VIEW: 20-01: Needed, A Follow-up Report

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By Bob McDowell (Born Neil Carson) Number 20-01
NEEDED, A FOLLOW-UP REPORT Week of 2020/01/06

In going through the stack of clippings from various print media papers, 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 Squamish 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-NY (Now FL)) 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 we 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" which 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 in my
opinion, 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 no 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, or 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; R,NY(NOW FL) 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 of Russia.
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 C/F/S 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 their management.
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Composed January 03, 2020
Robert W. McDowell, Jr. 841 Lynwood
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918-451-1051 Broken Arrow OK
74011-8608
Email: abdmcfpi@localnet.com