Lynne Cheney's "purple fingers for freedom" lesson plan

[Cocoa]

http://www.purplefingerforfreedom.org/LessonPlan.html

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V. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SHOW UNITY AND SOLIDARITY WITH IRAQIS:

Each American child can help each Iraqi citizen to have the courage to go out and vote on December 15th by showing our solidarity with their cause of freedom:

1) (K-5) Create a dramatization of voting day in Iraq. Have students take the roles of different persons: Iraqi men and women who come to the polls, Iraqi security forces, American soldiers, terrorists, international observers.

2) (7-8, 9-12) On December 12 - 15 dye your right hand index finger purple.

3) Mimic the historic Iraqi vote in your classroom. Provide a ballot and a set of choices for students. And like the Iraqi voter, have the students dip their right hand forefinger into purple ink after they have voted and go around the entire day with it like the Iraqis.

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Shelby Dangerfield, a 10-year-old Montana girl, demonstrated Americans' solidarity with freedom-loving Iraqis by inking her finger purple last January.

[adigal]

1. I can color my finger purple

My middle finger, that is, and stick it high in the air to show Bush what I think of his Iraq policy.

[Cocoa]

3. send them a picture

Simply send your photos, along with a description of who is in the photo, where it was taken, the date, and anything else you would like us to post about it, to:

[e-mail]

:-)

[DistressedAmerican]

2. Hey Lynn, Join The Campaign!

[CatWoman]

4. That anything like the Fickle Finger of Fate?

[Deja Q]

5. I'm sure the Iraqis will be all the more sympathetic toward us...

Appreciative of our altruistic generosity too. :eyes:

Lynne, go back to your follow-up novel to your early-80s lesbian erotica please...

[Gemini Cat]

6. What a stupid idea.

I'm sure all the freedom loving Iraqis would love it a lot more if we stopped killing them, robbing them and got the hell out of THEIR country.

[Cocoa]

7. "wars are often controversial"

3.Wars are often controversial: many colonists opposed the American Revolution; Abraham Lincoln resisted enormous pressure to compromise with the Confederacy and allow slavery to continue in order to end the United States Civil War; there was opposition to the Vietnam War. Discuss the war in Iraq in light of the goals of the December 15 election. Are there similar moments in United States history that can help us understand the moment?

i.e., they're teaching the kids that there were always moonbats like us.

[Deja Q]

9. In one word: Indoctrination.

Free thought is an intolerable sin.

Usual pied piper philosophy; go with the crowd. Being an individual is wrong.

I can tell them where to shove there purple finger... I doubt they'd do it. I mean, they can probably sit on it, but I doubt they'd subsequently be able to spin on it...

[Cocoa]

12. war is good

Student Activity:

(K-5) Have students listen to the National Anthem; explain to them why it refers to bombs and rockets and the home of the brave.

(6-8) Have students read a brief history of the War of 1812 and the story of how Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner.

(9-12) Discuss with students the final words of the National Anthem, ”Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,” and the concept of just and unjust war.” Review the history of Saddam Hussein and the significance of the free election on December 15.

[MADem]

8. Did she get that screwed up idea from looking at Dick's 11th finger???

What a dork!

[rodeodance]

14. wonder if purple fingers are a test item on the standardized NCLB tests?

[bluestateguy]

10. Is this a pardoy site?

Yes! Let's all celebrate as fundamentalists take over Iraq! Fundamentalists who will repress women, Christians and Sunnis.

And we're the ones indoctrinating children in the schools with political propaganda? OooooooKay.

[Cocoa]

13. how dare you call this propaganda

Supporting organizations:

Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Americans for Victory Over Terrorism
Bill Bennett's Morning In America
VictoryNH.com
Chris Dickson - The Dickson/Chappell Report
Pajamas Media
Families United
Americans for Tax Reform :wtf:

Newt.org
Mullings.com
Arkansas Federation of Republican Women
Free Congress Foundation
The Henry Jackson Society
Freedom House Center for Religious Freedom
Inspired By Iraq
Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC)
Sean Hannity Show
Martha Zoller Radio Show
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
The Daly Report

[tocqueville]

11. why not wear burkas too, show how to cheat in an election,

explain that it's important to vote how your were told by your father, how to intimidate your neighbours and go and blow up some cars while you're at it

the kids will love it

[leesa]

15. Is that how Republicans identify the profits they have made off the

carnage of this war? I noticed 'Duke' Cunningham was deeply into this purple finger shit last time round and he was making big bucks blowing up the Iraqi people in the name of freedom