{"id":42443,"date":"2014-03-14T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42443"},"modified":"2014-03-14T06:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T11:53:21","slug":"the-stasi-bill-vs-the-bullying-bill-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42443","title":{"rendered":"The “Stasi Bill” Vs. “The Bullying Bill”, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Roger Chamberlain has been leading the push to try to replace Senator Dibble’s “bullying bill”, HF 826<\/a>, with a bill that addresses bullying rather than serves as a bludgeon of indoctrination.<\/p>\n

He wrote a piece on Facebook (among, I’m sure, other places) earlier this week that I think sums things up well. \u00a0I’m going to excerpt it below, with a few bits of emphasis added by me:<\/p>\n

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I need to be blunt. HF 826 will turn our schools into indoctrination camps; it will create a climate of fear. Our children will be stripped of their innocence and humanity; HF 826 looks at children as nothing more than programmable machinery<\/strong>. Parents will lose more control, school districts lose control, and communities will lose control<\/strong>.
\nAnother sad and disturbing fact is some elected officials and lobbyists do not care about the larger issue, the overall harm the bill will cause to children and parents. They will work to cut deals with the bill\u2019s author and when they achieve their specific objective, and then they will walk away. One lobbyist said they will simply live with the results of the session.<\/p>\n

What happened to the idea of doing what is right? Unfortunately it\u2019s a fairly rare concept in government.<\/p>\n

There is an alternative, senate file 2411 (SF 2411<\/a>) it is based on North Dakota law, which, in 2011, was endorsed by our Attorney General Lori Swanson<\/strong>. It is short, 4 pages not 20 pages, clarifies the issue but most importantly it protects all kids equally, retains parental rights and local control.<\/p>\n

HF 826 is not just another law people will learn to live with, it\u2019s not MNSure, and these are children, your children and not some abstraction. People have no idea the damage this will cause; they have no idea what they are asking for<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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If you take action on no other issue this session (and I know this blog’s audience is prone to taking action on political issues), do it for this one.<\/p>\n

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Senator Roger Chamberlain has been leading the push to try to replace Senator Dibble’s “bullying bill”, HF 826, with a bill that addresses bullying rather than serves as a bludgeon of indoctrination. He wrote a piece on Facebook (among, I’m sure, other places) earlier this week that I think sums things up well. \u00a0I’m going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443\/revisions\/42444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}