A Letter To The Editor sent in by reader Alan Burke
“Lawfare” Is Already Spreading
“Lawfare” has already been unleashed on common citizens.
Trump recently lost a criminal trial. The chief witness admitted to embezzlement. Even biased journalists questioned the “hush money case.”
Conservative pundits fear this will encourage similar abuse against common citizens. It already has.
In Colorado, Jack Phillips continues to be harassed for exercising constitutional/civil rights to disagree with a behavior. The Supreme Court ruled in Jack Phillips’ favor. Yet, Jack continues to be harassed with legal allegations for the exact same scenario. The teacher’s union successfully demanded the DOJ investigate opposition parents for petitioning local school boards. The teacher’s union boldly declared that parents had no right to disagree with teachers’ lessons. School boards were created to give parents a vote in classroom lessons.
Across the US, colleges have promoted liberal ideology while harassing conservative disagreement. Biased administrators have outright refused to allow conservative speakers. Conservative groups have been barred from campuses and denied permits to demonstrate. Some biased administrators have “allowed” conservative speakers, but only with exorbitant “security fees.” Biased administrators blame public safety concerns. They haven’t been concerned about violence committed by conservatives. They are worried about violence from liberal opposition. Basically, we are not allowed to disagree with liberals because of the violence caused by those liberals with whom we disagree. There were no charges for trapping Riley Gains. At the same time, racist liberal groups have been allowed to set up encampments without permits. They blocked access to public areas/thoroughfares. Jewish students/faculty were attacked. Liberal groups continue to receive wide support despite committing violence and racism. Liberal DA’s will likely pay arrested antisemitic protestors huge “out-of-court settlements” to encourage more protesting. Biased administrators agree to violent liberal demands and refuse to allow the civil rights of conservatives.
In many areas, committing an assault is slapped on the wrist. A father was arrested for acknowledging his daughter’s rape at a school board meeting. Violent crime victims who call the police risk being punished. The police do not arrest criminals. As a result, the criminals relentlessly attack victims for reporting crime. The victim risks being labeled racist. Crime statistics are being hidden and manipulated to hide failed policies and promote stereotypes against citizens who disagree. New York is one of the worst places for this trend. Shop owners have been charged with assault for defending themselves. The legal system has turned from punishing violent criminals into punishing disagreement.
Alan Burke
Trump is and always was known to be guilty of the charges. The only real question was, were the chargers serious enough to justify the cost of prosecuting versus the public good of prosecuting? I vote it was more the later, but the DA clearly wanted to make a name for themself…so be it. About time a person was held accountable in court regardless of their ability to fight back with deep pockets that you and I can’t. Heck, it likely even improved his chances of winning in November.
Jack Phillips is free to disagree with whatever he likes. The catch is that he isn’t free from consequences and in his case (and I truly believe he is happy to be the test case) he is being challenged legally in a court of law. I think the law needs to be clarified on this topic and applaud Jack for taking on the burden of being the test case. Good for him. Personally, I hope he loses but I am not a legal expert.
There are conservative speakers and then there are conservative provocateurs who love to create drama and rile up those they disagree with on specific topics. A University should absolutely avoid inviting guests whose main objective is to intentionally provoke a visceral reaction from the public. Universities have enough drama already with students love of protesting. Why invite more drama.
I am not familiar with your police policy conspiracy theory. But the father being arrested in Loudoun was because he felt the rules didn’t apply to him. He wanted to speak at a board meeting without having first signed up and then had a fit when they wouldn’t make an exception. Sounds like he needs to focus on his family more than making a public embarrassment of himself. His daughter’s attacker is being investigated and most likely prosecuted so why rush to make a scene (plus that shows cops DO arrest criminals)? Get on the list next meeting and then make your case. I can’t see how all this drama he created is helping his daughter overcome a traumatic experience.
But you be you.
“The teacher’s union successfully demanded the DOJ investigate opposition parents for petitioning local school boards. The teacher’s union boldly declared that parents had no right to disagree with teachers’ lessons. School boards were created to give parents a vote in classroom lessons.”
You are correct Alan. The purpose of creating school boards is to give the PARENTS, you know, those people who are responsible for the child, a voice in what happens to THEIR children the classroom. And the overwhelming number of those classrooms are PUBLIC, i.e. those are the people who pay taxes to support those classrooms, and are the ultimate authority over their children until such time as they reach the age of maturity. We need to get the schools out of the hands of those who see themselves as someone who knows what’s best for OUR children, starting with the elimination of the Federal Department of Education and put it back to the local level where it belongs.
How much ‘control’ do you give parents over the classroom. For example, Jenny’s mommy is a Christian conservative who believes in a literal translation of the bible and doesn’t want her daughter to be taught that the world is older than 10k years and that dinosaurs where extinct millions of years before man roamed the earth. But Bobby’s mommy is agnostic and is excited for her child to learn the modern scientific theories of our universe such as the big bang theory. Who do you listen to? Think of all the various opinions of the diverse nature of parents in even a small town like PG. How in the world do you make them all happy if you promise them all ‘control’ over their child’s education?
Personally, I think if you don’t like the STATE curriculum (which is actually controlled by conservatives in NC) then consider private school or home school. Otherwise, let the trained educators teach your kid and you work with them at home how to think critically for themselves in line with your family’s values.
But you be you.
You’re right Chris. People already can send their kids to private school or home school but STILL have to pay their hard earned money in the form of taxes to pay for these indoctrination centers even though their children don’ t attend. That sounds pretty fair to me. They won’t let you keep YOUR money to use to properly educate your children and if you can’t afford private school or have the ability to home school you HAVE to send them to the centers or go to jail. In other words, they got you by selected portions of your anatomy.
As far as your “examples”, what do you do when Jenny’s teacher tells her she doesn’t have to be girl. She can be a boy, she can be boy/girl or even a girl/boy, or whatever her biological blood pump desires. Just be free! And Bobby’s teacher tells him his mom is a devil worshiping fool who believes in silly unproven concepts. (theory: a statement of an opinion or an explanation of an idea that is believed to be true, but might be wrong…Cambridge Dictionary)
See, I can come up with silly, ridiculous examples too.
As far as “Otherwise, let the trained educators teach your kid and you work with them at home how to think critically for themselves in line with your family’s values.”, what happens when the child goes back to school and tells your “trained educator” they’re full of themselves and they are standing by what their parents tell them. Care to bet on who is going to suffer?
There has to be some level of standards, and sticking to the basics without all the social engineering crap schools are forcing on students while throwing out curriculum that could be of a benefit to students can go further then teaching how boys can have babies.
It is very simple. I talk to my children and teach them critical thinking from a very young age. Part of that conversation is that adults have a lot of different views and they should be comfortable to question them and come to me as they have questions about topics they don’t fully understand. If you are such a poor parent that your kids get their social queue from an overworked, over stressed teacher, that’s on you. Most of the time I found myself answering topics my kids heard from their friends. Not teachers.
No one yet has shown any evidence of a mass conspiracy of schools indoctrinating children to liberal points of view (k-12 as college is a different story but I would hope by college kids learn to think for themselves). As i always remind people about public schools. The teachers in those schools come from YOUR community and most have very similar non-confrontational points of view and really just wish parents would teach their kids to sit and behave in public better.
But you be you.