They are a loosly-organized, rag tag band, without official leaders, without uniforms and without official orders. Some gather together in small groups - others work alone. But armed with an overpowering idea of truth and an urgency to protect their children, they are succeeding in driving back their foe. These are not the Minute Men of 1775, turning out to keep the King's men from ransacking their supplies. They are the mothers of today - answering the call against the federal assault on their children's local schoolhouses.
Mental rape is a hard thing to see with the naked eye.
It took time for the programs to grow. And it was hard for Americans, who had been taught that public school was a good, safe place, to begin to question what was wrong. But as the federal restructuring programs began to take over the curriculum the moms knew something was different about their children. These were the children they had nurtured for the first five years of their lives. But now, after entering school, their children seemed to change.