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Yep... it was just as I suspected. After reading in the Citizen newspaper of the rather-crudely named play set to be performed by Gilford students, "Urinetown" that featured themes of

greed love and a "world without water"

I just knew it was yet another instance of leftist anti-capitalist indoctrination. After all, all the buzz words were there. Again, from the Citizen:

"Urintown is an award-winning satirical musical comedy that pokes fun at capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement and petty small town politics.

I'll bet it "pokes fun at capilism" all right. And not to worry, it carries the standard radical environmentalist agenda as well-- what public school activity would be complete without that? The Citizen notes that

The Environmental Club at the high school will have a table set up outside in the lobby displaying how some of the issues in production actually relates to real life.

And of course, when you read the Wikipedia entry on the production, you learn that the thing ends in a rather violent way, proclaiming that, for all intents and purposes, there are just way too many people on the "planet" and that WE are it's ultimate biggest enemy.

much of the population dies of thirst. Lockstock insinuates that Hope suffers a terrible death at the hand of the people for her actions in depleting the water supply, but adds that the remaining townsfolk will wage on, their town now quite like the imaginary 'Urinetown' they had been threatened with all their lives. As the cast chants "Hail, Malthus!" the audience must face this final question: can they continue to blithely live a life that they consciously know is unsustainable?

Oh, you don't know who Malthus is? Click here. Yep-- this is the crap getting gently layered into the malleable young minds of Gilford's children. At least not everyone is falling for this garbage. Here is one review that pretty much sums up what I gleaned after reading up on this "wonderful production" starring the cute little children of Gilford:

This disgusting anti-capitalist dreck is supposed to be a satirical examination of the supposedly unsustainable life lived by you and me. Having read it, I can tell you that it is nothing more than a sophomorically vulgar attempt at the same smart-aleck liberal humor that has been done much better by the likes of Lewis Black and Bill Maher.

Equating modern American culture with urinating is disgusting and childish. Nobody should go see this kind of crap, ever.

Will anybody else in Gilford stand up and call this what it is:

PROPAGANDA?

Chip by chip, the radical left tears down our country by destroying its basic values. Whether by outright bold means such as the International Baccalaureate Programme seeking to inculcate World governemnt within all facets of the curriculum, or in sneaky ways of incorporating subtle messages via such things as "the arts" like this play, they never stop. One Day, we might wake up to an America very different from the one we thought we knew and loved.

A famous man once said,

"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, "I will calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants,however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

And of course, truer words were never spoken. He knew how to transform society so that it fit his worldview. So do the forces at work in America today. I, for one will not sit idly by and watch that happen again. I will put up the fight until they drag me off to the camp, once and for all...

[UPDATE]

From Breitbart.com:

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and a top UN official urged industrialised nations Friday to alter their lifestyles and not let the global financial crisis hamper climate change efforts.

Industrialised nations should also help developing countries respond to climate change, Wen said at the opening of a two-day international meeting on global warming in Beijing.

"The developed countries have a responsibility and an obligation to respond to global climate change by altering their unsustainable way of life," the state news agency Xinhua quoted him as saying.

"As the global financial crisis spreads and worsens, and the world economy slows down, the international community must not waver in its determination to tackle climate change."

And that means a lot, coming from the head of the Chicoms. You just KNOW they care about the environment above all else, just like the Gilford kids, right?