I was watching “We Were Soldiers” last night. It was about the first Air Cav unit in Vietnam and how it was brought into being and it’s first bloody nose. I was contemplating how familiar and prophetic the theme was to our time now. We are facing a communist enemy, a large contingent of them and while they are not as disciplined as a North Vietnamese Regulars, they are too chaotic, too unfocused to be useful really in a skirmish with trained veterans and hunters. Now we hear of veterans and even serving soldiers, Marines, Airmen that are left leaning and communist in their leanings. This cadre, are they training the brown, or black if you will shirts to be our opposing force? It is possible. They have already sent out scouts and saboteurs and rangers to disrupt and define the battle space. I see war on our near horizon, a civil war that will make our second Civil War between the states as a playground spat. Again it will be against brothers and sisters and families, neighbors, towns and cities. We will be tested and we will be horrified. May God have and show Mercy upon us.
A mother in California decided that, after months of speaking to her local school board about allowing boys into girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms (and getting nowhere), that she was show them.
‘I wanted to give them more of a visual, what does it really look like changing and what would it feel like [to have] somebody of the opposite sex watching you change.’
Bourne said she now feels she got her point across.
‘If the adults don’t feel comfortable watching someone – and I’m a 50-year-old woman – how can they expect girls to feel comfortable doing that in the locker room?’ she asked, rhetorically.
‘The more open dialogue, open debate we can have on topics that are controversial, I think, we are going to end up having a safer society,’ she added.
Of course the school board had her hauled out and charged with disturbing the peace.
Their reaction was not unlike the school boards where parents read from books allowed in public school libraries. They were silenced due to the content.
A Georgia school board member cut off a mother reading sexually explicit content from a book available to high school students in the district, saying the passage was “inappropriate” for any children to potentially hear.
“Excuse me, we have children at home,” Cherokee County school board member identified as Patsy Jordan told the angry mother after she read a sexually-charged passage from the book “Homegoing.” The school board member pointed out that the meeting was being livestreamed and said reading the passage was “inappropriate.”
“Don’t you find the irony in that?” the parent responded. “You’re exactly saying exactly what I’m telling you! You’re giving it to our children! I would never give this to my children!”
But the boards can’t stand to actually have the consequences of their policies shown to them. So they use the force of law to remove the people holding up the mirror to them.
