Dad Arrested for Speaking Up About Pornographic Content in Required Reading for 9th Graders

http://freedomoutpost.com/ ^ | 05/06/2014 | Lily Dane

[Darren McCarty]

School board elections if separate from most elections usually have 10-20% turnout (school employees usually), compared to 60%+ for presidential elections. When we got that number to 25-30% when I lived in a moderate or conservative leaning area, we won. If they are on the general election ballot, most people have no idea who the good candidates are. It's our job in our districts to get the non-NEA candidates elected.

As for the how part, we used mailings, fliers, knocked on doors of voters, etc. Regular time tested campaigning.

If people don’t start making a scene now, when will it be acceptable? I believe the time needs to be now.

When? 30 days before the election when the absentee votes are out.

[riri]

they are educating masses of people who will own your ass at the voting booth in less than a generation.

Owns his ass? It is going to be good little socialists like this who sit on panels who help determine whether he gets that life saving medical care.

I heard the interview with this guy--he was granted the waiver and was prepared to go his own way and be done. Until the permission slip to read the book came home. The school misleadingly said something to the effect of "the book contains unhealthy relationships". No explicit sexual imagery. Not soft porn. (and certainly not sophmoric, crappy, talentless writing to boot.)

[Darren McCarty]

Do you think the Democratic Party's voter fraud might have something to do with 2nd term?

In states he won by 100,000 or less, yes. Beyond that, there was too much of a spread. Florida and Nevada were super close. Wisconsin had larger than 100,000 vote spread, but it had known fraud. I'll throw that in. 45 votes. That would make it 251 Romney. Ohio or PA would have been needed as well. 165,000 vote spread for Ohio. 210,000 in PA. That's a lot, even with fraud. I'm sold that there's fraud, but was it enough to flip? I'm not sold there.

Maybe the spineless GOP-e should stop performing fellatio across the aisle on their liberal bffs and fight to win.

I agree about GOP-e. It only fights to win in primaries.

Tea Party's problem is that it bitches all the time but either doesn't make the effort to fight (or in some cases doesn't know how to fight). The tea party is unreliable.

Neither side's leadership knows how to win. That's why I'm so ornery on this stuff to everybody.

[southern rock]

You seem to have bought into the "elections have consequences" meme that too many conservatives have bought into.

In a pure democracy, yes elections directly and immediately have consequences.

However, in a constitutional republic, with a bill of rights, and individual liberty protected by laws, it is not supposed to matter so much who is elected president or to the damn piss-ant school board. Our rights and freedoms are still supposed to be guaranteed.

That is what this man was standing up for. He has every right to make noise in the face of his parental rights being violated. He doesn't have to just sit back and say, "oh well, my guy lost" or "I'll wait till the next election and vote for someone else" . His rights are in effect now.

It is sad you treat elected officials as if they were warlords.

[NCLaw441]

If the goal is to create a scene, this man did a good job. But if the intent was to try and reason with the board in hopes of changing the procedure, if not the substance of the reading materials, he failed miserably.

I get the impression that he thought he was going to bully the board into some sort of apology or policy change. Bad calculation.

[unlearner]

Maybe. But what the educators deserve in this situation is pitchforks and torches, not merely rude interruptions.

Who authorized this assignment?

Why has no one been fired?

Why has no educator been charged with indecency with a minor? Or a number of other charges that should apply?

This is the same kind of normalcy bias that allowed the Nazi’s to take over.

A lot of people on this forum will be criticizing the manner in which we respond to tyrants all while the tyrants proceed to throw us into ovens. But by all means lets not do anything rude or disorderly.

[NCLaw441]

Fair enough, and I surely don’t argue with punishment for those responsible at least for not giving fair warning. Even if that is what you are gunning for, you don’t do it by being loud and rude. The result is to pay attention to the how of what is said instead of WHAT is being said. Interrupting other speakers or not waiting your turn is not effective. The better tactic, in my view is to use calmly measured statements calling the educators to task for what they did, noting that the passage that causes the problem cannot even be read aloud in the meeting or published in any respectable newspaper, etc.