The Issue: Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order to the FBI to investigate threats against school boards.
Any incidents of threats of violence to local school board members should be addressed at that level (“Silencing Parents,” Editorial, Oct. 23).
Municipalities are quite capable of handling these issues.
Getting the Department of Justice involved is nothing more than an attempt by teachers unions to bring the full weight of the federal government to bear on parents whose only “crime” is questioning what their children are being taught.
Peter Kelly, Hazlet, NJ
Devine doesn’t know what she’s talking about. There is no “war on parents” by AG Garland.
The “war” is being waged against those who speak against the idiocy of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers. These parents are being verbally as well as physically abused. Many are being screamed at as they walk their children to school and being told they’re guilty of “child abuse.”
Parents who show up, speak against mandates, then go their way face no “war” by AG Garland. Those who abuse others should be investigated by the federal government.
Michael Wilson
Holbrook
I usually agree with Miranda Devine, but I must disagree with her on one point of her column (“AG must call off war on parents,” Oct. 25)
I watched Attorney General Merrick Garland’s testimony to the House. Devine compared listening to Garland to watching Sgt. Shultz. I find that to be an insult to the good sergeant. Garland’s evasion and non-answers sounded more like Bozo the Clown.
The DOJ’s use of the FBI to chill the freedom of speech of angry parents is only part of a more sinister plot.
Mask and vax mandates, censorship of social media and expanded surveillance by the IRS is only the start.
James Madison gave future generations a clear warning when he stated: “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
Bob Porch, Marlton, NJ
Devine’s piece on Garland made it abundantly clear that he is far too politically aligned to the left to continue as attorney general.
His over-the-top response to the letter written by the National School Boards Association — which compared parents trying to protect their kids from indoctrination in schools to domestic terrorists — was a disgrace.
Even though the NSBA apologized for the despicable letter, the fact that Garland was all-too-eager to weaponize the FBI to crack down on parents revealed his authoritarian nature.
Garland has made it clear that there is going to be a two-tiered justice system, and those who oppose the prevailing woke ideology will continue to be targeted. He is unfit to be the nation’s top law-enforcement official.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters riot, burn down buildings, attack unfriendly press and beat up police, and who does our hyper-partisan and foolish attorney general intimidate and investigate? Parents who are upset about the racist curriculum and filth being forced down the throats of their children by the radicals who have taken control of their school boards.
Welcome to the modern-day woke Democratic Party, which has no qualms about using the DOJ and the FBI to attack anyone who dares to disapprove of its actions. We’re not on the precipice of tyranny, we’re deeply embedded in it.
Steve Heitner
Middle Island
Don’t expect Garland to apologize for his knee-jerk memo threatening parents with FBI surveillance for protesting against the indoctrination of their kids with this critical race theory garbage (“Where’s the AG’s Apology?” Editorial, Oct. 26).
Just like Dr. Anthony Fauci, this AG is a master at denial.
The liberal establishment hounded former Attorney General Bill Barr for supposedly being President Donald Trump’s toady. Well, Garland is a quintessential henchman.
James Hyland
Beechurst
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