On Tuesday, Hot Air posted an article about the group Moms for Liberty. The group was formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools remained closed and required students to wear face masks late into 2020 and 2021, and when remote learning allowed parents to see what the schools had been teaching their children.

The article reports:

Is Moms for Liberty a “hate group” on the order of the KKK?

The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee thinks so. Not even the infamously anti-sanity NGO, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which never saw a conservative-leaning group it didn’t despise, has gone so far as to label Moms for Liberty a hate group, although they do call them “extremist.”

…When even the SPLC can’t conjure up enough evidence to indict you as a hate group, your worst crime is loving puppies and kittens. After all, PragerU and Focus on the Family make it into the hate group category. 

Yet police officers in Massachusetts are told to be on the lookout for moms who don’t like drag queens fondling their kindergarten children. They may be armed and dangerous. 

…Moms for Liberty’s crimes? Asserting their Constitutionally protected rights. Seriously. And the police training center cites this as proof that they are anti-government, because sitting down, shutting up, and doing what you are told by insane government officials is every citizen’s duty. 

The article concludes:

Now, Moms for Liberty supporters have to worry that every police officer in Massachusetts has been trained to look at them as dangerous extremists. This is not just insulting–it is physically dangerous to them. When police officers are put on heightened alert, bad things can happen to the targets.

In Massachusetts, under Maura Healey’s leadership, the Municipal Police Training Committee isn’t backing down. They have fired a shot across the bow, and the next shot may be literal and aimed at a mom or dad just trying to get their kid a decent education.

The goal is obvious: create a climate of fear that forces opponents of the leftist agenda to remain silent and submit. With the censorship complex under attack by Donald Trump, Blue cities and states are using even more repressive tactics to shut people up.

When my children were in school back in the age of dinosaurs, teachers welcomed parental involvement. Now it is seen as a threat. Parents need to know what their children are learning, and parents need to be involved in their local schools.