A bit of a conflict of interest for Merrick Garland
Hmmm:
AG Garland has weaponized the FBI and other DOJ departments against parents protesting against critical race theory in the schools.
Garland mentioned threats, harassment, and intimidation, but did not cite any examples.
Looks like Garland has a conflict of interest.
His daughter Rebecca married Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama, in 2018. The group Parents Defending Education (PDE) found out Panorama has multimillion-dollar contracts with school districts…
The contracts are for, among other things, “social and emotional learning (SEL) monitoring in Fairfax County Public Schools,” “part of a broader, $78.8 million investment of coronavirus relief that FCPS directed towards a ‘welcoming’ and ‘culturally responsive’ environment for students,” and several initiatives related to “equity and inclusion.” The company is involved in 1500 school districts.
While we’re at it, I’ll mention that Legal Insurrection has published a database that’s a guide to CRT and related matters in schools across the nation. Here’s a quote from the website:
We have researched and documented Critical Race Training in close to 400 colleges and universities in the United States. The website explains Critical Race Theory itself and provides resources to learn more. Additionally, it allows users to look up the steps their school has taken to mandate Critical Race Training in different parts of the college experience, from changing academic codes of conduct to funding “equity” projects.
There are also materials relating to K-12.
I’ve said before that the leftist takeover of education has probably been the most important aspect of the Gramscian march through the institutions, and undoing it is key to any hope this country will have for the future.
Not only is Garland a totalitarian of Soviet viciousness, but he is clearly implicated in the accumulating of ill-gotten lucre, by means of his daughter’s marriage, through the abuse of America’s children in K-12 from shameful and pernicious racialized propaganda, although it is, of course, possible that this unconstitutional and illegitimate order was mostly the doing of his deputy Lisa Monaco, who was soundly thrashed in Congress by the far more intelligent Josh Hawley. The other two officials perched atop the DoJ are Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke, both of whom are “credentialed morons” solely dedicated to abusing the law for partisan ends. How sadly and terribly indeed has our legal system been corrupted!
Everyone should be reflecting upon the following;
“when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Geoffrey Britain:
We know the history lesson. However, I do wonder if current arms and surveillance tech make throwing off said Government a different, more difficult, calculation than in 1776.
Many times in such discussions I’ve run across the sentiment that our own soldiers would never fire upon American citizens.
After what I’ve seen in the past five years, I wouldn’t make that bet.
Not that I expect anything to happen, but does this make for a prosecutable case of conflict of interest for AG Garland?
does this make for a prosecutable case of conflict of interest for AG Garland?
I’d settle for a good ol’ patriotic Impeachment. Start today! If not today, directly upon installation of the new Congress in 2023.
Many times in such discussions I’ve run across the sentiment that our own soldiers would never fire upon American citizens.
Following the pruning of the officer corps during the 8 years of Obama, and the current grim evidence of de-militarized and progressivized officers now ruling the roost and giving away the store and colliding with ships at sea, my own sentiments are no longer quite so sure of that ‘never fire’ idea. In the face of a media holocaust screeching of ‘white supremacists’ at any sort of organized resistance – say to a mandated confiscation of lawfully owned civilian firearms – there would too likely be some units only too glad to carry out that firing.
Particularly units subjected to the sort of vetting some of our National Guardsmen underwent in the runup to January 6th, with some rejected for that duty.
@ Neo > “I’ve said before that the leftist takeover of education has probably been the most important aspect of the Gramscian march through the institutions, and undoing it is key to any hope this country will have for the future.”
Which is why Garland is siccing the FBI on the red-pilled PTA, who are themselves key to that undoing.
What is it with Democrats refusing to recuse themselves from conflictual situations?
In retrospect, attorney general Jeff Sessions in 2017 should have told the Russia-gate plotters to pound sand.
But we already knew that.
Neo writes: “undoing it is key to any hope this country will have for the future.”
How about suggesting some solutions? You are great at pointing out problems but I never see you discuss a solution. Here are some ideas. Contribute to the Homeschooling Legal Defense Association, which supports parents who need to fight bureaucrats to educate their children at home. Get involved in the fight to implement and fund charter schools and private school scholarships that return tax payer money to parents. Get involved in local school board elections and perhaps run as a candidate. Just some ideas and I’m sure you could come up with more.
Comments at LI (the link is to Ghostrider):
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/10/ag-garlands-daughter-is-married-to-co-founder-of-company-that-sells-critical-race-theory-materials/#comment-1213864
As usual, Sundance has some of the documents (h/t buck61 at LI).
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/05/ag-merrick-garlands-daughter-married-to-co-founder-of-company-selling-critical-race-theory-resource-material-to-school-districts/
As a matter of curiosity do any bloggers on this site have family members in the armed forces? I would have to think so and, if so, what do they report about what is taking place in the military as far as the re-education and indoctrination of service members is concerned?
Notice how clever the keywords are that this company uses to define its mission: Systemic Social-Emotional-Learning. Don’t ask the obvious question, “..who writes like this?”
–Ghostrider via AesopFan
Alfred Korzybski, for one. I cut my teeth on his “Science and Sanity” way back when and I remember his phrase, “thalamo-cortical responses,” vividly.
However, Korzybski was a great, if forgotten, thinker. The field he founded, “general semantics,” would solve a great deal of our current problems if its lessons were absorbed, instead of being ignored as intellectuals rushed ahead into the vagaries of semiotics and postmodernism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics
S.I. Hayakawa’s “Language in Thought and Action” is still the best introduction.
General semantics. Check it out.
huxley,
I don’t doubt that some troops would fire upon American citizens when ordered to do so. The result of which would be a further alienation of the majority of troops from their leadership. As the majority of military personnel are not buying what the left is selling.
As for “current arms and surveillance tech” I quite agree, which is why I’ve repeatedly suggested that stand up confrontations would be foolish. The way to beat the surveillance State is with 4th Generation warfare that attacks an opponent’s logistics.
Bob,
Too little, too late. Its a virtual certainty that the left has plans to ‘cancel’ homeschooling. Same with charter schools and private schools. No way is a dominant left going to tolerate interference with their indoctrination of the young. Garland’s declaring protesting parents at public school board meetings to be evidence of being a domestic terrorist should be all you need to see the handwriting on the wall.
Skilly,
Attempting to ‘reeducate’ and indoctrinate military personnel is not and will not work. Only the ideologically foolish would try to convince those willing to lay their life on the line… to serve and protect America, that instead they should hate their country.
I’m going to put this on the Covid thread also, but it seems to me this also falls under “conflict of interest” for a lot of people.
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/pfizer-leaks-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-internal-emails-from-chief/
Does the Vatican approve, or at least tolerate, the fetal cell connection, or does it not know?
The Democratic Party specializes in conflict of interest and scandals.
They just repackage them as “human rights” and rebrand them as “part of the process” or “no major scandals”.
It is an understatement to say that Joe Biden (AKA “Mr. Big”) was the most corrupt presidential candidate in US history and that his fraudulent administration the most devious and dishonest. (Hillary was a contender for this honor—the Democratic Party bench is certainly deep!)
In their defense, one might say that they’re merely “doing what has to be done” (given that they are gangsters); or “what comes naturally” (for seasoned criminals).
In related “developments”, the NYT—those lovelies who bequeathed us Walter Duranty and the 1619 Project(!) along with other earnest fabrications (and among the Democratic Party’s hardest-working carriers of water)—is still pimping away:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-gives-russia-gate-cpr-wsj-pronounces-it-dead
“Does the Vatican approve…?”
Probably; since the Church of “Woke” (along with the holey, if rather flexible, catechisms of the WHO and CDC) have made significant theological headway there.
And so they’re busy at the moment, mandating vaccinations for the faithful and making things uncomfortable for those who protect them (while making the ultimate sacrifice of getting into uncomfortable clown suits on a daily basis).
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249187/3-swiss-guards-resign-over-vatican-vaccine-mandate
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“Garland must resign”!!
ROTFL!! “Biden”‘ll get a good kick out of that!
File under: Chortle, snicker, rattle and hum…
And in the Conflict-of-Interest (AKA Corruption) sweepstakes, we have a clear winner!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ivermectin-truth-totalitarianism
Note that the competition was fierce—as fierce as it could possibly be—so congratulations to all the competitors but ESPECIALLY the competition organizers.
(Oh, and our sincere condolences to all those who may have died or otherwise have been, um, burdened, discomfited or crushed during this long, arduous but necessary process; we assure you that we acted in “good faith”, but it is well—and widely—known that to save lives you have to break eggs….)
The entire D.C. Bureaucracy has become a tangle of nothing but conflicts of interest.
I honestly wonder if it is even possible to scale this back peacefully…
We dodged a bullet when Merrick Garland did not join the US Supreme Court.
What is it with Democrats refusing to recuse themselves from conflictual situations?
In retrospect, attorney general Jeff Sessions in 2017 should have told the Russia-gate plotters to pound sand.
But we already knew that.
This illustrates a weakness of Republicans in general. This is true particularly of the “moderates” so beloved of swamp dwellers. They tend to focus on behavior rather than issues. Politeness is valued above all. I saw a good discussion of this last week but cannot recall where. Accusing Sessions triggered his “niceness” gene and he caved. Parents at school board meetings loudly complaining about fascist behavior by teachers are accused of being “domestic terrorists.” Remember that school board elections are low turnout events with most voters being teachers, rather than parents. Leftists harass conservatives and especially weak “moderates” like Jeff Flake. The fact that he was cornered by leftists in a Senate elevator was ignored but it was effective in switching his vote. We will see if it is as effective with Senator Sinema.
@ Barry – thanks for the ZH links.
The ivermectin one is sourced from this article, which is full of information on Merck’s new antiviral and its problems, plus a rallying cry for freedom of health care professionals and patients to make unfettered, informed decisions.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/ivermectin—truth-and-totalitarianism/article_2e03f334-252f-11ec-a086-eb72bc65ec02.html
“Let’s go, Biden!”
“Let’s go, Fauci!”
It’s getting to be a long list, and I don’t want to unfairly demonize any more of the real Brandons and Karens of the world, so might as well call ’em as we see ’em.