Post by neilsucks on Oct 2, 2004 16:38:54 GMT -5
Video self-portraits of the Columbine killers. Unlike the NEA, the trenchcoat mafia ended only 15 students' lives.
Trechcoat Mafia
The NEA Is Here To Shoot Up Your Classroom
"You romanticize your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now."
—Crass
In Sacramento recently they threatened to destroy anyone who opposed them, even an eight-year-old boy (a lawsuit is pending). In Indiana they hired a tire slasher to become one of their members and he immediately got to work destroying any car owner that stood in the way. In Michigan they killed a pet cat to show the owner what happens to blabbermouths. They have goldplated champagne coolers, lavish holidays all over the globe, and more politicians in check than any group in the Western world (not even the Republicans and the Democrats have as many lobbyists on Capitol Hill). They only very recently started paying taxes, and the little tax they do pay is a minuscule fraction of their annual income. They are above the law, make over a billion dollars a year, and control the hearts and minds of every newspaper in the country. They are the mafia. A group of chubby gluttons who squeeze the working man dry and then use that money to beat him further into submission. This is not the mafia featured on HBO. They're not even Italian. This mafia is actually a labor union known as the National Education Association (NEA). A gigantic, hydra-headed extortion machine that charges every teacher in America hundreds of dollars to "represent" them but is really only concerned with getting more money and crushing more opponents.
Remember in that New York series on PBS where we learned that it was Robert Moses who created all the highways and bridges that turned New York City into a giant traffic machine? He'd get a few million from mayor La Guardia, build a bridge, set up a toll, take all the money and build another highway with another profitable toll. The more he built the more traffic we'd get. He was above the law and had no checks and balances, so he just kept growing and growing and siphoning off more and more money. Nobody could stop him. Throw in some violence, threats and about 400 times the government pay-offs and you have the NEA, the largest threat to education since stupidity.
This horrific crime gang started back in the 1960s, when Kennedy was so desperate for votes he allowed teachers (government workers) to unionize. What? The government regulates teachers' pay and benefits and then the union regulates teachers' pay and benefits? How much regulating did these people need? Once you factor in that every teacher in the country is forced to join the NEA, you essentially have a monopoly on top of a monopoly on top of a monopoly. It's the biggest scam in the Western world outside of Halliburton but, unlike Halliburton, nobody knows it exists. The NEA has three million members, but only 2% of the teachers who pay their $500 a year have any idea where their money goes or to whom. The bastards pull this off in a number of clandestine ways. Here's their unwritten guide:
1. HIDE YOUR IDENTITY
The NEA has a different name in every state. That makes it look like they are not one terrorist group (as the U.S. Secretary of Education called them) but a series of different cells. How could the Connecticut Teachers Association have anything to do with the California Education Association? Check the bank account. Everyone's dues end up in the same place.
2. KEEP MEMBERS IN THE DARK
Teachers are usually female and, for whatever reason, female teachers tend to be more concerned with teaching than with staying up late to go to community centers and argue about politics. Even within the NEA, you have hordes and hordes of female plebes with only a few rich white males at the top. Political bullshit is the white man's specialty and tricking a nation of naïve Florence Nightingales into emptying their pockets is like raping grandmas in a barrel.
3. SPREAD PROPAGANDA
The NEA spends millions brainwashing journalists into thinking:
NEA (labor union) = empowered teachers = public education = smart kids = democracy. The truth is really: NEA (corrupt institution) = bored teachers = no education = stupid kids = communism.
When most Americans are asked what they think about the state of the teachers' union, they have negative things to say. Eighty-five percent of them think teachers are doing a good job, but much less than half of that think the same of the unions. So what's a mafia to do? Spend, spend, spend. Last year the NEA budgeted half a million dollars to "monitor and analyze forces undermining public education" (destroy NEA critics). They then spent another half a million to "maintain a clearinghouse of information on individuals working to dismantle public education" (destroy NEA critics). Add another $800,000 to "develop and provide training to leaders on threats to public education" (destroy NEA critics), and you have an unstoppable propaganda machine.
There are a few teachers out there who dare to put up a fight. In 1998, California teachers voted for something called Paycheck Protection. This measure would prevent the NEA from spending money on political campaigns without teachers' permission. The NEA then instituted a half-a-million dollar (fuck, they love that figure) "internal campaign." That is, they spent members' dues to convince members that the NEA should be able to freely spend members' dues. They milk the taxpayer dry, and when he says, "Fuck that," they charge him more to prove him wrong. And it works. The NEA has no real critics. Here are some examples of what the media has to say about them (try not to puke):
"In her private life, [Utah Education Association president Phyllis Sorenson] is a doting grandmother, a master quilter and an antique-shop hound who hunts thrift stores for castoff stuffed animals that can be lovingly refurbished and donated to charity."
"[Union president] Sandy Feldman's real passion is children. Especially poor children. Although Feldman herself has no children, she seems to consider the one million-plus students here her family.
"Yup, Feldman has dyed her hair blonde. Brash, blunt, Brooklyn-Jewish Sandy Feldman, whose saucy voice and straightforward manner—perhaps whose very soul—practically ooze brunette, has gone blonde."
Trechcoat Mafia
The NEA Is Here To Shoot Up Your Classroom
"You romanticize your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now."
—Crass
In Sacramento recently they threatened to destroy anyone who opposed them, even an eight-year-old boy (a lawsuit is pending). In Indiana they hired a tire slasher to become one of their members and he immediately got to work destroying any car owner that stood in the way. In Michigan they killed a pet cat to show the owner what happens to blabbermouths. They have goldplated champagne coolers, lavish holidays all over the globe, and more politicians in check than any group in the Western world (not even the Republicans and the Democrats have as many lobbyists on Capitol Hill). They only very recently started paying taxes, and the little tax they do pay is a minuscule fraction of their annual income. They are above the law, make over a billion dollars a year, and control the hearts and minds of every newspaper in the country. They are the mafia. A group of chubby gluttons who squeeze the working man dry and then use that money to beat him further into submission. This is not the mafia featured on HBO. They're not even Italian. This mafia is actually a labor union known as the National Education Association (NEA). A gigantic, hydra-headed extortion machine that charges every teacher in America hundreds of dollars to "represent" them but is really only concerned with getting more money and crushing more opponents.
Remember in that New York series on PBS where we learned that it was Robert Moses who created all the highways and bridges that turned New York City into a giant traffic machine? He'd get a few million from mayor La Guardia, build a bridge, set up a toll, take all the money and build another highway with another profitable toll. The more he built the more traffic we'd get. He was above the law and had no checks and balances, so he just kept growing and growing and siphoning off more and more money. Nobody could stop him. Throw in some violence, threats and about 400 times the government pay-offs and you have the NEA, the largest threat to education since stupidity.
This horrific crime gang started back in the 1960s, when Kennedy was so desperate for votes he allowed teachers (government workers) to unionize. What? The government regulates teachers' pay and benefits and then the union regulates teachers' pay and benefits? How much regulating did these people need? Once you factor in that every teacher in the country is forced to join the NEA, you essentially have a monopoly on top of a monopoly on top of a monopoly. It's the biggest scam in the Western world outside of Halliburton but, unlike Halliburton, nobody knows it exists. The NEA has three million members, but only 2% of the teachers who pay their $500 a year have any idea where their money goes or to whom. The bastards pull this off in a number of clandestine ways. Here's their unwritten guide:
1. HIDE YOUR IDENTITY
The NEA has a different name in every state. That makes it look like they are not one terrorist group (as the U.S. Secretary of Education called them) but a series of different cells. How could the Connecticut Teachers Association have anything to do with the California Education Association? Check the bank account. Everyone's dues end up in the same place.
2. KEEP MEMBERS IN THE DARK
Teachers are usually female and, for whatever reason, female teachers tend to be more concerned with teaching than with staying up late to go to community centers and argue about politics. Even within the NEA, you have hordes and hordes of female plebes with only a few rich white males at the top. Political bullshit is the white man's specialty and tricking a nation of naïve Florence Nightingales into emptying their pockets is like raping grandmas in a barrel.
3. SPREAD PROPAGANDA
The NEA spends millions brainwashing journalists into thinking:
NEA (labor union) = empowered teachers = public education = smart kids = democracy. The truth is really: NEA (corrupt institution) = bored teachers = no education = stupid kids = communism.
When most Americans are asked what they think about the state of the teachers' union, they have negative things to say. Eighty-five percent of them think teachers are doing a good job, but much less than half of that think the same of the unions. So what's a mafia to do? Spend, spend, spend. Last year the NEA budgeted half a million dollars to "monitor and analyze forces undermining public education" (destroy NEA critics). They then spent another half a million to "maintain a clearinghouse of information on individuals working to dismantle public education" (destroy NEA critics). Add another $800,000 to "develop and provide training to leaders on threats to public education" (destroy NEA critics), and you have an unstoppable propaganda machine.
There are a few teachers out there who dare to put up a fight. In 1998, California teachers voted for something called Paycheck Protection. This measure would prevent the NEA from spending money on political campaigns without teachers' permission. The NEA then instituted a half-a-million dollar (fuck, they love that figure) "internal campaign." That is, they spent members' dues to convince members that the NEA should be able to freely spend members' dues. They milk the taxpayer dry, and when he says, "Fuck that," they charge him more to prove him wrong. And it works. The NEA has no real critics. Here are some examples of what the media has to say about them (try not to puke):
"In her private life, [Utah Education Association president Phyllis Sorenson] is a doting grandmother, a master quilter and an antique-shop hound who hunts thrift stores for castoff stuffed animals that can be lovingly refurbished and donated to charity."
"[Union president] Sandy Feldman's real passion is children. Especially poor children. Although Feldman herself has no children, she seems to consider the one million-plus students here her family.
"Yup, Feldman has dyed her hair blonde. Brash, blunt, Brooklyn-Jewish Sandy Feldman, whose saucy voice and straightforward manner—perhaps whose very soul—practically ooze brunette, has gone blonde."