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We cannot stand for this unprecedented overreach, and we will not submit to Biden's tyrannical public coercion efforts. Please SIGN this urgent petition informing the President that you will NOT comply with these unconstitutional vaccine mandate orders issued by the Biden Administration, and that elected officials should act in their capacity to block these intrusive demands. On Thursday, September 9th, Joe Biden announced the latest round of federal orders meant to further coerce large swaths of the public into getting the COVID vaccine -- many against their will.

While the legal standing of these measures is, at best, dubious, the Biden Administration appears more ready than ever to gut our individual rights and practically erase medical autonomy in our country. This latest escalation in overreach was announced via a televised speech in which Biden outlined a new "six-point plan" that includes far more than just six avenues to achieve mass medical compliance. While this is clearly a political ploy on the part of the Joe Biden and his team of power-hungry Washington insiders to shift the focus from their disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the American public knows better: After nearly a year and a half's worth of arbitrary, ever-changing, and unconstitutional government mandates in response to the COVID outbreak, it was always a given that the Biden Administration would ramp things up even further when it behooved them.

These are not the words of an "empathetic" leader; these are the words of an aspiring dictator. And, for the time being, the only way to stop Joe Biden's tyranny is through mass noncompliance. As we've said from the beginning, science, basic logic, and common sense should dictate policy regarding COVID and the Delta variant.

But Joe Biden and the federal government have long abandoned those principles throughout this crisis, culminating into this disturbing yet inevitable flurry of intrusive vaccine mandates that use people's jobs, individual autonomy, and livelihood as leverage.

This assault on our individual rights, private businesses, and American workers cannot be tolerated, and the easiest way to combat these unlawful orders is to just say NO. However, we have regularly discussed teachers making equally if not more offensive comments from the opposing viewpoints. We previously discussed the Vermont principal who was removed for expressing her opinion of Black Lives Matter on her personal Facebook page.

We also recently discussed the firing of a Michigan coach who expressed support for President Trump. However, this did not begin with the recent protests. We have previously seen teachers here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here students here , here and here and other public employees here and here and here fired for their private speech or conduct, including school employees fired for posing in magazines here , appearing on television shows in bikinis here , or having a prior career in the adult entertainment industry here.

In my view, these comments should be considered protected speech. Teachers routinely voice opposing views in favor of Black Lives Matter or against white privilege.

Indeed, we previously discussed a professor to warn K teachers that their social media postings would be monitored for any pro-police or anti-Black rhetoric to hold them accountable. There is an obvious inconsistency in how social media postings are treated. All of these comments on both sides are inflammatory or controversial.

Yet, there is a clear tolerance for some viewpoints over others. The alternative is free speech. Many people spend most of their efforts trying to silence rather than to respond to others. Many of us found it disturbing when Chicago teachers went to Venezuela to praise the blood-soaked government as teachers, reporters, and dissents languished in jails. However, I would be the first to defend their right to such speech.

Free speech allows you to offer your own viewpoint to counter speech that you consider insensitive, wrong, or racist. However, teachers have a right to express such viewpoints and to participate in these important debates about our history, our institutions, and ourselves.

Here is the Complaint: Hedgepeth-v. There are no such things as high schools, colleges, or universities. And education is no longer part of the program.

The LIEs serve one purpose and only one purpose: to program impressionable people into becoming obedient servants and promoters of leftist ideology. Consequently, any teacher employed by one of the LIEs that dares to actually educate students will necessarily be fired. Are we getting it yet? They fire a teacher who criticizes BLM and they want to teach your children that what matters is the color of their skin.

Let me present to you the actual criteria for what is being taught. These things have quietly been going on for sometime but the promoters of the CRT religion have become more emboldened with the advent of the Biden Administration.

The vote is great thing as long as you can keep it. The American Marxists have gotten away with gaslighting the American people, but the jig is up. Oh and she is a scammer hoodwinking conservatives for her own benefit and enrichment.

Oh but wait! There is nothing offensive in tone or content. One may disagree with the viewpoints expressed, but to take offense at these comments is to say that there is only one acceptable viewpoint. Diversity [dogma] breeds adversity in darkness at the Twilight fringe. The Left has seized control of the education system, from pre-K to grad school. Conservatives stood meekly by and let this happen.

I would further note that outside the minds of the woke left — Racism is NOT a consequential issue in this country. I am a straight white male. I am just about the only straight white male I know. I am told that only a few percent of the country is gay — I have more freinds, acquantances coworkers etc that are gay that straight. I am told the country will be majority minority in a few years. In my world that happened long ago.

We all agree or disagree over myriads of issues. We still manage to get along. Not just men and women, boys and girls, babies of white, but also yellow, brown, black, too, and all shades of diversity classes. One step forward, two steps backward. There is no reasoning with such people. The parents I meet who show up in the hundreds to hear more about CRT, and who try to understand it, understand the tension between national planning and coordination, and acting locally.

Samuel Adams, cousin to the more cerebral John Adam and a populist rabble-rouser, established the first one in Boston in Revolutions need both types. They also need a mix of local activism and nationwide strategy. Bradley Thompson.

The Declaration is used here as an ideological road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the s and early s. Thank you for the book recommendation, Sam. I just ordered it. I have thought for quite some time commented on this blog that current events are very similar to the events after the 7 Years war, leading up to the DoI. The advantage we have over the 18th revolutionaries is we already have the system necessary to fulfill the principles embodied in the DoI.

So far I have not encountered a social justice warrior who knows as much about the dark racial past of the US as I was taught decades ago. Aside from the myriads of historical inaccuracies in the project, its most consequential failure is conflating the failure of the US to perfectly live up to its ideals and principles, with a failure of those ideas and principles.

CRT posits that the entirety of western law and thought is not merely steeped in racism — but was constructed on deliberately racist foundations. This is historical nonsense. Did the authors of the magnicarte plot to enslave black and brown people? In there were only 15, blacks in all of england. Obviously the entire english legal system was developed to oppress blacks. The US was not the first Western or Anglo sphere nation to end slavery, but it was one of the first.

While most European nations did not have slavery in europe by the 19th century it was commonplace in their colonies. Africa was the source of most slaves from before the north american colonies were settled through to today. The US and UK navies were instrumental in ending the slave trade. After the Civil War the US navy was constantly engaging slave traders off the east coast of africa traveling to the mideast.

Slave trade from africa to the mideast continued well into the 20th century. Click to Hide. Joe Biden. Alec Baldwin.

Donald Trump. Green Bay Packers. Home Opinion Commentary Crush the unions, fire the teachers. By Cheryl K.

OPINION: The Chicago Teachers Union just told school administrators to get you-know-what, after members decided by vote that being ordered back to the classrooms to provide in-person instruction was too dangerous for these coronavirus times. These teachers should be fired.