In the fall of 2021, when fed-up parents began protesting woke content in schools by showing up at school board meetings, the National Association of School Boards begged the Biden DOJ to get involved.
Parents were, in some cases, labeled domestic terrorists and even investigated. None of this was necessary. It was all about politics.
House Republicans have just confirmed this.
Jarret Stepman writes at the Daily Signal:
‘No Legitimate Basis’ for DOJ Targeting of Protesting Parents, House Panel’s Report ConcludesA House committee has found that there was “no legitimate basis” for the Biden administration to use Justice Department resources to target supposed “threats” to school boards across the country.“From the initial set of material produced in response to the subpoenas, it is apparent that the Biden administration misused federal law-enforcement and counterterrorism resources for political purposes,” the House Judiciary Committee report concludes.For those who have followed this story, the conclusion of the report, released on Tuesday, might seem obvious, but it’s still important to catalog how government agencies have been weaponized for partisan ends.In 2021, a series of protests erupted at Virginia school board meetings due to the adoption of the teaching of critical race theory, as well as transgender policies and COVID-19 restrictions.Parents were fed up with radical policies being foisted on their children and showed up en masse at school board meetings to voice their concerns. The trend repeated itself across the country, but it was particularly noteworthy in Virginia due to the tightly contested governor’s race at the time between a former governor, Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, seeking to return to office, and the eventual winner, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican…While the race was ongoing and parents were showing up at meetings, Attorney General Merrick Garland released a memo calling for a Justice Department investigation into “threats” to local school boards, despite having no evidence that any such danger existed. That followed a National School Boards Association letter to President Joe Biden asking for the administration to crack down on parents.The House report found that the Justice Department’s “own documents demonstrate that there was no compelling nationwide law-enforcement justification for the Attorney General’s directive or the Department components’ execution thereof.”
Read the full House report here.
Chuck Ross of the Washington Free Beacon has more on this:
FBI Investigated Dozens of Parents Who Criticized School Boards, Found No Legitimate ThreatsThe FBI opened dozens of investigations into parents who criticized school boards, which lawmakers say is evidence the Biden administration is targeting conservatives.House Republicans revealed Tuesday that the FBI opened 25 preliminary investigations based on tips to the National Threat Operations Center. Six of the probes were assigned to the FBI’s counterterrorism division, according to the report from the Weaponization of Government Subcommittee. The report says the FBI opened just one full investigation out of the 25 preliminary investigations of school board threats and did not identify any legitimate threats against school board members.Republicans say that the findings, obtained through a subpoena of the FBI, show that the Biden administration improperly used counterterrorism laws to go after parents who voiced criticism of school board policies related to classroom curriculum and coronavirus mandates.”The Administration’s goal seems to have been silencing the critics of its radical education policies,” reads the report from the committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio). “This weaponization of law-enforcement powers against American parents exercising their First Amendment rights is dangerous.”
In other words, Biden and the Democrats, who lectured the country about threats to our democracy, constantly for years, were themselves a direct threat to democracy.
And in case you thought any of this vitriol against the rights of parents was over, guess again. Here’s AOC, just this week:
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