I have been a strong advocate for body cameras on public school teachers, and nothing I have seen since has dissuaded me from the idea.

 

According to a warrant sent to 11Alive on Monday, 30-year-old Amelia Ressler, of Carrollton, performed an “indecent act” in class, allegedly pleasuring herself, while 19 eight-year-old students were present.

It happened on Jan. 28, authorities noted in the warrant, between 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Mt. Zion Elementary School.  …

According to the affidavit, “a person commits the offense of child molestation when such person does any immoral or indecent act to or in the presence of or with any child under the age of 16 years with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the person.”

“The substitute teacher and self-proclaimed feminist allegedly recorded herself in the act and disseminated the video,” So, there’s video evidence, and nineteen 8-year-old were her audience.

[Amelia] Ressler posted the 13-second masturbation video on Snapchat that led to her arrest, according to The Exposure, a Facebook page that claims to be an anonymously published news source working for “the betterment of our communities.” The Exposure claimed to have seen the video and shared information about it. The Georgia-based social media page posted a screenshot of the video showing a person they say is Ressler, wearing leggings, with her feet up on a desk. Another screenshot shows what appears to be her hand in a mitten between her legs.

She’s in jail, but here’s the strange thing (and the question). In a lot of states, if the same teacher had shown them anything similar in (say) a book (with or without snap chat video), any objection would be pitched by the usual subjects as an assault on education, free speech, teachers, and labeled book banning.

Tell me I’m wrong.

 

Note: The generic featured image was replaced with a montage of the alleged perp after publication.

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RSA 193-H:2 says flat out that: Schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment as established in RSA 193-C.

Notably, it doesn’t make exceptions for kids with special needs, kids with test anxiety, or anyone else.

Now, if you interpret this as saying,

Schools shall assign pupils to grades according to age, and then do whatever is necessary to get all pupils in those grades reading at the corresponding grade levels.

…then it is easy to dismiss it as an impossible task — especially when you consider that the schools don’t actually know how to teach kids to read.

It’s also easy to dismiss as a suggestion rather than as a statute since there is no penalty specified for failure to comply.

But if you interpret it as saying,

Schools shall assign pupils to grades according to their reading levels at the end of the previous year.

…then this would automatically bring every school into compliance with the law. If a pupil reads at a 4th-grade level, then he’s in 4th grade, regardless of how old he is.

Note that nothing else has to change. No new tests have to be administered. No new statutes or regulations have to be enacted. All we have to do is recognize that it makes more sense to understand the phrase ‘shall ensure’ as a method, and not as a goal.

This would also have some important secondary benefits.  It would, for example, put an end to social promotion.  It would motivate students to learn to read by putting the more enjoyable electives off limits until the more fundamental skills have been mastered — which is simply following the age-old parenting principle of making kids eat dinner before they get to eat dessert.

And it might even, in time, make our graduation rate meaningful.  Right now, with a graduation rate above 90%, and proficiency rates below 40%, graduation is little more than a reward for attendance.

What possible reasons could we have for not doing this?

 

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In his youth, Jordan Peterson worked with the socialist party in Northern Alberta—good folks who were mostly concerned about the working class. And everything was going along fine until he met the real socialists and encountered a life-changing disconnect.

” He got disenchanted, in part, because when he went to eh conventions of the party, met the radical types, and they are the same as they are now, I thought, what the hell’s up with you people? You’re just bitter and resentful. You claim to be caring for the poor but that’s just a lie. You’re just bitter and resentfull.

He adds some excellent points, some of them humorous, about small business and work and political ethics and interests of the productive class who (he believes) have the moral upper hand. But they don’t know what to do with that.

He then explores the problems they (and conservatives in general) have when trying to articulate their ethos or their troubles when confronted by the political left.

About eight minutes and very interesting. You may want to watch it more than once. I did.

 

 

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1. Giving (a few) hours’ notice for a meeting as important as yesterday’s rain tax meeting is not only irresponsible, it’s downright sneaky. It was so obviously planned far in advance, and boom, the people don’t need to know. You obviously don’t want the public to know what ridiculousness you are up to or public input… You’re all really transparent!!

2. This tax, or as you call it, a utility, is a desperate attempt to undo your zest for overdevelopment while mismanagement of the general fund. 3m worth… There’s a story here we’ll never know, I’m sure. You already have a city water problem, now a sewer problem, a parking problem, good thing people are pulling their children out of public schools, or we’d have another problem. How many obscure “utilities” or taxes can you create?

3. There is NO INCREASED NITROGEN in great bay!!! SEE CHART from NHDES; the levels are lower than at the start of testing!

It’s a lie. The city has the burden of proof of why folks are charged and exactly how much impact their roof has. You know, science, not imagination. If roofs do not produce nitrogen, and I’ve had my property tested, and no increased nitrogen exists, those properties either should be exempt or given reparations from the worse offenders if any exists. The cost to test everyone’s roof is unknown and absolutely unreasonable. This lie will unravel because the stormwater is supposed to go into the wastewater treatment plant, which, per the EPA contract, is supposed to eliminate nitrates prior to discharge anyway. So just call it what it is, a tax, and stop messing with nature. It would be far better for homeowners if it were a “tax” because utilities are not deductible on our federal tax returns…Besides, the city and state are the worse offenders of chemicals, pollution, and nitrates into the earth. eco tyranny at its best

4 signing the EPA contract was a crime, period. The EPA cannot write laws or tax us. When this tax/utility is challenged in superior court, it will lose… It’s happening all over the country as the people are challenging the EPAs overreach. It’s truly amazing how many citizens have absolutely no clue about the contract or the rain tax… By design

5. This fee will impact the poor, fixed-income renters and the cost of doing business in this city. You can sugarcoat it all day long with excuses, but it will hurt people. This tax will only go up. You all have to live with that! Why should people with septic and well pay!? Oh, that’s right, the EPA says all septic systems have to be replaced!! Can’t wait for that bill… Yet septic/well have absolutely no impact on any of this agenda…

6. You are taxing us TWICE for square footage. And the impact list made by satellite imagery is also dumb. No testing, no real science, just Willy nilly taxing… Rain! I see CO2 tax on the horizon… Not one of you has a clue about the land and its resources. Just the mere fact UNH is involved in this is a contradiction! Because the UNH extension is telling farmers to put nitrogen back in the soil!?!? I’ll stick with thousands of years of tried and true than smoke and mirrors…

7. Rather than encourage open space and woods (btw, trees eat CO2), you are overdeveloping, period. You are in direct violation of everything the rain tax is supposedly about. Especially the nonsensical “waterfront” mess. No BMPs, no thought of responsible ecological impact directly on the river, just greed. Yet, us serfs have to pony up… Ok

8. It’s very difficult to find details on your rain tax within the city. The first committee is gone, replace with a shiny new one who is not listed anywhere to email or call!?!? Transparency, right

9. I’m formally requesting all fees associated with consultants, including the one last night.? How many staff estimated to police the list of exceptions? “Not use fertilizer.” Are you kidding me!? Are we going to pay to have everyone’s lawns tested!?!? This is the most unreasonable piece of drivel ever created and impossible to police, and it smells of communistic control… You can get a reduction, but we have to determine if you do. Since when does the government, the people who serve us, get to wield such powers…

10. The whole concept is BUNK. You believe that because you are elected or placed on some committee gives you superpower? Did any of you even stop for one millisecond to think if all this may actually hurt the environment? Vernal ponds eliminate nitrogen; at what level do you starve aquatic life? A delicate balance of nature. You don’t know; no one does. The absolute provable fact Great Bay healed itself after the 2006 floods is not enough for you. It’s all an excuse to tax and make yourselves feel good when you’re actually doing harm.

THIS IS AN IRRESPONSIBLE EFFORT TO ADD MORE TAX BURDEN TO THE PEOPLE. AND YOU ARE NOT TRANSPARENT FOR A REASON! TAXING RAIN IS A GATEWAY TO TAXING AIR… GOVERNMENT OVERREACH AT ITS BEST.

 

Email to the over city council

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Meme-Maker, Meme-Maker, make me a meme. Not too obscene, if you know what I mean. Meme-Maker, Meme-Maker make the left dread the memes you see in your head. No? Yes? Fiddler on the Roof? Maybe?

In keeping with the ‘Grok meme tradition, Monday memes are always followed by a Wednesday overflow post with…more memes and a few “other” bits inserted as meme palate cleaners.

Not everything here is for all ages, so please scroll responsibly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have written previously about the bizarro world the Left lives on. At the time, mostly the Radical Left had gone off the rails. We had no conception of how much worse this alternate world could get. It is no longer the fringe but the majority of the Left that has a warped view of the country’s state and a vision of how it should be.

It is exhausting for those on the Right to see how our country and lives have changed for the worst in the last two-plus years, and we fear how much worse conditions can become. Barack Obama was a harbinger when he said that Democrats would transform America, but it is alarming when Joe Biden claims he needs six more years to finish the job. What more in God’s name can they do to destroy the United States of America? The limits to their imagination are infinite. What does finish the job look like? Let’s look at some of the more drastic initiatives.

Sovereignty: our Border has been eliminated. An unchecked number of illegal immigrants enter our country daily. There is no vetting, and our Border Patrol is a welcoming committee, not a security force. These millions of people from over 160 countries are spreading out to every corner of America. Schools, auditoriums, hotels, and even personal homes are temporary shelters. These people are putting a tremendous burden on local resources and negatively impacting housing and schools. There is no plan or indication of how many illegals are too much for the Left. Guns, drugs, and crime are also part of this mass migration.

Children: we have lost respect for our children’s lives and human life in general. The movements to increase abortion rights, infanticide, and euthanasia instead of health care are the norms of the Left. Schools are now working to come between students and families, and chemical castration is now a viable option and no longer child abuse. Human trafficking is disavowed and labeled a Right Wing Conspiracy Theory. CRT, ESG, BLM, and LGBTQ have replaced ABCs in today’s schools. Children have become tools to promote agendas and secure power. Indoctrination has usurped education, setting up future generations for failure.

Crime: the term crime has lost its meaning as offenses are downgraded, bail is becoming nonexistent, apprehension is more of a crime than the crime itself, and radical Soros-placed DAs are decimating the safety of our neighborhoods. The DOJ, FBI, and CIA are weaponized against Americans while protecting our most famous crime family living in the White House. Criminals are set free, parents targeted, and indictments are the new campaign tool to thwart your opponents.

Drugs: it took this Administration 30 months to acknowledge the Fentanyl epidemic, and they are too fearful of China to call out the source. We wonder where our workers have gone, but maybe we need to look no further than the drugs plaguing our society. With 100,000 Fentanyl deaths a year, thousands more from opioids, the impact of drug addiction on our workforce-age population, and the growing number of people willing to abandon life to be homeless on our sidewalks, it should be no secret why help wanted signs go unanswered.

Free Speech: our first amendment is meaningless to the Left. If someone on the Right speaks out against the Left, they are labeled as racist, anarchist, enemies of the state, and threats to Democracy. The media works in unison with the Left, and more than half of the country has no clue as to happenings in the country. The Administration that promised to be the most transparent lies to us daily with no accountability. Our press secretary calls it irresponsible to ask questions as she lies to answer them.

This list is the tip of the iceberg and is stressful to put to paper. We continue to tell our story and urge the Right to continue to fight to save this great Republic, but it appears more futile every day. We cannot stop and must dig deep for the inner fortitude to fight on.

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Sometimes our world appears gloomy. But don’t get disheartened. In the final analysis, we are each accountable to ourselves and the Creator, who keeps track of everything we do.

Vital to the success of any effort is the abandonment of old suspicions, parochial thinking, and scheming for special privileges for any individuals or groups. Goodwill and work for the common good are required of all.

America is home to religiously and ethnically diverse people, and everyone is an equal shareholder of the homeland. Guaranteeing equality to all its citizens demands total adherence to the principle of unity in diversity, a unity of purpose that draws from the strength and uniqueness of its constituents.

President Donald Trump was God sent to save America. So was Attorney General Ken Paxton. Funny, the same people are doing everything they can to stop them from doing God’s work.

But the work is not done. We must do our best to reelect President Trump for a second (third) term and protect Paxton from a traitorous UniParty (to keep Texas safe); otherwise, America’s future will be in the hands of radical socialists, Islamists, communists, and so forth. We cannot and must not let that happen.

2024 is the most critical election of our era. This is not a joke. We neither can nor must allow the repeat of the 2020 stolen election. That would be the end of America as we know it. Be vigilant. Start now.

Laziness is a disease. I strongly urge you to get involved and get your friends and family to become part of this movement. We cannot afford to lose America to a group of America’s enemies.

America is not perfect. Yet, it is the best hope for humanity struggling to find its humanness. We know that evil is on the rampage worldwide with unprecedented fury.

Please, people of faith. People who believe in God and aim to obey Him. This is your time; this is your call. Please stand up and support them now. Time is of the essence. The cause of the good is in dire need of stalwart champions. Be one.

 

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The hottest (insert thing here) on record folks celebrated the long holiday weekend by insisting that July 3 and 4th as the hottest days on earth ever! Sadly, it’s not, and even NOAA had to run away from the claims diplomatically.

 

NOAA runs away from ‘hottest day’ claim.https://t.co/BQv0VpuE5r pic.twitter.com/IaeOIGj5xE

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 7, 2023

 

NOAA is no climate denier; they are part of the Cult, so this is comparable to a Hillary Clinton supporter admitting that Russia did not steal the 2016 election for Trump. It’s a big deal, but it hardly matters. Climate lies get headlines, and while actual science will prove them wrong, the shock and awe will have a lingering effect.

Speaking of science. July 3rd, 2023, was not the hottest anything in America.

 

It came in 49th hottest since 1895, and absent data before that, we can’t say much more, but if you ask Geologist Ian Palmer if the planet is warming, he wants to know, “Since when?”

 

Geologist, Professor Ian Plimer:

“If you started measuring in the 1850s, there’s been a general warming of about 0.7 degrees Celsius… If you started to measure from the medieval times, we’ve had a COOLING of about four degrees Celsius…”pic.twitter.com/wcPUVO3MiZ https://t.co/KHzxc4lItI

— أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) July 8, 2023

 

What we do know is that even the high priests of the Climate Cult have, in the past, stated that most of the global temperature data south of the equator are crap (except Australia). And much of the data north of it is subject to heat island encroachment for which there has been no adjustment. The result is garbage spun as consensus, the subject of the latest in a series of videos by Tony Heller (links below).

In his most recent installment of Climate Fakery, he addresses the hyperbolic nonsense surrounding NASA’s red-hot climate map and the fraud peddled by the media about the overheating planet.

 

 

Absent good data – of which there is little – no one can claim any given day or month is the hottest.

If you’d like to see more about how the press creates fake stories about the climate, I’ve included links to the other eight videos in the series below.

 

Climate Fakery Part 1  –  Climate Fakery Part 2  –  Climate Fakery Part 3 –  Climate Fakery Part 4  –  Climate Fakery Part 5  –  Climate Fakery Part 6  –

Climate Fakery Part 7  –  Climate Fakery Part 8

 

 

 

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I confess I don’t know one political polling company from another, so make what you will a study from Echelon Insights. On a broad poll, they say Trump is ranked at 49% nationally, DeSantis comes in at 16%, and then, surprisingly, or not, Vivek Ramaswamy has climbed up into 3rd place at 10%.

I heard Vivek speak over in Alton several days ago and, as I reported here on the Grok, was very impressed. If some of you missed it, Vivek checked all the boxes we conservatives could ask for. Yes, he’s a newcomer to Big Time politics, but it appears the study above is correct. I’m not the only one impressed. Check him out if you doubt me. If accurate, how could he not find a place in Republican debates unless his numbers tank for some reason?

We all know these studies can be broken down into multiple categories: likely voters, Republican voters, age, sex, and as many other categories as fits the poll’s agenda. Even so, when Ramaswamy speaks, he echos those issues that we conservatives do value, newcomers not. Readers should keep a watch on this candidate even if his numbers fluctuate during the coming months because fresh blood is desperately needed in the Republican Party. He, in my opinion, is a breath of fresh air and a future leader for the Right.

Check him out and see if you don’t agree.

 

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Remember the PTA. Parent-Teacher Associations. They still have something similar in some parts of the country, and there is a lot of lip service to parental involvement but only on Them/They Terms.

If you object to teachers framing your children as systemic racists or being shown books that glorify domestic assault, rape, substance abuse, or adult child sex, you’re a bad mom. Bad Mom! In the case of New Hampshire Dem Rep Catherine Sofitikis, you are the Taliban, assh*les, and nazis (momzis – how cute).

Parents don’t have rights which is funny because moms are women, and the last time we checked, Democrats claimed all sorts of rights for them. They have the right to abort a baby. They have the right to accept men in their (now no longer) safe spaces. And they have the right to shut up about that.

Wear the pussy hat and march where and when they say or you mean nothing (sorry, Pussyhats were banned for being insensitive to transwomen).

If you happen to be a woman who didn’t abort their baby and thought that gave you the right to raise them, you’d be wrong. Democrats have robbed you of that, and if you dare to suggest otherwise, you are the Taliban and an assh*le.

Dem Rep Catherine Sofitikis should be asked to clarify. Based on these remarks you think Muslim and Hindu women are nazi assholes? They may or may not be members of Moms for Liberty, but they hold similar views regarding their kids.

That would have to include Amish women and many black Christian women in America and abroad. And while I’m thinking about it, there are many traditional Jewish moms and Asian families from any number of nations who would agree with Mom’s for Liberty; parents have rights when it comes to their kids.

Can they all be Tailban assholes and momzis?

Wouldn’t it be nifty if someone in the paid media (I’m not paid yet, sorry) asked her some of those questions?

What are the odds of that? I’d go with zero, but we can discuss it and share. I’m sure they will find their way to the bastian of tolerance doing business as Nashua Democrat Rep. Catherine Sofitikis. And I’d bet her response to be just as polite as you’d expect.

 

 

HT | NH Journal

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One of, if not perhaps the most villainous and deadly groups in today’s global civilization has recently shown its true colors. That is the global corporate pharmaceutical industry, whose machinations were put on public display through the events of 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Industries supporting human health is one of the most important, if not the most important, aspects of human civilization. It’s up there next to corporations that support communities, ensure the defense of global civilization, and drive infrastructural economies around the planet.

Yet, human health is one aspect where, in the past five to ten years, the governments of the world have largely conspired to create and cover up massive criminal enterprises set on creating widespread illness and death. In a certain language culture, the pursuit of achieving human death is known as evil. This word is backward to live. Not coincidentally, the word evil historically has been written as efil, which is the intentional opposite of the word life.

The term evil has distinct religious and spiritual connotations because these are the areas of knowledge that deal with good and bad, with good and evil with the beneficent and maleficent. Not surprisingly, modern human cultures promoting pharmacology and the pharmaceutical industry are often very anti-religious. If you’ll recall, churches were closed during the COVID Project lockdowns, even though liquor stores, grocery stores, and even schools opened sooner.

Several corporations have distinctly and directly spearheaded the pharmaceutical industry’s attack on global health. Most notably, these are Pfizer (a company with a storied history of totally evil projects around the world aimed at destroying human health in exchange for profit), Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, AstraZeneca, Merck & Co, GSK, Sanofi, and others. Pfizer, by far, has been the most widely publicized and has taken the strongest initiative.

These companies do not encourage humans to be stronger, to be more fit, to eat better, to live better, or to think better. These companies largely create health problems and then offer solutions in exchange for money. This is extremely evil. Out of all of the ways to earn a living, these companies are forcing people through the most nefarious and undermining ways to give up their hard-earned money to solve critical issues that have been forced upon them. This niche of the pharmaceutical industry is totally vampiric.

That is why an example must be set. One of these companies must be publicly and openly destroyed in a way that demonstrates to the others in this niche that these lines of business are not one that will be supported and continued on this planet.

Pfizer was founded in 1849 in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently headquartered on 34th Street between 10th Avenue and Hudson Boulevard East, at Hudson Yards. The offices occupy 11 floors of The Spiral, spanning 800,000 square feet, in downtown Manhattan.

Pfizer’s global manufacturing network includes roughly 35 sites across six continents. These are listed on its website and can be easily found by a Google Search. As a primarily US-based company, it has 18 office locations in the USA.

Pfizer’s board of directors is chaired by Albert Bourla, a Greek-American veterinarian who lives in Scarsdale. Ronald Blaylock, Susan Desmond-Hellman, Joseph Echevarria, Scott Gottlieb, Helen Hobbs, Susan Hockfield, Dan Littman, Shantanu Narayen, Suzanne Nora Johnson, James Quincey, and James Smith round out the table. All of these individuals have made millions and tens of millions of dollars off of killing and experimenting on people. They lead a multibillion-dollar planetary venture that has consistently sought to profit off of destroying human life.

The destruction and dissolution of Pfizer as a corporation would be one of the greatest victories for human civilization as a whole. These people are a veritable cancer on society. Cancers are defined as organisms that spread and multiply by destroying others. Pfizer’s employees, owners, and directors have made profits and their living off of this sort of business for decades, and most all of the 20th century.

It would be foolish of us, as guardians of the planet and stewards of the human civilization, to miss this opportunity to destroy these corporations and ensure that they do not capture government regulatory agencies ever again.

End Pfizer. Not a renaming. Destroy the entire company. Bankrupt it. Make sure that by 2030, this company is totally gone in a way that shows others in this niche industry of evil pharmacology that this sort of company is not meant to survive long on the planet.

 

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Some researchers wanted to take a look at how what effect, if any, the growing mountain of misinformation (facts) about the COVID vaccines had on uptake, be it first dose, second, boosters, or the bivalent; what they found pissed them off.

 

Looking across U.S. states, we observe a negative association between vaccination uptake rates and online misinformation (Pearson R=–0.49, p<0.001). Investigating covariates known to be associated with vaccine uptake or hesitancy, we find that an increase in the mean amount of online misinformation is significantly associated with a decrease in daily vaccination rates per million.

 

And they are very upset about it. Igor Chudov, one of many of those who went on a relentless pursuit of the truth (defined by the left, the media, and these researchers as misinformation), crunched their numbers, and this is what he discovered.

 

Guesstimating the difference between the “no misinformation” point and the “typical misinformation” point, we can see that we could change the minds of about 3% of Republicans and about 8% of Democrats. As the period covered by the study is only four months (Jan 4 to Mar 25), the effect over the last three years is much greater.

Job well done! Thank you, my reader, if you ever shared my posts with your friends or online communities – your time was not wasted.

 

Thank you, indeed, to Igor and the rest, as well as our readers, who made our posts on the topic popular and well-read. You saved lives. We’ve not only managed to pierce the veil, so to speak, efforts to debunk the so-called misinformation (vaccine truth) had the opposite effect. All of which leads nicely into this reminder.

We have encouraged our readers – when verbally assaulted or challenged by emergency use vaccine enthusiasts – to say, oh, so you’ve got both shots, all the boosters, and the bivalent? And you’re planning on getting the updates as well? Almost no one has or will. In the rare event they did and are not lying, well, good for you. Putting your arm out for your convictions like that. Very brave.

For everyone else, you say, really, what made you vaccine hesitant?  If they claim not to be, well, the CDC is still recommending all these boosters, and you’ve not heeded them, there must be a reason. Are you denying their science?

Are you hoping to kill Grandma?

 

 

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To the Parents and Residents of Moultonborough, The Moultonborough School District is keeping parents and taxpayers in the dark as a result of their student transgender policy JBAB.

We want to thank Gary Torressen for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

This was adopted in May of 2021, with no board discussion on how it would be implemented, as well as no parent or community input. No policy committee meeting minutes were kept, violating RSA91A:2. The School Board Unanimously passed it though. Whether they knew what it said or not, we’ll never know. All we have is a bad policy.

The Transgender and gender non-conforming student policy states in its purpose section that it’s a District requirement of the policy “for all schools and all personnel to promote acceptance and respect” of transgenderism. The problem is not with respecting someone’s gender or identity, as everyone must be respected and treated equally. The problem with this policy is the required promotion and acceptance of transgenderism. Imagine if a school policy required the promotion and acceptance of a specific religion or ideology. Acceptance is not the same as respect. It’s wrong for public schools to promote acceptance of any group, community, or viewpoint over others, but that is what’s happening with this policy.

Our schools are required to maintain viewpoint neutrality in education. Its job is to teach students how to think and not what to think. However, as a direct result of this policy being in effect, Superintendent Patrick Andrews in March contracted with a political-social organization Seacoast Outright, that will train all staff regarding LGBTQ+ terms and concepts and how to implement this social agenda.

This training had no School Board approval or oversight and is being paid for by taxpayers with no transparency.

Why are parents and taxpayers not being informed? Full transparency and accountability are critical for public trust to be maintained, yet sadly we’re all being kept in the dark! It’s time to demand our teachers to be trained for success in teaching, with a focus on academic excellence, since we have been failing in math and science proficiency. Tell the School Board to cancel the Seacoast Outright social agenda training and replace it with solid academic training.  We all want nothing but success for students and staff in the pursuit of academic excellence! The next School Board meeting is August 8th, 7:00 PM.

Email: gtorressen@roadrunner.com if you have questions or want to help. This is your School District paid for with your hard-earned tax dollars. Time is long overdue for parents and taxpayers to get involved.

As I mentioned at the May School Board meeting, Moultonborough approved a $17 million budget, spending $34,000 per student, and the district is ranked 97th in the State of NH.  Sunapee a same-size school district in spending and enrollment, is 21’st. See www.schooldigger.com.

We are #1 in per-pupil spending, and we appear to be accepting mediocrity with failing academic proficiency scores for the last 6 years. This is a big problem that needs to be fixed now!

Link to Seacoast Outright. Coming to Moultonborough for Staff  Professional Development Training  scheduled for August 28th  https://www.seacoastoutright.org/  ( Is this what the Parents and Taxpayers of Moultonborough are expected to promote and pay for?)

June School Board Meeting Video Link: https://townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=51&id=53446
May School Board meeting  Video Link: https://townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=51&id=52861

Gary Torressen
Former NH State Representative and Moultonborough School Board Member

 

 

Editor’s note: Also read the District’s JBAB-R, which delivers the obnoxious “payload” of specifically telling staff to lie to parents (get that – the School Board is forcing their staff to lie to parents!) about the transgender status of their child in school:

“…school personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation to others, including parents and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure…

Instead of using the child’s “transgender name”. This also turns the traditional parent-child relationship upside down by putting the minor child in charge of the parents in this matter.

This policy has the same Free Speech annulling clause in it and an arbitrary and capricious penalty with no due process given to the accused:

“A student has the right to be addressed by a name and pronoun that corresponds to the student’s gender identity. A court-ordered name or gender change is not required, and the student need not change his or her official records. The intentional or persistent refusal to respect a student’s gender identity is a violation of this policy.

Last time I looked, “misgendering” (which is what is described here), is yet another made-up word by the Alphabet Mafia; it is not a legal term – it is only meant to silence someone, in this case, by a Government speech decree.

Ask yourself: where did this mere subdivision of the State (the school board) gain the Power to grant a new Right to a minor child that subverts the Free Speech of others? This is outright thought coercion and censorship.  Remember, the NHSBA, from whence these policies came, PULLED JBAB from their portfolio. -Skip

 

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The 1900s have seen great developments in the field of adolescent psychology, a course that is almost mandatory for anyone working in the education field in this day and age. Titans of pedagogy like Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Lev Vygotsky, and John Bowlby have pushed forward our understanding of the child’s mind as it progresses and grows from birth to adulthood.

One name not among this list of greats but mentioned in Matt Walsh’s recent documentary What is a Woman is John Money, whose experiments revolved around gender transitioning. He found that a wide range of negativities developed in people who attempted to move between the sexes, including psychiatric disorders, mood swings, tempermentality, manic episodes, clinical depression, and a vastly higher rate of suicide. Yet, he pushes his theories on gender fluidity on an otherwise uneducated public, and they have been adopted by transhumanists.

Transhumanism is a field that emerged in the 20th century and has been promoted by massively influential groups like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum (particularly by its wunderkind Yuval Harari), and the Open Society Foundations (offspring of George Soros and now under the control of his son Alex). This is a field that is the natural progression of the eugenics movement, which was primarily responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust circa 1940s Europe. Eugenics is a field stemming from race studies (i.e., racism and racialism) that aims to develop the best genes and improve the human gene pool. It was very popular worldwide, including in the USA, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and went out of vogue after the Nazi Party took it too many steps too far during their reign of destruction.

Eugenicists and Transhumanists do not care about individual human life. They tend to be elitists who can afford to consider the possibility of killing, maiming, or harming large swathes of the human population. Especially if it benefits them and their small, uber-wealthy communities. Israel, London, Switzerland, and California are hotbeds and breeding grounds for geneticist ideologies– places where people are extremely wealthy and protected from the potential negative blowback of their ideas elsewhere on the planet.

Transhumanists today are largely behind movements in the USA and Europe to protect and promote transgender ideologies, with one sole purpose— depopulation. These people believe that the human carrying capacity of the planet has been surpassed, and the only solution is to reduce the population as quickly as possible.

I don’t believe that is true. I believe that with intelligent urban design and implementation of agricultural technologies and practices, and with sophisticated government policies on birth control and sex culture, there are better ways than widespread sterilization and castration. Of course, that is essentially what the transgender movement seeks, packaged in a fluffy, rainbow-stickered, pillowy, feel-good way so that it seems just fine and harmless. But it is not harmless.

This is a movement that inspires, provokes, and reinforces self-harm to the utmost degree.

Imagine your child, Little Jimmy has an exploratory kick. Most children live a life of exploration, testing boundaries, and developing an understanding of the best ways to live in modern human society and the best ways to act—the best things to say and do in order to fulfill basic needs and derive happiness and pleasure. Little Jimmy has been raised as a boy by his loving parents, and one day wants to see what happens if he wears his sister’s skirt. Sometimes he claims he’s a power ranger or a Marvel superhero because it’s fun. Today, he wants to claim he’s Superwoman because she’s pretty cool, and he just saw a movie with her in it. What happens next?

Immediately, all of the adults in his life start asking him new questions about his gender. He’s never heard these questions before. When he responds to them that he is just doing what he wants, they all start to reinforce his sexuality as a female, as a girl. He gets all sorts of rewards– favoritism, attention, food– for talking and thinking about how he is actually a girl. What the adults are doing is conditioning him to act and think like a girl.

Little Jimmy is reinforced in his identity as a girl, all because he saw a movie with a female lead and wanted to experiment. Rather than allow Little Jimmy to experiment and make up his own mind about his identity, the adults in his life decided to promote, project and reinforce a female identity onto Little Jimmy– an identity opposite to his birth sex.

Why did the adults do this? They’ve been caught up in the transhumanist cult. They think it’s right and cool. They think this is progress. They might also believe so strongly in climate change ideologies that they believe depopulation is the best way forward. Most likely, they are so caught up in the propaganda webcast by the transhumanists that they haven’t even thought of the long-term consequences. They’re too busy with their day-to-day screens, celebrity news, and cultural fads.

What about Little Jimmy’s parents? If they don’t play along with the charade put on by their teachers, doctors, and community, they get attacked. Something that has been coined a matrix attack. That is when information channels, like mobile apps, internet search engine results, social media feeds, and even sound speakers in the immediate vicinity become avenues for sophisticated AI algorithms and militarized signals intelligence attacks. Not only do the parents get targeted in this attack, but everyone who they are in contact with on a normal basis is targeted with signals so that when certain planned events occur– like a doctor’s visit, a legal proceeding in a court of law, or a meeting with a school principal– all of the people in the interaction have been essentially programmed (typically without their full knowledge) to react and proceed in certain ways.

This is advanced generation signals intelligence, and it is in use by the governments of advanced countries worldwide. Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are complicit and potentially involved in these matrix attacks. Potentially certain transhumanist NGOs are also involved as perpetrators. Certainly, a range of NGOs, individuals, and corporations are in place as tools of these attacks, mostly without their knowledge and understanding of the roles they play in reinforcing transhumanist ideology.

In the most sophisticated matrix attacks, it would be extremely difficult for the parents to be able to enforce their will on their own children. In some cases that have been reported in the news media in Canada and the USA (so who knows if they have actually happened in real life), parents have lost custody of their own children for attempting to assert their legally protected parental rights. This is absolutely abhorrent and revolting that parents are being undermined and their children taken from them for resisting the transhumanist cult.

Before Little Jimmy knows it, after a few years, he’s been sold puberty blockers, which destroy his natural biological, hormonal balances. They give him severe psychological illnesses, but his community doesn’t refer to these issues as illnesses. They are simply conditions to be diagnosed and prescribed meditation. Socially, Little Jimmy becomes programmed to think that the best way forward is for him to have a sex change. And he becomes… Little Jenny. Except he is not a natural girl. In other times, this was called castration. But now, it’s called gender transitioning, and there is a vast range of social support networks that encourage this.

Of course, transitioning has massive long-term negative results, and it always has. Transitioners typically are highly prone to clinical depression and suffer a massively high risk of suicide. They are typically pharmaceutical customers for life, and their overall lifespan is significantly shortened. For the transhumanist leaders, who are typically tied, associated with, or beholden to pharmaceutical corporations, this is perfect. It reduces the risk of economic competition in their industries, and it ensures captive customers.

If the transhumanist cult is not checked, we will see another Holocaust, and it will be many times worse. It is already in the planning stages, and open war has already begun. The most challenging aspect of this cult is that most of the people sympathetic to the transhumanist ideology do not fully understand the scope of the entire transhumanist agenda and its aims and consequences. They are caught up in the rainbow packaging and feel-good nonsense of their propaganda campaigns.

It’s time to push back against the transhumanist movement before it can further take hold.

 

 

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As a theological summary: “I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.

“On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic [universal] church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. AMEN.”

The most important command that we are given as the followers of Christ after the Great Commission is this:

Mark 12:30: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

It is no secret that the Christian church in the US and much of Europe have abandoned that command as it has decided to please Mammon (common and present Culture) rather than God. Many of the US Mainline Christian denominations have forsaken their Biblical roots and have moved and have gone Woke by supplanting the core of that Creed at the top.

Instead of worshipping God and bringing others to salvation by Christ, they have displaced all that with the current narratives of the Left’s Progressive cult with all of its attendant sacraments, altar, icons, and hymns; the God of Moses and Abraham, like what Progressives have done to most of our history, have faded into the mists of time as “we are our own gods” even if wrapped into forms of traditional Christianity.

Compare the creed above to this ersatz one (the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing) that is now making the rounds in those churches that have turned – The Sparkle Creed:

 

The Rainbow colors (and, I doubt, included to celebrate God’s promise never to flood the Earth again). The inclusion of the High Woke Church Sexuality statement, that passed over His Deity and the way to salvation, the heresy that Jesus is the Son of God, again a reduction to sexuality, and yes, adherents do need His help for their unbelief – but it is my opinion, not quite the way they may need.

They now kneel to Culture and themselves instead of to the one true God they say they worship.

Sidenote: Apparently Reverend Rachel Small Stokes has removed this from her Facebook from 2021. But her Twitter account has it with additional commentary:

This is a growing fad in mainline churches, penned during Pride 2021 by queer UCC minister Rachel Small-Stokes pic.twitter.com/tl2h5fEIgW

— Woke Preacher Clips (@WokePreacherTV) June 27, 2023

And for the smaller font by Rev. Rachel Small-Stokes:

Backstory: I was voice-to-texting “the Apostle’s creed” to a colleague, and it translated as “The Sparkle Creed.” I decided that’s exactly what we needed for Pride Month. So here’s my first jab at it. Free free to share it if it moves you.

But why should we who hold to traditional Christian beliefs be surprised? John, in Revelations Chapters 2 & 3, warned that this would happen and that there would be repercussions:

2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

3: 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

At least the church is open about it:

Edina Community Lutheran Church (ECLC) is a progressive Lutheran congregation that has been striving for over 70 years to live out Jesus’ radical message of love and to make a difference in our world. We welcome all people without exception, and reach out to our community with serving hands and voices raised for justice. ECLC has long been sought out for our meaningful worship, inclusive welcome and challenging opportunities for learning and mission – a leader in shaping conversations of justice. We are called to extend that welcome further by making room for those who are not yet here.

Progressive – that should be an immediate tip off that traditional mores and beliefs are verboten. Sorry, by moving to Christian heterodoxy, you have abandoned traditional purpose of the worship of the Most Holy and the purpose by which His Son was sent – if you notice, not a single iota of sin, of grace, of salvation, of holiness??

And this next part makes them as just as silly as Ben & Jerry’s virtue-signaling but they never will do what they say they are guilty of:

We acknowledge that Edina Community Lutheran Church is located on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary lands of the Dakhóta Oyáte*, the Dakota nation. Treaties developed through exploitation and violence were broken. Tribes were forced to exist on ever smaller amounts of land.

Acknowledging this painful history, we as a congregation confess our complicity in the theft of Native land and acknowledge that we have not yet honored our treaties. We further confess that Christians and Christian churches have benefited from this land theft. We commit to being active advocates for justice for Native People and to truth telling that leads to healing.

“Actively” means putting your hands in your pockets and fork over the keys to the church doors. Doing nothing but moving your lips and tapping your keyboards are meaningless – dare I say “lying” by means of saying one thing but doing another (er, nothing).

And speak for yourself, palefaces and poseurs: I have no part in any theft so I do not feel guilty in the list as you have confused with “theft” and “conquest”.

I bet I could come with a bunch of friends and “conquer” your property – will it be right if I tell you that I’ll immediately turn it over to the nearest tribe?

(HT: The Blaze, Hot Air, and Hot Air again)

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If you want to start a conversation about the state of our Banana Republic, there are plenty of icebreakers. Still, nothing says third-world despotism like bringing charges to silence a witness about to testify against Dear Leader.

 

[T]he New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an eight-count Indictment charging GAL LUFT with offenses related to willfully failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”), arms trafficking, Iranian sanctions violations, and making false statements to federal agents.  LUFT, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was arrested on February 17, 2023, in the Republic of Cyprus based on the charges in the Indictment.  LUFT subsequently fled after being released on bail while extradition proceedings were pending and remains a fugitive.

 

Luft is no dummy. If detained, the odds that the most transparent administration in history helps him “commit suicide” increase exponentially. So, what does Luft allegedly have?

From the New York Post.

 

Luft disclosed during the Brussels interview that CEFC was paying $100,000 a month to Hunter and $65,000 to his uncle Jim Biden, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative around the world — and that the money was being funneled through Walker.

The Oversight Committee has written to Walker demanding he submit to questioning about his role in distributing more than $1 million from China to at least three of President Biden’s relatives.

 

From the Washington Examiner.

 

He called himself “patient zero of the Biden family investigation.”

Luft said he wanted the minutes from the March 2019 Brussels meeting where he revealed key information about the Biden family to a delegation of six federal officials to be released.

In his 14-minute video last week, he alleged that one of the federal agents who had met him in March 2019 was also the same FBI agent Joshua Wilson who signed the subpoena for and seized Hunter Biden’s laptop. In November 2019, Wilson got the device number of the MacBook Pro and determined it was Biden’s by matching it to his Apple ID and iCloud account, according to the Daily Mail.

“They had enough time to investigate the issue but they didn’t,” he said.

 

It sounds like the only thing Gal Luft is guilty of is “see” sickness – from seeing too much.

The Biden Mafia needed to shut him up or down, and years of harassment failed to get the job done. The Southern District of New York published its announcement on July 10th, and Luft is in the wind, such that Congress can’t sit him down for a very public chat. But he’s not staying quiet.

 

“I volunteered to inform the U.S. government about potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president and now being hunted by the very same people who I informed,” he said in a video last week.

 

You can watch his exclusive 14-minute video statement at the NYP.

 

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A week ago, on Independence Day, we celebrated an idea that was one of the most radical espoused in the “Freedom Manifesto.” That each one of us, EVERY one of us, was and is equal before the Law—no more, no less.

“What privileges do straight white men have that you don’t have?”

Yet, the Left has been busy for decades blowing that idea to smithereens. Many words have been used over the last hundred-plus years, starting with the Marxian “class” (solely on economics) that evolved into what we now call “identity politics.” It spans all kinds of human attributes, including, sadly, made-up ones that only exist in the fevered brains that have many of the neurons firing rather sporadically (if at all). Money or capital are no longer the slurs of the day.

 

Sidenote: and of course, the newest slur, from the identity sexuality “class” – CIS  instead of using the actual adjective: Normal (or straight). CIS: others are starting to put that word, CIS, into the same word class as the N-word for others (like wetback, blockhead, honkey, and all the other words that used to be said but have been banished by the Left…

…until they’ve come up with their new ones – like “extremists.” Let’s all start calling them out, shall we? Like “White Privilege,” whose only purpose is to shut down debate and elicit “guilt.”

 

White Privilege is NEVER meant as a badge of honor. It is a pejorative to put others down while raising oneself by comparison—a slur.

Until it becomes Comedy Gold – like:

 

pic.twitter.com/3poZbLF8Br

— Davy Jones (@itsNTBmedia) June 6, 2023

 

• Statement: “We as women of color are sick of straight white men having the power in everything.”
• Question (knowing that “clueless” will come into play: “What privileges do straight white men have that you don’t have?”
• Stammer – clueless: “I don’t really know…”
• Uses her “ask a friend” privilege: “Have you ever experienced, like, a specific instance?”
• Friend: “I need to go.”

 

And the Moral of the story? These skulls full of mush are just that – whose only functioning neurons regurgitate talking points.

And that’s all they are – talking points. And as many do, they can’t debate or talk about them intelligently and at length. And we, as Conservatarians, walking in the steps of our Founders, should KNOW what we believe and know how to defend and advance them.

You know – 180 degrees of what these bumbling, uppity, snobbish, wannabe feminazis are.

 

HT | Not The Bee

 

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We are happy to announce that the VermontGrok page is up and operational. Our webmaster managed to squeeze it out, and while it has not been customized, we are adding content and backfilling relevant material on Vermont Politics published on ‘Grok.

You can navigate to it from any page or MicroSite under the GraniteGrok domain.

 

 

Over the next day or so, I will backfill more Vermont-focused content. New material about Vermont will be specific to Vermont Grok. You won’t see it on the Grok home page.

And there are things left to tweak on the page, but it is up, and we’re excited to build a new audience.

 

Wanted: Content Creators.

If you know someone in Vermont, ask them to check it out and check back daily for new content. We may not have new material every day (just yet), but that is the goal. To that end, we are looking for new stuff about the state of that State of Vermont, from politics to culture to events, public interest stories, op-eds, reporting, or opinions; please direct them to steve@granitegrok.com.

If you’ve got a conservatarian eye and something to say, we’re interested in your story.

And please watch for changes and updates daily.

 

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If you’re looking for something to do this summer, Vermont’s Lieutenant Governor, David Zuckerman, is embarking on what he’s calling a “Banned Books Are Books Worth Reading” tour, which appears to be his own weirdly conceived political version of a drag queen story hour.

What costumes he’s decided to wear at these events is unknown to this author. Hopefully something tasteful.

If you saw the press release’s headline and hoped that our formerly pony-tailed LTG was going to be reading passages of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the original, politically incorrect text from such classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, you’re likely to be disappointed. The tour announcement states:

 

Around the country, we have seen the proliferation of book challenges and bans by school districts and local governments. These bans often target books that feature LGBTQ+ characters; talk about gender and sexuality; highlight racial disparities; or talk about difficult issues such as substance abuse and cases of police violence.

 

So, prepare to be “woked.”

Let’s first discuss the concept of “banning books” in schools. Do you know how many books have been published throughout history? Neither do I, but it’s a number somewhat larger than what a K-12 student can read over the course of a 180-day school year. Books really aren’t “banned” by schools, it’s a question of making priority decisions about which dozen or so out of the many millions (billions?) are going to be read and discussed as part of the curriculum. Both sides of these arguments are too often hyperbolic in their use of the word “banned.”

In my humble opinion, if a book wouldn’t make it passed a parental control content blocker on an internet or streaming account, it probably doesn’t belong in a classroom or school library. That’s not banning, it’s making a decision about what’s appropriate for children of a certain age.

We can – and should – debate the merits and disadvantages of choosing which texts are taught and at what ages they are or aren’t appropriate. Personally, I think that if discussion of a book involves conversations that would get a boss fired for creating a sexually hostile work environment if they engaged in such talk with an employee, it’s not appropriate for a teacher to be going down such a path with students.

Vermont’s legal guidelines for what constitutes sexual harassment include “verbal… conduct of a sexual nature… [that] has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.” The guidelines also state, “Any person of any gender can experience unlawful sexual harassment, even someone who is not the target of harassing behavior.” Ergo, if any student – say a kid whose values are of a standard Judeo-Christian nature – is made to feel intimidated or finds the material hostile or offensive, it should not be considered appropriate for the classroom. Arguably, in such a case, legal action against the school and the teacher would be warranted.

Zuckerman says, “These events will feature special guests who will join the Lt. Governor to discuss with the audience the importance of free speech, inclusion, democracy, and open dialogue…. Students, teachers, and curious minds should be able to access materials that spark critical thinking, cover difficult topics, and appeal to diverse interests without fear of government interference.”

Great! Who would disagree with that?

So, I’m sure Dave will be using these opportunities to denounce public schools’ and school boards’ (a.k.a. government’s) recent attempts to de-platform and silence (a.k.a. interfere with) parents’ and students’ recent attempts to hold public discussions about the dangers of things like “gender-affirming care.” There are, after all, diverse interests involved with this difficult topic, and, of course, all sides have the right to free speech and access to materials (such as lectures) that spark critical thinking. I’ll withhold judgment on the LTG without holding my breath.

If anyone feels like attending one of these no-doubt scintillating exhibitions, the upcoming schedule includes: Waterbury, Wednesday, July 12th, 6:00 pm at Bridgeside Books, 29 Stowe St #1. Manchester, Wednesday, July 19th, 5:00 pm, Northshire Bookstore, 4869 Main St. And Bellows Falls, Wednesday, August 2nd, 5:00 pm at Village Square Booksellers, 32 Square. Take video and send it to me. I’m sure it will be a hoot.

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank.

 

 

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Sound of Freedom, based on the sad and discouraging topic of child trafficking, is packing theaters like few movies today can. It is attracting folks on the Right who are concerned with Children and Children’s Rights and Welfare and angering the Left who call the concern over child trafficking a right-wing conspiracy theory.

How can there be any hope for this country when we are so divided on every topic, including children? Nearly every media outlet and liberal newspaper trashed the movie and its supporters. Some of the more bizarre headlines were:

Rolling Stone: Sound of Freedom is a superhero movie for dads with brain worms.

Jezebel: Sound of Freedom is an anti-child trafficking fantasy fit for Qanon

The Guardian: Sound of Freedom, the Qanon adjacent thriller seducing America

The synopsis of the movie: After rescuing a boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy’s sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free her from a fate worse than death.

How can the Left possibly refute the concept of Child Trafficking when we know the Biden Administration has lost contact with 85,000 underage illegal immigrants? These children were unaccompanied as they crossed the Border, were allowed to enter the country, and are now lost in the system. Besides being under the Cartels’ control, how does the Left explain this loss of human life? They cannot, but they will point to the Right and cry conspiracy theory. The media supports their claim, which is what the Left is fed. They gobble it down and never seek the truth.

These children will eventually be found working for unscrupulous businesses or farms, caught up in the sex trade, or dead. There is no concern for these innocent kids caught in a corrupt system, just like the 100,000 Fentanyl poisonings yearly. Abortion support, ignorance of human trafficking, and drug deaths; let the Left try to convince us they are the party of the people. It would be laughable if not so severe and deadly. The Left is the party of power for themselves, period.

The “Sound of Freedom” opened this weekend to full theaters across the country. The critics do not matter to the Right and will look foolish as the Conservatives speak with their wallets. As WOKE and weak movies that cater to the Left are playing to empty houses, the Right will relish that they are on the right side of this sad topic. It took thirty months for Biden even to mention investigating the Fentanyl epidemic. How many more children have to be lost before trafficking moves to the forefront of Biden’s priority list? 

These topics will come back and bite Biden or whoever the Democrat candidate is. They will regret they abandoned the Border and infected America with illegals, drugs, lost children, and terrorists. Biden may think he can win on Bidenomics, but people will see it as a con, just like Joe Biden’s political career.

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