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Gulags in the making
Yes, the War on Drugs is idiotic, there is little doubt about that, and I think most Americans are slowly coming around to that conclusion. That is not the part about the South Carolina high school drug raid that enrages me. What really brings my blood to a steady simmer is the fact that the raid was exactly the kind of debasing of the individual that occurs on a daily basis in every public school in the country, only this time it happened to a greater extent.

Public schools are not about learning. They never have been about learning. They are about taking children away from the natural home environment and molding them into obedient, state-worshipping citizens. From the moment that the student first steps into a classroom in which he is instructed to sit quietly and listen to the teacher at the front of the room, he is being stripped of his individuality and is being taught collectivism. The loud and clear message being sent is, "You cannot learn on your own. The only way you can learn anything is by being taught by someone else lecturing you. We will teach you. If you don't obey, we will punish you and your classmates."...