That Infamous NSBA Letter That Branded Parents as Domestic Terrorists Originated in Nashua, NH?

Surfing the net yesterday, I came across this title at Hot Air: Report confirms White House had advance knowledge of the NSBA’s ‘domestic terrorism’ letter and promised ‘we have your back’. The infamous Letter from the NSBA. The one that publicly declared that Parents are Domestic Terrorists.  Steve wrote, when this came out in October, 2021:

A new threat has risen across the fruited plain. No, not drug runners, gang members, or others sneaking across our porous southern border –  while the Feds are distracted by crowds of “refugees.” It’s parents. Parents are the rising threat to domestic tranquility.

The national organization of public school boards is calling on the Biden administration to protect its members from “angry mobs” of parents who protest against COVID-19 restrictions placed on students and the teaching of critical race theory, characterizing the protests as “domestic terrorism.”

Put another way, people you elected, many of whom you also pay to represent your interests, want Joe Biden to declare you a terrorist. Is it the lack of firebombing, looting, assault, murder, and Black Lives Matters signs, because I’m sure they could arrange that. You know, make them look more like peaceful protesters.

And I took it a step further – Hey, Gilford School Board!

…that’s how the Left rolls these days – absolutely demonizing and putting those that refuse to agree with them in the worst possible light and try HARD to put them into legal difficulties. Really, getting arrested for simply telling a Board that CRT is disgustingly racist and that boys should NEVER be allowed into girls’ locker rooms.

So, I asked my elected representatives on the Gilford School Board, after telling them what the NSBA had said:

Do you agree with the NSBA that we are domestic terrorists?

They just sat there.  I wasn’t surprised.

Now, to be fair, [GSV Member] Kyle Sanborn did complain that I had just stolen his thunder – he had seen a similar post and said it was disgusting how Parents were being portrayed.  Good on him.

I dryly note that that Chair Gretchen Gandini and Vice-Chair Karen Thurston just sat there.

I understand that Thurston hates my guts.  So does that really make her a Hater?  By the Left’s definitions, yes, because she’s not “inclusive of others”. Thankfully, they are both off the board now. However, I still wonder how many other school boards were asked that question by parents – and how many answered?  As it turned out, only 20% of my School Board didn’t believe I was a Domestic Terrors.  Opinionated? Knowing the Law they were violating? Upset that they believe they never have to talk to those that elect them? And in my case, then sue them over it?

So, with all that said as a reminder that it was made personal, back to the Hot Air post:

First off, credit to Chuck Ross who noticed this had been released and started tweeting about it. As you may recall, the National School Board Association (NSBA) sent a letter to White House last September which asked for a review of threats against school board members and which suggested the Patriot Act could be used against parents who were compared to domestic terrorists. Days later AG Merrick Garland issued a response which didn’t mention the Patriot Act but did say the FBI would be checking in with school boards around the country.

But as word of the original letter spread people were outraged. By the end of October, the NSBA had apologized for “some of the language” in the letter. But the apology was too little, too late. Within days five state school board associations had withdrawn from the NSBA. By December the number of state associations leaving the national organization reached seventeen. That represented about 40% of the NSBA’s annual dues. By January the number had climbed to 19 and the Washington Post reported the NSBA was on the verge of a total collapse.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to help them understand what had gone wrong the NSBA hired an outside law firm to write a report about what went wrong. That’s the 55 page report that was released today.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. So I downloaded the report – all 57 pages. Then in going to the Tweet of Chuck Ross (above), I found that the NSBA had cleared house by ALSO putting out 557 pages of emails (“Exhibits“). Both are listed below.  However, I stopped short on Page 2 of the report.

Did you know that the national denigrating by School Boards started with an incident in our own Nashua, NH?

‘Grok Friend, Di Lothrop, had the receipts: “Nashua Democrats Jan Schmidt and Deb Stevens Lie about Candidates for Nashua School Board”

…Unfortunately, some people go too far. And Nashua Democrats have a couple of doozies in their midst. Citizens beware. Two Nashua Democrats, both of whom are members of the NH House and one also is a member of the Nashua Board of Aldermen, recently attacked the reputation of two innocent women, two young mothers who have said they are considering running for the Nashua School Board. Based on their own set of fighting rules, these Democrats made false claims that the young women were involved with a white supremacist group.

Without any evidence whatsoever, the two Democrats pounced on their prey, claiming that the two possible BOE candidates MUST have known the stranger wearing a Proud Boys t-shirt who had stepped into a photograph with them. Be the first amongst you who have had a stranger ‘photobomb’ a photo with you in it, cast the first stone.

Ah yes, we get to talk about Jan Schmidt (who loves Free Speech so much she tried to have GraniteGrok shut down) and her Progressive/Socialist/Democrat cohort Deb Stevens – thanks, ladies for yet another go ’round of blog fodder! Remember, being Socialists (and Schmidt has made no secret hat she’s a hardened Bernie-Bro sycophant), the means are immaterial as long as the end goal is achieved.

So, we have two guys showing up in Hawaiian shirts and T-Shirts marked Proud Boys and the Democrats, once again, go ballistic and assumed they were being invaded.  From that one circumstance, EVERYONE was considered to be an enemy nationwide.  Shhh – there has to be SOME connection we can take advantage of this “crisis” that just got laid into our laps, right?

And *I* get labeled, by the 80% majority of the Gilford School Board, as a Domestic Terrorist, by their silence.  Convenient, eh?

I’m betting there’s a lot more in that 57 page report and a lot of juicy emails – but it all ends up with this:

If School Boards were in the business of treating Parents as their employers (and we really are, having outsourced the education of our children to them) and with the respect that is due us as employers over the last couple decades, this wouldn’t have happened. If they had simply been willing to talk and answer questions WITH us, this wouldn’t have happened. If they had fostered an atmosphere of openness and transparency about their actions and the policies they put into place (and not ones they put in place to isolate themselves from us).

And this wouldn’t have happened if they had refused, at the first sentence uttered by those that wish to indoctrinate our kids with Critical Race Theory and Hyper-sexualize our younger ones, to listen to them and said “we need to concentrate BETTER and MORE THOROUGHLY on the basics.  You know, what these parents PAY us to do?

NSBA Report on Letter to President Biden branding Parents as Domestic Terrorists:

Exhibits: