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Chicago Dad Placed on Watchlist After Opposing Pornography in Schools
theepochtimes.com ^ | 2/16/23 | Joseph Lord

Posted on 02/16/2023 4:32:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Chicago Dad Placed on Watchlist After Opposing Pornography in Schools

A Chicago father has learned that he has been placed on a flight watchlist after opposing pornographic materials in his kids’ schools.

Over the summer of 2021, Terry Newsome—who described himself in comments to the Epoch Times as a “lifelong Democrat” until recently—was one of several parents in the 99th school district of Downer’s Grove, Chicago, who expressed opposition to books in his children’s library that had sexually explicit and pornographic content.

In December, Newsome discovered he had been placed on a watchlist.

On Dec. 16, 2022, he and his family attempted to board a plane en route to Turning Point USA’s “America Fest” convention in Phoenix, Arizona.

Newsome, who travels a great deal for work, was shocked to learn that he had been placed on a watchlist and had to get substantially more screening before being allowed to board, causing him to miss his original flight.

Initially, Newsome was told that he had been placed on the list by the FBI. On his return journey from Phoenix, he was informed that the classification originated from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: arth; chicago; children; dissent; education; fascism; freespeech; illinois; policestate; pornography
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I'll have to remember this next time a DemoMarxist calls me a fascist.
1 posted on 02/16/2023 4:32:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Clever, these democrats. To avoid being accused of creating a repressive KGB-like police state, they disguise what they are doing in “flight-ineligible” lists, or “double harassment” lists.

The fact is that we are in a repressive KGB-like police state, created and maintained by the democrats. When you have “law enforcement” creating lists of citizens, you don’t have a “sweet land of liberty.” You have a police state.

Why is it so important for the democrats to destroy all standards of sexual morality?


2 posted on 02/16/2023 4:48:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I bet no known panty-fa have any trouble flying.


3 posted on 02/16/2023 4:48:51 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Downers Grove IS NOT Chicago or Chicago Public Schools.

What a horribly attributed article.


4 posted on 02/16/2023 4:50:21 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

From the article:

:Newsome told The Epoch Times that many of those who have spoken against him and threatened him, including members of the school board, are in close league with Rep. Casten.

“The school board and the superintendent are all controlled by radical, radical leftists … that are very vocal in the Downers Grove Community and all supportive of Sean Casten,” Newsome said. “So anybody that speaks out with a different opinion is brutally attacked on social media and called racist, homophobic, and so forth, no matter the truth.””

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I believe Casten is a rabid fascist and I wouldn’t put it past him to do this to Newsome.

Speaking of Rabid fascist Sean Casten, here’s a story about his daughter dying from the gene serum these freaks mandated as they even sacrificed their own children to this cult. This 17 year-old had zero chance of dying from COVID. Note how they just accept her heart stopping as being normal:

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The 17-year-old daughter of an Illinois congressman who died in her sleep in June was felled by sudden cardiac arrhythmia, Rep. Sean Casten said Friday.

“She was fine, and then her heart stopped,” the devastated Casten family said of daughter Gwen, who was about to begin her freshman year at the University of Vermont.

“She had just come home from an evening with friends, went to bed and didn’t wake up,” the Democrat’s statement read.

The Castens called Gwen a “healthy 2022 teenager” who was “fully vaccinated” and had tested positive for COVID-19 more than once in recent months, but never experienced symptoms.

“Sudden, unexplained heart-failure among young, healthy people is rare but real,” they wrote. “She had a big, beautiful, kind, loving heart. And it stopped, as all must.”

https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/rep-sean-casten-reveals-teen-daughter-died-from-cardiac-arrhythmia/


5 posted on 02/16/2023 4:56:10 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

Oh she had a big, inflamed heart alright.


6 posted on 02/16/2023 5:03:31 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: usconservative

Well, it is the Epoch Times


7 posted on 02/16/2023 5:05:02 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: usconservative

What is your point!!!??????

It’s close enough and your point has nothing to do with this man’s situation!


8 posted on 02/16/2023 5:07:36 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Exactly, the Left are Fascists.


9 posted on 02/16/2023 5:11:34 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: usconservative

It’s in the metro Chicago area, so I disagree.


10 posted on 02/16/2023 5:12:39 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

He knows who certainly made the call (one of the board) and they should be made to be righteously cowering in a corner of their home.

This is intolerable and action must be taken.


11 posted on 02/16/2023 5:27:13 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

For speaking out (as he should) he is placed on a DOJ watch list. Just curious, does the DOJ have a separate list for freepers or is it all mixed together?


12 posted on 02/16/2023 5:32:04 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good By Ellen)
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To: Vision; unconservative; flaglady47; chigirl; oswegodeee; magnum force 2
Unconservative is absolutely correct. Downers Grove is in a suburban county (DuPage) outside of Chicago (Cook County) and is in no way connected with the city. Before I retired to Florida, I was an elected GOP Du Page County County Commissioner for 20 years.

DuPage has always been a conservative county...although I understand it went blue in the last presidential election, unfortunately.

Leni

13 posted on 02/16/2023 5:35:57 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Only the beginning.

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats are doing to us.


14 posted on 02/16/2023 5:36:37 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: I want the USA back

This shit is way out of control and something needs to be done about it now. President Trump was 100% correct when he says they are coming after him to get to us. Now a parent can’t speak out against perversion in their kids school without the feds going after them. That is ridiculous. They need to find out who is responsible for this so they can be punished. We are as bad as communist China now.


15 posted on 02/16/2023 5:41:29 AM PST by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: jacknhoo
“She had a big, beautiful, kind, loving heart. And it stopped, as all must.”

Just damn... no raised eyebrows over the fact she was an otherwise healthy 17-year-old. WTF???

16 posted on 02/16/2023 5:42:16 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: Made In The USA

“...a separate list for freepers...”

Naw, we are mixed in by threat level and then alphabetically. /s


17 posted on 02/16/2023 5:45:29 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I would like to know where there is any due process here. A man has been denied his right to travel based on a suspicion, an unexamined accusation. Of course, it’s origin is pure revenge for daring to challenge the system, and bad actors within the system know that there is no hearing, so the can make this guy’s life a misery - all for exercising his right to free speech in an effort to protect his kids (and everyone else’s in that school district). Also, and related, how do you get off of this list?

The USSC really needs to examine this entire issue - something that should have been done the first time that this was used.


18 posted on 02/16/2023 5:48:39 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: usconservative

Downers Grove isn’t even in the same County. That being said it’s time for this man to start filing FOIA requests by the bushel basket load.

L


20 posted on 02/16/2023 6:03:00 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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