People like you have no fear/understanding of the implications of incidents like this where the raw power of government is flexed with such impunity.
Why are you on the Free Republic at all? You have no idea what Conservatives stand for. Hint: we stand for individual freedom and against all-encompassing government.
There’s another troubling aspect to this that I haven’t seen addressed. The “parent” who was speaking at the start of the video, was arguing in favor of the pornographic book, and accusing “these people” of trying to ban the book and dictate what his kids can and cannot read.
As unimaginable as it may be to decent folks, there actually are people out there who want their children to be abused like this. And some of those people get on the Internet to promote their sick ideas. They aren’t always upfront about what they’re promoting. Usually they will attack those who are trying to protect innocent children, and cloak their agenda in accusations of book banning, civil disobedience, etc. Rational people try to reason with them, as if the disrupters just don’t understand the situation. They understand it, because they created it. For whatever reason, they want the children to be destroyed by pornography and the teaching of deviant sex acts. They can’t be reasoned out of that mindset, because reasoning was never an aspect of them adopting that mindset in the first place.
And my point is, the father should have waited his turn, said his peace and then if the board did not address his issue, continued his protest through other means available to him.
Spouting of, bullying others, not following the rules and in general behaving like they are the most important person in the room is childish and is something that the left does when they don’t get their way. While I understand he is passionate about what he believes in, acting like a child and showing everyone that he can behave like a horses rear end does not advance his cause. Further, it damages his cause by allowing the opposition to disregard his comments all that much easier.
As for knowing what conservatives stand for, well perhaps you are correct. I used to think that conservatives were the somber ones that did not let their passions govern their thoughts. That conservatives weighed the facts and did not let their emotions control them.