In going through the stack of clippings from various newspapers, a clipping was discovered dating clear back to March 22, 2019. of the Tulsa World that bore the headline: “Trump orders colleges to back free speech.” The date was at the time I was undergoing a series of four biopsies on my tongue to remove what appeared to be individual squamous cell cancers that persistently would crop up after the previous one was removed. These must have been a preview of what was to come beginning in mid-summer 2019 to slow down my activities for four or five months through year end.
The sub-heading read, “President’s executive order puts federal funding on the line for schools.” The credit was given to Collin Binkley of the Associated Press.
As usual in this type of story, it was conveniently located on page A-5, but at least at the top of the page where it could and did catch my attention. The first paragraph stated that (PRESDT-45; R-New York (now Florida)) had signed an executive order “requiring U.S. colleges to protect free speech or risk losing federal research funding.”
It also was said that the order directed federal agencies to “ensure that any college or university receiving research grants agrees to promote free speech and the exchange of ideas, and to follow federal rules guiding free expression.” It then quoted PRESDT-45: “Even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers, many have become increasingly hostile to free speech and to the First Amendment.”
Further down, the story states the amount of money involved in these grants totals $35 billion per year in research and educational grants. That is money that is collected from over-taxed citizens that, in my opinion, is wrongfully spread around for a multitude of worthless “studies” – such as ‘the sex habits of a snail species. Further on, the story seems to refute the benefits mentioned at the start by quoting a statement from The American Council on Education (which represents more than 1700 college presidents) that called the order “a solution in search of a problem.” Well, of course, these academics would be opposed to any perceived controls on their wayward freedom to rule according to their own personal biases. Said biases for the vast majority of colleges and universities seem to me to be slanted in favor of the more liberal and radical side, as seen multiple times in TV reports showing violent activities with destruction of property and attacks on individuals deemed of the opposite opinion with little effort by officials to end the violence.
However, the most striking thing about this is that since the original story appeared, on March 22, 2019, not one reference of the story the has been seen or heard by me on radio, TV in print lending support to my opinion that said major media is engaged full-time in managing the so-called “news” put forth from their sources. It seems to me that PRESDT-45 is doing the nation’s and world’s citizens continuous favors by calling them out as “fake news” vendors. In the 1930s, such conduct would have been referred to as “the propaganda ministry” – the way things were being done in Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union.
It is most fortunate that the wonders of the computer world brought about the Internet and an alternative source of information for those sufficiently interested in making use of it.
My thought is this is a proper action against the Communist/Fascist/Socialist movement on the part of the education establishment that seems to have begun in the mid-1940s when masses of students hit the colleges following military service and the professors of “education” courses began taking over the “education establishment.” The only hope to reverse this is for common-sense oriented adults to move into the school boards and exercise their rights to correct wayward movements on the part of administrators – especially in matters of management.