Day: October 6, 2022

Professors in Connecticut Reject Parents’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education

Yet another instance of elitism and condescension in academia.

BY JAY BERGMAN

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/professors-in-connecticut-reject-parents-involvement-in-their-childrens-education/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Last month an English teacher at Southington High School in Southington, Connecticut distributed to his students materials intended to facilitate “conversations about race, gender, equality, and inclusivity.”  Among the claims students were expected to accept without question is that in America racism is “a systemic issue,” and that while “no individual is personally responsible for what white people have done or for the historical decisions of the American government, you are responsible for whether you are upholding the systems that elevate white people over people of color.”

After the materials became public, and parents in Southington made known their objections to the school board and to the superintendent of schools, 72 faculty at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) sent a letter claiming that parents had no business objecting to their children’s education: determining what their education consists of was the sole prerogative of the school system, and any materials Southington students received in its furtherance were intended simply to spur discussions of issues in the public domain, such as “the American historical narrative and whether we are truly an individualistic meritocracy in which freedom and equality reign.”

If debate and discussion had been the objective, the stamp of approval the SCSU faculty provided would be warranted.  But what the English teacher intended – and what the SCSU faculty show they favor by supporting him — is indoctrination, not education.  Amidst the assurances in the SCSU letter that its signers favor a diversity of viewpoints in the classroom is a statement supporting “white privilege” in the curriculum as a means of helping students to “contextualize” literature.  But that would seem to suggest that white privilege in America exists, and that to question its existence is impermissible.

It is not an established fact that America today is systemically racist, favoring whites over people of other races, and that all whites, whether they know it or not, are complicit in this.  If the English teacher and his supporters on the SCSU faculty had merely done a Google Search, they would have come across incisive critiques of these claims; among the most eloquent are those of African-American scholars such as John McWhorter, Glenn Loury, and Thomas Sowell.  Moreover, if they had thought seriously about “systemic racism,” they might have realized how nonsensical it is: surely the ubiquity of Affirmative Action preferences favoring blacks and other “underrepresented” minorities in virtually every institution in America today proves its absence.  In fact, the whole notion flies in the face of simple logic: unless they were idiots or clinically insane, the white racists who supposedly control America would not install and perpetuate something so contrary to their own interests.

But what is most egregious about the SCSU letter is not its confusion of opinion for fact.  Rather, it is its condescending insinuation that since teachers should be autonomous in determining how subjects requiring special knowledge such as science, mathematics, and foreign languages should be taught, they should also be free to impose their own opinions or those of the school system on issues in history and the social sciences, on which people might fairly and legitimately disagree.  The signatories of the SCSU letter seem to consider teachers everywhere, not just in Southington, uniquely privy to The Truth, and anyone who dares to challenge their presumption of omniscience should simply shut their mouths.  To do otherwise, in the overheated language of the SCSU letter, is “to descend down the slippery slope of allowing parents to circumscribe and dictate the nature of public education.”  As if that would be the worst outcome imaginable!

The SCSU faculty who signed the letter are wrong.

No less an authority than the United Nations, Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed by the General Assembly in December 1948, states that “parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”  The good parents of Southington, and parents everywhere else in America, should reclaim what is perhaps their most essential parental right and obligation, namely to guide the moral education of their children so that as adults they can act as independent and autonomous citizens in a free society, capable of resisting the imposition of any dogma by government, private organizations, school systems, or college faculties.

Jay Bergman is a Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars.

Here’s What Happened When a Concerned Mom Dressed Like Drag Queen at a School Board Meeting

BY MATT MARGOLIS

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/10/06/heres-what-happened-when-a-concerned-mom-dressed-like-drag-queen-at-a-school-board-meeting-n1635089;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

For years now, we’ve seen woke schools hiring drag queens to perform for young kids as some sort of exercise about tolerance and diversity. If you spoke out about it, you were a bigot.

Earlier this year, it was reported that New York City schools spent over $200,000 putting drag queen shows on for their students.

This is only part of the trend of inappropriate things happening in schools with the full knowledge and consent of woke school boards. Sexually explicit books are also being carried in school libraries and incorporated into curricula—all in the name of “tolerance.”

One school that brought in drag queens was in Ankeny, Iowa, and video from the performance was shared by Libs of TikTok.

The event sparked outrage, but one mom, Kimberly Reicks, decided to speak out about the inappropriateness of drag queens being used to entertain kids, and dressed as one of them to make her point.

“Does this outfit make you turn your head?” Reicks asked. “Does this outfit seem appropriate for anybody here to see? This is what the man dressed like in front of our kids. So if this makes your head spin — if this pisses you off in any way, shape, or form — it should. Because I’m embarrassed to stand here in the outfit that I am in today, but I have a point to prove — that this outfit should not be ever accepted in our schools anywhere.”

Reicks told The Daily Wire that the Ankeny Community School District is “notorious” for dismissing parental concerns.

“It has been over 131 days since I made our school board first aware of this event,” she explained. “We are now 32 days into the new school year and we still have no answers on what the outcome of the investigation was. Nor do we have any new policies to ensure things like this do not happen again.”

“I will do whatever measures I have to, to make sure events like this are addressed and resolved,” she added. “Even if that means wearing the exact same outfit as the 21-year-old drag queen performer to prove my point.”

Previously published footage of the drag queen event at the school showed that it wasn’t merely a performance; the drag queens were given an opportunity to groom kids with gender identity propaganda.

“When I felt like I couldn’t express myself in school, or I felt like I had to look like this at school… I could be whoever I wanted to be,” one drag queen told the students. “And I started to think, ‘What is gender?’ And I realized that no matter what pronouns you use, you are who you are… I know on the inside that I am who I am.”

Government, MSM gaslighting Americans about food industry sabotage and mysterious fires

Image: Government, MSM gaslighting Americans about food industry sabotage and mysterious fires

BY MARY VILLAREAL

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-04-govt-media-gaslighting-americans-no-food-shortage.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) News reports and eyewitness testimonies about the fires destroying food manufacturing plants in the countries are strong evidence that there’s something sinister going on. However, the government and mainstream media (MSM) are simply ignoring these.

Dr. Jane Ruby could not help but wonder, asking this on Sept. 26: “Are they trying to replicate the fear and panic to a larger degree than what happened in 2020? When people panicked and cleaned out grocery stores for simple items like toilet paper, but didn’t even understand why they were doing it? Well, maybe, but on a much bigger scale.”

Ruby touched on the shortages of food, fuel, and fertilizer – which lines up with the elites’ plans for global starvation. However, she also mentioned the role of the MSM in shaping the public’s opinion in all of this.

“Maybe if it’s contrived, it’s real, but it’s being forced,” Ruby commented about the “spontaneous” combustion and conflagration happening at hundreds of food manufacturing plants. She added that by the summer of 2022, the list of fires and other incidents related to the food shortages had grown to include meatpacking plants in Georgia, Illinois, and other states. (Related: Pattern of fires striking food facilities across the USA suggests ARSON TEAMS are burning down America’s food production infrastructure.)

These incidents went on and on, but no investigations were made because no lives were lost – except for things that affected hundreds of food manufacturing plants that could impact a country’s ability to distribute food to its citizens.

Such incidents have been chalked up as “conspiracy theories,” but Ruby pointed out that the MSM is incredibly dangerous. Together with the government, it has assured people that the food supply remains uninterrupted. However, many have observed the fires that consumed many food production facilities – something too much to ignore.

MSM gaslighting citizens to create a fake narrative

Ruby accused the MSM of “doing the opposite of what it’s supposed to be doing,” which is to keep authorities honest or make them as transparent as possible. Instead, the MSM has become an active conspirator and led people to believe the opposite of what is actually happening.

“It’s pretty unbelievable. When you look at it, even the reporters that are on these sets talking about it barely show any curiosity. Why aren’t we getting an investigation? They just kind of report like a robot,” she said.

Fortune, for instance, reported in June that “scary headlines” about food shortages are misleading – saying there is enough to feed everyone despite evidence saying otherwise.

Anybody who has been in grocery stores lately would have noticed that there were months that went by when certain products were unavailable because distributors stopped producing or manufacturing them. Today, Americans are seeing red herrings as the U.S. come on the heels of another election, and lies and misinformation are being spread.

“The point is to take a step back. What am I looking at? What are they saying? What is their proof? What do they want us [ordinary citizens] to do? Does that make sense?” Ruby pointed out.

With the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, inflation, and a $30 trillion debt that is still rising, the United States in 2022 looks a lot like the recession of 2008. Americans watched their retirement savings disappear, and those who had their 401K could be at risk again. Yet, the government is keeping this information – and more – away from the people.

Visit FoodCollapse.com for more stories about food shortages.

Watch the video below for more of Dr. Jane Ruby’s commentary on food shortages, inflation, and the media’s role in shaping the opinion of society.

This video is from the Tanjerea channel on Brighteon.com.

More related stories:

A global food shortage “catastrophe” is unfolding, warns UN chief.

National Black Farmers Association warns: Food shortage inevitable unless the government steps in.

Biden quietly begs U.S. companies to buy Russian fertilizer to solve the problem he helped create.

Following rash of fires, FBI warns that food plants will be targeted with cyberattacks.

Merritt Medical Hour: Lack of fertilizer, food manufacturing plant fires will cause food shortages in the US – Brighteon.TV.

Sources include: 

Brighteon.com

Fortune.com

MORE EVIL THAN HITLER: American Medical Association endorses horrific medical MUTILATIONS of children, demands police state DOJ arrest anyone who disagrees

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-05-american-medical-association-demands-doj-prosecute-journalists-who-oppose-surgical-child-mutilations.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) In a shocking act of medical tyranny and authoritarianism, the American Medical Association is now demanding that the DOJ arrest and prosecute anyone who opposes surgical child mutilations carried out in US hospitals that fraudulent claim they are “affirming” a child’s “gender identity” by maiming them with medical violence.

“Leftist child abusers turn to the police state,” writes Daniel Greenfield at FrontPageMag.com:

When they get caught abusing children, the first resort of the leftist abusers, whether it’s the National School Boards Association or the American Medical Association is to label their opponents ‘domestic terrorists’ and demand that the Biden administration use the DOJ to arrest and silence them.

Now, the AMA is pro-mutilation, putting the organization in the same moral category as serial murderers, rapists, or Holocaust operatives.

Any doctor who remains a member of the AMA is now aligned with the for-profit mutilations of children in the name of “wokeism,” and America’s medical establishment joins the ranks of communist China with its forced organ harvesting in terms of outrageous acts of evil committed against humanity.

If they will mutilate children for profit, what other crimes will they commit against adults to make more money?

Furthermore, if AMA member doctors are willing to mutilate children for profit, what else are they willing to do for extra revenues? Could they perhaps falsely diagnose people with cancer so they might earn more money administering medically unnecessary chemotherapy? (Of course they do.) Might they falsely claim people have “complex COVID” so they can earn an extra $500K for their hospital by putting those people on ventilators and remdesivir, killing them in the process? This is the substance claim of a lawsuit that has already been filed against three hospitals in Fresno, California, which the lawsuit says profited by committing medical fraud and essentially murdering their own patients.

If the AMA is willing to mutilate children for profit, any rational person has to assume there’s no line they won’t cross. There’s nothing AMA-member doctors won’t do — no matter how evil — to make more money off the pain and suffering of innocent children and adults.

“Evidence-based medicine” is a joke: There’s ZERO evidence that a child can change their gender through surgery and chemical castration

The claims of the AMA, Big Pharma, and western doctors who say they only practice “evidence-based medicine” are absurd, if not downright fraudulent. No evidence exists whatsoever to claim that covid vaccines are proven safe and effective for any human being. The clinical trials were skipped, and the FDA resorted to Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) under the false panic of the plandemic to skip the long-term trials and simply declare mRNA injections to be safe, without supporting evidence.

And now, as Revolver.news is reporting, Big Pharma refuses to turn over mRNA data for independent assessment, indicating they are hiding the truth and committing an historic, global fraud in pushing covid “vaccines” that are neither safe nor effective:

In scientific circles, doubts arise as to whether the information provided by the manufacturers about the mRNA vaccine is correct. Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna have so far refused to independently verify the data. A Seiko member is now also criticizing.

Virologists, epidemiologists, pharmacologists – they may not have always been friendly to each other during the pandemic. But they are now coming together on one point: it is the demand for an independent review of the studies that led to the approval of the mRNA vaccines from Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna. The studies are published. However, the primary data, scientifically the decisive documents, are missing. All vaccine evaluations of the registration studies are based on them. Until now, the documents have been kept under lock and key by the manufacturers, and they are refusing requests to see them.

Similarly, there is zero evidence that a child can consent to a genitalia mutilation procedure under the delusional fairy tale belief that a person can “change their gender” through the use of a scalpel. This ludicrous idea being pushed by LGBT leftists (and complicit surgeons) is founded on the psychotic belief that children are born in the “wrong” bodies and that surgeons with scalpels can “correct” their biology by cutting off existing organs and making new holes or appendages to simulate replacement organs.

Mark my words: One day soon, in the not-too-distant future, this practice will be seen as the true HORROR it has become, alongside the gassing of the Jews, the mass starvation of Ukrainians via the Holodomor, or the Cultural Revolution genocide of communist China under Mao.

We are watching crimes against humanity unfolding right before our very eyes, with the full blessing of both the AMA and the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics), who are literally invoking the DOJ as a kind of “medical Gestapo” to silence anyone who opposes the violent mutilation of children.

“The worse the crime, the more the need to resort to police state tactics by the same leftists who accuse conservatives of being ‘authoritarians’,” writes Greenfield.

Even Adolf Hitler didn’t mutilate children for profit, but AMA doctors and surgeons do!

This is not hyperbole: Western Medicine has now declared it is in the mutilation business, forever cementing its own fate to go down in history as a dark art of quack science, child abuse, and human rights violations that will reverberate throughout history for centuries to come. Future historians will look back upon this time and shake their heads in disbelief that an entire class of so-called “doctors” would applaud the surgical mutilation of children, aghast at not only the practice itself but at the arrogance of the AMA demanding that the DOJ investigate and arrest anyone who opposes the practice.

The message is rather clear: If these AMA doctors can’t murder you with remdesivir, depopulate you with vaccines or mutilate your genitalia with scalpels, they will unleash the full might of the police state against you to threaten and silence you into compliance.

Western medicine has become a criminal cartel of violent mutilators who prey upon the young. After surviving the covid vaccine holocaust that has already killed millions around the world, why are we not surprised?

This is worse than Hitler, for even as Hitler murdered millions of innocent Jews, he did not mutilate children and call it “medicine.” He did not brainwash an entire generation of young people into hating their God-given bodies and trying to manipulate them into surgical harm.

Indeed, Hitler murdered millions and gassed innocent men, women, and children to death using chemical weapons (developed, ironically, with the help of a pharmaceutical giant named Bayer), but even Hitler did not slice off the breasts of little girls or the penises of little boys. Even in his own twisted, sick mind, such acts of horrific violence were probably unthinkable.

Yet those very horrors are now the “accepted” practices of today’s mainstream surgeons and doctors. The medical establishment is now an industry of medical violence against children, and the AMA has lashed itself to one of the most horrific evils ever carried out in the history of the world. Even China, with its organ harvesting of the Falun Gong, doesn’t mutilate children for profit. That designation appears to be emerging solely from western medicine (steeped in depopulation vaccines and deadly pharma drugs), where the very same nations who claim to be pro-Ukraine, pro-democracy, and pro-choice are permanently mutilating the bodies of children, taking away their choice to revert back to their actual God-given gender and to be whole in their birth bodies. Once the organs are sliced off, after all, there’s no getting them back. These children will grow up to be physically and psychologically scarred victims of a medical establishment gone criminally insane.

As one commenter writes: (DasWrite, via Front Page Mag)

Add the AMA to that rapidly growing list of once-respected organizations, including the FBI and the DOJ itself, that need to be disbanded or extensively reformed. They’ve abused whatever authority they had by allowing themselves to be weaponized by leftist ideologues for so long that they’re no longer forces for good but tools for totalitarian oppression.

We pray that a wave of lawsuits seeks substantial damages from these surgeons and hospitals for maiming children for profit, ruining their lives in the process. The AMA and AAP should both be named in the suits and held accountable for their promotion of these child mutilations carried out for profit. Alex Jones is being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars right now for harming no children at all and carrying out no acts of violence, merely speaking his opinion about a school shooting, an opinion which he soon corrected when new information was available. Yet AMA member doctors and surgeons are literally mutilating children with glee, for profit, marketing their services on social media (to children) and bragging about their mutilation achievements to a complicit corporate media that endorses the charade.

More importantly, if the DOJ were to arrest and criminally prosecute anyone in this scenario, it should be the doctors, surgeons, hospitals, and AMA executives who are carrying out these heinous crimes against children, all in violation of the AMA’s own guidelines for medical ethics, by the way. There are crimes against children being carried out right now in America, and the parties carrying out those crimes aren’t even hiding it… they’re bragging about it.

Medical violence against children must stop.

The medical establishment in America has become a cabal of torturers, mutilators, murderers, and propagandists. Please God make it stop…

Learn more in today’s Situation Update via Brighteon.com:

– The AMA demands DOJ prosecute anyone who opposes surgical child mutilations
– Outrageous escalation of MEDICAL DICTATORSHIP that exploits children for profit
– Leftists demand ALL opposing views be censored on climate, covid, elections, trans, etc.
– Berkeley law students demand “NO JEW ZONES” where Jews are banned
– Left-wing UK nurse says conservatives should be left to DIE
– Migrants enjoy 5-star cruise ship in the Netherlands while citizens starve
– Federal Reserve rolling out social credit scoring pilot project to enslave everyone
– Planterra to shut down its entire fake meat operation
– “Slow Food” activists demand global mass starvation and famine
– Radical Left is at WAR with the sky, the oceans, the sun, and the elements
– 60% of Americans now living paycheck to paycheck
– Kiyosaki tells listeners to keep buying gold and silver even as it gets cheaper
– Total collapse of the power grid in Bangladesh

U.S. National Debt Tops $31 Trillion

U.S. National Debt Tops $31 Trillion

BY DAVID KELLY

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/u-s-national-debt-tops-31-trillion/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

President Biden’s poor fiscal management of government spending was exposed this week with the release of the Treasury Department’s data pegging the gross national debt of the United States at over $31 trillion for the first time ever in our nation’s history.

In May, Biden claimed his administration was reducing the national debt by $1.5 trillion this fiscal year. At the time, he characterized his administration as “spending hawks,” touting sizable reductions in the federal deficit this fiscal year as a key departure from the “rampant spending” by his Republican predecessor.

Instead, the debt grew rapidly under Biden’s leadership, and sat at $31.123 trillion as of Oct. 3. The new record comes just nine months after the last milestone of $30 trillion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), and only five years after reaching $20 trillion. All of this has been brought forth by unprecedented government borrowing and spending with no regard for the shaky ground of our nation’s fiscal situation.

“This is a new record no one should be proud of,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB, said in a statement. “In the past 18 months, we’ve witnessed inflation rise to a 40-year high, interest rates climbing in part to combat this inflation, and several budget-busting pieces of legislation and executive actions.”

“Just in 2022, Congress and the President have approved a combined $1.9 trillion in new borrowing, and President Biden has approved $4.9 trillion in new deficits since taking office. We are addicted to debt,” MacGuineas said.

Breitbart reported, “The United States has borrowed more in the last decade than at any other time. When former President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the public debt stood at $10.6 trillion. It was $19.9 trillion when former President Trump took office in 2017 and grew to almost $28 trillion when Biden took office four years later, according to the Treasury Department.”

The ramifications of the rising federal debt include greater interest costs for the government, making it harder to spend on basic needs such as national security and infrastructure. Greater spending on interest payments also raises the debt and additional borrowing costs, contributing to a debt spiral.

“As of August 2022, it costs $677.6 billion to maintain the debt, which is 12.66% of the total federal spending,” reported the Treasury Department. “Interest expenses during [the last ten years] have remained fairly stable due to low-interest rates and investors’ judgement that the U.S. Government has a very low risk of default. However, recent increases in interest rates and inflation are now resulting in an increase in interest expense.”

CRFB president MacGuineas added to the urgency of reducing the nation’s debt: “Even more troubling than where the debt stands now is where it’s going. Our nation faces significant fiscal challenges in the near term. Medicare is only six years from insolvency, and Social Security insolvency is only 12 years away. Yet policymakers have put forth no plan to put either program on strong fiscal footing.”

The current statutory debt ceiling is around $31.4 trillion, which is an artificial cap that Congress placed on the U.S. government’s ability to borrow. A potential lame-duck Congress voting in December could very well kick the can down the road to further fiscal duress with a continuing resolution (CR). Lawmakers could use that CR for more time to pass Fiscal Year 2023 funding bills (including annual defense appropriations legislation), or they could finally stop the overspending and right the ship with firm legislation that reduces spending. 

“It is time to remind policymakers that whether to grow the national debt further is within their control. At the very least, they should commit to no further borrowing in 2022 — it cannot be too much to ask that they practice paying for their priorities by abstaining from any new borrowing for just three months. The $31 trillion in debt is a staggering number that should keep them up at night,” stated MacGuineas

As the nation’s debt accumulates, will Biden and Congress take it on and treat it as a true threat to our nation’s security and sovereignty, as they do with their woke policies such as the supposed climate crisis and social justice?

They should, as our bankrupt nation can’t hang on much longer without a drastic reversal of our government’s current spending paradigm.

How Long Until the Left Outlaws Being Christian in America?

BY MARK TAPSCOTT

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2022/10/05/how-long-until-the-left-outlaws-being-a-christian-in-america-n1634703;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

If that headlined question above seems a bit of a reach, especially in view of the multiple federal court victories won in the last two years on behalf of religious freedom, then let’s take a closer look.

What we find is a hyper-secularized American public square that is increasingly abusing, penalizing, punishing, and firing Christians. It then tells them, in effect, “So, sue us,” knowing the cost of such litigation all but guarantees there will be no adverse consequences. Consider these current cases:

Georgia Substitute Teacher Fired: Lindsey Barr, now a former substitute teacher in the Savannah, Ga., public schools, lost her job when she expressed concerns about a book shown to elementary students, including her own. As a Christian, Barr objected to kids being shown pictures of same-sex couples parenting children as if that’s normal.

Barr is represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the Arizona-based public interest law firm that specializes in First Amendment and religious freedom litigation.

“Terminating a teacher for engaging in First Amendment protected expression creates an atmosphere of fear and is intended to send a message to Lindsey and others in the community that, if they criticize the school’s approach to cultural or political issues or express viewpoints contrary to the school’s preferred viewpoints, they will face consequences. This is unlawful, and sadly, why this lawsuit is necessary,” according to ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom.

New York Photographer Forced to Shoot Same-Sex Weddings: Emily Carpenter is a New York photographer who does not wish to be used to glorify same-sex wedding ceremonies.

A federal district court told her she has no such right, so, with the help of ADF attorneys, she is appealing that ruling. If she loses, she faces the prospect of losing her license to do business, fines of as much as $100,000, and a year in jail.

“Free speech is for everyone. No one should be forced to say something they don’t believe,” said ADF Legal Counsel Bryan Neihart, who will be arguing before the court on behalf of Carpenter. “The government cannot coerce or silence speech because it doesn’t like certain ideas. The Constitution ensures Americans can speak consistent with their convictions. We are urging the 2nd Circuit to uphold this freedom so that Emilee can promote marriage according to her beliefs without being coerced by the government to speak a contrary message.”

Airline Invites Employee Comments, Fires Two Christians for Theirs: Now-former Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Marli Brown and Lacey Smith responded to a company invitation to employees to comment on the operation’s new policy in support of “equality.” Here’s how their federal court suit put it:

“Plaintiffs Marli Brown and Lacey Smith were exemplary flight attendants for Alaska Airlines. Yet when their faith compelled them independently to ask a question about the airline’s support for federal legislation that would remove protections for religious employees and women in the workplace, Alaska Airlines fired them.

“To make matters worse, their Union not only failed to vigorously represent and defend Marli and Lacey against the Airline’s religious discrimination but also discriminated against them because of their religious beliefs and actively undermined their ability to assert their federal and state protections against such discrimination.”

Brown and Smith, with the assistance of attorneys from the First Liberty Institute, the Plano, Texas-based legal foundation that has won multiple First Amendment court victories, filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC agreed they have a case, and First Liberty has filed its suit.

Related: Why Are So Many Young Americans Irreligious? The Secular Brainwash Is the First Reason 

Silicon Valley County’s Unconstitutional Fines Against Church: Santa Clara County, Calif., officials used the COVID-19 pandemic as the excuse for imposing bans on church assemblies that effectively closed them. Advocates for Faith and Freedom, a California-based public interest law firm devoted to the defense of religious freedom, is taking the officials to federal court.

“Pastor Mike McClure and Calvary Chapel San Jose sued Santa Clara County, Dr. Sara Cody, James Williams and the Board of Supervisors for implementing and enforcing unconstitutional COVID-19 public health orders. Santa Clara County was the first county to issue a shelter-in-place order and has implemented the most aggressive fine system.

“The county seeks to collect $2.87 million in COVID-19 fines from the church, even though the Supreme Court has admonished California five times and held their orders as applied to churches were violative of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs seek to enjoin the Defendants from collecting one penny and seek a judgement that the Defendants violated the First Amendment and the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment.”

These four cases are just a small sample of the many examples of Christians being denied their First Amendment rights simply because they insist on being able to exercise those rights regarding their religious expression and practice.

For now, redress is available through litigation, but why should Christians uniquely have to bear the mental and financial burdens that come with going to court to assure their constitutional protections simply because they are Christians?

Given the steadily more aggressive official hostile actions against faith in American society, we may wake up one morning in the not-too-distant future to find that sharing the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been banned, as it is in much of the rest of the world.

NYC Goes Full Gotham as ‘Green Goblin Gang’ Rampages on Subway

BY ATHENA THORNE

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/10/05/nyc-goes-full-gotham-as-green-goblin-gang-rampages-on-subway-n1634747;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Regular PJ Media readers already know that Democrat-controlled cities and states are increasingly succumbing to unchecked crime and violence. Activists, politicians, and prosecutors with agendas have both suppressed law enforcement and repealed bail laws, essentially giving criminals free rein to terrorize law-abiding citizens. The situation has become so commonplace that it’s barely worth reporting anymore. But a new girl gang in New York City is so over-the-top and bizarre in appearance that it wouldn’t be surprising if the Penguin or Catwoman showed up next.

Greenway Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Dubbed the Green Goblin Gang by New Yorkers, a group of women covered head-to-toe in lime-hued morph suits terrorized people on a 42nd Street subway platform in the early hours of Sunday morning. Videos posted to social media show somewhere between six and 10 women, who appear to be in their teens or twenties, rampaging across the platform and entering a subway train, pausing to beat and rob two 19-year-old women as well as fight among themselves.

Related: Dystopian Viral Videos Stream Out of Decaying New York City

Video posted to Reddit on Sunday showed the two victims being assaulted inside a subway car. In the foreground, one goblin hooks her foot into the strap of a victim’s handbag and then spins around the subway pole, flinging the woman across the car. Behind her, another goblin pulls a second victim into a headlock while repeatedly punching her in the face. Other goblins surround the two targets, yelling, punching, and shoving.

On YouTube, SuperFriends NYC posted a second video that was filmed from outside the train and shows the action on the platform. Over a period of nearly five minutes, the goblins cause chaos as they run amok on the platform and inside the subway car. One especially large goblin can be seen attacking the victims, leaving the car, then returning several times to beat them some more. Eventually, some bystanders remembered that they were men and encircled the victims, repelling the verdant villains.

“Yesterday was her birthday,” the mother of one of the victims told the New York Post on Monday. “This is how she spent her 19th birthday. I hope they get what they deserve and then some because it’s disgusting.”

The mom said the two girls were standing on the train platform, chatting and laughing, when the goblins swarmed the platform, bumping into her daughter as they passed. The girls got onto the subway, at which point the gang attacked them.

“[My daughter] was home from college. Now she’s getting chest X-rays and CAT scans,” the girl’s mother said. “She was supposed to be back in school this morning, but [she’s not] because of her injuries from being stomped in the head by 10 grown-ass women.”

“My daughter, thank goodness, has no marks on her face,” she added. “[She] has bruises on both of her arms and legs. One of them bit her shoulder. She has a bite mark through her clothes.”

The other victim’s mother told the Post that her daughter had been vomiting Sunday night and was awaiting a CAT scan Monday to check for concussion.

Besides the injuries they sustained, the victims were also reportedly robbed of a cell phone and a handbag.

While the goblins are a somewhat interesting development in the otherwise so-common-as-to-be-mundane street violence plaguing Gotham, they are also living proof that neon green skin-tight leotards are not for everyone.