President Barack Obama meets with Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland in the Oval Office, March 9, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
At LewRockwell.com, the board of Issues & Insights reveals the disingenuous behavior of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who used the FBI to target parents who protested radical school board decisions and then apparently lied about it to Congress. They write (abridged):
A new memo shows that Attorney General Merrick Garland lied to Congress about the FBI snooping on parent groups upset with local school boards for their use of Critical Race Theory in the classroom. If so, it doesn’t warrant a slap on the hand, but swift removal from office.
Garland (Merrick) in fact proposed using the FBI to investigate parents indignant over schools subjecting their children to the Marxist, anti-American ideological propaganda of Critical Race Theory. For all we know, he’s still doing it.
What prompted such a move? It came in response to a Sept. 29 letter sent to President Joe Biden by National School Board Association (NSBA) President Viola Garcia. In it, Garcia calls parents who dare to speak out on CRT and other educational travesties, such as forcing kids to wear masks, an “immediate threat” to educators that’s “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
On Oct. 4, Garland kicked both the FBI and U.S. attorneys into gear, telling them to meet with “federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders” on “strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff, and will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment, and response.”
The public response was swift. Parents of school-age kids expressed outrage. And, as of last week, some 26 state school boards had distanced themselves from Garcia’s letter and 11 had quit the NSBA entirely. The NSBA’s own board retracted and repudiated its letter to Biden.
Lewrockwell.com Issues & Insights
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