The Biden Justice Department’s Lawless Threat against American Parents

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by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

Even as President Biden shrugged his shoulders over progressives’ harassment and intimidation of a sitting United States senator of his own party — a crime under Arizona law — Biden’s Justice Department was running roughshod over the First Amendment, threatening to investigate and prosecute parents for protesting against school boards and teachers who insist on indoctrinating children with the cultural Marxism beloved by Democrats.
 
On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum in which he wailed about the “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.” Clearing his throat with an empty nod to the inconvenient fact that the Constitution protects “spirited debate,” Garland incorrectly — indeed, outrageously for someone of his experience as a Justice Department official and federal appellate judge — claimed that free-speech principles yield not only to “threats of violence” but also to “efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views” (at least, evidently, individuals not named Sinema or Manchin).
 
Garland knows this is dangerous nonsense. I personally know that he knows it. He was a high-ranking official in the Clinton Justice Department, which gave me a very hard time — though it ultimately relented — when I proposed charging a notorious terrorist with soliciting acts of violence and seditious conspiracy.
 



 
We had elaborate evidence, much of it in the form of recorded statements, showing that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman believed himself to be in a forcible war against the United States, that his followers had carried out and plotted terrorist attacks, and that he had personally called for both bombings of American military installations and the murder of Egypt’s then-president.
 
Yet, with the Clinton administration under pressure from left-wing and Islamist groups aligned with the Democratic Party, I was darkly cautioned about the inviolable carapace of free expression and the imperative to avoid “chilling” speech by conflating criminal incitement with constitutionally protected rhetoric that expressed hatred for America — even rhetoric that bitterly attacked American officials and insisted that our governing system should be supplanted.
 
Garland well knows, as he and Clinton officials stressed to me nearly 30 years ago, that in the incitement context, the First Amendment protects speech unless it unambiguously calls for the use of force that the speaker clearly intends, under circumstances in which the likelihood of violence is real and imminent. Even actual “threats of violence” are not actionable unless they meet this high threshold.
 
A fortiori, the First Amendment fully protects speech evincing “efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.” As long as such speech does not constitute a clear and imminent threat to do violence if the individual acts on his or her views, there is no incitement — and hence no law-enforcement interest to vindicate.
 

 
And in particular, there is no federal law-enforcement interest to vindicate. Under the congressional statute criminalizing incitement (section 373 of the penal law, “Solicitation to commit a crime of violence”), even an actual threat of violence is not actionable unless the speaker has called for “physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States” (emphasis added).

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Hitler,Stalin,Castro and Mao did just about the very same thing when it came to Brainwashing the kids Enviromentlaism and CRT effective forms of Brainwashing

Biden IS the unelected asshat tyrant that they kept saying Trump was.

Exactly, biden is everything they said President Trump was except in the case of the dolt biden, the worst fears for this country are right in front of our eyes.

bidens polling is so bad a majority of real Americans would prefer President Trump in office right now.

BIDEN EFFECT: Average Family is Spending $175 More per Month on Basic Essentials Today

Oct 7, 2021 – Senate report details Trump’s efforts to use DOJ to overturn election results
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An interim report from the Senate Judiciary Committee provides the most detailed look yet at former President Trump’s attempts to enlist the Justice Department in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The report from the panel’s Democratic majority documents the chaotic final weeks of Trump’s presidency following his loss to Joe Biden, and how Trump tried to force Justice Department officials to help him keep his grip on power.

Department leaders ultimately resisted Trump’s pressure, but it took threats of mass resignations across the department to get him to back down.

A key moment that emerges in the report is a Jan. 3 meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and senior Justice Department leaders, including then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his top deputy, Richard Donoghue.

Rosen told the committee that Trump opened the three-hour meeting by saying: “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.”

Trump was already considering replacing Rosen with a lower-ranking department official, Jeffrey Clark, who was promising to pursue Trump’s false election fraud claims.

Rosen and his deputies refused to endorse Trump’s claims, and pushed back against the president’s proposed scheme to dump Rosen for Clark.

>>>The report says Donoghue and others made clear that all of the department’s assistant attorneys general would resign if Trump went forward with the scheme, and that mass resignations likely wouldn’t end there. <<<

Rosen and Donoghue, who were both interviewed by the committee, said White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and another top White House lawyer, Patrick Philbin, also pushed back against Trump's plan, and threatened to quit as well.

The report says Trump continued to entertain the idea of installing Clark at the helm of the Justice Department, and only abandoned the idea at the end of the Oval Office meeting.

The meeting was one of several ways in which Trump sought to pressure the Justice Department to pursue his election fraud claims.

Ultimately, Trump's efforts failed, though he continues to push lies that the election was stolen.
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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1044015379/senate-report-details-trumps-efforts-to-use-doj-to-overturn-election-results

Npr

National pubic radio.

Another bastion of lies and propaganda

Senate Minority Report Exonerates Trump Of Weaponizing DOJ Over Election Results

https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/07/senate-minority-report-exonerates-trump-of-weaponizing-doj-over-election-results/

“More accuse the other side of doing what you just got caught doing”

Dismissed.

The media is floundering to cover up Biden’s very blatant failures and complete inability.

So we go back to the failed “Trump was trying to rig the election, not us!”

The ultimate reason that Biden is failing is because he wasn’t elected.

I trust the American people to decide on who our president is instead of Eric Coomer.

Ted Cruz destroys some bozo from DOJ

Why don’t you get back to us when you have some facts. We’re tired of your left wing conspiracies.

Americans Give biden Lowest Marks Across The Board,
Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;
Majority Say The biden Administration Is Not Competent

I don’t trust polls, but it’s interesting that even the baked poles can’t cover for Biden.

We all know 38% probably means closer to 28% or less.

Unfortunately for him this isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a confident executive contest.

Trump was an is better. These FBI and bureaucrat led smears won’t stop him from regaining the White House.

“Trump Won! – Let’s Go Brandon!” – Trump Supporters Line Up to Greet Biden as He Arrives in Elk Grove, Illinois

“Trump Won! – Let’s Go Brandon!” – Trump Supporters Line Up to Greet Biden as He Arrives in Elk Grove, Illinois (VIDEO)

Note to Donald Trump: You HAVE NO executive privilege because you are no longer Chief Executive.

Oct 7, 2021 – Trump to use executive privilege to block Jan. 6 subpoenas:

Former President Donald Trump will use executive privilege to block subpoenas from the House committee investigating the storming of the U.S. Capitol building, a new report says.

The subpoenas, issued Sept. 23, have a Thursday deadline to comply or face “criminal referrals.” Trump will instead invoke executive privilege, a power he retains over events that occurred during his administration despite leaving office, to protect a handful of former aides from divulging information about Jan. 6, Grant Stinchfield from Newsmax reported Wednesday.

“He is going to invoke executive privilege, and that means that people like Chief of Staff Mark Meadows; Dan Scavino, a top adviser; and Kash Patel, another top adviser, will not be able to comply with these subpoenas coming from the Jan. 6 commission,” Stinchfield said. “This is what you get with President Trump. You get a man who fights back. That’s what we love about President Trump, and he’s sticking it to these people trying to go after him.”

Stenchfield must be a complete idiot.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-executive-privilege-block-jan-164700741.html

Your president has a paltry approval of only 38%. 55% of Americans disapprove of your president. Your president is 17 points under water to the negative. No President in modern polling history has ever had numbers go this low in the first 9 months.
Your president sucks and the majority of the country and the world knows that.

If Trump asked me to do something, and Biden asked me to do something…I’d follow Trump.

Is that lack of executive authority?

Sooner or later you need to understand that the Federal Government if afforded power by we the people. If I don’t think Biden won a free and fair election, that’s a problem for him

I am under no compulsion to follow a government I think it illegitimate, and can easily withdraw my consent for them to govern.

If they “attack” me, then they are officially autocratic.

It must be said and said often; thank GOD this fascist was not allowed to become a Supreme Court Justice. I knew nothing about Garland when Obama nominated him, but I knew if Obama nominated him, he was deeply flawed. This is terrible.

But, the left has lost all sight of how our government is supposed to behave because the proper operation of our government does not allow for the left to behave how they want to behave. For instance, just the other day, Bernie, infuriated because his gigantic socialistic transformation of the United States is being held at bay by two Democrats. Bernie stated Manchin and Sinema “have no right” to stand in the way of his socialist agenda.

What a goddamn idiot! They absolutely DO have the right, indeed the DUTY, to vote in a way they believe their constituents would want them to vote. Now, I’m not personally convince of their righteousness in their motives, but regardless they still have the right to vote however they want; the voters hold them accountable.

The left does not want to follow the Constitution. They crave a totalitarian police state and occasionally they practice it. Their most basic belief is that other people do not have the right to disagree with their agenda and ideology. Komrad Garland epitomizes this mindset.

REVEALED: Letter with Insider Information Shows the Teachers Union, AG Merrick Garland and the FBI’s Plan to Monitor Parents was a Political Setup for Midterms

On Thursday Mark Levin broadcast a letter with insider information on the teachers union, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the FBI who met and organized how to combat America’s parents who were speaking out at local school board meetings across the country. The parents were outraged at the COVID masking and vaccination rules, critical race theory indoctrination and open porn disguised as literature promoted in American schools today.

America First Legal published a letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate improprieties related to Merrick Garland’s October 4th threats to American parents of school children.

Mark Levin called this the biggest scandal of his lifetime on his radio show last night.

The letter by America First Legal is fascinating. According to the letter the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized American parents’ fundamental liberty interest in and Constitutional right to control and direct the education of their own children.

** Key Biden Administration stakeholders, including the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and others, have combined to oppress, threaten, and intimidate parents to chill and prevent them from exercising the rights or privileges secured by the Constitution.5 To date these efforts, though extensive, have generally proven ineffectual.

The Biden administration and the teachers unions knew this would be a problem for the midterm elections. They knew they must act.

So there were meetings in the White House on how to target American parents of school children!

** In early September, Biden Administration stakeholders held discussions regarding avenues for potential federal action against parents with a key Biden Domestic Policy Council official (Jane Doe #1) and White House staff (John Doe #1). Stakeholders also held discussions with senior department officials, including at least one political appointee in the department’s Civil Rights Division (Jane Doe #2). Jane Doe #1, John Doe #1, and others in the White House separately expressed concern regarding the potential partisan political impact of parent mobilization and organization around school issues in the upcoming midterm elections.

This illicit group came up with a plan to chill and deter American parents of school children from speaking out.

** Upon information and belief, at the express direction of or with the express consent of Jane Doe #1, Jane Doe #2 and other Biden Administration officials developed a plan to use a letter from an outside group (“not the usual suspects”) as pretext for federal action to chill, deter, and discourage parents from exercising their constitutional rights and privileges.

The liberal group then drafted and released a letter urging the government to use the Patriot Act to spy on American parents of school children.

** On or about September 29, citing legal authorities including the Patriot Act, the “National School Boards Association” made public a letter demanding federal action against parents citing authorities including the Patriot Act. The justification for federal action included, inter alia, parents were “posting watchlists against school boards and spreading misinformation (sic) that boards are adopting critical race theory curriculum and working to maintain online learning by haphazardly attributing it to COVID-19.”6 It is not yet clear whether and to what extent drafts of this letter were shared with Biden Administration officials, including Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2, and whether changes were suggested or made by them, prior to the ostensible public release date.

Then just days later AG Merrick Garland released his new plan to target and silence American parents of school children. Obviously, this was coordinated.

** On or about September 29, citing legal authorities including the Patriot Act, the “National School Boards Association” made public a letter demanding federal action against parents citing authorities including the Patriot Act. The justification for federal action included, inter alia, parents were “posting watchlists against school boards and spreading misinformation (sic) that boards are adopting critical race theory curriculum and working to maintain online learning by haphazardly attributing it to COVID-19.”6 It is not yet clear whether and to what extent drafts of this letter were shared with Biden Administration officials, including Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2, and whether changes were suggested or made by them, prior to the ostensible public release date.

This attack on American parents of school children was hatched and implemented between teachers unions and Biden officials. It was all coordinated to silence anyone who speaks out against this immoral regime.

Here is a copy of that letter.

America First Legal (AFL) to the United States Inspector General by Jim Hoft on Scribd

Is Garland’s Parental Terrorist order for the benefit of his family, not yours?

WASHINGTON: Attorney General Merrick Garland, the man who could have been a Supreme Court Justice, is spewing his rage at American parents aka Parental Terrorists. He’s reacting by a letter sent by leaders of the U.S. Education union cartel to White House Resident-in-Chief to target American parents.

Yes, the most powerful law enforcement bureaucrat in the civilized world is now hunting domestic terrorists. But, no, Garland is not pursuing the Marxists in BLM. Nor is he watchlisting the violent Nazi-loving fascists in Antifa. Not even the racists KKK. Nope. These groups are not domestic terrorists.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) asks Biden to have the attorney general target parents of school-aged kids. Calling you a domestic terrorist.

Why is Merrick Garland targeting Americas’ parents of school-aged kids?

Millions of parents across the nation have to be wondering now if engaging in vigorous defense of their children’s education is criminal? After all, the FBI, DOJ, DHS are all national alphabet soup law enforcement and national security agencies.

When Attorney General Garland received the NSBA request to Biden, it was missing documented “threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation.”

Why is Merrick Garland targeting vocal parents who are shaping the future of America?

Maybe, that is precisely WHY they are being bullied and intimidated to sit down and shut up. To allow the government to teach their kids the racist curriculum of CRT, 1619 Project, and divisive transgenderism and homoculturalism.

The writing appears to be on the wall, or more precisely, written on Woke teacher chalkboards all across America’s schools.

So, it may be reasonable to ask if Garland is enforcing an apparent coordinated effort of marginalizing mainstream heterosexual culture? By undermining traditional moral and cultural restraints on sexual behavior, Garland and his legally sanctioned federal agents can stop parental efforts to block Woke cancel culture efforts to interrupt and destroy the American culture.

Teacher Unions Need to Muzzle Parental Interference

The big bad teachers’ union thugs want parents to shut up and go along with the racist indoctrination of kids in grade school. But, unfortunately, parents have caught on that Critical Race Theory is nothing more than Karl Marx’s Critical Theory dressed up as liberalized racial hate to divide a nation.

That CRT allows an elite band of Marxists to take over the nation’s schools. Americans won’t allow another version of racism in their public schools. They are speaking out at school board meetings to object to the misuse of their tax dollars to indoctrinate their children.

Parents’ outrage made the teachers’ unions nervous, so they decided to call on Big Brother for help to put parents back in line.

In early September, The National School Board Association demanded the federal government send immediate aid. The letter signed by NSBA President Viola M. Garcia and NSBA interim Executive Director and CEO Chip Slaven saying that in the face of parental outrage, “America’s public schools and its education leaders are under an immediate threat. And that “The National School Boards Association 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.”

However, in their letter, the NSBA identifies no threats actually made. Feelings are all the woke school board members need to identify a threat.

Parents possess inalienable rights from God to raise their children.
Parents are the stewards of their children. God empowers parents to bring their children up in the world.

A state has limited power to intervene between parent and child. The federal government has none.

However, that will never stop Garland from attempting to bully parents with threats of federal prosecution by the FBI, the DOJ, and Homeland Security.

Only God-knows-which other federal alphabet soup agencies may be used against parents. ICE is the exception because illegal immigrant parents are never domestic terrorists.

Now that parents are domestic terrorists, Garland has declared war on your family to protect his interests.

Furthermore, it is a blatant attempt to federalize public education through the use of police power. So that the federal government cannot do that, that’s why Garland is on the job of using tyranny and threats against parents by categorizing moms and dads as “domestic terrorists.”

Is Garland’s Parental Terrorism Order based on law or Family financial connections

It turns out Garland has a clear financial interest in silencing parents’ objections to a Woke CRT education. Garland’s daughter, Rebecca Garland, is married to Alexander aka “Xan” Tanner, (the co-founder and President of Panorama Education, a lucrative Big Tech business started in 2011 and funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Is there a conflict of interest? (Daughter of Attorney General who ordered DOJ to probe angry parents for domestic terrorism is married to the founder of education group that promotes Critical Race Theory: Merrick Garland accused of a conflict of interest)

On Thursday, a Panorama spokesperson confirmed the cozy family relationship to The Epoch Times, stating: “The only relationship between Panorama Education and Attorney General Merrick Garland is that Panorama’s co-founder Xan Tanner is AG Garland’s son-in-law.”

Panorama Education sells K-12 educational materials focused on “systemic racism,” “intersectionality,” and white supremacy. “Panorama pushes race-focused surveys and conducts training on systemic oppression, white supremacy, unconscious bias, and intersectionality — all under the rubric of ‘Social-Emotional Learning,” according to the Washington Examiner.

“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup: Education co-led a $4 million round of seed funding for the fledgling Panorama in 2013. Last month, Panorama announced a $60 million investment round with investors including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,” reported the Washington Examiner.

Millions of American Moms and Dads will refuse to be Silent or Silenced.

Should millions of American parents have to worry that the FBI may be placing them on a domestic terrorist watchlist? No, not in a nation based upon the rule of law and not the rule of a Woke educational cartel. There is no crime when there is no crime. The goal by the biden regime to chill dissent. Thereby silencing millions of American moms and dads. And it is going to backfire.

The NAACP2021: National Association for the Advancement of Canceled People firmly believes that parents will refuse to be silent or silenced.

Parents should wonder why the United States Attorney General has declared war on families who object to CRT.
Is Merrick Garland abusing the power of his office to enrich his own family at the expense of yours? Has Joe Biden, former chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, forgotten that America is a nation of laws? National teacher unions do not dictate law enforcement.

Presidents should not allow millions of moms and dads’ efforts to exercise their parental and legal right to fight for their children to be criminalized because the NSBA says, “Joe Jump!”

Here’s an answer for Millions of parents across America. Launch a national writing campaign to have their uncanceled children send him a simple note. “Mr. Biden, C’mon Man, we refuse to be canceled.”

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https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/is-garlands-parental-terrorist-order-for-the-benefit-of-his-family-not-yours-140614/

20 years ago when the leftist plutocrat pushed the unpatriotic “PA” conservatives said, CORRECTLY, GWB intends to persecute us with this law. This is just the latest , of many, example of how Bush hates conservatives. No shock that the “Bush Republican” 8 months ago pushed Garland saying “he was a well grounded moderate”. Naming Bush Republican name “Turtle”!

Uniparty is the far left of BOTH BIG PARTIES. AG is using the tool that GWB crafted! AGAINST CONSERVATIVES, as we said 20 years ago!

Belated disclaimer:

Have been conservative for over 70 years. Never voted for GWB. Boased I am.

SIC SEMPTER TYRANUS BIDEN