February 27, 2024 • 39 mins
We bring you an update on the bombshell report happening in Rhode Island brought to us by one of our favorite teachers Ramona Bessinger who has done more than her fair share of exposing the inside of our K-12 public schools.
She wrote an article on Legal Insurrection February 19th exposing The Department of Homeland Security for funding a training program for teachers through “Courageous Rhode Island” at the University of Rhode Island, funded by a $700k grant on combating so called “disinformation” in six to 17 year old students as part of a “media literacy programming.”
We go through the four strategies being employed on your students.
School children will become targets by other children and teachers for merely expressing their point of views. They will be manipulated and weaponized by partisan teachers and student informers, they will be targeted, isolated, silenced and perhaps falsely reported to the authorities.
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She wrote an article on Legal Insurrection February 19th exposing The Department of Homeland Security for funding a training program for teachers through “Courageous Rhode Island” at the University of Rhode Island, funded by a $700k grant on combating so called “disinformation” in six to 17 year old students as part of a “media literacy programming.”
We go through the four strategies being employed on your students.
School children will become targets by other children and teachers for merely expressing their point of views. They will be manipulated and weaponized by partisan teachers and student informers, they will be targeted, isolated, silenced and perhaps falsely reported to the authorities.
@RamonaBessinger
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/dhs-is-training-teachers-to-develop-student-disinformation-informers-i-know-i-took-the-training/
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Today we bring you an update ona bombshell report happening in Rhode Island,
brought to you by one of ourfavorite teachers, Ramona Bessinger, who has
done more than her fair share ofexposing the insides of the k through twelve
public schools. She wrote an articleon legal Insurrection February nineteenth exposing the Department
of Homeland Security for funding a trainingprogram for teachers through this Courage Rhode Island
(00:20):
Group at the University of Rhode Islandon combating so called disinformation in six to
seventeen year old students as part oftheir media Literacy programming. Now, school
children will become targets by other childrenand teachers for merely expressing their points of
views. If they don't conform tothe state, they'll be manipulated and weaponized
by partisan teachers and student informers.They'll be targeted, isolated in silence,
(00:45):
and perhaps falsely reported to the authorities. That's what's going on inside your schools
today. This is the main sourceof Truth podcast, and very few parents
have said anything what Sean mcriarty did. Sean mcbrity is in the fault of
today Sewan, though, how pervasiveis that in our school. Sean mcbriarty
joins us. Now he just wonthis lawsuit and gets forty thousand dollars from
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the school board. Good morning,Shawn. You're his most dangerous dad apparently.
How are you? Are you beingsoon or work you do by a
local district for exposing the transgender librarydisplay? Can you explain to what's what
happened? Hey, you are sowith everything that's going on to be just
talked to this like alcohol mail.Yeah, about the over septualization of books
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and libraries at the school. Andit looks like you put the handle on
that. That's what makes you tosupport that. I ask you to support
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Sean mcbriardy And now onto the show, All right, folks, Season three,
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Episode one oh three. Ramona Bessingermedia literacy creates deep state activists.
I think that's what I'm going toend up calling it. That's a little
wordy, but that kind of getsto the heart of what's going on.
It's February twenty seventh, twenty twentyfour. As we record this, my
voice is still toast. I'm stillsick, but I'm still soiled during on
the best I can to bring youthis important content as part of my normal
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process here, I'd like to throwa Bible verse in. This is Proverbs
eighteen to two. A full takesno pleasure in understanding, but only in
expressing his opinion. Now, tome, that means that people today can't
tell that they're being manipulated by thestate. Certainly kids can't as we're going
to be discussing today, but they'resharing this blind opinion without really ever understanding
the entire process push to ultimately divideour country and destroy our moral values.
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There are a lot of useful idiotsrunning around in our country right now.
Unfortunately, jumping to updates a bigspot for Shi Van Fleet, guest of
our sixtieth episode, Tucker Carlson justinterviewed her about her book, Mao's America,
A Survivor's Warning. We had sheon our podcast and we talked about
how Mao's Red Guard has turned theDemocrat Parties blue guard. Really, it's
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morphed into the Democrat parties Blueguard orthe trans Supremacies, maybe Rainbow Guard and
this, you know Red Guard,you know, kids from the university that
took over communist China and a culturalrevolution, and you know, male pointed
the Red Guard against his own peopleto do all the dirty work for him
to defend communism, and then hekilled them all, and he killed millions
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of people. Now, pay attention, folks, this sort of thought manipulation
is happening right now in our ownbackyards. I'm going to play a short
intro clip from Tucker's interview as shebut this is the type of stuff that's
going on inside our schools. Shortlyafter George Floyd died Memorial Day weekend twenty
twenty, people began to say thatwhat was happening in the United States bore
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some resemblance to what happened in Chinafifty years ago, the Cultural Revolution with
Red Guards and struggle sessions, publichumiliations, public atone mints, a kind
of secular frenzy that looked very muchlike a hate centered religious right, the
Cultural Revolution. But what's that overstatement? Well, she Van Fleet has seen
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both. She's Chinese, she wasseven years old in nineteen sixty six when
the Cultural Revolution started, and seventeenwhen it ended. With Mao's death in
nineteen seventy six, then along theway she became one of its victims.
She moved to this country, toKentucky in nineteen eighty six, and she's
been here ever since. So shehas seen both revolutions firsthand, and she's
written a new book comparing them witha warning. It's called Mao's America.
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And we're grateful to have her.She Van Fleet in the studio with us
now. She thanks so much forcoming on. Thank you. This is
an unbelievable that I'm here with you. Oh, I'm so grateful. You
are so just awesome. I reallyappreciate that. You can find it at
Tucker Carlson. I think that's oneof Tucker's I'm not sure exactly what they
call the Tucker Carlson episodes they're debunked. I think it might be called I'm
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really you know again, she's reallybeen out there pushing the envelope, trying
to warn everybody about this communist processingthat we're going through. And as subtle
as it is in some cases,it's in this case as We're going to
be talking to Ramona here in aminute. It's just it's alarming. It
is alarming when you start piecing togetherall of the materials that are going on
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behind these schools. And again,nobody's learning to read, nobody's read learning
how to write and do math andall these things. It's just so frustrating
on the surface that our schools haveturned into these woken doctrination centers. And
just to be clear, I meanagain, not all teachers are bad,
not all schools are bad, butI would guess that there is some degree
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of prevalence of this again, thiscommunist takeover happening inside of every school,
regardless if you're in a red statelike Florida or a blue state like Maine.
And remember, as Leonardo da Vincisaid, nothing strengthens authority so much
as silence. That's what these schoolsare pushing for. They don't want any
of these kids to have their ownopinion on anything. They want them to
all focused on the same opinion broughtto you by the Left. All right,
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I'm excited for our next guest,a high school teacher now in Providence,
Rhode Island School District. When wespoke last time she was teaching middle
school. She's a whistleblower and she'sunfortunately paid the price for it, but
she's willing to blow that whistle again. She has exposed the critical race theory
curriculum and the racial hostility created byher own school department, just like what's
happening in every town in America.She's a self described curriculum spy, truth
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teller, and patriot. She's everythingthe progressive hive mind hates, and she's
a loving mother, a teacher whoseintegrity won't allow her to not talk about
the horrifics of these k through twelvegovernment run school systems. She's on Twitter
at Ramona Bessinger, and she's backon the Main Source of Truth podcast to
talk about some updates. Ramone,I think thank you very much for being
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a guest of ours again. Today. I went back into the archive.
You were on episode twenty eight wayback on August first, twenty twenty two,
and I really appreciate us staying intouch. So we've got we've got
today. We wanted to do anupdate. You wrote a massive article at
Legal Insurrection on February nineteenth exposing theDepartment of Homeland Security, and a funding
process for training teachers through this courageousRhode Island group through the University of Rhode
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Island seven hundred thousand dollars a grantto combat so called disinformation in six to
seventeen year old students as part ofthis media literacy programming. So that's a
lot to take in. But let'sfocus at this at a very high level,
like what what is media literacy?What does that mean, and what
does it mean when it comes toidentifying these students. Well, first of
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all, thank you for having youknow, for join this interview. It's
definitely a conversation that needs to beexplored and sort of investigated. I think
the whole concept of media literacy andK twelve education. So I think at
a call level, media literacy is, you know, an interesting one of
those interesting electives that you might takewhere you analyze media messages, commercial movies,
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anything to do with media. You'reanalyzing the intention behind whatever media product
you're analyzing, and you have discussionsaround it. It seems rather harmless and
it actually even seems like it couldmake sense to bring this to the attention
of children in K twelve schools.What happens is the way it actually looks
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and why it's harmful is the realreason we're talking today and what concerns me
and concerns many people currently. Somedia literacy is a legitimate sort of college
level course, just like CRT andthe whole concept of FEL and all these
other you know, they're also sortof founding, very legitimate until of course
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they roll out in the schools andthen they look very very differently. Yeah,
when the practice becomes reality, right, that's when we start having some
massive issues. Right, Well,it's a smoke screen, I guess our
trojan horse, if you will.These names are used to sort of you
know, get people, you know, to sort of convince people, teachers
and students that this is a legitimatecurriculum, this is legitimate curriculum content,
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when in fact it really really isnot legitimate and is in fact causing harm.
And so that was the piece thatI felt I needed to be exposed.
But this harm is initiated by theDepartment of Homeland Security and being advanced
into the communities through their partnership program, and in this case it's the University
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of Rhode Island Media Lab. Andthen of course specifically Courageous Rhode Island Courageous
Media Lab program called Courageous Rhode Islandcomplied, well, one of the one
of the interesting things here and youknow, kind of reading through some of
the articles. So the term medialiteracy for k through twelve it says the
ability to access and analyze information,which something right now students are having a
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very hard time doing because they're kindof and you know, you know,
being on the front lines. Alot of the teachers are feeding them information
and take the test, so they'renot they're not really being taught how to
think anymore, but they're being taughtwhat to think. And so immediately I
was concerned with the term kind ofas a whole because it just seems like
none of these kids have the abilityto access and analyze information at a kindergarten
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through twelfth grade level. I couldsee if it was a college bound course
and you've gone through your you know, your regular components of education, you
know, for twelve years, andthen you get into a higher echelon learning.
But you know, they're starting thisout, Like you said, I
think, what from six year oldkids to seventeen year old kids, you
know, it just it doesn't seemto make any sense. It doesn't make
sense if you're looking through the lensof a normal person who is expecting schools
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to accomplish normal tasks like teach kidsto think critically, to write critically,
to analyze literature, to look atall aspects of history. No, it
doesn't. It bolves the mind ifyou're thinking in terms of exactly what is
happening here, which is hard forus to believe that there is a power
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graph taking place in this country.What we're seeing in K twelve schools is
part of that power graph. Tocontrol people, you need to control what
they think, You need to controlhow they view themselves, how they view
history. And so, you know, looking at it in this way like
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sort of given the sort of contextof what we've seen take place in K
twelve schools with these gender ideas andtheories and curriculums social emotional learning, critical
race theory, cultural responsive education,et cetera, then it makes perfect sense,
you know, to have some sortof governing curriculum that acts as a
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surveillance of students thoughts and students feelingsabout politics, about history, and a
way to sort of redirect those thoughtsand feelings, so that kids are not
advancing, you know, their opinionsabout anything, but rather you know,
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complying with what a classroom teacher orpolitical activists may want the students to believe.
Think yeah, or in our case, obviously the far left progressive Democrat
Party, you know, whatever theirview is is the view that all the
students need to have. And youmentioned that the Department of Homeland Security believes
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that children need to be monitored forthe perceived hate speech. So I always
say hate speech is free speech.That just schools hate, you know,
or people hate, and then thedisinformation from these students. So this is
all going to be done by thevery teachers struggling to teach them how to
simply read and write correct. It'sall supposedly getting woven into the curriculum framework.
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I think I laid it out inthe article the way they're doing that.
But yeah, that's it's exactly it. And so hate speech is going
to be monitored. Now, well, if anybody has you know, anybody
out there who has children or hastaught or teachers in the public system,
now that kids will say all kindsof things. Now, are we going
to be monitoring every single developmental phaseof a child's you know, existence,
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and calling it hate speech if ifthere's schoolyard bullying or they say difficult things
to one another, or like,is this all going to be monitored?
Because these are natural stages of development. Kids say things and do things that
are wrong. That's why they haveparents and adults to guide them. So
now the Department of Homeland Security islooking for any kind of activity or any
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thought or expression of anything that theydeem hate speech, and they're going to
monitor and try to mitigate that speechthat doesn't sound right to me, that
worries me a great deal. Well, and I'll give you an example right
here from Brewer Main and part ofthe lawsuit that I filed on Thursday or
Friday. Essentially, we have ateacher, well, we had a bunch
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of students who are concerned with boysin the girls room. So a local
school, in many schools across Mainein the country, have these transgender bathroom
and locker room policies where if you'rea boy and you simply affirm as a
girl, you can simply walk inon the girls taking showers at this point
and in the bathroom. So itcreates a safety issue. So these students,
these brave students, created a petitionin this Brewer High School in Brewer,
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Maine, and one of the teachers, who is the paid faculty advisor
for the Gay Sexuality Alliance, endedup basically cornering one of these kids and
saying that she was going to havehim charged with hate speech because he was
going against the fact that there wasa boy in the girls room. I
mean, that's how completely insane someof these teachers are. And obviously not
all teachers, you know, you'vegot you know yourself and others who are
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really trying to make a difference withthese kids. But it just seems like
teachers want to head students off atthe past so that if they don't share
the same far left ideology you know, you mentioned DEI and climate change and
hyper sexualization or whatever that you know, they're they're going to use these four
main strategies to really, again,you know, head the student off so
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that they don't have any thoughts oftheir own, which can frighten me,
right, it is, it is, It is very it is so scary
what we are seeing. And nowI often say I have a hard time
convincing parents that there's pornography in thelibrary. Even when I show them the
books and I read from them,like, they still can't grasp that.
So can we talk a little aboutthe strategies that you were taught in this
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session? And I think the firstone was really a standalone course right using
left wing news platforms like news Elato aggregate progressive news stories within these lesson
plans, within a firewall process thatonly really allows one Democrat political message.
So can you talk a little bitabout how they want to essentially format and
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frame all of these aggregate news storiesso that the kids only see one version
of the truth. I could speakto that youre directly. So sometime in
twenty twenty one, electives were removedfrom the curriculum platform. And when I
say curriculum platform, I mean electiveswere just contrarily taken out of my school
choice for kids, so kids couldnot choose theater and you know, art,
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etc. Those were eliminated. Andwhen none of us could really understand
why, and Loan beholds that wasdone to make room for a multi level,
multi multi grade class that I wasactually teaching at the time, and
I did ask why am I doingthis? I'm an experienced you know,
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English teacher. I'm not sure whyI'm these kids are going to be in
front of computers and taking notes onnews articles. Well that's when I really
dug deeply into the curriculum the newsELA platform, because I was in fact
teaching it, and I noticed thatevery single article on the news e LA
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platform, which is news English languageart platforms, was radical in some way
or reflected, you know, oneof the left wing talking points there was.
There were no opposing political points ofview that were represented on this news
platform, on this news site,and then there were links to other you
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know, news sources, and everysingle platform and news source was the same.
And basically, kids six seventh Nategraters would sit there and summarize articles
because there was no curriculum. Ijust have to do my best to sort
of bring some English thinking and writingand reading streaty. But the content was
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so offensive, like it was soa lot of it wasn't even true.
There were articles about nine to eleventhat were incomplete and basically neutralized sort of
the horrible actions that occurred on thatday. And when I say neutralized,
I mean spun it in a waythat you know, made it just seem
like an event that happened and wasno big deal. There were news articles
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that addressed the Holocaust that really didn'tgo into the horrors of the Holocaust.
In fact, they sort of,you know, glossed over the Holocaust as
some minor events in history. Therewere lots of videos of Mark Zuckerberg talking
about video products and climate change andyou know, fun activities for kids,
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to which I thought was very bizarre. And there were lots of positive articles
about Bill Gates and his his involvementin education. So I thought, two
of the worst guys out there,right, two of two of the worst
guys out there as far as youknow, far left funding. I mean,
yeah, we've seen We've seen schoolsin Maine, you know, kind
of I guess similar to that.I mean, we've got schools in Maine
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that have CNN on blast all daylong, and it's like a brainwashing operation.
You know, MSNBC or CNN ison in the common areas, like
you know, in the in thehallway or in the break room or whatever
it is. I mean, butand that so that source is really a
one sided far left angle. Butthat's just one of these four strategies right,
So the first strategy is pushing oneangle essentially that would be an example
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of a standalone class. But theproblem with these standalone class is that you
have to bump something out in orderto make room for a media class like
this, and so I think theywere running into difficulty. And so the
second strategy, or one of theother strategies, is to incorporate media analysis
media literacy into all other coursework,so or to offer it as an elective.
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So, but the way it looksas it's embedded in the curriculum I
thought was particularly insidious and wrong becausethis and presumably that's what you're you were
going to talk about next. Thesecond strategy was the hyper focus on everything
Donald Trump, you know, beingbad. They don't want any MAGA students
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in training and basically try to discossate, discredit everything that is a you know,
a Donald Trump focused effort. Sothe courageous are Rhode Island facilitators pointed
out that Trump is the root causeof all social media and media disinformation,
blames MAGA Republicans for committing violence,talked about obviously the insurrection January sixth,
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and you know, as we know, mag is really the group who abides
by the law and the Constitution.But Donald Trump is the biggest threat out
there. I mean I witnessed thatfirsthand when I was in Washington, DC
this weekend. So yeah, thatsecond strategy basically interweaving everything every single class
should you know, it doesn't matterif math, if it's math or whatever,
it is that Donald Trump is wrong. And you know, Orange Man
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Bad and the whole thing. Well, the crazy Short Island was extremely focused,
like hyper focused on President Trump.And they consider themselves the you know,
judges and jury night of January sixth, and in fact, you know,
pushed the narrative that these the peoplewho went to the January sixth rally,
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we're all insurrectsurrectionists and criminals. Nowthese are adults, and you know,
you see the teachers nodding their heads, and of course they go back
into their classrooms and they tell thekids right, and the kids and believed
it. Well, the fact ofthe matter is that nothing has it can
be farther from the truth. Thisis a narrative, a media message,
a narrative that was pushed in thetraining for teachers to share with their students.
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And I found it very odd thatthey were so Trump obsessed and so
and in fact, you know,one of the facilitators had written an entire
book on magat children and their familiesand the influence of MAGA Republicans around middle
schoolers and the negative impact that thatcould have. And so that was you
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know, flat out telling lies oror choosing one political opinion over another was
definitely part of you know, thestrategies or one of the strategies that yeah,
I mean we joked that, youknow, Trump Trump arrangement syndrome is
real. People you know are reallyafflicted by it. But also realizing that
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most of these teachers' unions push ninetynine percent far left candidates with their you
know, Ponzi scheme, you know, their money processing scheme, and so
so strategy three this is the partwhere it gets even more scary for me.
So strategy three were well, studentswere taught to report on their classmates
by monitoring the speech of others,identifying the target, reporting on the target,
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and then potentially publicly shaming the target. So can you tell, you
know, tell all the listeners alittle bit about how they they want to
contain anybody who has a voice.Obviously we've seen this ourselves. But what
are the schools doing to really tryto ratchet down the voices of anybody who
might have anything against you know this, this far left narrative that they're pushing.
This is probably the most insidious andmost worrisome to me because everything is
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framed around you know this, thissort of weird speak that they use there
and actually speak, I mean,the vocabulary that they pushed out their bipregistered
island is meant to conceal exactly youknow what they're doing, which is to
identify anyone who might have a differenceof opinions and then to sort of try
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to mitigate that opinion or mitigate thatthe thoughts that are being expressed by the
students, and if the student doesn'tcomply, or in my case, if
there's a teacher or you know,we've seen this play out, then take
to the next level, which couldlook like a referral to a behavioral special
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or specialist or a behavioral team orwhat they refer to in some schools as
point teams. Well then then whatthen the child is maybe interviewed by this
team or or encouraged to reveal wherethey got their opinions and thoughts from in
that case, you know, yeah, they're bullied into submission. They're basically
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bullied into submission, right, andyou can imagine child and a firm,
you know, being put through thisrigorous sort of these steps. They're going
to comply very very quickly, andin fact, they might even prefurther,
and that is to say, well, my mom or dad thinks this way,
and or they might use the saysomething, see something up and report
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on a neighbor or a parent ora friend. Blown away by that,
I mean that that is the literalred guard aspect of Mao's communist China.
And and you know, it's thewhole reporting of disinformation. I mean,
first off, who defines what isdisinformation? I mean, is it the
truth? Is it the truth basedon the constitution? Is it based on
opinion? Is it based on newssources? You know? I mean,
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But and the other thing is andas you know, I mean, these
these students are already off the chartswith anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide.
They can't normally even engage in regulareducation. And now they're going to
have to worry about if all theirother student peers are watching them based on
you know what if they decide theywant to flag an American you know,
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throw American flag in the back ofthe pickup or something. It's just absolutely
insane, but it is. It'sreally the sane, and it's very scary
and worrisome. And the fact ofthe matter is kids can deal with normal
education. They can you know,deal with reading a book and analyzing it
and analyzing the universal themes that uniteeverybody. Or they can deal with these,
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you know, difficult moments in historyand discuss and analyze that. What
they cannot deal with is this isthis so called media literacy, the attention
on a student's alleged you know,political points of view or thoughts and feelings
about religion. This is not appropriatefor school. It is no place in
school, and it's harmful to children. And if we're seeing that rise in
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anxiety and children will look very closelyat these programs, media literacy being the
one, is the latest Ethnic studiesCRT. All of these things are smoke
screens for something much more sinister,which is power and control over children.
Yeah, no doubt. And reallythe fourth strategy, so this is kind
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of an interesting segue. So theperformative protesting right, So this is all
about turning little little kids, littlestudents into little activists and having teachers stage
things. And we saw that inyour case previously, teachers staging these walkouts
and you know act, you know, creating a little activists. Really,
I mean, these kids are becomingsecret sell agents for the deep state,
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you know, by taking part inthese videos and billboards and social media messaging
where the media the winner actually getsthousands of dollars, enticing kids to basically
tell on their family and friends andand conform to the you know, liberal
diatribe of what's being fed to them. I mean it, it's crazy.
It reminds me of I found abook in the local library r K through
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three school library here in Hampden,Maine, and it was on display and
it was called The Art of theProtest and on the cover of it had
a BLM fist with a magic markeror a pencil or something in it,
and it was calling for kids,you know, five year old kids to
draw protest type materials in school.And meanwhile, at least Aaron, Maine,
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we've never had worse academic assessments likethey've never been lower, and our
tax burdens have never been higher.Yet you know, they're pushing these kids
to become little activists. So that'scertainly been a big effect on you personally
in the previous situation in the middleschool. But can you talk a little
bit about, as we're finishing uphere, the performative protesting aspect. Well,
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when I had the conversation with SelveHaayer's courageous in the program, I
was told that kids are frustrated,and this is verbatim, and I think
I might even screenshop the conversation becauseI couldn't believe what I was hearing.
But this is actually a strategy thatis pushed onto teachers to use with their
kids. If kids are feeling realand I'm sort of paraphrasing, if kids
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are feeling frustrated by something that theysee in their community that worries them violent,
an example of violent extremism or whatever, an alleged political opinion that could
lead to violent extremism, then childrenare pushed to do what is called performative
activism, make signs, you know, take a stand. And we see
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this sort of play out in alot of the lessons. I mean,
I think I even showed some wholestring of lessons from written wisdom where kids
are treated as change agents, youknow this term. So they're actually being
groomed to stage an activist protest,which you might say, you know,
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ten years ago or whatever. Okay, so what you have a little political
you know thing that you do inhistory class or whatever you say, your
mock trial and history class things harmful? This is not that. It's this
is harmful what they're rooming children todo to basically find a target and shame
that target publicly. And it wasn'tjust in my case where kids were actually
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prompted by several adults to do this. I mean you witness that. It
was absolutely devastating for me, andso you know, harmful to my and
worrisome because you know, as aresult of that activity, you know,
I received death threats, my familywasn't safe, et cetera. But I'm
not the only teacher who is beingsort of protested in this way. There
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was a teacher in New York wheresomething even more insidious happened, where the
kids went rioting through the school andsingled her out and protested her stance or
presence in the building. Simply tissuesand is a supporter of Israel, you
know so, and you know BillJacobson from Legal Insurrection was also the victim
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of this sort of mass you know, led protest. It's called performative activism
or performative protesting, and it soundsharmless, but it's not. It is
not harmless. It's going to leadto something worse down the line. Because
we see this escalation of this performativeactivism playing out in school kids do not
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have the same gauge of you know, danger or whatever, and it's one
day it's going to result in somebodybeing harmed. You know, I came
very close to being harmed. Mychildren have been targeted. And other people
can speak to this sort of performativeactivism towards them, Riley Gaines, many
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other people, and some people aretoo afraid to talk about it. They
just leave the profession quietly, right, But this is something that is it
really needs to and in schools touse children, to weaponize children in this
manner, that has to stop aswell. And we need some help from
Congress or from the government to intervenehere. Yeah, I mean, I
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think ultimately we've all got still havelocal control on the school boards at least
we think we do. And Ithink a lot of people really need to
engage there if they want to continueto send kids to school. I mean,
you know, I'm a proponent ofhomeschooling and to pull your kids immediately
out of these schools because I thinkthey're irreparably broken. And the more that
we dive into these things, themore we find out about things like your
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great article here on legal insurrection,the more scary parents should be, you
know. So one of the thingsI wanted to ask is we're kind of
tying this up, is you know, what's what's next? What's next for
Ramona? What do you what doyou got going on? I mean,
how are you working through you know, this process in the school system,
and you know, what do youthink you're going to be doing next?
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Well, I'm going to be doinga series of webinars for Moms for America
where I talk about these subjects,how critical race theory, sel gender theories,
how protesting an activism is playing outin the curriculum and in the schools,
and how parents can actually get involvedto protect their own children. Because
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not everybody has their the ability tohomeschool, not everybody has the ability to
send to a specific Christian or Catholicschool or private school, and so how
can parents get involved? So whatare some actionable steps for parents? And
you know, I haven't given upon my teaching career. I'm still employed
as a teacher and I plan toto defend my honor there as well.
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But if you you know so,I think community outreach and sharing sharing the
information is very significant and important forparents to get the word out there,
just as you're doing. No,I appreciate that. Where Where's the best
place to follow your work online?Is Twitter? One of the spots that
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you usually post this stuff up on. I try to post on Twitter.
I do some posting on Facebook andpublic speaking, and so that's right now
the platform. Of course, somemedia has picked up on the story,
but the story of education is onethat is difficult to tell because there are
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a lot of moving pieces, andso I try to do my best with
Twitter's threads. I'm not so greatat posting, you know, really clever
tweets and all that, but certainly, you know, I do wherever I
can. Yeah, absolutely, Andit's at Ramona Bessinger B E S S
I N G E R correct.Yeah, right, on Twitter. Yeah,
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well, I appreciate it. Iknow that you know, you and
I have stayed in touch over theyears. We've tried to continue to,
you know, sort of talk aboutjust this instuous, incestuous relationship that these
schools have with with our kids,with our tax dollars. It's just it
is so scary what's going on rightnow, and we hope that every day.
You know, I agree, schools, you need to fight for them.
They're your community centers. But yeah, people, if they don't start
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taking action, I don't know ifwe're gonna be able to get these things
back. So I really appreciate yourtime today. I'm gonna continue to root
in your corner here, and Ireally appreciate the time you spent with the
listeners of the main source of truth. Thanks Sean. I appreciate you having
me on your show. A couplethings here with Final Truths. Something Ramona
wanted me to mention again is thestudent reporting system is an app called Say
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Something, and it's instead of callingnine to one one. But these these
programs are encouraging kids through the teachersto report on angry neighbors, classmates,
you know, and other teachers whowe're not towing the line. And the
way that if I remember how thisworks, is that say something app basically
kind of you know, it's notlike directly calling nine to one one.
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It roots you through this process whereit dumps out in an anonymous way on
the other end, and then somebodyis going to gain that in from come
calling and find out, you know, whether it don't it's your neighbor or
your classmate or your teacher. Theother thing is that Ramona mentioned to me
she include in something that I've talkedabout a while back. This is way
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back on episode sixty nine, Junefifth, twenty twenty three, Charlotte Izzerbite,
the deliberate dumbing down of America andhow you know a lot of these
kids, it's just this is aprocess, right, this is a process
that these change agents are being placedin these schools to act again for the
government. You know, they're actinglike again the Red Guard, the Mao's
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Red Guard of China. It's insane. And then lastly, a couple points
here and I'll probably butcher this person'sname, sagal Ben Barrath says in her
essay which forms the ideological foundation ofthe courageous Rhode Islands Department of Homeland Security
funded Media Literacy program. Quote.The goal thus is not to persuade,
but rather to create a sense ofshared fate or a shared civic goal among
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students, both as members of theclassroom community and as members of the same
nation. Unquote. That to mescreams this globalism concept where everybody has to
think the same. And you know, our nation was based on individual freedoms,
that's where we have become so successful. And these teachers, these school
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systems are deliberately dumbing these kids downto basically be part of the borg high
hive mind philosophy, you know.So interclosing Ramona states in our article and
again you can find this on LegalInsurrection. Quote the goals to have all
K through twelve children think the samealong approved lines. School children will become
targets by other children and teachers formerely expressing their points of views. They
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will be manipulated and weaponized by thepartisan teachers and student informers. They will
be targeted, isolated, silenced,and perhaps falsely reported to the authorities.
In the end, no child,teacher, a community member will be safe.
As media literacy initiative will create asurveillance and punishment culture that should scare
the Bejesus out of parents, becausethat's again what's happening inside your local K
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through twelve school all around the country. This is not just Rhode Island,
this is everywhere. Whatever happens ina Rhode Island or happens in Maine could
be happening in your backyard, There'sno doubt. So appreciate you listening today.
My voice is a little bit betterthan it was in the last podcast,
but it's still not quite there.So thank you for letting me work
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Today we bring you an update ona bombshell report happening in Rhode Island,
brought to you by one of ourfavorite teachers, Ramona Bessinger, who has
done more than her fair share ofexposing the insides of the k through twelve
public schools. She wrote an articleon legal Insurrection February nineteenth exposing the Department
of Homeland Security for funding a trainingprogram for teachers through this Courage Rhode Island
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Group at the University of Rhode Islandon combating so called disinformation in six to
seventeen year old students as part oftheir media Literacy programming. Now, school
children will become targets by other childrenand teachers for merely expressing their points of
views. If they don't conform tothe state, they'll be manipulated and weaponized
by partisan teachers and student informers.They'll be targeted, isolated in silence,
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and perhaps falsely reported to the authorities. That's what's going on inside your schools
today. This is the main sourceof Truth podcast, and very few parents
have said anything what Sean mcriarty did. Sean mcbrity is in the fault of
today Sewan, though, how pervasiveis that in our school. Sean mcbriarty
joins us. Now he just wonthis lawsuit and gets forty thousand dollars from
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the school board. Good morning,Shawn. You're his most dangerous dad apparently.
How are you? Are you beingsoon or work you do by a
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happened? Hey, you are sowith everything that's going on to be just
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and libraries at the school. Andit looks like you put the handle on
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Sean mcbriardy And now onto the show, All right, folks, Season three,
(01:57):
Episode one oh three. Ramona Bessingermedia literacy creates deep state activists.
I think that's what I'm going toend up calling it. That's a little
wordy, but that kind of getsto the heart of what's going on.
It's February twenty seventh, twenty twentyfour. As we record this, my
voice is still toast. I'm stillsick, but I'm still soiled during on
the best I can to bring youthis important content as part of my normal
(02:20):
process here, I'd like to throwa Bible verse in. This is Proverbs
eighteen to two. A full takesno pleasure in understanding, but only in
expressing his opinion. Now, tome, that means that people today can't
tell that they're being manipulated by thestate. Certainly kids can't as we're going
to be discussing today, but they'resharing this blind opinion without really ever understanding
the entire process push to ultimately divideour country and destroy our moral values.
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There are a lot of useful idiotsrunning around in our country right now.
Unfortunately, jumping to updates a bigspot for Shi Van Fleet, guest of
our sixtieth episode, Tucker Carlson justinterviewed her about her book, Mao's America,
A Survivor's Warning. We had sheon our podcast and we talked about
how Mao's Red Guard has turned theDemocrat Parties blue guard. Really, it's
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morphed into the Democrat parties Blueguard orthe trans Supremacies, maybe Rainbow Guard and
this, you know Red Guard,you know, kids from the university that
took over communist China and a culturalrevolution, and you know, male pointed
the Red Guard against his own peopleto do all the dirty work for him
to defend communism, and then hekilled them all, and he killed millions
(03:28):
of people. Now, pay attention, folks, this sort of thought manipulation
is happening right now in our ownbackyards. I'm going to play a short
intro clip from Tucker's interview as shebut this is the type of stuff that's
going on inside our schools. Shortlyafter George Floyd died Memorial Day weekend twenty
twenty, people began to say thatwhat was happening in the United States bore
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some resemblance to what happened in Chinafifty years ago, the Cultural Revolution with
Red Guards and struggle sessions, publichumiliations, public atone mints, a kind
of secular frenzy that looked very muchlike a hate centered religious right, the
Cultural Revolution. But what's that overstatement? Well, she Van Fleet has seen
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both. She's Chinese, she wasseven years old in nineteen sixty six when
the Cultural Revolution started, and seventeenwhen it ended. With Mao's death in
nineteen seventy six, then along theway she became one of its victims.
She moved to this country, toKentucky in nineteen eighty six, and she's
been here ever since. So shehas seen both revolutions firsthand, and she's
written a new book comparing them witha warning. It's called Mao's America.
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And we're grateful to have her.She Van Fleet in the studio with us
now. She thanks so much forcoming on. Thank you. This is
an unbelievable that I'm here with you. Oh, I'm so grateful. You
are so just awesome. I reallyappreciate that. You can find it at
Tucker Carlson. I think that's oneof Tucker's I'm not sure exactly what they
call the Tucker Carlson episodes they're debunked. I think it might be called I'm
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really you know again, she's reallybeen out there pushing the envelope, trying
to warn everybody about this communist processingthat we're going through. And as subtle
as it is in some cases,it's in this case as We're going to
be talking to Ramona here in aminute. It's just it's alarming. It
is alarming when you start piecing togetherall of the materials that are going on
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behind these schools. And again,nobody's learning to read, nobody's read learning
how to write and do math andall these things. It's just so frustrating
on the surface that our schools haveturned into these woken doctrination centers. And
just to be clear, I meanagain, not all teachers are bad,
not all schools are bad, butI would guess that there is some degree
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of prevalence of this again, thiscommunist takeover happening inside of every school,
regardless if you're in a red statelike Florida or a blue state like Maine.
And remember, as Leonardo da Vincisaid, nothing strengthens authority so much
as silence. That's what these schoolsare pushing for. They don't want any
of these kids to have their ownopinion on anything. They want them to
all focused on the same opinion broughtto you by the Left. All right,
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I'm excited for our next guest,a high school teacher now in Providence,
Rhode Island School District. When wespoke last time she was teaching middle
school. She's a whistleblower and she'sunfortunately paid the price for it, but
she's willing to blow that whistle again. She has exposed the critical race theory
curriculum and the racial hostility created byher own school department, just like what's
happening in every town in America.She's a self described curriculum spy, truth
(06:30):
teller, and patriot. She's everythingthe progressive hive mind hates, and she's
a loving mother, a teacher whoseintegrity won't allow her to not talk about
the horrifics of these k through twelvegovernment run school systems. She's on Twitter
at Ramona Bessinger, and she's backon the Main Source of Truth podcast to
talk about some updates. Ramone,I think thank you very much for being
(06:57):
a guest of ours again. Today. I went back into the archive.
You were on episode twenty eight wayback on August first, twenty twenty two,
and I really appreciate us staying intouch. So we've got we've got
today. We wanted to do anupdate. You wrote a massive article at
Legal Insurrection on February nineteenth exposing theDepartment of Homeland Security, and a funding
process for training teachers through this courageousRhode Island group through the University of Rhode
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Island seven hundred thousand dollars a grantto combat so called disinformation in six to
seventeen year old students as part ofthis media literacy programming. So that's a
lot to take in. But let'sfocus at this at a very high level,
like what what is media literacy?What does that mean, and what
does it mean when it comes toidentifying these students. Well, first of
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all, thank you for having youknow, for join this interview. It's
definitely a conversation that needs to beexplored and sort of investigated. I think
the whole concept of media literacy andK twelve education. So I think at
a call level, media literacy is, you know, an interesting one of
those interesting electives that you might takewhere you analyze media messages, commercial movies,
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anything to do with media. You'reanalyzing the intention behind whatever media product
you're analyzing, and you have discussionsaround it. It seems rather harmless and
it actually even seems like it couldmake sense to bring this to the attention
of children in K twelve schools.What happens is the way it actually looks
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and why it's harmful is the realreason we're talking today and what concerns me
and concerns many people currently. Somedia literacy is a legitimate sort of college
level course, just like CRT andthe whole concept of FEL and all these
other you know, they're also sortof founding, very legitimate until of course
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they roll out in the schools andthen they look very very differently. Yeah,
when the practice becomes reality, right, that's when we start having some
massive issues. Right, Well,it's a smoke screen, I guess our
trojan horse, if you will.These names are used to sort of you
know, get people, you know, to sort of convince people, teachers
and students that this is a legitimatecurriculum, this is legitimate curriculum content,
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when in fact it really really isnot legitimate and is in fact causing harm.
And so that was the piece thatI felt I needed to be exposed.
But this harm is initiated by theDepartment of Homeland Security and being advanced
into the communities through their partnership program, and in this case it's the University
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of Rhode Island Media Lab. Andthen of course specifically Courageous Rhode Island Courageous
Media Lab program called Courageous Rhode Islandcomplied, well, one of the one
of the interesting things here and youknow, kind of reading through some of
the articles. So the term medialiteracy for k through twelve it says the
ability to access and analyze information,which something right now students are having a
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very hard time doing because they're kindof and you know, you know,
being on the front lines. Alot of the teachers are feeding them information
and take the test, so they'renot they're not really being taught how to
think anymore, but they're being taughtwhat to think. And so immediately I
was concerned with the term kind ofas a whole because it just seems like
none of these kids have the abilityto access and analyze information at a kindergarten
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through twelfth grade level. I couldsee if it was a college bound course
and you've gone through your you know, your regular components of education, you
know, for twelve years, andthen you get into a higher echelon learning.
But you know, they're starting thisout, Like you said, I
think, what from six year oldkids to seventeen year old kids, you
know, it just it doesn't seemto make any sense. It doesn't make
sense if you're looking through the lensof a normal person who is expecting schools
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to accomplish normal tasks like teach kidsto think critically, to write critically,
to analyze literature, to look atall aspects of history. No, it
doesn't. It bolves the mind ifyou're thinking in terms of exactly what is
happening here, which is hard forus to believe that there is a power
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graph taking place in this country.What we're seeing in K twelve schools is
part of that power graph. Tocontrol people, you need to control what
they think, You need to controlhow they view themselves, how they view
history. And so, you know, looking at it in this way like
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sort of given the sort of contextof what we've seen take place in K
twelve schools with these gender ideas andtheories and curriculums social emotional learning, critical
race theory, cultural responsive education,et cetera, then it makes perfect sense,
you know, to have some sortof governing curriculum that acts as a
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surveillance of students thoughts and students feelingsabout politics, about history, and a
way to sort of redirect those thoughtsand feelings, so that kids are not
advancing, you know, their opinionsabout anything, but rather you know,
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complying with what a classroom teacher orpolitical activists may want the students to believe.
Think yeah, or in our case, obviously the far left progressive Democrat
Party, you know, whatever theirview is is the view that all the
students need to have. And youmentioned that the Department of Homeland Security believes
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that children need to be monitored forthe perceived hate speech. So I always
say hate speech is free speech.That just schools hate, you know,
or people hate, and then thedisinformation from these students. So this is
all going to be done by thevery teachers struggling to teach them how to
simply read and write correct. It'sall supposedly getting woven into the curriculum framework.
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I think I laid it out inthe article the way they're doing that.
But yeah, that's it's exactly it. And so hate speech is going
to be monitored. Now, well, if anybody has you know, anybody
out there who has children or hastaught or teachers in the public system,
now that kids will say all kindsof things. Now, are we going
to be monitoring every single developmental phaseof a child's you know, existence,
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and calling it hate speech if ifthere's schoolyard bullying or they say difficult things
to one another, or like,is this all going to be monitored?
Because these are natural stages of development. Kids say things and do things that
are wrong. That's why they haveparents and adults to guide them. So
now the Department of Homeland Security islooking for any kind of activity or any
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thought or expression of anything that theydeem hate speech, and they're going to
monitor and try to mitigate that speechthat doesn't sound right to me, that
worries me a great deal. Well, and I'll give you an example right
here from Brewer Main and part ofthe lawsuit that I filed on Thursday or
Friday. Essentially, we have ateacher, well, we had a bunch
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of students who are concerned with boysin the girls room. So a local
school, in many schools across Mainein the country, have these transgender bathroom
and locker room policies where if you'rea boy and you simply affirm as a
girl, you can simply walk inon the girls taking showers at this point
and in the bathroom. So itcreates a safety issue. So these students,
these brave students, created a petitionin this Brewer High School in Brewer,
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Maine, and one of the teachers, who is the paid faculty advisor
for the Gay Sexuality Alliance, endedup basically cornering one of these kids and
saying that she was going to havehim charged with hate speech because he was
going against the fact that there wasa boy in the girls room. I
mean, that's how completely insane someof these teachers are. And obviously not
all teachers, you know, you'vegot you know yourself and others who are
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really trying to make a difference withthese kids. But it just seems like
teachers want to head students off atthe past so that if they don't share
the same far left ideology you know, you mentioned DEI and climate change and
hyper sexualization or whatever that you know, they're they're going to use these four
main strategies to really, again,you know, head the student off so
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that they don't have any thoughts oftheir own, which can frighten me,
right, it is, it is, It is very it is so scary
what we are seeing. And nowI often say I have a hard time
convincing parents that there's pornography in thelibrary. Even when I show them the
books and I read from them,like, they still can't grasp that.
So can we talk a little aboutthe strategies that you were taught in this
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session? And I think the firstone was really a standalone course right using
left wing news platforms like news Elato aggregate progressive news stories within these lesson
plans, within a firewall process thatonly really allows one Democrat political message.
So can you talk a little bitabout how they want to essentially format and
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frame all of these aggregate news storiesso that the kids only see one version
of the truth. I could speakto that youre directly. So sometime in
twenty twenty one, electives were removedfrom the curriculum platform. And when I
say curriculum platform, I mean electiveswere just contrarily taken out of my school
choice for kids, so kids couldnot choose theater and you know, art,
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etc. Those were eliminated. Andwhen none of us could really understand
why, and Loan beholds that wasdone to make room for a multi level,
multi multi grade class that I wasactually teaching at the time, and
I did ask why am I doingthis? I'm an experienced you know,
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English teacher. I'm not sure whyI'm these kids are going to be in
front of computers and taking notes onnews articles. Well that's when I really
dug deeply into the curriculum the newsELA platform, because I was in fact
teaching it, and I noticed thatevery single article on the news e LA
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platform, which is news English languageart platforms, was radical in some way
or reflected, you know, oneof the left wing talking points there was.
There were no opposing political points ofview that were represented on this news
platform, on this news site,and then there were links to other you
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know, news sources, and everysingle platform and news source was the same.
And basically, kids six seventh Nategraters would sit there and summarize articles
because there was no curriculum. Ijust have to do my best to sort
of bring some English thinking and writingand reading streaty. But the content was
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so offensive, like it was soa lot of it wasn't even true.
There were articles about nine to eleventhat were incomplete and basically neutralized sort of
the horrible actions that occurred on thatday. And when I say neutralized,
I mean spun it in a waythat you know, made it just seem
like an event that happened and wasno big deal. There were news articles
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that addressed the Holocaust that really didn'tgo into the horrors of the Holocaust.
In fact, they sort of,you know, glossed over the Holocaust as
some minor events in history. Therewere lots of videos of Mark Zuckerberg talking
about video products and climate change andyou know, fun activities for kids,
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to which I thought was very bizarre. And there were lots of positive articles
about Bill Gates and his his involvementin education. So I thought, two
of the worst guys out there,right, two of two of the worst
guys out there as far as youknow, far left funding. I mean,
yeah, we've seen We've seen schoolsin Maine, you know, kind
of I guess similar to that.I mean, we've got schools in Maine
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that have CNN on blast all daylong, and it's like a brainwashing operation.
You know, MSNBC or CNN ison in the common areas, like
you know, in the in thehallway or in the break room or whatever
it is. I mean, butand that so that source is really a
one sided far left angle. Butthat's just one of these four strategies right,
So the first strategy is pushing oneangle essentially that would be an example
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of a standalone class. But theproblem with these standalone class is that you
have to bump something out in orderto make room for a media class like
this, and so I think theywere running into difficulty. And so the
second strategy, or one of theother strategies, is to incorporate media analysis
media literacy into all other coursework,so or to offer it as an elective.
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So, but the way it looksas it's embedded in the curriculum I
thought was particularly insidious and wrong becausethis and presumably that's what you're you were
going to talk about next. Thesecond strategy was the hyper focus on everything
Donald Trump, you know, beingbad. They don't want any MAGA students
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in training and basically try to discossate, discredit everything that is a you know,
a Donald Trump focused effort. Sothe courageous are Rhode Island facilitators pointed
out that Trump is the root causeof all social media and media disinformation,
blames MAGA Republicans for committing violence,talked about obviously the insurrection January sixth,
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and you know, as we know, mag is really the group who abides
by the law and the Constitution.But Donald Trump is the biggest threat out
there. I mean I witnessed thatfirsthand when I was in Washington, DC
this weekend. So yeah, thatsecond strategy basically interweaving everything every single class
should you know, it doesn't matterif math, if it's math or whatever,
it is that Donald Trump is wrong. And you know, Orange Man
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Bad and the whole thing. Well, the crazy Short Island was extremely focused,
like hyper focused on President Trump.And they consider themselves the you know,
judges and jury night of January sixth, and in fact, you know,
pushed the narrative that these the peoplewho went to the January sixth rally,
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we're all insurrectsurrectionists and criminals. Nowthese are adults, and you know,
you see the teachers nodding their heads, and of course they go back
into their classrooms and they tell thekids right, and the kids and believed
it. Well, the fact ofthe matter is that nothing has it can
be farther from the truth. Thisis a narrative, a media message,
a narrative that was pushed in thetraining for teachers to share with their students.
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And I found it very odd thatthey were so Trump obsessed and so
and in fact, you know,one of the facilitators had written an entire
book on magat children and their familiesand the influence of MAGA Republicans around middle
schoolers and the negative impact that thatcould have. And so that was you
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know, flat out telling lies oror choosing one political opinion over another was
definitely part of you know, thestrategies or one of the strategies that yeah,
I mean we joked that, youknow, Trump Trump arrangement syndrome is
real. People you know are reallyafflicted by it. But also realizing that
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most of these teachers' unions push ninetynine percent far left candidates with their you
know, Ponzi scheme, you know, their money processing scheme, and so
so strategy three this is the partwhere it gets even more scary for me.
So strategy three were well, studentswere taught to report on their classmates
by monitoring the speech of others,identifying the target, reporting on the target,
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and then potentially publicly shaming the target. So can you tell, you
know, tell all the listeners alittle bit about how they they want to
contain anybody who has a voice.Obviously we've seen this ourselves. But what
are the schools doing to really tryto ratchet down the voices of anybody who
might have anything against you know this, this far left narrative that they're pushing.
This is probably the most insidious andmost worrisome to me because everything is
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framed around you know this, thissort of weird speak that they use there
and actually speak, I mean,the vocabulary that they pushed out their bipregistered
island is meant to conceal exactly youknow what they're doing, which is to
identify anyone who might have a differenceof opinions and then to sort of try
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to mitigate that opinion or mitigate thatthe thoughts that are being expressed by the
students, and if the student doesn'tcomply, or in my case, if
there's a teacher or you know,we've seen this play out, then take
to the next level, which couldlook like a referral to a behavioral special
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or specialist or a behavioral team orwhat they refer to in some schools as
point teams. Well then then whatthen the child is maybe interviewed by this
team or or encouraged to reveal wherethey got their opinions and thoughts from in
that case, you know, yeah, they're bullied into submission. They're basically
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bullied into submission, right, andyou can imagine child and a firm,
you know, being put through thisrigorous sort of these steps. They're going
to comply very very quickly, andin fact, they might even prefurther,
and that is to say, well, my mom or dad thinks this way,
and or they might use the saysomething, see something up and report
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on a neighbor or a parent ora friend. Blown away by that,
I mean that that is the literalred guard aspect of Mao's communist China.
And and you know, it's thewhole reporting of disinformation. I mean,
first off, who defines what isdisinformation? I mean, is it the
truth? Is it the truth basedon the constitution? Is it based on
opinion? Is it based on newssources? You know? I mean,
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But and the other thing is andas you know, I mean, these
these students are already off the chartswith anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide.
They can't normally even engage in regulareducation. And now they're going to
have to worry about if all theirother student peers are watching them based on
you know what if they decide theywant to flag an American you know,
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throw American flag in the back ofthe pickup or something. It's just absolutely
insane, but it is. It'sreally the sane, and it's very scary
and worrisome. And the fact ofthe matter is kids can deal with normal
education. They can you know,deal with reading a book and analyzing it
and analyzing the universal themes that uniteeverybody. Or they can deal with these,
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you know, difficult moments in historyand discuss and analyze that. What
they cannot deal with is this isthis so called media literacy, the attention
on a student's alleged you know,political points of view or thoughts and feelings
about religion. This is not appropriatefor school. It is no place in
school, and it's harmful to children. And if we're seeing that rise in
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anxiety and children will look very closelyat these programs, media literacy being the
one, is the latest Ethnic studiesCRT. All of these things are smoke
screens for something much more sinister,which is power and control over children.
Yeah, no doubt. And reallythe fourth strategy, so this is kind
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of an interesting segue. So theperformative protesting right, So this is all
about turning little little kids, littlestudents into little activists and having teachers stage
things. And we saw that inyour case previously, teachers staging these walkouts
and you know act, you know, creating a little activists. Really,
I mean, these kids are becomingsecret sell agents for the deep state,
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you know, by taking part inthese videos and billboards and social media messaging
where the media the winner actually getsthousands of dollars, enticing kids to basically
tell on their family and friends andand conform to the you know, liberal
diatribe of what's being fed to them. I mean it, it's crazy.
It reminds me of I found abook in the local library r K through
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three school library here in Hampden,Maine, and it was on display and
it was called The Art of theProtest and on the cover of it had
a BLM fist with a magic markeror a pencil or something in it,
and it was calling for kids,you know, five year old kids to
draw protest type materials in school.And meanwhile, at least Aaron, Maine,
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we've never had worse academic assessments likethey've never been lower, and our
tax burdens have never been higher.Yet you know, they're pushing these kids
to become little activists. So that'scertainly been a big effect on you personally
in the previous situation in the middleschool. But can you talk a little
bit about, as we're finishing uphere, the performative protesting aspect. Well,
(28:47):
when I had the conversation with SelveHaayer's courageous in the program, I
was told that kids are frustrated,and this is verbatim, and I think
I might even screenshop the conversation becauseI couldn't believe what I was hearing.
But this is actually a strategy thatis pushed onto teachers to use with their
kids. If kids are feeling realand I'm sort of paraphrasing, if kids
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are feeling frustrated by something that theysee in their community that worries them violent,
an example of violent extremism or whatever, an alleged political opinion that could
lead to violent extremism, then childrenare pushed to do what is called performative
activism, make signs, you know, take a stand. And we see
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this sort of play out in alot of the lessons. I mean,
I think I even showed some wholestring of lessons from written wisdom where kids
are treated as change agents, youknow this term. So they're actually being
groomed to stage an activist protest,which you might say, you know,
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ten years ago or whatever. Okay, so what you have a little political
you know thing that you do inhistory class or whatever you say, your
mock trial and history class things harmful? This is not that. It's this
is harmful what they're rooming children todo to basically find a target and shame
that target publicly. And it wasn'tjust in my case where kids were actually
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prompted by several adults to do this. I mean you witness that. It
was absolutely devastating for me, andso you know, harmful to my and
worrisome because you know, as aresult of that activity, you know,
I received death threats, my familywasn't safe, et cetera. But I'm
not the only teacher who is beingsort of protested in this way. There
(30:41):
was a teacher in New York wheresomething even more insidious happened, where the
kids went rioting through the school andsingled her out and protested her stance or
presence in the building. Simply tissuesand is a supporter of Israel, you
know so, and you know BillJacobson from Legal Insurrection was also the victim
(31:03):
of this sort of mass you know, led protest. It's called performative activism
or performative protesting, and it soundsharmless, but it's not. It is
not harmless. It's going to leadto something worse down the line. Because
we see this escalation of this performativeactivism playing out in school kids do not
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have the same gauge of you know, danger or whatever, and it's one
day it's going to result in somebodybeing harmed. You know, I came
very close to being harmed. Mychildren have been targeted. And other people
can speak to this sort of performativeactivism towards them, Riley Gaines, many
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other people, and some people aretoo afraid to talk about it. They
just leave the profession quietly, right, But this is something that is it
really needs to and in schools touse children, to weaponize children in this
manner, that has to stop aswell. And we need some help from
Congress or from the government to intervenehere. Yeah, I mean, I
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think ultimately we've all got still havelocal control on the school boards at least
we think we do. And Ithink a lot of people really need to
engage there if they want to continueto send kids to school. I mean,
you know, I'm a proponent ofhomeschooling and to pull your kids immediately
out of these schools because I thinkthey're irreparably broken. And the more that
we dive into these things, themore we find out about things like your
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great article here on legal insurrection,the more scary parents should be, you
know. So one of the thingsI wanted to ask is we're kind of
tying this up, is you know, what's what's next? What's next for
Ramona? What do you what doyou got going on? I mean,
how are you working through you know, this process in the school system,
and you know, what do youthink you're going to be doing next?
(32:52):
Well, I'm going to be doinga series of webinars for Moms for America
where I talk about these subjects,how critical race theory, sel gender theories,
how protesting an activism is playing outin the curriculum and in the schools,
and how parents can actually get involvedto protect their own children. Because
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not everybody has their the ability tohomeschool, not everybody has the ability to
send to a specific Christian or Catholicschool or private school, and so how
can parents get involved? So whatare some actionable steps for parents? And
you know, I haven't given upon my teaching career. I'm still employed
as a teacher and I plan toto defend my honor there as well.
(33:39):
But if you you know so,I think community outreach and sharing sharing the
information is very significant and important forparents to get the word out there,
just as you're doing. No,I appreciate that. Where Where's the best
place to follow your work online?Is Twitter? One of the spots that
(34:00):
you usually post this stuff up on. I try to post on Twitter.
I do some posting on Facebook andpublic speaking, and so that's right now
the platform. Of course, somemedia has picked up on the story,
but the story of education is onethat is difficult to tell because there are
(34:22):
a lot of moving pieces, andso I try to do my best with
Twitter's threads. I'm not so greatat posting, you know, really clever
tweets and all that, but certainly, you know, I do wherever I
can. Yeah, absolutely, Andit's at Ramona Bessinger B E S S
I N G E R correct.Yeah, right, on Twitter. Yeah,
(34:43):
well, I appreciate it. Iknow that you know, you and
I have stayed in touch over theyears. We've tried to continue to,
you know, sort of talk aboutjust this instuous, incestuous relationship that these
schools have with with our kids,with our tax dollars. It's just it
is so scary what's going on rightnow, and we hope that every day.
You know, I agree, schools, you need to fight for them.
They're your community centers. But yeah, people, if they don't start
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taking action, I don't know ifwe're gonna be able to get these things
back. So I really appreciate yourtime today. I'm gonna continue to root
in your corner here, and Ireally appreciate the time you spent with the
listeners of the main source of truth. Thanks Sean. I appreciate you having
me on your show. A couplethings here with Final Truths. Something Ramona
wanted me to mention again is thestudent reporting system is an app called Say
(35:30):
Something, and it's instead of callingnine to one one. But these these
programs are encouraging kids through the teachersto report on angry neighbors, classmates,
you know, and other teachers whowe're not towing the line. And the
way that if I remember how thisworks, is that say something app basically
kind of you know, it's notlike directly calling nine to one one.
(35:52):
It roots you through this process whereit dumps out in an anonymous way on
the other end, and then somebodyis going to gain that in from come
calling and find out, you know, whether it don't it's your neighbor or
your classmate or your teacher. Theother thing is that Ramona mentioned to me
she include in something that I've talkedabout a while back. This is way
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back on episode sixty nine, Junefifth, twenty twenty three, Charlotte Izzerbite,
the deliberate dumbing down of America andhow you know a lot of these
kids, it's just this is aprocess, right, this is a process
that these change agents are being placedin these schools to act again for the
government. You know, they're actinglike again the Red Guard, the Mao's
(36:36):
Red Guard of China. It's insane. And then lastly, a couple points
here and I'll probably butcher this person'sname, sagal Ben Barrath says in her
essay which forms the ideological foundation ofthe courageous Rhode Islands Department of Homeland Security
funded Media Literacy program. Quote.The goal thus is not to persuade,
but rather to create a sense ofshared fate or a shared civic goal among
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students, both as members of theclassroom community and as members of the same
nation. Unquote. That to mescreams this globalism concept where everybody has to
think the same. And you know, our nation was based on individual freedoms,
that's where we have become so successful. And these teachers, these school
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systems are deliberately dumbing these kids downto basically be part of the borg high
hive mind philosophy, you know.So interclosing Ramona states in our article and
again you can find this on LegalInsurrection. Quote the goals to have all
K through twelve children think the samealong approved lines. School children will become
targets by other children and teachers formerely expressing their points of views. They
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will be manipulated and weaponized by thepartisan teachers and student informers. They will
be targeted, isolated, silenced,and perhaps falsely reported to the authorities.
In the end, no child,teacher, a community member will be safe.
As media literacy initiative will create asurveillance and punishment culture that should scare
the Bejesus out of parents, becausethat's again what's happening inside your local K
(38:09):
through twelve school all around the country. This is not just Rhode Island,
this is everywhere. Whatever happens ina Rhode Island or happens in Maine could
be happening in your backyard, There'sno doubt. So appreciate you listening today.
My voice is a little bit betterthan it was in the last podcast,
but it's still not quite there.So thank you for letting me work
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through this, and please share thesepodcasts. Make sure you subscribe like would
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I appreciate your listening. Round themup, Round them up, men,
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