Jay Bennish is a teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado.  After one many vanilla state of the Union Addresses was broadcast, Bennish told his class, in no uncertain terms what he thought of the Bush Administration. 

"Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say," Bennish told students at the suburban high school. "We’re the only ones who are right, everyone else is backward, and our job is to conquer the world."

Bennish then qualified the statement saying he was not comparing Bush to Hitler, but that the administration’s rhetoric is “similar to the tones they use”. 

Little Sean Allen, rabid young Neocon, eager to gain recognition, taped the teacher saying these things then turned over the recording to a right wing radio show.  The rest is history, and the Southpark Episode is no doubt underway.

The school district put Bennish on unpaid leave causing over 150 students to walk out of class Thursday to protest freedom of speech violation.  They heckled Allen for being a narc and demonstrated outside the school with signs and by covering their mouths to show their freedom of speech had been violated.

The Neocon’s are not taking this lightly.  The backwards New York Post reported the story in an  article titled “The Case of the Commie Teacher” and encourages students to grab their tape recorders to nail other teachers.  The West Virgina Gazette thinks Bennish should be fired as well as whomever gave his his teaching certificate (Light up the Cross, Boys!).

Bennish’s lawyer, David Lane went on the Mike Rosen Show (that originally aired the recording) Friday and said, “Maybe it’s not mainstream, middle-American opinion, but the rest of the world agrees with him."

Lane added that if Bennish had spoken strongly in support of Bush, he would not be under investigation.  He also said he was looking forward to teaching the school district a lesson in Constitutional Law.

This brings us back to Red Scare of the 40’s and 50’s and McCarthyism.  The slogan “Better Dead than Red” ruled the planet and there was a witch hunt for teachers suspected of teaching the doctrine.  Read about it on the Learn History site, and watch out for it in your neighborhood.