Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 69

("Quid coniuratio est?")

FEMINISM: MASK FOR MARXISM?

Tom Valentine's guest on Radio Free America (Shortwave, 5.065 MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on December 28, 1994 was Andrea Pearson, editor-in-chief of a newsletter called "Americans In Exile" [contact info to be included below]. Ms. Pearson has some non- politically correct views on feminism, etc. Note that views expressed in the following do not necessarily reflect my own views or those of Conspiracy Nation.

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TOM VALENTINE:
I can tell ya, being a student in high school in '49, '50, '51, '52, that that wasn't true.

ANDREA PEARSON:
Oh it certainly isn't true...

VALENTINE

Our class valedictorian was a girl! [i.e., young wommon; cf. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner.]

PEARSON

Oh yes, absolutely. There is no gender inequity in education. And yet, in the Gender Equity in Education Act what we end up with is a massive system -- not only re-writing of history, textbooks intended to create certain opinions in children regarding gender roles, but really disgusting things like parent education about gender roles and their influence on learning.

VALENTINE

All right. I want to take this up in more detail when we come back.

My guest is Andrea Pearson. And we're talking about the gender war, and Marxism. I'm Tom Valentine. This is Radio Free America.

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We are live, again. And on the other end of the telephone is Andrea Pearson. And we're gonna be continuing to talk about the Gender Equity in Education Act. I profess a great deal of ignorance here on this subject.

Andrea, I believe you put out a little newsletter or something on this, don't you?

PEARSON

Yeah, I sure do.

VALENTINE

Tell me about that, too.

PEARSON

Well, anyone who's interested in obtaining the newsletter can either write to me or call me. The address is: Americans in Exile, P.O. Box 2636, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 01202. And my phone number is (413) 499-3593.

VALENTINE

Oh, I have that number! I thought maybe you had a different number for that. O.K. It's "Americans in Exile". Ah-hah! Are you an "American in exile"?

PEARSON

I think that most people who have the traditional belief systems about what marriage is, what the parents' role is towards their children, and so forth and so on, are "exiled" in America today.

VALENTINE

O.K. Andrea, will you send out a sample if people write to you and say that they'd like to see it?

PEARSON

Yeah, I sure will!

VALENTINE

O.K. Good. We got that done.

Now, this Gender Equity in Education Act. (I should know all about it.) I don't know a thing about it. When'd they pass this?

PEARSON

It was passed in 1993.

VALENTINE

Oh, last year!

PEARSON

Yeah. And what it does is, it allows, first of all, for the connection of major government systems: Health and Human Services, uh there's... They call it "The Link-up for Learning". And what it does is, it puts together a huge federal-level method for tabulating where students are: their socio-economic status, their race, their sex, and so forth...

VALENTINE

Oh, is this the thing that Beverly Eckman has helped uncover in her book about education?

PEARSON

It's very likely that it may be related to that. I don't know if she's aware of this or not. But one thing that it says here (I'm reading), it says, "improve inter-agency communications and information sharing, including developing local-area telecommunication networks, software development, database integration and management." And this is with major areas of the federal government. There's a federal inter-agency task force that's been set up "consisting of the Secretary of Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and heads of other federal agencies, as appropriate." This is a huge bill. It's $360 million in the first year.

VALENTINE

All right, now, this is strange. Most Americans, including myself, would think that's awfully innocuous -- telling the bureaucrats of our government to get together and computerize. But what you're saying is, by having government bureaucrats get together and computerize, they are micro-managing lives in a way that is detrimental to our traditional society.

PEARSON

Well it is invasive to the family. But it's also particularly disturbing that the kind of things that they're paying attention to are the gender role socialization within a particular student's family. And also, you know this bill provides for so much, it's difficult to talk about all of it. But...

VALENTINE

Well, wait a minute: gender role socialization inside a particular family??

PEARSON

That's right.

VALENTINE

How do they go about doing this? What do they do?

PEARSON

Well, one thing is to change the textbooks so they're considered to be "gender equitable". Another thing that they do is, they put monies into different parts of the country: "At least one grant," (and I'm quoting here), "in each of the ten federal regions." That's their words.

Also, in the U.N. [United Nations] treaty, they talk about this same sort of thing being put into the education system. We're getting into conformity with U.N. law here.

VALENTINE

All right, does that mean... I'm trying to get this in a practical, down-to-earth, 1950s mentality -- which I'm stuck with when it comes to education and school. That means that boys don't go to wood shop anymore, and girls don't go to "home ec." [i.e., home economics]

PEARSON

Uh...

VALENTINE

They all go to sex education.

PEARSON

Well... It's not that simple. There's "set-asides" for pregnant teenagers. It allows for the erection of day-care centers -- either next to the school or nearby the school, with transportation provided. It provides for all kinds of special privileges for girls...

VALENTINE

I got ya. All right.

Andrea is my guest, Andrea Pearson and the American in Exile. And we're gonna open up the phone lines to you.

I'm Tom Valentine. This is Radio Free America.

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All right. We are back, live. My guest is Andrea. Andrea Pearson, the producer of "Americans in Exile" newsletter, out of Post Office Box 2636, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 01202.

And Andrea, this Gender Equity in Education Act sounds like a massive thing, sort of like the crime bill. And it slipped through in 1993. There wasn't a lot of fanfare, was there?

PEARSON

There wasn't a lot of fanfare. I'd be surprised if most Americans knew about it. I think that they'd be horrified if they knew what was in it.

VALENTINE

Well I'm... I don't even fully understand yet. We've been talking about it, but um... It's a big bill, and you say it's horrifying. Yet I don't sense the urgency. Somehow, we're not getting it across, of how bad it is.

PEARSON

Well, one thing that seems to me like a real whopper is, that an "at risk" student is defined here. And this is the definition. (I'd like to read it, 'cause I think it's so serious): "Many 'at risk' students suffer the effects of inadequate nutrition and health care, overcrowded and unsafe living conditions and homelessness, family and gang violence, substance abuse, sexual abuse and child abuse, involuntary migration, and limited English proficiency, that often creates severe barriers to learning" the knowledge and skills, and so forth.

Then it later... This is one thing that they're going to give grants to support, is grants to local education agencies to improve educational performances of "at risk" students by removing barriers to their learning.

The trouble is, is with Bill of Rights, is that what happens is, the government starts stepping in and saying that poverty, and someone who's unemployed, may in fact be... uh, that constitutes "dysfunction" within a family. And you know as well as I do that this monstrous "child protective services" industry that's been set up, [it] gobbles up people.

VALENTINE

They abuse it. I mean, we have had... We've had people (and you've probably heard 'em on this show) that are very concerned about the social welfare abuse system, where a child can actually point a finger at the parents and yell, "Mommy and daddy are treating me bad!" -- and the State's gonna come in and throw mommy and daddy in the slammer and put the kid in a foster home!

PEARSON

Oh sure. And what it does is, it integrates services, regulations, databases, eligibility procedures, and funding sources, "focusing school and community resources on prevention and early intervention strategies, to address student needs holistically."

Now the trouble is, is that what's happening in this country is we are having Marxism imposed with the force of law on the people. And Marxists believe that children should be in the care of the State. Now the forceable removal of children is one thing. But the coercion of the child away from the American culture and values, their Christian, or Judeo-Christian values, is something that I think would disturb a lot of people. And the roles of husband and wife are something that our government has an unhealthy interest in.

VALENTINE

Well frankly, the federal government especially has no business in any of these things, that you're talkin' about. The schools should be run by the local school districts, or the people who are sending their kids to that school oughtta run that district.

If you'd like to join us (my guest is Andrea Pearson), and if you'd like to join us, it's 1-800-878-8255.

Did you know that this Feminism, that she's talking about, had this Marxist agenda? And it's been insidious! You know, they... What was it that somebody said? "You don't lose your freedom in one big fell swoop. You lose it little by little." I think that's what's happening here, Andrea.

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