@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout I also want to mention that the picture indicates that the Puritans were innocent and had innocent "motivations" from the get go, that's basic propaganda because we all know the truth is complicated.
@SatanBurger the separation of church and state is crucial to our survival as a social society I believe. And what you believe won't change the fact that I adore you. Even if it is different than what I believe. In fact that will just make me want to get to know you more. 🤗 so I guess you can say I'm a creepy Christian because our differences will only draw me closer to you and give me more appreciation for you and your beliefs.
@Bang5luts Thank you, I have a habit of overly explaining myself because I don't want to lose you as a friend for disagreeing but I'm glad that just slight disagreements won't stop you from liking me. 🤗
That's happened to me in the past so I'm glad we can have differences and still be alright.
@SatanBurger we do have differences and it's OK. I can learn a lot from you. I can learn to see things differently and open my mind to new possibilities.
To be clear, the Justice Department did not label parents “domestic terrorists.” As we said, the use of the phrase originated with a Sept. 29, 2021, letter sent by the National School Boards Association, a federation of state associations that represent locally elected school board officials, to the White House seeking federal assistance to stop what it said was a growing number of threats and acts of violence against public school board members and other public school district officials — mainly over the issues of mask mandates and “propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula.”
“I want to be clear, the Justice Department supports and defends the First Amendment right of parents to complain as vociferously as they wish about the education of their children, about the curriculum taught in the schools,” Garland said. “That is not what the memorandum is about at all, nor does it use the words domestic terrorism or Patriot Act. Like you, I can’t imagine any circumstance in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can I imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism.”
Later in the hearing, Garland was asked if he agreed with the NSBA “that parents who attend school board meetings and speak passionately against the inclusion of divisive programs like critical race theory should be characterized as domestic terrorists?”
“I do not believe that parents who testify, speak, argue with, complain about school boards and schools should be classified as domestic terrorists or any kind of criminals,” Garland said. “Parents have been complaining about the education of their children and about school boards since there were such things as school boards and public education. This is totally protected by the First Amendment. I take your point that true threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment. Those are the things we’re worried about here"
To be clear, the Justice Department did not label parents “domestic terrorists.” As we said, the use of the phrase originated with a Sept. 29, 2021, letter sent by the National School Boards Association, a federation of state associations that represent locally elected school board officials, to the White House seeking federal assistance to stop what it said was a growing number of threats and acts of violence against public school board members and other public school district officials — mainly over the issues of mask mandates and “propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula.”
