BLOG: CENSORSHIP AND PROPAGANDA – THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN #PUBLIC EDUCATION

BLOG: CENSOREDSHIP AND PROPAGANDA – THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN #PUBLIC EDUCATION

 IN FLORIDA, RON DESANTIS REPLACES EDUCATION WITH PROPAGANDA ___ AND HE HOPES TO TAKE HIS FASCIST IDEOLOGY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

August, 2023

Eugene Stovall, Oakland, California

On July 21st, Joe Biden sent Kamala Harris to Jacksonville. He needed to distant his administration from the fascist educational policies being implemented by his fellow Catholic, Ron DeSantis. Joe Biden, who is a staunch Catholic, with personal ties to the Vatican, feels pressure from Ron DeSantis’ conversion of Florida’s Department of Education into a ministry of propaganda. DeSantis’ educational policies are so closely aligned with the educational agenda advocated by the Vatican’s and the Catholic Bishop’s Council of the United States, that Biden sent the Vice-President to express the administration’s displeasure with DeSantis’ policy of censorship and disinformation ___ not that Biden intends to do anything to obstruct DeSantis who he is helping win the Republican presidential nomination. Biden certainly does not intend to cut off Florida’s federal education funds for implementing measures that violate Florida citizens’ constitutional guarantees as charged in court.

In her Jacksonville speech, Kamala Harris criticized the educational standards recently proposed by Florida Education Commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr. and adopted unanimously by the Florida Board of Education. The new standards include a propagandized version of black history favored by the Governor DeSantis and the Catholic Church. In response, Ron DeSantis called Kamala Harris’ condemnation, "outrageous". 

Florida latest educational policy revisions adopt censorship, racial bias and historical disinformation. In a 216-page outline of Florida’s 2023 educational standards for social studies, revised educational standards require teaching black students that slavery was good because it taught black people skills. The standards also require teaching that the black people, themselves caused the slaughter in Florida’s Rosewood and Ocoee race riots. In fact, Florida Public Education teaches that all violence against black people, like that occurring during the infamous “Red Summer of 1919” when thousands of Black people were terrorized and lynched all over the United States, was instigated by black people. DeSantis’ black history curriculum is so filled with disinformation that it infers that, in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s 1921 massacre, black people flew the airplanes owned by Sinclair Oil that fire-bombed the black community and machine- gunned women and children as they fled the burning buildings.

 DeSantis extremist educational policies censor school books that have served Florida’s educational curricula for decades. The censored books include the biographies of Hank Aaron and Roberto Clemente because DeSantis does not want non-white celebrities, no matter how uncontroversial, celebrated in Florida’s public schools.

DeSantis forbids discussions of issues about minorities, the LBTQ community and women’s reproductive in his schools. He has instructed Catholic Republican educators, his gestapo,  to remove any mention of racism or sexism against native peoples, minority citizens. non-white immigrants and women. Ron DeSantis ordered the removal of books from school curricula and school libraries to erase the history of past criminal acts as well as evidence of ongoing criminal conspiracies. Facts like those surrounding the murder of John F. Kennedy are not allowed. Joe Biden’s administration is still suppressing information about the coup sixty years later allowing those responsible for assassinating the president of the United States and overthrowing the government to remain hidden in the shadows and continue to undermine the constitution and negate the Bill of Rights. The criminal cabal, that overthrew the presidency in 1963, has boldly taken steps to establish extreme authoritarian rule and eliminate. the rule of law without fear of any consequences.

The suppression of truth and propagation of lies in Florida, and elsewhere, has already accepted the legitimacy of fascist rule. DeSantis transformation of the Department of Education under the watchful eyes of the state’s gestapo education agents has forced teachers, principals, instructional specialist and librarians, threatened with the loss of employment and criminal prosecution, to censor themselves. Already DeSantis gestapo have caused Florida’s educators to lose their jobs and face criminal prosecution for discussing banned subjects and providing banned books. Public educators must look over their shoulders for fear of being reported by students, parents or colleagues. Accommodating Florida’s environment of censorship and propaganda means that educators become self-censoring to watch what they say to avoid DeSantis’ sanctions, Instructional materials are sparse and book shelves are empty. But, as the Germans quickly learned, a society ruled by madmen soon degenerates into an insane asylum. This s is happening in Florida. Nonetheless the Democratic Party’s official response delivered by Kamala Harris in Jacksonville to Governor Ron DeSantis’ radically fascist educational curriculum and book banning is: “This is the United States of America. We're not supposed to do that," She should have said that This is the United States of America and you are not allowed to deny any American their bill of rights!

Outcry From Teachers, Principals & Parents

The Florida Education Association is the 150,000-member statewide teachers’ union that branded DeSantis’ educational standards a disservice to Florida’s students and a step backwards into the darkness of ignorance. Andrew Spar. the association president. said he was troubled that the high school level, the standards conflate the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, when whites killed black Americans for attempting to vote, with acts of violence perpetrated by criminals. “How can our students ever be equipped for the future if they don’t have a full, honest picture of where we’ve come from?” Spar asks. “Florida’s students deserve a world-class education that equips them to be successful adults who can help heal our nation’s divisions rather than deepen them.”

Democracy Forward is the educator and parents group that challenged DeSantis’ anti-truth and censorship agenda in court. Instead of sending Kamala Harris to Jacksonville, the Biden administration should have submitted an amicus curiae brief in support the lawsuit. Democracy Forward charged DeSantis with unlawfully exceeding his authority, causing classroom libraries to close and threatening the rights of students, parents, teachers, librarians and school administrators.

“Ron DeSantis passed an unconstitutional far-right pro-censorship law that gives the Florida Department of Education authority to censor books in school libraries, school curricula and teacher training materials,” Democracy Forward charged. When questioned about his censoring books, the governor replied, disingenuously, that he had not banned a single book in Florida. But, as the anti-fascist Catholic governor of California. Gavin Newsom tweeted: “There has not been a single book banned in Florida. Last school year, Florida banned 566 books in 21 school districts.” In addition to denying parents and students books on diversity and preventing teachers from discussing race issues, DeSantis’ gestapo forbids any discussion of LGBTQ identity with the enforcement of his “Don’t Say Gay” law and erases the histories of marginalized communities from Florida’s educational curricula by enforcing his Stop WOKE Act. Next DeSantis plans to ban all discussion of menstruation and female rights in Florida schools. It is rumored that DeSantis plans to ban Darwin’s Origin of the Species and Orwell’s 1984, as well.

Yet, while pretending to defend citizens’ rights, when faced with aggressive right-wing Republican initiatives to curtail basic freedoms, Democratic leadership, takes refuge in a ‘state of paralysis’ restricting them to doing nothing more than mumbling platitudes and ‘reaching across the aisle’ to achieve reasonable compromises.  Meanwhile America continues its slide into neo-nazism aided by a Democratic Party corrupted by the interests of the billionaire capitalists and religious zealots in the Vatican and Jerusalem.

The Vatican’s Authoritarian Agenda For A New World Order

Biden’s response to DeSantis’ transformation of Florida’s Department of Education into a ministry of propaganda is not surprising. Joe Biden is even more outspoken than Ron DeSantis in his support for the conservative beliefs of the Catholic Church. The Vatican influence on a right-wing activist Supreme Court, with its 7-2 Catholic majority, has manifested itself in rulings overturning of Roe-Wade, affirmative action and voting rights ___ as well as a host of anti-labor and anti-consumer decisions . Now Republican Catholics greedily eye the executive branch. In a series of pre-2024 election maneuvers, the Vatican is positioning DeSantis, Florida’s authoritarian fascist, for a White House bid. Once again, the Vatican will call upon the assistance of Joe Biden.

In 2014, the Vatican had Joe Biden insert his son, Hunter, CIA operative, Joseph Cofer Black, former president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, and a wily Zionist Wall Street banker and master CIA spy, Alan Apter onto the board of directors of Burisma, a petroleum company owned by Ukraine’s corrupt minister of interior. Providing the American espionage agents with the NED funds and NATO assets, Biden overthrew Ukraine’s government under President Viktor Yanukovych and initiated the Vatican’s long-awaited war against Russia. Now the Vatican is positioning its fascist candidate, Ron DeSantis, to capture the Republican presidential nomination and. with voter suppression, election fraud and Supreme Court interference and corruption of the Electoral College process, seize control of the  presidency. The Vatican is even hedging its support by positioning Robert Kennedy Jr. as a possible Democratic Party presidential nominee. Robert Kennedy Jr’s father, a staunch Catholic. worked with the Catholic Republican, Joe McCarthy and the Trump-mentor, Roy Cohn, to contrive the Red Scare and the Cold War that the Vatican used to cover up the immigration of thousands of Nazi war criminals into the United States. No matter what, Joe Biden will not win reelection. This is the Vatican’s best chance to initiate WWIII and the nuclear holocaust that it desires to force mankind to turn to the church for redemption.

When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, Robert Kenney, the President’s brother, was the Attorney General of the United States. As Attorney General, Robert Kennedy controlled the FBI and the Secret Service. Months prior to JFK’s assassination, the FBI and Secret Service received numerous .credible warnings about assassination attempts against the president. Nevertheless, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy did not protect his brother the president. John F. Kennedy failed to obey the Vatican’s orders and overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba. When faced with a similar Vatican demand to overthrow the Yanukovych regime in Ukraine, Joe Biden did not make John F. Kennedy’s mistake. Of course, the Vatican could not allow Robert Kennedy become president and end the Viet Nam War and the Cambodian genocide. Besides Bobby Kennedy knew far too much about the Vatican’s sinister intrigues.

 On the campaign trail, Ron DeSantis uses religious rhetoric coupled with hard-charging racism to capture the white evangelical vote which is critical to winning Republican primary contests. With the backing of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, DeSantis has the Catholics voting bloc which gives him a thirty percent advantage in most general elections.  Catholics put DeSantis into Florida’s governor’s mansion, but the Republican right-winger is guarded about his commitment to Catholicism and the Vatican’s political agenda.

“I don’t think he’s a wear-your-religion-on-your-sleeve kind of guy,” says Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, a conservative advocacy organization that is the lynchpin of DeSantis’ political machine. Burch points out that DeSantis’ policies are the true measure of his faith. From Florida’s six-week abortion ban to his spate of laws targeting LGBTQ rights, Burch believes DeSantis’ religious beliefs are expressed in paraphrasing the Sacred Scripture, ‘By his fruits you shall know him.’

DeSantis grew up Catholic, attending Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Dunedin, Florida, and going to Mass every Sunday. His aunt is a Catholic nun and his uncle a Catholic priest, who baptized DeSantis’ son in the Florida governor’s mansion, using water DeSantis took from the Sea of Galilee. DeSantis does not campaign on his Catholicism; he campaigns on his military record in Iraq and in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In Iraq, DeSantis planned missions for SEALs and Green Berets against civilians that he identified as insurgents using of ‘enhanced interrogation’ methods including waterboarding, suspensions and electrical shock. When his victims revealed the names of other insurgents, DeSantis sent Green Berets and SEALs to the Iraqi villages to detain the civilians on his insurgent list. DeSantis similarly tortured these detainees and added additional victims to his insurgent list. When DeSantis finished interrogating his victims, he handed them over to the puppets in the Iraqi government for execution. None of DeSantis’ victims received a trial and there is no record of how many innocent Iraqi civilians that DeSantis tortured and had murdered.

At Guantanamo Bay prison, DeSantis oversaw torture and covered-up the deaths that resulted from torture. The U.S. military admitted to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights that it engaged in torture at the Guantanamo Bay while DeSantis was stationed at the Cuban prison. Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantanamo prisoner-turned-activist, wrote in his 2021 memoir that DeSantis supervised the torture of prisoner. When prisoners conducted a hunger strike to protest their indefinite incarceration without being charged with a crime or being given a trial, DeSantis tortured them. When three prisoners were found hanging in their cells, DeSantis submitted evidence to the Navy Criminal Investigative Service that the three deaths were suicides. However, the Washington Post reported that the prisoners’ families as well as human rights lawyers demonstrated that DeSantis official report was inconsistent and missing information. Recalling the deaths in a 2018 CBS interview, DeSantis said the detainees committed suicide by starving themselves to death in a self-imposed hunger strike. Yet, one glaring inconsistency in DeSantis’ report was that he claimed that the prisoners were found to have hung themselves in their cells after dying from a lack of food. Nevertheless, DeSantis denied Adayfi’s allegations as “total BS,” claiming that the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner was trying to generate publicity. “Do you honestly believe that his statements are credible?” DeSantis asked reporters in a heated exchange when faced with his inconsistent statements. But Catholics believe that there is no deed too foul nor lie too egregious that will not be forgiven with a couple of Our Fathers and some Hail Marys. Good Catholics, like Ron DeSantis, do not fear any moral consequences for their foul deeds or vicious lies. They believe the denial of civil liberties, the corruption of democratic rule and the institution of a dictatorial authoritarian world order to be their duty as practicing Catholics.

The Canonization Of Junipero Serra And John Paul II

The Vatican teaches that Catholic saints are so pure, so blameless and so innocent that the faithful are assured of heaven by following the Apostles Creed and entering into the ‘communion of saints.’ Catholics know the lives of saints and ‘do likewise.’ Two 21st century saints who the Vatican offers as models of behavior to further the pope’s pursuit of world domination are Karol Józef Wojtyla aka Pope John Paul II and Junipero Serra.

On April 27th 2014 the Jesuit Pope Francis assisted by the Jesuit Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, canonized Karol Józef Wojtyla aka Pope John Paul II, a Catholic saint. The canonization mass, accompanied by 150 Cardinals and 700 Bishops, took place in St, Peter’s Square with 500,000 Catholics in attendance and 300,000 others watching from video screens placed around Rome.

During WWII, Karol Józef Wojtyla worked for a Polish chemical firm that contracted with I.G. Farben to develop a poison gas that would assist Nazi death camp commandants kill, more effectively and efficiently. Karol Wojtyla invented Zyclon-B poison gas and kept the Nazi death camps supplied with poison gas pellets throughout the war. In 1945, following WWII. Karol Wojtyla, being hunted as a Nazi war criminal for helping murder of millions, entered a Catholic seminary and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1946. The Nazi chemist turned Catholic priest was consecrated a bishop in 1958 and, in 1978, with the poisoning of Pope Paul VI, the chemist, poison gas salesman and Nazi war criminal, Karol Józef Wojtyla, was consecrated Pope John Paul II. During his pontificate, John Paul accelerated Vatican policies intended to achieve victory over its rivals in the West as well as Russia and force humanity to submit to its new world order.  Malachi Martin describes Karol Józef Wojtyla’s obsession to rule the world in his best seller,  The Keys Of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West For Control Of The New World Order.

In attempting to dominate the world, Pope John Paul II followed his role models ___ Pope Pius XI put Mussolini in power and signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy’s fascist and Pope Pius XII who put Adolph Hitler in charge of Germany as well as Francisco Franco in Spain and signing Concordats with both dictators. The agreements the Vatican signed with all three dictators gave the Catholic Church complete authority of censorship over educational curricula, news media and cultural affairs. Pope John Paul II passed down the Vatican’s authoritarian vision that scorns the rule of law and would deprive humanity of civil rights and personal freedoms to his successors ___ who declared him a Catholic saint.

On September 23, 2015, Pope Francis traveled to Washington, D.C. to celebrate a special mass canonizing the Franciscan priest, Junipero Serra, the most recent saint of the Catholic church. In 1769, Junipero Serra, charged by Spain’s Catholic Majesties to prepare the native population for conquest, led a Spanish army into California. Once arriving, Junipero o Serra spread the diseases. chickenpox, typhus, scarlet fever, smallpox, pneumonia and malaria, that he knew would weaken tribal leadership, decimate the indigenous population and destroy the Native American will to resist. Serra also encouraged the spread of syphilis by urging his soldiers to rape and Indian women on sight.

Having encountered no significant resistance from the indigenous peoples, Junipero Serra was able to build fortifications designed as missions and churches. Once they were completed, the Franciscan priest ordered his soldiers to subdue the Indian tribes, forcibly bring the native peoples into the enclosures and hold them captive. Any native, attempting to escape,

Serra had beaten and shackled. Repeat offenders were hobbled and had their knees broken.

Junipero Serra worked his captives as slaves, feeding them garbage that even the farm animals refused to eat. Serra separated family members and packed them into living quarters, so tight, that they became incubators of disease and death. Serra severe oppression caused the peaceful people, unfamiliar with warfare, to continually rebel against the Catholic. Junipero Serra had his soldiers put down any native uprising as violently and as brutally as possible. Any Indian rebel leader, he ordered tortured and executed.

When Serra caught Indian women aborting babies conceived through rape by Spanish soldiers, he shaved their heads, beat them and had them clamped in irons. Serra forced one of the unfortunate women to stand by the altar around the clock, holding in her arms a heavy block of wood painted to resemble a child. When the woman collapsed she was replaced by another. The few Indian women who survived being raped by Serra’s soldiers never survived the priest’s anti-abortion brutality. Junipero Serra  directed the enslavement, torture and murder of 300,000 native Californian indigenous people. Indians. Today, Republican Catholics imitate the sadistic Junipero Serra’s war on women. Today as women all over the United States are being subjected to a fascist state’s control over their bodies, they can remember that the Catholic Church has canonized as saint, one of the most fiendish misanthrope, misogynist and male chauvinist in human history, the Franciscan priest, Junipero Serra.

Biden And DeSantis Different Wings Of The Same Bird

In February 2014 Joe Biden sent his son, Hunter, and other deep state ‘spooks’ to manage the US-NATO overthrow of Ukraine’s government. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had rebuffed an IMF austerity loan package in favor of a far more favorable Russian loan. The US and its NATO allies livid over the rebuff and Russia’s assisting Ukraine out of the economic crisis engineered by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to further US deep state interests. However, the Vatican saw an opportunity to mobilize his neo-nazi militias, take over Ukraine’s government and conduct a proxy war against Russia. But the  Biden Ukraine tragedy was not the first time the Vatican created an opportunity to use Catholic nazis to invade Russia.

In March of 1939, the Vatican directed the Catholic Slovak Peoples Party to affiliate with Germany’s National Socialist Party and support Hitler’s seizure of Czechoslovakia. After the Nazi takeover, the Catholic Slovak Peoples Party declared an independent Slovak Republic. The leader of the Catholic Slovak Peoples Party, Father Józef Tiso, a Franciscan Roman Catholic priest, declared himself Prime Minister of the new Slovak Republic and was immediately recognized by Nazi Germany and the Vatican.

Pope Pius XII raised Father Tiso who continued performing his clerical duties by saying mass and hearing confessions from a priest to the rank of Monsignor. Bishop Gregory Rozman, the Pope’s advisor on Ukrainian affairs, instructed Monsignor Tiso to recruit soldiers for the Slovakian Home guard from the new republic’s Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Greek Catholic congregations, exclusively. Germany’s SS officers trained Tiso’s  all Catholic Slovakian Home Guard and Catholic priests not only served as chaplains but also became SS-trained army officers in command of the Slovakian Home Guard’s military units. The SS-trained Catholic priests, serving as commanding officers, routinely reported to the Vatican, in their SS uniforms, on the Slovakian Home Guard’s combat readiness and military activities. Tiso and home guard priests and chaplains received the rank of Waffen-SS officers in the German army. Once the Slovakian Home Guard received sufficient training and was deemed combat ready, Bishop Rozman ordered Monsignor Tiso to redesignate the Slovenian Home Guard as the Galatian Waffen-SS German Army unit. As a Nazi combat unit in the German army, the Galatian Waffen-SS fought Slovakian resistance fighters and rounded up Jews for Hitler’s death camps. The Galatian Waffen-SS massacred thousands of non-Catholic Slovakian civilians___ some of whom were partisans and many others were women and children. Having gained experience in committing atrocities against civilians, Tiso sent his Galatian Waffen-SS army with Hitler’s assault on Russia to participate not only in the fighting, but in the murder of civilians, as well.

After the war, Józef Tiso, the Catholic priest, who followed the Vatican’s orders to join in the Nazi campaign of extermination and genocide against Czechoslovakians, Jews and Russians was convicted of war crimes and executed. But veterans of Josef Tiso’s Catholic Waffen-SS army and their descendants in the Ukraine’s Catholic congregations, formed the fascist political party and the neo-nazi militias that Joe and Hunter Biden resurrected to overthrow the Ukraine government of  President, Viktor Yanukovych and launch the Vatican’s renewed assault on Russia that continues to this day.

Ron DeSantis’ Fascist Challenge

Instead of traveling to Florida for a \ photo-op, Kamala Harris should have visited the Biden’s Department of Education and demanded that the federal agency cutoff education funds from Florida’s fascist governor who is using federal funds to deprive citizens of the rule of law, take away basic civil liberties and. undermine constitutional guarantees.