Digby: "When the Free Press Becomes Equivalent to an Enemy of the State..."

[Fumesucker]

11. Oh they still do it, they're just less explicit about it now

Now it's "If you know anyone using, inform on them." and they sure don't disinclude parents.

Same rationale though, "You're helping them.".

There's no other word for it than Orwellian when you *know* your child is being taught lies and you also know if you tell your child the truth and they inadvertently blurt it out at the wrong person it could well have severe negative repercussions on your child and your family.

I read the short version of this recently and it as a parent I found it fairly disturbing, living in the buckle of the Bible Belt I was fairly careful not to use the "a" word around my kid as she was growing up, she was already questioned about why we didn't go to church and other kids were constantly inviting her to their churches. The problems wouldn't rise to the level of the people in this story but I did think back to what I said and didn't say when I was actively parenting a young child.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Presence_of_Mine_Enemies