Halloween Danger Comes Early: Smart A.L.E.C.’s Concept of a Nasty Trick or Treat

A.L.E.C. Cheating children with disabilities: How cheap and tawdry can it get?

We are all wary of tainted treats unwittingly collected by children at Halloween. Too often there are the cruel and dangerous concoctions hidden in what appears to be candy or other treats given out at Halloween by certain evil and deprived individuals who are criminally intent upon harming children.

The public has found amongst the "model" legislation and tricky lawmaking of the Koch Brothers backed AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC) a terrible example of harm inflicted upon children. In the case in point, children with special needs.

How low and how dishonest/deceptive will the Corporatocracy behind A.L.E.C. go?

This summary comes from Ruth Conniff: "ALEC Exposed--How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Democracy":

"Republican lawmakers and corporations have a new target: kids in special ed. It sounds like a sick joke, but it's true."

Like cartoon schoolyard bullies, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-the powerful coalition of corporations and rightwing legislators-has worked out plans to trick special ed students and their families into giving up their federally protected educational benefits, in exchange for cheap vouchers that can be used in unregulated, fly-by-night academies.

Working off ALEC's proposed legislation--recently leaked by a whistleblower to the Center for Media and Democracy, and viewable on the web site ALEC Exposed--Republicans are pushing private-school voucher bills for kids with disabilities in states across the country."

The secretive pro-corporatist work of A.L.E.C. legislative members across the nation (and also in Michigan where over six dozen past or present members of the Michigan Legislature are A.L.E.C. lackeys (Toyna Schuitmaker-R, Lawton, Tom McMillin "R, Rochester) and/or active surrogates) MOVES THE REGRESSIVE AGENDA of the Koch Brothers/Betsy DeVos/the Mackinac Center.

In its most hideous form, it comes down to stark examples like this. Tricking parents of special needs children into surrendering their rights and access to federal support for the betterment and training of their precious children.

Take any issue that involves public education and twist it in a manner that extracts the best possible outcome for the for-profit predators in the rad-right's cabal of large corporations (A.L.E.C. sponsors) and make it work for their profitization, while exploiting the destruction of local community and the real lives of children. These predators and greed masters have no soul. They have no god, but profit. They thrive on power and skilled trickery.

Now after nearly 40 years of hiding in the open, the ugly side of A.L.E.C. is exposed, just in time to coincide with the American Legislative Exchange Council's attempt to accomplish a harsh and mind-boggling coup in America using their super majorities at the individual state legislative levels for their own ends.

It's an all out war on the middle class, community and local survival.

Wisconsin's became the symbol of this coup's agenda, but it's only one of many states, including Michigan, that has succumb to the power of A.L.E.C. REGRESSIVE LAWMAKING.

For special education children the "hidden poison pins" in the "gifted" apple have become a serious threat far earlier than Halloween.

A.L.E.C.: Cheating children with disabilities, how cheap and tawdry can it get?!

Beware the pernicious predators in the current TeaPublican putsch.