State Controlled Consciousness: Fathers Love for Justice

“The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
-- H.L. Mencken, The American Mercury


“Perhaps school's greatest danger is that it may convince you life is nothing more than an institutionalized rat race”
-- Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School & Get a Real Life and Education

State Indoctrication and the Destruction of the Family

I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my 27 years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes any more that scientists are made in science classes, or politicians in civics classes, or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides, and even as administrators. But the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers do care, and do work very hard, the institution is psychopathic - by which I mean it has no conscience.
-- John Taylor Gatto, The Exhausted School

Scenario A: Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.

1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal’s office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.



Scenario B: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.

2009 - Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has an affair with the psychologist.



Scenario C: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.

1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2009 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.



Brief Dot Connectors on the Road to the Destruction of the Family:

“Communism and Socialism all know that they can not survive with strong families. Strong families make strong communities, and strong communities keep government power in check. Break down the families, and the door is wide open to centralizing power in government. Once families break down through divorce, welfare, cohabitation, etc. Government gets more and more involved in everyday life. More and more centralized government control.”
--- Red Squirrel’s ‘Nut Cracking’ Nationalism’: Why I am a Nationalist....

The real purpose of modern schooling was announced by the legendary sociologist Edward Roth in his manifesto of 1906, Social Control:

“Plans are underway to replace family, community and church with propaganda, mass-media and education .... people are only little plastic lumps of dough”.

Lump of Dough Children are accordingly in need of an education system that is deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring their inner lives, to deny them appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens in order to render the populace “manageable.”


The Socialist “Father of American Education,” John Dewey, stated his beliefs about how schools should be instrumental in developing a socialist society in America, in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and The School and Society (1899). He suggested a system of ‘progressive education’ that should use psychology to deemphasize academics:

“Our schools … are performing an infinite significant religious work. They are promoting the social unity out of which in the end genuine religious unity must grow.”

Obstacles to the Central Socialist Planned Society:

The biggest obstacle to a planned society are parents. Parents have their own plans for their own kids; most often they love their kids. Parents motivations are self-reinforcing, unlike those of ‘educators’ who are motivated predominantly by their pay-check. Accordingly parents need to be manipulated, for a few unhappy parents could disrupt the efficiency of the Dumbing Down Educational Experiment being conducted on their guineapig 'lump of dough' children.

The second biggest obstacle to a planned society are religious ‘cults’, all of which have their own ideas as to ‘Gods’ plan for all human beings, including and particularly children.

The third significant obstacle being local values and strong family ethnic cultures; which provide children with socially useful socio-cultural navigation maps for growing up.

Accordingly a Planned Centralized Social Society needs to seriously suppress, if not attempt to entirely extinguish: individuality, cultural identity, a individual relationships with God, and close-knit family's.

Few people are aware that the concept of Forced Schooling, was a recent invention, subsequent to the industrial revolution. Even fewer are conscious of how forced schooling has served the dual function of: l) The creation of a mindless proletariat stripped of its traditions of liberty, independence, fidelity to God, loyalty to family and land; and 2) The creation of a professional proletariat, suitably dumbed down and obedience specialized to serve functionally in a highly centralized corporate/bureaucratic economy.




The Path of Least Resistance: Debt Slave Consumers

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.”
-- Ambrose Bierce


“Debt is the slavery of the free.”
-- Publilius Syrus


“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.”
-- Wendell Phillips


“Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety. If your friend is in distress, aid him if you have the means to spare. If he fails to be able to return it, it is only so much lost.”
-- President Andrew Jackson

“You can explain the model in a few simple sentences: Encourage people to spend. When they run out of money, encourage them to borrow. When they tire of borrowing and spending, lend them more at lower rates.”

“As a way for people to build wealth, this economic model of the Bubble Period was as ineffective as a bad banker. It was a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ school of financial success with an obvious flaw.”

“In the Bubble Epoque people tried to get something for nothing… Imagine, they thought they could get rich by borrowing money and spending it. Have you ever heard of something so ridiculous? Ha ha! Now, they think they can get rich by spending money that doesn’t even exist.”
-- Bill Bonner, Daily Reckoning

The old mature ethics and values of 'no free lunch' and 'the path less travelled', honour and integrity, a man's word is his honour, etc... were replaced with new Highway to Hedonism and a Consumer Paradise Superficiality: Easy divorce laws removed the need for commitment to work at relationships; easy credit removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers removed the need to ask questions.



Unschooling: Road to a Meaningful Life Adventure

“Where did we ever get the grotesque idea that the State has a right to educate our kids? Where did we ever get the notion there is only one right way to grow up instead of hundreds? How did we lose our way and come to believe that human value and human quality can be reduced to numbers derived from paper/pencil tests?”
-- John Taylor Gatto, The Exhausted School

Now for the good news. Once you capiche the lump of dough conspiracy of modern schooling, avoiding its tricks and traps are easy:

State propaganda trains children to be employees and consumers; teach yours to be leaders and adventurers.

Socialist indoctrination trains children to obey reflexively; teach yours to think critically and independently.

State zombies have a low threshold for boredom and being alone, addicted to external 'entertainment stimulus'; help your own to develop an inner life of adventure and wonder, into history, literature, philosophy, so that they'll never be bored.

Challenge your kids with nature and solitude so that they can learn to enjoy their own company, and appreciate conducting their own inner dialogues.

Sociliazed Sheeple prefer shallow and superficial friendships and relationships, quickly acquired and quickly abandoned; do your children deserve more?

Your children can have a more meaningful life, and so can you.




Disobedient Adventurers for Love: Fathers for Justice:

“…when historians look back on British Society at the start of the third millennium they will accord a small but important chapter to the men in tights.”
-- The Times Newspaper, January 2006


“…fiercely intelligent, charmingly foul-mouthed and a fantastic turn of phrase…few could equal O'Connor when it comes to taking a conversational thread,yanking, unravelling and generally running with it.”
-- Will Self, Author, GQ Magazine, June 2006


“No comment.”
-- PR Office, Scotland Yard


“Fathers 4 Justice? The worst campaign group I have ever heard of.”
-- Downing Street Press Spokesman

The civil rights group Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) was founded in December 2002 by Matt O'Connor after he experienced first hand the injustices of the secret family courts as he struggled to see his two boys Daniel and Alexander after a traumatic divorce. Started as a vehicle for social change, F4J quickly became the high-wire act of protest groups, whether powder-bombing the Prime Minister in the House of Commons, scaling the balcony at Buckingham Palace in a Batman Costume, invading the Pulpit at York Minster during a General Synod Service or taking the National Lottery Draw live off air on BBC1 in front of ten million viewers.

But behind the headlines and dramatic protests is a new creed for family law enshrined in our documents “Family Justice On Trial ­ Opening The Door On Closed Courts” and "Blueprint For Family Law In The 21st Century." These pioneering, ideas-led documents set out radical and visionary frameworks for a fair, just, open and equitable system of family law. Both documents are essential reading and available on this web site for the first time.

F4J campaigns not just in the name of the father, but in the name of all parents, grandparents and children seeking equality in family law. The achievements of F4J to date are best described by the Times Newspaper who in January 2006 wrote:

“F4J caught the spirit of the times: they reflected the zeitgeist, and they changed it...for all the flaws within F4J, the issue of fatherhood has a currency that would have been unimaginable three years ago...when historians look back on British Society at the start of the third millennium, they will accord a small but important chapter to the men in tights.”

In just a few years Fathers 4 Justice has not only effected “climate change”, but it has also succeeded in discrediting the secret courts and undermining public confidence in them. The result has been to force the government to advance proposals to open up the secret family courts to greater scrutiny and propose tougher enforcement of contact orders.

Ridicule, satire and subversion are integral elements of the Fathers 4 Justice campaign. Naturally politicians, judges and the family law industry are targets for protests that are one part Monty Python, one part Pantomime and one part high-wire Circus act.

Over the last four years, F4J has produced an ideas bank of creative work for campaigns, protest and demonstrations. Some ideas have yet to be realised and many never made it to their intended destination. Others though, like the infamous “In The Name Of The Father” banner graced a crane at Tower Bridge, the roof at York Minster and St Paul's Cathedral.

Fathers for Justice

John Taylor Gatto: State Controlled Consciousness

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Sources: Fathers 4 Justice :: Red Squirrel's 'Nut Cracking' Nationalism :: Fathers for Life: Communist Manifesto :: InfoWars: High School: 1957 v 2009 :: JT Gatto: The Exhausted School (PDF)