Tolerance is a good thing;

however, tolerance does not mean avoiding truths or sticking your head

in the ground. Academics are quick to avoid a conversation in order not

to offend. Offending is our great American birthright; it's called free

speech.

While I do not condone speech

that spurs riots or causes panic (yelling fire in a crowded theater),

I do condone speech that discusses facts, even if it does offend.

In that vein, it is factually

clear that a group of Muslim extremists of Arab descent were totally to

blame for attacking our country on Sept. 11. Additionally, these people

still prove to be a threat to our freedom and culture.

Treating these people with

kid gloves and blaming America for their gross interpretation of their

"religion" serves no purpose other than giving comfort to those

that would see our country and culture destroyed. Political correctness

has no place in this discussion or any discussion that is debating facts.

In a recently taped interview

with a Muslim cleric, it was flatly stated that the liberal, politically

correct groups of the West represented the weakness in America that will

allow the Islamic extremists to destroy our way of life. The NEA and other

"hate America" liberal groups do not want to defend our way

of life; they want to denigrate it.

Please, educators, teach "one

plus one equals two," not "one plus one equals two, unless your

are a 'protected group,' then it can equal anything you want." Students

would be amazed to hear teachers teach instead of telling kids half-truths

and opinions.

What would your misguided students

say if you told them how much of the American taxpayers' hard-earned money

is sent around the world to aid other countries without expectation of

receiving any of it back? "Wow, really, we just give our money to

help other countries? My teacher told me we were a greedy country."

Teachers, while you are preaching

about the evils of slavery, remember to stress it was Americans who fought

and died to end slavery. "You mean hundreds of thousands of white

Americans died to free the slaves? You have got to be kidding me. I was

taught [that white people of that time] were evil."

Tell your students how their

country saved the world from socialist people who would have terminated

the world as they presently know it. Additionally, impress upon them that

it was America who rebuilt those wayward countries after soundly defeating

these evildoers. "You are telling me the United States defeated half

the world in a world war and then rebuilt it? Now that is unbelievable.

That totally reflects those Judeo-Christian beliefs you talked about!"

(Now that is something you will never hear a public school student say.)

The NEA believes America is

evil. I do not agree. For the above stated reasons, my children will not

go to their state-run school on Sept. 11; they will stay home and be told

about proud Americans who fought and died to build the greatest country

in the history of the world. God bless America!

Keith Mobley

Peachtree City