As we explained in our article "Terrorists In Pearls And Lilly Pulitzer" Democrat Attorney General Merrick Garland baselessly accused parents opposed to teaching anti-American
history, critical race theory and transgenderism of making “threats against public service,” when they attend school board meetings to object and has directed the FBI to investigate.
We think the problem is not that angry parents and taxpayers have morphed into a domestic terrorism movement, it is that arrogant education bureaucrats and little Hitlers on school boards are finally being called to account for their failures and their lies – and having been caught they are outrageously demanding protection from the very people to whom they are supposed to be accountable; taxpayers, parents and voters.
Now conservative leaders of the Conservative Action Project, whose organizations represent millions of conservative parents, voters and taxpayers have joined us in telling parents and taxpayers outraged by what is going on in their schools not to be intimidated. Go to your next school board meeting, take 10 people with you, sign-up to speak and say your piece.
October 13, 2021
Washington, DC
Conservatives are deeply disturbed by the efforts of the Department of Justice to criminalize parental dissent at school board meetings. This is a dangerous and anti-democratic attempt at intimidation that should be vigorously opposed.
The DOJ has recently announced it will direct the FBI to investigate “threats of violence” at school board meetings. The announcement came just days after the National School Boards Association urged the Biden administration to invoke the Patriot Act against concerned parents, as they might be engaged in “domestic terrorism.”
This level of outright authoritarianism must be opposed. Parents not only pay for the instruction taking place in public schools, but as parents, have the right to know how and in what manner their children are being instructed. Those expressions of disagreement and demands for accountability are not only appropriate in a democratic society, but protected under the Constitution.
If Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden administration are going to make it their business to ban, demean, and belittle parents and citizens for engaging in protected speech in the institutions funded by their tax dollars, the response from concerned parents must be more speech, not less.
We urge all parents to attend their school board meetings, to use their rights to speak, to request documents under the Freedom of Information Laws, to engage in dialogue with the elected school boards who are there to serve their interests, or merely to be present.
American citizens will not be intimidated in the face of such wildly inappropriate and despotic tactics from the Department of Justice – and in fact, we are now further motivated to peaceably assemble and speak out on behalf of the way our children are being instructed and formed.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Distinguished Fellow Emeritus
The Heritage Foundation
Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
President, Republic Book Publishers
Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
The Honorable David McIntosh
President
Club for Growth
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Former Counselor to the U.S. Attorney General
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Advancing American Freedom
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Constitutional Congress, Inc.
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
President and CEO
America First Policy Institute (AFPI)
Rachel A. Bovard
Senior Director of Policy
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Virginia Thomas
President
Liberty Consulting
Lisa B. Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
American Legislative Exchange Council
Carrie Lukas
President
Independent Women's Forum
Julie Gunlock
Content Director
Independent Women's Network
Sherri R. Martin
Trustee
Florida Baptist Children’s Homes
Guillermo J. Aragon
Senior Partner
Corbere Partners
Lourdes Cosio
Campaign for the American Future
Bishop E.W. Jackson
President
STAND Foundation, Inc.
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Karen England
Executive Director, Capitol Resource Institute & Nevada Family Alliance
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Trent England
Executive Director
Save Our States
Reverend Gregory Quinlan
Founder
Center for Garden State Families
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
Richard Norman
Founder and President
The Richard Norman Company
Brian Rogers
President
The Jesse Helms Center
Martha Boneta
President
Vote America First
Kielle C. Horton
President
The Lindsey Foundation
William Shaker
CEO
Washington Marketing Group
Richard Wright
Owner
R & S LLC
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Law Offices of Jack Park
The Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
Former Congressman
1st Congressional District of Kansas
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
Donna Rice Hughes
CEO & President
Enough Is Enough
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Dr. E. Calvin Beisner
President
Cornwall Alliance
Chad Connelly
President
Faith Wins
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State Representative
Dr. Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
MRC
Jeremy Cerone
Chairman, William F. Buckley Jr. Council
Council for National Policy
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper
President Reagan's Chief Defense and Space Negotiator & Former SDI Director
Dr. Allen Unruh
Founder
National Abstinence Clearinghouse
The Honorable Matt Schlapp
Chairman
American Conservative Union (ACU)
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Scott T. Parkinson
VP for Government Affairs
Club for Growth
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Tom McClusky
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Lori Roman
President, American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU)
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Thomas Fitton
President, Judicial Watch, Inc.
President, Council for National Policy
The Honorable Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II
Chairman
Election Transparency Initiative
Terry Schilling
Executive Director
American Principles Project
Noah Wall
Executive Vice President
FreedomWorks
William L. Walton
Managing Editor and Host
The Bill Walton Show
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)
Heather R. Higgins
CEO
Independent Women's Voice
Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Haley E. Martin
Past President
The Martin Foundation
Christina Murphy Lusk
President
The Martin Foundation
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain, National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer
Presidential Historian
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
The Honorable James C. Miller III
Budget Director for President Reagan, 1985-1988
Rob Chambers
Vice President
AFA Action
Sean Noble
President
American Encore
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Don Woodsmall
Managing Member
Arromid, LLC
Garland S. Tucker III
Retired Founder
CEO Triangle Capital Corp
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Willes K. Lee
Immediate Past President
NFRA
Allen Hebert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
Marc Little
Executive Director
CURE America Action
Floyd Brown
Founder
The Western Journal
Robert Keith Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
James Taylor
President
The Heartland Institute
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson
President (2013-2019)
National Religious Broadcasters
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
William W. Pascoe, III
Our Man in Washington
Tea Party Patriots Action
Mark Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
Richard G. Scurry
VP Product Development
14all.us
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Richard D. Hayes
Partner
Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP
Kathleen Patten
President & CEO
American Target Advertising
E.C. Sykes
General Partner
Aslan Ventures
Melvin Adams
President
Noah Webster Educational Foundation
Tim Throckmorton
President
Lifepointe Ministries
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
parental rights
School curriculum
Critical Race Theory
Sexually explicit materials
parental notification
Teachers unions
COVID restrictions
National School Boards Association (NSBA)
mask mandates
vaccine mandates
domestic terrorism
Attorney General Merrick Garland