Have you ever thought about educating at home, but didn’t know how to start? Did you know there is a free online charter school for New Hampshire residents in grades K-12 and beyond?

Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is easy to use and it is free for New Hampshire residents. Enrollment is open year-round, so anyone can create an account at vlacs.org and start at any time. To quote from the VLACS website: “Students choose when, where, and how they learn based on their needs, interests, and talents.”

You can enroll full-time or take any of the courses on their own. Over 150 courses are offered at levels ranging from Kindergarten to adult. There is a wide range of subjects available, from standard school classes like math, science, and history to others such as foreign languages, journalism, and computer science. Classes are not age-restricted as long as you can work at a steady pace.

One of the benefits is that you can complete your coursework any time of day or year anywhere you have access to the internet. This flexibility can come in handy if you travel a lot or participate in activities that normally occur during typical school hours. One student we know of does all of his coursework in the fall, spring, and summer so that he has the winter off to ski competitively. If your family likes to travel, you could rent an RV and travel the country while still completing all of your coursework. VLACS also offers credit for certain travel experiences.

Another benefit is that customized learning allows you to work at your own pace until you reach competency in the subject you are studying. Instructors work with you regarding your progress via email, phone, or a virtual meeting. If you are struggling in a subject, you can take the time you need in order to reach competency in that subject and get as much one-on-one help you need from your instructor. If you are advanced in a certain subject, you can choose to take an honors option and complete courses as quickly as you like.

VLACS also offers a college-preparatory curriculum as well as 15 different advanced placement (A.P.) courses and dual college/high school credit courses through Southern New Hampshire University and eStart. VLACS graduates have been accepted at numerous colleges and universities including several prestigious institutions that are difficult to get into such as ivy league and military academies.

Whether you are looking for an online school with a fully customizable curriculum or simply looking to supplement your public school or homeschool program, VLACS (https://vlacs.org) is worth a look.

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Thank God It’s Friday … Meme Overflow time, and another filling-in edition at that.  More memes, political memes, a few cool pics, and no commentary from me. Just more memes.

Reminder: not every meme is for every body, so scroll responsibly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We must closely examine the Quran, Islam’s inviolable, immutable charter, since it enjoys such a sanctified standing. Muslims believe that Allah himself writes the Quran. Allah handed down the book, piece by piece and chapter by chapter, to the Archangel Gabriel. Gabriel, in turn, whispered these words to Muhammad himself over some 23 years.

Muhammad could neither read nor write. Therefore, he had to find people who could write down what he called his revelations from Allah. Several of these katibs (scribes) wrote down the surahs (chapters), eventually making up the Quran.

The Quran commands the believer repeatedly– to make Jihad, and even the people of the book, Jews and Christians, are specifically targeted. Now, the only question remains the extent of the Muslim’s obedience to the Quran and the Sunna, the life examples of Muhammad. To be sure, many Muslims are not following the dictates of the Quran perfectly, as they should, since they consider it to be Allah’s literal immutable perfect words. Hence, what I’m saying is patently true and far from being patently false as you adjudicate. Furthermore, nowhere do I say the belief in shedding the blood of others automatically makes every Muslim get on a killing spree. Yet, the commandments of the Quran to the believers are clear and emphatic.

I am not speaking about those Muslims who are born in the religion. These individuals have not voluntarily chosen Islam as their faith and need not recite the Shahada. They are Muslims automatically by birth. They may or may not become diehard jihadists. I reference those who voluntarily become Muslims and take the oath of faith– the Shahada.

Deciding to join Islam means committing oneself to the creed and its goal. One cannot enter an order without adhering to its precepts and practices. It is absurd, for instance, for a person to voluntarily join the military while saying that he doesn’t believe in the military’s objective of killing the enemy. All these Muslims who are not rabid advocates of jihad are in clear violation of their creed. Even these people are complicit in the mayhem and murder acts of their co-religionists through financial support and other ways.

According to the cardinal rule of Islam, non-Muslims are kefirs (infidels). So, the kefirs are fair game to be maltreated, plundered, enslaved, and slaughtered. It just so happens that the followers of Muhammad, before even rasul-ul-allah (Messenger of Allah) was buried, started having disagreements among themselves about who was a real Muslim, who was a pretender, and who was actually a kefir. In no time at all, the house of Muhammad splintered into sects, sub-sects, and sub-sects and whatnot. And these “real and true” Muslims started treating other Muslims as they would treat the kefirs, in obedience to their sacred teachings of the Quran.

In short, each sect was a true Muslim and used any means to further the faithful Islam they held, often purging other denominations whenever they could.

Millions of “true Muslims” are ready to give their all in the service of jihad. Suicide volunteers, for instance, in the tens of thousands have registered in the Islamic Republic of Iran to commit mass murder. These believers vie with one another to discharge their religious duty. It is small comfort that a great many Muslims have not volunteered for the mass murder of kafir. Yet, there are enough life-in-hand believers to keep Islam living true to what it is– a belief in blood.

Does every Muslim follow the commands of the Quran? No, thank God. But as they become into communities and increase in numbers, they become more militant and less tolerant of that community’s laws and regulations. This religion’s “holy book” commands its followers to commit crimes antithetical to this country’s laws. In case you are not familiar with some of the condoned atrocities of Islam and Sharia law: are you aware that women are stoned to death for committing adultery and that gay men are hanged? Or that the genitals of little girls are mutilated to destroy their capacity for sexual pleasure and make them controllable and that children may be murdered in the name of family honor? Islam does not recognize the separation of mosque and state. Islamic republics are dominated by spiritual leaders who oversee their citizens’ strict adherence to Sharia.

In countries where Islamic enclaves and ghettos have emerged, such as France, Britain, and Germany, local mullahs enforce Sharia regardless of its conflict with national or state laws. Most Americans fail to understand that Sharia is the foundation of Islamic theocracy and totalitarianism. The establishment of global Sharia is the ultimate goal. The Quran is unequivocal in its directive to Muslims to establish an international Islamic state (caliphate), over which the Islamic messiah, or Mahdi, will rule, with Sharia as the only law of the land. Make no mistake that is the intent of influential Islamic elements in America.

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In the past twenty years in the United States of America, we have witnessed a political ideology totally degenerate and warp into a cancerous, self-destructive, completely corrupted intersection of ideas that is essentially and totally a tool of foreign forces intent on obliterating what was once a great country.

Many threads compose the embroidered notion of what it means to be a liberal or a leftist today: the transgender movement, the warmongering forever-conflict enabling military brass, the black supremacists, the US Democrat Party radicalized politicians, the corporatists looking only at profits and not at people.

All the followers of the leaders on the left have been deceived. There are large groups of US citizens who honestly believe that there is no center right, that there is only the Democrat Party and alt-right, far-right fascists. They believe that the Republican Party is collectively and totally homophobic, racist, white supremacist, fascist,

The main progenitors and drivers of this movement are no longer sensible, reasonable US citizens. They are individuals who have gone completely and totally insane, either through holding positions of power illegally and extralegally, in the case of complicit U.S. Democrat Party politicians, or through being supported by a nanny state and a fabric of social media and smartphone-based signals empowering a sense of entitled-ness, in the case of the activists believing they are leading some self-righteous crusade. In many cases, it is this latter case that is the most dangerous– where the smartphone and our screens have been weaponized against us to lead us blindly toward a future of dystopian self-destruction and self-hate.

The left has been hijacked by transgenders, racists, warmongers, and corporatists in a vile concoction of death, self-harm, and total hatred. They trumpet their ideology through a globally syndicated network of left-leaning media that generally is controlled by a nefarious entrenched group of wealthy and wealth-seeking folks intent on promulgating discontent and malaise wherever it goes. They pray at the altar of Bill Gates, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab. The people in this network work for institutions with vaunted and prodigious pasts like CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg, NBC, ABC, and a collection of media companies with trendy branding. The ultimate infrastructure of these companies has been completely gutted so that the contemporary, present state is one that promotes this cancerous ideology.

No name is more obviously and totally representative of this reality than Rolling Stone Magazine, once an emblem of the West Coast counterculture and a favorite tabloid of those seeking the beautiful, easygoing, rock & roll mentality of California. Now, the magazine shills for a corrosive and nauseating ideology that recently promoted Independence Day in the U.S. as a holiday that commemorates occupying native lands. These people are totally out of touch with their past and basically hate themselves. That is what cancer is – when a person hates themselves at the cellular level. This is the modern leftist ideology today.

That is why it is important for US citizens to be aware of this and to recognize the cancer for what it is. Where it is present, it must be removed from positions of power and decision-making authority.

Leftism has metastasized. It must now be removed by scalpel.

Leftist and left-leaning groups from Google to Facebook, to the FBI, the US Democrat Party, to the corporations bowing to their pressure for social activism like Anheuser Busch, Walt Disney, and Nike; to the academic institutions like Berkeley, University of Arizona, and Columbia— they, themselves, cannot see the futility and backwardness of their own cause. They trumpet it forth because they lack the economic, political, and social understanding of what it is they are saying and doing. Those that do understand the ramifications of their course of action are those who are so insulated that they are not harmed by the chaos they sow, and some actually derive profit from it.

If you have read this essay, and if it resonates with you, you must act. There is no sitting back and watching this occur. If you do not act, you are guilty of complicity. This is not a situation where the problem is just going to fade away on its own. The corrosiveness here is infecting all levels of US institutions, corporations, and levels of government.

We can remove it easily by recognizing it and choosing a better path.

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If you did not know, charges were dropped against all the remaining defendants of the NH9 – the individuals targeted and arrested at an October 2021 Executive Council Meeting. And here’s something else you might not know. Things have gotten more interesting since then.

We know you can get your ginned-up charges dropped if you subpoena the Governor as a witness – which he was. You can also ask important questions of your Executive Councilor who was present during the illegal arrests, like, “Did you knowingly participate and coordinate the unlawful arrests of nine innocent people on October 13th, 2021.”

One of Janet Stevens’ constituents asked that very question. This was her response.

 

 

Since a polite “no” would have been easier than blocking him, some folks might conclude EC Stevens has something to hide. Complicity would be the thing.

In the event of a civil suit, should Councilor Stevens expect to be subpoenaed as a witness? She was near the Governor when he appeared to signal the State Police to arrest and remove nine individuals who appeared to have been identified in advance, and there’s evidence to suggest this. Terese Grinnell Bastarche’s “Defendant’s Opposition to Motion To Quash Subpoena Of Governor Christopher T. Sununu” includes details you can – on your very own – confirm by watching the video that has been available since the day of the arrests. It is interesting reading.

 

• The Governor is the Prime Material Witness in the Case
• The video in this matter does not disclose anything that could be remotely characterized as a “disruption” by the defendant prior to her arrest.
• Governor Sununu is uniquely situated to testify whether, when, and how the meeting was disrupted.

 

If you need more proof, Governor Sununu is listed on the complaint as having ordered the arrests. Now go back and look at the video and ask yourself when and how those nine individuals were identified when no one actually did anything to disrupt the meeting.

The arrests appear planned, and these nine individuals were targeted. The Governor signaled the State police, who then went right to those people and removed them. The arrests were only disruption of that meeting to occur.

You don’t need to be an Executive Councilor to see that.

While we wait for word of a civil suit, any or all five Executive Councilors should expect to get subpoenaed to testify, including Councilor Stevens’ whose blocked constituent might have a different bone to pick.

Has she violated his first amendment rights by blocking him on a social media account where she engages in a reasonable amount of political communication? It is a common tactic of elected officials, regardless of political party, to block people. One I caution against. Several cases addressing the issue have been decided, so there is a growing precedent to suggest that blocking constituents may violate their First Amendment Rights in some instances.

I’m sure Councilor Stevens can find a judge in New Hampshire to disagree. That doesn’t seem too difficult for people in positions of power in this state. You then hope your accuser can’t afford to climb the Judicial ladder to a Circuit Court or Supreme Court. Most cannot.

What you can’t change is that Councilor Stevens blocked him, and now thousands of her constituents will know about it. The violation is a subject of debate among likely voters instead of between Janet and the constituent she blocked. You’re welcome.

Two closing points.

First, I get that annoying, angry, or vulgar trolls may not have much defense if blocked. Our practice is to remind people to be polite and on point when reaching out to anyone in government, with the understanding that, short of a finite number of circumstances, blocking a constituent on social media might violate the law.

Second, the constituent’s question was nothing that rose to the level of an annoying, angry, vulgar troll. “Did you knowingly participate and coordinate the unlawful arrests of nine innocent people on October 13th, 2021,” is a relevant question whose answer should be no. That’s not what the counselor did, which implies many things other than no.

If you were thinking about issuing a subpoena for a witness in a civil trial against Governor Sununu for false arrest, assuming there was one, Janet Stevens looks more than ever like your gal.

I’m sure that’s what she was thinking when she blocked the constituent rather than answer the question.

 

After her charges were dropped, Terese Grinnell Bastarche sat down for an interview with the GIP Guys. This is an excellent resource if you’d like more background on that day and what followed.

 

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It used to be a weekend event in Chicago where we counted the dead and wounded from gun shootings. Now it can be any day of the week, and it might be Philadelphia, Atlanta, or a small town like Naples, Maine.

No city or town in America is immune to gun violence from some deranged individual with their agenda. The only thing guaranteed is the Right will call for stricter use of the laws already on the books, and Liberal District Attorneys will call a press conference to plead for more gun laws. Both are feeble demands, but the call for gun control to end these random, senseless shootings is worse than feeble.

The claims are lazy. Gun controls have minimal impact on these ridiculous losses of life, for when the dust settles, and the facts come out, most of the weapons used in these shootings were obtained illegally. The strictest gun laws in the country will not keep a person hell-bent on injuring and killing people from accomplishing their objective.

Look at the details of the shooting incident in Philadelphia during the holiday weekend. First, people were appalled that the event happened during the 4th of July celebration. Holidays or days of the week mean nothing to these killers. When they snap, they snap, period. The randomness of the shooting is most alarming to me. In the neighborhood security video, we see the man in the video raise the AR-15 and begin shooting round after round into a parked vehicle.

When he finished shooting, five innocent people were killed and two injured. The shooter was soon arrested without incident. Officers arrested Carriker during a chase on foot, and he had an AR-style rifle, a 9 mm handgun, a scanner that tracks emergency response radio traffic, and was wearing a bulletproof vest and ski mask, authorities said.

Authorities are also investigating a since-deleted social media page believed to belong to the accused gunman, 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker, that includes a series of posts about guns, the Second Amendment, and the “loss of freedoms,” according to a law enforcement source. Initial reports from neighbors of Carriker indicate a growing rage, and many felt he was prone to performing the violent act he acted out on Monday night. This lack of action, not gun control, is the problem. People saw the person’s personality change but did nothing about it. His posts on social media showed he was a ticking time bomb; on Monday, the fuse was lit, and the carnage was left in his wake.

Carriker had no previous record, but many of the shooters recently have had multiple incidents where they were not incarcerated but let back into society to repeat their crimes. These DAs can continue to call for new laws, but until they enforce those on the books, they should skip the press conference and do their jobs.

 

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Attorney and farmer John Klar has released a book with Vermont’s Chelsea Green Publishing titled Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival.

Farmer, writer, and food rights activist Joel Salatin writes in the Foreword to Small Farm Republic:

“[Klar] dares Republicans to get off their chemical industrial anti-health soil-degrading train and embrace a bottom-up entrepreneurial solution: small farms serving local food needs. This book is prescient and timely. “Food liberty is necessary for any liberty at all.” Amen, John Klar. Conservatives who embrace liberty and freedom can get on the right side of national health and food/farm integrity by embracing this prophetic treatise. ”

Chelsea Green Publishing writes:

“John Klar offers an alternative that puts small farmers, regenerative agriculture, and personal liberty at the center of an environmental revival.”

Klar calls for a nonpartisan focus on chemical pollution over greenhouse gasses; small farms over globalist plans to dominate food production; and improved American food quality and security over increased dependence on foreign food. Many of the policy proposals advanced in his book were part of Klar’s political platform in prior elections.

Small Farm Republic is available at Amazon, where it ranks as #1 in Agriculture & Food Policy, and at Chelsea Green Publishing (chelseagreen.com). Klar’s substack newsletter and podcast is johnklar.substack.com.

 

Editors Note: John Klar will be one of the regular contributors to our new venture in Vermont.

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The modern techniques used by the U.S. Democrat Party to install its politicians have been gradually developed since the 2000 election, which saw Al Gore lose to George Bush II on technicalities in Florida.

Many on the U.S. political left cried fraud, and there likely was some involved.

Many US Republicans have been complicit or accepting of DNC-led fraud because they remember 2000 and are willing to play political ball and give a victory here. Unfortunately for them, the US Democrat Party has metastasized into a group of totalitarians, fascists, communists, and radical socialists hell-bent on the total destruction of the USA so that they can rebuild it in their own image as a new country.

Step One of the Playbook is to smear all political opponents in the most rude and base ways possible so that US citizens do not bother to read or hear anything that the opposing politicians say. The object is to get U.S. citizens to simply ignore all candidates and vote Democrat. RFK, for example, is smeared as an anti-vax, anti-science conspiracy theorist. What does that even mean? Most U.S. Democrat Party followers would not be able to really tell you.

Trump is smeared as a far-right, homophobic, racist, fascist, Nazi, white supremacist. Despite none of these claims actually being true, they have been drumbeat for so many years that most people do not bother to even question them. The ridiculousness of the smears makes it difficult to actually produce an intelligent and logical response– they are that dumbfounding. Have you noticed that according to leftist news media sources, there are no center-right candidates in the US political field? These leftist legacy media folks have lost all credibility in the eyes of any intelligent, honest citizen.

The Second Step of the DNC’s Election Fraud Playbook involved polling and disinformation. The Democrat Party, through its institutionalized media outlets like The Atlantic, Politico, and a slew of polling institutions, puts out numbers that it has allegedly drawn from legitimate polls, which show its politicians as favored or within reach of winning. In reality, most DNC politicians have no chance of winning their elections. Almost all of them require some sort of ballot fraud.

Step Three of the DNC’s Election Fraud Playbook (EFP) involves Secretaries of State and Governors. These individuals are either Democrat Party politicians themselves or under threat of death to follow the Democrat agenda (like the Georgia governor, whose staffer was killed in 2020 to send a message to him to cooperate or else). These people in state office wield their power to force election-related policies that will set up later ballot fraud. They hire and train election workers. They work in conjunction with Big Tech NGOs, like Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech & Civic Life (CTCL) and other organizations, to subliminally show poll workers how to throw the election. Of course, Alphabet and Meta, the parent companies of Google and Facebook, do their fair share in manipulating peoples’ information streams on their smartphones so that they understand their role in the election fraud strategy.

Step Four of the EFP is election day itself. On this day, many techniques are used to prevent Republicans from voting. Different states use different methods, and these methods constantly develop in order to circumvent Republican and Independent efforts to maintain election integrity. Maricopa County in Arizona, for example, sabotaged ballot readers in Republican majority precincts, which resulted in long lines and ballots up for adjudication (see next step). In California, for the Gavin Newsom recall election against Larry Elder, many residents reported that their vote had already been cast somewhere else when they hadn’t yet voted. This is another popular technique– the ghost vote. Democrat-led voting precincts take all measures possible to remove Republicans and Independents from counting rooms and voting centers, citing voter intimidation or some other nonsense.

Step Five is the ballot adjudication. This works especially well for mail-in ballots, which have drastically increased in usage after COVID. Most Republican-led legislatures are too distracted or too complicit to effectively walk back COVID measures, and most states are maintaining high volumes of mail-in ballots. These must all be opened by hand and can be easily set aside for adjudication. When a ballot is damaged or marked incorrectly (according to the poll worker or the counting machine), it must be adjudicated.

In 2020, adjudication rates skyrocketed. This process is usually conducted in a secret location that the public and media cannot oversee. In Pennsylvania, the adjudication process takes up to seven to ten days after the election, which gives the PA Democrat Party, one of the most corrupt in the country, plenty of time to manufacture however many votes it needs and prevent any opposition. This is also a time when additional ballots can be printed and appeared.

In 2024, there is an additional step being prepared that comes even before Step One. This is a Step Zero. It involves all of the newly arrived illegal immigrants from the Biden junta’s first few years in office. All of these people have been trafficked from places all over the world through sophisticated networks of racist NGOs intent on packing the USA with Africans, Asians, and anyone they can find who isn’t Caucasian. The mission is to prepare for a planned Caucasian ethnic cleansing that is being perpetrated in academic institutions in California, New York, Arizona, and Chicago. The plan is to have illegal immigrants staff the election.

These newly minted U.S. citizens, many of whom have court dates over the next seven years, have been issued smartphones by the U.S. government with Apple and Google operating systems. They are the perfect pawns for the U.S. Democrat Party. Since they are not even U.S. citizens yet, they can be abused extralegally, and the U.S. standing laws don’t neatly apply to them as they would to longstanding citizens. These illegal immigrants already have loose morals and know that they are in the country potentially illegally. They mostly all have very fluid identities and a fluid sense of how the world works. They can be manipulated through their smartphones via signals intelligence warfare techniques very easily. They are all beholden to the Biden junta and the U.S. Democrat Party because those people enabled their access to the USA and helped them to set up their lives here. Additionally, many of them have conflicted identities and relationships with the countries where they came from, many of which are outspoken critics or outright geopolitical enemies of the USA.

The 2024 election may be the most fraudulent yet. The Biden junta will try to stay in power by any means necessary. They may attempt to assassinate RFK Jr, hoping that US citizens will sheepishly allow another Kennedy politician to be killed for the power and profit of the globalist-corporatists and the military-industrial complex. They will continue to attempt to jail Trump, and continued programming from legacy media channels is their rationale behind promoting basically any ridiculous charge they can concoct.

The charge doesn’t matter– what matters is that the U.S. Democrat Party can encourage a handful of loud, obnoxious activists to show up and make a scene so that it seems there is some consensus in support of the U.S. Democrat agenda (which is not one that supports real, true democracy, but seems to subvert it at every level).

 

 

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White nationalists hung a banner on a highway overpass. When asked to remove it for failing to have a permit, they did. The State, looking for something – I speculate on that more here – charged them with a civil rights violation that I concluded would fail miserably. It did.

Not only did the State fail to make a compelling civil rights case, but it also failed to secure a trespassing charge, as the defendant’s motion to dismiss was granted.

You can wade through the details of the full decision here. There are some interesting points about trespassing, the overbreadth doctrine, how the State chose to charge the defendants, and how the judge wrangled the related law and statute.

At the end of the day, this might be the most crucial part of the decision (IMO).

 

The State’s construction does not stop at messages motivated by race. Presumably, the State could bring a civil action against a person whose presence on public property is motivated by any other protected characteristic. For example, the State could, under this theory, bring a civil action against a person who walks on public sidewalks, knocking on doors to spread the message of their religion. The State could likewise regulate a person who drives a car on a public highway to a job working with people with disabilities. The State could prohibit abortion protests on the Statehouse lawn. “Such a law that confers on police a virtually unrestrained power to arrest and charge persons with a violation of the resolution is unconstitutional because the opportunity for abuse, especially where a statute has received a virtually open-ended interpretation, is self-evident.” (citations removed).

 

How the State of New Hampshire tried to invoke a violation of the Civil Rights Act opened the door to wide-ranging abuses of power, which was a point from my remarks on this case in early June.

 

Disregarding how offensive we may find white nationalists, neo-nazis, anti-semites, BLM, Antifa, or anyone else willing to use racism, intimidation, or violence to advance an agenda in the absence of incitement (an expression directing immediate acts of violence – a challenging standard to meet), there’s no there there.

You can’t have a civil rights law that infringes on the First Amendment, nor can you pretend it capable of such a thing when the legislature never intended it.* What are you after, and why do you think you can get it? I’m opposed to anti-semitism and race-hating white purity movements but not at the expense of free speech.

Is this some veiled effort to get a shadow of a penumbra of a hate-speech ruling squeezed out of 354B:1, and if so, to what end?

 

I think this was a fishing expedition searching for court precedent that would allow the State to use civil rights law to pick and choose opportunities to chill the right to free speech. “[a] virtually unrestrained power to arrest and charge persons with a violation of the resolution is unconstitutional because the opportunity for abuse, especially where a statute has received a virtually open-ended interpretation…”

It is fair to ask why.

 

 

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You might have heard that in Croydon, our superintendent admitted, on two separate occasions, in public, that even for $1 million per student per year, he wouldn’t be able to teach the two dozen kids in the Croydon Village School (CVS) to read.

What you probably haven’t heard (unless you were at my talk at PorcFest this year) is that at a recent school board meeting, the principal of CVS admitted that ‘we don’t really know how to teach kids to read.’

What you definitely should hear is the podcast Sold a Story, which explains how one publisher, and a few academics, made a pile of dough (enough that one of the academics drives a Maserati), pushing a theory of reading that is contradicted by basic facts, known for decades, about how brains process the written word.

(It’s also contradicted by common sense, although teachers enamored with the approach don’t seem to recognize that. As you listen to the description of the ‘reading recovery’ method, ask yourself how you might, when reading a book on biology, be able to guess a word you’ve never seen before — like ribosome or mitochondrion, or chirality — from context, without being able to sound it out. Or how you might, when reading a book on history, be able to guess the name of a city or country, or historical figure that you’ve never heard of. And so on.  The very idea boggles the mind.)

There is a reasonable chance that this approach is being used in your local schools, as it is in Croydon. (At least one in four schools across the country uses it.) You might want to check with your school board.

As I listened, I couldn’t help thinking about all the parents in Croydon who were terrified at the prospect that privately-run micro-schools might ‘make a profit off the children.’

Oh, the irony.

 

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On Monday, James O’Keefe announced a court win for a case started while he was still running Project Veritas. Veritas challenged Oregon’s Laws regarding recording people in public, and the 9th Circuit Court agreed with O’Keefe and Veritas.

 

Today, on the eve of our Country’s birthday, I received incredible news on the result of a lawsuit that I filed almost 3 years ago: Oregon State recording laws have been overturned! That’s right – I was able to change a state law that disallowed my investigative journalists to covertly record their subjects while doing our reporting.

 

The opinion notes that,

 

“We conclude that Oregon’s law is a content-based restriction that violates the First Amendment right to free speech and is therefore invalid on its face.”

“Oregon does not have a compelling interest in protecting individuals’ conversational privacy from other individuals’ protected speech in places open to the public, even if that protected speech consists of creating audio or visual recordings of other people.

 

New Hampshire law reads like stereo instructions to me, but the gist of it is that you need consent from both parties to record unless it is an obvious public place or recording equipment is visible and there to record others. That means you can’t claim you were recorded without consent if you are caught on a microphone at an event where recording is obviously taking place.

There is a boatload of exemptions for state and law enforcement to surveil you without permission, and there’s no requirement anywhere in public where you have no expectation of privacy. But the dual consent law exists and likely impacts the ability of journalists to get details that might be held back in the presence of a visible recording device.

This may be good or bad, depending on your opinion. It is my practice to speak as if I am always being recorded. This solves two problems. First, no open-mic gaffes because your speech sis yours and it is deliberate, and second, there is no opportunity for inconsistency in your principles.

If I’m being me in all cases instead of pretending to be something I’m not, then there is no oops moment, not that this matters in the context of New Hampshire Law. The statute is indifferent to truth or falsehood; it is the act of recording that is regulated. And in Oregon, they are going to have to revisit it, thanks to James O’Keefe.

 

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Dear Representatives: After reviewing the House Education Committee discussion on student mental health during a work session on June 28, 2023, I wanted to add some commentary.

First, let me start by saying that I consider the mental health of children to be extremely important. But I think we should all ask ourselves, when did offering mental health assessments and services become a part of public education?

Over the past few years, many of us could see that treating mental health has become more prominent in how public education is delivered in our communities. But we’ve also seen many problems too. When public education shifts to mental health services, what does that mean for students? Does this improve the mental health of those who need services? What about students who do not need these services? Does their quality of education improve or decline? Social and Emotional Learning is directed at all students, not just the children who need mental health treatment.

Many schools have added SEL classes, while we continually hear how time in the core academic subjects has been reduced.

I think we have to be honest with ourselves and admit that this extra challenge to public schools could result in a decline in academic outcomes. You can’t shift focus away from academics, include mental health classes and curriculum, and expect academic outcomes to improve. A student receiving expert mental health care outside the classroom may be a better solution.

For many children, these services are not needed. SEL is offered to all students, and it is embedded in the curriculum. In addition, teachers have reported SEL data collection on students.

If we are talking about children who need mental health services, why has this become a school-wide agenda for all of the students? Why are they not targeting children who need these services?

Children experiencing depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts need expert care. This cannot be provided by a school counselor, or social worker. They do not have the expert training and education that is required. Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that these extremely serious mental health conditions can be fixed using an SEL program. Let’s not pretend that an employee without any advanced education, clinical training, or ability to prescribe medication, can handle these serious mental health problems.

We have school counselors in New Hampshire defying basic ethical guidelines, and sharing mental health data without consent from the students or their parents. We have LEA’s changing mental health permission slips to reflect “counseling” so parents will be fooled into signing them. (See attached file 22:00 – 54:00) We have districts with policies that require school staff to lie to parents about their own children. (JBAB) We have a federal student privacy law (FERPA) that was gutted several years ago so that this sensitive data can be shared without informed consent. And now we are going to hand them the responsibility of servicing their mental health?

This has set up a situation that defies ethical codes of conduct. Outside mental health professionals must follow their ethical guidelines if they are to maintain their license to treat patients. And yet we have school officials in New Hampshire ignoring all of this.

I cannot imagine you going forward with any of this in our public schools. School officials are ignoring ethical guidelines, and the privacy laws either go ignored or counselors defy them. We have school policies that are hostile to parents, and you want to now task school personnel with mental health treatment and services?

I’d suggest reading some of the ethical guidelines that have been developed for mental health professionals who treat children. They are extremely supportive of parental involvement, and fully support informed consent when sharing sensitive mental health data. This is not the current practice in our New Hampshire Schools, and we have the evidence to prove it.

You should not task a school district with assessing, and treating the mental health of children without strict ethical boundaries in place. You should not task a school district with treating the mental health of students using personnel who lack the education and clinical training that is needed. Would you ask the school nurse to diagnose and treat a student’s cancer? Of course not. That cancer would be diagnosed and treated by a cancer specialist outside the school system. The school would only be there to follow the doctor’s medical advice.

What is the role of a school counselor when offering direct services to students? What ability do they have to assess or treat a child’s mental health? This is a discussion that one would think would take place in a different committee like Health and Human Services. What are the laws in place that allow parents to hold counselors accountable for poor treatment?

In this example, a student attempted suicide at school after counselors there helped her transition from a girl to a boy. All of this was kept from the parents because the parents were Christian. The school even sent her in a police car to the hospital where she was kept with minimum contact from her parents.
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A few months ago I received a frantic message from a father whose son was given a mental health evaluation after he scraped his friend with a plastic knife in the lunchroom. I’ve received phone calls from parents whose children were counseled at school without their knowledge or consent; and yet ESSA requires parental consent when assessing or servicing a student for their mental health.

A licensed mental health provider in private practice would risk losing their license if they practiced in the manner we are seeing in our public schools.

This push to turn public schools into mental health clinics was done without any consideration for ethics or privacy protections. If I take my child to a private practice, I do not have to worry about information shared with colleagues in the school or sensitive data that can be shared without my knowledge or consent. The privacy of the patient is a priority.

It is shocking to hear these kinds of discussions in the House or Senate Education Committees. Instead of placing this new burden on public schools, these services can still be provided to children who need them through DHHS. Our public schools are struggling to teach children to read, write, add, and subtract. Now they are going to become experts in mental health treatment?

Did you know that children who are sent to the hospital after attempting suicide must sit with a medical professional while doing their homework on their Chromebook? That’s because some of the instant messages come from bullies telling the child to kill themself. Why don’t you ban Chromebooks? The administrators haven’t removed the digital devices in spite of the cyberbullying that continues.

How about all of the pornographic books that are now available to children through the school library App? That is child sexual abuse, and yet this is now allowed in schools by the administrators that are supposed to administer mental health treatment. You want to trust these people with mental health services for students?

The schools remained closed during COVID in spite of the many mental health professionals that were warning about the emotional toll it was taking on children. I worked with parents all over New Hampshire, literally begging administrators to open the schools. Parents explained the emotional toll this was having on their children. All of this went ignored even though private schools were open.

We’ve already started transforming public schools into mental health clinics, and now we see bad behavior treated as if it’s a mental health condition. This new approach has teachers leaving the profession because there are no consequences for bad behavior. This transformation to mental health services in schools is already having a negative impact on behavior. Representative Ladd touched on some of this during the work session. If leadership in the school is going to fail to administer consequences for behavior, what can you do as legislators? This is a problem that must be addressed at the local level, which is why parents in Keene have been attending meetings and speaking up.

SEL isn’t just a program used in our schools; it’s a mechanism for gathering mental health data on children. Many parents send their children to school to learn the academics, not to become guinea pigs when it comes to their mental health.

We have children sitting in hospitals waiting to get into the one mental health facility that treats children. These kids are desperate for mental health services, but we are going to shift much-needed resources to schools that are proving to be incapable of educating students in the core academic subjects. Not only are many failing at their main task, they are failing to offer these services in an ethical and lawful way.

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Scottsbluff, Nebraska, approved a 5.2 MW Solar farm meant to “help the city achieve its goal to reduce our carbon footprint and stabilize city costs for the next 25 years.” One hail storm has reduced the life expectancy to four years and revealed another weakness.

Solar is land-intensive, water-intensive, has a large front and rear-end carbon footprint, offshores serious environmental harms (mining and manufacture), isn’t easy to recycle (if at all), underperforms both in output and longevity, and … is subject to imminent failure after a midwest hail storm.

 

Solar panels destroyed by large hail north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska last night. #newx Photo Courtesy Matt Larsen #hail pic.twitter.com/2ND7BHmYlB

— Daryl Orr (@WxWyDaryl) June 27, 2023

 

Rumor has it a typical solar panel is made to withstand common weather events like hail, but not baseball-side hail. The result is millions of dollars wasted on an inefficient energy solution that isn’t green and – in this case – effectively useless.

The facility is insured, and everyone is on-site assessing the damage.

 

[Molly] Brown [executive vice president of corporate strategy for GenPro Energy Solutions] believes it’s important to note that the extreme weather system caused significant damage to clean and fossil energy assets alike. While storms are indiscriminate, Brown said this is the first major damage GenPro has sustained since its first solar farm was installed in Lexington, Nebraska in 2017.

“We do get a lot of hailstorms in the Great Plains region, but typically the roofs get more damage than the solar panels.,” Brown told Renewable Energy World.

 

Fair enough, but solar has a lot of downsides, and this isn’t going to help matters.

 

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A junta is defined as a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force. This is precisely what the Biden cabal, or as some may call it, ‘administration,’ is.

If we remember correctly, what really happened in 2020, President Trump was bullied and bowed into submission to follow the COVID Project. He was told it would only be two weeks, and then he was personally targeted by a range of sophisticated technology, including signals intelligence warfare, direct military threats from the Democrat Party, and a widespread political revolution by the U.S. Democrat Party intent on destroying the country in order to prevent a second consecutive Trump term.

Next came a summer of widespread race riots led by far-left terror cells and BLM– groups that had for three years been subjected to continued radicalization against the Republican Party and President Trump. These were people who were out of work due to COVID, many of whom, living in socialist Democrat cities (like Chicago, St. Louis, and Los Angeles) relied on the state for subsistence incomes. They had nothing to do besides sit at home and listen to CNN program them for the November elections.

And that 2020 election turned out to be one swung by a sophisticated network of corrupt election managers, Secretaries of States, and poll workers in Nevada, Virginia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. These states saw ridiculous levels of ballot fraud through mail-in and other means, which is still coming to light and which has spurned a long list of books, documentaries, and legal cases.

In fact, it seems that the people who have engaged in covering the spectacle of fraud that was the 2020 election have preferred that the fraud continue because they now make such a solid income off of uncovering the fraud.

If you remember, in December 2020, the Biden junta started broadcasting press conferences with a POTUS elect seal, pretending that the November 3 results were legitimate. This programmed into Americans’ minds that Biden’s victory had been legitimate.

Next was J6, which was when the junta truly took control and locked down. This event was straight out of the totalitarian playbook, mirroring the Nazi Party’s Reichstag Fire in Berlin circa 1933. That event kicked off over a decade of totalitarian rule in Germany that led to the greatest civilizational catastrophes of war in modern history.

The District of Columbia became a military state, basically under martial law. A massive steel fence was erected around the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall. By the time the inauguration came around, the entire country was still locked down, allegedly for COVID. Almost nobody showed up for the party except the most sycophantic DC residents and national political figures.

The Biden junta didn’t wait long to bring the country into open war. They worked hard during 2021 to provoke and poke Russia and successfully encouraged Moscow to open kinetic hostility with an invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, just one year after Biden’s inauguration.

The nature of the Biden junta is built to withstand political pressure. Any push against it is socially difficult since Biden himself is friends with most DC politicians, having served in office for nearly fifty years since 1972. He is a career politician– the kind that shouldn’t exist in a true democracy.

His entire administration has had one purpose– to destroy the United States of America. Political operatives in Beijing bragged in 2020 about installing Biden because he is easy to manipulate. Well, can you see that now? Biden has promoted an agenda that has ripped apart the U.S.– most U.S. citizens have been programmed for the past twenty years to think this is normal. The ones who resist are in a position where they know that organized resistance will be met with martial law and the state has been weaponized against them.

The U.S. Democrat Party’s agenda is twisted and backward– they aim for maximum illness, orienting towards depopulation and forced sterilization of citizens through national policy and a foreign policy based on war and projected weakness. Most U.S. citizens supporting the Democrats have been bullied and terrified into submission. They rely on federal and state aid, and they are victims of cults of personality. Most U.S. Democrat supporters prioritize identity politics over everything else.

This agenda is based on the premise, whether intentional or not, that democracy is best served when it is intentionally subverted at the federal level, which leads to citizens being forced to speak up, stand up, and fight back against a corrupted federal government.

This is totally backward for real progress and prosperity.

 

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The Public Health Industrial Complex has a problem. Its missionaries denied people their religious rights (among others), pimped various protocols, and mandated treatments and preventions. The Amish didn’t do any of that and fared 90 times better.

The government couldn’t make them do any of the things they wanted the rest of us to do and the result was stunning. “Amish communities completely ignored the guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Amish families did not get vaccinated or wear masks, nor did they engage in lockdowns, social distancing, or any other type of restrictions.”

By all estimates, 90% of the Amish population of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (about 45000 souls) caught COVID, but their COVID Death rates were 90 times lower. Of the few that did shuffle off their mortal coil, it is not clear that COVID was even the cause, so that number might be higher, but 90 times lower is damning enough.

If saving lives was the goal, a vaccine and science-denying population had significantly better outcomes by ignoring every ‘expert’ recommendation.

Either the “experts” were wrong about everything, or the Amish are among God’s protected people.

I’d be open to suggestions that both are true.

 

The Amish Died of COVID at a Rate 90 Times LOWER Than the Rest of America

“I did the calculation,” testified @stkirsch in front of the Pennsylvania State Senate.

Given five Amish people died in Lancaster Country, PA, “the Amish died at a rate 90 times lower than the infection… pic.twitter.com/qa0EhPfssH

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) June 28, 2023

 

“[Kirsch] added that diseases like ADD, autoimmune disease, PANDAS PANS, or epilepsy basically don’t exist among Amish children.”
 

If its God, the secular humanist Scientism has two problems.

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Conventional wisdom seems to be that affirmative action in the United States began with an executive order issued by JFK in 1961, which (ironically) mandated government contactors to ‘take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin’.

Without regard to.

In the years since then, without regard to came to mean with special attention given to.  But now SCOTUS has brought things full circle.

Crucially, it appears that the reason the Supreme Court can tell Harvard how to conduct its admissions is that Harvard accepts money (via contracts and sub-contracts) from the federal government.

So if Harvard really believes that having a sufficiently racially diverse student body is essential to its mission, there’s a simple — and perfectly legal — way to keep doing what it’s been doing.

All Harvard — with its $53 billion endowment — has to do is stop taking federal money.

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The State Attorney General has a burning desire to address the negative effects of social media on young people. The Governor signed an executive order. The State Dept of Ed is expected to create a new curriculum to address it. But nothing about puberty blockers.

 

His office began investigating the link between social media use and physical and mental health harms in 2021. Three months ago, Formella joined 46 other attorneys general in an investigation of negative experiences associated with using TikTok.

Gov. Chris Sununu has joined the effort too. He signed an executive order in June requiring state agencies to help students and parents better understand and protect themselves from the harmful effects of social media use.

He gave the departments of Education and Health and Human Services until September to create guidelines for K-12 curriculum about social media’s effect on health.

 

Planned Parenthood is padding its pockets by operating as a proxy mental health clinic for the gender mills. Public schools are exposing children to sexually mature material. So-called educators are deliberately confusing kids about their sexuality long before their brains or bodies are even ready to have the discussion. Puberty blockers, dangerous drugs with serious side effects, including death, are pushed to prevent suicide in kids who have been confused (making them exponentially more likely to kill themselves). Dartmouth-Hitchcock is mutilating and sterilizing children for profit.

And Governor Groomer’s priority is to ignore that public health threat and take a serious look at social media.

Social media is a problem. It’s a bigger problem than we know, and I’m not saying it doesn’t deserve some attention.

 

It seems that having relentless visibility into the lives of others has the alarming effect of compromising the mental health of many adolescent females. It calls to mind the possibility that social media is a 21st century corollary to Tolkien’s palantir, at least to this extent: adolescents who look into the social media orb have an alarming probability of being harmed by doing so. …

What is striking about Haidt’s analysis is the extent to which these young women’s mental health is damaged for reasons unrelated to whether the actual circumstances of their lives have really changed. It is apparently the mere act of marinating in the comparative knowledge of the lives of others that elevates levels of depression and self-loathing.

 

Women live to overthink things, and that has benefits and pitfalls. Young women tend to embrace the latter until they’ve achieved some level of maturity (or is it wisdom). Social media is, to put it bluntly, bad for them. It is not much better for boys. The government’s response to this has been to use it as an excuse to expose them to things that further confuse them sexually and psychologically and then translate the resulting depression into the opportunity to sterilize them with drugs (puberty blockers) or to mutilate them (sexual reassignment surgery).

The hospitals are happy for the added billing opportunities, and the political left feels comfortable packaging the damaged goods as a victim class (they created) for whom they pretend to advocate.

I doubt Governor Groom or his AG are planning to explore those unpleasant truths in their examination of social media’s impact on the physical and mental health of the kiddies.

I can save you all time, money, and even some lives and remind you that we don’t let kids drive, use drugs, or drink alcohol for a reason. They are even prohibited from viewing movies and TV content without an adult’s consent. Their brains are not likely ready, and social media has proven to be in the same category.

Keeping them away from it can’t be more difficult than the Feds using Big Tech to violate millions of Americans’ First Amendment rights or any of that COVID-Policy crap under which it trapped us with much enthusiasm.

Social media, while bad for kids’ self-esteem, is not nearly as big a threat to them as the government. The public-school transgender agenda is proof enough of that. And you want to be their “parents”? Find a way to ban them from the self-esteem-murdering influence of social media until they are old enough to drink.

Absent that, perhaps messing with their mental health by confusing them about what body they are in will have to do.

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Joe Biden on July Fourth:

As our nation celebrates Independence Day, we pray for the day when our communities will be free from gun violence.  It is within our power to once again ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to require safe storage of guns, to end gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and to enact universal background checks.

Note that he’s not talking about putting any of those limitations on the police or other government agents.  Just on you.

So, on a day when we celebrate the ability of armed citizens to break free from their oppressive government… the guy who has presided over some of the worst assaults ever on the Bill of Rights, and some of the most egregious expansions ever of illegitimate government power, is saying that we should cede still more of our ultimate check against tyranny to his oppressive government.

As Holly Golightly would say, the mind reels.

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This is getting to be a problem. People dancing proudly across the gender spectrum keep turning up as mass shooters—the latest is Kimbrady Carriker, arrested in the July 3rd mass shooting in Philadelphia.

 

Mr. Carriker is a male, according to authorities. However, archived images show Mr. Carriker wearing women’s clothing, and officials used they/them pronouns when referring to the suspect. Mr. Carriker has posted on Facebook in support of various groups, including Black Lives Matter, and posted in support of gun ownership.

 

There are a lot of BLM and Antifa folks who are in favor of gun ownership. They fail to realize that once they’ve misused that right to destabilize the nation – to advance Socialism, their progressive political masters will round them up, disarm them, and pile their rapidly cooling remains in the nearest ditch.

Don’t worry; you’ll be in good company. Academics, lawyers, and an army of activists will likely join you – dead weight as it were after the arrival of the one-party state. I’m not making it up. If they’d taught you any actual history, you’d have seen it coming. You can’t leave disgruntled serial troublemakers around, and they can never be armed.

The truth of the revolution will be as unpleasant for all of them as for the rest of us. Utopia is a community sh!t hole occupied by all but a few. That’s what they meant by diversity, equity, and inclusion.

On a positive note, the elites will rarely, if ever, want for viable organ replacements. There are always plenty of those, and should a specific need arise, the law will find a suitable donor (thanks to socialized medicine and digital medical records) and suicide them with or without a show trial because assisted suicide is always an option.

As for the BLM supporting transvestite mass-shooter, we won’t hear much about that. And don’t you dare suggest that people with this disability should be considered mentally ineligible to own firearms? They are the crucible for the next generation of mass shooters whose efforts will herald the narratives needed to disarm the law-abiding population.

 

 

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As you all know, DCYF decided to reveal my personal information to people I don’t know. Sure, intentions may (giving the benefit of the doubt) be good, but there are two sides to this. Yes, the Granddaughter needs to stay in contact with their families, but what are the costs to the foster families put in the same situation DCYF has created?

Unlike most, I take a different tack with Government, as you all know. I am going to use the greatest tool that Government has given to Citizens in following the demand laid upon us all in Article 8 of the NH Constitution (holding elected officials and bureaucrats accountable), especially in light that my Article 2-B Rights, IMHO, were violated (abuse of my personal information).

So, my latest Right To Know:

Right to Know Request per RSA 91-A: “Family Connections”: contacting out-of-home placement children by non-accused family members and friends

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:

For the Division of Children,Youth and Families, define the processes by which it identifies non-immediate family members or family friends that are then given contact information in order to reach an out-of-home child placed with other relatives | foster family | group home.

The Responsive Records are to include:

People:

• Provide the Title/Role of the “project manager” for the following steps.
• Provide the process by which these “contact information people” (or “CIPs”) are selected. This will include immediate, secondary, or tertiary family members and/or close family friends.
• Provide the complete mechanism process by which these CIPs are vetted for safety with respect to the child and the foster family.
• Provide the “scoring mechanism(s)” that “selects in” or “selects out” the CIPs for each of the above two processes.
  • Provide the data items used to set a “score” by which they would be included to set a score for a CIP.
  • Provide the relative importance priority of each of those data elements.
  • Provided the source / origin of each of those data items.

Notification:

• Provide the Title/Role of the “notifier” for the following steps:
• Provide the process used to determine when notifications are triggered to go to the CIPs
• Provide the delivery routings by which notifications are sent out:
  • telephonically
  • email
  • letter/registered letter
  • other
• Provide the processs by which the foster or kinship care providers caring for the out-of-home placement child asked for consent to have their personal information released to the CIPs?
  • Provide the form used to acquire that consent.
  • Provide the delivery mechanisms (see delivery routings, above) to the care providers.
  • Provide the process used if the care givers refuse to give consent but are competent providers by any other DCYF attribute.

Legal Responsibility:

• Provide is DCYF’s legal responsibility in protecting the child from the CIPs that are passed through the vetting process but turn out to be bad actors those caring for removed or place children?
• Ditto the care givers.
• Provide the DCYF protocol(s) that are employed when, as the result of provider contact information being released:
  • the child is attacked or harassed by a CIP?
  • the providers are attacked or harassed by a CIP because they are seen as agents of DCYF?
• Provide the remedies, specified by pertinent DCYF protocols, upplied by DCYF:
  • for the child
  • for the providers

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is a valid reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply. In this case, .TXT, .DOC, or .PDF files would suffice.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records.

Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder for those responsive records to which they can be uploaded.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

-Skip
Skip@GraniteGrok.com

DCYF decided to “ramp it up”; two can play that game. With vigor.

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