The “Justice for J6” rally on September 18 was a bust largely because, having seen what happened to the January 6 trespassers themselves, patriots were reluctant to put themselves in the government’s crosshairs. State intimidation works.
Now the feds want to do the same with parents, often mothers, who complain at school board meetings about COVID-19 restrictions and their children’s racial and sexual indoctrination. Meanwhile, when Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs riot, they should be given “space” to “destroy,” as Baltimore’s mayor put it some years ago.
School board meetings have become a focal point of anti-establishment, pro-virtue pushback this year, with parents taking left-wing board members to task for the outrageous curricula and regulations visited upon their kids. The board members are generally unsympathetic and at times have even tried to silence the parents (e.g., cutting someone’s mic). Now the National Association of School Boards has gone even further, sending the federal government a letter complaining about the dissent and likening the parental pushback to “domestic terrorism.” Apparently, the school board oligarchy shall not be questioned — and Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to agree.
The Daily Mail summarizes the story:
- House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said Biden is ‘weaponizing’ the DOJ to target parents seeking to be involved in their children’s education
- The National Association of School Boards (NASB) likened parents’ objections to woke school boards as ‘a form of domestic terrorism’ in a letter to Biden
- Asra Nomani, a mom, said: ‘This is what a domestic terrorist looks like? You are criminalizing parenting, and you owe the people of America a swift apology
- Days later AG Merrick Garland issued a memorandum to local law enforcement saying there has been a ‘disturbing spike in harassment’ against teachers
- Now, the FBI has been told to crack down on the issue
- It’s unclear what crimes they will face, but parents are being warned they face prosecution
Part of the issue is that there’s no specificity as to what constitutes “harassment.” Of course, this makes sense: There’s little the government could cite that would be illegal because the dissenting parents have virtually always been passionate but not violent. The “wiggle room” vague terminology affords, however, conveniently allows for persecution. “Hey, your demonization of [a.k.a. telling the truth about] the board made them feel ‘unsafe.’”
Why, the Cold War era Marxists would institutionalize people for exhibiting “philosophical intoxication.” Today, our leftists speak of microaggressions and “whiteness” as a psychological defect requiring remedy.
Speaking of “remedy,” the weaponization of bureaucracy Representative McCarthy referenced is nothing new. Barack Obama said in a summer interview that Joe Biden was “essentially finishing the job” of his administration, and this was apropos:
Obama had also weaponized the federal bureaucracy, an example being his use of the IRS to stifle conservative activism.
This continued subsequently, with the whole bureaucracy (i.e., the “deep state”) weaponizing itself against President Trump.
Now the phenomenon is intensifying.
But it, again, reflects a double standard. Consider how this week, “activists stalked Sen. Krysten Simena [sic] into a women’s restroom at Arizona State University, where the senator teaches a class,” wrote the New York Post yesterday. “Angry that she won’t vote for the Democrat’s unprecedented $3.5 trillion reconciliation mega-bill, the protesters filmed her walking into a bathroom stall.”
“The same liberal commentators and politicians who were wringing their hands over ‘civility’ in politics under Donald Trump suddenly had an array of justifications,” the paper continued.
“President Joe Biden said ‘it happens to everybody … it’s part of the process,’” the Post then related.
So when agitators harass Senator Sinema in a restroom, where privacy is expected, that’s “part of the process.” But when parents vociferously complain about corruptive curricula during school-board-meeting public-statement periods, which actually is “part of the process,” that’s akin to “domestic terrorism.” Uh-huh.
Note the causes, too. The Sinema harassers want her to help pass that largely unconstitutional, budget-busting, $3.5 trillion bill that offers money to illegal aliens and advances leftism. The parents have legitimate complaints, about their children being accosted with anti-white, anti-virtue Critical Race Theory; being told they can switch sexes; and being forced to wear face masks, contrary to all good science.
Yet while BLM and Antifa rioters were just combating “racism” (while killing people and destroying billions in property) — and the bill boosters just want to “build back better” — these parents are threats warranting federal intervention.
This is the point, too: As Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson pointed out last night (must-watch video below), less and less is our government concerned with addressing actual crime, such as our cities’ burgeoning homicide rates.
More and more is the state laser focused on stifling dissent.
Divide and Conquer — or Divide and Crumble?
Part of the reason this is happening is that when you can’t back up your beliefs with the force of reason, you must resort to the force of (lawless) law. Yet related here is an eternal truth: When people can’t talk something out, they’re left to fight it out.
In a recent article, I alluded to how my ongoing Twitter suspension (six months-plus) reflects how the left-wing establishment is further dividing us. After all, with conservatives increasingly censored by GoogTwitFace, it’s becoming more a domain of leftists; in turn, conservatives are moving to alternative social media.
Moreover, there’s how conservatives, seeing the J6ers’ plight and the liberal-state suppression of anti-lockdown protests, are getting the message that they can’t rally or demonstrate in their nation’s capital or Democrat states. So now maybe they’ll hold their events only in conservative states.
There’s also indication that the majority of the people now leaving California and, perhaps, New York, are conservatives seeking more politically compatible locales.
Then there are those parents. If they can’t complain about toxic government-school curricula without persecution, more will homeschool (11 percent of households already do), flee to private schools, or even exit their states. So what’s the big picture?
Leaving for a different state you can call your own, protesting only in your own sympathetic state, having your own separate schools or being your own school, circulating on your own separate social media.
What’s next? Your own separate country?
The end result of division is often conquest — but not always.
