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UPDATED: Reminder to Vote in Local Elections on Tuesday February 10th!
Lots of people forget these local elections, but they are some of the most important and can cost you a lot in taxes...
The Dangers of 5G
I may be listed as the author of this piece, but a fellow named Joe Esposito taught me nearly everything I know on...
Real ID: Another Government Frankenstein
Some believe that government welfare benefits to the poor were created with good intentions, but they became a monster, nonetheless —destroying lives, marriages, and families, because they created dependency on Government, took away individual freedom, and gave a distant government control over the finances of the most vulnerable among us. We know that government healthcare for the poor was also done with stated ‘good’ intentions, but it became a monster—creating personal healthcare dependency on a remote massive bureaucracy, taking away personal freedom to control one’s own health care decisions, and increasing opportunities for medical malpractice and corruption due to a lack of government accountability. The stated ‘good’ intentions of using government to produce an ID system that is designed for international applications is another monster on the government’s operating table ready to be unleashed on the unsuspecting public.
Pornography in our Schools – Update on Bartlesville School Board meeting
We had a good turnout of people interested in the subject of removing pornographic books from our school libraries – most seats in the Education Service Center were occupied. Superintendent Chuck McCauley allowed comments to be made at the start of the meeting on topics not on the agenda. Under the Board rules no questions could be asked by the Board members and no discussion of the topic could occur. However, we had three excellent speakers.
The first speaker emphasized that the Board’s existing Procedures for Reconsideration of Materials was inadequate when 103 books (140 books when counting duplicates among libraries) in Bartlesville School libraries have been identified as either pornographic or containing sexualized content. This speaker also stressed that the existing challenge procedure was deficient in that it did not address how to assure more pornographic/sexualized books would be kept out of our school libraries.
The second speaker, a parent of two teenagers in the Bartlesville School system, questioned why Board members would protect their own children from such material but allow it to be put on the shelves of school libraries. He challenged the Board members to treat his school age children well.
The third speaker presented a riveting testimony of the consequences of pornography in our schools. Her story of a young man who “lived out what he read on the pages” of school library books and subsequently was sentenced to 65 years in prison for his offenses against five women, dramatically demonstrated that school board actions, or lack thereof, with regard to pornography has real life consequences.
Updated: Mass Surveillance – Gann Studies License Plate Readers Impact on Privacy
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Tom Gann, R-Inola, on Thursday led a study on the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and what he said is their use as a tool for mass surveillance allowing law enforcement to conduct warrantless searches. The study was held before the House Public Safety Committee.
This article shares the results of that study in a press release from Rep Tom Gann.