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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
THE HOMESCHOOLING CRACKDOWN CAUCUS
FREEDOM TO EDUCATE
Michelle Malkin: Post-California story, gov't wants to keep parents in 'regulatory chains'
Published: 41 mins ago
It’s elementary. Education control freaks will use any excuse to crack down on competition. With 2 million K-12 students now educated at home (including our 9th-grade son), the temptation to exploit the most marginal cases of alleged child abuse by homeschoolers has proven irresistible to statist politicians and government apologists.
Take the case of David and Louise Turpin’s 13 starving children, reportedly found tethered to their beds after one of the siblings escaped and contacted police. The Turpins’ “house of horrors” in Riverside County, California, grabbed international headlines last week – and lured a parade of publicity hounds. Former neighbors in Texas claimed they suspected physical abuse by the parents but did nothing at the time. These thirsty fame-seekers will, however, be appearing on “Dr. Phil” later this week to slurp up their 15 minutes of leechdom.
Louise Turpin’s half-sister, Teresa Robinette, who also sat on the sidelines for years, miraculously found the energy and motivation to wake up early for an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, where she gregariously gossiped about family secrets.
Another of Louise Turpin’s sisters, Elizabeth Flores, dry-cried and show-sniffled on ABC’s “Good Morning America” about her “love” for the Turpin children whom she claims to have tried to Skype unsuccessfully “for 20 years.” How heroic of her. Flores also confessed that David Turpin allegedly spied on her while she showered. For some reason, it was more urgent for Flores to report this information to “GMA” anchor Robin Roberts and millions of strangers tuned into the boob tube than it was to tell her sister. Or her nieces and nephews. Or authorities.
But instead of training tough scrutiny where it belongs – on the parents, relatives and acquaintances of the alleged victims – California legislators and narrative-shaping liberal journalists have instead directed their wrath at homeschooling.
The Turpins had filed required paperwork with the state registering their supposed home school, the Sandcastle Day School, as a “private school.” Several court cases in California have upheld the right to homeschool. Parents have the option to sign an affidavit establishing a home-based educational program, hire credentialed tutors or register with an independent study program.
The deep, wide and vast majority of homeschoolers nationwide are loving, excellent and responsible instructors and parents. Yet, public school lobbyists have marginalized them as amateurs, weirdos and menaces who don’t have the intelligence to raise and educate their own children. Democratic legislators in California have sought to undermine homeschoolers’ autonomy with intrusive legislation, such as a bill proposed last fall that would have required parents to allow inspectors to search their residential bathrooms for state-mandated feminine hygiene products for female students.
In New York City, incompetent nanny state bureaucrats have routinely harassed homeschooling families and falsely accused them of “educational neglect” after losing their paperwork. Homeschooling mom of two, Tanya Acevedo, who is suing the Big Apple, told my CRTV.com program how bureaucratic snafus that classified her son as a truant led to a Child Protective Services investigation.
“You start to question yourself as a parent when they come through those doors,” Acevedo recounted. “My child, he eats three meals a day, he’s well taken care of, and I felt that there was no need for them to be knocking at my door. … it was a really scary and really nerve-racking experience.”
For her crime of exercising educational self-determination, Acevedo was treated as guilty of child abuse until proven innocent.
The idea that there is something especially sinister and crime-enabling about homeschooling – The Week’s Damon Linker warned darkly of the “sickening danger of homeschooling,” for example, and NPR invoked the specter of a “cult” – betrays an all-too-common bias against parental autonomy that ignores the government’s own gross misconduct. From coast to coast, child welfare agencies see parental negligence where none exists and conversely ignore abuse when it’s under their employees’ noses. Federal audits of state child welfare bureaucracies in California and Texas last year found rampant failures to detect abuse, investigate allegations and track referrals.
Moreover, sexual abuse scandals have rocked inner-city schools, suburban public school districts and wealthy private schools alike. “In 2014 alone,” according to former federal education official Terry Abbott, “there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of sexual relationships with students.”
Yet, the vultures of political opportunism are using the plight of the Turpin children to impose expanded control over all homeschoolers in the Golden State. California Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, plans to introduce a bill requiring that “mandated reporters” designated by the state Department of Education conduct annual assessments in all homeschools.
Echoing Medina’s concern for “the lack of oversight the state of California currently has in monitoring private and homeschools,” liberal New Republic writer Sarah Jones decried how “lax homeschooling laws protect child abusers.” She pivoted quickly from the Turpin tragedy to an attack on the homeschool movement’s academic achievements and opposition to mandatory kindergarten.
Fundamentally, the homeschool crackdown caucus views the very freedom to educate one’s own children as a threat to government authority. In the name of liberating the Turpin children, they seek to keep the rest of us homeschooling families in regulatory chains.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/the-homeschooling-crackdown-caucus/#IAE96dU7jbhLZZiw.99
Former Head Of NSA: People Need To Go To Jail For The Crimes Documented In The Secret FISA Memo
EXCLUSIVE: INFOWARS RELEASES SECRET FISA MEMO
Secret FISA Memo's Release Documents Criminal Clinton 'Secret Society' Inside The FBI
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Former Head Of NSA: People Need To Go To Jail For The Crimes Documented In The Secret FISA Memo
EXCLUSIVE: Infowars Has Obtained And Is Now Releasing The Secret FISA Memo
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EXCLUSIVE: INFOWARS RELEASES SECRET FISA MEMO
Here’s the reported memo leaked to Infowars
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - JANUARY 23, 2018
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Update: Despite media claims to the contrary, our congressional sources confirmed that the below memo documenting NSA spying on US citizens serves as a primary source of information for the Nunes summary memo:William Binney, former tech head of the NSA contacted us this morning to send us the link to the reportedly classified memo that lawmakers said was a blueprint of how the Obama administration and the Deep State spied on President Trump.
This memo, hiding in plain site, serves as the basis for the four-page memo of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) which reveals perjury by the Obama administration when connected to other research.
This is the basic compendium of the NSA abuses spotlighted by Nunes:
In the above memo, the NSA admits that US citizens were targeted by its analysts through Section 702 ‘upstream’ collection and vowed to make changes to its surveillance methods. This indicates the NSA and other intelligence agencies were pressured by the Trump administration to scrap its Obama-era policies that “allowed” illegal spying on US citizens.
“Section 702 has come under fire in recent months due to the alleged ‘unmasking’ and leaking of information about Americans — namely associates of President Donald Trump — that was collected in the surveillance of foreign targets,” reported FCW. “Some members of Congress threatened in March that they would have a hard time renewing 702 before it expires at the end of 2017 unless the administration prosecutes those responsible for the leaks.”
Here’s some interesting excerpts from the above memo:
Page 15 – “…NSA analysts had used US-person identifiers to query the results on Internet ‘upstream’ collection, even though NSA’s Section 702 minimization procedures prohibited such queries.”
Page 19 – “Since 2011, NSA’s minimization procedures have prohibited use of US-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collection under Section 702. The Oct. 26, 2016 Notice informed the Court that NSA analysts had been conducting such queries in violation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had previously been disclosed to the Court.”
Page 21 – “The government still had not ascertained the full range of systems that might have been used to conduct improper US-person queries.”
Page 29 – “The elimination of ‘abouts’ collection and, consequently, the more problematic forms of MCTs, focuses Section 702 aqcquisitions more sharply on communications to or from Section 702 targets, who are reasonably believed to be non-US persons outside the United States and expected to receive or communicate foreign intelligence information. That sharper focus should have the effect that US person information acquired under Section 702 will come more predominantly from non-domestic communications that are relevant to the foreign intelligence needs on which the pertinent targeting decisions were based.”
Page 33 – “…Information acquired by FISA electronic surveillance and physical search, which often involve target who are United States persons and typically are directed at persons in the United States.”
SEE BELOW – Binney breaks down what this memo means on Infowars:
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