I am photocopying my NEA card and mailing it to Rod Paige

[wndycty]

Just so he knows where to find me. This is probably the worst thing he can do to for Bush. I think members of all unions should protest loudly. This is a major insult.

[kiahzero]

1. Can you send me a link?

I know a lot of teachers who'd be interested to know that they're terrorists.

On edit: I mean, to the quote.

[wryter2000]

5. link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=380484

Hope this works. If not, do a search for Paige.

[Ediacara]

6. here is the link to the yahoo news article

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20040223/ap_on_go_pr_wh/governors_bush

[arewethereyet]

12. he DID say it was the NEA and not the teachers

they are not one i the same but rant away if you wish.

[BeachBuckeye]

34. Whats the NEA made up then?

Monkeys? Chickens? Plumbers? Hell no, its made up of teachers. It was a direct smear of teachers and I don't know how anyone could take it any differently.

[Ediacara]

2. Better yet, send it to Ashcroft

I can't believe these guys!

[Rowdyboy]

3. Big time...The NEA will come out swinging now

What an utterly ignorant, irresponsible charge to make. It makes me question his basic competence.

[Pikku]

7. the NEA had better come out swinging

As should the AFT. All unions, in fact, since this is essentially an attack on organized labor.

I just emailed NEA, asking when they'd ask for Paige's resignation.

[Dudley_DUright]

27. NEA response to Paige "terrorist organization" comment

NEA President Reg Weaver issued the following statement regarding Department of Education Secretary Rod Paige's reference to the NEA as a "terrorist organization" today at a private meeting of governors at the White House.

Weaver said, "It is morally repugnant to equate those who teach America's children with terrorists. NEA is 2.7 million teachers and educators who are fighting for children and public education. Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from this Administration whenever one challenges its worldview."

more...

http://www.nea.org/newsreleases/2004/nr040223.html

[mediaman007]

22. He should be a felon...

His Houston schools were the marvel of Bush* Texas miracle. Paige however has dodged the facts that they never tested low performing students. Instead, they let them drop out of school.

That "crooked" miracle is the foundation of "No Child Left Behind." Sorry, but I've been in education for 35 years. There are no miracles, just a lot of hard work and patience. (and my patience has run out with this no-brain outfit!)

[wryter2000]

4. Talk about insult to injury

Adding massive insult to major injury. If there are any teachers out there who voted Repug in 2000, I hope they've changed their minds.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Union busting coming anyone?

I wouldn't put it past them.

[childslibrarian]

8. I am so angry

I can't believe that this man could be so unprofessional. We have tied ourselves in knots trying to fulfill no child left behind--I am a librarian and I am teaching MATH--and he calls us terrorists!!!
Unfuc***g believable!!!

[spanone]

11. This administration is totally shameless

You can bet that he won't be held accountable. No one in this mis-administration has been accountable for ONE THING.

[ComerPerro]

18. Yeah i know, I am extremely pissed about this

They are getting screwed hard by Bush and his tactics, and suddenly they are terrorists???????

[JailForBush]

10. Do you know why this is so humorous?

1. It's probably the only intelligent thing Rod Paige has ever said in his life.

2. It will make it harder for the NEA to pretend it isn't in bed with George Bush, Inc.

3. Education is an issue that drags liberals down into the gutter with conservatives.

My advice? Don't help publicize this incident if you aren't prepared to engage in some intelligent education debates.

[Bandit]

13. Sounds like you are unhappy with the education you received

I don't blame you. They did a horrible job.

[JailForBush]

14. That would be funny...

if it wasn't so amateurish. Why, you could pass for a NEA operative - all hat and no cattle.

[Ediacara]

15. You know the NEA

and Bill Gates and Mayor Nickels all have secret meetings where they not only control the British crown, and keep the metric system down, but also keep the Martians under wraps and keep Atlantis off the maps.

[revcarol]

16. But they're recruiting more terrorists on Pluto.

Offering them a living wage.

[ComerPerro]

19. Ahhh! a fellow Stonecutter!

I mean...


"Its a secret"

"Shaddup!"

[JailForBush]

26. Sheez!

You're probably the worst propagandist I've ever encountered at DU!

Of course, Bill Gates and Mayor Nickels have secret meetings - so does every public official in King County.

But I think they're too busy figuring out new ways to screw the public to worry about controlling the British crown, the metric system, Martians and Atlantis.

But if you evidence to support your assertions, maybe you should dig a little deeper!

[Ediacara]

28. The worst propagandist eh?

LOL try watching The Simpsons....

BTW, you have a funny knack of attacking your opponents ad hominem when you're down for the count. Like just now.

[roguevalley]

30. So basically you got fired and the NEA couldn't save you? I ask as a

long time rights person dealing with grief and unexpergated
anger as a sideline to saving peoples asses through the union
grievance process.

[Carolina]

21. "It's probably the only intelligent thing Rod Paige

has ever said in his life." Absolutely agree. Paige is another suck-up Uncle Tom who sounds like an idiot every time he opens his mouth. Fits in perfectly with this misadministration. Ask him what he did to the schools in Houston.

As a Black person, I wanna know where Bush found all these sorry Negroes for his cabinet.

[roguevalley]

29. My advice to you? Relax. We know you hate the NEA. So what. This

is about teachers, unions or no. The NEA and AFT is the
thin blue line between us and sweat shops.

[Bluemoon_Rising]

17. Paige

I thought he was just talking about the terrorists in the NEA--you know, just the ones who despise religious liberty and parental consent and authority--not everyone.

You mean he thinks the entire membership is comprised of Marxist thugs?

[ComerPerro]

20. By religious liberty

I assume you mean the freedom to teach kids that a magic man in the sky created the world on a whim in six days, and that anyone who tells you anything else is a damn liar?

That kind of religious freedom?

The kind that keeps people uninformed and incapable of critical thought?

[Bridget Burke]

33. You mean the ones who teach Evolution?

Is that what "despise religious liberty" means?

And "parental consent and authority"--is that directed at the teachers who don't believe in corporal punishment? Those kids oughta be hit at school--it works so well at home.

[mike1963]

35. Could you please repost that? Preferably in English. I'm not very fluent

in babble.

[LincolnMcGrath]

23. GET ON YOUR CONGRESSMEN

GET ON YOUR UNION LEADERS! GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO THE LOCAL TEACHERS.

[Malva Zebrina]

24. good for you

are there any other unions left in this country though?

[LincolnMcGrath]

25. Yep

LOTS

[radfringe]

31. Thugs? Evil-teachers? Educators of mass destruction?

looks like bush*'s foot-in-mouth disease is contagious.... Paige caught it with his teachers are terrorists comment

although Paige "apologized" for a "poor choice of words" (cough cough cough)- I think the damage is done and bush* lost more than a few votes....

poor choice of words or not - the bush* mis-asministration through Paige's comment shows just what they think of teachers.

If "terrorist" was a poor choice for a word - what would have been a better one? Thugs? Evil-teachers? Educators of mass destruction?


Education Secretary Paige calls teachers union "terrorist organization"
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/8022280.htm
ROBERT TANNER --Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" Monday, taking on the 2.7-million-member National Education Association early in the presidential election year.

[Hubert Flottz]

32. First the Nazis burned the union cards!

The Fascists have called union members communists and every other name in the book for a hundred years! I was a union member all my life because the union protected me from such fascist domination!

[Stephanie]

36. Teachers are Terrorists?

Do we need to spell it out any clearer for you folks? The Bushites are freaking NUTS. What more proof do you need?