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Got Communism?

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Welcome back to 1950!  Last night Gov. Schwarzenegger refused to sign into law SB1322 which would amend California’s communist era “loyalty oaths,” and would have eliminated references in state law to communism as cause for dismissal of school, community college and other public employees.

Citing people who fled communist regimes immigrating to the United States and their need to be protected, the governor said that we need to maintain “our responsibility to ensure that public resources are not used for purposes of overthrowing the U.S. or state government, or for communist activities.”

Got that?  So the fact that California spends four times as much on its prisoners than it does on its public school students isn’t a problem (witness our current state budget) it’s the possibility that Stalinist pinkos might be lurking among administrators and teachers that strikes fear.

Last month, we told you the ACLU/SC worked to help pass SB 1322, because of our commitment to free speech and freedom of religion. We had help from Cal State Fullerton faculty member, Wendy Gonaver, a Quaker and a Pacifist.  She was fired this academic year because of her refusal to sign the loyalty oath even though she offered to sign the pledge if she could attach a statement expressing her views. Cal State Fullerton rejected her statement and insisted that she sign the oath if she wanted the job. She was subsequently fired for upholding her religious beliefs.

Got that? California shouldn’t be concerned about the quality of its faculty. Teachers and professors need to sign what amounts to a flag pin pledge vowing they’ll take up arms in the event of an insurrection against our Constitution. As if they can get to Dick Cheney and David Addington from Cal State Fullerton.

Next time, maybe we ought to call Communism fattening.

 

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Jeff Denham: Fighting to Keep the Reds Out of Our Classrooms!

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Thank God we have Jeff Denham in the State Senate. Without him California might have already succumbed to the Communist menace that seeks to overthrow our great American way of life by subverting our children and our schools in the service of…

Oh? What’s that you say? The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago and the Cold War has been over for just as long? Huh. That’s odd. Because even though the State Senate passed Alan Lowenthal’s bill to remove membership in the Communist Party as a firing offense for public employees, Denham has denounced the bill as giving succor to our numerous Communist enemies around the world:

Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Atwater, warned “the Communist Party is not a dead organization … and (is) actively repressing human beings in Cuba and China in brutal ways.

“The state has every right to hold school employees accountable for their political standing, especially if that employee belongs to an organization that favors the violent overthrow of the government,” Denham said during the debate on the bill.

Denham said that it’s also “reasonable that use of public school property should be limited to groups who support our democracy and do not advocate the overthrow of government by force, violence or other possible means.”

I wonder if Denham got the memo that the Cold War is over – or are Republicans really so desperate that they have to turn to red baiting to try and improve their political fortunes?

Or perhaps the Yacht Party believes that only their efforts to overthrow government, by starving it of the revenues necessary to provide the basic services that keep a modern society functioning, is legitimate?

At least the recall is still on the ballot in the 12th district, and voters can decide for themselves whether they want to be represented by someone whose politics are 50 years out of date, or by someone  who actually understands the present-day needs of his constituents instead of spending his time chasing after the Red Menace.