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Parents’ lawsuit against Ludlow MA schools system for “transitioning” their children is getting national attention!

SEE: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22b/Ludlow-MA-parents-lawsuit/index.html;

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MassResistance worked for months exposing and documenting the lurid facts – and worked closely with the parents. Now it’s in the court’s hands.

We’re thrilled that our work helped!

MassResistance has been helping parents on the frontlines in the schools for over 25 years.

April 26, 2022
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This is just the tip of the iceberg - of what the teachers, "counselors," and other staff were doing to children behind the parents' backs.

This past week, news media across the country (and beyond) have been buzzing about a blockbuster lawsuit filed in Federal District Court last week by four parents in Ludlow, Massachusetts against the Ludlow Public Schools and several employees there.

In the 58-page filing, the parents accuse the staff of Ludlow’s Baird Middle School of secretly counseling their children to identify as “transgender.” The staff persuaded them to adopt opposite-sex names and new “personal pronouns.” After the parents ordered the school to stop, the Ludlow school administrators allowed the staff to continue doing this – effectively pushing the children further into gender confusion.

The lawsuit has been reported on Fox News, The Boston Globe, New York Post, The Hill, The Daily Mail (U.K.), Daily Caller, LifeSiteNews, and many more outlets, including local TV stations and talk radio across the U.S. The lawsuit was filed by Child & Parental Rights Campaign (with offices in GA and VA), along with a local Massachusetts attorney.

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The Baird Middle School in Ludlow, MA, has become infamous for the horrible treatment of children, parents, and a teacher who spoke out!

In the trenches: How MassResistance did the groundwork of reporting and exposing the outrageous actions by the school

MassResistance is thrilled to have been able to help the fight get to this point. Our 25+ years of experience have given us an understanding of how to tackle violations like this by schools.

Starting in December 2020, we worked with the Ludlow parents and one of the heroic teachers there. We exposed much of the material brought out in the court filing. And we gave other parents in town strategies to fight this, leading to two high-profile resignations in the school district.

See our 13-part series on the Ludlow Middle School horror, published in 2021.

Here are some of the key points from our reports:

    • The problems started in 2019. As we reported, starting in 2019, pornographic books began appearing in the Baird Middle School library and weird sexual posters were put up outside the library doors. Teachers and counselors secretly began pushing the concept of “preferred pronouns” to the children. Kids were given links to “transgender” YouTube videos.
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These are a few of the posters that were put up just outside of the Baird Middle School Library - apparently by the librarian - but were taken down after parents expressed outrage.
    • Exposing toxic LGBT books. MassResistance exposed several of the graphic homosexual and transgender books that were in the middle school library, many of which were also being brought into the classrooms for children to read.
If I Was Your Girl - A hideous book in the middle school library about a boy who has transitioned to “become” a girl, then moves to a new school and falls in love with a boy there.
    • School staff “grooming” children. We exposed how the Baird middle school staff was grooming kids to be “transgender” – and completely hiding it from parents. It started with “preferred pronouns,” then assigning them opposite-sex names. It even included banning the term “boys and girls.”
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This list of "alternative terms" was posted for the teachers to use instead of "boys and girls." Note especially "organisms" and "Lab rats"!
    • Son and daughter of plaintiffs were “groomed.” We then exposed how, in early 2021, both the son and daughter of Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri (two of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit) were counseled into transgenderism by the middle school staff. We revealed an email from a school counselor to the staff members confirming this – and telling them not to let the parents know about it.
    • Mobilizing the community. In March 2021, MassResistance was called in and helped organize parents in Ludlow. Among other things, we put together a strong flyer which parents leafletted across town. This had a huge effect, as people found out and contacted school officials.
MassResistance put together a strong flyer, and parents leafletted the town with it. The outrage spread quickly!
    • Meeting with Superintendent. Also in March 2021, Brian Camenker of MassResistance attended a Zoom meeting with Stephen, Marissa, Superintendent Todd Gazda, and the school “compliance” expert. The parents ordered the schools to stop pushing this agenda on their children. The compliance expert tried to claim that the Department of Education guidelines allowed them to do it. Camenker reminded her that the DOE guidelines are just suggestions, not state law and that they must obey the parents. However, the school continued on its same path, ignoring the parents.
    • Librarian and Superintendent both resign. In April, it was revealed that the middle school librarian had resigned. In May, Superintendent Todd Gazda announced he was resigning. These are likely the result of the outrage generated by the flyer and exposure.
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The former Baird Middle School librarian (right) is described in the press as "non-binary."
    • Superintendent’s outrageous rant against parents. We next posted this report (with video): At the May 25 School Board meeting, Gazda read an angry, bizarre rant against the city’s parents. He said that parents’ complaints of pornography and grooming their children amounted to their “intolerance of LGBTQ individuals” that are “thinly veiled behind a camouflage of parental rights” and were simply “half-truths, misrepresentations, and false accusations.” Gazda went on to say, “For many students school is their only safe place, and that safety evaporates when they leave the confines of our buildings.”
    • School Board Chairman's hate-filled rant against parents. We also posted the report and video of the June 8 School Board meeting. It included a hate-filled rant by the School Board Chairman against the parents who were complaining. He also lashed out at MassResistance for having “become very active in recruiting residents of our town.”
    • Supporting plaintiff. Finally, we reported how Stephen Foote addressed the School Board on July 20 and informed them, “You are going to be sued.” We also published information to help him raise money.
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Stephen Foote addresses the Ludlow School Board on July 20, 2021.

Final thoughts

This lawsuit has definitely shaken up the Ludlow school department and town officials – and that’s a good thing!

It’s obviously hard to predict how it will go in the Federal District Court in Springfield, MA. It’s a very left-wing environment. But many will recall that Scott Lively won his case there in 2017 when he was sued by a Soros-funded international LGBT group, with a very biased pro-LGBT Federal judge. That was due to masterful work by his Liberty Counsel attorneys. Let’s hope that this legal group helping the parents is just as good!

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Stephen Foote (r) with Brian Camenker of MassResistance. We are supporting the Foote family and the other family 100%!
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LINDA HARVEY: ‘Don’t Allow Grooming’ Bill Exposes ‘LGBTQ” Child Agenda

SEE: https://www.missionamerica.com/article/dont-allow-grooming-bill-exposes-lgbtq-child-agenda/;

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There are times when many of us would really love to say, “We told you so.” Despite the mocking and scorn over the years, it turns out there actually is a “gay” agenda directed toward children-- depraved and aggressive-- and it’s now more obvious than ever.

The Florida Parental Rights Bill (HB 1557) reveals the crass, exploitative underbelly of “gay” activism and is a threat to the prize target of many wayward adults—vulnerable children.

This important bill recently signed by Governor Ron DeSantis protects children in kindergarten through third grade from homosexual and gender deviance indoctrination in lessons, books, and so on. It also prohibits schools from withholding physical/mental health information from a parent.

The law makes perfect sense and my hope is that we can pass many such bills in other states. I wish lawmakers had extended it to all grade levels, but perhaps that seemed an unreachable goal. Yet the measure is a good start. It also helpfully elicited a furious reaction from the “LGBTQ” community.

The sexual anarchy lobby named the measure the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and even organized walkouts of mostly high school students, showing a limited understanding of what the bill does.

Human Rights Campaign, for instance, is already selling “Ok to Say Gay” T-shirts—but ironically, none in sizes for small children. Doesn’t HRC believe these “youth” should have the “right” to identify as “LGBTQ”? Or is that just for backroom discussions?

Once again, it’s all about the adults and their preferences/depravities, and child human shields are mostly unimportant, except for perhaps the hard-to-locate gender-confused 6-year-old, who will be sadly paraded as a literal poster child in upcoming court cases in the hope of overturning this bill.

Does the sustained outrage mean that Big Gay will now openly push small grade-schoolers to identify as LGBTQ? There’s a term for that: grooming.

And we know the answer is yes, when and where they can get away with it. Radical educators have already been doing this, hence the need for the bill. Lately, grooming techniques have gotten much more overt in schools nationwide. But to see such honesty from these advocates about their goals is a teachable if tragic, moment.

“Get out of our way while we recruit/convert/corrupt your children! You have no right to stop us.”

These extremists would do well to remember that this bill has overwhelming support from both Republican and Democrat voters in Florida.

The vitriol from opponents is over the top:  “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.” ( Disney)

DeSantis told the media that this statement by Disney “crossed the line.”

Disney has already pledged, in apparent retaliation for the bill, the addition of more “queerness” (many more sexually deviant characters) to its programming.

Human Rights Campaign believes “...these dangerous anti-equality proposals that harm LGBTQ+ families and kids have no place in Florida. Every student deserves to be seen, and every student deserves an education that prepares them for health and success — regardless of who they are.”

This bill in no way prevents any child from being “seen” and will allow a greater chance for academic success. Does HRC really take the position that K – 3rd-grade children deserve to identify as homosexual or “trans,” regardless of parental consent? That would be jaw-dropping advocacy of essentially criminal conduct.

GLSEN decries the “...continuing pattern of openly targeting LGBTQ+ youth from Governor DeSantis...” No child is being “targeted” but instead, protected.

And right on cue, the National Education Association is screaming “discrimination,” even the horrifying prospect that a homosexual teacher may not be able to reveal his/her chosen identity to young children. If only! How refreshing such schools would be!

NEA may want to inform “LGBTQ” teachers about the option to overcome these attractions/identities and become an ex-“gay” or ex-lesbian.

Why do these adult activists so desperately want little children to learn all about homosexuality and gender deviance? Without parents present? That fits the definition of grooming. And in the not-too-distant past, such actions would qualify as a crime of child corruption, subject to criminal penalties.

And inclusivity? What hypocrisy. Some anonymous Disney employees revealed in a Christian Post article the increasingly uncomfortable work climate for conservatives because of Disney’s left-wing political activity. Inclusivity does not extend to them and they believe Disney should stay out of these political debates.

Let’s make it clear what’s at stake: children who will be led into sin, violating the word of God, engaging in unnecessary, not born-that-way conduct, and all the accompanying health, social and spiritual risks. Or the opposite: children who may retain their innocence, remain open to the Lord, and have a better chance to mature on a natural timetable.

So big thanks to brave Governor DeSantis. Let’s keep this good work rolling out and get bills like this introduced in states throughout the country. And let’s extend the ban to all school grades.

It’s time to stand up for our children and kick sexual/gender perversion and its advocates out of America’s schools for good.

UK: Woke Archbishop of Canterbury uses Easter message to attack border control

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/04/uk-woke-archbishop-of-canterbury-uses-easter-message-to-attack-border-control;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Much like the Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby uses Christianity to justify open borders — ie. breaking the law and illegally entering sovereign countries. Yet also like the globalist Pope, Welby is surrounded by personal security, and whoever enters his own personal domain is carefully vetted. He is also financially well cared for, unlike so many Britons, who are now saddled with the price tag of accommodating illegals— from feeding them and housing them to providing medical services, and when needed, heightened security services to protect citizens, given the disproportionately high incidents of crime committed by illegals.

A couple of years ago, a sensible cardinal opposed the woke leadership of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Sarah — prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments — compared “the modern influx of Muslim migrants to the invasions of barbarian tribes that ultimately brought down the Roman Empire in a.d. 475.” Sarah also issued a warning which contradicted Pope Francis. He cautioned that “it is a false exegesis [interpretation of scriptural text] to use the Word of God to promote migration. God never wanted these rifts.” But this is precisely what Pope Francis has been doing, along with the Anglican Welby: abusing their positions and acting as blind guides in preaching that it is un-Christian to oppose illegal, mass Muslim migration into Europe.  

“Woke Anglican Archbishop Uses Easter Message to Attack Border Controls,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, April 17, 2022:

Archbishop Justin Welby, the de facto head of the Church of England, has used his Easter message to attack British government plans to transfer some male boat migrants to Rwanda while their asylum claims are processed, claiming the policy “is the opposite of the nature of God”.

In a highly political “sermon” preached at the service of Holy Communion at Canterbury Cathedral and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday morning, the woke archbishop loosely linked the resurrection of Jesus Christ to a number of contemporary political issues he is interested in, including the conflict in Ukraine, “the rising cost of power, fuel, and basic food”, and, of course, immigration.

“[T]his season is also why there are such serious ethical questions about sending asylum seekers overseas,” the Archbishop of Canterbury claimed, referring to the Boris Johnson administration’s plans to finally do something about the ever-worsening boat migrant crisis by striking a deal with Rwanda, a safe third country, to host some male asylum seekers while their asylum claims — often bogus — are processed.

“The details are for politics and politicians. The principle must stand the judgement of God and it cannot,” declared Welby, who himself has a direct role in lawmaking as a member of the House of Lords.

“It cannot carry the weight of resurrection justice, of life conquering death. It cannot carry the weight of the resurrection that was first to the least valued, for it privileges the rich and strong,” he went on, without offering a clear explanation as to how paying Rwanda to host people who illegally enter British territory from France — a safe European Union member-state — is an exercise of “privilege”….

Fla MassResistance derails Pride Month at county library

SEE: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22b/Florida-MR-derails-Pride-display/index.html;

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Fighting political corruption, leftist officials, and angry LGBT activists along the way

April 19, 2022
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One of several Citrus County library displays last year: What were they really promoting?

We’re seeing it more and more: Shocking “culture war” battles are being waged even in conservative areas.

Citrus County, Florida, located on the west coast about halfway between Tampa and Gainesville, is one of the most conservative Christian areas of the state. The county voted 70% for Donald Trump in 2020.

But most people don’t pay close attention to local elections, such as for county commission. For those local offices, leftists often run as Republicans - and the effects can be terrible. Adding to that, the LGBT movement is pushing hard in conservative areas. So local citizen groups need to be on the alert, stand up, and fight back. MassResistance is often called to help.

“Pride” displays come to the library

Last June, two of the five Citrus County Library branches shocked the community by putting up homosexual “Pride” displays. A lot of people were outraged that their tax dollars were subsidizing that perverse sexual agenda. They wanted to stop it from happening again this June. Little did they know how big a fight it would be!

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As children came into the library, this is what greeted them during "Pride Month."

Citrus County has a nine-member Library Advisory Board (LAB), appointed by the five-member County Commission. But the County Commission effectively controls the library. Although there was intense community opposition to the Pride Month displays, county employees had insisted the displays would continue despite the many complaints.

County Commission takes a vote

A great local activist, John Labriola, began organizing dozens of people to attend County Commission meetings to demand that future library “Pride” displays be canceled. Those numbers swelled over time as his group reached out to local pastors and congregations. John also chronicled the events on his Citrus Crusader blog.

But a smaller number of angry LGBT activists also began attending commission meetings, insisting that the library system had a duty to support the LGBT lifestyle in the community.

After months of pro-family pressure, the County Commission chairman put the issue on the Jan. 4, 2022 Commission meeting agenda and made a motion to prohibit the displays. Before the vote, dozens of people testified about the dangers of homosexuality. There were heartbreaking stories of how the LGBT lifestyle had harmed their children.

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The Citrus County Commission listens to testimony.

It looked like the prohibition would pass. But at the last minute, one Commissioner flipped his vote, and the motion was defeated, 3-2.

The Commissioners said that it was now up to the Library Advisory Board, which would be meeting on March 22. One of the Commissioners added that if people don’t like how the Library Board decides things, they should apply for the Library Board positions.

John immediately began gathering signatures in the community against the Commission’s decision. In some local churches, pastors announced it from the pulpit. The petition eventually had nearly 1,000 names.

MassResistance gets called in to help

Enter Bonnie, a seasonal Citrus County resident and MassResistance activist in her native New England for over 20 years. In mid-January, Bonnie and John asked us to help them fight this battle. Arthur Schaper, our National Organization Director, began working with them on organization, strategy, and tactics.

As John said, “Becoming an affiliate with MassResistance has really helped us make an impact.”

Appalling corruption exposed by parents’ group on Library Board appointment policy

After the Jan. 4 County Commission meeting, several residents decided to apply for the five Library Board seats that were expiring at the end of that month. They were told that the application period was closed. However, when pressured, the County Administrator admitted that the positions had never been announced or advertised, as the county normally did with every other county Board.

The County Administrator agreed to reopen the application period and advertise it. But at the Feb. 8 commission meeting, the County Attorney said that the positions could not be advertised because the Library Board had lifetime appointments!

Lifetime appointments? It turns out this came from the County Attorney’s and County Commission’s shady interpretation of the regulation, which only states that members with expiring terms are "eligible for reappointment," not automatically reappointed if they wish to remain.

People were outraged. So on March 8, the County Commission agreed to re-open the Library Board application period and advertise it. Over three dozen local people have applied for the five seats! The County Commission will decide on which applicants to appoint during their April 26 meeting.

Library Advisory Board rejects parents

On March 22, dozens of residents showed up at the Library Advisory Board meeting to demand that they take action on the Pride displays since the County Commission had deferred that issue to the Board.

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Pro-family residents - and some LGBT activists - packed the Library Advisory Board meeting on March 22.

Parental rights advocates, who represented the vast majority of the crowd, gave compelling testimony.

But a number of pro-LGBT people also came to testify in favor of exposing children to the homosexual agenda. They were particularly vicious against people’s religious beliefs on the issue. One man, who described himself as a gay former educator, was adamant that children need “information” in their public libraries about LGBT behaviors, complaining that schools were now off-limits because of Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education Act (which bans LGBT grooming of children in grades K through 3).

This woman brought our MassResistance book "The Health Hazards of Homosexuality" - and asked why the library isn't giving kids that information instead of promoting the LGBT lifestyle!
This "gay former educator" insisted that children need to be supported in their LGBT behaviors.

John also delivered his petition with 800 names of local citizens who were against the display.

But not surprisingly, the leftist-dominated Library Advisory Board voted 7-2 to keep the “Gay Pride Month” displays in the Citrus County Libraries.

Library Director caves in: No plans for Pride Month display this year

But the pressure from our side made a difference!

On April 6, the Citrus County Library Director announced to the local media that he has “no plans to put up an LGBTQ Pride Month display this June.”

He said that this decision “allows for a cooling off period while emotions are running hot in the community” and that he “doesn’t want to add more fuel to an already incendiary issue.”

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Coverage in the local newspaper.

The momentum is with us. The next step is to make sure that this display never comes back!

Final thoughts

People need to pay attention to everyone they are voting for, not just the top of the ticket. Across the country, stealth leftists have been getting elected to local positions, causing havoc.

Also, as John warns, the LGBT movement is incredibly wealthy and aggressive. They organize and work their way into virtually every library and school across America. Children are stake. The average person needs to be willing to take a stand. 

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Brighteon: Democrats Weaponization of Education Must Stop, Says Terry Namkung

The Democrat-led weaponization of the public education system is getting more and more extreme, and it must stop, U.S. congressional candidate and Air Force veteran Terry Namkung tells The New American magazine's Alex Newman in this interview on Conversations That Matter. Namkung's Democrat opponent in the race, Rep. Bobby Scott, chairs the House Education Committee and has been a leading proponent of the radical sexualization and LGBT agenda, as evidenced by his support of the Equality Act (H.R. 5) to unleash federal persecution of Christians and others who support traditional values when it comes to sexuality and morality. Scott and other Democrats have also been pushing Critical Race Theory to divide Americans and demonize conservatives as racists using lies.

It’s On: Groomer School in Massachusetts Sued for Hiding ‘Gender Identity’ From Parents

BY MEGAN FOX

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/04/18/let-the-lawsuits-begin-groomer-school-in-massachusetts-sued-for-hiding-gender-identity-from-parents-n1590250;

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The fight against gender cult grooming is raging across the country and in Massachusetts, two sets of parents have filed a lawsuit alleging violations of religious freedom, privacy, and parental rights against public school officials who attempted to drive a wedge between them and their children using extreme gender ideology. The Massachusetts Family Institute put out a press release about the lawsuit.

Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI), in conjunction with the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, Inc. (CPRC), filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Ludlow, MA families against Ludlow public school officials. The families are suing for violations of their parental rights stemming from a district policy prohibiting school staff from sharing information with parents about a student’s discordant gender identity and efforts to promote that identity in school. In the case of one of the families named in the suit, school officials were actively transitioning their 11-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son without their parents’ knowledge and against their wishes.

The first parents say they asked school officials not to speak to their children about gender identity issues or mental health concerns and the school ignored them.

School officials, however, dismissed the parents’ instructions and not only continued having such conversations with their daughter, but began addressing her in school by an alternative name and pronouns.  School staff also made a point of only using the girl’s given name in communication with her parents, intentionally concealing their affirmation of her gender transition at school.  School officials justified their deception by citing guidance handed down by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
( https://www.doe.mass.edu/sfs/lgbtq/genderidentity.html ), which does not authorize their actions.

The same family discovered that the school officials were not only counseling their daughter in gender theology against their wishes but their son as well, giving him female pronouns and a female name without consulting the parents.

Vernadette Broyles, CEO and General Counsel of CPRC stated that “we are seeing this type of concerted effort by school officials across the country. School officials are making decisions about the lives of children that they are not qualified or authorized to make and doing it without telling, and often deceiving, parents. This is a clear violation of the parents’ rights to control the education, health, and upbringing of their children.” 

Related: Freak of the Week: Another Woke Teacher Abandons Education to Talk to 5th-Graders About Being Gay

The other family named in the lawsuit is suing the school district for violating their free exercise of religion by infringing on their sincerely held religious beliefs, which include respect for parental authority, honesty, and adherence to church teaching that human beings are created male or female.

“This lawsuit is about protecting the right of parents to raise their children without the interference of government officials,” explained Andrew Beckwith, President of MFI and local counsel for the parents.  “By deliberately circumventing the authority of parents over the mental health and religious beliefs of their children, activists at the Ludlow schools are violating time-honored rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution and the Massachusetts Constitution. The school officials’ behavior sends the message that parents do not have the best interest of their children in mind. It assumes that children need to be protected FROM their parents, instead of BY their parents.”

The two families are asking the school to publicly rescind the district policy at the center of the controversy so that parents will be notified when their child raises concerns to school staff about their mental health, including concerns about their gender identity. They are asking that school officials stop counseling students on matters of gender discordance without parental knowledge and consent and to stop deceiving parents by using alternate names and pronouns for students in school but not in communication with parents. They’re also seeking an injunction, damages and attorneys’ fees.

I have long argued that the instruction of gender theology in schools is a direct violation of students of faith and their First Amendment rights to freely exercise their religion. The lawsuit lays out causes of action involving the fundamental right to parent children, familial privacy under the 14th Amendment, and the First Amendment right to practice religion. I don’t know what the defense is for any of these things that are enshrined in the Constitution as civil rights, but this court case should be epic.

Transitional Kindergarten Is Not Ok

California politicians just can't seem to avoid hucksterism.

BY LARRY SAND

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/transitional-kindergarten-not-ok-larry-sand/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

In California, parents are abandoning the k-12 system, college enrollment is down, and now the state is trying to lure 4-year-olds to transitional kindergarten.

According to just-released data from the California Department of Education, the state has lost 110,000 students this school year and has fewer than 6 million students for the first time this century. Additionally, on the college level, California’s fall 2021 undergraduate enrollment dropped by nearly a quarter-million students since pre-pandemic fall 2019, according to a survey released in January. The report from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that California saw an overall decline of more than 99,000 (4.3%) in undergraduate enrollment from fall 2020 to fall 2021, driven mostly by a 9.9% drop in the community colleges.

So now the government is doing what it can to expand the system by adding bodies – specifically 4-year-old bodies – by implementing universal free transitional kindergarten. A massive undertaking, the state is scrambling to find enough teachers for all the kiddos. It will take somewhere between 11,000 and 25,000 teachers and teaching assistants to work with the massive influx of children. Currently, TK serves about 100,000 children, primarily those who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Dec. 2. These are the students who narrowly miss the cutoff for traditional kindergarten. The new $2.7 billion universal TK program, however, will be made available for free to every 4-year-old in California, regardless of income, potentially serving nearly 400,000 students by the 2025-2026 school year.

Not surprisingly, teacher union honchos are salivating over the vision of thousands of new dues-paying teachers. Accordingly, the National Education Association extols the virtues of TK on its website, claiming that children in early childhood education programs are less likely to repeat a grade, less likely to be identified as having special needs, more prepared academically for later grades, more likely to graduate from high school and be higher earners in the workforce.

But then, there is reality. In fact, studies invariably show that pre-K school doesn’t help, and can even damage young kids. The results of a study done in Tennessee were released in January 2022, revealing “that children randomly assigned to attend pre-K had lower state achievement test scores in third through sixth grades than control children, with the strongest negative effects in sixth grade. A negative effect was also found for disciplinary infractions, attendance, and receipt of special education services, with null effects on retention.” It is worth noting that the Tennessee study was of the highest quality because the program was oversubscribed, so applicants were selected to participate by random lottery. As researcher Greg Forster reports, “That allowed the study to use the top-quality method used in medical trials, comparing outcomes for a “treatment” group (those who won the lottery and attended pre-K) and a “control” group (those who lost the lottery and did not attend pre-K).”

The Tennessee analysis is hardly an outlier. Study after study has shown that TK is an extraordinary waste of money. In fact, the U.S. has a nearly 60-year history of funding early-childhood programs in the form of Head Start. The federal government released the last of a three-part longitudinal study of the $8 billion-a-year program in 2012, and its results were grim. According to the report’s executive summary: “…there was little evidence of systematic differences in children’s elementary school experiences through 3rd grade, between children provided access to Head Start and their counterparts in the control group.” The 2012 report reinforced some disappointing findings from the study’s second phase, which showed that any gains “had faded considerably by the end of 1st grade, with Head Start children showing an edge only in learning vocabulary over their peers in the control group who had not participated in Head Start.”

Other studies purporting to show preschool’s benefits also have failed to prove that spending billions on TK would be money well spent. Two often-cited studies by TK touters, the Abecedarian and Perry Preschool projects, for example, are now two generations in the rearview and involved no more than 60 children. As American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray wrote in 2013, both studies “were overseen by the same committed, well-intentioned people who conducted the demonstration projects. Evaluations of social programs are built around lots of judgment calls—from deciding how the research is designed to figuring out how to analyze the data. People with a vested interest in the results shouldn’t be put in the position of making those judgments.”

Also, at the time when President Obama’s Preschool for All proposal was under consideration in 2013, the Brookings Institution’s Grover J. Whitehurst wrote about the Tennessee Voluntary State Pre-K Program, a full-day program for 4‐year‐olds from low-income families. He said that this cohort “performed somewhat less well on cognitive tasks at the end of first grade than the control group, even though of the children in the control group had no experience as 4-year-olds in a center-based early childhood program.” Whitehurst concludes, “Until the field of early education becomes evidence-based, it will be doomed to cycles of fad and fancy.”

Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist James Heckman, a highly regarded expert on early child development, when asked about universal pre-K in a recent interview, said, “I have never supported universal pre-school. ... No public preschool program can provide the environments and the parental love and care of a functioning family and the lifetime benefits that ensue.”

Tara Ann Thieke, a former social services assistant and preschool teacher, adds that separating children from their homes at a very young age can have detrimental effects. “I observed that even the highest quality care could elicit sustained traumatic responses…The most entertaining preschool with a room full of friends and nearly every need met on cue could not erase a longing for home in the best circumstances. In more troubling situations, the child would struggle to separate the roles of paid versus familial caregivers. Separation from the staff with whom they spent most of their time became as traumatic as separation from parents. Stressful transitions and confusion flooded the child’s body: as repeated studies have shown, the levels of the stress-hormone cortisol remain elevated for children in institutionalized care compared to children in a home setting.”

It’s important to note that the studies haven’t concluded that all kids are harmed by pre-K. They simply find that in aggregate they don’t work and that some do harm. But if a parent has a compelling reason to enroll their kid, they should be free to do so, without the state’s overbearing sales pitch.

But California’s governor and a majority of its state legislators just can’t seem to avoid hucksterism. Instead of “following the science,” California’s politicos indulge in what Stanford’s Caroline Hoxby refers to as the cardiac test. “We just know in our heart that this is right.”

Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network – a non-partisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues. The views presented here are strictly his own.

Florida Targets Math Textbooks for Including CRT

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/16/florida-targets-math-textbooks-for-including-crt-n1590296;

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The Florida Department of Education has determined that a large number of math textbooks attempted to “indoctrinate” students through the inclusion of critical race theory and other prohibited subjects and have been rejected for the 2022 school year.

The department did not list specific textbooks that were rejected nor did it give any examples of why a textbook was rejected.

Fifty-four of the 132 textbooks that publishers submitted for the state’s review were “impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics.” The ax fell heaviest on textbooks designed for grades K-5 — 71% of materials were rejected.

Miami Herald:

“Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,” the press release said.

The decision comes as efforts to challenge books surge in local school board meetings across the nation. In Florida, Republican lawmakers approved a new law that offers more transparency in the book selection process, casting the issue as one about parental rights.

If it were just an issue of “parental rights,” the state would take much greater pains to explain exactly why certain books were rejected and what was objectionable about them. 

“We’re going to ensure that Florida has the highest-quality instructional materials aligned to our nationally-recognized standards,” said Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran. “Florida has become a national leader in education under the vision and leadership of Governor DeSantis. When it comes to education, other states continue to follow Florida’s lead as we continue to reinforce parents’ rights by focusing on providing their children with a world-class education without the fear of indoctrination or exposure to dangerous and divisive concepts in our classrooms.”

There’s nothing wrong with a little divisiveness in classrooms. Socrates encouraged it. It makes for a far more enriching learning experience if students challenge what’s being taught rather than sit there like a bump on a log and listen to a teacher drone on.

The state has a textbook adoption cycle that rotates through subjects every six years. When buying books for their schools, districts turn to the state’s approved list to make sure they align with state standards.

Next up is social studies, and many educators have predicted the effort will be more confrontational than in past years — particularly after the approval of a new law that will require schools to open to the public committee meetings where books are reviewed for purchase, and to make all materials available for public review before it is approved.

We should applaud these efforts to give parents more say in their child’s education, and all attempts at left-wing indoctrination should be resisted.

Related: LOL: Beto O’Rourke Flip Flops on Critical Race Theory

But what’s extremely worrying is the slap-dash approach to determining what books are in violation of these standards. Critical Race Theory is a philosophy — a specific, defined set of ideas and principles. But what we’re seeing is that many issues having to do with the teaching of slavery, of discrimination, of segregation — issues that need to be taught and discussed — are being carelessly lumped in with the concepts of CRT.

This is worse than left-wing indoctrination. It denies our children a true picture of their heritage and history. The fact that it’s not a pretty picture is irrelevant. It happened, and each of us has to deal with that history in our own way as Americans.

There is no “collective guilt.” But there won’t be an understanding of why unless there’s a clear-eyed view of the past that includes the glorious with the horrible, the sublime with the shameful.

Is Florida giving that complete picture to its students?

Trump officially endorses Dr. Oz, calls him “smart, tough” but not all conservatives are happy about it

QUOTE: "“Mattis, Bolton, Barr, Wray, Sessions, Omarosa, Pence, Scaramucci, Tillerson, the list goes on,” wrote another about all of the people Trump endorsed or brought on board in his administration who turned out to be bad picks."

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Image: Trump officially endorses Dr. Oz, calls him “smart, tough” … but not all conservatives are happy about it

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-04-15-trump-officially-endorses-smart-tough-dr-oz.html;

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(Natural News) Dr. Mehmet Oz is running for the United States Senate in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and former President Donald Trump is endorsing him.

In a public announcement, Trump wrote that Dr. Oz will help “stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our country.” He added that Oz is “brilliant and well-known,” and is “tough” and “smart,” which is what the country needs.

“I have known Dr. Oz for many years, as have many others, even if only through his very successful television show,” Trump said. “He has lived with us through the screen and has always been popular, respected, and smart. He even said that I was in extraordinary health, which made me like him even more (although he also said I should lose a couple of pounds).”

Trump went on to highlight Oz’s academic pedigree, including his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his joint MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Finance.

“He has authored more than 350 original publications, written eight New York Times bestsellers, and received patents for developing medical devices that have improved countless lives and performed thousands of life-saving heart operations,” Trump added.

Rick Perry of Texas also supports Oz

According to Trump, Oz is also pro-life, “very strong on crime, the border, election fraud, our great military and our vets, tax cuts and will always fight for and support our under-siege Second Amendment.”

Oz will also help the United States to become energy independent again – ever since Joe Biden was installed in the White House, America has become energy-dependent.

The greatest potential for Oz, Trump said, is that he actually stands a chance at winning a general election against “a Radical Left Democrat looking to do unthinkable harm to our country.”

Trump said that women are especially drawn to Oz because of his “advice and counsel,” which can help him win an election, even in a usually “blue” state like Pennsylvania.

“He knows his job is to serve every single Pennsylvanian,” Trump added. “Dr. Oz is smart, tough, and will never let you down, therefore, he has my complete and total endorsement. Good luck, Dr. Oz. Our country needs you.”

Rick Perry of Texas has also endorsed Oz, and the doctor also recently appeared in an interview with Fox News‘ Sean Hannity, who also sees Oz as a viable candidate for the Senate in Pennsylvania.

Not everyone is convinced that Oz is a good choice, however. Commenters on news items about Trump’s announcement were critical of both Trump and Oz, with one suggesting that “Oz is another Mitt Romney: saying what he thinks conservatives want to hear.”

A United States Air Force veteran wrote that “Oz is a RINO [Republican in Name Only] and may not actually be a real conservative.”

“Dr. Oz pushed gender ideology on children, defended abortion standards, called for red flag gun laws, helped craft Obamacare, and more,” wrote another.

It was actually quite difficult to find any comments of support for Oz, including someone who said he supports Trump and that he was the “best president ever,” but cannot get on board with Dr. Oz.

“Mattis, Bolton, Barr, Wray, Sessions, Omarosa, Pence, Scaramucci, Tillerson, the list goes on,” wrote another about all of the people Trump endorsed or brought on board in his administration who turned out to be bad picks.

“Trump is and was a great president … but a horrible judge of character,” this same person added.

More related news about Donald Trump can be found at Trump.news.

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APOSTATE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH’S Duke Divinity School Students: ‘God Is Queer’

Duke Divinity Students

Duke Divinity School holds a Service of Word with reflections from the Divinity Pride community. This service is in collaboration with Divinity Pride.

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/duke-divinity-school-students-god-queer-robert-spencer/;

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It was inevitable that Leftist divinity students, marinating as they are in the relentless insanity of the Left’s pet causes, would end up making gods in their own image: gay, woke, and whatever else the Left is idolizing at the moment. Duke Divinity School is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, which is already like being affiliated with the Maoists (gay, gender-fluid Maoists, that is), so it was the perfect place for a recent “Pride worship service” in which participants offered prayers to “the Great Queer One.”

Hope Rawlson of the Institute for Religion & Democracy reported Tuesday that the Pride worship service was designed to proclaim “God’s acceptance and support for LGBTQ relationships.” The bizarre service was the brainchild of Divinity Pride, a Duke student group that “affirms the dignity, faithfulness, and strength of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and gender/sexuality non-conforming Christians! We are committed to intersectional advocacy, education, and support for queer people and our allies specifically in the Divinity School, but with a Kingdom-reaching vision. We facilitate educative dialogues for the whole community, and we are here to support anyone who is reconciling their gender/sexuality and faith, facing persecution, or desiring a safe space.” They succeeded: the Pride worship service was plenty safe for men who think they’re women, and vice versa.

Master of Divinity (M.Div) student Caroline Camp kicked things off, and set the tone for the proceedings, with a prayer to the “strange one, fabulous one, fluid, and ever becoming one,” and the “drag queen, and transman, and gender-fluid.” All this fluid put me in mind of Moss Hart’s wicked parody of Noel Coward’s precious and pretentious song lyrics in his riotous play The Man Who Came to Dinner: “Softly a fluid Druid meets me, Olden and golden the dawn that greets me…” Moss Hart had nothing on the Duke Divinity School. Camp also prayed, more prosaically, to the “mother, father, and parent,” Oh brother — that is, Oh brother, sister, and sibling.

Another M.Div student, Tirzah Villegas, declared: “You are never called to abandon yourself. Abandoning the self is negating the truth of who you are, and that is always a lie.” Now, just a minute: Duke Divinity School is supposed to be a Christian school, at least vestigially, and I seem to remember someone involved with Christianity saying “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:24-25). But the one who spoke those words is not someone who appears to get much traction at Duke Divinity.

Villegas added that the assembled worshippers that their god was a “queer god,” which is likely true, as they have made a god out of their own proclivities. Nor are these divinity school students the first Leftists to make a religion out of their sociocultural delusions. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Grey Goose) a year ago gave thanks to her god for his salvific sacrifice: “Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice.” Catholic University displayed a painting of George Floyd as Jesus.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D-Planned Parenthood) proclaimed in September 2021 that the unvaccinated “aren’t listening to God and what God wants.” The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which is so far-Left as to make Duke Divinity School look like MAGA country, last October published a new hymn entitled “The Climate is Changing.” In September 2019, climate idolaters at Union Theological Seminary began worshipping potted plants as a “liturgical response to our climate crisis.”

Another Duke divinity student, a “self-identified trans woman,” declared that while men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men “can be framed as a choice,” actually “transition is better framed as a calling. It is a calling to wrestle with God and not let go until we receive a blessing in our own bodies.” This was in stark contrast to the judgmental religion some of those in attendance claimed to have encountered. One young man, or whatever, Justis Mitchell, said: “In the pews we listen to the pastor who preaches about commandments, condemning those who disobey, predicting a future of fire and turmoil.” Where does this being Mitchell go to church? In 1895?

Mitchell offered some hope, however: “We can become holy, we can become worthy, we can become valued…even as we remain queer, even as we discover our own queer God whose presence is within these walls.”

Making up a god to suit oneself has a long history. While it’s strange to see it happening in a place that is supposed to be dedicated to Christian theological inquiry, which historically has not taken a positive view of idolatry, it isn’t surprising. The corruption of the institutions is everywhere. Sane people desperately need an alternative.

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SEE ALSO: https://juicyecumenism.com/2022/04/05/queer-god-duke-divinity/

TRANSGENDER Teacher Tells Kindergarteners ‘When Babies Are Born’ Doctors Guess If ‘It’s a Boy or Girl’

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Transgender teacher tells K-2 students that doctors 'guess ...

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A teacher at a Boston-area charter school revealed to young children she identifies as a male and claimed that when babies are born, doctors can only “guess” if the baby is a boy or a girl, but “sometimes the doctor is wrong.”

Ray Skyer, a first-grade teacher at Brooke Roslindale School who told four- and five-year-olds she is transgender, presented her sexual identity to the children on an “Identity Share” Zoom call consisting of kindergartners, first graders, and second graders.

Sarah Hammond, the school’s assistant principal, opened the floor to Skyer for her “I am” statement, telling the children, “Remember: Your job during the Identity Share is to be listening really carefully so that you can learn something new about Mr. Skyer.”

“So something that’s really cool and unique about who I am is that I am transgender,” Skyer, who is a female identifying as a male, said. [Emphasis added] “So when babies are born, the doctor looks at them and they make a guess about whether the baby is a boy or girl based on what they look like. Most of the time that guess is 100% correct; there are no issues whatsoever, but sometimes the doctor is wrong; the doctor makes an incorrect guess.”

“When a doctor makes a correct guess, that’s when a person is called cisgender,” she continued. “When a doctor’s guess is wrong that’s when they are transgender.”

“So I’m a man, but when I was a baby the doctors told my parents I was a girl,” Skyer explained to the young children. “And so my parents gave me a name that girls typically have; they bought me clothes that girls typically wear, and until I was eighteen years old everyone thought I was a girl.”

“And this was super, super uncomfortable for me because I knew that wasn’t right,” she said. “So when I was eighteen I told my family and my friends that I’m really a boy and it was like this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders and I had the freedom to be who I truly am.”

“And even though this experience is super-challenging sometimes, it made me the person I am and I’m super-proud to be transgender,” Skyer concluded.

In a Facebook post, Skyler appears to have written about laws, like the one recently passed in Florida, that protect children in kindergarten through third grade from adult sexual content and sexualization, saying, “Whenever there are bills introduced targeting trans youth, we always hear the argument that these laws are ‘protecting’ their peers and ‘preventing confusion.'”

Saying she has had “many conversations with many young children … about what being transgender is, and never once have I been met with any fear or confusion. I’ve even been the recipient of a group hug! Children just get it, it’s as simple as that.”

Dutch Leader Warns IN ENGLISH: ‘The New World Order is Upon Us, Greatest Danger of our Life’

JUST WHAT THE COMMUNIST, FASCIST, APOSTATE POPE FRANCIS WANTED 

BY AMY MEK

Read the full story at RAIR Foundation USA: https://rairfoundation.com/dutch-leader-warns-the-new-world-order-is-upon-us-greatest-danger-of-our-life-must-watch/;

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The three major trends responsible for plaguing the West are immigration, supranational legislation, and climate change that emerged from Marxist ideology.

For the past several weeks, Thierry Baudet, founder and leader of the Dutch party Forum for Democracy (FvD), made English-language YouTube shows about the most critical topics threatening our world. The conservative leader takes on Globalists ‘ New World Order in his fourth episode, “What’s Wrong With The West?”. He addresses current problems plaguing the West and identifies the three major trends responsible for what we are witnessing today: immigration, supranational legislation, and climate change.

Thierry explains that these trends have emerged from Marxist ideology, sold to the public as a higher and utopian state of existence, but that is eventually dystopian and doomed to fail. He further illustrates that we, as humans, are beings in need of a sense of community but that these three major Globalist projects are undermining this very foundation of our humanity.

Totalitarian Global Governance

“These are the three major projects” that form the basis of every mainstream party in the West, “both from the left and right,” said Baudet. “All three represent a transition from one kind of society to another type of society.” From a proud and strong nation-state to totalitarian global governance. As Baudet puts it,

We would no longer be divided into different nations different peoples. A world without parliaments that may decide things for just one country alone, and in doing so may greatly diverge from the parliaments of other countries. 

Indeed it’s a vision of a world in which we will supposedly all be growing towards one humanity governed by common rules that are to be centrally administered on a global level. This would be a world in which a global superstate increasingly controls every tiny aspect of our lives because everything we do supposedly affects the climate. 

Marxism

“We are in the midst of a structural remaking of the world as we know it,” stated the FvD leader. Our nations, our cultural, political, and spiritual homes are being dismantled. Slowly but surely, our societies are becoming so diverse that a shared common identity will no longer be feasible. We’re losing our democracies because parliaments get to decide less and less. As well as our freedom because all of our lives are increasingly being regulated by the “Change the Entire Economy Project” that masquerades as saving the planet.

Baudet explains that “it’s crucial to understand that the fundamental idea behind these major trends is Marxist.” These three grand projects embody in their entirety an orchestrated transition toward a supposedly higher utopian peaceful, and egalitarian stage of existence. The long-promised post-capitalist error in which we will all apparently live in peace in unity. It is the Marxism of yesteryear in a new guise. But it is still Marxist.

 

 

“The result of this will be dystopian,” Baudet explains. “This is because we are beings who need to feel that we are part of a community. We also need to feel hope .” All those Great Projects destroy those feelings. We become “nowhere creatures,” living in a country surrounded by people we feel completely disconnected from and “administered by bureaucrats over whom we have no control.”

“The New World Order is upon us,” Baudet declared. “Europe has already gone a lot further down this path than America, but it is happening in the United States as well. It’s a phenomenon we can witness across the Western World, and it is the greatest danger of our life.”

Demographic Transition Leads to Disaster

Baudet explains that study after study shows that integrating large numbers of people from entirely different backgrounds and cultures does not work. Therefore, the demographic transition leads to low trust and high crime societies with few cross-cross-group connections. The idea might have been to create a super-diverse society with a new type of man liberated from all past roots solely geared towards the future, willingly subjecting himself to a project focused on harmoniously living together. But the result is the opposite. It’s renewed tribalism, animosity, and conflict. That’s what the demographic transition leads to.

Sovereignty Transition Undermines Democracies

The transition of sovereignty, meanwhile, undermines our democracies, states Baudet. “Of course, the European Union is already bullying European countries. But the United Nations increasingly intervenes with national decisions as well as do the international criminal court several, human rights commissions, the Davos conferences, the World Economic Forum, and so on.”

Climate Accords Power Grab

The Party leader goes on to explain how they are only, “amplified by the climate accords that seek to reduce emissions. The overarching result is clear. The trick is with everything we do, we emit. Once the basic premise is accepted that emissions are somehow harmful and that we should limit such emissions to their very minimum. The new global administrators will then have an excuse to impose endless amounts of regulations on our lives and take more control every day.”

“Modern impersonal architecture completes this process of political disowning and spiritual expropriation. From Pyongyang to Paris, the same lifeless hyper buildings disfigure the skylines of our ancient cities. And symbolize the power grab of the international elites over our democracies. They also seem to symbolize the only presence of migrants. For we’re all migrants, we’re all anonymous creatures amongst those buildings, and the absence of a shared national community is referenced by buildings that we can identify with.

The climate hysteria finally fills the spiritual gap that has been left by this process of disowning and overtakes our lives.”

 

 

Reclaim and Rebuild

It’s the world we’re heading for; it’s a nightmare’s vision of unfreedom. It’s a future we have to prevent from materializing. We have to fight to protect our sense of home, freedom, and democracy. We have to reclaim control over our nation-states. We have to combat the quasi-scientific nonsense about planetary disasters and see it for what it is; a perverse pact between power-hungry politicians on the one hand and disowned people in spiritual need on the other. We’ve got to rebuild our homes reclaim our lands, and restore our freedom.

Read related RAIR Foundation USA articles:

 

Disney to Air Ad Accusing Those Against Transgenderism for Children of “Tearing Families Apart”

BY JAMES MURPHY

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/disney-to-air-ad-accusing-those-against-transgenderism-for-children-of-tearing-families-apart/;

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The Walt Disney Company — for decades considered wholesome entertainment, suitable for children — is one of four companies set to air a public-service announcement that accuses people and states of the abusive practice of “transitioning” children to the opposite sex of attempting to “tear families apart.”

Comcast, WarnerMedia, and Paramount are the other companies that have agreed to run the ad.

Recently, the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD released the ad, titled “Protect Our Families.” According to GLAAD, the minute-long message shows that “families with transgender kids are just like any other family: they love their kids unconditionally and simply want the best for them.”

The video features the Briggle family, especially Amber Briggle, the mother of Max and Lulu. But Briggle is not just the mother of Max and Lulu but a far-left activist, who is currently running for city council in Denton, Texas.

“There are some politicians who are trying to tear my family apart, simply because my son is transgender,” states Briggle, the mother of Max, a biological female presenting as a boy.

According to Briggle, a so-called transgendered child, including her own daughter, Max, “is no different than yours.”

While the ad doesn’t clearly assert which politicians or laws are bent on “tearing families apart,” it’s pretty clear that one of those states is Florida, and one of those politicians is Florida governor Ron De Santis, who recently signed the Parental Rights in Education Bill — referred to derisively as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — into law in the Sunshine State. The law bars children in kindergarten through third grade from being taught material that is “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”

Disney in particular has taken great pains in recent weeks to attack De Santis and the new law after some employees complained about the company’s seeming lack of concern over the bill. On March 22, Disney employees staged a walkout to protest the company’s attitude regarding the bill. Since then, the company quickly did an about-face and loudly protested against the new law.

Since the workers’ tantrum, Disney has pledged to donate $5 million to LGBTQ advocacy groups, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek quickly apologized for not being woke enough and called De Santis’ office personally to register the company’s outrage that young students in the state would not be subjected to the radical agenda of GLAAD and other LGBTQ groups.

“Thank you to all who have reached out to me sharing your pain, frustration, and sadness over the company’s response to the Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill,” Chapek wrote to employees. “Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped me better understand how painful our silence was.”

Video then surfaced of Disney staff discussing the company’s response to the new Florida law. One video shows Disney executive producer Latoya Raveneau saying that she was “basically adding queerness” to all sorts of programming intended for children.

De Santis retaliated by threatening to remove certain “special privileges” that Disney has enjoyed in the state, which allow the company to act as its own government on its vast properties in the state.

“When you’re trying to impose a woke ideology on our state, we view that as a significant threat,” De Santis said.

It also seems Briggle’s home state of Texas has been targeted, as evidenced by Briggle’s blog in which she claims to have “challenged the local sheriff” and “the Texas legislature.”

Led by Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Lone Star State has initiated an investigation of pharmaceutical companies that might have “deceptively advertised and promoted hormone blockers” for use in so-called transgendered children.

In addition, in February, Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive to the Texas Department of Family Protective Services to conduct investigations into parents who are allowing children to undergo “transition” therapies including hormone therapy and genital mutilation. Abbott’s directive was based largely on an opinion written by Paxton that such therapies could be considered child abuse.

So, perhaps Disney’s embrace of the full and unfettered LGBTQ agenda is as much about Briggle’s state of Texas as it is their own state of Florida.

For years, Disney has been a company associated with children and their happiness. Unfortunately, that focus has shifted into something far more sinister. Now instead of focusing on the entertainment of children, Disney is siding with those who would harm them.

UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM Conservative Student Forced to Hide in Bathroom to Escape Mob

Student ‘feared for life’ after being chased by woke mob targeting Allen West

UB Police investigating reports of harassment following politician's visit

Former Texas GOP Chair Lt. Col. Allen West slammed the "radical mob" that interrupted his speech on American exceptionalism at the University of Buffalo. West told "The Brian Kilmeade Show" Tuesday that he was appearing last week on behalf of the Young Americas Foundation to speak about race and make the argument that America is not a racist country. "Who better that they think could do that than someone such as myself who was born in a Blacks-only hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, 61 years ago?" said West. The author and former Florida congressman said that despite being born in an era of segregation, he has still become successful. He also noted that his wife came to the United States legally as an immigrant from Jamaica. His wife now holds an MBA and a Ph.D. However, many students did not want to hear his story. Video "As a matter of fact, they were very disruptive, and I think people have seen now that it was a mob, it was radical, it was militant, and I had to be escorted off of the campus by police officers. And then after that, they turned their angst against many of those conservative students that were there who had invited me to come and speak," he explained. West was not the only person targeted by the mob. Young Americans for Freedom President Therese Purcell joined "Fox & Friends First" Monday to discuss the incident and how the meeting spiraled out of control. "I was really afraid for my life since they physically assaulted my friend, and like I said, they were screaming, no peace," Purcell told co-host Todd Piro. "I don't think they were going to do anything remotely peaceful. They were a very angry mob, and they were clearly saying that they were trying to chase me, that they wanted to capture me." Video West noted how America was once a place where Black students needed to be escorted onto college campuses to protect them from White students. "Here I am having to be escorted off a university campus and being screamed at by Black students who still want to talk about how they're oppressed. How does their behavior solve anything?" he asked, saying the students were "triggered" because he does not share their perspective. "They had to end the event early and then outside they were banging, kicking doors, and screaming, ‘We want West.’ I got to tell you, I don't know what they wanted, but if anyone had tried to, you know, physically assault me, it would have been a not good day for them."

Allen West on 'woke mob' swarming his speech | These kids wanna be victims

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/12/conservative-student-forced-to-hide-in-bathroom-to-escape-woke-mob-protesting-allen-west-lecture-n1589052;

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The president of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom club on the campus of the University of Buffalo was forced to run for her life and hide in a bathroom after a woke mob targeted her and began to chase her from a lecture given by conservative activist Allen West.

“They were a very angry mob, and they were clearly saying that they were trying to chase me, that they wanted to capture me,” Therese Purcell said in an appearance on Fox News Monday. “I’m afraid of what would have happened if I wasn’t able to hide from them.”

Washington Examiner:

“This despicable attack on conservative students prove exactly why YAF’s campus lectures are needed––to pop the liberal bubble and expose the hideous reality of the intolerant Left,” YAF spokeswoman Kara Zupkus wrote in a post on the organization’s website.

That may very well be true. But first, she has to survive the infantile tantrum-throwing by the woke mob that uses stormtrooper tactics to silence dissent.

Fox News:

Purcell claimed the threats escalated as protesters started screaming “no peace,” and “banging on the walls,” prompting Lt. Col. West to be escorted out by police.

Purcell said she followed him out alongside officials, but the mob quickly began to target her personally urging one another to “capture” her. She escaped into a bathroom to just barely evade the angry crowd.

“It was a really crazy event that we were trying to bring a Black voice to campus to talk about these issues of racism and American exceptionalism, and while they were screaming that we were trying to silence Black voices, we were actually trying to bring this conversation to campus,” Purcell stated.

Given the psychology of the mob, the “capture” of Purcell could very well have resulted in her being beaten to death. She was absolutely right to flee for her life.

Purcell seems genuinely perplexed that West’s “black voice” was not met with a receptive audience. She’s very young and will learn very quickly.

The woke mob is not interested in debate. They don’t want dialogue. They are ignorant of the forms and procedures of democratic dissent. They don’t care about other human beings at all.

They’re too stupid to realize they’re destroying the country. Or if they do realize it, they believe that to be a good thing.

POLICE STATE New Jersey to Force Second-Graders to Learn Explicit Details About ‘Gender Identity’

Welcome to “modern-day public school education."

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/get-your-kids-out-there-new-jersey-force-second-robert-spencer/;

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The madness that is spreading through the land is coming to New Jersey second-graders: seven- and eight-year-olds with the misfortune of having to attend public schools will be forced this fall to learn all the latest fashionable insanity about how boys may really be girls and vice versa, setting up some of them to destroy their lives in the ensuing years. This is child abuse on a grand scale, otherwise known as a “modern-day public school education.”

New state sex education guidelines are set to take effect this September in the Garden State, requiring that once they have completed second grade, children should grasp the “core ideas” that all “individuals should feel welcome and included regardless of their gender, gender expression or sexual orientation.” Traditional morality would be disallowed under these guidelines, no matter how politely stated, for even a soft-spoken affirmation that some sexual orientations or gender expressions might actually be actively harmful to the human spirit would clearly not be welcome, and so are ruled out.

Predictably, it gets even worse. According to Fox News, “the standards listed ‘performance expectations’ for second graders, which includes discussing ‘the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.’” This range, of course, includes all of today’s officially sanctioned insanity, and the standards do everything they can to break down a child’s emerging sense of the differences between the sexes.

The child abuse starts as early as possible: “One lesson plan, ‘Purple, Pink and Blue,’ instructs teachers to talk to their first graders about gender identity, and its first objective is to have the students be able to define ‘gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes.’” First-graders. And once these child victims have mastered the concept of “gender identity,” it’s on to gender fluidity: “The lesson’s second objective is to have students name ‘at least two things they’ve been taught about gender role stereotypes and how those things may limit people of all genders.’”

What on earth do first- and second-graders know about gender role stereotypes? Whatever they may know or not know, in New Jersey public schools they’re going to be breaking it down and filling their young charges’ heads with nonsense. A lesson plan states: “Gender identity is that feeling of knowing your gender. You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl. You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!” Anything and everything is “perfectly normal,” except, of course, believing that boys are boys and girls are girls and that one cannot become the other, or, for that matter, be a bit of boy and a bit of girl.

Fox notes that “another lesson plan for second graders, ‘Understanding Our Bodies,’ tells teachers to instruct students that ‘there are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have.’ Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people, this is how their bodies are. Most people have a vulva and a vagina or a penis and testicles, but some people’s bodies can be different. Your body is exactly what is right for you.” This is a needless and irresponsible complication of something that is actually quite simple: actually having male body parts does mean that you’re a boy, and having female body parts means that you’re a girl. But clearly, that’s the agenda here: to sow confusion that can be exploited to recruit more transgenders and normalize defiant rejection of unwelcome realities.

Second-graders will also be required to “identify at least four body parts” from genitalia, and to describe “why it is important for them to know the correct names for the genitals.” Well, sure. If you’re going to trade them in for a new set, you’ll need to know their names.

New Jersey Assemblywoman Vicky Flynn, a Republican, had the last word on this criminal madness: “No kid should have to talk about sex with their elementary school teacher.” Indeed.

APOSTATE COMMUNIST Pope Francis Calls on Christians to Surrender Before Violence, AN UNBIBLICAL TEACHING

POPE FRANCIS DEFIES SCRIPTURE: “There is no such thing as a Just War.”

BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/pope-francis-calls-christians-surrender-violence-raymond-ibrahim/;

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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity, is at it again, trying to reverse nearly two millennia of Christian doctrine, by preaching total passivity—even against violent aggression.

On March 18, 2022, Francis declared before an audience that “A war is always—always!—the defeat of humanity, always. We, the educated, who work in education, are defeated by this war because on another side we are responsible.”

So far, all well and good, if only because such lofty but impotent words are expected.

But then Francis went so far as to say, “There is no such thing as a just war: they do not exist!”

That is a remarkably dangerous claim, one that, if embraced—as no doubt it is by millions of similar naïve thinkers—can easily lead to their annihilation.

There is, indeed, such a thing as a just war—the only rational way of responding to unjust wars—and it is firmly grounded in Christian, especially Catholic, teaching, even if the head of the Catholic world argues otherwise.

In fact, from the very start, Christian theologians had concluded that “the so-called charity texts of the New Testament that preached passivism and forgiveness, not retaliation, were firmly defined as applying to the beliefs and behavior of the private person [and not the state],” to quote historian Christopher Tyerman.

Christ himself—who called on his followers to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s (Matt. 22:21)—differentiated between the social and spiritual realms. In the only recorded instance of Jesus being slapped, he did not “turn the other cheek,” but rather challenged his slapper to explain himself (John 18:22–23). The Nazarene further praised a Roman centurion without calling on him to “repent” by resigning from one of the most brutal militaries in world history (Matt. 8: 5–13). Similarly, when a group of soldiers asked John the Baptist how they should repent, he advised them always to be content with their army wages (Luke 3:14)—and said nothing about their quitting the Roman army.

This is because there is “no intrinsic contradiction,” continues Tyerman, “in a doctrine of personal, individual forgiveness condoning certain forms of necessary public violence to ensure the security in which, in St. Paul’s phrase, Christians ‘may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty’ (1 Tim. 2:2).”

Or in the words of that chief articulator of Just War theory, Saint Augustine (354–430), “It is the injustice of the opposing side that lays on the wise man the duty to wage war.” Crusades historian Jonathan Riley-Smith elaborates:

What was evil in war itself? Augustine had asked. The real evils were not the deaths of those who would have died anyway, but the love of violence, cruelty, and enmity; it was generally to punish such that good men undertook wars in obedience to God or some lawful authority…. Expeditions to the Levant, North Africa, or the Iberian Peninsula could be justified as responses to present Muslim aggression or as rightful attempts to recover Christian territory which had been injuriously seized in the past.  [For more on the intricacies of just war theory, especially as compared and contrasted with unjust wars, which do merit condemnation, read “Just War vs. Just Plain Old Jihad.”]

Make no mistake: without just wars and the brave men who undertook them, the world today would be a very different place.  Europe, for instance, would have been Islamic—and not by willingly capitulating, as it is now, but by force: countless jihads were waged against it and other Christian nations, and they were repulsed only by the force of arms—by war, just war.

Indeed, even the Vatican itself, whence Pope Francis issues his lofty words of peace and love, has long been targeted and even attacked (for example in 846) by Muslims, and was saved only thanks to men acting in accordance with just war theory.

There is nothing wrong with Pope Francis’s generic condemnation of war and its horrors.  It is his usual lack of distinction—in this case, conflating just with unjust wars—that is problematic, if not suicidal.

See Ibrahim’s new book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, for more on just war theory in action.

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POLICE STATE New Jersey to teach 2nd graders gender identity with the help of “AMAZE ORG”

BURLINGTON, New Jersey mother and attorney Kristen Sinclair reacts to the state plan to teach gender identity and ‘woke’ curriculum to children.

SEE: https://www.youtube.com/c/amazeorg/videos

AND: https://amaze.org/

AND: https://hundred.org/en/innovations/amaze-org

AND: https://www.youtube.com/c/AMAZEParents

Australian MP: 10-year-old School Girls Assigned Homework to Ask Their Dads About “Erections and Ejaculation”

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Labor MP James Merlino

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino backs school plan amid federal push | 7NEWS.com.au

BY C. MITCHELL SHAW

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/australian-mp-10-year-old-school-girls-assigned-homework-to-ask-their-dads-about-erections-and-ejaculation/;

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A disturbing story from Victoria, Australia, illustrates the depths to which groomers in public education will stoop to sexualize children. Victorian MP Bernie Finn publicly addressed the minister for education, Labor MP James Merlino, about a note Finn had received from a constituent that included a homework assignment for her 10-year-old daughter to discuss her father’s “erections and ejaculation” with him.

In a YouTube video of a parliamentary meeting posted to his account on April 5, Finn says, “I wish to raise a matter this afternoon for the attention of the minister for education, and I have to say — It is not often in this job I am absolutely shocked. I thought I’d seen everything.” He goes on to explain that he received a “note from a constituent” which Finn then reads into the record.

The note included a photo of a worksheet that the constituent’s 10-year-old daughter brought home from school. Finn reads from the note, which states, “Part of her homework was to discuss his erections and ejaculation with her father.” The constituent (and more importantly, the young girl’s mother) also wrote, “I find this very disturbing and sickening. I have complained to the school and was told it was just part of the curriculum.”

By brushing it off as “just part of the curriculum,” the sexual groomers in Australian public education seem to be saying it is fine to require a prepubescent girl to ask her father about what happens to his manly parts during sexual arousal and intercourse. The mother/constituent rightly did not accept that “explanation.” Her note continued, “My daughter still plays with dolls and writes letters to the tooth fairy.” The incongruity in this is almost too much to grasp. On the one hand, a mother — who knows her daughter well — recognizes the childish innocence of a little girl who spends her playtime being a “mother” to her dolls and still has baby teeth about which to write letters to the tooth fairy. On the other hand, education officials approve of — and defend — a curriculum that includes an assignment for that innocent child to ask her father to discuss the details of his “erections and ejaculation.”

Against that backdrop, the mother wrote, “There is no way any little girl should be told to ask these questions.” Finn agreed, saying, “So say all of us,” and asking — as if in the voice of “all of us” — “What the hell is going on in this state when 10-year-old girls are told to go home and talk to their father about his erections and about his ejaculations? What the hell is going on here?”

In righteous indignation, Finn continues:

How the hell are we supposed to protect our kids when this sort of perversion is in our schools?

This is what is being dished up to them on a daily basis in a primary school — not even a secondary school — a primary school. This is just unbelievable. It’s staggering.

I could not imagine the reaction — I have three daughters — I could not imagine the reaction of any of them if they were told to do that. They would be traumatized for life. I don’t think they’d ever recover. I’m not sure I’d recover.

This is just deplorable! This is just deplorable! And it seems to me to be a part of the ongoing war by the Andrews government against children — in particular — in this state. Let kids be kids. A ten-year-old girl should not be exposed to this sort of material.

Finn went on to ask the chamber whether any of them would be “happy” or “relaxed” about their 10-year-old daughters coming home from school with such an assignment. For himself, Finn said, “My God, I wouldn’t be — I’d be horrified.” He added, “Indeed, we should all be horrified.”

Finn then called on the minister for education, Labor MP James Merlino, to “conduct an urgent investigation” into this assignment and the curriculum from which it came and to “remove this material to ensure that no other child is put in the situation that this poor ten-year-old little girl has been put into at this point.”

Finn is correct in his assessment and in his demand. Because the corollary to that assignment is the salient fact that before that young girl or any of her classmates even could go home and ask their dads those questions, they would have already been introduced — in class — to the idea of erections and ejaculation.

And while every decent person immediately sees what is wrong with that, the sexual groomers in public education are so blinded by their own perversion and their consciences are so seared that to them, this is “just” a normal “part of the curriculum.”

Just look at the problem of sexualizing materials in American public-school curricula. Take, for instance, the controversial (or, more accurately non-controversial) action on the part of Florida to simply prohibit “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity” for “kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”

If Americans do not want little girls coming home to ask their dads about their erections and ejaculation, then Americans had better get ahead of that curve. And while pushing for measures such as what Florida is doing is good and well, the real solution is to take from the public school groomers the one thing they cannot do without and cannot replace: your children. Homeschool or place your kids in an academy that shares your values. Starve the public-school systems to death. The alternative is to give your children to the groomers.

 

Yale Law School Recruits and Trains Social Justice Warriors

Mission: wage lawfare to effect change across every sector of society.

BY MICHAEL CUTLER

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/yale-law-school-recruits-and-trains-social-justice-michael-cutler/;

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If practitioners of any profession would be expected to understand and honor the notion of Free Speech, it would be lawyers.  In years past this would be a reasonable conclusion.  However, in so many ways traditional American values have been turned upside down and inside out!

Consider that on March 17, 2022, Fox News reported, Liberal Yale Law students derail a bipartisan 'free speech' event in a chaotic protest; police were called to the scene.

 The report began with the following:

A bipartisan panel on civil liberties at Yale Law School was disrupted last week when more than 100 law students tried to drown out and intimidate the speakers, who eventually needed police to escort them out of the building, according to reports.

The school’s Federalist Society hosted the March 10 panel, which featured Monica Miller, of the progressive American Humanist Association, and Kristen Waggoner, of the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 120 student protesters showed up with signs attacking the ADF to shout down the speakers, with one reportedly recorded on audio telling a member of the conservative group that she would "literally fight you, b——."

"It was disturbing to witness law students whipped into a mindless frenzy. I did not feel it was safe to get out of the room without security," Waggoner told the Washington Free Beacon.

The Fox News report also included this important observation by Waggoner:

Waggoner later tweeted: "My hot take: Good lawyers win with civility & persuasion, not physical intimidation and threats of violence. We aren’t afraid to engage with people and ideas we disagree with. Apparently, many of the students missed this lesson."

It is beyond disturbing that law students at one of America’s most prestigious and influential law schools would witness the sort of madness that occurred at the event described in the Fox News report.

Many of those Yale law students will not only go on to successful careers as attorneys but become judges, leaders in major corporations, and law professors.

About a dozen years ago I was invited by the Federalist Society at Yale Law School to participate in a debate about Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

The debate was spirited and fair and all who attended were courteous and respectful.  But that was then.

Open debate is at the heart of a free society and is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Indeed, you can think of debate as an example of intellectual capitalism.  Competing concepts are provided to the audience who then decide which concept they are willing to “buy.”

On a personal note, I have a degree in Communications Arts and Sciences and had planned to teach speech and debate at the college level when I had the opportunity to make a career change and became a federal agent.

You never understand your side of an argument more than when you have to defend it against an opponent- in fact, one of my debate coaches would have us prepare to argue both sides of a debate and then not tell us which side we would take until 30 minutes before the debate!

The Radical Left, however, knows that they cannot win a fair debate so they now seek to shut down debate as they sought to do in that debate at Yale Law School in February.

Laws can be thought of as the rulebook by which society functions.  Laws control human conduct and behavior and regulate the way that corporations function.

Without laws or law enforcement anarchy follows.  However, overbearing laws and law enforcement can create a dictatorship that strips the citizens of their freedoms.

It is clear that those who write the laws, along with those practicing law and those who enforce our laws are at the foundation of our society and government.

For decades radicals and globalists have sought to wrest control over our government to gain control over America and Americans and strip our nation of its sovereignty.

In point of fact, Radical Democrats Have Become 'Adversaries of Freedom'.

When Obama was elected President, in his victory speech Obama declared, “Change has come to America!’

It would appear that today, Lawfare is being waged against America and Americans.

Lawfare has been defined as:

Legal action undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against a country or group.

We will explore how this is being implemented shortly, but first, consider that in the wake of the death of George Floyd riots broke out across the United States in which innocent people were killed and buildings were reduced to rubble and ashes in so-called “peaceful demonstrations” as reported on by supposed “news organizations.” These supposed news organizations were thinly veiled propaganda machines that could have been part of Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” straight out of the pages of his novel, 1984.

The Radical Left began demanding “Criminal Justice Reform” and the defunding of police.”

Anarchistic enclaves sprung up in cities such as Seattle, Washington.  In short order Americans rejected this lunacy, so the Left distanced themselves from the Defund Police movement, but their goals did not change.

Radical Leftists have simply taken a different approach to achieve the same anarchistic goals.

“Bail Reform” was implemented in many cities controlled by the Leftists under the guise that this would only involve those charged with non-violent crimes.  It quickly became apparent, however, that many violent thugs were released without bail and went on to commit more violent crimes that injured or killed more innocent victims including children.

New York City, which had been the safest big city in the United States, quickly descended into violence and chaos as the newly-elected Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, implemented new bail policies and established prosecutorial discretion policies that encouraged not deterred violent crimes.

Effective law enforcement is a system with a number of important elements.  When dedicated laws enforcement officers make arrests and conduct criminal investigations, they must be supported by dedicated prosecutors who are on the same page, seeking the effective prosecution of criminals.

Today, unfortunately, in many jurisdictions, prosecutors who are supposed to work in close coordination with law enforcement officers are now acting as though they are criminal defense attorneys.

George Gascon, the infamous Los Angeles District Attorney became the veritable “poster child” of such prosecutors who sought to protect criminals and not their victims.

It has become clear that the vast majority of Americans reject the lunacy of defunding the police and many politicians who had advocated for this policy are now denying that they support this madness.  However, their goals of creating anarchy, likely in order to subsequently fill the void created by anarchy with their notion of control over government and hence society.

Now we come to the issue of “Lawfare” I raised earlier in my commentary.

A news release that was issued by Yale Law School on February 21, 2022, announced:  Yale Law School Announces Tuition-Free Scholarships for Highest Need Students.

The idea of providing free college education for American students is a concept I personally approve of.  Children growing up in poverty are not likely to be able to afford tuition for college or to attend graduate schools and therefore scholarships for such students of appropriate academic standing could be a way to help combat endemic poverty.

Yale Law School is not, however being altruistic in this case- it is clear that their actual goal is to enlist an army of lawyers who will practice Lawfare.

Consider this final paragraph in that Yale news release:

“At Yale Law School, we prepare lawyers and leaders to face the most critical challenges of the future and effect change across every sector of society,” said Gerken. “We are committed to ensuring every student can fully immerse themselves in our vibrant intellectual experience and has the tools and resources they need to leave their mark on the world. The Hurst Horizon Scholarship Program cements our commitment to access and equity for all.”

The motivation is clear- Yale Law School is not as benevolent it may appear to be.  Yale Law School is clearly determined to create an army of lawyers who are literally indebted to Yale who will engage in “Lawfare”

In his famous Iron Curtain Speech Winston Churchill delivered on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri  Churchill spoke of:

“...communist fifth columns that were operating throughout western and southern Europe. Drawing parallels with the disastrous appeasement of Hitler prior to World War II, Churchill advised that in dealing with the Soviets there was “nothing which they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness.”

That concern voiced by Churchill about “communist fifth columns” (and other adversaries of freedom), should also have included the United States.

Pittsburgh: Catholic university hosts speaker who calls on white people to ‘crucify their whiteness’

Undergraduate Visits | Pittsburgh, Pa | Carlow University

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/04/pittsburgh-catholic-university-hosts-speaker-who-calls-on-white-people-to-crucify-their-whiteness;

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Miguel de la Torre argues that “hope” is a “white concept,” which would come as a surprise to St. Paul. In typical fashion, Sean McFarland, Carlow University Public Relations & Communications Manager, defends the university’s featuring of de la Torre’s message of fashionable racial hatred, resentment, and rage by claiming that the university exposes students to a wide variety of perspectives in order to encourage critical thinking. Is that so? All right: when was the last time the university hosted a foe of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women? Why, never, because that would be “Islamophobic”? That’s what I thought. So what’s that you were saying about free thought and free expression, McFarland?

Universities today are indoctrination camps for the hard Left. Flee them.

“Catholic university speaker: ‘crucify whiteness,’ embrace ‘hopelessness,’ ‘ethically lie,’” by Katelynn Richardson, College Fix, April 1, 2022:

Carlow University recently hosted an event on “Rejecting White Christianity” that featured a speaker who argued white people should “crucify their whiteness,” called for the embrace of “hopelessness,” and urged people to “ethically lie” to make right for past wrongs….

The March 3 event was sponsored by Carlow’s Atkins Center for Ethics and featured Miguel De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.

De La Torre began his presentation by lambasting evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump, according to a video of the speech.

“When eight out of ten white evangelicals voted for a person who is completely against everything Christianity stands for, I don’t know what Christianity they are practicing,” he said. “But I want nothing to do with that Christianity.”

He then distinguished “white theology and ethics” from “Latinx ethics” and noted that the term white does not refer to skin pigmentation but is an “ontological concept.”

“Those of us who are colored, some of us can also be white. But the good news is there is salvation,” he said. Later, he explained that this salvation means “we [who are colored] have to crucify our colonized minds, and for our white brothers and sisters, they need to crucify their whiteness.”

Torre’s speech focused on the idea of “hope,” which he rejected and characterized as a white concept.

“We embrace Euro-centric concepts like hope because it helps to pacify the oppressed during their oppression,” he said. “It leads to spiritual liberation, and ignores physical liberation.”…

Action for De La Torre means using what he called a “trickster ethic” to transform society.

The ethic covers things like “how to ethically lie so we can discover what is true, how to ethically steal so we can feed those who are hungry…[and] how to disrupt the structures that have trained us to oppress ourselves and to take upon our body our own discipline,” he said.

“This empire was built on stolen resources and cheap labor,” De La Torre said. “So hospitality is really the wrong word. What we need is restitution…By seeing this dilemma through the eyes of the margin, we come to a very different understanding of what the Christian response should be.”…

Sean McFarland, Carlow University Public Relations & Communications Manager, told The College Fix that “viewpoints of lecturers should not be taken as either an endorsement or opposition of how the University feels about a particular issue.”

“Rather, the intent of our university’s liberal arts tradition is to expose students to a variety of worldly perspectives and encourage them to think critically and individually on how they feel about the topic(s) in question,” McFarland said.

“Carlow University is proud of our Catholic heritage and mercy mission, which welcomes all. As such, the University welcomes respectful discourse and multiple perspectives, including being open to hosting speakers like Dr. De La Torre whose topic may engender thoughtful reflection and dialogue.”

 

MassResistance helps Hawaii parents stop terrible anti-family bills in State Legislature

SEE: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22b/Hawaii-stops-anti-family-bills/index.html;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Bills that would (1) push extreme LGBT agenda in schools and (2) criminally punish parents who complain

Plus a bizarre pro-LGBT school resolution dies in the Hawaii House of Representatives

The right strategies from MassResistance made the difference, says local leader!

April 4, 2022
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There were continuous protests by parents in downtown Honolulu near the State Capitol.

Two of the most radical bills we’ve ever seen were introduced in the Hawaii legislature this past January. Quickly gaining momentum, both quietly passed in the House in early March. They needed to be stopped in the State Senate!

  • Bill HB 1697 would have required public schools to teach children that homosexuality, transgenderism, etc., are normal and positive behaviors. Schools must “destigmatize” and include “positive representations” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, other sexual orientation and gender identities.”

    It would also have required the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) to train teachers how to instruct children on LGBT topics.

  • Bill HB 2125 would have criminalized parents who complain to teachers or their School Board. Its intent was to silence parents who object to Critical Race Theory, graphic LGBT topics, Covid mask requirements for children, etc. It would have created a new criminal offense: “Harassment of an education worker” with punishments of fines and jail time.

It would have dovetailed with existing statutes to include “harassing or insulting electronic communications.” Thus, sending “insulting” emails to your School Board member (or posting criticisms on social media) could get a parent in legal trouble.

These bills were heavily pushed by the Hawaii Department of Education, other leftist government agencies, special interest groups, various radical teachers, and left-wing activists.

Outrage across the state – parents organize

The outrage against these bills across the state was fierce. Two parents, Art and Peggy, formed a fast-growing statewide group, Fathers and Mothers for Children, to mobilize people against these two bills.

On March 7, 2022, the group held a rally against HB 1697 at the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu. Over 100 people attended. It was a rousing event and included speeches by prominent pro-family leaders and a State Representative.

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State Rep Bob McDermott, a pro-family fighter in the legislature, addresses the parents' rally.

A week later, on March 14, the group organized a march through the streets of Honolulu to the State Capitol. Hundreds of people participated. When they reached the Capitol, there was another rally with several local speakers.

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Protesters march through Honolulu to the State Capitol on March 14.
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A family makes a statement outside the Capitol.

They continued holding protests every few days.

MassResistance gets involved

MassResistance is no stranger to Hawaii. Back in 2009, we helped stop a “civil unions” bill in the Hawaii Senate. (Even the Boston “gay” newspaper complained about MassResistance’s involvement there!)

In 2013, MassResistance worked with Hawaii activists in a huge battle to attempt to stop “gay marriage” from being imposed by the Legislature.

We are still in touch with many of the activists we worked with back then. So on March 10, 2022, one of them – Susan – contacted us for some strategic help.

After studying the situation, including the fact that both bills were now in the State Senate, we advised Susan that the group should immediately: (1) get politicians who are currently running for office to show up and publicly support the parents; and (2) target the districts of the Senators who are pushing the bad bills.

They took our advice. Here’s what Susan told us on March 25:

We used those two suggestions. We got politicians involved and I think that is what helped get the word out to a larger group. Candidates running for office did come and they participated in our events. We had a candidate for Governor and a very popular candidate for Lt. Governor show up and both spoke. And we singled out three districts that we targeted for rallies and sign-waving.

Victory: Both bills were stopped in the Senate!

And everyone’s hard work paid off! On March 24, both bills failed to move forward in the Senate and are now dead. It happened very quietly. The parents had to call the Capitol to get the official word. “I imagine that there will be efforts to resurrect these bills next year but we'll be watching,” Susan told us.

A bizarre House resolution also dies

There was also a bizarre resolution in the House of Representatives that almost passed. It had no legal implications, but it still promoted a very dangerous policy.

HCR 138 stated that Hawaii’s “educational materials and practices do not reflect the range of gender expressions and sexual identities that exist” and that “teachers do not understand diverse gender and sexual orientations.”

Therefore, to fix this “problem” the resolution requested that the Hawaii Department of Education create a “student-led working group” to find ways to push LGBT subjects more directly in Hawaii’s schools. That would include “peer to peer sexual health” – which usually means homosexuals grooming other children.

Since the House had earlier passed the two anti-family bills, our side was not confident we could stop this, either. But it seems that the resolution got tripped up by the growing parental outrage. Though it had already passed one House committee, on April 1 it quietly died in another House committee.

Final thoughts

A big contribution that MassResistance makes around the country is to help parents with an aggressive and effective strategy to achieve their goals. Most parents have a lot of great energy for fighting the Left’s horrible attacks on their children, but little experience in the right way to go about it. The Left usually comes in with a wealth of experience and tactics. We help to bridge that gap!

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florida governor DeSantis Suggests Ending Disney’s Special Self-Governing Status

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/01/war-desantis-suggests-ending-disneys-special-self-governing-status-n1586118;

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Back in 1967 when Disney World was just a gleam in Mickey’s eye and states around the country were vying for Walt Disney’s approval to build his second theme park, the Florida legislature passed the Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which gave the Walt Disney Company a special carve-out, making it a self-governing enclave.

The Act gave Disney “the ability, the power to build a nuclear power plant, an airport manufacturer, distill and distribute alcoholic beverages and lots of other things,” said Dr. Richard Foglesong, author of Married to the Mouse in an interview with a Florida TV station last year.

Related: Disney Cast Members Who Don’t Buy Into the LGBTQ Agenda Make Their Voices Heard

Disney has since become an extraordinarily powerful media conglomerate and is now using that power to advance an agenda at odds with the beliefs and values of a large percentage of its customer base. So many Florida Republicans, sick and tired of Disney’s nauseating virtue signaling, want to strip Disney of its special status, making the company subject to reasonable oversight from Orange County.

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor and potential GOP candidate for president in 2024 hasn’t yet given the plan his full endorsement, but he’s sending a clear message to Disney to stick to making kids smile and entertaining families—and stay the hell out of politics.

Fox News:

DeSantis continued, “I think what has happened is there’s a lot of these special privileges that are not justifiable, but because Disney had held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years.”

DeSantis said that Disney has “lost a lot of the pull that they used to have” over the company’s reaction to the parental rights law and said he thinks that’s a “good thing for our state because the state should be governed by the best interest of the people.”

“I would say any special privileges that are in law I would like to get rid of generally,” DeSantis added. “I think in this particular case with Disney, I just don’t think you have very many people in the legislature anymore who are going to be able to defend a lot of what has been done over many years to really have them almost govern themselves in some of these things. That was probably never appropriate to start, but is certainly not appropriate now at this point.”

There’s a reason that DeSantis is tiptoeing around the issue of Disney self-governance: The Walt Disney Company is the largest GOP donor in the state of Florida. For that reason and others, the author of Married to the Mouse thinks the threat by Republicans to revoke Disney’s self-governing status is political “March Madness.”

ClickOrlando:

“If you ask me whether it’s politically possible to take these privileges away from the Disney company, I don’t think so,” Foglesong said. “I think that cooler minds will prevail and that this is really a shot across the bow to try to bring the Disney company, Mickey Mouse if you will, into line with Governor DeSantis. I thought it was more of March Madness of the political kind, the thought that the Republican Party, which used to be the party of business, would want to take on of their biggest donors.”

Even the threat of revoking their self-governing status has to be giving Walt Disney Company board members a case of the willies. But at least the company has been put on notice that there are limits to DeSantis’s patience with their woke advocacy, and if they’re not careful, Disney customers and fans are going to be taking their business elsewhere.

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DeSantis Stands Firm on Parental Rights Law, Even as White House Threatens to "Monitor" Law's Implementation

DeSantis Stands Firm on Parental Rights Law, Even as White House Threatens to “Monitor” Law’s Implementation

BY C. MITCHELL SHAW

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/desantis-stands-firm-on-parental-rights-law-even-as-white-house-threatens-to-monitor-laws-implementation/;

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As Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to stand firm on the Sunshine State’s Parental Rights in Education bill that he recently signed into law, the Biden administration has announced it will “monitor” how Florida implements the new law.

The law — which mainstream media and Democrats pejoratively refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — prohibits “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity” for “kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”

In Tuesday’s daily White House press briefing, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield made a surprise appearance to announce that “The Department of Education … will monitor this law upon implementation to evaluate whether it violates federal civil rights law.”

In her time at the press briefing, Bedingfield referred to a statement by President Biden, saying, “The president also put out a statement [Monday] about the tragic impact of this kind of law on an incredibly vulnerable population.” She added, “And he said that by signing this bill, the governor has chosen to target some of Florida’s most vulnerable students and families, all while under the guise of parents’ rights.”

One is left to wonder about the “incredibly vulnerable population” of “transgender” kindergartners who are suffering under the “tragic impact” of a law that simply prohibits them from being sexualized in the classroom.

As Townhall pointed out, “Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has said the same”:

And Biden is doubling down. In a brief video message commemorating Transgender Day of Visibility Thursday, Biden described bills such as Florida’s as “hateful” and said his administration is “standing up” for transgender Americans threatened by them. He said:

The onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong. This administration is standing up for you against all these hateful bills. And we’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing field, at work, in our military and our housing and health care systems.

He said the policy of “inclusion” of “trans” rights — a euphemism in this case for the sexualization of young children — will be “Everywhere. Simply everywhere.”

However, even with the White House implicitly threatening to bring the full weight of the Department of Education down on Florida — and both Biden and Cardona spouting slanders that DeSantis is “targeting” vulnerable children — the Florida governor is not backing down. In a statement he released, DeSantis said:

Parents’ rights have been increasingly under assault around the nation, but in Florida we stand up for the rights of parents and the fundamental role they play in the education of their children. Parents have every right to be informed about services offered to their child at school, and should be protected from schools using classroom instruction to sexualize their kids as young as 5 years old.

One has to ask since the Parental Rights in Education law actually only prohibits “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity” for “kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards” — an idea that Americans overwhelmingly support — why is the establishment so hell-bent on pushing what this law prohibits?

In a previous article, this writer quoted DeSantis as addressing that question:

While some critics have not read the bill and are merely regurgitating talking points given by others, DeSantis said that “leftist politicians, corporate media outlets, some of these activist groups” are different, because “they actually have read the bill” and are deliberately dishonest about what is in it, because they “are opposed to providing protections for parents and enforcing parents rights.”

In that same article, DeSantis addressed Disney’s attacks on the law, saying Hollywood types “who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein as exemplars” are coming out against a common-sense measure to protect children, and adding, “if those are the types of people opposing us on parents rights, I wear that like a badge of honor.”

So, Hollywood, mainstream media, and the White House are all worked up in a lather to oppose a law that simply protects children from being sexualized in the classroom. And none of them minds stooping to new lows of dishonesty and smear tactics to do it. That should just about explain who is who in this battle in the culture war.

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Video: Gender Studies Professor Outlines Democrats’ Endgame For American Children

'Professor' Mark Dice makes a surprise appearance at a California city council meeting.

In this new Mark Dice video, a gender studies professor makes a surprise appearance at a California city council meeting to share the Democrats' plan for American public schools. Don't miss it!

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