Dr. Susan Berry at BreitBart.com via Live Free Blog. Lily Tang Williams ran as a Libertarian for Colorado House District 44 in 2014 and serves as Colorado state director of Our America Initiative.
A Chinese immigrant mother of three testified before the Colorado State Board of Education that the Common Core is the same type of education system she experienced growing up in Communist China.
As PJMedia reported Sunday, Lily Tang Williams told the state board, “I do not buy into Common Core. I’m here to oppose that strongly.”
“Common Core, in my eyes, is the same as the Communist core I once saw in China,” Williams continued. “I grew up under Mao’s regime, and we had the communist-dominated education–nationalized testing, nationalized curriculum, and nationalized indoctrination.”
“I grew up in that system, I came to this country for freedom, and I cannot believe this is happening all over again in this country,” she said. “I don’t know what happened to America, a shining city on a hill for freedom. What’s going on in this country?”
In a blog post at FreedomWorks, Williams described further that, while a student in China, “[W]e had nationalized curriculum and tests, one of the subjects we had to study was Politics (Communist Party’s history, Karl Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, etc.). Parents had no choice at all when it came to what we learned in school.”
Williams went on to describe the data collection under Mao’s regime:
The government used the Household Registration and Personnel File system to keep track of its citizens from birth to death. This old photo of me [pictured at FreedomWorks] in Mao’s Red Guard uniform was used in my Middle School Student File which documented everything: age, gender, parents, their jobs and political class, religion, siblings, home address, your grades, awards, punishments, politically incorrect speeches, bad behaviors, etc. Then, this file followed me to my high school, college, my first job, my future jobs, etc. It was shared by all the government agencies and employers.
“From the NSA keeping records on us in massive databases to Common Core nationalization of exams and curriculum, what is happening now is very unlike the America I came to find,” Williams wrote. “The worst, I fear, is that Common Core could be used by the government and corporations to do data collection and data mining on our children.”
“What else could come to take away more of our rights and privacy?” she asked. “Our freedom is very precious and we must fight to keep it. Without freedom, you are just a slave, no matter how much money you have.”
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I just found out about Lily a few hours ago while filling out my ballot and researching the candidates, and wow. I now believe that we should allow people who were not born in the USA to be elected President, because she stands more for American values than ANY American candidate I’ve seen running since I’ve been old enough to vote, with the exception of Ron Paul, who I see as having the same American values Lily does and that I do.
The bottom line is FREEDOM. If we are not free, we are slaves, Lily knows what she is talking about more than any of us, having been through what she has been through.
Good to hear, Matt, and I’ll keep this is mind.
She is truly an excellent voice for the LP! I hope she runs for Congress again.
IPR could do 2-3 times as many Lily Tang articles before it would be anywhere close to too much.
I don’t think we are featuring her too much at all.
I was wondering if everyone thought we were featuring her too much. She’s just such a good representative for us! Yay Lily!
I’ll do it next time I go on article posting spree if someone doesn’t get to it first.
We should post that as a new article.
More from Lily:”My testimony yesterday at the state capitol. I got a little emotional because I could not help it. Gun right issue is very dear to my heart. Please like and share. Sorry about the echo in the chamber but you can read my base script below:
My name is Lily Tang Williams, State Director of Our America Initiative, a non-profit grassroots organization. I am here to represent the organization and myself to strongly support HB15-1009 Repeal Large Ammo Magazine Ban.
I was born and grew up in People’s Republic of China, where the Communist Party rules everything. Chinese citizens are not allowed to have any guns ever since the Communist party took over in 1949. So, Chinese people are left helpless when they need to defend themselves. I grew up with fear like millions of other children. Fear police will pound our doors at night for no good reason (search warrant is not necessary for them to do that), fear bad guys will come to rob us (there were crimes in our poor neighborhood), fear my parents and brothers would get hurt and taken away. I have seen local people who defend themselves with kitchen knives, rocks, glass bottles and sticks against criminals. But when it comes to dealing with the Chinese government and police brutality, there is nothing we could do. Remember June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989? Our own soldiers, ordered by the top leaders in Beijing, killed thousands of students. Even though the local residents were supporting students, but they had no ways to help them. Some Beijing residents begged for the tanks to stop but they did not. What if the residents and students had guns? What if there was militia in China that time? What if the citizens had unlimited magazines? The history might have been different.
Why do you limit our fire arms only have 15 round magazines? Do the criminals limit theirs? Does the government limit theirs? If we use our guns primarily for self defense, I need as many magazines as needed to defend my family and myself because I am a bad shot. It seems not fair at all to limit law abiding citizens’ ability for self defense. What if the shop owners only could fire 15 times during the famous LA riot? What if the home owners ran out of the bullets during the looting after the Hurricane Katrina? What happens to the ranchers near the border have to face a big group of drug cartels who threat them? How about the famous cases of our government gone wild: Ruby Ridge, Waco Texas, Athens Tennessee – a small town in the U.S.A at the end of the World War Two, where the local dictators wanted to highjack the election results with their guns, local residents organized and armed themselves to take their town back.
I came to the U.S. for freedom, including the freedom granted by the 2nd amendment: the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. When I held my own gun for the first time in my life in this country, I felt empowered and for the first time, I felt free.
If the Communist government took my gun rights away, why are you limiting my gun rights in Colorado? Are you becoming communists? I hope not. I lived under tyranny for 24 years, I do not want to ever live under it again.
Please vote as if the constitution actually means something, because it does! Didn’t you swear that you would uphold the U.S Constitution and Colorado Constitution when you became a house representative? I urge you to vote yes on HB15-1009 Repeal Large Ammo Magazine Ban. Making our beautiful state free again.
Thank you.”
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