic and most of all, moral issues?

David Genis