Igniting the Ignorati

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c. 2005 THEODORE E. LANG 2/03/05 All rights reserved Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.

2-3-06

Igniting the Ignorati
by Ted Lang

I've seen it in the local high school. I saw it again just last night. And it is the cause of our own demise. It is apathy! The State of New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation, which are driven almost totally by the taxes mandated by the New Jersey Supreme Court to fund school budgets. Yet, when the school district conducted an "open house" town hall featuring the superintendent, appearing and making himself available to take any and all questions, only about 40 individuals were in attendance.

Most of those individuals were members of his staff, some were from the Board of Education and a few teachers were also present. Only about seven or eight "ordinary citizens" like me took the trouble to show up. And I don't have any children in the system!

I showed up that evening after having taken a day off from work to listen to a lecture given earlier in the day by Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, made famous by his historic exposure of the deadly Vietnam farce via the "Pentagon Papers." The very next day, Ellsberg was arrested along with Cindy Sheehan by Nazi Bush Gestapo in Washington's District of Criminals. Sheehan was once again roughed up by Bush's Nazi goons right inside the Capitol just before "The Leader's" latest pack of lies in his State of the Union propaganda speech. I'm proud to say I didn't even bother to watch it!

But my failure to paste my face to the TV screen in shock and awe of this towering public figure and most honorable of our honorables should not in any way be construed as demonstrating apathy founded upon the false sense of security Americans have so long demonstrated in assuming that "things will work themselves out," or that our "democracy" is on autopilot.