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Recently I’ve been told that Republican Political candidates have been given the message to “back off CRT and Education” in their campaigns. This is part of the post primary strategy RINO’s often use to “move back to the middle.”

Could it be that Teachers Unions are feeling the heat? Or is it just cowardice on the part of candidates to address real issues?

You may say this is all part of the political game. When you hear what I am about to write about, you will change your tune. Ignoring Education during this election is dangerous for our kids.

I had an opportunity to hear Deborah Fillman last week. What she described is not only chilling, but outright frightening to anyone who cares about children and our country.

Deborah’s site is “The Reason We Learn” (debfillman.com). She is a homeschool mom of three teenagers with over ten years of homeschool experience. She has a Masters in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and is an ex-teacher. She has a blog and a podcast. (links at end of article)

Deborah started out with the statement that all the other stuff, CRT, DEI, Gender lessons, etc. pales in comparison to the damage of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in our schools. The reason is that SEL is the OPERATING SYSTEM of our children’s minds that not only allows all those different pogroms of the left in but is the conduit that elicits data mined information out in the form of obedience.

It is an insidious, stealthy form of indoctrination.

This is nothing new to many of us. I wrote last week that our children are not only being data mined for info about how best to manipulate them but also for information about their parents. Here’s the link:

Why Do They Want Our Children? – Radio Free Oxford

There are many books out there that describe what is going on. I’ll include links to some of them later. Deb’s description of SEL as an OPERATING SYST is supported by examples I have seen and heard.

Every week I compile different articles and videos showing how schools are teaching our children to be activists instead of scholars, practice racial animosity and division instead of acceptance, believe in group think instead of individuality, accept mental illness as the norm versus the exception, and support gender confusion instead of clarity. It’s a huge trash pile of bad ideas and corruption. If you want to see these, go to this page:

https://radiofreeoxford.com/education-emergency/

And SEL is the conduit and foundation for all of it.

It starts at an early age and in a way that may seem innocent. For example, watch this video of a Kindergarten teacher:

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The teacher is giving children information that forces them to ignore what they see in order to complete an action. Notice that some of the kids look at others to figure out what to do. They learn not to follow their inner voice but look to those around them to determine what they should think and feel. The danger in this is that kids will just go with what the crowd does. It may not seem extreme, it’s merely shapes and colors, right? These are kids learning shapes and colors. It scrambles their logic.

These are strategies that are used in behavior modification and coercion in totalitarian societies to induce compliance of their populations.

Children learn that it is normal for a person in authority to tell them to ignore what they know is right and follow everyone else. Great thing for a tyrannical government, not so good for freedom. It’s a way to convince kids that the truth is not the truth, and that their parents and family are not to be trusted as a source of truth. Only government, the mainstream media, big corporations will tell them what is right.

Does this provide an explanation for some of the events happening right now? Why is it that some people believe that BLM didn’t burn and loot in 2020? Why do they believe the inconsistencies from the CDC and WHO regarding Covid and the dangers of the vaccine? The government merely told them they didn’t see what they saw. People looked around to see if others followed the government, found those that did and believed it also. Even though it was not true.

It’s why children can be convinced that their physical gender is not their gender. Or why a grandchild tells his grandmother that she lied to him when she told him men can’t have babies.

The child is alienated from the family and his/herself. The collective is rewarded with another acolyte.

Why would schools do this to children?

It’s important to understand that the schools are being bought and sold. At a recent school board meeting in our area, the system touted a new grant. Here is how it is described:

Talbot County Public Schools is one of three school districts in the State of Maryland to be awarded a Maryland Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education II (MD-AWARE II) grant by the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). The purpose of the grant is to develop a comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated model for advancing wellness and resilience in educational settings for school-aged youth. 

TCPS will use these funds to expand the school district’s Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework to provide sustenance for social, emotional, and behavioral needs of students.  This initiative places a strong emphasis and priority on mental health services.  The goals of the program may include but are not limited to: access to mental health, mindfulness, trauma informed, wrap around, parent navigators, teacher consultants, behavior specialist, Youth Mental Health First Aid training, and restorative practices. This is a 5-year grant for $300,000 per year, pending continued available federal funding.  Planning has begun for the expanded services to begin in early 2021.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Who would turn down 1.5 million dollars? Also, this grant promises better behaved students, more mentally stable students, and a kinder, gentler school system that will solve the mental health issues of the children. The school system did a video with Principals proclaiming how great the program was, how it helped with discipline, etc. No one could question the great things happening because of this testimony. Except there’s a catch. One is shown in a clip of a Kindergarten teacher doing mental health exercises with her class.

The short clip shows a kindergarten class where a teacher asks how many of them are “sad today.” They ALL raise their hands (some after they check out what everyone else is doing), so the teacher tells them to lay on their backs and “belly breathe.” They are taught to embrace their sadness, put it aside, and “self-regulate.” One needs to self-regulate in order to prevent disruption to the group. No doubt that children will eventually be evaluated on this ability. At the very least, teachers will be evaluated on their abilities to deliver SEL.

The teacher here doesn’t have ill intent. She is doing what she thinks is right for kids. If she can teach them to suppress and ignore their emotions and intuition, life will be better for them and her, right? Not necessarily.

This program, like so many other government programs, are built on a slim layer of good intentions and visions. Unfortunately, when reality hits, they don’t deliver and in fact can do harm to children.

The intent of the program is better behaved students, more mentally stable students, and better academic progress. Sadly, this is not what is happening. Last year, bomb threats and fights were rife in the system and teachers tell of students as young as kindergarten who are “out of control.”

For the system, the reward in the grant is many new counselor positions and over 400 mental health incidents for them to handle in the schools. They are pleased about since this exceeds the total cases they have had for twenty years. They laud the fact that they are better trained in spotting mental health problems. It’s similar to how the thresholds on the original COVID tests were made more sensitive to find more cases of Covid, even if they didn’t really exist. It’s also called job security and a way to demand more money from the state.

Stifling a child’s intuition and gut feelings is dangerous. Children have to learn to trust their intuition and their parents’ warnings to differentiate right from wrong, good from bad. We used to train kids that if their intuition tells them something is wrong, they need to follow that intuition. It’s what helps them stay safe from predators. SEL gets rid of that intuition and individuality. It tells students to act as the “collective” and follow the crowd.

Meanwhile, our children are being turned into robots following a hive mind that tells them what to think, what to do, and how to act. They will grow up to believe that the values of an authoritarian government and the community are more important than the values and beliefs of their families and themselves, more important than rights and freedom. The truth will be found in one source, those in charge and their followers. Individuality will be not only discouraged but ostracized and punished. Living outside the accepted values will not only be frowned upon, but impossible. You need only look to China, Cuba, and Nazi Germany for the model.

The strategies employed in Social Emotional Learning are plentiful. In the classroom itself, “generative themes” will be used to teach reading, math, and every other content area. This term was coined by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Communist teacher who used this technique to connect themes of “oppression” to teach his students. He felt that this would move them to “social action” and then to Communism. He taught the poor to read by using texts that reinforced the fact that there is an upper class that keeps them in poverty. It’s a two for one approach that is supposed to teach people to read and how to be activists. It does the latter more effectively than the former.

Every subject will be underlined with SEL. We see that in classroom frameworks and lesson materials such as these:

Of course, teachers will become mental health counselors with SEL, something they are neither trained in or capable of being. However, like the kindergarten teacher described above, they will practice junk psychotherapy that will not only NOT help students but could potentially harm them. They won’t knowingly do that, they will just be told to do it and will accept it as part of their job and obligation to their students. They believe that all kids who walk into the school need parenting, and that is their job. This will open the door for all kinds of indoctrination to be brought into the classroom such as what is above.

Children who are taught to believe the teacher and not their parents will be like sponges soaking in these concepts. It will be Orwell’s 1984, only worse.

If the SEL in school isn’t enough to set you over the edge, there will be the intrusion through technology at home. Every time I go on Facebook, I see multiple companies promoting programs that will allow students to communicate with school staff after school hours. This is not merely texting or messaging, it is face to face video conversations from your home. This has become a 7 Billion dollar enterprise in 2022.

One such program is called “Along.” You can find it at along.org. Here is the info they share about their app:

The students reply with an email, message or video. The app promises that the data collected will only be for educational purposes.

If you believe they won’t sell data, maybe you should know who is on the Board of Directors of the company that provides this app, Summit Learning. Her name might be familiar:

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife. And we know how Mark likes to sell data on people.

It’s not surprising that she is here. She is also involved in another big SEL Company, CASEL. More on that later.

At first this app may seem harmless. But, there are a couple of things to consider. First, this is an opportunity for an activist teacher to pose one of those generative themes to students without parental knowledge. A child can be sitting in his/her bedroom answering questions about many different, and possibly inappropriate, topics.

Second, even though they claim there will be no data maintained or sold, they say it will be used for “educational purposes.” What exactly does that mean? It could be providing data for a mental health professional (or activist) to decide your home is not a good place for your child. And if you honestly think your data will be secure, you are not paying attention.

Also, do you want your child’s teacher encroaching on your home after school hours? It’s an invasion of privacy AND a blurring of the necessary professional boundaries between an adult teacher and a minor child.

Also, many of these apps allow kids to go through them to other websites, some which may be more adult in nature. When you leave the app, the history is erased so that parents may not know where the child has been online.

All of these are generated and approved by a group called CASEL,

Who is CASEL? They are the “Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning”. This is their stated mission:

Any time you see SEL or a company that supports SEL, you will find CASEL. Their mission sounds so nice, so warm and fuzzy. CASEL has created a “framework” for SEL in schools throughout the world.

Here’s a quote from an article by Kimberly Ells in THE FEDERALIST, August 23 regarding SEL, CASEL and the United Nations

“CASEL has positioned itself as the world leader on SEL standards and has a cooperative relationship with UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization). These two entities are united in their zeal to weave SEL into all school subjects and to deliver it to all children everywhere.”

But why? Again from the Ells article:

“In short, proponents of the sustainable development goals and SEL want to instill “pluralistic thinking” in your child in the name of global peace. They (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization or UNESCO) want children to be taught to value the “collective good” over individual liberties, rights, and property despite the fact that the freest, most prosperous nations in the world are founded on individual liberties, rights, and property.”

All to support a global, one world government rule where individuals own nothing and have no freedom.

UN Program Teaching Kids ‘SEL’ Really Seeks To Kill Individualism (thefederalist.com)

Your child is being taught to be one of the collective via a grand psy-op.

Not surprising when you look at who is behind CASEL:

There they are. Everyone knows the havoc the Gates Foundation has created in the world. And there is Chan Zuckerberg again. There are other foundations, one involved heavily in Artificial Intelligence, one run by friends of Bill and Malinda Gates and former employees of Microsoft, and many from the West Coast, specifically Washington State and California.

One of the most alarming things is that CASEL has a “pledge” that people must sign on to. It’s so important that they made a video of people taking that pledge, including the National Education Association President Becky Pringle and the American Federation of Teachers President Randy Weingarten. These are people who cannot bring themselves to pledge to the freedom and liberty of our country, but can go right in line with this:

So, with this built into everything, what can parents do to prevent this psy-op from being perpetrated on their child?

1. Pay attention to every single program brought into your school. Look at the books, online resources etc, that your kid brings home. Do not let your child use the computer without being able to monitor what he/she is doing.
2. Go to school board meetings. Pay attention to STATE School Board initiatives and the Department of Education programs and grants. Vote for candidates who support parental rights.
3. Get to know your child’s teacher. Let the teacher know where you stand on issues and that you are there to support him/her in teaching your child but also that there are boundaries that YOU believe in.
4. Homeschool if you can. If you can’t, supplement your child’s learning at home.
5. Use Opt out forms for any surveys of your child in school.
6. Look for certain language, collective, feelings, equity, transformational; look for your child discussing gender, pronoun choice, etc. Anything that strikes you as wrong requires accountability.
7. Go to school PTA and open houses. Look at books available in the media center and check them for inappropriate themes. Take pictures if need be.
8. Let school personnel know that you are the parent and will be involved in all decisions regarding your child.
9. Teach your child skills like woodworking, gardening, money management; skils that support self-sufficiency, etc.
10. Teach them to tell teachers “My name is…” rather than pronouns. Also teach them to say, ” I belong to my parents (family, etc.).”
11. Tell your kids every day that you love them.

One of the most important things you can do is VOTE. Get to know school board candidates and what they stand for. On the State level, look at what candidates stand for. In Maryland, we have one candidate who stands for Parental rights, Dan Cox, and one who stands for expanded government school powers, Wes Moore. Here is one of Moore’s priorities:

Here are three of Cox’s education priorities: (for more info go to coxforfreedom.com)

If you want parental rights, vote for the candidates that support them. Candidates like Dan Cox.

Some school systems are farther along in the SEL psy-op than others. Friends who have children in school in California, New York, and Washington State describe the accelerated indoctrination. But, in every state, there are plenty of educators who are jumping on the bandwagon either by their own gullibility, indoctrination, coercion, or even greed.

And it is definitely here in Maryland.

Parents need to be vigilant. Regardless of why SEL is in your child’s classroom, it needs to be removed. Schools are treating all students like they need to be “parented.” They think they can do that better than you.

They can’t and we can’t let them try. End the psy-op on our kids!

Tell candidates you want them to commit to the removal of SEL, CRT, Gender indoctrination in their campaigns!

Resources:

Deb Fillman: The Reason We Learn Podcast, thereasonwelearn.substack.com

James Lindsay; New Discourses Podcast

Books:

Battle for the American Mind, Pete Hegseth

(Note: Yes, I know it is censure. Honestly, either works for me, whether you censor him or censure him. Just stop this BS)

This is a letter I wrote today to the Maryland GOP and the National RNC regarding the destruction Larry Hogan is bringing to our party. Here is the picture and article that prompted it.

Hogan: Maryland GOP governor candidate not ‘mentally stable’ | The Hill

To: Dirk Haire, Md. GOP, Rona McDaniel GOP, Bridget Rossi GOP, 

I am a lifetime Republican and have voted in every local, state and national election since I was old enough to vote. Sadly, I voted for Larry Hogan for Governor of Maryland both times he ran. I thought he was a good man with the best interest of Maryland and our country at heart. I was sadly mistaken. 

During his first term, he did very little for us, the regular citizens of Maryland. In his second term, he turned into a tyrant with lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, thus ruining the economy in our state. The main result was the degradation of our school system and the destruction of small businesses. He did so with no hint of understanding what was going on in our state. “Wear the damn mask,” was all we heard. And let’s not forget his wasteful purchase of millions of dollars of Covid testing kits from Korea. 

Recently, however, he has accelerated his tyranny, narcissism, and disregard for the people of Maryland, especially those of us who supported him. With his attack on the Republican nominee, Dan Cox, Larry has gone beyond politics into utter destruction of the party in our state. It was bad enough when the Chairman of the State Party, Mr. Haire, actively campaigned for Cox’s opponent Shulz, which was against the state rules of the Central Committees. Now we have Larry Hogan actively campaigning for a man, Wes Moore, who is not only a Democrat but a Socialist running with an avowed Marxist as his running mate. 

To make it worse, Hogan has disparaged Republicans who support Cox by calling us “wackos.” He has called Delegate Cox, “mentally unstable.” This from a man so thin skinned that he actively banned people from his Facebook page if they disagreed with him and his policies. He has been on many national and state radio and television shows disparaging Cox and his supporters. It’s disgusting. It seems he is the mentally unstable one, suffering from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome. Or maybe his mind has been altered by support from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Either way, he is a turncoat and a sick man. 

Hogan is not the only candidate who has betrayed Republicans and our trust. Barry Glassman, candidate for Comptroller has also done so. 

I demand that the Republican Party censure Larry Hogan immediately. I will not support the party until this happens, and many others feel the same way. Delegate Cox is a good man who is running to maintain our Constitutional rights in a state that has been lurching toward Socialism for many years, including during Mr. Hogan’s administration. It seems Larry is more interested in protecting and building his own personal interests than he is in serving our State and its people. 

I will vote for Delegate Cox. I will never support Hogan for President or any additional office in our state or country. If this continues I will never support the Republican party again. 

Sincerely, 

Jan Greenhawk

AFTERNOTE: Here is a picture from a long time ago when Larry LIKED Dan. What happened? Is Larry afraid some info about him may come out if someone not under his control is elected? Land deals? Dirty tricks? Hmmmmm….

Or did Larry do what he always does and use someone to get elected and then discard them. Sort of like what he has done to the people of Maryland.

The ongoing effort of Progressive Democrats to redefine words (vaccine and recession) and people (extremist, woman and fringe) is not a reason for free thinking Americans to change what we think or say. The group Moms for Liberty has the right attitude about this, it’s the JOYFUL WARRIOR attitude.

There are so many wonderful things in my life, my family, my friends, my country, etc. Today, I have a new joy to add to all of those; the joy of writing a “fringe, right wing blog.”

Those words in quotes are not my description of my blog, but a description penned in a letter by a failed Democrat candidate to a left-wing online publication. It’s been a while since this candidate’s utter election failure and, quite frankly, I had never heard of her before, but it was great to know that she might have read this blog and did me the favor of giving RFO a free shout out.

She did it in the context of claiming that local candidate for State Senate, Johnny Mautz, was moving to the “far right” in his campaign. She felt this blog was either evidence of the move or his inspiration according to the author. It’s hard to tell which.

I’ve known Johnny for a while now, and he is now as he has always been, even though the author called him “Andy Harris with personality.” Pretty funny line, I must say. And one I totally disagree with. Because of that characterization, I did some serious thinking about how she might have come up with that. Better yet, I wondered who gave her the idea.

See, in my mind, Johnny has been there standing up for parent’s rights, strong law enforcement, citizens’ rights, and the Constitutional rights of the people in this district and country.

Last year, we asked him to attend a press conference about the firing of health workers due to vaccine mandates. He came when others didn’t. In fact, he and Dan Cox were the only politicians there to hear what the nurses/medical workers had to say. They came even though they knew that Larry Hogan and his GOP machine wouldn’t approve. At that time, Mautz said that the issue of vaccination for employees should NOT be decided by politicians but left to the employer and the employees. Of course, this was in light of Governor Larry Hogan issuing an Executive Order that all medical workers be vaccinated or be fired.

In addition, Johnny co-sponsored HB 1189 which required health care providers to report adverse effects of any vaccine to the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System, HB799 which prohibited State and political subdivisions in the state from requiring proof of the Covid 19 vaccine prior to employment, and HB 1376 the “no jabs for jobs bill,” Those bills didn’t pass because of the Democrat majority.

He attended our Family Advocacy Alliance meetings to hear the ideas and concerns of parents and taxpayers about what is being taught in schools and the effects of the Bridge to Excellence structure which will take decision making for schools out of the hands of elected Boards of Education. He signed the FAA letter to the Talbot BOE asking for a new venue to allow more public participation. He voted for HB 758 for Lesson Plan and Curriculum transparency, HB 1256 The Ending Discrimination in Public Education Act of 2022 (would remove CRT from the classroom), and several other pro-educational transparency and pro-parent bills.

As for law enforcement, Johnny has always been there to help support and fund the resources that our local law enforcement needs. He is pro 2nd Amendment. Ask any local law enforcement agency head and they will tell you he is always there for them.

While I am sure that Andy Harris has been busy in D.C., I think comparing Johnny to him is rather ridiculous. If the Democrat failed Candidate is saying Harris is a right winger, I’d love to see the evidence beyond his membership in the House Freedom Caucus.

Johnny is different. He works hard, he speaks out, and HE LISTENS.

On to Radio Free Oxford and the designation as “Fringe.” Recently, I had coffee with a person running for office as a Democrat and we had so much in common with each other. Neither of us considered the other as “fringe.” And we could see that the problem in this country right now is the divide being created by people like this failed Democrat candidate. They want to label us, pit us against each other and NEVER let us work together to really make things better. I wonder if that is what the voters saw in the ” Failed Democrat Candidate;” someone who was a party devotee who wanted to label others and vote lockstep with the party instead of working for citizens. Is that why she lost?

In order to let you know what this progressive candidate says is “fringe,” here’s what we stand for in this blog:

1. Parental rights to participate in and direct the education of their child and to demand accountability from the officers and employees of the school system.
2. Removal of political and racial indoctrination and division from classrooms.
3. Removal of sexual indoctrination from classrooms including transgenderism
4. Support for teachers to do the job they are trained for, to teach children reading, math, writing, science, history and civics and not to make them mental health or sexual preference counselors.
5. Support for freedom of speech (including for failed Democrat candidates)
6. Support for law enforcement and true rule of law, not law enforced for political reasons.
7. Freedom of religion
8. Support for the 2nd Amendment.
9. Support for ALL Constitutional Rights including the right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ALL
10. Support for the medical rights of individuals.
11. EQUALITY

I could go on, but I wonder HOW any of this makes Radio Free Oxford a “fringe, right wing” blog.

If it does, then I embrace it and I am joyful in it. Why? Because I know that what I believe in is true and it is what this country was built on. It’s what gave people like the failed Democrat candidate all the blessings she has and the right to say what she thinks. It’s what over 75 million people in this country believe in and why people fight to come here every day. And why Reagan called our country, “The Shining City of the Hill.”

If the Failed Democrat Candidate who wrote the letter doesn’t get that, I feel very bad for her. I have never met her and she has never spoken with me. I doubt that she actually reads my blog. If she does, she never comments. Yet she is compelled to label me and my blog in public and define Johnny Mautz and me with a label that she thinks will harm or shame us.

It does neither. It just makes her look silly. I stand by my beliefs. I believe Johnny stands behind his. Funny that instead of standing by hers and stating them, she just wants to call people names. Pathetic and sadly far too common.

*The name of the online publication and the failed Democrat Candidate have been hidden so I don’t give them any publicity and to protect them from ridicule.

I put my “Appeal to Heaven” Flag up today. It’s the flag George Washington used with a squadron of six cruiser ships commissioned under Washington’s authority as commander in chief of the Continental Army in October, 1775. It has a much longer history than that as the symbolic pine tree had been used since 1686 as a flag of colonial ire and resistance. ” Appeal to Heaven” was a phrase invoked by Patrick Henry in his Liberty or Death speech. It was also used in the Declaration of Independence.

I put it up today because my ire and resistance and the ire and resistance of so many Americans are fully engaged.

Last night, when I heard that Trump’s home had been raided by the FBI in search of government documents, it was troubling at first. It dampened my spirit and almost made me want to throw in the towel. I thought that if the government Gestapo could do such an unjust thing to a former President, they could do just about anything to the average citizen. The fact that the IRS just got money to hire 87,000 additional agents to hunt down and prosecute people like you and me without legal cause, didn’t make it better.

So I did what anyone would do. I went to bed after a short prayer.

When I woke up this morning it was as if a load had been lifted off me overnight. Yes, I was still angry. Yes, I was still concerned. But, even more, I felt like we were winning. The good, just, patriotic people of our country are winning this spiritual war.

Give me a moment to add up some recent events to make my point.

First, it’s a fact that an animal that is trapped in a corner fights more viciously. And right now, the Marxist Democrats are in a corner.

The economy is tanking. The Biden Administration misdeeds at the Border are being exposed as hundreds of thousands of illegals pour over the border and American citizens are furious. African and Hispanic Americans are leaving the Democrat party in droves. Parents are enraged by the indoctrination and sexualization of their children in public schools and are organizing. Trump Republicans are the overwhelming victors in the primaries, much to the chagrin of Never Trumpers like Larry Hogan and Liz Cheney. The January 6th Kangaroo Court is an epic failure with the American people. People no longer trust the CDC, NIH, Fauci etc. And of course, the addle-brained Joey B is linked to his son’s illegal foreign business deals.

Shall I continue?

The most recent indicator of the fact that they are terrified is this panicked poster from the FBI including “symbols of Domestic Terrorism.”

FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr | Project Veritas

If you examine this document, you can almost smell the fear as they identify normal Patriotic flags as a signal that a person is a domestic terrorist. Why is that? Suppression. If they convince us that these flags, symbols and phrases make us targets, maybe we will just go away.

It’s not working. And they realize that.

All their puppets, talking head media, stupid elected officials and army of mentally ill supporters have thrown everything at us. They have called us names, have tried to indoctrinate our children, illegally mandate vaccines, and work have worked to make us buy into their chaotic world of up being down, wrong being right.

And it hasn’t worked. We still believe in our country, in our values, and in our God to guide us through. We still strive to speak out, to support each other, and to live our lives. And we just won’t go away.

So this latest stunt with Trump is just one of the last gasps of people who will soon find themselves on the wrong side of power and the wrong side of history. Even today, Trump’s poll numbers are increasing, and people are supporting him more than before. If they were smart, they would leave him alone. But no one ever said Marxists were smart. If you need more proof of that, listen to this quote from the eternally drunk Nancy Pelosi where she claims ” no one is above the law.”

Nancy Pelosi Speaks On Raid At Trump’s House (conservativebrief.com)

Oh really Nancy? Would that include your drunk ass, insider trading husband Paul? Or maybe YOU who seems to find a way to break your own rules all the time?

There are many others out there trying to make hay on this. Quite frankly, most of what they are saying is useless. The bottom line is that the people see the corruption of the FBI and D.C. swamp. And we have had enough.

As I said, this is spiritual warfare. And in the end, God wins.

They know that and it scares them to death. So they will try everything to stop us. Be prepared.

Fly your flag, whether it’s the American flag, the Gadsden flag, the Betsy Ross flag or the Appeal to Heaven flag. Exercise your free speech everywhere, on social media, in public etc. Go to meetings, organize and for goodness sake VOTE in November!

Remember, forefathers relied on their faith to get them to victory.

We need to do the same.

Pray! Always Pray!

Statement from Candidate for Maryland Governor Dan Cox:

STATEMENT ON THE FBI RAID OF MAR-A-LAGO:

“Wray, Biden, Kamala and Garland are using their offices for their own political weaponization against Republicans and our greatest President of the United States who actually did what he said when elected and returned power to the people.

Presidents have plenary powers to declassify and keep papers. This FBI raid of Trump’s home is nothing short of communist stasi police state tactics. It has no place in any civilization and never in America. These current members of the administration are not above the law. Their own people are turning on them (approval down to 30%!!) as their lies are exposed and they continue to harm the country’s economy.

As governor I will use the 9th and 10th Amendments, the Maryland Constitution and Declaration of Rights, the MSP and Maryland Guard to stand against all rogue actions of this out of control tyrannical Biden administration with fierce tenacity. Our children, families and loved ones and the freedom we cherish and is our birthright as Americans demand we oppose these criminal acts of this current administration.

ALSO TODAY: Congress has no authority to grant federal police power to the IRS and purchase 5 million rounds of ammo and hire 87,000 more agents to target the middle class amd small business.

Fear not. Let not your heart be troubled. John 14:1

Let’s organize and vote! #Floodthepolls

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If you need inspiration, watch the video linked in the story:

Trump Releases Powerful Video After the FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago – Republican Daily

During the last year it has become more consistent. Story after story about education shows teachers, administrators and other public officials who are devoted to making sure that children no longer trust or respect their parents. They use early sexualization, the lens of “oppression” and outright lies and deception to do so.

But why? Why do they want our children and grandchildren so much? After all, the leftists who are doing all the indoctrination and social and emotional training are the very same ones who advocate for killing babies right up to birth via abortion. If the lives of children are so easily discounted, why do the Marxists care about bringing them over to their side?

It’s simple. They want to eradicate the American family and replace it with a totalitarian, corporate, government entity that will be revered and obeyed by the populous without question. This has been the strategy of every totalitarian government in history.

To that purpose, James Lindsay of newdiscourses.com says that schools will destabilize the lives of children through early sexualization, engineer their emotions (remember the kindergarten teacher asking her students “Who is sad today?”), sever ties to family and faith, and then sever children from their own interests in favor of the “community.”

It is a push to what Klaus Schwab calls “stakeholder capitalism” which combines the evils of Leninist-Maoist philosophies with corporations acting in concert with government and with large foundations to create the “Great Reset.” The children will be the Mao style youth movement with Social/Emotional Learning as the tool teaching young people how to be wrathful towards those who disagree with government edicts, morals, and woke values. They will despise these dissidents, including their own families. They will demand “socially active” businesses and shun the rest. This will be the vanguard of the “inside out cultural revolution” made famous by Chinese Communists.

That’s a lot to digest.

This push creates children who are not just receptors of indoctrination, but conduits of information about their parents and families.

As a parent, I can think of a few times that my three- or four-year-old child would tell a teacher or neighbor something semi-embarrassing about our homelife. When my son was four, he was standing outside with our next-door neighbor looking up at the power lines where someone had thrown a pair of tennis shoes so they would hang there. My son, with his hands on his hips, said, “How the HELL did those damn things get up there?”

My neighbor laughed when he told me about it. “What kind of language are you teaching that kid?”

I was embarrassed and we definitely made an effort in our house to tone down the language after that. But, that is a great example of how little kids expose things about their homes.

Educators know that kids “tattle” on their parents and families all the time. Most of the time it’s innocent and merely an observation a child makes. “Mommy yelled at Daddy last night” or “Daddy drank beer and fell asleep on the couch.” These glimpses of a child’s homelife used to be something that educators understood as a child describing the normal happenings in any home. It was only when a child described possible physical or verbal abuse that teachers needed to get involved.

But things have changed with Social/Emotional Learning and the data mining employed by school systems. Now, teachers like the kindergarten teacher who asks her class, “who is sad today” are participating in rudimentary data mining of their students. Imagine a child who, when asked if he is sad today, raises his hand and tells the teacher, “Mommy and Daddy had a fight last night. It made me sad.” Now the teacher may be compelled to report that statement to the guidance counselor or, even worse, Child Protective Services. Even if nothing out of the ordinary is found, that family now has a paper trail that maybe things in that home don’t fit what bureaucrats define as normal.

Information gathering.

Let’s take this to another level. As the children grow older, they will be exposed to more Social/Emotional learning and CRT. Now the data mining is conducted through schoolwide surveys asking students all kinds of information about their lives, families, etc. Here’s an example from Montgomery County Public Schools:

MCPS Launches Student Wellness Survey – Montgomery County Public School, Rockville, MD (montgomeryschoolsmd.org)

In these surveys, students are asked about their sexual, drug and drinking habits. There are questions about racism at school and gender preferences. They’re also asked about the attitudes of their parents and families. And, while schools say these surveys are “anonymous” no one can be absolutely sure that is the truth. The very fact that schools hide these surveys from parents and don’t require consent from parents for students to participate says otherwise. Opt out form below: *

https://pacificjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pji_opt_out_maryland_parent_and_student_opt_final.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2r-iK-cBZs259A0nURCYyOYuyi0faSi6yNkjvr7vGHiY2opRvRRZexLLQ&fs=e&s=cl

On a more informal basis, classrooms can be more effective data mining centers than electronic surveys. We see system after system proclaiming that students may tell their teachers and school staff about any real or imagined gender confusion without parents being part of the conversation. School systems brag about “safe spaces” where kids can secretly change clothes to portray a new gender. Teachers brag about ways to “conceal students’ gender identity from parents” while teachers encourage gender confusion. A local middle school principal, while meeting with a student and her mother actually told the student who was expressing doubts about her sexuality, “Don’t worry about dealing with your mom and dad, I’m on your side. “And then she winked at the student. The parent was appalled. What information will that principal collect on that family through the student?

This becomes an archive of material that school and government officials can use against parents in CPS or legal actions to deprive them of parental rights.

Don’t think it can happen? Here are a couple of links to events where it HAS happened:

Mother who questioned 12-year-old daughter’s gender transition loses custody battle | The National Desk

Child Custody’s Gender Gauntlet | City Journal (city-journal.org)

Dad lost custody after questioning son’s transgender identity (nypost.com)

These events may seem extreme on the outside. How many parents have children who question their gender? That fact is that it DOES happen. And it will become more prevalent. The left is now trying to say that the spread of gender confusion is NOT because of peer contagion, but because there actually are more gender confused children in the world. In the olden days, we used to call this a “phase” people went through. Now we jump on it to declare that a child needs hormone therapy and surgery to become the opposite sex.

We used to have a saying in education. ” If you are strongly motivated to find a learning disability, you will find it no matter if it exists in a child or not.” It’s called job security and the opportunity to make money off these kids. And, of course, the chaos and confusion it causes is priceless to the authoritarians of our country and world.

Authoritarian states and their citizen acolytes believe the children belong to the government, the community, etc. It’s not ” It takes a village to raise a child.” It is “It takes a Child to expose the village.” Children are a tool for them, a way to coerce and control parents. As we go through the next years of education, pay attention to how many school systems shut parents out more and more. Here’s an example from Maryland:

Maryland school district bars staff from telling parents about gender transitions (washingtonexaminer.com)

You might ask why teachers and school administrators, who are often parents themselves, would support and promote this. Some are intimidated into keeping quiet to keep their jobs. Others are afraid of being labeled with the “phobic” of the week if they don’t follow the current leftist doctrine. And of course, the Unions not only support but advocate for this lunacy.

It’s clear that many teachers and administrators DON’T support this agenda. With over 5500 teachers leaving their jobs in Maryland this year, it’s probable that a high percentage of them are leaving because they can’t get on board with what they are being told to teach in their classrooms and what is happening to the kids.

REPORT: 615 Midwestern Teachers Reveal Why They’re Really Leaving the Classroom – Chalkboard Review (thechalkboardreview.com)

The problem is that NEW teachers will be taught that indoctrination, shutting out parents, and promoting the sexualization agenda IS their job and their sacred duty. Here’s one example:

Teacher shares tips on concealing students’ ‘gender identity’ from parents | The Post Millennial

Or they will be trained to think so. This is the training for the San Diego Unified School District teachers:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22125910-sdusd-source-documents

So, what can you do to fight back?

First, you MUST pay attention to what is going on in your child’s classroom and school. This document can give you some guidance: (Document from courageisahabit.org)

Second, make sure local, state and national politicians KNOW that you are against the indoctrination and data mining of children in schools. Go to Board of Education meetings, county council meetings, write to legislators, etc. Locally, we have a State Delegate and a Congressman telling candidates to SHELVE education as a campaign issue. Either they are scared to death of the teacher’s unions, or they don’t think that parents, grandparents and other taxpayers are vocal enough to impact the election. Let them know that is NOT the case.

If there are groups locally who are fighting this, join these groups. Become active with others to make change. Make sure these are NOT groups that are closely aligned with local school districts under the guise of “charitable foundations.” Often times those foundations are just an extension of the public-school apparatus and support the indoctrination and information gathering.

Of course, if your child is in public schools, find an alternative. Be sure to investigate private schools very carefully, even if they are aligned with a religion or church. Make sure they have NO STRINGS tying them to federal or state funding. Homeschooling is always the best option.

Most important, become educated on the historical foundations of CRT, SEL, etc. The Heritage Foundation, Christopher Rufo, James Lindsey, are some great resources. You can’t fight what you don’t understand. You will be told none of these things exist, that you are crazy, uniformed. All it takes is one look into this group and its supporters to know you are not: (This group is cited in many national, state, and district documents as the center of initiatives)

Supporters – CASEL

If you see some of the names in this organization, you will know what you need to know. Take a look inside their glitzy dive into Social-Emotional Learning and really THINK about what they are promoting. It’s really about indoctrination under the guise of “equity, inclusion and social emotional learning.”

The bottom line is that the drive to indoctrinate and data mine the children is really an effort to data mine and indoctrinate you. As James Lindsey asks, “If you knew you were sending your children for 30-35 hours a week to a Maoist prison for brainwashing, what would you do?”

You would fight to stop the exploitation. Every. Single. Day!

*There is an option for parents to “opt out” of their students being surveyed. However, most parents don’t even know about this choice. It is easily hidden from parents with send home notices that get sent in disorganized back packs or at the bottom of district web pages.

**Opt out form from:

Electing NEA/MSEA endorsed candidates is disaster for our children and families.

Imagine this. You are a public-school teacher in Maryland. Your salary, based on the average for Maryland, is $54,000 a year. Out of that salary, you pay $400 to $500 dollars a year to the Maryland State Teachers Association, National Education Association, and your district’s union through your local union affiliate.

If you are a new teacher in your first through third years, you’re told that you MUST join the union or you won’t get renewed, get tenure or have health or liability insurance. The big fib is that you won’t get legal representation if you are not a member of the Union.

All lies.

The truth is that if you join the union, you will get an organization that spends less than a dime of every dollar of income on representing you and other teachers and more on amassing political power.

The Teachers Unions (NEA and AFT) are two of the largest unions in the United States. And they are two of the most corrupt. If you read their mission statements, you’ll see they have very little to do with education.

Here’s a link to some info I provided in late 2021 about Unions:

Part Two: The Lies They Tell You About Education in the U.S.- Unions Care About Teachers and Students – Radio Free Oxford

You can read about the history of the Unions and their change in mission over the past 100 years at that link. You can also find out about their platforms and policies.

Approximately 70% of teachers in the U.S. belong to a union. One out of every four union members total in the United States belong to either NEA or AFT. This is 3.6 million working members and more than HALF of all public-sector union members.

Think about that. A union that has veto power over what your child is taught, whether he/she must wear a mask or be vaccinated to attend school or whether he/she can attend school in person is one of TWO unions which control one quarter of unionized workers in our country. As Mike Antonucci points out in his article for “The 74” (see link below), “In the private sector, unions organize against business owners and corporation. In the public sector, who are they organized against?”

Examine the MONEY and influence of the unions beyond just membership. First, consider that the NEA has over 700 employees and at least two thirds of those employees make over $100,000 a year. The President makes $325,901. The top 25 employees make over $200,000. That means that most of their employees make many times what a teacher who has taught for 30 years makes. In Maryland, the Executive Director makes over $200,000 dollars a year. The next ten employees make over $100,00 a year. Even local affiliate heads are given a salary, and in some counties in Maryland, they are not only on the school district payroll as a teacher but as Union President. Seem like a conflict of interest? It is, but it doesn’t matter because the Maryland State Teachers Association is the LARGEST most influential union in Maryland.

The National Education Association has assets of over $400 million and almost 3 million members. What’s odd is that their assets have increased while membership has dropped. The percentages that describe how these millions are spent is also interesting. The biggest category is “contributions, gifts and grants” which is 27.45%. The next category is Union Administration, which is 12.19%. Union employees come in at 9.92%, which is nearly the same as what they spent on “representational activities,” which is 10.09% or 10 cents on every dollar. Lobbying and political comes in at 8.69% but if combined with those mysterious contributions and gifts makes up over 36% of the total expenditures. Rounding out the larger categories are General Overhead and Union Administration. at 12.3% and 12.1%.

What is also interesting is that over 60 million or 76% of political donations go to DEMOCRAT politicians at the Federal level. At the State level it’s 128 million of which 86% goes to DEMOCRATS and 14% goes to Republicans. In Maryland, the picture is even more bleak for Republicans as the union gives 98% of donations to Democrats and 2% to Republicans.

And because the unions work hard to hide donations, this does not include all the various Political Action Committees they have created. Any Mafia Don would be proud. For example, if you see the donor “MSEA Fund for Children and Public Education” on the list of donors to a candidate, that is the Union.

Are we in the weeds yet? Maybe. We could go into the same stats on the American Federation of Teachers, where President Rhonda Weingarten makes over $400,000 a year. AFT is smaller than NEA with only 135 million in assets and only 400 employees. And, in fairness, they actually spend 27.98% of their budget on “representational activities.” Political activities and lobbying come in at 15.50% of their budget or almost 41 million dollars.

But, if you are DEMOCRATS, you get 98% of the AFT’s political spending. ($45,898,518) Sorry Republicans, you only get 1% at the Federal level ($682,057). At the State level it’s an average of 91% Democrats ($37,263,145) and 9% Republicans ($3,606,155)

Across the country, Unions give endorsements to candidates as well. Endorsement and donation, usually go hand in hand.

Which leads us to endorsements. The Maryland State Education Association goes to great lengths to describe how they decide endorsements:

In this “fair, open, process” there is no direct vote from Union membership to decide endorsements. This is left to an elite group selected to a council. And then, the candidate must receive only 58% of their vote. So, slightly over HALF of the council has to vote to endorse a candidate.

Not very representative of the teachers who belong to the union.

If you are a candidate, what do you agree to when you get this endorsement?

Unions only pick candidates that agree with the Unions beliefs and platforms. Here’s what NEA (and thus MSEA) describes as priorities on their agenda:

Racial Justice in Education: Key Terms and Definitions | NEA

White Supremacy Culture Resources | NEA

SUPPORT LGBTQ+ STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS – NEA EdJustice

What you will find on the NEA platform is a smorgasbord of Critical Race Theory, divisive identity politics, and normalization of transgenderism. What you DON’T see is a true commitment to ACADEMICS and promotion of student learning. Any candidate who receives the NEA/MSEA endorsement must be in compliance with their platform. By association endorsees have the same beliefs.

The endorsement also assures that the candidates, once they are elected, are beholding to the Teachers Union. That’s not unusual with endorsements from any union, but when it comes to the Teachers Unions, having people in positions of power support their priorities means that kids are subject to union control over classroom indoctrination and exposure to overtly sexual and race based/biased curriculum. Even more frightening is the aforementioned union power to demand masking requirements, vaccine mandates and distance learning whenever a new “pandemic” occurs. A phone call from the Union President to a Board of Education member, County Council member, State Delegate, Senator or Governor can force our schools into practices that are unsafe and harmful to kids as a payback for that Union endorsement given during the election.

If you don’t think those union demands were harmful to kids, look at the recent test scores and plethora of studies showing children with developmental problems which can be traced to school lockdowns or “safety” measures. An analysis by McKinsey and Company found that, on average, students finished the 20-21 school year five months behind in math and six months in reading. **U.S. News and World Report, March 17, 2022

That is a price most of us don’t want to pay. But an endorsed politician will see it as what he/she owes the union and will pay it back regardless of what it does to kids.

It may already be happening in Montgomery County, Maryland. You can be sure the union had some say over this draft policy punishing kids who are not vaccinated. After being accidently published, the policy was scrubbed from the website.

So, what can you do? It’s simple.

You MUST stay involved in the school system especially if your children are in public schools. Go to every board meeting. Pay attention to what they are saying and proposing. Many systems have monthly and even weekly meetings with Union staff. Parents and parent groups should have the same access.

Most important, the next time you see that cute little “Apple” endorsement on a candidate’s signs, remember what it has cost both teachers and students. Teachers pay for services they don’t get. Students are held hostage to the Union’s drive for power. Families are being manipulated by Unions in ways that are causing them great financial and emotional hardship. Think of it as a “poison apple” and do NOT give that candidate your vote regardless of their party.

It’s time to take our schools and our children back from the Unions.

Resources:

Dems, union leaders responsible for school lockdowns face few repercussions, despite evidence that kids harmed | Fox News

How to Opt Out of Your Teachers Union – Teacher Freedom

New Numbers: The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers Now Represent 1 in 4 U.S. Union Members – The 74 (the74million.org)

Helping Students Catch Up on Unfinished Learning (usnews.com)

I went to my first Board of Education meeting in almost a year on July 20. What seemed innocuous on the outside was an indicator of some insidious trends in education, even in our small county.

During the meeting, there were presentations about new initiatives, the Blueprint for Maryland Schools, new teacher training, etc. Most of them were benign on the surface, but as anything with government, there is always a hidden undercurrent.

A startling revelation was presented in a professionally done video about a grant program called the “Aware” Program. This is a program to prevent suicide and mental health problems among our students. The county received a 1.5 million dollar grant for this program which is in its second of five years.

In the video (which will be found at the link to video of the Board meeting below, you will have to fast forward), different school employees, principals, counselors and even some students, talked about how wonderful the program is and how it has helped with student behavior. There were some students talking about how they are helping destigmatize mental health issues. Certainly, preventing suicide and providing help for those with mental health problems is a valiant and important goal. All of these staff members and kids have the purest motives at heart. What I am about to say is not an indictment of their motives but the larger system and what I believe is its ulterior motive.

To draw a parallel, I’m going in the wayback machine to the late 70’s and early 80’s. It was during this time when educators started to hear about a drug to help kids who were considered “hyperactive.” The drug was a stimulant that actually calmed down kids who were truly stricken with hyperactivity that nothing could control. It was a small number of students.

As the years went by, more children were called hyperactive. If a kid tapped his foot or pen during class all the time? Hyperactive. If a student was bright but not doing well because he wasn’t paying attention? Hyperactive. Teachers and parents alike began to call any active child hyperactive. It didn’t matter if maybe the class was terribly boring or the child was too young to sit still for hours. Parents used the excuse to keep from parenting and teachers used it to keep from actually teaching.

Suddenly, the number of hyper children grew and they started calling them “ADHD.” The stimulant, Ritalin, was given out like candy during lunch. Parents bragged about their child’s status at cocktail parties and even claimed that they themselves were probably ADHD. It became the cool thing and everyone wanted on board.

Eventually, the kids figured out they had a very powerful drug in their possession and started selling it to fellow students as a stimulant. Recent studies have tied the use of Ritalin to severe physical and mental disorders in patients*(1, 2)

But doctors, the FDA, etc. determined the benefits outweighed the risks. Sort of like the recent Covid MRNA treatment that has harmed millions.

Back to the present.

As we watched this video about the AWARE program, the focus shifted to a kindergarten teacher. I don’t think this teacher is bad or has a bad motive. I think she’s been misled. She began talking about how she was teaching her students about “self-regulation” which means they learn how to control themselves. Nothing wrong with that. Then she spoke about how she teaches her kindergarten class about “big emotions” they may have and that, in time, these big emotions will go away. She teaches them “belly breathing.” Again, these are kindergartners.

Making Sure Your Kid Needs Psychological Counseling and Medication

The kicker is when she asks this question of the entire class, ” Who is feeling sad today?” Suddenly, ALL the hands go up. Every kid in the class says he/she is sad today.

I know kids. And one thing I know about kids is that they want attention. They want to be one of the group. They want to belong. So, in this class, a child can get attention if they feel “sad” today like everyone else. Many of them probably don’t even know what that means. When a child is five years old, being “sad” might mean you didn’t get the cereal you wanted for breakfast. It could mean you wanted to stay home and play with your puppy. Or it could mean something bad happened at home. But it doesn’t matter because all “sad” will get you attention from the teacher. Or it will get you time in a “safe space.” Or maybe a nice counselor will come take you from class, give you a snack, and talk about being sad. And what five-year-old wouldn’t want any of those? I think you can see the problem here.

“Sad” becomes something cool to be because it makes you like everyone else. It is status.

The system, and this teacher unknowingly, is creating “sadness” where there might not be any and making it something kids expect to be every day.

It’s even worse than that.

Let’s kick “sad” up a notch.

As we watched the video, a man I know who has probably worked in the system for over twenty years, comes on to talk about the AWARE program. I know this man and he is a really nice guy. For years, he has been one of the few mental health professionals employed by the system. I think his motives are honest and he believes he is doing good things for kids.

But what he says next shocked me. He spoke about how the system, due to the AWARE grant, has identified over 400 mental health problems with students in the system in the last year. He stated that in his entire career, he can count only about 200 health issues with students in 20 years. This year has had a bumper crop. (By the way, there has been 86 “critical incidents” which I imagine has to do with violence or suicide. This is unheard of in our small system.)

To be fair, I’m sure Covid, lockdowns and the craziness in our world has contributed to this increase. But I also wonder how much can be attributed to the grant and the need to find justification for it. Like special education, when professionals are tasked with finding cases, they do exactly that. Remember, in the 80’s special educators found learning disabilities around every corner. People whose jobs depend on these problems will find as many as they can. It’s job security. It’s the ability to hire more staff. It’s more money in school coffers.

If they can’t find them, they may create them, just like the kindergarten teacher inadvertently created “sad” students.

And if you think this isn’t true, remember it was the Federal and State Bureaucracies that said if you were in a fatal car accident and tested positive for Covid, you were counted as a “Covid death.”

Here’s another example of creating mental problems where there are none. This story from Montgomery County, Maryland:

School district requires students to share ‘inclusive’ locker rooms or face counseling | The Post Millennial

In Montgomery County, if a child feels “uncomfortable” sharing a bathroom with someone who may be a certain gender but claims to be another, the uncomfortable child is deemed the one in need of mental health counseling. So, a 13-year-old girl who doesn’t want to undress in the locker room in front of a biological male is the one with the problem and has to be “treated.”

In my mind, I call her concerns modesty and innocence.

But the system is changing the definition of a mental health problem to include what should be called normal feelings. They are also increasing the number of mental health cases for the system. More cases, more money. More staff. More control.

Let’s look at this article exploring the sudden explosion of students with gender identity issues. It explores the concept of “peer contagion.”

Why are so many children claiming to be ‘trans’? – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Additionally, what gets labeled as a mental health problem next? Morals? Political beliefs? Religious beliefs?

Who knows? As we see with Montgomery County and other areas of the country, the people in charge want to control all of us, and most important, our children. They see parents as impediments, not people with a right to determine their child’s education.

Look once more at Montgomery County, Maryland:

Maryland school district bars staff from telling parents about gender transitions (washingtonexaminer.com)

Again, I don’t believe the local staff is part of some terrible plot. I believe they are convinced they are doing what is right for children. In the Montgomery County example, staff may be deluded into thinking they are protecting kids. And they think they are helping them.

Sadly, they are doing just the opposite. Just like learning disabilities, mental illness will be for everyone. And remember, who makes money off the drugs to “help” with psychological issues? Gender reassignment? I think we all know.

It points out another reason to get your children out of the public schools. If you can’t do that, you are going to have to be diligent and pay careful attention to what is going on in your child’s classroom.

And just in case you are not concerned enough with what I just told you, here’s some things you should be aware of:

Parents Please Read: (15) of the Most Harmful Things About Social Emotional Learning (SEL) – PACT Is A VA Overwatch Initiative (stoplcpscrt.com)

Are you awake yet? They want your kids. Because of that, you need to be well informed and always communicating with your child’s school.

Their mental health and lives could be at stake.

Video of Talbot County Board Meeting:

https://talbotschools-md.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1

1.New Study Shows Early Ritalin May Cause Long-term Effects On The Brain — ScienceDaily

2.Long-Term Effects and Risks of ADHD Drugs: Adderall, Ritalin, and More (webmd.com)

Another July 4th, Independence Day, and celebration of our Nation’s founding.

And yet, after 246 years, the holiday and the country it celebrates seem more in danger than ever. Every day I read a Tweet from some stupid over privileged politician, activist, entertainer and sports celebrity about how they won’t celebrate this year based on some stupid, virtue signaling concept they have either been told to support or have created in their mind. Women who see the right to kill their baby as “constitutional” claim they won’t celebrate until women are “truly free,” whatever that means.

It is sickening. Because it displays for all to see the utter stupidity of these people and the culmination of years in an educational system that has failed all of us. I could write about that all day long and still not touch the surface of the horrible wrongs the system has perpetrated on all of us. It wasn’t systemic racism, or misogyny, or homo phobia, trans phobia, etc.

It was the planned failure of the system to teach the REAL story of our country’s founding and the actual meaning of the Constitution.

I’m not a Constitutional scholar, although I wonder what that means. How does one become a scholar of a document that was simply, plainly, and succinctly written? Must you parse every word, read between the lines, reference every phrase? If so, being a Constitutional scholar is a perversion of what the document means and what it is supposed to do.

Because it was never intended to be a document pulled apart in millions of directions so as to justify every sick desire of human beings. Nor was it a license to live without law, order, common sense. Phrases weren’t supposed to twisted, or spun or recklessly connected with every daily cause du jour.

See, the Founders knew that although rights were given by God, they would have to be enacted and protected by men. And they knew, better than anyone, that men were grossly imperfect and that some would have ulterior and evil purposes. They knew that many would strive for their own power and would work hard to take that power from the citizens. They had seen it in King George III and many monarchs before him. They had their own efforts to peacefully fight back ignored and then punished. They were under no illusion that freedom would be easily won or preserved.

Yet, they built a document that they hoped would help. They hoped it would guide the people in protecting their own rights and correcting any wrongs that occurred. They hoped that the majority of people would be good, sensible, religious, and well educated enough to keep the evil doers in check.

But they knew it would never be perfect. They even said so in the Preamble of the Constitution, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

See that? They didn’t say they would make THE perfect union or A perfect union but would form a MORE perfect Union, one that would always strive to do what is best for the good of the people, would correct gross wrongs, and make our country stronger and better. They created the very instrument, the very tool that could do this, even today.

And these fools with all their miseducation want to distort and destroy that. All because they aren’t getting every whim and goody they want. Like two year olds in the Supermarket checkout line, they want the cheap plastic toy of the moment, and they want it now, wailing and screaming at the top of their lungs. If they don’t get it, they are willing to turn over the shopping cart and burn down the store, not realizing that by doing so, they will not only not get what they want but that the repercussions will be dire for all of us.

They want to destroy the one thing that will keep them free.

And we, like the parent who gave in too often, who created this spoiled child, are at wits ends as to what to do. We made the monster, and now we don’t know how to handle it.

We need to look back at our Founders and how they did what they did. Yes, they fought, but they used ideas first. In the face of grave peril and danger, they spoke out, they wrote. They warned about what Paul B. Skousen labels in his book, How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the “Seven Pillars of Tyranny”; rulers, caste/class, ‘leveling.’ regulations, force, information, and no rights. These pillars are the same used by every ancient and modern tyrant.

The Founders were threatened, arrested and sometimes killed for their beliefs. This is something the fake virtue signalers of today can’t comprehend as they shriek from their protective cocoons.

The Founders persisted. We need to be as strong as they were.

We have to persist. Our Union is not perfect and will never be. But we need to fight for the right of the citizens to use every ounce of decency, common sense, intelligence and honest education to work to make it MORE perfect.

Just like those brave men and women who founded this country.

Happy 4th of July!

I got a text today regarding the Maryland Gubernatorial Race in Maryland. It was a poll done by Goucher College and NPR. For background, remember that Goucher College and NPR are notoriously left leaning and biased. However, the data is interesting, and we will discuss it later.

It comes on the back end of a conversation with someone over the weekend where I was told that “Moderates, independents, and cross over Democrats will never vote for Dan Cox, the Republican candidate endorsed by Donald Trump. The other candidate, Schulz, stands a better chance of winning them over.”

What is interesting to me is that this is the same old song we hear every time a truly Conservative candidate runs for office. And it comes from both the Left and establishment Republicans.

It’s important to understand definitions here. An “independent” politically is someone who does not align him/herself with ANY party. And, they do this despite the fact that they can’t vote in election primaries in many states and they can’t receive funding from either party if they run for office. They effectively cut themselves off. You can’t really describe the beliefs of an Independent, because they don’t have party whose platform they can align with. At the very least, however, they are prepared to “go it alone.”

A “cross over Democrat” is someone who is a declared Democrat but votes to elect Republicans from time to time. Ronald Reagan was a President who received a lot of cross over votes. It’s hard to determine who these people are in polls, since they don’t usually want to “out” themselves as voting for the other party.

And then there are the “moderates.” The word “moderate” is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary, ” being within a middle range in size, amount or degree, neither great nor little.” Transfer that to politics and you get a person who is a little conservative, a little liberal, but nothing to the degree of actual conviction or passion.

I believe that using the word to describe one’s political views is a way for most people to avoid sharing their true beliefs for fear that they won’t be acceptable to others. It’ seems to be a coward’s way out. If one can call himself a “moderate” he effectively eliminates any unpleasant or confrontational conversations. When candidates self-describe themselves this way, it’s to straddle the fence, get elected, and never have to do anything that will actually advance a cause on either side. In effect, they vote “present.”

If you are ever talking to someone and they describe themselves as a “moderate” it’s interesting to ask them what that means. Most of the time they will hem and haw and end up saying, ” I don’t agree with some things Democrats want and some things Republicans want.” If you ask for further explanation, they’ll say, “Well you know, like the Republicans are good on the economy and the Dems are good on social issues.” If you don’t accept that answer and keep probing, they will either end the conversation or shrug their shoulders. They don’t realize that their explanation is somewhat impossible. No economy can survive with Democrat social programs and no Dem social program can make it under a Republican economy.

So why are moderates always cited in political polls?

They are because the establishment politicians on both sides love them. But, the Republican establishment loves them the most. The illusion of ‘moderates” is the big lie that keeps the Republican establishment in business. They promote the idea that there is a huge group of “moderates” out there just biding their time to cast their lot with a candidate who has the same fuzzy standards they do. For example, here is the Republican establishment in Maryland supporting their “moderate” candidate.:

Like most of these establishment wonks, the heads of Republican Central Committees throughout the State of Maryland forsake their stated ethics and take sides with certain candidates they call “moderates”. For example, here they are supporting a candidate who has no Conservative principles at all.

The Republican establishment has long forsaken the Conservative ideals they may have once had. Like the unpopular kids in schools, they have sold their souls for a seat at the Democrat “cool kids” table. It’s not that the Democrats are actually the “cool” kids. In fact, the leftist Dems who now run the party seem to be either scary looking crazies or pasty, wimpy nerds. When the Marxists planned their demise of this country, they picked the Dems as the party most likely to cave to their Socialist plans and bribery. They saw their weakness, lack of values, and willingness to be led.

This includes so much of Hollywood, the news media, and pop culture. They are aligned with the European elites, those people that John Kerry and Barack Obama seek to emulate and appease. And, despite what Republicans may say, they want their acceptance as well. Look at any top-level Republican in Congress. McConnell, Graham, Romney, etc. They have this unflagging desire to belong to the club.

And so, in an attempt to distance themselves from the Republican, Conservative base, the RINO machine uses the excuse of appealing to the moderates. Remember, they see moderates as a huge gold mine of votes, waiting to be exposed and cashed in.

Maybe they are correct. Except I have discovered one thing about true “moderates.” They generally stay at home at election time, especially in the primaries. This is because moderates don’t care enough to get out there and sort through primary candidates to find the one that is the best. (Of course, this only applies until something harmful happens to a moderate or a member of their family. Then, the moderates can turn into passionate advocates for whatever policy or practice that needs to be changed so it doesn’t affect them again)

A great example of this is in Maryland as the establishment GOP is pushing Kelly Schulz, a woman who is doing a great impersonation of Joe Biden hiding from debates in his basement, a woman who sat idly by while her tyrannical boss and biggest supporter, Larry Hogan, shut down the state and our economy. “She’s nice,” they tell us, “And she’s the only one who can win against Democrats. The moderates love her. ” Did they learn nothing in 2016? Schulz is the 2022 version of Jeb Bush.

But the establishment Republicans keep forcing her on us. As shown above, alleged impartial members of local Republican Central Committees tell candidates for other offices to “push out” her info in their campaign. They tell us that we must woo the moderates and that they are critical. Maybe they are important, but when does it come to the point where we realize that “moderates” are not the ones who make change in this country, who fight back against the horrible ideas and policies of a mostly Marxist Democrat party. Moderates are not the ones in the front line of this battle. In fact, many of them are way in the back, telling us that only a weak, middle of the road, post turtle candidate can win.

The establishment has been using this tactic forever. It has kept them in power for way too long. It’s time we remind them it doesn’t work. We should remind them that Trump, love him or hate him, won with the support of his base, conservatives, in 2016 (and in my opinion 2020). If they can’t learn this lesson on their own, we can help them. And then we can vote them out.

Additional Note:*I included this poll from Goucher College with great reservations as Goucher is one of the most biased liberal colleges in Maryland. It is interesting, however, that it shows a “statistical tie” between Conservative Dan Cox and RINO Kelly Schulz. Of course, Goucher then has to tell us that Democrat “crossover” voters won’t vote for Cox because he is endorsed by Trump. They say a candidate will need those voters to win.

Well, let me share what I have seen and heard. Those “crossover” Democrats were some of the people who Larry Hogan bankrupted and abused. They know Kelly Schulz sat there like a Barbie Bobble Head statue while it happened. They have no great love for any of the Marxist candidates or for Comptroller Franchot. They also know that Dan Cox is against that approach. They know he stands for freedom, and like Trump, he is a fighter.

Democratic, Republican Primary Voters Split Among Candidates: New Goucher College Poll – NewsBreak

PS: Crazy Schulz allegation #3 this month. Democrats are spending money on anti-Cox ads in order to get Cox through the primaries. Interesting strategy.

I’m really getting tired of hearing about people who are constantly demanding “affirmation” from others. It’s almost a sickness, a compulsion. One could say it is a mental illness.

Actually, I think it is more of a weapon in this war of truth versus lies, right versus wrong, liberty versus freedom. Just like the words “equity,” “privilege” and “underserved,” it is used to divide us, make some of us feel guilty, and create an environment where the rights to freedom and free speech don’t exist. As they say in Star Wars, “It’s a trap.” And it is a trap that society will never escape from if we get caught.

Here’s the actual dictionary definition of “affirmation;” (From the Cambridge Dictionary), ” a statement of sign that something is true, the act of saying ‘yes’ or showing you mean ‘yes,’ or support of approval.”

For example, read this article and then watch the childish video from the Navy of the United States. The video is intended to teach members of the Navy how to use pronouns to “affirm” people’s identity.

PRIDE MONTH: Here’s How the Navy Is Training Soldiers on Proper Gender Pronouns (freebeacon.com)

Within the first thirty seconds of this video, the speakers talk about how pronouns can be used to affirm someone’s identity. I am not lying. In our military, where we want to have the toughest, bravest, most heroic people in our society, we have a bunch of weenies who need to be affirmed through pronouns.

Imagine this. The Captain of the ship comes into a meeting which includes the crew of that ship. Perhaps it is a battleship or nuclear sub. He walks in, everyone gets quiet, and he says, ” Hey guys, we are going to war today.” Suddenly everyone in the room breaks into tears, not because they are going to war but because the captain used the word “guys” to address the group and that is not the preferred pronoun of some of them. Doesn’t bode well for the effectiveness of the ship to wage battle or for the sailors on it to survive.

All because the Captain didn’t “affirm” every sailors sexual/gender identity. As if that matters in war.

Like I said, it’s a sickness.

Another example of this illness is this video of teachers. The first teacher explains her “coming out” to her students. She talks about her fears and how she hoped her students would accept or affirm, her.

As you listen to her, you realize that she has switched roles with her students. Instead of being the adult in the room who teaches and helps them, she is now the child seeking approval for her personal choice. This perverts the role of a teacher. A teacher is there to provide students with an education, not to present their own lifestyle for “affirmation.” This would not be acceptable for any adult regarding ANY of their sexual activities or preferences.

Here’s another one. This is from a transgender teacher talking about her four-year-old students:

Libs of TikTok on Twitter: “Preschool teacher talks about coming out as trans to her 4-year-old students https://t.co/FFgtWna5LF” / Twitter

Again, we have an adult, the one who is supposed to be a strong role model for her students, flipping that on its head and using the kids for some kind of emotional gratification disguised as “affirmation.” They have become objects to make her “whole.” Notice the disdain she has for their parents and other adults as well.

Why? Because adults won’t play a part in her sick drama. They won’t give into her mental illness and masquerade party. If she could get adults to “affirm” her or if she was comfortable with who she is, she wouldn’t need to involve her students.

But the kids, she can mold, shape and yes, groom, those children to accept and “affirm” her skewed view of the world. This is just one step closer to using these children for gratification in other ways, if not by her, then by other sick adults.

And some parents, desiring what they see as “sophistication” and “tolerance” will put their children into this environment without a second thought. That’s why we have parents taking children to drag queen events/venues that are clearly not appropriate for children:

(Caution: If you have children in the room, do not show this video while they are present. It has partial nudity)

Libs of TikTok on Twitter: “This is what a “family-friendly drag show” in a bar looks like https://t.co/oTnLmdEkaZ” / Twitter

Notice the laughing woman with the small child? She seems perfectly fine that this baby is being exposed to vulgar behavior and hyper-sexualization. Would she laugh if it was a male strip show? Sadly I’m not sure about that answer.

Again, who gains from this? What is the point. It all goes back to “affirmation.” If these mentally ill people can coerce and indoctrinate our youngest children into the idea that sexual promiscuity, sexual actions, sexual confusion, etc. is normal, then they can use those children to provide the emotional acceptance that they are lacking.

Who knows why they need this affirmation. Maybe their parents didn’t love them enough. Maybe their parents loved them too much, to the point of crippling them emotionally. Maybe they have a screw loose. Maybe they are just shallow people who equate having everyone agree with your choices with being popular, loved and important.

But if we are going to allow these abnormal people to do this with our children, why just limit ourselves to sexual preferences or identity. Why don’t we allow drug addicts to teach and seek approval from their students? How about mass murderers? Or, worst of all, pedophiles?

What if the motives for all of this runs deeper and wider than just allowing mentally unstable people to create this narrative? Who will benefit on the world scene? Who benefits monetarily? Why would anyone think this is good?

If we look back at the Navy video, remember that this initiative is being enacted across all of our armed forces. Does growing a group of woke members in the military who will cry at any perceived pronoun “misuse” make our national defense stronger or weaker? If one can’t take being called “he” instead of “they” it’s doubtful that they will do well in the face of the real danger of facing the enemy. If officers have to worry about the pronouns they will use for each member of their unit, they won’t have time to plan for battle. The division this will cause among our fighting men and women will be disastrous. So, our enemies must be eyeing this with glee.

Of course lawyers will love this as they have new clients all willing to sue at the drop of an incorrect label or perceived lack of affirmation from employers, co-workers, and community members.

Let’s not forget the mental health profession, the ones who brought us over prescribing of ADHD drugs and anti-depression medications to children and adults alike. In some cases, the effects of these drugs are worse than the original condition. Remember, Big Pharma controls these drugs as well as all the hormone blockers and other drugs used by transsexuals. Once a person is on these drugs, they can never go off of them. It’s a lifetime of pure profit for the pharmaceutical companies.

There’s money to be made, government agencies to form, more power over our country and everyone in it.

If the promoters of this madness can make crazy look normal to everyone, then the crazy among us can go about their lives ruining themselves and others with complete impunity. They can destroy the innocence of children with whatever depraved acts they want and everyone will chalk it up to social sophistication and “seeking affirmation.”

And those of us who speak up against it will be called hateful names and banished from “enlightened” society. Our freedom of speech will once again be threatened and many will be frozen in place, unable to protect themselves and their children.

Not everyone will accept that. Listen to this drag queen talk about why she thinks it is wrong to expose children to this sexualization as a minor.

Biology Rules Ok on Twitter: “#IStandWithMarionMillar https://t.co/IBYrutbmYj” / Twitter

She gets it. I think this person is not one who requires “affirmation” from children or possibly even other adults. She does her thing but doesn’t seem interested in forcing you or your child into her lifestyle.

I know many Gay and Lesbian men and women who are just appalled at this as we are. It hurts them and their children as well.

It’s something we can agree on. We want our child to have the blessings of innocence in childhood; free of the early sexualization that some want as “affirmation.” They want teachers and schools out of the sex and psychotherapy business and in the academics business.

Stand up for our children. Stand up NOW before it’s too late!