HOW UNIVERSITIES PERPETUATE SOCIALISM

by Dr Jim
September 11th, 2006

It isn’t much of a surprise that most young people who go to
university are Socialists. Many even identify themselves as full
blown Marxists. Ask the students themselves and they will tell
you it is because the more educated you become the more left
your politics.

Bias notwithstanding, is this really true?

Is it an example of education to believe in a policy that
espouses the collective over the individual and in the process
stifles free enterprise and invention? Is it so educated to
believe in an ideology that was responsible for the murder of 70
million people in Russia, 80 million people in Communist China,
the quarter of the population in Cambodia under Pot, let
alone the millions forced to live in oppressive circumstances
everywhere it has been tried and failed so dismally?

The answer, of course, is an emphatic no!

So why then would otherwise intelligent young people be so
enamoured with Marxism and all its red cousins? In order to
understand the nature of the question we have to look at where
these ideas are mostly thrust forth and that would be in our
universities. The universities which in turn have knock on
effects for our legal systems, our media, our education and our
political spheres. The members never quite willing to jettison
the Marxist baggage in the process.

Whilst in university however, under the guise of receiving a
‘higher education’, the lifestyle of dependency is established.
Classes are organised for studies, lessons are predetermined
and the pre-approved “texts” supply all the pre-approved answers
required to advance. In fact, the student merely turns up,
digests the mantra and then goes home. Questioning your
professors, especially if they are rabid leftists themselves,
results in demerits and ostracism. In many instances, even
accommodation is supplied. In short everything is provided to the
students without effort.

Even university politics plays like a communist state. Any
elected body of students are given some semblance of power but
never actually directing the overall running of the campus. Like
Orwell's 'Big Brother' the real leadership retain a politburo
like control on real proceedings, including, most importantly,
financial control. And while it looks good on a resume to have
been president, vice president or even newspaper editor during
your university career, and a career is what it becomes, it is
essentially meaningless in the real world. Sadly many live with
the delusion that it means something.

On the subject of university newspapers, prima facie it would
appear that the campus inmates have full editorial control.
However, if the students are imbued with the dependency mentality,
and indoctrinated with a socialist mindset, how likely is it
that any publication printed will be anything but leftist in its
perspective? The old maxim, “garbage in, garbage out” springs to
mind – thus as with all socialist ideals, independence of
university newspapers is a castle built on wet sand.

University provides the ultimate testing ground for the tightly
ordered society to be controlled on a wider scale. We can see
then that the slogan “The government will provide” becomes much
more than an easy to remember catchphrase and an actual end
in itself.

Outside of the cocoon, university students cannot understand
that people generally don’t belong to this closely ordered
thought-collective mentality such as they have been subjected to for
20 years or so. Simply they ask, “Why can’t all society be
institutionalised like I was?” This also goes a good way to
explaining when “uni” students tend not to venture out into the
private enterprise but instead move from safe government job to
safe government job like a monkey goes through trees.

It also goes a long way to explain why our politicians, bureaucrats
and other assorted yes-men are so detached from the public
they claim to represent in a public service setting. Like an
aristocracy they simply can't relate to what "the peasants"
go through on a daily basis.

Like the Communist system it closely mimics, university inmates
cannot think without having to run it past their "higher-ups"
first. This is achieved through the oft quoted "peer-review"
procedure. It is believed any thought outside of this tightly
controlled process, where information is effectively vetted, no
matter how logical or effective, has to be disregarded. In a
left dominated campus, it is easy to see how new truths can be
created, while all other reality can be rejected.

Undoubtedly universities have a place in our society. When they
get it right they have the potential to produce doctors,
engineers, scientists and other extremely necessary and
rewarding professionals contributing untold benefits for
society. When they get it wrong they merely become propaganda
centres for "unquestionable" lunatic left ideologies - ideologies
which have a track record of untold misery on humanity.

Eighteen 'ghost' MEPs to board the EU gravy train next month - even though they may not start work for FOUR YEARS

Source: Daily Telegraph
By Michael Lea
24th May 2009

Eighteen 'ghost' MEPs will board the EU gravy train after European elections next month even though they may not start work for up to four years.

They will have no powers but will be entitled to £76,000 annual salaries, plus tax-free allowances of £255 for every day of their time in limbo in Brussels.

The group from 12 countries, including one from Britain, can also claim back business class travel and staff and office allowances worth £210,000.

Amid confusion over when and how they will take up their seats, the European Parliament has decided to give the MEPs 'observer' status from next year.

The total cost to taxpayers is likely to be in the region of £24million.

The scandal, which comes about as a result of Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, was condemned as a farce tonight.

Under the terms of the Treaty, a rewritten version of the EU Constitution rejected by voters in France and Holland in 2005, the number of MEPs increases from 736 to 754.

Despite the document remaining unsigned, the additional members will be chosen in elections on June 4, including for the UK's West Midlands region.

Ireland, which voted 'no' in 2008, will hold a second referendum in a bid to get the 'right answer' this autumn.

Although it is hoped that the Treaty would then come into force from January 2010 an additional legal protocol, allowing the 'observer' MEPs to take on their full duties, could take at least another two years and possibly four.

MEP Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, said: 'Welcome to virtual politics, this has to be the political expenses scandal to end all expenses scandals.

'The perfect politician for today's elite, one that takes wages and does no work at all.'

Timothy Kirkhope, leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, said. 'If the EU is to have democratic legitimacy, we should respect the decision of the Irish.'

Stephen Booth, of anti-Brussels think tank Open Europe, said: 'It is scandalous that the European Parliament could even consider paying MEPs who cannot legally do their job.

'Taxpayers are forking out enough on MEPs as it is – now we find out we’re paying money for nothing.

'These "phantom" MEPs will only be able to take office if the Lisbon Treaty comes into force – electing them, let alone paying for them, when the Treaty is not even in force shows complete disregard for Ireland's upcoming referendum.'

Matthew Elliott, of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'People across the EU are suffering in the recession and are looking to their political masters to give them value for money.

'Electing 18 MEPs with no powers to jump aboard the Brussels gravy train is certain to infuriate them.'

Spain has argued that there would be an 'imbalance' between the EU institutions if the 18 MEPs could not take their seats until the end of the new Parliament in 2014 due to Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.

It is intending to put forward a motion to enable them to take their seats as soon as the Lisbon Treaty enters into force.

But any device would have to be endorsed by all 27 member states.

Andrew Duff, LibDem leader in Brussels, warned that the slow process of ratification means the MEPs could remain in limbo for years.

'From January 2010, a legal instrument is going to have to be ratified in each national Parliament. We know that can take a long time,' he said.

But Richard Corbett, the Labour MEP who champions the Lisbon Treaty throughout Europe, defended the arrangement to make the MEPs 'observers'.

'This is straightforward and there is no need to make a fuss,' he said. 'They can do all the work of an MEP except taking part in votes. This is a way of making a smooth transition and has been done before.'