Michelle Malkin has published Colorado "Geography" teacher Jay Bennish's rant on her site and it's a good thing! Apparently he advocates the bombing of North Carolina--my home-sweet-home--by countries whose populations are addicted to cigarettes:
What is the world's number one single cause of death by a drug? 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?
When teachers like this are molding young minds, is it any wonder that only 1 in 1000 High School graduates polled could correctly identify all of the freedoms actually granted by the Bill of Rights (and only 8% could correctly identify 3 out of the first 5).
Wanna laugh? Those who got them wrong didn't even identify Freedom of Speech as being on the list!
Guys like Bennish may be right, but for the wrong reasons. We shouldn't send our best and brightest off to war. Why should they die protecting freedoms we don't even know we have?
Pathetic, truly pathetic.