Book Burner Tom Horne burning Hispanic history books. Tom is doing what Joseph Goebbels, a German Nazi, did burning books to take control of the minds of people they want exterminated.

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels received a PhD in Literature and History from the University of Heidelberg. In 1922, he joined the Nazi Party.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, Goebbels was appointed propaganda chief, controlling all forms of German media ― print, radio, film and theater.

He used that position to glorify the Nazi movement and attack its opponents.

On April 6, 1933, the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Association (Deutsche Studentenschaft) proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit", which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ("Säuberung") by fire. Local chapters were to supply the press with releases and commissioned articles, sponsor well-known Nazi figures to speak at public gatherings, and negotiate for radio broadcast time. On April 8, the students association also drafted the Twelve Theses which deliberately evoked Martin Luther and the historic burning of "Un-German" books at the Wartburg festival on the 300th anniversary of the posting of Luther's Theses. The theses called for a "pure" national language and culture. Placards publicized the theses, which attacked "Jewish intellectualism", asserted the need to "purify" German language and literature, and demanded universities be centers of German nationalism. The students described the "action" as a response to a worldwide Jewish "smear campaign" against Germany and an affirmation of traditional German values.

In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on May 10, 1933, the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. On the night of May 10, in most university towns, nationalist students marched in torchlight parades "against the un-German spirit." The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, songs, "fire oaths," and incantations. In Berlin, some 40,000 people gathered in the Opernplatz to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!” Goebbels enjoined the crowd. “Yes to decency and morality in family and state! I consign to the flames the writings of Heinrich Mann, Ernst Gläser, Erich Kästner.”

The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path. The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character. It is to this end we want to educate you. As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death — this is the task of this young generation. And thus you do well in this midnight hour to commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past. This is a strong, great and symbolic deed — a deed which should document the following for the world to know — Here the intellectual foundation of the November Republic is sinking to the ground, but from this wreckage the phoenix of a new spirit will triumphantly rise — Joseph Goebbels' speech to the students in Berlin.

In 34 university towns across Germany the "Action against the Un-German Spirit" was a success, enlisting widespread newspaper coverage. And in some places, notably Berlin, radio broadcasts brought the speeches, songs, and ceremonial incantations "live" to countless German listeners.

Among the authors whose books student leaders burned that night numbered well-known socialists such as Bertolt Brecht and August Bebel; the founder of the concept of communism, Karl Marx; critical “bourgeois” writers like the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, and “corrupting foreign influences,” among them American author Ernest Hemingway; and of course, notable Jewish authors such as Franz Werfel, Max Brod, and Stefan Zweig. Especially notable among those works burned were the writings of beloved nineteenth-century German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who wrote in his 1820-1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen": "Where they burn books, they will also burn people."

Book Burner Tom Horne begins Fahrenheit 451 in Arizona

PHOENIX (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido Network) May 15, 2010 ― According to Wikipedia, Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. It presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character is employed as a "fireman" or "bookburner." The number "451" refers to the temperature at which book paper combusts. The "firemen" burn the books "for the good of humanity."

The German Nazi also had book burnings as part of a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology "for the good of humanity."

Now in Arizona, citing Individualism, Arizona tries to rein in ethnic studies in schools, "for the good of humanity."

Less than a month after signing the nation’s toughest law on illegal immigration, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona has again upset the state’s large Hispanic population, signing a bill aimed at ending ethnic studies in Tucson schools.

Under the law signed on Tuesday, any school district that offers classes designed primarily for students of particular ethnic groups, advocate ethnic solidarity or promote resentment of a race or a class of people would risk losing 10 percent of its state financing.

“Governor Brewer signed the bill because she believes, and the legislation states, public school students should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people,” Paul Senseman, a spokesman for the governor, said in a statement on Thursday.

Judy Burns, president of the governing board of the Tucson schools, said the district’s ethnic studies courses did not violate any of the provisions of the new law and would be continued because they were valuable to the students.

“From everything I’ve seen, they empower kids to take charge of their own destiny, gain a sense of the value of their own existence and become more determined to be well-educated contributing members of society,” Ms. Burns said.

The new law, which takes effect at the end of the year, is a victory for Tom Horne, the state superintendent of public instruction, who has fought for years to end Tucson’s ethnic studies programs, which he believes teach students to feel oppressed and resent whites.

“The most offensive thing to me, fundamentally, is dividing kids by race,” Mr. Horne said.

“They are teaching a radical ideology in Raza, including Arizona and other states were stolen from Mexico and should be given back,” he continued, referring to the Mexican-American studies classes.

Mr. Horne, a Republican who is running for state attorney general, said he also objected to the textbook “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire.

The schools in Tucson offer Mexican-American studies classes in history and literature and African-American literature classes. Although the classes are open to all students, most of those who enroll are members of the ethnic or racial group being discussed.

Is it permissible, under the new law, to teach basic history? About 56 percent of the students in the Tucson Unified School District are Hispanic, the great majority of them Mexican American.

The land now Arizona once belonged to Mexico. Might teaching that fact "promote resentment" among students of Mexican descent? What about a class that taught students how activists fought to end discrimination against Hispanics in Arizona and other Western states? Would that illegally encourage students to resent the way their parents and grandparents were treated?

The legislation has an answer: Mexican American students, it seems, should not be taught to be proud of their heritage.

This angry anti-Hispanic spasm in Arizona is only partly about illegal immigration. It's really about fear and denial.

In June 2007, in an open letter to the residents of Tucson, Mr. Horne said, “The evidence is overwhelming ethnic studies in the Tucson Unified School District teaches a kind of destructive ethnic chauvinism the citizens of Tucson should no longer tolerate.”

In that letter, he said he believed students were learning hostility from La Raza teachers, citing an incident in which students at the Tucson High Magnet School walked out on a speech by his deputy, a Republican Latina, who was trying to refute an earlier speaker who had told the student body Republicans hate Hispanics.

Sean Arce, director of Tucson’s Mexican-American studies department, said the ethnic studies courses do teach students about the marginalization of different groups in the United States through history.

“They don’t teach resentment or hostility, in any way, shape or form,” Mr. Arce said. “Instead, they build cultural bridges of understanding, and teach the skills students need to understand history.”

Furthermore, Mr. Arce said, the ethnic studies courses have been highly effective in reducing students’ dropout rates and increasing their college matriculation well above the national average for Hispanic students.

Mr. Arce and Ms. Burns said they had repeatedly invited Mr. Horne to visit the ethnic studies classes, but he had declined the invitations.

“We wish he’d come see it, so he’d know what we do, and not just go on hearsay,” Ms. Burns said.

Mr. Horne acknowledged he had never sat in on a class, but said he did not believe what he would see would be representative of what regularly took place. Nazi German Joseph Goebbels, who is the spiting imagine of Tom Horne, said the same thing.

 

 

At least we don't have to pretend anymore that Arizona passing the SB 1070 mean-spirited immigration law wasn't about high-minded principle or the need to maintain public order.

For the world to see, SB 1070 is all about putting Hispanics in their place.

It's hard to reach any other conclusion given the state's latest swipe at Hispanics. On Tuesday, Gov. Jan Brewer signed the Tom Horne racist measure making it illegal for any course in the public schools to "advocate ethnic solidarity."

Arizona's top education official, Tom Horne, fought for the new law as a weapon against a program in Tucson that teaches Mexican American students about their history and culture.

About 30 percent of the state's population is Hispanic, and that number continues to rise. This demographic shift has induced culture shock among some Arizonans who see the old Anglo power structure losing control.

It is evidently threatening to some people, Mexican Americans would see themselves as a group with common interests and grievances ― and even more threatening, Arizona Hispanics see ourselves heirs to the men and women who lived in Arizona long before the first Anglos arrived.