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Let's say your little sweet daughter comes up to you and asks if she can have some of your Honey Mustard & Onion Pretzels Pieces. And you don't want to share for whatever reason, so you tell her they are yucky. So she decides that's good enough and stops asking for some.
Victory, right? No. That's a lie. The pretzels are in fact very yummy and you know it. Telling her the opposite of what is true is wrong and will backfire some day.
Hopefully, you will never have this happen. Or if it does happen, you will correct it. Depending on your child, it may be impossible to correct the problem for many years. Some kids remember what they've been told for a long long time.
And when that time comes, there may be some mistrust to deal with as result. If someone has been lied to for a long time, even if that lie was propagated by other means, it can be very difficult once the truth comes out.
So just don't lie in the first place. If the pretzels are yummy, tell the truth. If you don't want your kid to have the yummy pretzels because it's too late in the evening for them to eat something like that, tell them the truth. It is much easier in the long run.
By the way, in reference to the title of this article, when an individual tells an untruth, we call it a lie. When an institution or organization tells a lie, we call it propaganda.
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"ONE SEVEN FOUR FIVE ZERO NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE OPEN UP ... ONE SEVEN FOUR FIVE ZERO NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE OPEN UP OR YOU MAY BE SHOT!"
Those are the words we woke up to this morning at around 5:00. The sheriff, along with Torrance PD, were raiding the apartment next door to ours. There were also several non-uniformed officers involved in the raid.
"Don't stand there, you might be in the cross fire."
That was probably more scary than the original outburst. We were not sure who was being addressed, but it seemed like one officer was talking to another in the hallway, not the occupants of any apartments.
I observed a few sheriffs in body armor and military style helmet, one carrying a battering ram. There were many local police and two official vehicles in our driveway, blocking five or six cars. At some point, I overheard the officers explain to one another that they thought the accused person threw something out the window. So they proceeded to shine spotlights into our children's room while an occupant of the raided apartment told them if they were hot or cold. I also observed an officer standing on the fence, looking into the yard of the house directly behind the raid.
Then, a neighbor asked what was going on; he was conversing with the officers with spotlights out his window. The officer asked my neighbor if they needed to get a warrant for him too. The neighbor politely replied, "No thanks."
"Well that was anti-climactic."
Those are the words of a classic adrenaline junkie.
By the time I was ready to go to work. one of our neighbors was in custody, being driven away in a black, unmarked official vehicle. Have a nice day!
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This is a picture I snapped with my mobile after attending a meeting at my son's school. I am totally against the public indoctrination centers, but my son Benjamin goes to this school for reasons I don't really want to get into at the moment.
Anyway, this is part of a drawing hung outside the school in plastic to protect it from the weather. It was just part of a larger drawing which was one of many on the chain-link-fence facing the street.
You can see a person at a podium who appears to be the president ("go presidant (sic)") saying, "I want to [ban] drugs from the whole country." Further down, someone is responding to the president saying, "I like that law." That last quote bubble got cut off from when I took the picture.
I know this is one tiny corner example and it doesn't in any way represent the entire school system, but then again it does. I didn't really assess the whole display, but it looked like everything was centered around the
Red Ribbon Week indoctrination program. Torrance, the city I live in and the city this school is located, is aligned with the federal drug laws. In 2006, Torrance City Council passed a
resolution to ban the sale of medical marijuana. I think this photo is a perfect window into the priorities and views the Torrance Unified School District favors. The State of California does not believe the president has the power to control these substances, but Torrance Unified believes and teaches a different role of government to our young children.
Drugs are bad, umkay? But teaching children that the president has the power to override state's rights with an
executive order is bad too, umkay?
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