I don’t usually write “opinion” pieces because as a researcher I feel the need to provide all of the “receipts”- but in a post-truth society as Mark Twain wisely said, “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot”.
So, let’s be real- an America where morality is no longer an objective of our government is going to die. To be accurate we are on the brink of the death of the freest nation this world could ever imagine.
During the American Revolution the Constitutional Congress called upon the states to write their own State Constitutions, many including Declarations of Rights.
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL of these “Freedom Charters” being Virginia’s authored primarily by George Mason in 1776.
Thomas Jefferson drew upon Virginia’s Declarations of Rights when drafting the framing of Declaration of Independence and many states following borrowed Virginia’s language as they developed their own and James Madison kept a copy by his bed while writing the Bill of Rights for the United States Constitution.
So…the mother state of the nation is now to be known as “Mommy Dearest” although the founding documents- like that of the nation- have not changed.
A few of the most violated from the Virginia Declaration of Rights
That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, THE PEOPLE; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Excuse me while a gag and cackle at the same time considering the huge election coming up in November that in my opinion will determine our liberation from tyranny or solidify the bleak future for our children and grandchildren to which there will be the point of no return. We have Senator hopefuls running on campaigns of “elect me to protect Glenn Youngkin’s “conservative agenda”. Um….no Glen Sturtevant. As a leader in Chesterfield county where you are seeking to be elected I will tell you that nothing about that advertisement currently running on TV says to me “I am running to represent the community that elected me” or “my constituents - ‘the people of Chesterfield’ are who I will go to Richmond to speak for.
So in that respect in my most rebellious “radical right wing conservative” I must shout- DOWN WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT FLUFFING THE ESTABLISHMENT- because a squad of swamp swimmers heading to the General Assembly to back ONE MAN, not the millions who elected them to be THEIR representation -is a Fascist nightmare- our Fascist nightmare.
I could go on for days about elected school boards who continuously rewrite policies, procedures etc. based on the VSBA or the ASCA or the corrupt law firms- that remove parents, the community and THE PEOPLE replacing us with the Superintendents or the School Board attorneys
Then there is the SHAB (Student Health Advisory Boards- or committees) nightmare to create all “Student Wellness”
- is there anything more frightening than an appointed committee by a corrupt school board deciding what goes into our schools in the areas of——wait for it…..
1) physical education and physical activity
2) nutrition “environment” and services *side note they do not care on lick about children with peanut allergies*
3) health education ( INCOMING——-Comprehensive Sexuality Education)
4) SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CLIMATE - (all means some and safe means only protected classes)
5) “physical environment” aka…SCHOOL CLIMATE - enter struggle sessions for children
6) health services (how many would that be exactly?)
7) COUNSELING, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES (again how much would that be exactly?)
8) Employee Wellness - good luck with those stuggle sessions teachers
9) community involvement (so you want a committee with no constitutional authority to decide community involvement already given to us by both Virginia and Federal Law?)
10) and family engagement- another one the school board refuses to follow (the sword of law) and expects a non-elected biased committee to follow their lead and in the end be left blameless….
Next…
That NO FREE GOVERNMENT, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a FIRM ADHERENCE to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and VIRTUE and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
So virtue brings us to - morality and the law
Our children live under government education- and THE RISE OF GOVERNMENT AND THE DECLINE OF MORALITY cannot be separated from this well known fact.
I would add to this the rise of UNAMERICAN government and the decline of morality because the foundation of this nation is one of -
John Adams- “It is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” also John Adams.
So you can see where I am going with this….religion has become almost vilified and morality/virtue is now debatable as society becomes immoral and refuses to admit so-- so where then does that leave the Constituion, the founding documents and the literal foundation of this wonderful nation we live in- at the brink of destruction….that is where.
Often I go to bed at night thinking we are beyond the point of no return, but when I get up and see my little girls in the morning that defeatist mindset immediately goes out the window.
Gouverneur Morris, a signer of the Articles of Confederation and known as the “Penman of the Constitution- “Morals are the only possible support of free governments.”
Slavery was legal- and abohorrent and immoral- right? For those waiting to throw that in the mix of law and morality.
so here is an FYI- The slavery immorality became illegal only after our Government enacted various prohibitions against that immorality.
And to add to that- Apartheid was legal, Segregation was legal, the Holocaust was legal- those who hid Anne Frank and created the Underground Railroad were criminals….. “if you use the State as a metric for ethics you’ll end up disappointed” - Lex Cooper
So to my free thinkers fighting the BOOK BANNING b.s.- unafraid to call groomers, GROOMERS and the education system allowing this CRIMINALS I will offer you this.
The law exists as both a shield and a sword.
Using a tiny piece of a law, that was poorly written without knowing the implications of the vague language and allowances- as a SHIELD to sexualize our children, murder their innocence and create state protected pedophilia only stands when we do not use THE SWORD. - A CRIMINAL ACT DEMANDS A RESPONSE.
So the next time someone wants to argue with you how the “law allows blatant obscenity in our schools” through whatever incorrect interpretation of the law no matter what state you are in….simply use the above apartheid, slavery, etc etc. example. What is “legal” is certainly NOT what is moral or right.
The obscenity definition in Virginia is based on going beyond “customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and which, taken as a whole, does not have a serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value”- every other state has some sort of Miller test 3 prong blah blah blah- you can’t argue against unless you check yourself and do the work on what has been done to MORALITY- because until we argue without skipping a beat that ALL OF THIS GOES BEYOND “customary limits of candor”- we become one of the snowflakes that never thought it contributed to the avalanche.
Then toss in that slavery was finally beaten by prohibitions against that specific immorality- because sorry equity social justice wind bags you can’t have THAT and the grooming of our children through porn in the same “ideology”.
Ayn Rand is one of my favorite female truth speakers in all of history and is regarded highly by many libertarians. She described government as “an institution that holds the exclusive power to enforce certain rules of social conduct in” the government’s “geo-graphical area. What can possibly be the desiderata for “social conduct” other than society’s recognition of what is proper, i.e., what is morally acceptable? Rand recognized the equation between rules of social conduct and morality when she taught that we must “not forgive or accept any breach of morality.”
Without getting all researcherey I will say that this is heavily connected to when government takes control of everything and forces collectivism….which again, is what is being taught in every nook and cranny of the education system.
So, if the moral fabric of our nation is compromised- I dare anyone to challenge me on that simple fact. The question then becomes why in the **long series of four letter words** are we allowing a government school system to teach our children- ALL AMERICAN CHILDREN- morals, values, beliefs, skills, competencies etc etc etc from one Global provider (as if the private business sector teaching any set of children a value system wasn’t frightening enough) now we have the elitists who advocate of population control, EQ over IQ (who not enough people point out have had their hands in the education reform failure cookie jar for at least the last 30 years) and are now citing John Dewey the father of progressive education PROUDLY in statewide and national documents.
I live in a state where the Red Vest has turned Charter’s into “Lab schools”- John Dewey opened the first lab school in 1896 to test pedagogy- ding ding ding ding- we have a Ringer here Virginians! And why for the love of all things holy aren’t we questioning something called a “lab school”?
If you add rat in the middle- you might understand it better. Lab rat schools, where our children are the rats being experimented on….and then he shows his face on FoxNews calling this “school choice”——ok now is when I start to sound less academia and more mania because of the refusal to see reality for what it is….
KEEP THINKING FREELY IN THE FREE WORLD- refuse to conform!
“Free thinkers are those who are willing to use their own minds without prejudice and without fearing to underrstand things that clash with their own customs, privileges or beliefs. This state of mind is NOT COMMON, but it is essential for the right thinking; where it is absent discussion is apt to become worse than useless.” Leo Tolstoy
Words researchers live by! You will learn more by looking to “the other side” than looking to affirm what you believe in your own heart, brain, soul, or fingernail. When I try to prove myself wrong- I learn more than I ever could in trying to prove why I am right.
Next time the full 40 year history of the truth in Virginia Education!