Posted on 03/16/2019 5:59:12 AM PDT by Twotone
Multnomah County Republican Party Chairman James Buchal announced that he has filed suit on behalf of Portland parents with students in the Portland Public Schools (PPS) for violations of their First Amendment rights arising from the massive anti-gun demonstrations PPS organized a year ago. "Every parent with children in the Portland Public Schools should download and read a copy of the Complaint (available here)," said Buchal, "because it demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which PPS officials have misused scarce educational resources for narrowly partisan and political objectives." The suit is based on thousands of documents recovered through a Public Records Act request made to PPS shortly after the demonstrations. (Exhibits to the Complaint are available here (Exhibits 1-21), here (Exhibits 22-37), and here (Exhibits 38-51).)
The documents released by PPS demonstrate that the District organized and promoted partisan, anti-gun positions on a massive scale, with close coordination between the School Board, the Superintendent, the Portland Association of Teachers, outside anti-gun groups and even local anti-gun politicians. Highly misleading propaganda, coupled with emotional manipulation of 50,000 Portland schoolchildren, allowed PPS to create political theater designed to manipulate public opinion and pressure elected officials to ban guns.
The lawsuit claims that forcing parents to subsidize this conduct through their taxes violates their First Amendment rights, and that the pervasive climate of indoctrination and intimidation within the Portland schools also unconstitutionally interferes with the free speech rights of students. The suit also seeks to compel PPS to complete its long-overdue response to the Public Records Act request, pointing out that the Multnomah County District Attorney previously ordered PPS to complete the production by December 6th.
(Excerpt) Read more at multnomahgop.org ...
Cool.
Child abuse.
Good luck with that one.
close coordination = conspiracy
Collusion!
Can’t ever win if you don’t even try.
I sure would like to see this prevail. It would be a great start at fighting back against the communist indoctrination machine.
It should be read but knowing the opposition, #factsdontmatter. They go by this guide/manual on how to further their agenda and Mr. Buchal might be wise to introduce it into evidence if he had it:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/748675/gun-violencemessaging-guide-pdf-1.pdf
“I sure would like to see this prevail.”
It would be interesting if this wound up at SCOTUS. It could.
ABSOLUTELY, That is the problem, everyone is sitting around negative saying it can’t be done when we need to keep hammering them over and over until it does. This is exactly what the other side does and look... They ARE winning because of it. It is OUR TURN to become positive and proactive or we are going to lose it completely.
YES!
Moral courage!
It needs to be pushed all the way to the top. This is one of those important cases the whole nation needs to rally behind and help financially so they have every tool they might need to win. Because this isn’t just about guns, it’s about political ideology being brainwashed into our children. And if the parents win it will set a precedent against it on a national scale and benefit us all everywhere.
Spot on.
From preschool to college, it’s a continuous indoctrination of leftist ideology, to the exclusion of American heritage and Civics 101.
High schoolers, as a rule, “know” everything about “climate change”, “assault weapons” and “gender issues”, but would likely be baffled or simply uninterested when asked about the U S. constitution.
As Ronald Reagan put it: “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
It has reached a level of organized religion and cultist indoctrination in our public school system and needs to be classified and recognized as such. It has no more right to be shoved on these kids than they claim religious faith indoctrination should not. This case could do that, it would make that connection and association with this organized forced ideology.
Oregon ping
Well...this could get interesting...
No mention o a dollar amount.
Not suing for money?
Then save your time and effort for something useful like cleaning toilets.
“Then save your time and effort for something useful like cleaning toilets.”
A totally unnecessary remark. James Buchal wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t necessary, & useful, in fighting the culture war. The left uses law-fare against us. We can (& should) use it against them.
I’m surprised Portland doesn’t have a 20’ statue of Vlad Lenin...like their comrades up the road in Seattle.
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