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> the FBI “has been used for a quarter of a century as the place

Biden sics FBI on peaceful dissenters and parents,
while ignoring violent Leftist thugs...


Florida Gov. DeSantis Promises To Defend Parents At School Board
Meetings Against DOJ

https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-gov-desantis-promises-to-defend-parents-at-school-board-meetings-against-doj_4034859.html
https://twitter.com/RepKenBuck/status/1445449843376156674

Following a Department of Justice announcement Monday that it would
direct the FBI to mobilize against parents who allegedly threaten
teachers and school board members, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised
that the state would defend parents amid GOP outcry against the move.

    “Attorney General Garland is weaponizing the DOJ by using the FBI
to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation,”
DeSantis wrote.

    “Florida will defend the free speech rights of its citizens and
will not allow federal agents to squelch dissent.”

The Justice Department stated that it would create a task force to see
how the federal government can be used to prosecute any criminal
conduct toward teachers or how to assist state and local authorities
investigate such threats. It came after a national association of
school boards asked the Biden administration to use “extraordinary
measures” to prevent alleged threats against school board staff,
accusing parents who oppose teaching critical race theory and mask
mandates of lodging them.

DeSantis’s office on Tuesday released a statement saying Florida law
already prohibits harassment of teachers, while adding that Florida
law enforcement  is “perfectly capable of responding to crimes in
Florida, and we have never heard the FBI suggest otherwise.”

    “However, disagreement is not harassment. Protest is not
terrorism, unless it involves rioting, looting, and assault, like some
of the left-wing protests of summer 2020. Again, all of those actions
are crimes in Florida and will be prosecuted, regardless of political
context,” the statement added.

According to the Justice Department, it will create a task force to
determine how to use federal resources to prosecute offending parents
along with how to provide advice to states where no federal laws have
been broken. Training will also be provided to school staff members on
how to report threats from parents.

During school board meetings across the United States over the past
several months, heated discussions have been held by parents,
teachers, and school board staff on whether critical race theory or
associated ideologies should be taught to children. The Department of
Justice’s announcement did not elaborate on whether threats against
teachers and staff are widespread.

This week, Republican lawmakers sharply criticized the Justice
Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s directive, arguing
the Biden administration is attempting to silence dissent.

    “Your memorandum is a politically-motivated abuse of power and
displays a lack of reasoned, sound judgment … confronting parents to
oppose the views of the Biden administration and its socialist
agenda,” wrote Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) in a letter to the agency.

“Parents are speaking out against Critical Race Theory in schools. Now
the Biden administration is cracking down on dissent,” Sen. Tom Cotton
(R-Ark.) wrote on Twitter.