Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s Attorney General, or more accurately, his Handler’s AG, was an angry, bitter man. Denied what he surely thought his rightful place on the Supreme Court, he embraced the weaponization of the DOJ and the rest of the government under Biden with glee. Among his joys was siccing the FBI on parents who dared object to the sexual and political indoctrination of their children in public schools.
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Christopher Rufo was among those exposing the branding of soccer moms as “domestic terrorists:”
Graphic: Twitter Post
Garland was eventually forced to admit his sole source for thinking Suzy Soccer Mom a terrorist was a letter from the leftist National School Boards Association (NSBA):
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Garland, who ended up before Congress because of a whistleblower, was not completely forthcoming, and it was soon discovered that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona asked the NSBA for that soccer mom terrorism letter. He was also specific in telling the NSBA what to write:
On Sept. 29, the NSBA, which represents more than 90,000 school board members, sent a to Biden asking his administration to address hostilities toward school boards as possible acts of “domestic terrorism,” claiming there had been an increase in the “acts of malice, violence and threats against public school officials.”
The NSBA letter also called for the Biden administration to invoke the Patriot Act, which Congress passed to deal with terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
The NSBA, losing members in droves, began issuing public apologies and promises to act professionally in the future:
On behalf of NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter. To be clear, the safety of school board members, other public school officials and educators, and students is our top priority, and there remains important work to be done on this issue. However, there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter. We should have had a better process in place to allow for consultation on a communication of this significance. We apologize also for the strain and stress this situation has caused you and your organizations.
We’re now learning that there was more than a single whistleblower worried about Garland:
“I don’t think it’s possible to state how strongly I object to this. It will completely and totally nuke our election threats efforts, and will damage the reputation of the Public Integrity Section into the bargain,” one deputy assistant attorney general wrote on an internal email chain. “It’s like they’ve affirmatively trying to make this thing not work and look political.”
“If they do this, they might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force,” they continued.
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“Exactly!” the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section chief responded. “Stupid, stupid, stupid.”
One would have hoped DOJ attorneys would be more concerned with the legality of it all. It might have been a stretch, but at least a few DOJ employees might have thought going after soccer moms was improper, perhaps even illegal:
“We will not do this,” one principal deputy assistant attorney general wrote. “There is no conceivable connection to [public integrity] (indeed, I’m not seeing a federal interest of any kind.). And if they’re going to make the AG’s memo to the field about this and election threats, I’m going to strongly recommend that they not send it.”
The Public Integrity section chief chimed in that the memo could turn the Justice Department and the FBI into the “threat police” and that it contained “no limiting principle at all.”
They were referring to the Garland memo trying to loose the FBI and local police on parents. Those were the heady days when the FBI ignored real domestic terrorism and focused on parents and “Radical Traditional Catholics,” who enjoyed the Latin Mass.
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Most probably don’t remember, but Garland refused to retract the memo or apologize:
“The obligation of the Justice Department is to protect the American people against violence and threats of violence and that particularly includes public officials,” he said of the memo.
Was there ever any actual threat against school board members? No, though a few parents were arrested in blue counties for getting upset with school board members for catering to trans who molested their daughters in bathrooms and other complaints. There’s no doubt some parents were upset with school boards, particularly because they were implementing the woke desires and policies of the Bidenites, but heated exchanges at school board meetings between board members and parents, and between board members, have long been an American tradition.
Branding parents domestic terrorists and lying about it? Not so much.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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