Merrick's miscalculation, my visit with Tucker and a story of monsters in Virginia
If you thought parents were fired up before, wait 'til you see them now
Last week was a whirlwind with US Attorney General Merrick Garland issuing a directive to federal law enforcement to investigate parents just five days after the National School Board Association (NSBA) asked the Biden Administration to do just that. Turns out this was all highly coordinated, which explains the almost immediate turn around time. We all know that bureaucracies don’t move with lightning speed unless the fix is already in.
Merrick Garland also has a problem on his hands now that my organization has exposed his conflict of interest in all of this.
Our parent whistleblower sent us the tip she found with a simple Google search: Garland’s daughter is married to Xan Tanner, a cofounder of Panorama Education. Garland’s family is profiting off the business decisions of school boards. Garland’s family will benefit from the silencing of parents. — Asra Nomani
Read more on that by Asra here.
Parents across America and the political spectrum have not taken kindly to being likened by the NSBA to “the equivalent of domestic terrorists,” although there is now reason to believe that a white house official actually drafted the letter as part of a coordinated strategy to get parents to pipe down before they ruin everything, politically speaking of course. Others are getting to the bottom of that.
I was asked to join Tucker Carlson Friday night to discuss the directive by the Department of Justice to investigate parents.
Three days after my appearance on Tucker’s show, Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak broke a big (and awful) story out of Loudoun County, VA about the truth behind a man who became the face of unhinged parents at school board meetings; turns out he is actually the father of a 9th grade daughter who was raped in multiple ways in the girls’ bathroom by a biological male who identifies as “gender-fluid.” The rape kit confirmed the assault.
Keep in mind as you read further that this father’s arrest was specifically cited in the National School Board Association letter as the kind of incident that might justify invoking the PATRIOT Act against parents.
From Rosiak’s piece:
On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
What people did not know is that weeks prior on May 28, Smith says, a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girls’ bathroom at nearby Stone Bridge High School, where he sexually assaulted Smith’s ninth-grade daughter.
Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith’s attorney Elizabeth Lancaster told The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day at that school.
As a result of the viral video showing his arrest, Smith became the poster child for what the National School Boards Association has since suggested could be a form of “domestic terrorism”: a white blue-collar male who showed up to harangue obscure public servants on his local school board.
“If someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had to say, they would have been mortified and heartbroken,” Lancaster said.
Minutes before Smith’s arrest, the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) superintendent lectured the public that concerns about the transgender policy were misplaced because the school system had no record of any assault occurring in any school bathroom.
Then a woman wearing a rainbow heart shirt – a left-wing community activist – told Smith she did not believe his daughter, he says. His rage reached a boil and he had a heated exchange of words with the woman. A police officer, there to keep the peace in the meeting, pulled on his arm. Smith yanked it away. Before he knew it, Smith says, he was hit in the face, handcuffed, and dragged across the floor, with his pants pulled down.
The events from beginning to end of this disturbing story are detailed in Rosiak’s 5,000 word magazine style piece that is understandably behind a paywall. The reporting on this story is top notch — it will be an absolute travesty if mainstream outlets do not pick it up and then publicly apologize to Scott Smith for the hell his family has endured because of how they misrepresented him.
The piece tells the story of a school board and superintendent who behaved like monsters, covering up the sexual assault of Smith’s daughter in the school bathroom and then, with the help of the local prosecutor, trying to cover up another assault on a different female student by the same 15-year-old perpetrator.
The school chose not to involve the police the day of the incident with Smith’s daughter. They called him to the school and referenced a “physical altercation in the bathroom with a male.” Smith quickly realized that the incident was far more serious than what he had been told; he says he “went nuts” on school administrators over the fact that they refused to call the police for the rape of his daughter. The school instead called the police on him. As he describes it, “six cop cars showed up like a f**** SWAT team.”
He did not get arrested that day and instead convinced the police that his daughter needed to go to the hospital to have a rape kit administered. They provided a police escort. According to Smith’s lawyer, “a SANE exam and buccal swab came back favorable to the prosecution.”
The district continued to lie to parents even after the boy was charged—juvenile records are sealed but, according to Smith’s attorney, the boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy and one count of forcible fellatio.
After going viral and becoming the media’s poster child for bigoted parents wreaking havoc at school board meetings, community activists promised to destroy his plumbing business and tried to destroy his life. The sexual assault of his daughter did not deter them even a little. He finally put up a fence around his house just to keep the media off his property.
Because he was banned from future school board meetings, he was not allowed to speak during public comment to refute the dishonest claims being made by the district officials and board members.
Scott Smith didn’t even follow politics before this. I suspect he will now.
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Enjoy this beautiful Rhode Island sunset that I noticed last night while sitting in the parking lot at my son’s basketball practice.
Talk soon,
Erika
