There is no excuse for federal involvement in school board issues, any more than there’s any excuse for their failure to investigate the domestic terrorism that was front and center for months in Portland.

The idea that you claim “bringing up other violence… is a FOX-like technique to distract from the real issue,” justifies nothing you wrote.

Domestic terrorism IS the ISSUE. That you want to narrow it down to exclude fringe-left criminals murdering, assaulting, burning, raping, robbing and looting is irrelevant. They meet the very definition of domestic terrorists and until parents at school boards begin to riot the same way, there is zero excuse for investigating one to chill their First Amendment rights while ignoring the other.

You wrote: “Domestic Terrorist.” The definition of terrorism is using violence or the threat thereof to push for political change, and the loudest and most extreme I’ve seen in school board meetings definitely meet that definition.”

Louder than a Trump supporter being shot to death in Portland? Louder than another supporter being shot in Olympia? Louder than multiple efforts to burn down the Federal Building in downtown Portland? Louder than the efforts to burn down the Portland ICE facility or the Portland Police Guild Building? Louder than the dozens of businesses destroyed in Portland by these people?

Then you need to get both your vision and your hearing checked.

Your very definition of domestic terrorist is on display every day around the country in a variety of settings. Antifa is set to attack a block party today because those people living in that neighborhood object to being Portland’s new repository for rotted RV’s and homeless thugs.

And DOJ is nowhere to be found.

The utter hypocrisy of this obvious and totally relevant comparison reeks… And is emblematic of the hypocrisy and incompetence of the entirety of the Biden Administration.

Well said Scott. And don’t worry about not being familiar with Critical Race Theory, the people screaming from the mountaintops that it is being taught to public school kids have no idea what it is either. The irony of the whole situation is that the people against education want to be in charge of education policy. The people against science want to be in charge of science policy. The people against democracy want to be in charge of democratic elections.
Many people that refuse to adapt as the world changes believe that being the loudest equates to being right, being violent equates to being patriotic, and being contrarian equates to being intelligent. The significant majority of citizens that don’t ascribe to that logic need to take the minority, and the threats they may pose, seriously while staying the course of sanity and decency.
The people trying to convince us that death threats and intimidation of school boards are simply examples of good parenting are the same people that are trying to convince us that the “patriots” casually visiting Congress on January 6th were just sightseeing.
I grew up in an area where people showed up to school board meetings to voice their opposition to teaching evolution, novels with naughty words and real life situations, and human biology. They made their views clear without threatening the lives of school board members, trespassing, or breaking any laws. No one ever labelled them domestic terrorists.
Maybe there is a lesson there somewhere.

Our Education staff are tasked with making decisions about the safety of our schools, and the government at large for the safety of the community. I’m sure you’ve watched the anti-COVID activities across our country, from anti-mask people to anti-vax, and there has indeed been violence perpetrated by these people: stabbings, shootings, beatings. School board meetings have been interrupted and ended with screaming angry people saying “We know where you live,” “We will come and get you,” and “You will never show your face in public again.”

These are a minority for sure, but some have also sent death and other threats to school employees.

The discourse over what’s best of our kids has become so politicized that a loud minority is is trying to turn it into a practical war, with their anti-scientific and misguided beliefs. Speakers saying their “vibration” protects them from COVID, trying to stick pennies to their noses and shoulders, arguments that masks do nothing, claims that vaccines kill. It is a literal circus.

I understand their rage because they seem to really believe these things, but no apology is needed for the majority of us who do not.

School boards are listening to the people. They’re also listening to the violent and deluded ones, but they’re just not changing policy to service them, because doing so would harm our children and our communities. Masks and vaccines don’t just protect our kids–who are at fairly low risk–but the community at large who are exposed to those kids.

“Domestic Terrorist.” The definition of terrorism is using violence or the threat thereof to push for political change, and the loudest and most extreme I’ve seen in school board meetings definitely meet that definition.

On CRT I have no opinion because I don’t really know what it is, but if it is “teaching our true history,” I’m not afraid of it. Are you?