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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 14, 2012
TEACHER’S UNIONS EARN “F” FOR WISCONSIN RECALL ABUSE
They re -
by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist
al ly outdid themselves. In Wisconsin and across the nation, public school e m p l o y e e unions spared no kiddie hu- man shields in their battle against GOP
PASSING OF A PATRIOT
by Oliver North Syndicated Columnist
Managua, Ni - caragua — The classical defini- tion of a hero is a person who puts himsel f at risk for the benefit of oth- ers. That cer- tainly describes Adolfo Calero, who died June
2 at the age of 80. The obituaries of this remarkable man hardly do justice to his courage, persever- ance, faithfulness and humility. Here is the Adolfo Calero I knew, admired and called a friend for nearly three decades: A graduate of Holy Cross High
School in New Orleans and the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., he was a de- vout Roman Catholic and edu- cated to be a businessman, not a soldier. But after he was jailed twice by the Somoza regime and then by the Marxist Sandinistas, who overthrew the Nicaraguan dictator in 1979, Calero quietly joined the armed resistance in an effort to liberate his country.
Threatened with arrest for anti- regime activities in 1982, he and his family escaped and watched from exile as the Sandinistas seized their property. The follow- ing year, he was chosen by his countrymen to lead the Nicara- guan Democratic Force, or FDN. By 1984, it had become the larg- est insurgent army ever fielded in the Western Hemisphere — more than 20,000 freedom fighters under arms. Most of Calero’s all-volunteer
counterrevolutionaries were poor but fiercely independent farm- ers and indigenous Christian Miskito, Suma and Rama Indi- ans with no military experience. Destitute and hounded, they fled Sandinista tyranny, Soviet-style “collectivization” and police-state repression for sanctuaries on Nicaragua’s borders. I first met Adolfo at one of these encamp- ments early in 1983. While walk- ing among the fighters and their families, he made a passionate, emotional appeal for food, medi- cal support, clothing, shelter and arms to “help these brave See NORTH on 28
Gov. Scott Walker’s budget and pension reforms. Students were the first and last casualties of the ruthless Big Labor war against fiscal discipline. To kick off the yearlong protest festivities, the Wisconsin Educa- tion Association Council led a massive “sickout” of educators and other government school personnel. The coordinated tru- ancy action — tantamount to an illegal strike — cost taxpayers an estimated $6 million. Left-wing doctors assisted the campaign by supplying fake medical excuse notes to teachers who ditched their public school classrooms to protest Walker’s modest package of belt-tightening measures. When they weren’t ditching their
students, radical teachers steeped in the social justice ethos of Na- tional Education Association-ap- proved community organizer Saul Alinsky were shamelessly using other people’s children as their own political junior lobbyists and pawns. A Milwaukee Fox News affiliate caught one fourth-grade teacher dragging his students on a “field trip” to demonstrate against Walker at the state Capi- tol building. The pupils clapped along with
a group of “solidarity singers” as they warbled: “Scott Walker will never push us out, this house was made for you and me.” Hundreds of high school stu-
dents from Madison were dra- gooned into marches. When asked on camera why they had skipped school, one told a reporter from the Wisconsin-based MacIver Institute: “I don’t know. I guess we’re protesting today.” Happy for the supply of warm young bodies, AFSCME Local 2412 President Gary Mitchell gloated: “The stu- dents have been so energized.” “Energized”? How about edu- cated, enlightened and intellec- tually stimulated? Silly parents. Remember: “A” isn’t for academ- ics. It’s for “agitation” and “advo- cacy.” Former National Education Association official John Lloyd’s words must not be forgotten: “You cannot possibly understand NEA without understanding Saul Al- insky. If you want to understand NEA, go to the library and get ‘Rules for Radicals.’” Against a rising tide of rank-
and-file teachers who oppose their leaders’ extremist politics, the na- tional offices of the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers shoveled millions in forced union dues into astroturfed, anti-Walker coffers.
According the WisconsinRe-
porter.com, strapped state affili- ates also coughed up major sums to beat back Wisconsin’s efforts to bring American union workers into the 21st century in line with the rest of the workforce: “The Ohio Education Asso-
ciation made a $58,000 in-kind contribution May 30, followed a day later by a $21,000 contri- bution from the Pennsylvania State Education Association. New York State United Teachers gave $23,000 on June 1, the Massa- chusetts Education Association gave $17,000 on May 31, and a group of unions based in Wash- ington, D.C., poured in $922,000 during the past week.” Even See MALKIN on 23
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