My latest in PJ Media:
The facts of this shameful case are generally well known: the National School Boards Association (NSBA) wrote to the FBI, asking it to investigate as “domestic terrorism”protests at school board meetings against the introduction of Critical Race Theory into public school curricula. That was bad enough, but now the story has gotten even worse. On Tuesday, Fox News revealed that “Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists,” according to an email exchange it had reviewed.
Fox reported that “the email exchange indicates Cardona was more involved with the letter’s creation than previously known. President Biden’s Department of Justice relied on the NSBA letter, which suggested using the Patriot Act against parents, in creating its own memo directing the FBI to mobilize in support of local education officials.”
The smoking-gun email came from the NSBA’s Secretary-Treasurer, Kristi Swett, on Oct. 5. Swett noted that Chip Slaven, the NSBA’s interim top dog, “told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona.” The NSBA letter provided this “information” with a tone of overpowering hysteria:
America’s public schools and its education leaders are under an immediate threat. The National School Boards Association (NSBA) respectfully asks for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation. Local school board members want to hear from their communities on important issues and that must be at the forefront of good school board governance and promotion of free speech. However, there also must be safeguards in place to protect public schools and dedicated education leaders as they do their jobs.
This sounds bad indeed, but Megan Fox did a deep dive into the supposed “threats” that school board members had allegedly received that justified FBI intervention, and came up empty. Fox concluded, “There isn’t one legitimate threat on the NSBA’s list or a situation that wasn’t handled easily by the police. What the NSBA wants to do is crack down on free speech and, stupidly, they attached to their letter every example of parents speaking freely and demanding that the FBI stop it.”
Not only has it now been revealed that Cardona asked for this letter, but Fox also reported that “previous emails had revealed that the NSBA was in contact with the White House and Justice Department in the weeks before it publicly sent the letter.”
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KIlauea says
This corrupt moron is a disgrace. It makes me wonder if he knows anything about education. He’s just another political hack who wants to shove liberal BS down our children’s throasts.
mortimer says
It appears that large numbers of American teachers are now Leftist-Globalists who believe the unproved propaganda and want to use totalitarian means to apply their absurd theories against the will of the people.
The teachers who disagree are threatened into silence and live in fear of being denounced as ‘far-right fascists’ by the fanatical Leftists in the school systems.
davedutchess says
THIS will be the downfall of the teachers union; a stage long overdue.
gravenimage says
Sadly, I doubt it.
somehistory says
In the photo, he looks like the fool and the creepy jerk that he has shown himself to be. There should be something that the targeted parents could do against this scoundrel. He should be fired and fried.
gravenimage says
BUSTED: Biden’s Education Secretary Solicited the Infamous Letter Likening Angry Parents to Domestic Terrorists
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Deeply disturbing. And it doesn’t surprise me that no legitimate threats were found. So much for “domestic terrorism”.
I heard some moron say that if you are for the filibuster, which had been around forever, that you support domestic terrorism–this rhetoric gets more and more ludicrous.
OLD GUY says
Educational Secretary? You would think we would have someone smarter than this at the head of our national education system. There seems to be a problem with political appointments to senior government positions based on favors to the elected officials. Instead of getting the best candidate for the job you get incompetent individuals who have never run anything but their check book for contributing to a candidate. No wonder our government agencies are so poorly run.