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August 07, 2008
Democrats Kill Ban on Terrorists in Schools
Democrats Kill Ban on Terrorists in Schools
'Citizens should be outraged lawmakers are playing political games with our safety'
Majority Democrats in the California Assembly have rejected two amendments that would have allowed schools to fire any employee discovered to be part of an extremist terror network and require users of school facilities to affirm they are not terrorists.
England argued lawmakers are charged with the duty of defending their citizens from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
"Yet California Democrats placed their radical political agenda ahead of citizens' safety by refusing to prevent terrorists from teaching in our schools. Citizens should be outraged that these lawmakers are playing political games with our safety," she said.
The amendments from Garrick and DeVore "would have required any person or organization seeking use of public school property to sign a 'statement of information' declaring they do not advocate the overthrow of our government and are not part of an extremist terror network. Also, any school employee discovered to be part of an extremist terror network could be fired."
The amendments came as part of discussion on SB 1322, a bill that "will allow communists to teach in public schools and use government property for their meetings," Capital Resource said.
The traditional values advocacy organization said it has opposed the measure "as we recognize the inherent danger in allowing communists – those who seek the violent overthrow of our democratic republic – access to the impressionable minds of young students."
Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for CRFI, said
"It really is shocking that at a time when America is still subject to attacks from radical terrorists and communist governments still terrorize their citizens, California Democrats won't stand up for us. We have brave soldiers putting their lives on the line every day to defend us from such tyranny, but Democrats will not cast a simple vote to do the same here in California. Democrats are quick to side with the latest political cause championing the rights of the oppressed. With their votes today, Democrats have missed their opportunity to make a statement denouncing oppressive communist governments responsible for the misery and suffering of so many worldwide."
A report from Karen England at the Capital Resource Institute said the amendments were submitted by assemblymen Martin Garrick and Chuck DeVore to a plan that also would allow members of the Communist Party to teach in public schools.
"I am appalled that Democrat lawmakers will not agree to these commonsense amendments," said England, executive director of CRFI. "My son is currently serving in Iraq to defend our state and nation from terrorists, yet Democrats will not do their part on the homefront to also defend us from such extremists."
Wild Thing's comment............
There really is no doubt on who America's internal enemies really are --- and the clear and present danger they represent. These liberal lawmakers become more despicable every day.
These are the same lawmakers, who tried to ban day care centers, church schools, church baby sitter centers and schools from running criminal background checks to see if the applicants had jail records or were predators.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 7, 2008 03:48 AM
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All the while we were defeating Communist socialism in the Soviet Union and freeing Eastern Europe, communist Americans were making inroads in our own schools, government and media. We won and we lost. The outcome of this Federal election will tell us how badly we are doing in the domestic war on communism.
Posted by: TomR at August 7, 2008 09:56 AM
Tom, yes isn't that something. We did so great defeating communisim in other places.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 7, 2008 05:47 PM
