Saturday, September 7, 2024

Children Of Big Brother: What It Means To Go Back-To-School In The American Police State

Children Of Big Brother: What It Means To Go Back-To-School In The American Police State

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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, SEP 06, 2024 - 08:25 PM

Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.”

- Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes

It’s not easy being a child in the American police state.

Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved.

Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later. In your neighborhoods, you’ve got to worry about the Nanny State and its network of busybodies turning parents in for allowing their children to walk to school alone, walk to the park alone, play at the beach alone, or even play in their own yard alone.

The tentacles of the police state even intrude on the sanctity of one’s home, with the government believing it knows better than you—the parent—what is best for your child. This criminalization of parenthood has run the gamut in recent years from parents being arrested for attempting to walk their kids home from school to parents being fined and threatened with jail time for their kids’ bad behavior or tardiness at school.

This doesn’t even touch on what happens to your kids when they’re at school—especially the public schools—where parents have little to no control over what their kids are taught, how they are taught, how and why they are disciplined, and the extent to which they are being indoctrinated into marching in lockstep with the government’s authoritarian playbook.

The message is chillingly clear: your children are not your own but are, in fact, wards of the state who have been temporarily entrusted to your care. Should you fail to carry out your duties to the government’s satisfaction, the children in your care will be re-assigned elsewhere.

This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today: where parents have to worry about school resource officers who taser teenagers and handcuff kindergartners, school officials who have criminalized childhood behavior, school lockdowns and terror drills that teach your children to fear and comply, and a police state mindset that has transformed the schools into quasi-prisons.

Instead of being taught the three R’s of education (reading, writing and arithmetic), young people are being drilled in the three I’s of life in the American police state: indoctrination, intimidation and intolerance.

Indeed, while young people today are learning first-hand what it means to be at the epicenter of politically charged culture wars, test scores indicate that students are not learning how to succeed in social studies, math and reading. Rather, government officials are churning out compliant drones who know little to nothing about their history or their freedoms.

In turn, these young people are being brainwashed into adopting a worldview in which rights are negotiable rather than inalienable; free speech is dangerous; the virtual world is preferable to the real world; and history can be extinguished when inconvenient or offensive.

What does it mean for the future of freedom at large when these young people, trained to be mindless automatons, are someday running the government?

Under the direction of government officials focused on making the schools more authoritarian (sold to parents as a bid to make the schools safer), young people in America are now first in line to be searched, surveilled, spied on, threatened, tied up, locked down, treated like criminals for non-criminal behavior, tasered and in some cases shot.

From the moment a child enters one of the nation’s 98,000 public schools to the moment he or she graduates, they will be exposed to a steady diet of:

  • draconian zero tolerance policies that criminalize childish behavior,

  • overreaching anti-bullying statutes that criminalize speech,

  • school resource officers (police) tasked with disciplining and/or arresting so-called “disorderly” students,

  • standardized testing that emphasizes rote answers over critical thinking,

  • politically correct mindsets that teach young people to censor themselves and those around them,

  • and extensive biometric and surveillance systems that, coupled with the rest, acclimate young people to a world in which they have no freedom of thought, speech or movement.

This is how you groom young people to march in lockstep with a police state.

As Deborah Cadbury writes for The Washington Post, “Authoritarian rulers have long tried to assert control over the classroom as part of their totalitarian governments.”

In Nazi Germany, the schools became indoctrination centers, breeding grounds for intolerance and compliance.

In the American police state, the schools have become increasingly hostile to those who dare to question or challenge the status quo.

America’s young people have become casualties of a post-9/11 mindset that has transformed the country into a locked-down, militarized, crisis-fueled mockery of a representative government.

Roped into the government’s profit-driven campaign to keep the nation “safe” from drugs, disease, and weapons, America’s schools have transformed themselves into quasi-prisons, complete with surveillance cameras, metal detectors, police patrols, zero tolerance policies, lock downs, drug sniffing dogs, strip searches and active shooter drills.

Students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but the punishments have become far more severe, shifting from detention and visits to the principal’s office into misdemeanor tickets, juvenile court, handcuffs, tasers and even prison terms.

Students have been suspended under school zero tolerance policies for bringing to school “look alike substances” such as oreganobreath mints, birth control pills and powdered sugar.

Look-alike weapons (toy guns—even Lego-sized ones, hand-drawn pictures of guns, pencils twirled in a “threatening” manner, imaginary bows and arrows, fingers positioned like guns) can also land a student in hot water, in some cases getting them expelled from school or charged with a crime.

Not even good deeds go unpunished.

One 13-year-old was given detention for exposing the school to “liability” by sharing his lunch with a hungry friend. A third grader was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy for a friend who had lost her hair to chemotherapy. And then there was the high school senior who was suspended for saying “bless you” after a fellow classmate sneezed.

Having police in the schools only adds to the danger.

Thanks to a combination of media hype, political pandering and financial incentives, the use of armed police officers (a.k.a. school resource officers) to patrol school hallways has risen dramatically in the years since the Columbine school shooting.

Indeed, the growing presence of police in the nation’s schools is resulting in greater police “involvement in routine discipline matters that principals and parents used to address without involvement from law enforcement officers.”

Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, these school resource officers have become de facto wardens in elementary, middle and high schools, doling out their own brand of justice to the so-called “criminals” in their midst with the help of tasers, pepper spray, batons and brute force.

In the absence of school-appropriate guidelines, police are more and more “stepping in to deal with minor rulebreaking: sagging pants, disrespectful comments, brief physical skirmishes. What previously might have resulted in a detention or a visit to the principal’s office was replaced with excruciating pain and temporary blindness, often followed by a trip to the courthouse.”

Not even the younger, elementary school-aged kids are being spared these “hardening” tactics.

On any given day when school is in session, kids who “act up” in class are pinned facedown on the floor, locked in dark closets, tied up with straps, bungee cords and duct tape, handcuffed, leg shackled, tasered or otherwise restrained, immobilized or placed in solitary confinement in order to bring them under “control.”

In almost every case, these undeniably harsh methods are used to punish kids—some as young as 4 and 5 years old—for simply failing to follow directions or throwing tantrums.

Very rarely do the kids pose any credible danger to themselves or others.

Unbelievably, these tactics are all legal, at least when employed by school officials or school resource officers in the nation’s public schools.

This is what happens when you introduce police and police tactics into the schools.

Paradoxically, by the time you add in the lockdowns and active shooter drills, instead of making the schools safer, school officials have succeeded in creating an environment in which children are so traumatized that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, anxiety, mistrust of adults in authority, as well as feelings of anger, depression, humiliation, despair and delusion.

For example, a middle school in Washington State went on lockdown after a student brought a toy gun to class. A Boston high school went into lockdown for four hours after a bullet was discovered in a classroom. A North Carolina elementary school locked down and called in police after a fifth grader reported seeing an unfamiliar man in the school (it turned out to be a parent).

Police officers at a Florida middle school carried out an active shooter drill in an effort to educate students about how to respond in the event of an actual shooting crisis. Two armed officers, guns loaded and drawn, burst into classrooms, terrorizing the students and placing the school into lockdown mode.

These police state tactics have not made the schools any safer.

The fallout has been what you’d expect, with the nation’s young people treated like hardened criminals: handcuffed, arrested, tasered, tackled and taught the painful lesson that the Constitution (especially the Fourth Amendment) doesn’t mean much in the American police state.

Likewise, the harm caused by attitudes and policies that treat America’s young people as government property is not merely a short-term deprivation of individual rights. It is also a long-term effort to brainwash our young people into believing that civil liberties are luxuries that can and will be discarded at the whim and caprice of government officials if they deem doing so is for the so-called “greater good” (in other words, that which perpetuates the aims and goals of the police state).

What we’re dealing with is a draconian mindset that sees young people as wards of the state—and the source of potential income—to do with as they will in defiance of the children’s constitutional rights and those of their parents. However, this is in keeping with the government’s approach towards individual freedoms in general.

Surveillance cameras, government agents listening in on your phone calls, reading your emails and text messages and monitoring your spending, mandatory health care, sugary soda bans, anti-bullying laws, zero tolerance policies, political correctness: these are all outward signs of a government—i.e., a monied elite—that believes it knows what is best for you and can do a better job of managing your life than you can.

This is tyranny disguised as “the better good.”

Indeed, this is the tyranny of the Nanny State: marketed as benevolence, enforced with armed police, and inflicted on all those who do not belong to the elite ruling class that gets to call the shots.

This is what the world looks like when bureaucrats not only think they know better than the average citizen but are empowered to inflict their viewpoints on the rest of the populace on penalty of fines, arrest or death.

So, what’s the answer, not only for the here-and-now but for the future of this country, when these same young people are someday in charge?

How do you convince someone who has been routinely handcuffed, shackled, tied down, locked up, and immobilized by government officials—all before he reaches the age of adulthood—that he has any rights at all, let alone the right to challenge wrongdoing, resist oppression and defend himself against injustice?

Most of all, how do you persuade a fellow American that the government works for him when, for most of his young life, he has been incarcerated in an institution that teaches young people to be obedient and compliant citizens who don’t talk back, don’t question and don’t challenge authority?

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diariesif we want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, we must start by running the schools like freedom forums.







Garland and Wray are partisan liars

US Intel Undercuts DOJ's "Foreign Interference" Claim Used To Smear Conservative Pundits

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BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, SEP 07, 2024 - 07:30 AM

Authored by Luis Cornelio via HeadlineUSA.com,

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced Friday that it has not “observed” any foreign interference in the 2024 election, seemingly undermining cynical remarks by Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

The ODNI’s Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) stated in a 2-page report that the intelligence community “has not observed any foreign actor seeking to interfere in the conduct of the 2024 elections.” Natalie Winters, a co-host of the Steve Bannon WarRoom podcast, first reported these findings.

You can vote Communists in but you cannot vote them out!t

Argentina calls on ICC to order arrest of Venezuela's Maduro

7 hours ago

Buenos Aires argues that recent actions of Nicolas Maduro's government could constitute crimes against humanity, asking for Maduro to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court.

Why don't we get to know who these terrorists are and who funds them.

Climate protesters close off Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

https://www.dw.com/en/climate-protesters-close-off-amsterdams-rijksmuseum/a-70161967 

Timothy Jones

34 minutes ago

The Rijksmuseum art gallery in the Dutch capital closed "until further notice" after climate activists blockaded it. They want it to break links to the bank ING, which they say is helping finance the climate crisis.

A justice system in Progressive stateswill getting you killed

Two suspected Tren de Aragua members released from custody after Colorado shooting




What the illegal aliens unvetted and with unknown medical conditions have brought to NYC

NYC whooping cough cases skyrocket in 2024 by staggering 169%: new data



Brought to you by the open borders crowd: Animal sacrifices on the rise in Queens with chickens, pigs being tortured in ‘twisted’ rituals

Animal sacrifices on the rise in Queens with chickens, pigs being tortured in ‘twisted’ rituals


Animal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and rats being tortured, mutilated or killed in “twisted” religious rituals in parkland surrounding Jamaica Bay, The Post has learned. 

In a little over a month, at least nine wounded animals or carcasses have been discovered in the federally-managed Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel — including five live pigs with partially severed ears. 

Creatures recovered from the revolting scene also include a near-dead baby rat tied up in a bag with chicken bones; a freshly-decapitated chicken head; a live hen in distress; and a dead dog with its neck snapped.

The wall masks tell the story...our universities have lost the script

CUNY professor in alleged drug-dealing, student-sex scandal at John Jay College will shockingly return to classroom


CUNY couldn’t drain this swamp. 

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor who was implicated in an alleged drug-dealing, student-sex scandal that rocked the taxpayer-financed City University of New York school shockingly will return to the classroom next year, The Post has learned. 

In 2019, John Jay president Karol Mason announced plans to ax veteran anthropology professor Ric Curtis and two other academics following an investigation into allegations — first revealed by The Post — that the faculty members ran a den of depravity known as “The Swamp” at the school’s Midtown campus, where they used and sold drugs, and engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct involving students.  

John Jay College of Criminal Justice anthropology professor Ric Curtis, who was implicated in an alleged drug-dealing, student-sex scandal will return to the classroom next year.
But in an 85-page decision, arbitrator James M. Darby found that despite Curtis’ “reckless and risky behavior,” the prof should continue to shape the minds of future crime-fighters at the college following a year-long, unpaid suspension and additional training on CUNY’s policies.return-to-classroom/


Friday, September 6, 2024

You Will Never Understand How Evil They Are

You Will Never Understand How Evil They Are



Those who grew up in normative Western homes will never understand the evil and depravity of Muslim terrorists.

The execution last week of six Israeli hostages, including one American citizen, is a microcosm of the evil that is truly defining of Islamic terror. Those who applaud Hamas on campus and go so far as to wear their headgear or demand, “Intifada Revolution,” for the most part do not comprehend the depths of moral sickness of those whom they so enthusiastically support.

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.

It took to long for him to recognize Democrat Party anti Semitism

I'm Outta Here! 'Disgusted' Alan Dershowitz Announces He's Ditching the Democratic Party


Is Tim Walz a sexual predator?

Former Tim Walz appointee allegedly provided alcohol to 18-year-old he met on Tinder and took to his cabin

An idea so bad even Gavin Newsom can't support it

Gavin Newsom vetoes controversial bill to give illegal aliens up to $150K to buy home in California



I vote for the death penalty

California barber tortured 6-year-old child and beat him to death, police say



Harris/Walz dismantling the Constitution one Amendment at a time!

"That Has To Stop": Harris Denounces Unfettered Free Speech In 2019 CNN Interview

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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, SEP 06, 2024 - 04:20 AM

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

previously wrote how a Harris-Walz Administration would be a nightmare for free speech. Both candidates have shown pronounced anti-free speech values. 

Now, X owner Elon Musk and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have posted a Harris interview to show the depths of the hostility of Harris to unfettered free speech. I have long argued that Trump and the third-party candidates should make free speech a central issue in this campaign. That has not happened.

Kennedy was the only candidate who was substantially and regularly talking about free speech in this election. Yet, Musk and Kennedy are still trying to raise the chilling potential of a Harris-Walz Administration.


Reporter Calls Out Harris For Bussing People To And From Rally...for another free concert. Has Beyonce showed up yet

Reporter Calls Out Harris For Bussing People To And From Rally

BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, SEP 06, 2024 - 05:50 AM

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A CBS reporter in New Hampshire called out Kamala Harris’ campaign Wednesday for providing busses to ferry people to and from her rallies from hundreds of miles away.

People were lining up to get on buses home when the rally was over.

Displacing Americans for political gain

Chip Roy Releases Scathing Report On Impact Of Biden-Harris Border Policies

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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, SEP 06, 2024 - 08:45 AM

Democrats have made no secret that they plan to grant blanket amnesty to tens of millions of illegal immigrants who flooded into the country after President Joe Biden shredded President Trump's sweeping efforts to secure the border - and whose worst elements are committing heinous crimes and taking over apartment complexes in several major Democrat-run cities.

The plan appears to be to provide Democrats with a reliable stream of votes, no matter the cost to the country (which, according to the NY Post, was $150 billion last year).

That's not hyperbole - last week Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) openly stated that the Democrat party's plan is to turn all "undocumented" migrants into "documented" ones, and supported the idea of providing subsidized housing to illegal aliens.



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Key points:

  • Over 8.5 million illegal aliens have crossed the U.S. southern border since the Biden-Harris administration took office, exceeding the population of 37 states.
  • The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released 5.6 million illegal aliens into the U.S., and 1.9 million "got-aways" have evaded capture.
  • Border Patrol is overwhelmed, suffering from low morale and recruitment levels, leading to a significant increase in agent suicides.
  • Fentanyl, primarily produced by Mexican drug cartels using Chinese chemicals, has led to nearly 75,000 American deaths in 2023.
  • Criminal activities committed by illegal aliens, including murders and assaults, have spiked under the Biden-Harris administration.
  • At least 169 known or suspected terrorists were arrested at the southern border in FY 2023.
  • Mexican cartels have increased their profits to over $13 billion a year through human smuggling and drug trafficking operations.
  • States like Texas have spent billions on border security, citing a lack of federal support.
  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are facilitating illegal immigration, funded by U.S. taxpayers.
  • The Biden-Harris administration's catch-and-release policies have contributed to a surge in crime and human trafficking.
  • There has been a significant rise in illegal aliens from non-Western countries, especially China, with record numbers crossing the border in FY 2024.
  • The number of illegal aliens involved in crimes has increased, with many committing serious offenses after being released into the U.S.
  • Thousands of migrant children have been lost by U.S. authorities, with over 320,000 minors unaccounted for as of 2024.
  • Venezuelan gangs, like Tren de Aragua, are committing crimes in major U.S. cities.



Free speeches not acceptable at indoctrination universities

Harvard And Columbia Rank As Worst Colleges For Free Speech In Annual Survey

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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, SEP 06, 2024 - 09:45 AM

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

For the second year in a row, Harvard University is ranked dead last among universities and colleges on the annual survey of free speech on campuses by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). 

Harvard shares a score of 0.00 with Columbia University. They are followed by New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College.

Great Replacement Job Shock: 1.3 Million Native-Born Americans Just Lost Their Jobs, Replaced By 635,000 Immigrants...Democrats hate Americans!

Great Replacement Job Shock: 1.3 Million Native-Born Americans Just Lost Their Jobs, Replaced By 635,000 Immigrants

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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, SEP 06, 2024 - 09:27 AM

At the start of the year, many months after we first pointed out that the biggest untold story of the US labor market was the "great replacement" of native born workers with foreign-born workers (most of whom we subsequently learned were illegal aliens), we asked how is it, that the ongoing replacement (because that's what it is) of US workers is "not the biggest political talking point right now" considering that "since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs"

Nine months later, we are delighted to see that our relentless efforts to bring attention to this critical topic finally worked, and the continued replacement of native-born workers with immigrants and illegal aliens was finally the biggest political and media talking point, as demonstrated by such articles as "How Immigration Remade the U.S. Labor Force" by the WSJ and "Without Immigrants, US Working-Age Population Would Shrink" from Bloomberg, both of which are an extension of the latest and greatest narrative, first spawned by Fed chair Powell, and then picked up by Goldman, which came down to the following: you can have (record) illegal immigration, or you can have even more (breakneck) inflation. So don't be angry, and just accept the roving gangs of Venezuelan murderers in your neighborhood, if you know what's good for you and if you want to keep prices low (the same prices which are only high because the government decided to inject $20 trillion in fiscal stimmies in the past 4 years).