American Values
We Must Fight Back
Yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was one of the best I've seen in a long time. Usually mild-mannered conservative senators actually showed some real emotion and looked like they were angry about what is being done to our country.
Kudos to Senators Grassley, Cotton, Cruz and Hawley for aggressively exposing the raw politicization of the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland!
But there are more stories indicating why this issue of parental rights in education cannot be dropped. Every parent in America should be infuriated by what's going on in their name in the schools they pay for.
In Fairfax County, Virginia, dozens of parents recently attended a school board meeting at a local school not far from my house. They saw a Homeland Security police car outside the meeting and other unmarked cars, likely from the FBI or perhaps local law enforcement agencies. They also reported seeing a helicopter circling overhead, shining a spotlight on the parents as they waited outside.
This is the stuff of totalitarianism! We must not kneel or cower to this abuse of government power unless we're prepared to give up everything that makes us free.
Meanwhile, in Mankato, Minnesota, the chairman of the school board announced that any resident wanting to address the school board must state their full name and street address before speaking.
That might not seem like a big deal, but we've gone through years of conservatives being doxed, with leftists showing up to harass them and their families at their homes. Plenty of threats were completely ignored by the leftist federal juggernaut when it was done by radical leftists.
But this Mankato Bolshevik wasn't finished. If there was any noise or applause or sounds of disagreement, she threatened to close the meeting and ban parents from the room. She must think she's head of the Moscow school board!
A school board member in Broward County, Florida, said she was "so honored" to chaperone an elementary school field trip to a local gay bar. What?! Can you imagine the trouble she would be in if she took the tots on a field trip to a church?
It wasn't that long ago, when the left mocked the idea that there was a "gay agenda" aimed at indoctrinating children. They're not denying it now. They're bragging about it.
These last two trying years have demonstrated the pervasiveness of the totalitarian impulse among leftist, big government officials from Washington, D.C., all the way down to the local level.
They gladly closed our churches. They restricted our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly. They've corrupted our schools, and they have attempted to gag us from talking about it. And while they're doing all this, they're still trying to take away your right to own a gun to defend your family.
That's what totalitarian regimes do when they are attacking free societies. Even a former ABC commentator sees that we're headed down the wrong road. I urge you to watch John Stossel's latest video. There are many lessons to be learned from the experience of Venezuela.
All of us must get out of our comfort zones in order to effectively fight back. Trust me, you'll get better at it the more you do it.