Further adventures in indoctrination rather than education at Grayson High School. From the most recent email newsletter:

GRAYSON TEENAGE REPUBLICANS (G-TARS)
The Grayson TeenAge Republicans (G-TARS) is now an active student club affiliated with the Young Republicans, the Georgia Republican Party, and the (national) Republican Party. Our next meeting is on September 2nd after school in room 1.553. Our plans include a voter registration drive and activities in conjunction with the Gwinnett Republicans in addition to guest speakers. Students who are interesting in finding out more about our organization are welcome to come to the meeting, talk with our sponsors (Mr. Wade and Mrs. C. Edwards), or talk with the president of the club, Mallory Davis.

Republican Principles

• Individual ability, dignity freedom and responsibility are basic to good government.
• The free enterprise system and encouragement of individual initiative and incentive are musts for a strong economy.
• Government exists to protect the freedom of each individual, not to restrict it.
• Government should get involved only in those things which people cannot do, or cannot do so well for themselves.
• Both government and society should assist those who cannot provide for themselves and should help them become self-supporting, productive citizens with pride in their independence.
• Equal rights, equal justice, and equal opportunity belong to all, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin or sex.
• The preservation of our nation and the security of our citizens depend on every citizen’s respect for the constitution, the laws and the courts.
• Government must maintain sound money and responsible economy. The rights of life and liberty are meaningless if citizens are deprived of their property through excessive taxation, inflation and government waste.
• World peace and friendship will continue through strength.

Are there equivalent clubs for Democrats, Libertarians and Independents at Grayson High School?

Will the initial meeting include an explanation of how the Bush/Cheney administration (and their Georgia YesMen in the Senate and ConYesMan Linder in the House) have repeatedly violated every one of the “principles” you attribute to the Republican party?

Let me make some suggestions:

Explain how the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 allow Customs officials to take their iPod and laptop at the border for any or no reason whatsoever. Supposedly to fight terrorism, but also so that the Justice Department can sue you on behalf of the RIAA if you can’t prove that you bought all the songs on there legally.

Or maybe explain how going to war in Iraq to boost oil company profits and provide no-bid contracts to the Vice President’s former employer is free enterprise.

Or how anyone who looks Middle Eastern is a suspected terrorist, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin or sex.

Or how President Bush has respected the Constitution by pushing for laws that trash the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal search and seizure, while claiming that anything his buddies do is a secret and Congress and the people of this country aren’t entitled to know about it.

Or how it is sound monetary and fiscal party to borrow huge sums to fight a war while giving tax cuts to the richest Americans.

Or how “world peace and friendship” are enhanced by unilateral invasions and torture of prisoners.

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