Posted on 10/22/2021 7:58:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Message To Concerned Parents Is Clear: Shut Up Or Else
What do you call it when the country’s largest school board association secretly coordinates with the Biden White House before issuing a formal request that the administration use the FBI to investigate dissenting parents as potential “domestic terrorists,” and then, five days later, the Justice Department issues a memorandum to the FBI to do just that?
The old-fashioned word for it is corruption — corruption of our institutions, the rule of law, the administration of justice, the separation of powers. It is also an egregious abuse of power on the part of the Biden administration, which apparently has no qualms about calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland when the president’s political allies need a little muscle.
In a contentious congressional hearing on Thursday, Garland confirmed that the basis of his Oct. 4 memorandum, which directed the FBI and U.S. attorney’s offices to launch a task force to combat what Garland called a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” was a letter that the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent to the White House on Sept. 29.
That is, Garland’s evidence that there’s a “disturbing spike” in these kinds of threats is the NSBA letter itself, which was produced after weeks of collaboration with Biden’s White House. This is the same letter in which the NSBA urged the Biden administration to use tools like the Patriot Act to target parents who show up at school board meetings to complain about mask mandates and critical race theory curricula, as if they were “domestic terrorists.”
Biden AG Merrick Garland concedes that he started targeting parents for "possible domestic terrorism" because the NSBA sent a letter. pic.twitter.com/ZDvhZ6vDzO
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) October 21, 2021
Incredibly, the news about NSBA’s collusion with the White House broke while Garland was testifying Thursday. During his testimony, Garland insisted that, the NSBA letter notwithstanding, he “can’t imagine any circumstance in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children,” nor any circumstance in which those instances “would be labeled as domestic terrorism.”
We are left to understand then, that the role Garland envisions for the DOJ in all of this is — what? His memo cites no instances of violence or threats of violence against school board members, and Garland himself admitted before Congress that the basis of his memo was the NSBA letter.
But the vast majority of incidents cited in the NSBA letter didn’t involve attacks or threats of any kind. A few cases involved local law enforcement, but nothing cited in the letter comes close to “domestic terrorism” or anything that would justify the involvement of the FBI or the DOJ. For the most part, the letter cited cases in which parents disrupted school board meetings by protesting, often because they were not given an opportunity to speak out on issues that directly affect the education of their children.
The letter of course didn’t cite instances where school board members have threatened parents, Like this one:
A school board member physically attacked a parent at a school board meeting after the parent raised concers over the mask mandate pic.twitter.com/KzN477UDDJ
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 21, 2021
To be clear, the DOJ has no role whatsoever in policing the interactions of parents and local school boards. Whatever happens at those meetings, however contentious they might get, they are entirely under the purview of local and state authorities. For Garland to even suggest that federal prosecutors might get involved is itself a scandal and an egregious abuse of power.
That’s what this is really all about. Set aside the details of the machinations between the Biden White House and the NSBA and the DOJ. What it comes down to is a coordinated effort by the left — including the most powerful law enforcement official in the country, the attorney general — to intimidate parents into silence.
Want to show up and speak out at your local school board meeting? Maybe hold a protest sign in the parking lot? Well then, you might just get a knock on your door from the FBI. Better think twice about that.
These are parents who have every right, by God and the U.S. Constitution, strenuously to voice their opposition to mask mandates, critical race theory, transgender ideology, and all the other nonsense that woke school boards and teachers are trying to foist on their kids. In fact they have a duty to do so.
But instead of listening to the concerns of such parents, the top brass at the NSBA decided to call in a political favor to the White House, which in turn let loose the Justice Department. Through it all, the corporate media executed a PR campaign on behalf of Biden and the school boards.
And why are they trying to intimidate parents into silence? Because when all’s said and done, the leftist ideologues who sit on school boards, work in the White House, and push paper for Garland’s Justice Department don’t want parents to have a say in how public schools are run and what children are taught. As far as they’re concerned, your children don’t belong to you, and their education is not your concern.
The message from the left is clear: comply, stay quiet, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll leave you alone. For now.
War is coming, people.
Best be ready.
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Obama’s “ Piece of Dog dung.”.
The whole thing is an outrage. Too bad our press toadies are butt boys for the democrat party. If Trump had tried something this heavy handed the press would be screaming. Now? Crickets.
Was reported this morning on WMAL Washington DC radio station that at last night’s school board meeting in Louden County there was a helicopter, unmarked black police units, possibly FBI, lots of plains clothes officers
The caller said she is receiving serious threats over the phone and via emails.
Starting to get real
Keep”
Keep in mind that carved in stone above an entrance to the DOJ, “Where Justice Ends, Tyranny Begins”
And, “Repression Breeds Violence”
Nothing can stop what is coming, NOTHING!
Hey Merrick, F-you degenerate crook.
The issue was never dangerous parents; but squashing growing nationwide backlash of mask mandates, anti-white racism and anti-scientific gender fluidity propaganda being pushed on children.
The issue is stopping a nascent movement of involved citizens similar to the Tea Party from forming ahead of the 2022 mid-term elections.
Democrats are afraid that if too many people see parents standing up to local school board tyrants, they will become emboldened in their own towns and follow the trend. The last thing that Democrats want heading into 2022 is a red wave of highly motivated "soccer moms" organizing around school issues that might nudge them to support the right next year.
The Democrats need to stop the optics of people rebelling against authority, even if that "authority" is the local school board. Just like how local Pennsylvania business woman Katy Abrams stood up at a 2010 Arlen Specter town hall and told him that "they woke up a sleeping giant, and we are tired of this," Terry McAuliffe's comment that “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision... I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” is going to reawaken that sleeping giant.
The public comment portion of school board meetings is reminiscent of the town hall meetings that Congressmen used to hold until this one took place.
The Biden Administration's response is to sic the Justice Department and FBI on the parents the way that Obama sicced the IRS on the Tea Party groups to stop them from organizing their tax exempt 401(c)(4)s in time for the 2010 mid-terms.
History is repeating itself. This is the Obama playbook in operation again.
-PJ
BTT
I once had some respect for Merrick Garland. No more. He is the biggest jackass of an attorney that I have ever seen.
The democrats charge innocent people with false crimes.
We have seen it time and time again.
Withdraw your children from government schools - while you still can. At some point, the diminished remainder may be deemed Wards of the State, to save a future progressive political force from brainwashing by their radical right-wing parents…
When Republicans are ostensibly in-charge of federal affairs nothing looks coordinated; when Democrats are in-charge everything is ‘wired’.
Hey, Alan Troxell, fu, bitch.
"A Shenandoah parent, Jason Greer, discussed depleted oxygen levels for kids wearing masks that turned into a fight with school board member Alan Troxell, the assistant secretary. As Troxell began to become more hostile towards Greer’s desire to unmask the kids, Greer eventually had enough and called Troxell an “idiot.”“What? What’d you say? Did you call me an idiot?” Troxell was seen yelling at Greer, who remained seated. Troxell then aggressively charged towards Greer before being restrained by a school resource officer.
“During the board meeting I provided a demonstration with an oxygen meter proving that per OSHA standards our kids are breathing unsafe levels of oxygen due to the mask mandate in our school. Mr. Troxell asked a follow up question. I attempted to answer but he was unwilling to listen. At which point I said, ‘You’re not even trying to understand.’ He said, ‘I don’t want to listen because you don’t make sense.’ I replied with, ‘You’re an idiot.’At which point he attempted to physically assault me but was restrained by three board members and an officer. I was seated this whole time and showed no aggression. At which point the officers escorted me out but allowed the aggressor to stay. He called me an a—— and a bastard. He then threw a temper tantrum and his papers."
Clearly, the American sheeple have decided that it just doesn't matter...
There will be thousands of these draconian events/strategies in the next few years as our former freedoms & liberties continue to be trampled by our communist masters...
Get used to it (continue to bend over and spread those cheeks) or do something significant about it...
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Parents ARE enemies of The State because they stand in the way of the control that The State wants of everyone’s daughters and sons.
A lot of Establishment Republicans oppose replacing government indoctrination camps with quality private schools.
Their kids don’t have to go to them.
Neither do ours...
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