Just because someone has a teaching degree doesn't necessarily mean that they should be in the front of a classroom. A case in point is a Colorado teacher by the name of Jay Bennish who uses his teaching position as a platform for an anti-American rant that sounds even more absurd on audio than it reads in print. Bennish was recorded by one of his students who was tired of Bennish's propagandizing in the classroom and the recording is being played all over talk radio and the blogosphere. Michelle Malkin has links to the audio as well as a partial transcript. You can listen to a podcast here. Keep in mind as you listen to this guy that he's teaching a geography class. Here's an excerpt:
Make sure you get these definitions down: Capitalism - If you don't understand the economic system of capitalism, you don't understand the world in which we live. Ok. Economic system in which all or most of the means of production, etc., are owned privately and operated in a somewhat competitive environment for the purpose of producing PROFIT! Of course, you can shorten these definitions down. Make sure you get the gist of it. Do you see how when, you know, when you're looking at this definition, where does it say anything about capitalism is an economic system that will provide everyone in the world with the basic needs that they need? Is that a part of this system? Do you see how this economic system is at odds with humanity? At odds with caring and compassion? It's at odds with human rights.
What drug is responsible for the most deaths in the world? Cigarettes! Who is the world's largest producer of cigarettes and tobacco? The United States!
What part of our country grows all our tobacco? Anyone know what states in particular? Mostly what's called North Carolina. Alright. That's where all the cigarette capitals are. That's where a lot of them are located from. Now if we have the right to fly to Bolivia or Peru and drop chemical weapons on top of farmers' fields because we're afraid they might be growing coca and that could be turned into cocaine and sold to us, well then don't the Peruvians and the Iranians and the Chinese have the right to invade America and drop chemical weapons over North Carolina to destroy the tobacco plants that are killing millions and millions of people in their countries every year and causing them billions of dollars in health care costs?
Who is probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth?!
(Unidentified student interjects)We are.
The United States of America! And we're a democracy. Quote-unquote.
...when you shoot a missile into Pakistan to quote-unquote kill a known terrorist, and we just killed 75 people that have nothing to do with al Qaeda, as far as they're concerned, we're the terrorists. We've attacked them on their soil with the intention of killing their innocent people.
Student Sean Allen: But we did not have the intention of killing innocent people. We had the intention of killing an al Qaeda terrorist.
Bennish: Do you know that?
Student: So, you're saying the United States has intentions to kill innocent people?
Bennish: I don't know the answer to that question.
Do we really want the Middle East to unite as one cohesive political and cultural body?
No! Because then they could what? Threaten our supremacy.
We want to keep the world divided. Do we really want to kill innocent people? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
I know there are some Americans who do. People who work in the CIA. People who have to think like that. Those kind of dirty minds, dirty tricks. That's how the intelligence world works. Sometimes you do want to kill people just for the sake of killing them. Right?
There's much more on the audio which you really should listen to in order to gain a sense of Bennish's stridency. For our part we were just wondering why some leftists think its okay to indoctrinate students with goofy political propaganda in a geography class, but it's not okay to simply mention Intelligent Design to students in a biology class. Very strange.
