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Here’s Proof the Biden Administration Has Weaponized the FBI to Target Political Opponents
If one were seeking confirmation that the Biden Administration has continued the Obama Administration’s policy of pitting government agencies against its political enemies, here it is.
Last week, the far left National School Board Association solicited President Joe Biden’s assistance in their battle against parents who oppose the teaching of critical race theory in public schools and mask mandates. In a letter to Biden, they made the case that these parents should be treated as domestic terrorists. I posted about this request here.
Here is the gist of it:
The NSBA begins by asking “for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.”
“Now, we ask that the federal government investigate, intercept, and prevent the current threats and acts of violence against our public school officials through existing statutes, executive authority, interagency and intergovernmental task forces, and other extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of our children and educators, to protect interstate commerce, and to preserve public school infrastructure and campuses.”
The group said they have already called on local and state law enforcement agencies to “prevent further disruptions to educational services and school district operations.” This is insufficient because “these threats and acts of violence have become more prevalent.”
What is really needed to address these threats, the NSBA writes, is assistance from federal law enforcement agencies – specifically the DOJ, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service.
And here is the clincher: “As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
It took only five days (and that included a weekend), for the Biden Administration to deliver.
After all, the indoctrination of our children is central to their goal of transforming the U.S. into a socialist nation. And parents, who have the audacity to object, need to be dealt with – fast.
The parents are “spreading misinformation.” Administration officials fully understand the NSBA’s claim that “extremist hate organizations” are showing up at school board meetings and “inciting chaos.”
Parents should not be interfering with the administration’s agenda. Period.
Concerned officials quickly brought this matter to the attention of Attorney General Merrick Garland who considered this a priority and took immediate action.
On Monday, Garland wrote a memorandum to the FBI directing them to mobilize against parents who oppose the inclusion of critical race theory in their children’s public school curriculum.
The attorney general was very clear. He wrote: “Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values. Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”
A DOJ press release reads in part:
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.
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Those efforts are expected to include the creation of a task force consisting of representatives from the department’s Criminal Division, National Security Division, Civil Rights Division, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the Community Relations Service and the Office of Justice Programs, to determine how federal enforcement tools can be used to prosecute these crimes.
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The press release also provides telephone and website information for the FBI’s national tip line so individuals may report the threats they witness against educators.
BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools, citing "threats."
The letter follows the National School Board Association's request to classify protests as "domestic terrorism." pic.twitter.com/NhPU03YOYq
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 4, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice, under the mealy-mouthed Merrick Garland, is now being used as a weapon against Americans who oppose the teaching of Marxist theory in our public schools.
The corruption of government institutions that began under Obama intensified and gained traction as the deep state mobilized against Donald Trump, first as a candidate, and then as president.
The Obama administration tried to hide their use of federal agencies against U.S. citizens because it is against the law and is unquestionably anti-Democratic. The Biden Administration, however, has dispensed with any efforts to conceal their actions. I suppose they no longer feel it’s necessary.
We may think of the FBI and other agencies as soulless institutions, impervious to political agendas. But we can’t lose sight of the fact that these institutions consist of individuals with agendas.
The lion’s share of those who work in the government are liberal and share the same objectives. They are part of the “tribe.” And the tribe has grown in number and in the power it wields and has already effected great change in America. They all work together to achieve their common goal which is to turn the U.S. into a socialist country.
These parents are not domestic terrorists. They are rightly concerned when they discover their children are being indoctrinated by anti-American propaganda. Rather than being taught an accurate version of history, their children are learning to view the world through the lens of race.
Believing it was only conservative parents who objected to the poisonous ideology that is critical race theory, they’ve been shocked to find that many independents and even some moderate Democrats are opposed. Their disapproval is one of the many reasons why support for Biden has declined so significantly in recent polls.
Last week, I wrote that the NSBA’s letter would likely be taken seriously by Team Biden. And we, as taxpayers, are forced to fund these flagrant abuses of power. To a large degree, until the 2022 midterms, we are powerless to change the current state of affairs. But there are steps we can take in the meantime to slow its rapid pace. Parents must continue to stand up to school boards and we must expose this corruption every chance we get.
This administration has gone too far too fast and in the process, has revealed itself to be thoroughly corrupt.
And, finally, Americans are beginning to see it.
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The whole point of local school boards is to allow local communities to have schools there way.
The Left is 100% about central control. I once had an lefty tell me that absolutely, he wanted everyone in CA and AL to have to live the same way, CA’s way.
You missed the scariest part:
Because you need special training to hear the dog-whistles – freedom = slavery, accountability = lynching, questions = terrorism (although it’s the deplorables that are supposed to be terrified).
How many GOPers told us Garland was one of the good ones and voted to confirm?
But no mean tweets, amirite?
I admire the optimism, but when has a fresh new wave of Republican legislators done anything more than slightly decrease the rise in the acceleration of the growth of tyranny? I mean, since US Grant failed to outlaw the Democratic Party?
Um, never.
Donald Trump is the only Republican president in my adult lifetime to rebuke, through policy and executive action, the left-wing policies of his Democrat predecessor. At best, electing a GOP Congress is a light tap on the brakes as the country careens toward tyranny.
Great Post.
Full tyranny seems like it is just around the corner. Will the courts step in? Will Supreme Court defend the American Republic at last or will it dodge it’s responsibility again with some ridiculously snarky ( and unconstitutional) ruling like the lack of standing or some such?
I’m sure all of Ricochet’s lefties like Gary, Jerry, DA and the rest of the bimbo numbskulls are fully on board with this travesty. Got to fall in line ya know. The talking points have gone out and one has to conform or else like a good little brainwashed minion.
Anyone who voted for our Dear Leader Comrade Uncle Joe Biden should be really embarrassed right now, but of course few will. They all should be considered nutter laughing stalks and ridiculed mercilessly from here to eternity. Of course anyone, particularly those on the public payroll, involved with Garland’s “partnership” should be tried for many multiple counts of violation of all our civil rights and packed off to the Hoosegow forever.
Indeed.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: abolish compulsory schooling and we pull a good bit of rug out from under this sort of thing. (Why? Because there only has to be an official definition of ‘school’ if it’s compulsory. And without an official definition, there’s no mandated curriculum to capture and impose, and a slippery surface area for unions to try to dominate. Just think of the billions in property taxes that would no longer be laundered via teachers and their compulsory union levies to the party of slavery, secession, KKK, Jim Crow, government ghettos and unlimited baby-murder.)
Merrick Garland? You mean the centrist we were supposed to have put on SCOTUS? I know a lot of people have problems with Mitch McConnell, but he held the line on Garland.
The problem is that now, labeling anyone who is not a socialist to be a ‘domestic terrorist’ is not far left craziness. This sort of thing is just centrist Democrat party policy.
People that would have been too far left and too radical to work as a college professor 15 years ago are centrist Democrats now.
We’ve been moving left for decades. But we’re moving really, REALLY fast now…
Mitch has his shortcomings, but saving us from this reflexive lefty on the Supreme Court was a meaningful accomplishment. Thankfully he’s Sotomayor without the robe.
Where’s the DOJ on protecting those other public servants? Those guys who were getting rocks and bottles thrown at them, not insults. I’m not seeing any Antifa or BLM prosecutions despite the fact that members of those groups organized across state lines and conspired to physically attack public servants and destroy federal properties. How can that be?
And in saner times, federal attention would be directed at the other side. CRT is subversive. We have freedom of speech to denounce the government, but is that worthy to teach in schools? Presumably, to excel in your studies across most subjects, a student will have to affirmatively denounce his country and its history.
What would the political instruction differences be between a lefty US teacher and his counterpart in the PRC? Or Iran, or Palestine?
In what way are these teachers Public Servants, when they to teach values that directly contradict the parents’ values, even though the parents are paying their salaries?
Exactly. It’s probably time that the voters in the districts amend the charters (or whatever they are) for their local school boards in order to prohibit the boards from participating in any representative body that extends beyond the local sphere. It’s absurd that school boards have what is essentially a national union to represent their collective interests.
What could possibly go wrong? A mediocre jurist, Garland, tasks a law enforcement agency run by lawyers that has its’ own problems such as seeking wiretap warrants by the omission of facts to obtain the warrant. The Whitey Bulger debacle, and the failure to investigate a doctor in a massive sex abuse scandal involving American gymnasts.
States have laws on disorderly conduct as well as harassment. This is just one more step to federalize law enforcement, and take control of local law enforcement to deny free speech.
Shut up, Obey, and Pay – in this case your property taxes to support public education, we’ll take care of your children.
Ben Shapiro talked about a survey that showed that 50% of Democrats think that people on the right are fascists. Apparently people that identify as the party of merged Big government and Oligarchs don’t understand what fascism is. 50%!!!
DonG:
Apparently people that identify as the party of merged Big government and Oligarchs don’t understand what fascism is. 50%!!!
File that under the “Well Duh” category. The basic problem is that people on the Left have an aversion to understanding the real world and how the real world works, and I don’t care how many degrees they have . They is why they can and will enthusiastically buy the most absurd ascertains from the Democrat Elite without a second thought. It’s about at a certain level a blind adherence to fashion and being in the with in-crowd no matter what. Heaven forbid one is called out for being out of step with the narrative and thus ostracized or even cancelled from the trendsetters you know among the Left- surely a fate worse than death.
If the DOJ develops “training” for these Boards, then we will need to study the training closely to be sure that they don’t use it to shut us up. If we know the language we can use without their attacking us back, I hope there won’t be much they can do. That doesn’t mean our language has to be “nice”; we just need not to cross any lines until a time when we can restore the freedom of speech.
You mean like Obama’s friends?
Several tweets say we’ll fix after mid terms, assuming they’ll be honest and throw the bums out. They stole the election when Trump held the WH, what is likelihood of honest elections?
Say what?
I Walton: Several tweets say we’ll fix after mid terms, assuming they’ll be honest and throw the bums out. They stole the election when Trump held the WH, what is likelihood of honest elections?
Hit the nail on the head. That is the sixty four bazillion dollar question.
But what is this “we’ll fix after mid terms” crap”. Has the Republican Leadership done anything to fix our nation’s problems since Newt? Chances are that hopefully the Pubs take back Congress which will likely stop the harassment of our rights to a point , but then unfortunately nothing will likely get done as kinda like with Obamacare if Mitch and his bought and paid for allies have their way.
We need to take an angry, mean but legal and vigilant attitude toward this nonsense. NO more Mister Nice Guy. No excuses or leniency for their bad behavior. These Democrat and Never Trumper Traitors – because that is why they are; and there are millions of them – all need to go to jail for a very long time at a minimum. They have tried to overthrow our Constitutional Republic. That is High Treason. No doubt about it.
They never fix it. That is a lie. You are spot on.
Which is the greatest current domestic terrorist group?
–The DOJ/FBI
–The IRS
–The Democratic Party
The polls are open.
Hard to make a useful poll when all the choices are the same…
The DOJ is taking dictation as we type from academics and activists (but I repeat myself) funded by Soros, Putin, Xi and the usual suspects.
There will be no ‘safe’ words – your unconscious bias and the subjective fear the ‘victims’ will be told they feel will be enough to convict. And before conviction there will be harassment, arrest, solitary confinement and a curious silence from the Republican Party.
20, led by the chief con man McConnell.
Here is the roll of RepubliCAN’T shame:
Blunt (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Ernst (R-IA)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lankford (R-OK)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Portman (R-OH)
Romney (R-UT)
Rounds (R-SD)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
McConnell ran a long con. He voted for Garland as AG, led the RepubliCAN’T senators in subverting our will for the four years of the first Trump administration and now is busy helping Schumer undo all the Republican promises kept by President Trump in the face of unified opposition to US by a despicable self-anointed elite.
You might be interested in this:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/05/ag-merrick-garlands-daughter-married-to-co-founder-of-company-selling-critical-race-theory-resource-material-to-school-districts/
It turns out Garland has a vested interest in stopping all opposition to critical race theory . . .
Someone should write a post on all the conflict-of-interest cases. They can start here or with Hunter Biden . . .
You know this is photoshopped, right? :)
Hunter Biden is one helluva piece of work. Gets booted out of the military for drugs, divorces his wife so he can shack up with his brother’s widow, then produces phony “art” in a blatant money laundering/influence peddling scheme. A chip off the old block . . .