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When the FBI Protects Moral Monsters
The members of the Fairfax County and Loudoun County School Boards here in Northern Virginia are little more than pipsqueaks and perverts (there is one good member of the Loudoun County School Board. There are none at Fairfax).
They are power-hungry, low-level bureaucratic hacks who don’t give two hoots for the children under their care except to inculcate these children into the mores of the radical Left, especially the sexual Left. They mandate all manner of sexual sickness and madness upon even the littlest ones. Their work is akin to grooming.
I hold these members in complete and utter contempt. I am aware they feel the same way about the parents of the children under their thumb. After all, they now make parents stand outside in the cold before they are allowed in, one at a time, and given 60 seconds to address their majesties.
These people are a clear and present danger to the children under their care.
I live in Fairfax County. I was born here. I have school-age children. Our neighborhood is full of kids who attend these schools. So, we have a stake in what happens in these sexual indoctrination centers. These school boards are little more than hard-Left sexual and racial buccaneers. These creeps insist that our children learn their new sexual and religious dogma, such as “sex is assigned at birth.” They insist that our children learn about masturbation, homosexuality, even anal sex.
“Oral sex” is introduced by these monsters to children as young as 12. They insist that children as young as 13 hear about “anal sex” 18 times in one year’s lessons. If an adult did this outside a classroom setting, rightfully he would be arrested. These folks do it with impunity.
Nothing illustrates the Stalinist nature of these bodies than a meeting we attended a few years ago. Called the FLECAC committee, it was made up of two dozen people appointed by the Fairfax County School board. Four kids were on the committee, chosen from the student LGBT clubs. Most of the other members were not parents but rather teachers and school bureaucrats.
Two regular citizens happened to be appointed by the one lone sane Board Member, Elizabeth Schultz, who was later voted out. One of these regular folks made a motion to change “sex assigned at birth” to merely “sex.” The larger committee voted 23-3 not to allow debate on the issue. A roll call was called so that the 23 would be on record stopping debate about this dangerous religious dogma of the sexual Left. This was killed by a voice vote. No debate. So, whenever the kids hear the word “sex,” it is accompanied by “assigned at birth.”
An attempt was made to ensure that kids were taught about health risks related to contraceptives. This was voted down 23-3. Again, they called for a roll call, which was shouted down. No debate. They tried to suggest that “transitioning” came with health risks. Puberty blockers for kids cause bone loss and much else. No debate. Voted down.
One county employee asked why there was no lesson on anal sex for seventh graders. There was oral sex in the lesson, why not anal sex? The chairman assured her that anal sex began in the 8th grade. The chairman actually apologized for using the phrase “anal sex” in front of the room of adults yet was quite adamant that the kiddies must hear it and plenty.
At a subsequent meeting of this committee, which was deciding the sex-ed curriculum, committee member Laura Murphy moved that the phrase “biological sex” come back into the curriculum. She cited numerous sources for this: the American Psychological Association, the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization. She demonstrated how doctors prescribe certain drugs differently based on biological sex. Murphy’s three minutes ran out and she requested 30 more seconds. Denied. The committee voted against her motion, 24-2.
I mention Laura Murphy because she has been in the news lately regarding the governor’s race in Virginia. Several years ago, she discovered pornographic material in her son’s reading assignments. Murphy went to the state legislature and through a bipartisan effort passed a bill that parents had to be informed if illegal sexual activity was in the students’ assigned reading. All they asked was that parents would be “informed.” This common-sense legislation to protect children passed both houses of the Virginia legislature with Democratic and Republican support. But then-Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed it. This is the Clinton hack who is running again to be pervert in chief of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this campaign he has quite famously said that parents have no right to determine the education of their children.
As an aside, Murphy tried to send the pornographic passages to each legislator through the legislative email system, but it was blocked. Yet this is the stuff they want the kids to read.
I was going to write a conclusion to this column challenging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to come and get me. After all, he has sicced the FBI onto parents who might “annoy” school board members. Indeed, FBI agents stalked the Fairfax County school board meeting last week. But I have toned the column down. I am not challenging Garland to “come and get me.” However, that I felt obliged to tone down my challenge means something terrible. I live in fear of my own government.
Only a few minutes ago I heard an FBI ad on talk radio asking people to report “hate crimes” against LGBTs. This includes so-called “hate speech.”
Am I going to get a phone call or worse, a visit from the FBI? Even to ask this question on matters of free political speech is chilling. And this is the purpose. This is what the Left wants. They want us to shut up. They are using the FBI for this purpose. But I won’t shut up. You shouldn’t either.
Crossposted at Crisis Magazine.
This is horrifying. I’d thought it a tragedy that my husband and I were unable to have children. Now, I’m kind of glad. Terrible to say such a thing, but I really don’t know what I’d resort to faced with such an attack on my child and family. I’m very glad to see the parents of Loudoun and Fairfax counties–and others around the country–getting involved and incensed. Problem is they’re late to the “party.” The teachers and children have been engaged in this indoctrination for who knows how long. Can someone show me how it differs from “grooming” for pedophile exploitation or sex slavery?
Remember, Self-censorship is the best censorship.
The FBI has a long history of protecting moral monsters. I have recommended reading “The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century” by Howie Carr.
”Whitey” Bulger became an FBI informant and they protected his mob activities, including murder. If you read this book, nothing the FBI does now will surprise you in the least.
You won’t get any takers . . .
It is grooming. Morally confused and deadened people are easier to rule.
Okay, I’m going to assume that what you reported in the post is accurate, because I’ve heard enough examples of similar to suspect that it’s probably true.
Here’s what I think when I read this — once I’ve gotten past the initial disgust and revulsion.
America doesn’t know this. Not yet. But she’s learning about it, more and more every day.
This is why I have hope.
Keep the focus on the left’s overreach. Keep talking about it. Wake the country up.
What I don’t understand is why parents send their kids to public schools at all. The last time either of my kids was in a regular public school (rather than a classical charter) was 2005 (Elder’s 2nd grade) and it’s gotten exponentially worse since then. If you love your kids, get them out of there!! They’re only kids once and time is short.
Public education delenda est!
As a parent of children who were home-schooled for many years and then finished their high school educations in a small Catholic school, I’m completely in agreement with you that public school is toxic and we need to get away from it.
But alternatives are expensive. I pay thousands a year in school taxes for schools I don’t use; for a lot of families, that plus tuition is a killer. And then there’s the reality that public schools are often very well-equipped in things that some kids value highly, like drama and music departments, art departments, labs, and athletic facilities. Often when my kids went to compete in sports against a public school they’d see the contrast between the facilities taxpayers provided and the hand-me-down stuff our little private school could afford. For some families those extras are determinative.
Lastly, for families with special educational needs, tax-funded schools offer real options that less well-funded schools can’t necessarily provide. I’ve known families that had to take their kids out of our school because they needed special academic help that couldn’t be provided on the shoestring budget we have.
I do believe it’s gotten bad enough that any family that can make an alternative work should do so. Home schooling is far easier than a lot of people think. It does pose challenges for two-earner families (though even that isn’t as bad now, if one or both parents work at home), and much more so for single-parent families. But I continue to believe that it’s the best way to educate your kids, particularly in the early years. (My kids might not agree.)
Public charters are “free” in the same sense that public schools are — you pay taxes to support them. I realize not all families have access to classical charters, but for those who do, it’s a great alternative. Some of them even use Hillsdale’s curriculum, like the ones my kids attended. The inconvenience is that families have to provide their own transportation, but when your kid’s soul is on the line, I think it’s worth it. But, I’m also so old-fashioned that think one parent should raise their kids, even if sacrifices of income have to be made. There’s nothing more important that anyone can do.
That same FBI that did such a crack job investigating the sexual abuse of the women’s gymnastics team.
I have now-adult children who attended both Fairfax County and Loudoun County public schools. I cannot express in mere words how relieved (and proud) I am that they both managed to graduate relatively unscathed by the ideological indoctrination efforts.
Nowhere in this post do you mention that FCPS and LCPS are now permitting 15 year old boys to use the girls’ locker rooms. If my children were still in school, that policy would not sit well with me. I don’t know how I would prevent myself from standing at the girls’ locker room door, deciding who may use the girls’ locker room and who may not.
It would surely not go well. I have a concealed carry permit. It would surely not go well.
I’m perhaps even more relieved that my now adult children, having moved away, have no interest in returning to northern Virginia.
I have listed my house for sale. I haven’t yet decided where I’ll go.
Any suggestions?
And by “they” you mean Robert Mueller, whom Andy McCarthy has consistently assured us is a rock-ribbed, straight shooting stand-up guy – a real patriot.
Yup. It’s been written about before, so I didn’t want to be repetitive. If you want to read about how Mueller and others participated in the wrongful conviction of innocent men, read here.
Every time I read about Mueller, I want to re-post this information, but I don’t want to be a bore. But everybody should know this stuff. Buy and read Howie Carr’s book.
Tennessee is popular but don’t move to Nashville or Memphis. I live in Texas where mid-size cities are a good choice.
Or, move to Nashville and get elected to the school board. I know of many good warrior-type conservatives moving to Nashville. It may up a rare instance of an urban area switching from blue to red.
Every time you read about Mueller, I want you to re-post this information. Everybody should know this stuff.
Far more people know the Charlottesville lie – and think it’s truth, not a lie – than know the shameful corruption of Robert Mueller. Heck, some some Ricochet members repeat the Charlottesville lie for years, and yet win the James Lileks Post of the Week multiple times on the Ricochet Podcast.
So every time you read about Mueller, I want you to re-post this information.