The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Intellectual Froglegs S2E11

Welcome Josh Tolley Listeners

Update: The legislation never got referred to the committee and as a result must be re-introduced next session. Unfortunately, Rep Kestell is retiring and Sen Leibham is running for Congress, so both of my legislators, who acted as sponsors for this legislation are likely to be gone(although I will grant that Mr. Leibham will have stiff competition for Rep Petri's seat in Sen Grothman.)  I own to some disappointment. You may see the latest update here.

Thanks to Josh Tolley and the Josh Tolley Show. Please share your stories in the comments here. The legislation on the table in WI are SB 309 and AB 390. This is simple legislation that just says educators must contact parents first if they are going to question your child about criminal activity.
The other posts you may be interested in are here, here and here. Even if your legislator has signed on as a co-sponsor, please call him/her to thank them and express your support.

I am not part of any organization and I am not asking for money, just a phone call to your legislators. We have a participatory system of government and this is one of the ways we can participate besides voting. The legislative aides are polite and wonderful, please treat them well when you call.

The line for the capital switchboard is:1-800-362-9472 (266-9960 in Madison)

The website to find your Senator is here: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/pages/waml.aspx

or your Representative's e-mail addresses may be found here: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/Pages/leg-email.aspx?h=a

 

"And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him." ~ Deut 1:16

A Little Help

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"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." Hebrews 10:35-36

Update on LRB-0413/1 to protect our kids

Update 2: The legislation never got referred to the committee and as a result must be re-introduced next session. Unfortunately, Rep Kestell is retiring and Sen Leibham is running for Congress, so both of my legislators, who acted as sponsors for this legislation are likely to be gone(although I will grant that Mr. Leibham will have stiff competition for Rep Petri's seat in Sen Grothman.)  I own to some disappointment. You may see the latest update here. 

UPDATE: This has now been released as AB 390 in the Assembly and SB 309 in the Senate and referred to the Education committee. I will update again as I receive word.

Sen Leibham's aide, Lucas, has informed me that there are 11 legislators who have signed on as co-sponsors. He says the next step is for the bill to be formally introduced, receive a bill number, and be referred to a committee for consideration yet this week. 
 The 11 co-sponsors are:

From the Senate

Leibham
Taylor
Gudex
Vukmir

And from the Assembly:
Kestell
Bies
Born
Johnson
Larson
Pridemore
Ripp

For those in their districts, please call them and thank them for co-sponsoring. If your State Senator/Representatives are not on this list, please call them and let them know you support this legislation and think they should too.

 The grant of in loco parentis authority used by educators and admin is based upon the assurances of the government that those who we hire to administer and teach in our public school system are worthy of being trusted with our children. The bottom line is that putting my child in danger without notifying me says they are NOT worthy of that trust. It is a shame that this should be so, but the failure to recognize the dividing line between acting in the best interests of the child and acting as an agent of law enforcement means we need to show them where it is.

" If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction."
~Psalm 73:15-18

Destroying the Rule of Law or Lock up your kids to keep them safe

The Washington Post is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled that if the countries of illegal immigrants do not want to take them back, we cannot keep them in jail here. The result is that some 2,837 illegal immigrants who were convicted of sexual assault here were released.

Have we all lost our minds? So now illegal aliens can commit sexual assault and walk away. This is not upholding the rule of law or the dictates of the US Constitution. This is victimizing the people of this nation in a way that is entirely criminal. Deport these people.

Of course their home nations don't want criminals back. Then they would have to use their own resources to imprison them. Why are we giving their home nations a choice of whether or not to take them back? Just send them to the point farthest away from America in their home nation and send the government of that home nation a bill for the cost of their transport.

Common sense would indicate that we are not required to keep the citizens of other nations here for any reason, much less allow them to flout our laws with impunity. But then common sense is apparently dead in DC as is respect for the rule of law and respect for the very citizenry that granted them the authority to make such heinous decisions.

"Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." ~Psalm 119:36

Heroes & Patriots -Intellectual Froglegs S2E10

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"On 9/11 we will mark the 1 year anniversary of the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya which claimed the lives of four US citizens: Ambassador Chris Stephens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.

DID YOU KNOW?   To this day, not a single person has been fired over the massive security failure, and very little information has been released to the American people. 

IT’S TIME TO TAKE ACTION!

This September, join us in keeping up the pressure on all the political players involved in this scandal.   Demand an update in the ongoing investigation! The families of Benghazi victims deserve answers and American citizens deserve an explanation. 

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Well done Watchdog Wire. Benghazi is not old news. The blood of those men will cry out from the ground against us until justice is done. It would be unethical, immoral and un-American to let it go without consequences to those who watched it happen and did nothing.

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Calling All Wisconsin Parents and Patriots

Update 2: The legislation never got referred to the committee and as a result must be re-introduced next session. Unfortunately, Rep Kestell is retiring and Sen Leibham is running for Congress, so both of my legislators, who acted as sponsors for this legislation are likely to be gone(although I will grant that Mr. Leibham will have stiff competition for Rep Petri's seat in Sen Grothman.)  I own to some disappointment. You may see the latest update here. 

 

Update: The legislation is currently known as LRB-0413/1 An Act relating to parental notification for questioning pupils about criminal activity. Please reference that number when you call your legislators. This piece of legislation needs co-sponsors before it is given a number as a bill. There is one week left for your Senator/Representative to sign on as a co-sponsor.

 

For whatever reason, this refuses to display legibly. The text reads as follows:

 

"AN ACT to create 118.315 of the statutes; relating to: parental notification for

questioning pupils about criminal activity.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

 

This bill prohibits an official, employee, or agent of a public, private, or charter

school from questioning a pupil attending the school about criminal activity without

notifying the pupil’s parent unless the official, employee, or agent suspects that the

pupil is being abused or is the victim of certain specified crimes and the questioning

relates to the suspected abuse or crime.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do

enact as follows.

 

SECTION 1. 118.315 of the statutes is created to read:

118.315 Questioning pupils about criminal activity. (1) Except as

provided in sub. (2), an official, employee, or agent of a public, private, or charter

school may not question a pupil attending the school about a suspected or alleged

violation of any state or federal criminal law without first notifying the pupil’s parent or guardian."

 

 

 

 

It has taken 7 years since my child was subjected to this sort of interrogation. It is an inherently harmful thing. The "story" from the school was that they wanted to get him to confess to making a false bomb threat because of some graffiti someone made in a bathroom near his locker. (Graffiti, I can say with confidence, that he never even saw.) Making a false bomb threat is a felony. It is punishable by up to ten years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. There is a zero tolerance policy in place for this crime and there is no leniency for minors.

 

 It is my opinion that the school did this because I refused to sign the paper saying they could contact his former teachers. ( I had been homeschooling for the last 5 years- they had MY number.) They said they had no way to assess his character. This in spite of the fact that he had, less than six months prior to his enrollment, organized, emceed and performed in a benefit concert for his Scoutmaster who had lost an arm, among other things. He raised over $11,000 and the concert was covered not only by the local paper but also by a satellite radio program that had a national audience. They said they didn't read the local paper.

 

His grades dropped from A's and B's to D's and F's for that semester. He brought them back up by the end of the year and his grades in the charter school we sent him to after that year were A's and B's. He earned his Eagle award in Scouting, but the damage had been done. His grade point average for high school was .1 below the required GPA for many of the scholarships for which he could otherwise have applied.

 

He is an exemplary young man who is currently supporting himself and getting through college without taking on debt. The psychological damage to our family is high. I am still angry and it has been seven years. I refuse to volunteer any more as I don't care to help anyone in the local community that treated us this way and left their own children so vulnerable. Prior to this, I had donated thousands of hours of my time as a volunteer. I did serve on the Governing board of the charter school until it became apparent that, contrary to the wishes and expressed opinion of the now deceased founder of the school, this sort of thing would be the rule there too. I resigned.

 

When I first contacted Sen. Leibham, he said legislation was under discussion for this issue already because it had been happening to many families around the state. In the end, the law enforcement unions and teachers unions opposed it so strongly that they dropped it. Not me. It wasn't until the protests at the capital showed those unions for the real human beings they are-rather than the saints they are so often portrayed as being - that Sen Leibham consented to try again.

 

There were many hurdles along the way. The DOJ's office required nearly daily phone calls for a month when weekly and monthly calls were not working to produce the necessary answers.

 

 Finally there was a draft. A few revisions later, (Thank you Alex Hansen and good luck in grad school.) we had something ready for the drafting attorneys. A few more back and forths and here we are, with a brand spanking new bill, desperately seeking co-sponsors.

 

A bill that recognizes the current reality that our public and private school teachers and administrative personnel cannot be trusted to call us before they engage on a potentially life changing course of action with regard to our children's future. One that is traumatic to both child and family, if my own experience is any guide.

 

Our children have the same rights as any other American. What they do not have, is the knowledge of how to properly exercise those rights and, in the case of younger children, the ability to stand up to an adult to do so. This bill does nothing more than remind our educators and law enforcement personnel that our children have unalienable rights too. That we, as parents, do NOT include the right to question our child about anything for which criminal charges may be filed against them without notifying us FIRST. 

 

When school personnel engage in such questioning, they have left the position of acting in the best interests of the child and turned to acting in the best interests of the school(or so they say) and that leaves our child with no one to act in their best interests, (as a parent would), in a very perilous situation indeed.

 

Please call your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor this bill within the next two weeks. Your children deserve it and require it. They need your protection in this matter.

 

The line for the capital switchboard is:1-800-362-9472 (266-9960 in Madison)

The website to find your Senator is here: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/pages/waml.aspx

or here: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/Pages/leg-list.aspx?h=s

 

Other posts referencing this issue are:

 

http://americanfederalist.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-loco-parentis.html

 

http://iratetirelessminority.blogspot.com/2009/04/wake-up-call-to-parents.html

 

 

"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. "~ Psalm 127:3-4

"But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." Luke 18:16

 

 

Bombshell: Egyptian Media – Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood Member

Aside from the "well, duh" reaction of those who have been paying attention, this should present a dilemma to Congress. I don't think it's proper for an individual to be using the office of the POTUS to put his buddies into power across a goodly swath of the world and that is quite clearly what Mr. barack hussein obama has been doing since he was put into office. It would seem quite clear to me that such a use of the office, in this case - as the muslim brotherhood has made no secret of their wish to destroy the US - is most definitely and unequivocally treason.
Bombshell: Egyptian Media – Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood Member

And I refuse to capitalize the names of certain people in my writings on this blog on purpose, so if you ever see them capitalized, kindly forgive me and assume the spell check feature of Blogger did it when I wasn't paying attention..