Oldestyle
Diamond Member
You do realize the difference between speech and physical action...right? People say things when they are outraged. That doesn't mean they're going to do them. Who involves the FBI when a parent verbally threatens to harm someone who is harming their child? It would be bad enough if the local authorities were involved but at least THEY would know the people involved and if the threats were credible! Bringing in the FBI over speech? Seriously? It's like hitting a fly with a sledgehammer.Oh, you have mistaken my post, good poster Oldestyle. I said nothing about parents being "upset". I was intending to convey that 'upset' parents must not threaten bodily harm to an elected school board member or the Board itself. To do so.....breaks the law. I am sure you recognize the utility of protecting our elected officials from threats and/or harm. And their children too. No?
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Oh they were being challenged, all right. So stipulated.
However, in some controversial incidences those 'challenges' came accompanied by threats of bodily harm to an elected school board member, or to the Board as a whole. It's the threats that are the problem, poster Oldstyle. NOT that parents are upset. NOT that parents challenge the Board.
Just don't challenge with threats of harm....to the member, to the Board, to their children.
Seems to be a pragmatic view with great utility for the safe functioning of our democratic society... led, as it is, by officials who are elected by the people. IMHO
This was nothing more than an intimidation tactic used by liberal educators to cow parents. You know that THEY knew it was over the top because they hid what they were doing! The only reason it was made public was because of whistleblowers in the FBI who found it outrageous.