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  1. #61
    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.

    I wish there was a way to let this guy know a very important detail:

    IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHICH BUILDINGS HAVE BASEMENTS
    There are no crimes against people.
    There are only crimes against the state.
    And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.



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    Buta Biberaj, the county’s progressive, top elected prosecutor, who has close ties to the school board’s most liberal members, appeared in court to personally prosecute Smith for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Biberaj ran on a platform of ending “mass incarceration,” but she wanted to put Smith in jail for the misdemeanors.
    Get the $#@! out of my country.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  4. #63
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Get the $#@! out of my country.
    Or, otherwise...

  5. #64
    The only domestic terrorists I see are the people within our government.
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

    Calvin Coolidge



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    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
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    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

  8. #66
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    First Louisiana. Now Virginia.
    And Pennsylvania:

    https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/s...46642824744960

    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 12-19-2021 at 07:54 PM. Reason: replaced tweets wtih images

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  10. #68
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    I liked Malcom. He was articulate and had reasonable goals. He was not about handouts but getting your $#@!e together and taking responsibility. Had the Black Community gone his route they would be in a much better position today.

  11. #69
    Quote Originally Posted by GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged View Post
    I liked Malcom. He was articulate and had reasonable goals. He was not about handouts but getting your $#@!e together and taking responsibility. Had the Black Community gone his route they would be in a much better position today.

    Strangely enough he was assassinated before his ideas could take off within the black community. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
    Chris

    "Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon

    "...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul

  12. #70
    Quote Originally Posted by CCTelander View Post
    Strangely enough he was assassinated before his ideas could take off within the black community. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
    With that in mind maybe somebody is responsible for keeping the black person in poverty. Look what has happened. They used to speak understandable English and strove to better themselves. Now they have a language of their own and live off handouts that will never satisfy. Equality has gone from improving the less fortunate to demoting the more competent.

  13. #71
    Quote Originally Posted by CCTelander View Post
    Strangely enough he was assassinated before his ideas could take off within the black community. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
    Absolutely a coincidence. Nothing to see there. Nothing at all ...

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    Emails Reveal NSBA Top Officers Worked with White House on Letter Targeting Parents as ‘Domestic Terrorists’

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ic-terrorists/

    DR. SUSAN BERRY 21 Oct 2021

    Emails obtained through a public records request by Parents Defending Education (PDE) appear to indicate the top officers of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) worked with the White House prior to sending their September 29 letter to President Joe Biden requesting federal law enforcement assistance to target parents voicing concerns at local school board meetings.

    The emails, which were reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, reveal that Viola Garcia, NSBA’s president, and its CEO Chip Slaven, sent their letter to Biden without the approval of NSBA board members.

    According to a press release, PDE sent public records requests last week to the local districts of NSBA’s officers, directors, and ex officio voting directors, seeking emails and text and instant messages relevant to the letter sent to Biden.

    “PDE received emails between the board that demonstrate that the board was not consulted before such a letter was sent,” the parents’ group stated.

    A document, which PDE states contains all the redacted emails and other messages can be found here.

    One email in the document appears to show that, on the evening of September 29, Slaven, also NSBA’s interim executive director, forwarded the letter to Biden to NSBA’s board of directors, informing them he and Garcia had been “in talks over the last several weeks with White House staff,” and “they requested additional information on some of the specific threats.”

    Slaven’s message to the NSBA board of directors states:

    As you are probably aware, the level of threats and actual violence have increased the last few weeks and there are now some groups recognized for violence showing up at schools and school board meetings. The level of concern is rising. It is hoped the letter will also call out the bad behavior occurring and promote calmer thinking when people are debating these important issues. This letter is embargoed until tomorrow morning when it will be shared publicly. The letter will also be shared this evening with the state association executive directors.

    On October 2, Garcia wrote to the NSBA directors, “These are troubling times.”

    “NSBA has been engaged with the White House and the Department of Education on these and other issues related to the pandemic for several weeks now,” she continued. “The pandemic and our heightened political environment have created a lot of tension in our society.”

    Garcia added regarding local school board meetings and the request for federal law enforcement intervention:

    What we have witnessed are coordinated efforts, playbooks, for creating chaos at school board meetings and in local communities. Letters across states are very similar and these incidents are beyond random acts. What we are now seeing is a pattern of threats and violence occurring across state lines and via online platforms, which is why we need the federal government’s assistance.

    Emails from members of the NSBA board of directors suggest some were displeased Garcia and Slaven sent a letter to Biden and disclosed it nationally without the approval of the NSBA executive committee.

    “Many of us have been put in a position now of explaining or defending this action of our association as we are asked by members of our community if we consider them domestic terrorists for showing up to our meetings and expressing their opinions,” John W. Halkias, a director from the NSBA’s Central Region, wrote on Oct. 1, for example.

    “[W]hile I believe the intent was good, unfortunately, instead of helping our members and working to decrease the tensions and hostility that many of us are facing, we seem to have fanned those flames of hostility and division,” he continued.

    Halkias added he and other board members “should have been consulted before a letter like this was sent out publicly, and no less to the President of the United States and the National Press.”

    “I also agree that the letter took a stance that went beyond what many of us would consider to be reasonable and used terms that were extreme, and asked for action by the Federal Government that many of us would not request,” he added.

    Steven Chapman, a director from the NSBA’s Pacific Region, responded to the notice of the letter sent to Biden stating it should have “at least” been “reviewed by the executive committee.”

    Attorney General Merrick Garland testified Thursday he took the word of the NSBA that parents voicing their concerns at local school board meetings should be investigated as possible “domestic terrorists.”
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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  16. #73
    It's not parents that should be reported to the FBI. It's the school boards.
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

    Calvin Coolidge

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    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 12-19-2021 at 07:56 PM. Reason: replaced tweets with images

  18. #75
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Emails Reveal NSBA Top Officers Worked with White House on Letter Targeting Parents as ‘Domestic Terrorists’

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ic-terrorists/
    The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
    Moves on ...


    NSBA chief who penned ‘domestic terrorism’ letter named to federal post
    https://nypost.com/2021/10/26/viola-...verning-board/
    Mark Moore (26 October 2021)

    The Biden administration has tapped the president of the National School Boards Association — who penned a letter to President Biden comparing parents speaking out about their children’s education to “domestic terrorism” — for a position on the federal ​board setting policy for students’ performance.

    Viola Garcia was named by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to ​sit on the National Assessment Governing Board, which was established in 1988 and oversees and sets policy for the National Assessment of Education Progress.

    [...]
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 10-27-2021 at 01:56 AM.

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    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 12-19-2021 at 07:58 PM. Reason: replace tweet with image

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  22. #79
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    https://twitter.com/adamhousley/stat...77369494663168



    Because the FBI has such a long, distinguished history of scrupulously respecting the rights of individuals. I can't even type that with a straight face.
    Chris

    "Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon

    "...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul

  23. #80
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    https://twitter.com/adamhousley/stat...77369494663168




    Hooray for the FBI :smirk:



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  25. #81
    Confirmed now...FBI is targeting people for speaking out at school board meetings.



    House Republicans Reveal Whistleblower Documents Exposing FBI Use of Counterterrorism Tactics Against Parents

    https://www.breitbart.com/education/...ainst-parents/

    DR. SUSAN BERRY 16 Nov 2021

    A letter from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland reveals the lawmakers have received documents from a whistleblower that state the FBI is using counterterrorism tactics to investigate parents considered to be potential “domestic terrorists” as they voice concerns about education in their local school districts.

    The documents, which state the FBI is adding “threat tags” to parents, appear to contradict Garland’s testimony on October 21 during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in which he said the Department of Justice and the FBI were not using counterterrorism tools to investigate parents at school board meetings.

    A letter signed by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), ranking member of the House Judiciary, to Garland Tuesday states:

    We are now in receipt of a protected disclosure from a Department whistleblower showing that the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division is compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI personnel to use a specific “threat tag” to track potential investigations. This new information calls into question the accuracy and completeness of your sworn testimony.

    In his letter, Jordan also reminded Garland:

    Specifically, you testified that you could not “imagine any circumstance in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor … a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorists.” You also testified: “I do not think that parents getting angry at school boards for whatever reason constitute domestic terrorism. It’s not even a close question.”

    Jordan wrote the whistleblower provided an FBI email, dated October 20 – the day before Garland’s testimony – that referenced a directive from Garland on October 4 to the FBI to look into school board threats and apply a new “threat tag,” created by the Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions, to “investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.”

    “The email articulated the purpose as ‘scop[ing] this threat on a national level and provid[ing] an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of the threat picture for effective management with law enforcement partners at all levels,” Jordan wrote.

    On September 30, top officials of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to President Joe Biden seeking federal assistance to target parents voicing concerns at school board meetings about issues affecting their children’s education. The letter recommended that federal laws such as the Patriot Act be used to explore whether these parents might be identified as “domestic terrorists.”

    The letter, signed by Viola M. Garcia, Ed.D., the group’s president, and Chip Slaven, Esq., NSBA interim executive director and CEO, made specific mention of parents voicing concerns about mask mandates and stated parents were engaging in “propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula.”

    “This propaganda continues despite the fact that critical race theory is not taught in public schools and remains a complex law school and graduate school subject well beyond the scope of a K-12 class,” the NSBA officials wrote to Biden.

    On October 4, Garland’s office issued a memorandum that stated:

    Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools, today Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to meet in the next 30 days with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement leaders to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend. These sessions will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment and response by law enforcement.

    The Biden Education Department then announced October 13 it had appointed Garcia to the National Assessment Governing Board, a top position that provides oversight regarding which subjects students will be tested on in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card.

    In the weeks that followed, NSBA’s own board of directors renounced the letter to Biden sent by Garcia and Slaven, writing on Friday they “regret and apologize” for its content, and at least 26 state school board associations have distanced themselves from NSBA, some totally cutting ties with the organization.

    Emails obtained as well in October through public records requests by Parents Defending Education (PDE) revealed Garcia and Slaven had been “in talks over the last several weeks with White House staff,” and “they requested additional information on some of the specific threats.”

    Garcia wrote to NSBA directors the organization “has been engaged with the White House and the Department of Education on these and other issues related to the pandemic for several weeks now.”

    She added:

    What we have witnessed are coordinated efforts, playbooks, for creating chaos at school board meetings and in local communities. Letters across states are very similar and these incidents are beyond random acts. What we are now seeing is a pattern of threats and violence occurring across state lines and via online platforms, which is why we need the federal government’s assistance.

    “At best, if we assume that you were ignorant of the FBI’s actions in response to your October 4 memorandum at the time of your testimony, this new evidence suggests that your testimony to the Committee was incomplete and requires additional explanation,” Jordan wrote to Garland.

    “If, however, you were aware of the FBI’s actions at the time of your testimony, this evidence shows that you willfully misled the Committee about the nature and extent of the Department’s use of federal counterterrorism tools to target concerned parents at school board meetings,” he added.

    Jordan said the Judiciary Committee would like to further “assess the accuracy and completeness” of his “sworn testimony.”



    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/st...nst-parents%2F
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

  26. #82
    Garland won't resign, and he won't be fired, and he won't be impeached.

    No one except we plebes are ever held accountable for anything.

  27. #83
    Don't worry about little stuff like jury tampering......

    Housewives might be somewhat easier to handle.

  28. #84
    Quote Originally Posted by A Son of Liberty View Post
    Garland won't resign, and he won't be fired, and he won't be impeached.

    No one except we plebes are ever held accountable for anything.

    That needs to change.
    Chris

    "Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon

    "...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul

  29. #85
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Confirmed now...FBI is targeting people for speaking out at school board meetings.

    House Republicans Reveal Whistleblower Documents Exposing FBI Use of Counterterrorism Tactics Against Parents

    https://www.breitbart.com/education/...ainst-parents/

    DR. SUSAN BERRY 16 Nov 2021

    A letter from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland reveals the lawmakers have received documents from a whistleblower that state the FBI is using counterterrorism tactics to investigate parents considered to be potential “domestic terrorists” as they voice concerns about education in their local school districts.
    Nah, it'll be fine ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 12-19-2021 at 08:00 PM. Reason: replaced tweet with image

  30. #86
    Quote Originally Posted by Occam's Banana View Post
    Nah, it'll be fine ...

    Of course it will.

    If you can't trust the FBI who can you trust?
    Chris

    "Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon

    "...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul

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  32. #88
    Education Secretary Cardona solicited NSBA letter comparing protesting parents to domestic terrorists
    NSBA official said controversial letter followed 'a request by Secretary Cardona'
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/edu...rrorists-email
    Peter Hasson (11 January 2022)

    Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists, according to an email exchange reviewed by Fox News.

    The email exchange indicates Cardona was more involved with the letter's creation than previously known.

    President Biden's Department of Justice relied on the NSBA letter, which suggested using the PATRIOT Act against parents, in creating its own memo directing the FBI to mobilize in support of local education officials.

    In the Oct. 5 email, NSBA Secretary-Treasurer Kristi Swett recounted that NSBA interim CEO Chip Slaven "told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona."

    Previous emails had revealed that the NSBA was in contact with the White House and Justice Department in the weeks before it publicly sent the letter.

    The emails were obtained by the parents group Parents Defending Education in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

    "Should this allegation be true, it would reveal that this administration's pretextual war on parents came from the highest levels," PDE President Nicole Neily told Fox News Digital.

    "Attorney General Merrick Garland unequivocally stated that he based his memo on the NSBA's letter - which in turn, mobilized the FBI and US Attorneys," Neily added. "If Secretary Cardona was truly involved in this ugly episode, it is a significant breach of public trust, and he should be held accountable."

    Cardona previously served as Connecticut's education secretary, where he said he wanted teachers "becoming more ‘woke’" and promoted resources on "microaggressions."

    The Education Department and the NSBA didn't immediately provide comment.



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  35. #90
    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/st...30349539037184


    NSBA chief had advance notice of DOJ's controversial school board memo
    NSBA CEO 'knew about' Garland memo before it was published, NSBA official said
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nsb...ard-memo-email
    Peter Hasson (14 February 2022)

    The head of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) had advance notice of Attorney General Merrick Garland's controversial memo about protecting school boards, a top NSBA official confided in an email reviewed by Fox News Digital.

    "I understand Chip [Slaven] knew about the A.G. directives before they were published. So much for communicating with the BOD [Board of Directors]," NSBA southern regional director Pam Doyle wrote in an Oct. 5 email to Beverly Slough, who sits on the NSBA Board of Directors.

    Slaven was the NSBA's CEO at the time. Doyle's email came one day after Garland's memo.

    The email was obtained by Parents Defending Education, a pro-parents group, in a public records request and shared with Fox News Digital.

    [...]

    The email is the latest indication of coordination between the Biden administration and the NSBA on the school board group's letter that compared parent protests to domestic terrorism, and the subsequent Justice Department memo pledging to devote more law enforcement resources to protecting school boards.

    Garland testified later in October that the NSBA letter was the basis for his memo. Although the NSBA apologized for, and later retracted, the letter after backlash, Garland has stood by his memo.

    Fox News Digital previously reported that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the NSBA's letter, according to an email from a top NSBA official.

    The Education Department previously denied that Cardona did, in fact, solicit the letter, but still has yet to explain the discrepancy between their denial and the email's contents.

    Both the NSBA letter and Garland's memo generated intense blowback from parent groups and Republican lawmakers.

    State-level school board groups quickly sought to distance themselves from the NSBA, with dozens of them formally leaving the association.

    A DOJ spokeswoman declined to answer Fox News Digital's request for comment, pointing instead to Garland's Senate testimony in which he said he wasn't aware of conversations between the DOJ and the NSBA.

    A White House official previously told Fox News that the White House didn't order Garland to write the memo, saying: "DOJ chose to take this approach on their own."

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