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Protesters block newly-installed education secretary Betsy DeVos from entering......
dailymail.uk ^ | Feb. 10, 2017 | Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com

Posted on 02/10/2017 1:22:07 PM PST by Morgana

FULL TITLE: Protesters block newly-installed education secretary Betsy DeVos from entering the first school she tries to visit, forcing her to sneak in via a side entrance

New Education Secretary Betsy DeVos got turned away and blocked physically as she tried to make her first visit to a public school Friday.

DeVos, whose nomination only cleared the Senate after Vice President Mike Pence broke a tie following a contentious process, was greeted by parents, retired teachers, and a small band of aggressive protesters as she visited a middle school in southwest Washington.

She ultimately made it inside, but not before having to retreat to her government SUV while getting shouted at by protesters who stood just a few feet away from her.

Things got heated as DeVos tried to enter the building through a back door.

After being physically blocked from getting inside, she turned away and left after being angrily confronted by a protester holding a 'Black Lives Matter' sign.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: devos; education; school
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8 More years of this
1 posted on 02/10/2017 1:22:07 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Cretins.

Tom the Son said his English teacher (community college) said the Founding Fathers would be appalled that we have a Secretary of Education with no experience in the schooling industry. I thought Tom was going to bust a gasket.


2 posted on 02/10/2017 1:23:52 PM PST by Tax-chick ("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
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To: Morgana

No. It has to be stopped WAY before that. Has to be a way.


3 posted on 02/10/2017 1:23:56 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and VP Mike Pence Daily)
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To: madison10

This must be stopped or we can say goodbye to our Demicracy. The civil war has begun, whether we know it or not..


4 posted on 02/10/2017 1:25:47 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Hildy; madison10

Wait till Roe is overturned. there will be serious war then


5 posted on 02/10/2017 1:28:22 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

So...they tried to block her entrance...but that isn’t going to stop her from revamping the education.

They’ve got the signs and the chants...but she (and President Trump) has the POWER.


6 posted on 02/10/2017 1:28:37 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: madison10

Yes there is...conservative parents from schools she visits need to be there when she makes a house call and overwhelm the bastards!!!! Two can play the same game!!!!


7 posted on 02/10/2017 1:34:30 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Morgana

In an exorcism the demon often gives the strongest physical and spiritual signs just before it is is cast back into the void; it is a deception, a last gasping desperate hope that it’s oppressor will leave it to it’s filth and evil. As these progressive spawn of evil are cast out of relevance and power, so will it be with them.


8 posted on 02/10/2017 1:36:30 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: FrankR

Unbelievable isn’t it??

These protesters want to keep the Secretary of Education from visiting a school. Part of the liberal screed against her is that she is too much into vouchers and private schools.

So here she wants to broaden her scope so to speak, and visit a public school. The liberals who bitch about her not having a solid commitment to public schools are pissed off that she was visiting a public school.

I just have to shake my head and mutter obscene statements about these anarchists sometimes........


9 posted on 02/10/2017 1:36:33 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: RoseofTexas

The conservative parents are busy working


10 posted on 02/10/2017 1:38:52 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Morgana

Any bets that a disgusted Scott Pelley will lead his hate news program with this story expressing disgust at these agitators? I didn’t think so.


11 posted on 02/10/2017 1:40:33 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Teachers Union needs to be BUSTED!!!


12 posted on 02/10/2017 1:42:09 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Morgana

It’s one thing to peacefully protest. It’s quite another to stop another’s movement in any way, threaten, damage their hearing, or intimidate. When she was stopped from going her way, wherever that led to, there should have been some immediate arrests. And the people who hired them should be asking their attorneys about RICO.


13 posted on 02/10/2017 1:43:00 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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To: Dogbert41

You are correct, call the police, riot squad if necessary.


14 posted on 02/10/2017 1:49:48 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
New Education Secretary Betsy DeVos got turned away and blocked physically as she tried to make her first visit to a public school Friday.

Any physical contact upon her by those trying to block her should be treated as an assault and arrests made.

15 posted on 02/10/2017 1:49:53 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Tax-chick
the founding fathers would be appalled that we have a Sec/Ed with no experience in the schooling industry...

A professor said that?? The founding fathers would be appalled that we even have a Department of Education, for heaven's sake!

16 posted on 02/10/2017 1:50:07 PM PST by grania
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To: grania

Yes, that’s what Tom the Son pointed out.

It’s not a “professor” of the expensively tenured sort, just a community college English instructor. Seems to be a bat, but he’s actually teaching composition, at least some of the time, unlike the teacher Elen the Daughter got this semester.

At least we’re not paying much.


17 posted on 02/10/2017 2:00:03 PM PST by Tax-chick ("If you think free speech is assault but assault is free speech, you're a moron.")
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To: Morgana

The idiot punk who blocked her then followed her to her SUV, is also on tape trying to block vehicle from leaving the property.

Where are the arrests?? This punk needs to be in jail.


18 posted on 02/10/2017 2:05:47 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Morgana

I wish I were there at the time...

Betsy would have gotten in that school.


19 posted on 02/10/2017 2:06:36 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Hildy
"The civil war has begun, whether we know it or not.."

And the enemy is inside the wire, not much Trump can do but try to manage the chaos created by the left.

Prepping continues apace.

20 posted on 02/10/2017 2:09:58 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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