by Mass Resistance 

 

The radical transgender agenda is proceeding quickly into the schools, now reaching the youngest of children. What was completely unthinkable just a few years ago is now being forced as mainstream by public officials. And as usual, no one cares how this affects the fragile psychology of children. Pushing the political ideology as fast as possible takes precedence over everything. (Well, actually GLBT activists know that this will affect little children profoundly.)

At the beginning of this school year parents at the Clara Barton Elementary School in Oxford, MA received a mind-numbing letter from the principal and Superintendent.

Written simply in an eerie informational style, the parents were told that one of the male custodians will now be coming to school dressed as a woman, and is now considered a "woman", and that parents should inform their children of this because the school intended to tell them if they asked about it. "The best thing to tell them is that our custodian used to be a man. She has changed her gender role and is now a woman," the letter said to parents. It's extremely Orwellian.

Link to actual letter sent to parents (PDF)

Dear Clara Barton Families,

Welcome back to a new school year! I hope that you all had a safe, rest filled and refreshing summer. A lot of work has taken place over the summer to get the school ready for this year.

Although we do not usually make formal announcements about our employee's [sic] personal lives, a matter has come up that has the potential to impact the school environment. We believe that it is important to inform everyone openly. Our night custodian has informed us of his decision to change his gender and, as we begin the school year, he will begin living and working as a woman. He has been a valued employee of the Oxford Public schools for many hears, and we expect his exemplary performance to continue as he changes gender roles.

The custodial uniform is the same for men and women. However, our students may notice and ask about the differences in our custodian from last year to this. If they ask at school, they will be given a simple and straightforward answer. The best thing to tell them is that our custodian used to be a man. She has changed her gender role and is now a woman.

This can be a difficult topic about which to talk and likely a conversation that no one expected to have. Included with this letter are some resources that provide information about transgender issues that will be helpful should you choose to learn more.

Whether or not one agrees with or supports the decision of our custodian, it is important to note that the Oxford Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. We expect our custodian to be treated with the same respect as every other employee. We teach respect by demonstrating respectful behavior.

If you have any questions or concerns that are not addressed by this letter or by the resources provided, please do not hesitate to contact either one of us.

Sincerely,

Ernest Boss
Superintendent, Oxford Public Schools

Norman Yvon
Principal, Clara Barton School

 

Notice that the school is taking upon themselves to describe this to children in the way they have chosen, whether parents like it or not.

Links to radical transgender websites

Also, on the back of the letter, the parents were given links to "helpful" resources about "transgender issues" to help them "learn more."

These "helpful" links are particularly distressing. They lead to some very radical homosexual / transgender sites. This is apparently what the elementary school principal and superintendent - the people teaching your young children - have studied and consider normal!

Here are the links included with the letter for parents, with quotes from their websites. NOTE the links that also describe CHILDREN changing their sex. That's next.

Center for Gender Sanity - "A refuge from male/female dichotomies, sex-based stereotypes, and other gender madness . . . "

TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation - "Dedicated to funding research and education about transgender issues to build a brighter future for all TransKids. Our children aren't pink or blue - but rather - various shades of purple."

International Foundation for Gender Education - "Transgender tapestry" [headquartered in Waltham, Mass.]

Gender.org - "Gender Education & Advocacy provides a large selection of freely downloadable materials that you can use in your local area to educate others on gender issues."

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health -
" . . . to promote evidence based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy and respect in transgender health."

Also, listed as "References" in the letter

The Employer's Guide to Gender Transition

Working with a transsexual

This is where the homosexual movement is taking your children. It's like a science fiction movie. And they tend to back it up with legislation. The upcoming "Transgender rights and hate crimes bill",  which we warned people about, would make descriptions like ours constitute a "hate crime" in Massachusetts.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Contact - What are they doing to kids??:

Oxford Public Schools:
Superintendent:
Ernest Boss    eboss@oxps.org    508-987-6050 ext 260


Clara Barton School
Principal:
Norman Yvon   nyvon@oxps.org   508-987-6066 ext 5106

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by Anonymous

On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq. The opening paragraph is as follows: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. 

See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, Bush lied. Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam's yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy. 

It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003  after invading Iraq. They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site.  

This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam's nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would report the story. Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide. 

This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush's war motives all alon g. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said,   The removal of 550 metric tons of yellowcake the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. 

Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy. Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush lied. As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe Wilson and his wife. 

Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger. The CIA and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that
purpose but needed proof. 

During his trip to Niger, Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister of Niger, Ibrahim Assane Ma yaki.  Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in 'expanding commercial relations' for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake. 

Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger. However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 2003. Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush. Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the yellowcake from Niger. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime minister's statements. 

It was a simple tactic really.  If the far-left and their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger, it would undermine President Bush's credibility and give them more cause for asking what other lies he may have told.  Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the prime minister's statements and concluded all by himself that the claim of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was 'unequivocally wrong.'  Curiously, the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim.

This was made public in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.  Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that the Bush administration outed her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage -- no friend of the Bush administration --who leaked Plame's identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years. 

The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media and their left-wing friends on the blogosphere engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam's uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit they were wrong? Don't count on it.  The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam's uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get. 

As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that, 'Bush lied,' we should tell them to, 'Have the yellowcake and eat it too.' 

By Laura Ingraham

After October's now-notorious encounter with Joe the Plumber, Obama's media foot soldiers were dispatched with a simple mission: destroy Joe. On Sunday's Fox and Friends, Joe announced their success; his business has been shut down.

Thanks to the intrepid reporting of journalists who've obviously lost all sense of perspective, it turns out Joe has been fixing Ohioans' plumbing without a government-issued license. Talk about irony.  Joe came under fire for humiliating Obama by noting his tax plans interfere with Joe's American Dream.  He wanted to buy his plumbing company and expand it, but higher taxes on small businesses threaten to turn that dream into a nightmare.  The left, in other words, used Big Government to silence Joe Citizen for speaking ill of Big Government.

In turn, Americans have offered financial support to Joe - offers he's politely declined.

Americans have taken to Joe for his willingness to go where the media refuses - that is, for actually speaking truth to power.  Nothing's more infuriating than reporters allowing themselves to be used by politicians, yet that's exactly what's being done on a daily basis at CBS, NBC, CNN, etc.  Joe got the opportunity to tell Obama directly that his tax plans - which penalize hard work while claiming to further America's best interests - were an insult to his intelligence.

Meanwhile, conservative websites are left to do the real reporting on Obama.  NewsMax's Ken Timmerman reports that as much as $63 million of Obama's $150 million September haul may originate from illegal foreign donations. (Conveniently, the campaign refuses to release the names of more than 80% of its 2.5 million contributors.) Obama's tax returns also indicate that in 2000 and 2002, he violated Illinois state law by accepting speaking fees while serving as a state senator.

The press is supposed to hold politicians accountable on behalf of the people. Yet while Obama collects millions in dubious donations and ACORN registers phantom voters in battleground states by the thousands, today's media is doing the Democrats' heavy lifting with its slash-and-smear campaign against people like Joe.

Never before in our history has the media establishment been so derelict in its responsibilities, so one-sided in its coverage, that today it is nothing more than a cheerleader for the Obama campaign.  Never with so much at stake for America's security and our way of life, has the media worked with such single-minded zealousness to elect a dilettante with so little experience and such faulty judgment.

Is the type of bullying and intimidation that Joe's endured what Americans can expect from an Obama administration in response to serious criticism? Will the media closest to the people - talk radio and the blogosphere - be the next targets?

by Kevin McCullough

It was a bright summer day in Chicago when a woman confirmed that she was pregnant with her first child. The telling of the families ensued, followed by the announcement to friends. The days began to speed up, her body began to change, and eventually the pressing question was finally asked. To know or not to know the gender of the baby, what would they choose?

   

But that is the way of the world for Barack Obama, the medical practitioners that terminate pregnancies, and the hospital named "Christ" that performs these procedures. Oh and did I mention that it is Obama's own religious denomination that operates said hospital?   

   

But I can't help but ask the question: "Why does Obama pursue such outcomes?"    

   

Perhaps it's because neither of his children have had anything but a beautiful life, and a pleasurable home to experience. But do handicapped children deserve less from life because of some mental or physical limitation? The Paralympics are just around the corner. Does Obama believe we would have been a more just society if those athletes had each been aborted, or left to die in a soiled utility closet even if born?  

   

Last week, Barack Obama called those of us who have told the truth about his position on this issue "liars." He said that we were misrepresenting this issue and he attempted to claim confusion and "multiple bills" and "procedures" to cloud the issue of his voting record.  

   

All of which itself was a lie.  

   

The record is clear: Barack Obama voted then, and remains now the only elected U.S. Senator to have voted in favor of denying life saving medical care to children who had been born. PERIOD!   

   

Last week, David Brody of CBN carried Obama's water for him when he said that saying such things amounted to over the top rhetoric. But what is over the top about being as specific as possible in telling the truth? Barack Obama voted in favor of infanticide. End of story. But why does it matter?  

   

In a society that has continued to diminish the value of human life, perhaps Obama believes it won't matter. But for me it is very personal.  

   

Because that little girl, who could have been denied life saving medical care, is named Eliza. I've held her. I've hugged her. And I've kissed her forehead when she called me "Uncle Kevin." She is three and half years old, and she is one of the healthiest, happiest, non-disabled children I've ever seen.   

   

See, it turned out that the ultrasound machine and the readings it produced (which in turn had been the primary overriding reason why the abortion suggestion had been made so forcefully) was miscalibrated. Eliza's lungs were perfect, and her parents had a relatively normal delivery. And they have given her a wonderful childhood.   

   

Barack Obama's indiscriminate political pandering may be a good enough reason to pick a running mate in Joe Biden, who openly thinks Obama's not ready to be president. But pandering is not a good enough reason for him to have been willing to let Eliza die. Not nearly good enough realizing now that there never was anything wrong with her. Not good enough at all!

But actually "not good enough" sums up Obama... pretty much... all the way around.

 

 

"by Mass Resistance

Last Wednesday, August 13, MassResistance officially filed paperwork for a Referendum Petition - including the ten "original signers" - to force the Legislature's cowardly repeal of the "1913 Law" to be voted on by the people.

In the final days of the 2008 session (which ended July 31) the Legislature repealed the "1913 Law", and the Governor signed it in a big State House ceremony surrounded by the gay lobby. This action will allow out-of-state gay couples to get "married" in Massachusetts - and then go back and cause legal havoc in their home states. It also further degrades our own marriage laws.

The law was repealed in a particularly cowardly and insidious way. The Senate passed it in a "voice vote" to avoid going on record. When the Legislature heard we were planning a Referendum Petition, they passed it again - adding special "emergency act" language to make it go into effect immediately, instead of the usual 90 days.)

What this Referendum means

Before doing this, we polled 600 activists about it. Approximately 100 responded. Of those, 94% said that we should do it, and they'd help collect signatures! There's a lot of excitement.  And for good reason. This is a big deal. Besides eventually stopping a horrible social experiment from being forced across the country, this sends some very strong messages.

First, it's a statement that the people of Massachusetts aren't going to just sit back and take it. We're not going to let a small but powerful special interest be allowed to change our laws at will to push an offensive social experiment across the country. This is very important. They forced "gay marriage" on us through a radical judiciary and corrupt politicians. They think we're beaten. Well, we're not. Conversely, if we don't fight back now, they have the green light to do anything they want in the future.

Secondly, it shows the Legislature that we can do this in the future if we have to. We're not afraid to stand up to them. And also, it shows the rest of the country that we're not going to allow the homosexual lobby to rule us.

Here's what happens now

Unlike with the Marriage Amendment, a vote of the people CANNOT be stopped by the Legislature if we get the signatures! We officially need 33,297 good signatures by approximately mid-October, but to be safe we really need to get 40,000 or more.) 

According to law, before we can start collecting signatures the Attorney General's office must decide whether our request is legal and does not deal with "excluded matters." The AG also must draft a "fair and concise" summary of the law, for the petition sheets. They've already drafted the summary, and we've approved it. On the legality of our request, we cannot see any possible reason to deny it.  But the AG's office told us "On all binding ballot questions, we generally ask potential opponents if they wish to submit legal arguments to us on excluded-matters issues." That's not mandated by any law, and so far we haven't heard anything, We want to make sure this isn't just a delaying tactic. Apparently this process sometimes takes up to two weeks. But plan to be on top of it. (We certainly know where AG Martha Coakley publicly stands on this: she hates pro-family folks and supports the homosexual movement.)

After the AG finishes with it, it takes a few more days for the Secretary of State to prepare the actual petition sheets. Then we start. We definitely want to get rolling before Labor Day!

Financial help.  Especially if you don't live in Massachusetts, because this will affect YOU. We REALLY need financial help for this. Please, if this means something to your state - please Donate!

Update Information

Upcoming Referendum

Washington, DC (08 August 2008) – A U.S. Department Health and Human Services proposed regulation that would protect freedom of conscience for pro-life physicians and pharmacists will be rewritten to reflect pro-abortion demands.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRAzTceSVpUdFDosQqzkDNCzFqwgD92DNLL00


Reuters: HHS Chief Denies New Rule Attacks Contraception (7 August 2008)

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0734863820080807 

by Newt Gingrich

You may have heard his name mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate, but if you don't know anything more about Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, you should.

Governor Jindal is leading a revolution of conservative reform in Louisiana. He is the most transformational young governor in America today. The principles that motivate his Louisiana Revolution are the same pro-innovation, pro-competition, anti-bureaucracy and anti- big government principles that I urge each week in this newsletter - the same principles that are so desperately needed in Washington, D.C.

For those of you who don't yet know him, I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to Governor Bobby Jindal. And for those of you already familiar with this rising reformer, read on. You may just learn one more reason why Bobby Jindal is a reformer to watch, regardless of whether or not he gets a spot on the 2008 presidential ticket.

In Six Months, Jindal Has Accomplished More Than Most Do In a Lifetime. The first thing to know about Governor Jindal is that he has been in office as governor for just six months.

Six months.

Governor Jindal has built his impressive record of conservative reform through an innovative, aggressive leadership that should be required learning for officials in Washington, D.C.

"Thanks to Bobby Jindal, today Louisiana ranks as the number one state in financial disclosure requirements of its elected officials. And this new transparency and accountability in government is having real world results.

New financial disclosure requirements for public officials that went into effect last week have prompted mass resignations from state boards and commissions."

I have often said, "When the government teams up with attorneys, and the governments are or act like corporations, then you see real corruption!" The Weld County Financial Corporation is one that we uncovered several years ago, but we could not get members of the County Council to help us expose it.

Gov. Jindal didn't wait for the Democratic controlled Louisiana legislature to come to him. He went to it, calling two historic special sessions before the regular session of the legislature even had a chance to begin.

In the first special session back in March, Governor Jindal began his reform agenda where it had to begin: fixing the culture of corruption and cronyism that has long dominated Louisiana politics and damaged Louisiana's economy.

The ethics reforms won by Governor Jindal catapulted Louisiana from a state with one of the lowest rankings to among the states with the highest ethics standards.

Thanks to Bobby Jindal, today Louisiana ranks as the number one state in financial disclosure requirements of its elected officials. And this new transparency and accountability in government is having real world results.

New financial disclosure requirements for public officials that went into effect last week have prompted mass resignations from state boards and commissions.

Said one Louisiana voter: "I don't know about anyone else, but I'm kinda liking the fact that this is resulting in 'out with the old and in with the new.' ... A new day Louisiana, a new day!"

Jindal's Louisiana: A Place to Work, Invest and Raise a Family. In yet another special session of the legislature and the regular session which ended just last week, Governor Jindal has built a spectacularly impressive record of accomplishment for the people of Louisiana.

Here are just a few of the highlights:

Six Major Tax Cuts worth more than $500 million, including eliminating taxes on business and capital investment and the largest personal tax cut in the history of the state - a $300 million reduction in personal income taxes, worth up to $500 for an individual and $1,000 for a family.

Governor Jindal brought about a Transformation of Job Creation and Retraining. He completely eliminated the Department of Labor and passed a guarantee for employers that Louisiana educational institutions will train its workforce to meet their needs, and if they fail, they will retrain workers for free.

He created $10 million in Opportunity Scholarships so 1,500 poor children in New Orleans can escape failing public schools.

Jindal led the passage of The Health Care Consumers Right to Know Act, creating transparency of cost and quality for the first time in Louisiana's health care system.

Bobby Jindal expanded the number of charter schools in Louisiana from 42 to 100.

He passed legislation cracking down on child molesters and also passed a resolution calling for the creation of involuntary civil commitment of sexually violent predators to keep them confined for treatment after they complete their prison terms.

Louisiana's Third Bond Rating Boost in a Week. All this, and Governor Bobby Jindal is just getting started. Just last week he vetoed $9 million dollars in pet projects and pork barrel spending in the legislature's budget - another area in which this 37-year-old governor is showing the way to Washington.

Not coincidentally, Jindal also announced that for the third time last week, Louisiana's bond rating had been raised by a major credit rating agency.

"The World Needs More Bobby Jindals"

The Governor was also in the news because he vetoed a bill that the legislature passed doubling members' current salary and guaranteeing future pay raises. Jindal had previously said he wouldn't oppose the pay hike, but he came to the conclusion that it was incompatible with his reform agenda.

His earlier comments, the Governor admits, were a "mistake," one that he chose to correct by vetoing the bill. And Jindal's correction has cemented his reputation as a principled conservative reformer.

Here's how one would-be opponent of Jindal's put it:

Dear Governor Jindal: I wanted to leave you a quick note that I plan to withdraw my recall petition effective tomorrow (July 03, 2008). I filed the recall petition about an hour before you announced your veto. After researching your record, your goals, and your vision for Louisiana, the only conclusion I could come to is that the world needs more Bobby Jindals.

"The world needs more Bobby Jindals." I couldn't agree more.