MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry » All Your Kids Belong To Us

On March 23, my colleague Mark Finkelstein noted how MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry considers the unborn child a "thing" which takes a "lot of money" to "turn into a human," costing thousands of dollars to care for each year of his/her life. Now it appears that Harris-Perry thinks that, after they're born, children fundamentally belong to the state.

Narrating a new MSNBC "Lean Forward" spot, the Tulane professor laments that we in America "haven't had a very collective notion that these are our children." "[W]e have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to their communities," Harris-Perry argued.

"Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments." By "investments," of course, Harris-Perry means things like spending "as much in public education as we should have."

Of course, if as Harris-Perry holds,"[t]he cost to raise a child [is] $10,000 a year up to $20,000 a year," and if children should be viewed as collectively "owned" by "society," then taken to its logical extension, a woman's choices about having a child should be informed by the economic considerations of the "community," would it not? But of course, that logic would take someone to justify, for example, the "one-child" policy in Communist China.

What's more, the notion of collective responsibility for children was a philosophy that undergirded the Cultural Revolution in Communist China under Chairman Mao. I bring that up because, as you may recall, another Harris-Perry "Lean Forward" spot contains a reference to a "great leap forward," which calls to mind the disastrous agricultural reform plan which starved millions of Chinese to death in the 1950s.

News Busters: MSNBC's Harris-Perry: America's 'Kids Belong to Their Communities'
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Comment by music71 on April 8, 2013 at 1:07am: i have news for our dear Government,I own my kids and know will have them but me ! well hell they would give them back i have leran them to fight back whats good or evil, and all my grand kids are too!

Comment by arisuta2 on April 7, 2013 at 8:16am: When we register the birth of our child, we hand them over to the state. I read a very telling article in which the children of an American family were seized by the state on some trumped up reason, (children were abused but it wasn't true), and they returned one child who wasn't registered saying that they didn't have any right to him. Scary!

Comment by Andy Anduer on April 7, 2013 at 1:47am: Did you know R.T.R. went off line?

Comment by Paul V Barbara on April 6, 2013 at 9:25pm: What a load of Satanic codswallop. Sure, the State wants your kids; see Cathy O'Brien http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEBmEo4IA0 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7SWnZMPng , and if you're up to it, read her books 'Trance Formation of America' & 'Access Denied - For Reasons Of National Security'.

I'm sure most 12160 members have seen 'Aaron Russo - Historic Interview', but I doubt if many have watched his 'Mad as Hell' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64z6lAcmVIk .

He clowns around a little, but don't let that put you off; he is deadly serious. And the Satanist NWO 'Elite' well knew it, which is why Nick Rockefeller tried to recruit him into the Council on Foreign Relations (which Aaron refused, after finding out just how evil the NWO 'a**holes were (Nick actually told Aaron he had seen 'Mad as Hell').

Cathy's videos and books are extremely important; please chech the stuff out & spread the info far & wide.

More pointers as to why the State wants your kids is given here: 'Why Johnny Can't Come Home' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7C1cCa8V9s & here: 'Conspiracy of Silence + John DeCamp' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKjv_200J4

This information is extremely important, PLEASE spread it about as much as possible.

Comment by DTOM on April 6, 2013 at 6:04pm: Fuck these collectivist statist communitarian scum

Comment by David Howard on April 6, 2013 at 5:07pm: I just posted a somewhat similar article on my blog. It describes the role that technology has on our children's minds and what that means for the future. I wish I would have gotten the email alert for this article before I finished that.

Anyhow, thanks for sharing!