It's Time To Put Real Pressure On Our Local School Boards

 Please see my post, below, of June 16th.  I had emailed Brad Bergsma, President of the Board of Directors of the Kansas Association of School Boards asking him when would the his organization sever its ties with the National Association of School Boards, as have 26 other state associations.  That is the group that sent a letter to Washington asking that parents be declared domestic terrorists for speaking out at local school board meetings.  The loser US Attorney General Merrick Garland even sent a memo to the FBI directing them to look into the situation.

Apparently Mr. Bergsma feels that is beyond him to respond to a query from someone who indirectly is paying for the functioning of his organization.  How is that you might ask?  Easy!!  The state association here in Kansas gets its money from the membership fees of the local boards.  The local boards get their money from taxpayers (whether or not they have children in the school district).  I personally feel that his refusal to respond is an indication of his arrogance about his responsibilities.

So, what can we do?  That question is also easy to answer.  Johnson County taxpayers need to put pressure on the local boards here to withdraw their membership form the state organization.  As such, reducing the monies that the state organization receives from local boards.  Also, let the taxpayers of Kansas in other counties know what is being done and ask them to also get their local boards to withdraw from the state association.  Let's shut down the state association and send Mr. Bergsma to the unemployment line.

Local district boards are:

Shawnee Mission School District

Blue Valley School District

De Soto School District

Olathe School District

Spring Hill School District

Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees

Check each organization's web site and start showing up at their meetings demanding that they withdraw from the state organization. Tell them, don't ask them............they work for you, you don't work for them.

Will The Kansas Association of School Boards Sever its Ties With The National School Board Association?

 The following was sent to Brad Bergsma, President, Board of Directors Kansas Association of School Boards.  It is self explanatory.

The KASB must sever its ties with the NSBA.  To support an association that has no regard for the parental or constitutional rights of those that it supposedly serves is wrong.

This is what was sent:

Good morning Mr. Bergsma

As of yesterday the school board associations of 26 states have severed their relationship with the National School Board Association.

The reason for this is simple.  It has to do with the letter that the NSBA sent to the President asking that parents attending local school board meetings be treated as domestic terrorists.  What is worse is that the AG, Merrick Garland sent a memo to the FBI asking them to get involved.  The original draft of the letter even had statements that the NSBA was suggesting that the National Guard and its military police units be activated for school board meetings.  The NSBA has shown that they do NOT value parents of students to have a say in their education, nor do they want them to exercise their constitutional rights at local board meetings.

Your web site has this statement concerning the NSBA "KASB is part of the National School Board Association(NSBA). This venerable association - established in 1940 - empowers state school boards associations and their more than 90,000 local school board members to lead and advocate for public education. NSBA believes education is a civil right, and public education is America’s most vital institution."

When will your organization join those states (including our neighbors in Missouri) and sever your ties with the NSBA? That is a very direct, specific question and deserves a very direct specific answer.

To provide complete transparency, this email to you will be posted on my blog at https://shawneeray.blogspot.com    Rest assured your reply will also be posted there in it entirety.

Thank you,

Ray Erlichman

The AR-15 Is NOT An Assault Weapon

 OK, I've about had it with folks who call the AR-15 an assault weapon.  It is NOT an assault weapon.  It is a semi-automatic rifle which requires the user to pull the trigger each time to fire it.  An assault weapon would fire multiple rounds just by holding the trigger down.

Obama referred to the AR-15 as a weapon of war.  Dumba$$ Kamala Harris calls it a military weapon.

Some of the anti 2A folks are finally showing their colors when hey refer to it as a military "style" weapon.  That is more accurate, it may look like one, but it DOES NOT FUNCTION like one.  Ask any Marine or Army infantryman if they would take an AR-15 instead of an M-16 into battle.  They'll look at you like you are nuts.

If a woman is going to a fancy affair with her significant other and wears a dress that is low cut, split up the side, etc. is she a hooker?  What about the person that drives a little two seat car.  Like the Mazda Miata.  Are they driving a sports car?  Hell no.

School shootings are an abomination.  No doubt about it.  But these folks who clamor for "common sense" gun laws don't understand the term "common sense".

Allowing schools to be soft targets is wrong.  An 8-1/2 x 11 sign on the door saying no guns allowed is not going to be a deterrent to a person wanting to cause havoc.  How many police can be put in the schools to protect them (or any soft target).  The Ohio governor just signed a bill authorizing teachers and staff to carry, but only after proper training.  Other states have done that too.  The first line of defense in a mass shooting are the people on the scene.

Let's follow the Israeli concept of how to provide appropriate security for schools.

Banning certain weapons is NOT the answer.  Common sense should tell these folks, that again, a person wanting to cause havoc will get their hands on whatever they want.

This is all a plan to disarm the American public except for those who want to be in power.

The characterization of the AR-15 as an assault rifle is just wrong.

For the heck of it:  Approximately 32 people are killed every day by drunk drivers.  Do we ban automobiles?  Bring back prohibition?  Read he FBI crime stats.  See how many folks are killed each year by blunt force instruments.  Let's ban baseball bats, lead pipes and a variety of other "weapons".

Sidebar:  June 14th is Flag Day and the 247th birthday of the U S Army......."This We Will Defend"

Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, Juno

 To many, those five names strung together mean something.  There are others that have no clue what they mean.  They are the five beaches on the Normandy coast that saw the largest armada bring the invasion force that truly started the liberation of Europe, 78 years ago today, June 6, 1944.

For those who know what those names mean and what they stand for, it is imperative that you try and teach those who don't know, what they mean.

There was a book, and then a movie about that day, "The Longest Day".  That was not a made up name.  Approximately 6 weeks before the invasion, while inspecting the German coastal defenses Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had much to say, including:  "The first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive…for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."  Spoken to his aide,  Hauptmann Helmuth Lang,  22 April 1944.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower (yep, didn't have his 5th star yet) had these words for the troops that were going in on that day.  Read them by clicking here.

Two statements, that some find old.........but others will say they are very true, and should never be forgotten or taken lightly.

Freedom isn't free......and......all gave some, some gave all.  

We must be forever vigilant, that no enemy, from without or within, destroys what those who have gone before us have done.

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A lesson in responsibility:  General Eisenhower drafted a speech should the invasion have been a failure:

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops," Eisenhower wrote. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."  Fortunately, for the world, he did not have to deliver that.