Tuesday, November 20, 2007
If you were following the events of the Dabke dance troupe that was canceled out of a tour of Connecticut schools after causing outrage among parents and students, you should be aware that these people have no sense of propriety and nothing else to do, so their next step is to try to pressure the Superintendent of Schools in Old Saybrook, CT into inviting Anna "Terrorist Madonna" Baltzer in. A group message encourages people to write:
I have just been told that Anna Baltzer has made an offer to the Superintendent of Schools in Old Saybrook, CT to come and speak to the students there about the situation in Israel / Palestine and about what happened recently when a youth dance troupe from Palestine was prevented from performing in the school system.
I'm planning to write my own letter to the Superintendent, encouraging him to take Anna up on her offer. What a wonderful opportunity this could be to actually open up a dialogue in the public school system on the issue of Israel-Palestine! But this window of opportunity could easily pass us by if not enough people encourage the Superintendent to follow through. He needs to know that there are enough people in the community who would support an honest and open study of this issue.
If you want to write a letter to the Old Saybrook superintendent as well, encouraging him to allow the students to study this issue, his address is:
Joseph Onofrio, II
Superintendent of Schools...(etc...)
One would think that the Super had learned his lesson, but you never know. Folks in the area might want to just make sure Mr. Onofrio is aware that Anna Baltzer is hardly the antidote to manipulative political propaganda. She's more of the poison.
