{"id":357546,"date":"2021-10-25T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ag-merrick-garland-must-call-off-war-on-parents-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:06:26","slug":"ag-merrick-garland-must-call-off-war-on-parents-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ag-merrick-garland-must-call-off-war-on-parents-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#AG Merrick Garland must call off war on parents: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a381c996e17d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a381c996e17d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ag-merrick-garland-must-call-off-war-on-parents-devine\/#%E2%80%98SNLs_Joe_no_joke\" >\u2018SNL\u2019s Joe no joke<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#AG Merrick Garland must call off war on parents: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s time for Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland to retract his memo siccing the FBI onto moms and dads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now that the National School Boards Association has recanted the scurrilous letter which he admitted was the sole basis for his decision to treat parents like domestic terrorists, he must call off the dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He must recall the DOJ\u2019s powerful counterterror arm, the National Security Division, from its new role of spying on parents exercising their First Amendment rights at school board meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his woeful impersonation of Sgt. Schultz in a House Judiciary Committee hearing last Thursday, Garland vowed that FBI agents will not be attending local school board meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But according to one northern Virginia mom, the feds showed up in force that very night to spy on a group of 25 parents and grandparents who were protesting outside a Fairfax County school board meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had several unmarked federal government vehicles there watching us, and we had DHS [Department of Homeland Security] in marked vehicles and we had a helicopter overhead [which] circled for about 30 minutes and were shining their spotlight down on us,\u201d Stacy Langton told WMAL radio Friday, after posting a photograph of the vehicles on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so over the top,\u201d said the mother of six.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Langton got involved in school board activism last month when she discovered two pornographic books depicting pedophilia in her son\u2019s school library, \u201cLawn Boy\u201d and \u201cGender Queer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She stood at the Sept. 23 school board meeting at Luther Jackson MS in Falls Church and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani\/status\/1441356537163706378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1441356537163706378%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D19909616action%3Dedit\">read aloud sexually explicit passages<\/a> and held aloft enlarged pages from one of the books, showing pornographic cartoons of fellatio, sex toys and masturbation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of these books include pedophilia, sex between men and boys,\u201d she said in a video circulated online by Asra Nomani of activist group Parents Defending Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne book described a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male,\u201d Langton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was interrupted by two school board members before her two-minute speaking slot had expired. Her microphone was cut off while other parents gave her a standing ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A man can be heard yelling at school board members on the video: \u201cYou are sick!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another mom shouts: \u201cThis is child pornography and every one of you should be arrested for allowing this bullcrap to be .\u2009.\u2009. infecting the minds of these children.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As board members walk off stage, parents chant \u201cShame!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, it was a raucous meeting. But are parents supposed to meekly accept that their children are subjected to this sort of filth?\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>arently. This is the whole point of Garland\u2019s notorious memo: to place a chill on free speech. It was designed to frighten parents into not showing up at school board meetings to complain about ideological propaganda being shoved down their kids\u2019 throats, whether critical race theory, gender fluidity, transgender bathrooms, pornography, or other pet perversions of the extreme left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When grilling Garland in Congress last week, Rep. Jim Jordan was prevented by committee chairman Jerry Nadler from playing a video showing parents speaking articulately and passionately at school board meetings across the country this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelling my child, or any child, that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black is racist,\u201d said one mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not oppressed,\u201d said one dad. \u201cI have three children and they are not oppressed either .\u2009.\u2009. Racism in America would by and large be dead today if it were not for certain people and institutions keeping it on life support .\u2009.\u2009. Sadly one of those institutions is the American education system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy 5-year-old is being peddled transgender books in her library,\u201d said another dad. \u201cTeenagers are being served pornography under the guise of young adult literature\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo something,\u201d he exhorted board members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/nadler-jordan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Chairman Jerry Nadler prevented Rep. Jim Jordan from playing a video of parents at school board meetings at the House Judiciary Committee hearing where Garland testified.\" class=\"wp-image-19909688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/nadler-jordan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/nadler-jordan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/nadler-jordan.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Chairman Jerry Nadler prevented Rep. Jim Jordan from playing a video of parents at school board meetings at the House Judiciary Committee hearing where Garland testified.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nadler banned the video on a spurious technicality, but Garland should watch it anyway, since he seems clueless about the genuine concerns of parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was not even aware of the widely publicized case of a Loudon County dad arrested at a school board meeting while complaining that his 15-year-old daughter allegedly had been raped in a school bathroom by a boy in a dress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s extraordinarily remiss of the attorney general, since the case was one of the few cited in the NSBA\u2019s Sept. 29 letter to the president as evidence of a \u201cdisturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence\u201d against school board members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The speed with which Garland wrote his memo five days later, launching anti-terrorist action against moms and dads, was remarkable, since he admitted to Congress that he had seen no \u201cbody of evidence\u201d showing an \u201cuptick\u201d of violence at school board meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>His decision was due entirely to the powerful nature of the NSBA letter, he said, and a few \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper reports.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the NSBA apologized for its inflammatory letter: \u201cThere was no justification for some of the language included.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The backdown only came after Nomani and the Washington Free Beacon released e-mails showing NSBA President Viola Garcia and Interim CEO Chip Slaven had been secretly talking with White House staff for \u201cseveral weeks\u201d before sending the letter to President Biden requesting the Patriot Act be deployed to investigate parents as potential \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The entire scheme was a failed attempt to equate parents protesting against school boards with the Capitol Hill rioters. It was authoritarian overreach in service of Joe Biden\u2019s concerted efforts to smear all his political opponents as domestic terrorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garland has egg on his face and the only way out is to admit his memo was wrong.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98SNLs_Joe_no_joke\"><\/span>\u2018SNL\u2019s Joe no joke<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d never fails to fall flat on its face with its Joe Biden skits. There is zero likeness to the president from any of its actors \u2014 and they had three on the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How hard is it to mimic his wandering high-kneed gait, for instance, or his \u201cC\u2019mon, man\u201d refrain, or his irate finger-pointing. His frozen jet-pack hands from Thursday\u2019s CNN town hall, and his rebooting robot routine, were tailor-made for gentle comedy. But when a comedy show sacrifices humor for political correctness it\u2019s no wonder its ratings stink.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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