Question for Nick Coleman:  In society today, high school students are exposed to just about everything adults are.  Forget about sex and violence and a cynical Hollywood and Madison Avenue, which treats ’em like ripe marketing targets, hypersexualized little ripe sucks.

Thanks to the hyper-left orientation of the Minnesota Federation of Teachers and the educational academy, they also get a steady diet of political correctness and the DFL line on issue after issue.  I used to pay my kids a buck for every piece of political indoctrination they brought home from school – and they made out pretty well.

Schools bus students to pro-teachers’ union lobbying events, on school time.  More cynically still, many school districts are proposing “community service” “requirements” that would make students earn part of their graduation requirements by…providing free labor for “community” non-profits.  On questioning, I got proponents to admit that the groups they had in mind included ACORN, the Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, NARAL and the like – but not, naturally, dissenting groups; a kid who believed in Second Amendment rights couldn’t earn social studies credit interning with the NRA, for example.

Whatever.

Anyway – Nick Coleman, a la Captain Renault, is was shocked, shocked to learn that politics were involved in this past week’s “Vets for Freedom” rally.  Scott Johnson pretty well eviscerates Coleman’s column:

Coleman never contacted Hegseth to give him the opportunity to address the allegation that VFF is or was a Republican front group. And he didn’t bother to show up for any of the local appearances the group made in town on Tuesday. Had he done either, he would have discovered that VFF is the brainchild of (mostly decorated) Iraq war combat vets David Bellavia, Knox Nunnally, Mark Seavey, Joe Dan Worley, and Wade Zirkle — not a White House operative among them. They joined together on their own impetus to rally support on the home front for victory in Iraq against what they saw as the miselading portrait of the war painted in media organs such as, well, the Star Tribune.

VFF seeks political support for the objective of victory in Iraq. Thus its expression of gratitude to Senator Coleman and congressional Democrats such as Brian Baird (D, WA) and Jim Marshall (D, GA) who have heard the group out and come to share its point-of-view. The assertion that it is a partisan organization is a partisan lie.

More cynical still?  Coleman briefly mentioned the group of “anti-war” activists who hounded Flake High in to politically-correct submission.  But he mentions not a word of their intensely political motivation of the “anti-war” groups.

Dave Thul – an actual Iraq veteran – writes an excellent piece on his interchange with Karl “Howlin’ Mad” Bremer, a man who’s spent the last ten years of his life dedicated to attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann.  (Although various conservative commentators have linked Bremer to the campaign of harassment that caused Flake High to shut the Veterans for Freedom down, Bremer disclaims any direct involvement in the campaign.  He also notes that he is himself a veteran, and that he’s been harassed as a result of the belief that he’s been involved.  While I’ve condemned Bremer’s monomaniacal focus on Rep. Bachmann, and his frequently yellow and self-indulgent “journalism”, and think that he is the personification of the “bad speech” that the First Amendment bids us to provide “more better speech” to counter, I condemn any personal harassment, and salute his service as an MP back in the seventies).

Read Thul’s piece.  And think about what the public schools teach every single day.  And ask yourself – while they pay lip service to their alleged “mission” of creating citizens who are capable of participating in our civil society, when was the last time you actually saw them exposing kids to any idea that dissented from the DFL’s platform?