The Democrats’ “pretend it’s someone else” game: that NSBA letter about parents and school boards
Actually, I think we already knew the gist of this was true even though we didn’t know every detail:
[Biden’s] 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 reviewed by Fox News.
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.
In the Oct. 5 email, NSBA Secretary-Treasurer Kristi Swett recounted that NSBA interim CEO Chip Slaven “told the officers he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cardona.”
This was the letter about concerned parents being a threat, and sparked the “war on parents” policy. Here’s the part we already knew:
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.
Here’s how it works. Get a friendly person or a friendly group to ask you to do what you already want to do, all the while pretending that the person or group instigated it on its own.
Or you can – as with Russiagate and the dossier – pay a friendly person or group to write something at your behest that falsely defames your opposition and pretend it comes from some independent and trusted source and that you had nothing to do with its genesis at all.
You can also leak something to a friendly newsperson who will then write a story about that thing, and you can pretend you’re investigating it because this independent newsperson got some independent source to tell them whatever it was that was in the leak.
Another way to do it is what’s called a collusive lawsuit, a tactic I described previously in this post The following material is from John Hinderaker at Powerline, written a year ago (the context was voting fraud):
Of course Secretaries of State have no power to change election laws, hence the need for collusive litigation, which is one of the most sinister forms of corruption in today’s world. In Minnesota and other states, the Democratic Secretaries of State immediately “settled” the lawsuits brought “against” them by their fellow Democrats. The “settlements” simply agreed to what the Democrats wanted – no safeguards to prevent fraud in mail-in voting.
The Democrats knew how corrupt, and therefore likely to fail, this tactic was, so in my state they made sure they had two bites at the apple. They recruited two sets of plaintiffs, one in federal court and another in state court, thereby dodging res judicata if they lost the first case. The key to collusive litigation is that the “settlement” conspired at by the supposedly adverse parties is ratified by a court. In Minnesota, the federal court refused to approve the Democrats’ fraudulent “settlement,” finding no showing to justify it. But a loyal state court judge went along with the Democrats’ charade. As a result, mail-in ballots in Minnesota, as in a number of other states following similarly corrupt litigation, bore no witness signatures, in plain violation of state law. The door to fraud was wide open, as the Democrats intended. One of the problems in assessing the 2020 election is that the same lax procedures that enable fraud in the first place also make it more or less impossible to prove after the fact. Sixty-nine million mail-in votes were cast; how many were fakes, and which ones? There is really no way to tell. Once those votes have been counted (sometimes in the absence of Republican poll-watchers, illegally excluded by Democrats from the rooms where counting was going on), there is no way to identify which ones were illegal and pull them out of the vote totals.
See the way it works? The Democrats have far more friends in the places that count than the GOP does: groups such as teacher associations and universities and lawyers’ groups, the State Department, the DOJ, the FBI, the press – I’m sure that you can probably think of others.
Will there be any punishment for the NSBA trick? Certainly not while the Democrats are in power and probably not even if Republicans take power next election.
The Democrats, having shifted to the hard left, seem to recognize that vote fraud is the only way to stay in power. Trump made frightening impacts on Hispanic and black voters. The old Republican country club vote has shifted to the Democrats on culture issues. Now, the lower middle class is drifting away. There just aren’t enough academics, college students and government employees to swing elections anymore. The solution is to cheat. It used to be a joke back when Chicago was livable.
Our whole system of public education is rotten to the core. Tax-payers fund the indoctrination of captive schoolchildren into “woke” insanity, loans for higher (mis)education are guaranteed by the federal government while the universities profit obscenely whether their students graduate or not or learn anything of value (or, as is almost always the case) not, the teachers’ unions donate tens of millions (extracted in dues) to the Democrats and receive billions upon billions, of inflationary dollars, in return (whether or not the teachers actually work), while “credentialed morons” and (mis)educated pseudo-intellectuals work tirelessly, in the public and in the private sector, to destroy any and all vestiges of the liberty once enjoyed in our rapidly-decaying republic, while any parent who might object is potentially a “domestic terrorist.”
Democratic judges are slugs.
“Will there be any punishment for the NSBA trick? Certainly not while the Democrats are in power and probably not even if Republicans take power next election.” neo
In which case, the rule of law is void and tyranny reigns.
The rich get richer … and the elite wanabees get more elite/ woke get more woke.
Neo – have you joined your local GOP precinct group?
If not, could you talk about why not?
https://precinctstrategy.com/
I do fantasize, tho know it’s just a fantasy, about a majority Rep Congress holding impeachment hearings for each of the 4 Federal FISA judges who used “wink and a nod” rubber stamp approval of the non-honest FBI FISA requests to illegally spy on Carter Page and the Trump campaign.
They “were lied to” ? I doubt there were any falsehoods, merely a failure be fully honest. And it’s the judges’ jobs to make it all transparent, so any lie clearly stands out.
Both Cardona and Garland should be impeached and removed from office. Won’t happen, I know, but it should happen.
On the other hand, this uproar had something to do with Democrats losing their grip on Virginia. I hope other states follow.
This…
“The key to collusive litigation is that the “settlement” conspired at by the supposedly adverse parties”
reminds me of the “negotiations” between teacher’s unions and the school boards that the same unions helped get elected with contributions, volunteers, and solid block voting.
It has also been a long standing, unstated, policy worked out between the EPA and various “Green” groups.
Re geoffb’s comment: Public Choice economics predicts that ruling groups with political powers will use it to expand and protect this class’s interests.
We’ve seen this happen for decades with the largest unit of Federal government (after DOD) for decades. Not is has expanded, following “Civil Rights” law through to corrupt Constitutional state powers.
Re Mike K and j e and Geoffrey Britain, I see no easy way back to Rule of Law from the Banana Republic injustice first foisted upon us by Obama.
Nor is there any easy way to defeat the Wokie Kulture Kampf.
Even Hollywood is institutionalizing racism against Whites and anti-Semitism.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10391261/Hollywood-barely-whisper-wokeness-kill-industry-PETER-KIEFER-PETER-SAVODNIK.html
….”[T]he woke revolution…has driven out white men and ensures that every [Hollywood] production is ideologically sound,” ie, racist promotion of only approved victim groups.
Decline, fall. Game. Set. Match.
They lost quite a few state boards and the income derived from their dues. Well deserved. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/national-school-board-association-at-risk-of-losing-millions-over-state-chapter-withdrawals/