{"id":43376,"date":"2021-10-06T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43376"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:38:16","slug":"i-wish-i-were-surprised-by-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43376","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I Were Surprised By This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> that included the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation\u2019s public schools, today Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys\u2019 Offices to meet in the next 30 days with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement leaders to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend. These sessions will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment and response by law enforcement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please understand&#8211;I do not support threats of violence or other intimidation tactics against anyone&#8211;however, I do support the rights of parents to speak up against anything they disagree with in their children&#8217;s school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>An article posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/05\/ag-merrick-garlands-daughter-married-to-co-founder-of-company-selling-critical-race-theory-resource-material-to-school-districts\/#more-218063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> yesterday tells another aspect of the story.<\/p>\n<p>The article at The Conservative Treehouse reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Well, well, well\u2026 This is interesting<\/span>.\u00a0 U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Critical Race Theory<\/em><\/span> indoctrination material. The U.S. Department of Justice issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/ag\/page\/file\/1438986\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a memorandum<\/a> to the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-addresses-violent-threats-against-school-officials-and-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instructing them to initiate investigations<\/a> of any parent attending a local school board meeting who might be viewed as confrontational, intimidating or harassing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s daughter is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rebecca Garland<\/span>.\u00a0 In 2018 Rebecca Garland married <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Xan Tanner<\/span> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/17\/fashion\/weddings\/rebecca-garland-xan-tanner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a>].\u00a0 Mr. Xan Tanner is the current co-founder of a controversial education service company called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Panorama Education<\/span>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.panoramaed.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.panoramaed.com\/social-emotional-learning-sel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> LINK<\/a>]\u00a0 Panorama Education is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.panoramaed.com\/social-emotional-learning-sel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>social learning<\/em><\/a>\u201d resource material provider to school districts and teachers that teach <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Critical Race Theory<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Yes, the Attorney General is instructing the FBI to investigate parents who might pose a financial threat to the business of his daughter\u2019s husband.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following screenshot and link to the memo from the Department of Justice to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding parents protesting what is being taught in our schools:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DOJMemoRegardingSchool-Boards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DOJMemoRegardingSchool-Boards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DOJMemoRegardingSchool-Boards.jpg 651w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DOJMemoRegardingSchool-Boards-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If only the Department of Justice had been this conscientious about investigating Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement, we might still have intact downtown areas in some of our major cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted an article that included the following: Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation\u2019s public schools, today Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43376\">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":[12838,11084,11430,14367,11070],"class_list":["post-43376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-critical-race-theory","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-the-conservative-treehouse","tag-u-s-attorney-general-merrick-garland","tag-u-s-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376","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=43376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43379,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376\/revisions\/43379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}