PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR EXPERIENCE: Is there hope for the US Education System to return to our roots: Episode 98

This post is about the dangers of allowing the continued destruction of our American education sytem by leftist and progressives who want to use our upcoming generation to help over throw our way of life. There is one University Hillsdale College which is setting the  example of how our education system should operate. I share some thoughts from the commencement address in May by Victor Davis Hanson. I have been following him for some time and he is one of the most informed voices speaking from his vast education on the history of America. If you don't know who he is after listening to this post I encourage you to check him out on the internet and I think you will come to the same conclusion as I have about his message. 

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Hello, this is a Private Investigator Experience podcast and I'm your host, Phil Little. In this podcast and channel, we talk about the life in cases of a private investigator and events that are going on out around the world as well as nationally that might affect us here at home in our own communities. I look at the world through the lens of my military law enforcement, intelligence service, and global security background. Then I add just a touch of my biblical worldview to come up with solutions that will affect us for good in our homes and our lives. I believe for a long time that if someone has information. Will help the public good, they should share it. And in the business I've been in, I've had an opportunity to travel out around the world, my career in intelligence and in terrorism. Started in Israel and southern Lebanon in the seventies. And here I am, a a committed Christian and a follower of Jesus. And I I'm joyful about that. I was in immersed in Israel. I have great friends and relationships there, and many people thought at times I was Jewish. Why? Because I was there so much. And then later on I wound up out in the Arabian Gulf with an office in Saudi Arabia and got very involved there at the seat of Islam. The Muslim world, developed great friends. Have great relationships, respect for each other. They know who I am, what I am, what I believe, and they still embrace me because I came there to help them as I helped the United States fight terrorism. We had a joint effort. And in fact, in those days, after nine 11 in 2000 3, 4, 5 long in there, Saudi Arabia became probably the United States. Biggest friend and help on terrorism. And obviously Saudi Arabia had a real onslaught of terrorism and they began to understand that it wasn't just the United States that Alqaeda was after and Osama Bin Laden, but it was after them. And of course there was a cobar military barracks that was hit. Many killed and all across the Saudi Arabia that was attacked and in that day, haven't been there for a while, but you would, all the buildings that you would go to in the hotels everywhere had these concrete barriers, keeping people quite a ways away. Security was checking all vehicles and you had to go around sharp little turns to get in. So they took it seriously and they went after stopping the terrorists. They did in their country and they were a big help to the us. So I've got some experiences that I draw upon and so I've done a lot of digging deep dive investigations into what is going on. Excuse me. In the world and in our country, I've alarmed by the patterns that have developed. And right under my nose, it's like I was asleep. I think I I just. And it was a drift. So many people busy doing my own thing. Trying to help save the world and the United States was solid. Of course, we're Americans. We've got freedom. We got our First Amendment and second Amendment and fourth Amendment and hey, we're okay. Nobody's going to affect that or take that away from us. Then I think it was a pandemic That was a big wake up for me, as it was for all so many people. We found how fast our freedoms to disappear. And I think the world in China where this virus came from and the purpose of it was to test and see what how the world would react. And they were shocked and amazed at how fast the US sumbered how fast did in America to cover the church In China, there's a vast underground church with tens of millions of people went in, in China and they. They survive even in the midst of great persecution, prison, sometimes death. And here we are in America. We just said, oh, okay, we don't need church. We won't go to church, we'll go along. Everybody just crumbed. And obviously then of course, after a while, there was those that rose up that started pushing back and we only got our freedoms back. But I realized that was a test that we failed. If we don't wake up from that, the next one will be worst. I also understand there's two things that totalitarian leaders, whatever they call themselves, whether they're Marxist or communist, or democratic socialist or whatever they might call themselves, they will control and to do that, excuse me, I've got a cough. I don't know where this is coming from. All the travel I just got done. Okay. There's two things that go after. And when you look back in history and you see this happen all the way up to Hitler and they take away the guns. If there's a country that they want to take over that has citizens with guns they first set out to destroy that and take them away, and when they accomplish that, along those same lines start the education system and they start brainwashing to young people. And within a generation they've got them trained and brainwashed who believe in the socialist model and that they government will take care of and get them everything free. And all you have to do is keep us in power, the leaders say, and then once they get in power, they take over and ultimately those people become their slaves. We've had the two things happen here. Of course, they haven't got our guns yet, but they've coming after. So remember people in the constitution. I posted this recently when I did a deep dive investigation. So many people say, Obama, said as president, we're not a Christian nation. You better look at the facts because they were all there. We were a Christian nation. Every one of the 55 signers in the Constitution, 50 two of them were believers and in the, in Jesus, the other three believed in God and the Bible. And the Bible was used as the founding document for our country. We were found as a Christian nation, but the young people today that we see now, this has happened under our watch. While we've been lazy and busy and distracted, and the schools have been corrupted, now there's a pushback. We got a pushback. We have an opportunity here. I'm an optimist, but let me tell you, my optimism was failing after looking at the last four years. November the fifth on, and in these last six months of this administration, we've had changes that shows that there can be hope for us to get back in control of our country and not allow the socialist Marxist to take over. But the battle was not won. We only won. The wars not won. We just won a battle. The wars continue now, as you can see with what's happening to try to destroy and stop what Trump is doing. The administration is doing by the left, supporting the criminals by the current mayor candidate that's running on the Democratic side in New York and all of the sanctuary cities and all that they've been done. If we don't push back. Eliminate those. They will all keep coming and they will wear us out. Part of the communist mentality, even back in the fifties, sixties, seventies, when Khrushchev and all those were there, Khrushchev said The only way we can take over the US is to destroy it from within. And that's why they planted so many people here as the sleepers I. They got involved in politics, in schooling and education universities. Their mold was to corrupt from inside and change this a generation coming up that would become pro socialists. There, but there's hope. Quite a, I wanna share just briefly from commencement address that was at the Hillsdale College commencement in May by Victor Davis Hanson. If you, on the conservative side, you might know him or heard him, but if not, you should be following him. That's Victor Davis Hansen. he's a farmer originally he was on a farm still in Fresno, California, and he's a very intelligent man. I'll this share a few things about his background, but he has a way about it. He's no nonsense. He's so quiet. It's no, excuse me. Doesn't get loud, doesn't get vocal. This hammers out the facts in such a way that, this man knows what he's talking about. Now, Victor Davis Hanson is just tell you what a few things here. He's a distinguished fellow in history at the Hillsdale College and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. A professor of classics emeritus at California State University Fresno. He's a national national indicated comm columnist for Caribbean media. He's written publications for the Wall Street Journal. The Claremont Review, the new criterion, the Daily Telegraph, and he's on the Daily Signal. Which I think he normally has every day, and that's short in something like 10 or 12 minutes. But he covers what's happening. Right at that time. He's went written numerous books, a war like no other how the Athenians and the Spartans fought the War, the Second World War, how the Global Conflict War was fought and won. On and on the end of everything. And you could find out more about him. I'm gonna show this. He. Give the example here of a light on a hill of Hillsdale College. And if you have young people coming up going to college, you might wanna consider this college instead of Harvard or Princeton or Columbia or most others that have been indoctrinated and taken over. If you want your kids to have an education and not just waste money. So he was speaking and he laid out why Hillsdale is on the city on the hill, a light, and it can be a light to bring others and have hope for a future that could turn the education system back to what it was founded on to be, not what it's become. It's become a disinformation, eliminating the past, eliminating history and people and things that happened in our country. Yes, our founders were human. They weren't perfect. None of us are, and I'm like those that are taking shots at the founders, he who was without sin when cast the first stone. When you live in glass houses, you shouldn't be casting stone. It's time that we started digging in for ourselves. You like, I have to start doing your deep dive investigations and you can do that. I've got some resources you don't have, but most everything is on the internet and you can find it out. He said, but at the introduction, this Victor Davis Hansen, and he said before I begin, let me offer a brief commentary. Has anyone noticed how the eyes of the nation has turned the Hillsdale, this recent inner surpasses, even the great, the past considerable in tension that Hillsdale has garnered. One reason for this is that Harvard University suddenly wishes to be free in Washington, DC. At least as long as the current administration remains in office. And yet in its confusion, Harvard still wishes. Now listen to this. I can't believe this$9 billion is going to Harvard every year in subsidies. Oh my God. And look at what we, the taxpayers have paid for and out of out of Harvard, and I think just in the last few days. If I recall properly that Harvard has done a settlement to change their policies and that paying a$200 million fine for violating Title IX in any way that's, you can check that out. Many of the public, he goes on to say Victor Davis has, Davis goes on to say the trouble the public has been directing Harvard to consult Hillsdale. Whose model Disavows federal funding. And its longstanding in principle. Hillsdale doesn't take government money from either no matter who's in power, they want to be free and independent. And Harvard doesn't need government money. They've got, what?$60 billion in a endowment. Anyway, that's just and the other important thing that the department of education has been looking at, Hillsdale. Because as the Department of Education is seeking to restore civic and classical education, it looks in the hillsdale's direction. In the past hills Hillsdale was a toll of a common sense, a sanctuary of all that remains good in the largely lost and aim aimless landscape of American higher education. And today. It's the nation's guide to the rediscovery of personal integrity. Listen to that. Personal integrity. When I would hire people, the first thing I wanted to determine, do they have personal integrity? And if they didn't, no matter how well trained or maybe suitable they were, I would usually pass on'em because I knew that was going to be problem be problems. And then there's happiness and the hope about the future. In other words. Hillsdale College has become the 21st century example of what higher education should be. And listen to this, it just depends on you and me. It might still become, we get involved in our local communities. And I'm just going to touch on the three virtues that he says has been forgotten in America and it's honor. Tradition and optimism, and which he says are abid. On the Hillsdale campus. He talked about the first day he got there that he was moving around, got so busy, he left the bicycle, bicycle stand. And that night he realized it and he said, oh, that'll be gone tomorrow. But when he went back to get it, the next day in the bicycle was right there, right where he left it. And he commented, how many campuses would that be? Would that happen, He also went to the bookstore and he found on the bookshelves. He didn't find a single course listening. The usual faddish studies like therapeutic courses like he studies, environmental environmental studies, leisure studies, film studies, ethnic studies, gender study studies, or sexual studies. Oh, yes we need all that stuff, don't we? Instead. There were courses listed in all the classical aspects of philosophy, literature, language, history, mathematics, and science. What was that old saying? Reading, writing, and arithmetic. What I was taught started a one room schoolhouse back in Missouri. And this he goes on to say, what a strange thing I thought, given the current landscape of higher education. For this contemporary American college to trust in the brilliance of some 2,500 years old prior Western educators who in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem founded the disciplines and boundaries of their all compassing knowledge. Alright, we've bought the leaders of. And the Marxist socialists have gotten involved and they're trying to bring a whole different set of rules and policies and change the course of our country through our education system. So quickly, I'm gonna touch on honor. He talks about, he says, I quote Victor Davis Hanson, you students of the class of 2025 have been instructed in. Have absorbed fully and will pass on a code of honorable conduct that, has become a part of who you are and it will remain with you on the long road ahead. Hillsdale has taught you the student body, not the worry if you're not one of the current majority of youth, because you are certainly one. Of the most of, was the most of the past and future generations. So he's encouraging them that they have a confidence in their code of ethical comportment and standard personal standards that will be your legacy to help future cohorts in come in the future. Because your values now, listen to this, to these college students graduating are real. Permanent and ancient, you will not be won over by those who justify their lapses of behavior by situational ethics or feelings of of victim without such individual vows of honesty and compassion for others. Alright? And he goes on to say, students at Hillsdale do not steal bicycles because their personal codes. Their personal code of honor forbids it. One of the things I found years ago at Westco Detectives international, which I own 103 year old global security firm back in the seventies and eighties we saw in our undercover operations internal theft of pillage rise from a few hundred million a year to billions and billions. And it was a breakdown of personal ethics that. The people coming, the young people coming into the workforce had, it was like what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. And anywhere I could get it, that's okay. That was a downfall of our countries. Now we've lost the respect for others properties, and it's a time we bring that back. And then Traditioning talked about the character of the Hillsdale student is nurtured and sustained by tradition. A word derived from the Latin down meaning a transmission or handing down. Now we have a proof of that, don't we? The Jewish nation? Go to the Old Testament and you'll find that God told him. Train your children, pass this information along. They didn't have internets or emails or word processing. They could write all this stuff up. They had to do it word of mouth. And they did century after century. They told their children where they came from, who their God was and how blessed they were and what he had done for them. That's something we need to be aware of. We seem unaware. Thinkers of the past. He goes on to say, as early as Greek poets 2,700 years ago, worried about just the opposite. They worried. Now listen to this, that material progress and greater wealth would result in moral regress, given the greater opportunities to gratify the appetite, which perceive fewer consequences. And to use so sophist sophisticated to excuse the sin. Wow. That's when personal integrity our morals decline. And we become more interested in what we can gain, in what we can get. Then caring about others and living an others' life. And having deep personal integrity that guides us in everything that we do. Likewise he goes on to say, without traditional reverence from the past, an ungrateful nation not only suffers a loss of knowledge, but is plagued by hubris so often twin of ignorance. Believing that it alone has discovered ideas and behaviors unique to itself in its own era, even when they are in fact aged Its a kind of perfection, a heaven on earth instead of the good. And it ends up a painting neither. That is, something to really think about. I hope you will go and Google Victor Davis Hanson and look up this commencement address that he gave, read it for yourself. And it's entirely, he goes on to say, are we not in? Instead, the sub, total of all those who came before us, and for the most part here in America, west us, a constitutional system and infrastructure that allowed to start our lives. Both materially and civilly in terms of freedom. And yes, also religiously, we don't have to believe in God in this country, but we have the freedom to believe and the freedom of each person who they have free will, they can believe God or they don't believe, just don't try to take God out of our society when I still believe it. And then he talks about also the fragment of the family. Then there's optimism and he ends on this. I wish you on this happy note in the manner I first encountered The Hillsdale College community goes on. Your generation is now a witness to a counter revolution of sorts. Millions of Americans are asking for a reexamination of our cultural and society with an eye to restoring ancient decency and looking to the good of past generations. Critical to this restoration is your optimism, and if you're listening to me on this, you're in this, your optimism, such positivity is a child of gratitude for all that we have inherited and all that we wish to enhance and pass on to others. Not yet. born, I want to leave. Something for my children and grandchildren is totally different than what the last four years has been and what the country has become. I hope now that in these next four years and even after that, we will form a new America that returns to our roots that will be lasting so that my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, if this world still stands, will be able to achieve their dreams worship as they see fit, speak as they see fit. Be able to have the opportunity to create a life that honors their God and gives them the ability to own homes and live in a cost effective society. Now, we remember he goes on to say, but the strength of this country. Even in darkest days, like those of April the 12th, 1861 or December the seventh, 1941 or September the 11th, 2001 has always been its singular ability to remain not just unshaken, but confident in its values, its resilience, and its inherent strength to overcome all challenges. As he ends this, and there's a lot more to this. I hope you get into it and he says, thank you. And may God bless you all. I would like your comments. I would like your thoughts and your opinions and read them on any of the platforms. Let me know what you think, what you would like to see happen. And you might say what can I do? You can start in your community, on your education system because that's where our young people have been corrupted, starting even as low as kindergarten now. And we know with the current administration, a lot of these things of CRT and DEI have all been outlawed and, but there's still kins in the country of schools that are trying to keep this kind of information. So find out what's going on in your schools. Go to school board meetings and if necessary, get involved and run for office across the country. In these last few years, there's been so many school boards recalled by local citizens who wanted to take back the teaching of proper education to the young people. So you can do that, search it out, get on the internet. See what's going on. Get involved, write letters, make phone calls, and show up where you can step out of the crowd. Let your voice be heard together, we can make a difference. You can also email me at e little ei777@gmail.com, and if you have questions about what a PI does or did a PI help me with the problem I have. Send that information to me and I'll get back to you and let you know how it might work. p little pi777@gmail.com. I'm want to thank you for listening, considering sharing, liking, and subscribing. can together make a difference, one does make a difference. You can start something in your community that can ignite others to follow you and to get involved. So until next time, may God bless you. May God bless your family and may God bless America. Stay safe.