{"id":28440,"date":"2016-06-05T21:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28440"},"modified":"2016-06-05T21:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:10:25","slug":"wasting-the-time-of-the-local-deputy-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28440","title":{"rendered":"Wasting The Time Of The Local Deputy Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/boy-bible-verse-notes-in-class\/?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Huckabee&amp;utm_content=2016-06-05&amp;utm_campaign=manualpost\" target=\"_blank\">The Conservative Tribune<\/a> posted an article about an incident in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Palmdale, California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=34.5811111111,-118.100555556&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=34.5811111111,-118.100555556 (Palmdale%2C%20California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Palmdale, California<\/a>, that illustrates the erosion of free speech in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The boy, a student at Desert Rose <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Elementary school\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elementary_school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Elementary School<\/a> in Palmdale, always got an encouraging note along with a <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/professor-threat-student-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bible verse<\/a> packed in his lunch every day. Other students were curious about the notes, packed by his mother, Christina Zavala, and expressed that they, too, would like to have some.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Zavala was more than happy to oblige.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The above story is a very simple example of how little kids do things&#8211;if your mom puts something in your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lunch box\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunch_box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">lunch box<\/a> that is unique, the other kids want one too.<\/p>\n<p>The story continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>However, it didn\u2019t take long for school officials to put an end to the sharing. On April 18, Zavala was told by a teacher that her son could no longer share the Bible verses at school, but he could share them outside the school gate after the bell rang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Apparently <em>that<\/em> was not enough, and on May 9, the school\u2019s principal banned sharing <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/bible-belt-just-banned-bibles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bible verses<\/a> on school property altogether, citing school policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>And just to make sure the family understood the school\u2019s firm stance, a deputy sheriff was dispatched to the Zavala\u2019s home to reinforce the message.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What law was broken? Why would a deputy sheriff visit the child&#8217;s home? What is the school afraid of? Does the child not have <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"First Amendment to the United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">First Amendment rights<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>This is the correct response to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Head teacher\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Head_teacher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">school principal<\/a>&#8216;s actions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Attorney Richard Mast, who represented the Zavala family, told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/06\/03\/school-sends-sheriff-to-order-child-to-stop-sharing-bible-verses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> the visit was \u201coutrageous and should shock the conscious of every freedom-loving American.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cApparently all the real criminals have been dealt with in Palmdale \u2014 and now they\u2019re going after kids who share Bible verses during lunch time,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Raul Maldonado, superintendent of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Palmdale School District\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmdale_School_District\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Palmdale School District<\/a>, said he was\u00a0reviewing the matter and did not answer questions regarding the sheriff\u2019s visit to the Zavala\u2019s residence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Liberty Counsel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberty_Counsel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Liberty Counsel<\/a> has\u00a0demanded the school stop suppressing and censoring the <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/school-admins-jesus-lunch\/\" target=\"_blank\">religious freedom<\/a> of students. If they do not comply, they could face a federal lawsuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Little kids share. Let them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Conservative Tribune posted an article about an incident in Palmdale, California, that illustrates the erosion of free speech in America. The article reports: The boy, a student at Desert Rose Elementary School in Palmdale, always got an encouraging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,1862,2693,10045,10047,10046],"class_list":["post-28440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-first-amendment-rights","tag-liberty-counsel","tag-palmdale","tag-palmdale-school-district","tag-school-principal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28441,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions\/28441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}