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Moms for Liberty call the cops over a book

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Moms for Liberty call the cops over a book, popular.info, by Judd Legum, on Nov
6, 2023, https://popular.info/p/moms-for-liberty-members-call-the

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In an ongoing saga of Mom's Gone Wild, Our Fearless Moms for Liberty duo has escalated their literary pursuits by accusing school librarians of distributing child pornography to unsuspecting miners. Apparently, a young adult novel featuring gargoyles Goyles Battling Demons is now deemed a scandalous as a forbidden Playboy magazine. Because you know, nothing says

protective children like equating a fantastical tale to explicit adult content. So hold on to your book marks as Moms for Liberty and barks on their quest to shield the youth from the perils of fiction. Who knew gargoyles could be so provocative? It's fiction, not a crime scene. This story is from Popular Info by Judge Legoome on November sixth, twenty twenty three, and blaytant I was wondering, what did you make of all this knocking foots? These people are

knocking foots every time. Must we one of these stories? I just picture like the lady in a church coat with dark shades and a payphone boot whispering into the phone. I've got evidence. Are you insane? Let's wrong with you? Like this is what? This is what not having a life or anything of value to offer society. This is what it looks like. The book in question, it's Storm and Fury, And that makes it so much funnier because it's it's not only not ridiculously not born, it's so far from

it. But it's a book where the main character fights demons. I thought that was your whole thing, moms. I thought that was y'all thing. What is this one day? Like in their strenuous search for demons, they're going to realize the call is coming from inside the house. But my favorite theme is she like the woman in question that made this call. She stated that any book that has a sex scene is pornography and not appropriate for minors.

But then she went on to say that there may be exceptions for extreme classic What would we can do? You have to say that because there is a book that I think it's been described as, uh, what was it? The Basic Instructions for the Basic Instructions before Leaving Earth? Something like that, like one of those books something I heard somewhere. If you come across it, just by some Italian guy, tale Manini, He's never think it's

like one of the most depraved books in human history. But we're going to excuse that, Like there there are books that we have all read that are part of just American curriculum as a whole. Romeo and Juliet it's more pornographic than Storm and Fury could ever dream of being. But you don't see any mom or any liberty fighting against Romeo and Juliet Florida, you know what, you know what, I will take that back, because Florida is a it's

a very special place. It's a very special place. I live in Japan. I can't even read half their books here, so but I don't think moms of liberty would object to him because they can read them. So that's really all. That's all I can say about it is that these people are knucking foot hell, what do you get? Oh? Like okay, like

again with Florida. I like, every time I do the show, there's a Florida story, and it makes me so crazy, it makes my teeth like, it drives me insane because this is not only happening in the county where this oracles from, this is happening in my city. So there are women out there very concerned about I don't know, gargoyles fighting demons, I

guess, oh no, it's candalous. And I remember back in the olden days of the nineteen nineties where teeing genre fiction wasn't a thing, and I was reading like Stephen King and Dean Kots and a bunch of other authors where there was sex and violence and people get their eyeballs torn out. And I'm fourteen and my parents didn't get two craps, did not care. They were

like, she's reading that's great. So the fact that these Moms for Liberty people are walking around saying that, you know, if even the mention of sex, the mention of queer people, you know, anything like that is pornographic, is beyond insane, be honesting. And I would like to remind all those people that are deeply concerned about the morality of children, they have the Internet. Porn hub is a thing. So I'm just gonna say, maybe you're kind of back in the wrong horse right now. You know,

it's a little bit of a problem. So and also I would like to point out that these these women in this particular group is trying to protect children. And but the thing is, though they're they're just doing it for the well being of the kids. And like as a mother, I would not like books band. So where's our ability to voice that and push that agenda? Oh guess why No, we don't get to do that. So I definitely have more things to say, but I'm not going to rant. I'm

going to go hand it over to Scott again over here. You know this, don't I don't know if any did any of you watch the video clip of the of the you know, the the body cam of that. I mean it, I swear that. What if they were speaking with British accents, I would have thought it was a Monty python sketch. I was waiting for the cop to start saying, but it's a dead parrot, right. I was waiting for it. I was. I knew it was coming. I was waiting for the shoot to drop. It was. They had their

their quote unquote. The guy kept saying evidence. He kept using the word evidence and pornography like he read somewhere that he found he looked up the you know, ways to be influential on the Internet or something and said repetition. Oh, that usually works really well. And so he says pornography and evidence

enough. They had an envelope there and I almost it didn't say this, but I expected to say, just pornography evidence, just written on the envelope right there, here's your evidence, and and uh, it was just a ridiculous situation, like BB was saying, you know, clearly, clearly, this book is not pornography in any way, shape or form. I haven't read it, but in the article it talked about how well there was there was some scenes where there was some kissing happening, and there was another scene

where they almost were going to have sex or something like that. You didn't mention that, and then well, and that's it, right, and that that's the pornography is like the worst pornography ever. If they were looking for pornography, they should get their money back on that. But but I am,

I do. I did see that. It seemed like they didn't say this in the article, but it seemed like the police were kind of not doing anything about Like it was like, okay, well we'll take down your complaint and all, oh yeah, we got leads all over the place and we're gonna be cracking down and and uh and then just nothing. Because they did say that the the art of the popular dot info right that it was

their article. They followed up on that, and they found that the book had not been put on on you know moratorium or whatever they call it, where they put the book on you know, they set it aside while it's being investigated. The the this particular school district in County had a policy of if they're investigating potential pornography in a in a book like this that's available for children, they set it aside for five days while they're while they're working out.

And that hadn't been done. And so it sounds like the you know, it sounds like the police are taking it as seriously as they should. You know, they have these you know, these these people coming in wait with their with their envelope full of evidence, and they're like, yep, yep, okay, we got it, thank you very much. We'll let you know and we'll we'll keep you posted. And so it's, uh, I don't know, it just seems like a silly, a silly situation situation

all around. But I'm looking forward to the day. I'm looking forward to the day when the Church of Satan takes this up and they start reporting churches for pornography, saying, oh we have here's our Manila folder full of evidence. You know, take don take down our story, infantel are what enlightened

us on this? What can you add here? I don't know how much I could say from a secular perspective, but I do know that one thing that's woefully inadequate and missing from this is a good godly Christian man's perspective. So, you know, I wish they would just let him speak, just you know, let's hear from What the hell are you doing? Woman? What the hell are you doing? Woman? How dare you Your place isn't in public bringing shame to your family. You should be home, cooking and

having more kids. You're taking the place of a man. Oh wait, no, I saw Handmaids. I I know how this could end up, but sorry, I couldn't carry that on any further. Sorry, Helen, that that was that was bothering me just to say it, But seriously, no, I forgive you handmate's tale. I do hope that people in that bubble see how bad she represented not you know, and and admittedly at first I watched the video and I laughed. I was insultingly laughing about it.

But you know, as I thought about it, I had to step back. It was a reminder that whether I agree or not, which obviously I

don't, she's dead wrong. She was sincere in the belief that caused her to get up and get out of bed and get dressed and go there that day, and for her to be so poorly misled so easily, and not only that, but just to call this child pornography because a child has access to what she've uses pornography so such a disconnect from reality that I'm really hoping that this is something that other people can see, feel that little bit of

cringe that makes you go oh ah, and cause them to examine them having the same bad beliefs. Because it's not possible for me to believe that there are that many moms out there who really believe some of the terrible things this organization promotes. I think more likely you have moms that go, yeah, that sounds right, that sounds right, and they go from there. Now, one good thing is, you know, and we've talked about, you know, big projects like Project twenty twenty five, but this is their real

goal right here, to undermine public education in this country. It really is their end all, be all, because if they can control education, they've got everything under control. That's all they have to do. And they're working really hard to put that money into private religious schools. But what I was really heartened by is their just absolutely stellar performance here. Recently they managed to

lose in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Virginia, Minnesota, and New Jersey. They just I mean, I think that people were finally realizing that what they're calling pronal rights isn't pronal rights at all. What it really means is book bands, anti LGBTQ, and of course really an attempt to not allow teachers to be teachers and teach in our public schools. But with that, it looks like they've so far people are starting to turn away from that and say thanks,

but no thanks. And I really hope that that's something that we can see continue, because they just absolutely got slaughtered in this past performance. They there was no bright side. In fact, they had a page where they we're going to celebrate their victories. Well now it's under construction, and the one where they were endorsing people somehow disappeared. It just went off into you know, wherever those kind of things go that you don't talk about anymore once

again, maybe that brings back that Italian guys. Yeah, our grimlins, that's always a chance, now, blatant, do you have any better ideas on where this this make may have went? This page? It definitely disappeared into obscurity, just like just like my tail dude, like the thing talking

about him? Why I wasn't even on this week what has happened? But like, the thing that kills me with these things is like I grew up in the nineties and I used to watch all these shows like on like all the kid shows, Nickelooney and Disney, all these shows, and they would always have like the weird kid with the powers, and they be doing stuff, and there's the lady across the street with binoculars staring and saying, nobody will believe me. And this is the first episode she sees it, and

she tells her husband, he tells her to shut up. And then by the like by the fifth season, this woman is pulling her hair out because she's seeing this alien who's pretending to be a kid, just running around and she doesn't know what to do. This is how I see Moms for Liberty.

But there's no alien like they're literally just watching kids playing freedom to fuck out about it Like that's literally how I see these people, and it's insane and what Hell was talking about earlier, like being a parent with a child in school, where the fuck is marvel? I think the difference between us and them is that they're just louder because they don't have that built in mechanism that says, no, we live in a society, this isn't what we

do. This is no. I'm going to be louder and louder and louder and thank zeus, just like Infidel was saying. It's not working. So that's that's all I've got to sell on the subject again knocking foots, and I've sent it back to helln star I do so. I well want to put point out that the Southern Poverty Law Center has named Moss for Liberty as a hate group, and it's with very good reason. The STLC justcribe this group as monster. Liberty is a far right organization that engages an anti student

inclusion activities and self identifies as part of modern parental rights movement. The group grat an opposition to public health regulations for COVID nineteen opposes lgbtqus and racially includes school curriculum and has advocated book bands. Okay, I'm gonna call it the bigot tree duck. Here's a big tree. Call it out. There's the biggot treats going on cracking molfos, and that's their goal. Like we're laughing at us because it is ridiculous calling the police over a freaking book, Like

you have you lost your damn mind? Like really, but we have to remember they are part of the far right that don't want people to have right that they want to live in this insular world where everybody is white and hetero and sis and you know, and they read the good book and you know, and nothing bad is happening. We talked earlier about, you know, Christian revisionist history. These are the type of people that are driving it into the schools. Now we can it is ridiculous. I find it hilarious that

this blew up in their faces. And I'm glad that, you know, there's a little bit of common sense going on. I'll take it. But these are the type of people where as you said, they are they get loud, they're not they are not getting the attention and they're now used to people just like, you know, being reasonable and being like, well, you know, I won't let my kid read that book, but it's okay for other children to read that book because that's not my child. Like that's

the reality I would like to live in. But no, there, it's not about the kids. This is not about the kids. This is all about pushing an agenda. And that's what makes us so insidious and disgusting. And I want to emphasize this. They are here. They're silly, They're very silly, but they're a hey grew. So anyway, I did my ranting, and I could probably do more, but this is a collaborative show, So send it oward Scott. It's right on the tip of my tongue.

Oh okay, all right. So so it's easy for it's easy for us to point and laugh and to say how ridiculous this is and to say

this is silly, and to make Monty Python jokes and stuff. But I think if we if we want any kind of actual change to happen, it's going to have to come within, uh, you know, the Christian community and the liberty the for liberty community, right and and so like Infidel was saying there's got to be people in there, within their group or within their circle of friends, or within their you know, mom's clubs or whatever,

within their their circle of people that just have to realize how stupid this is. I mean they it has to it has to be registering. And so to those people, I would I would just say, please, if if it, if you recognize how ridiculous this, this kind of reaction is, say something or you know, do something, or at least stop agreeing, you know, stop going along with it. You know, it's for all of us, you know, the public school system. The rising tide raises

all ships. They say, you know, if we start undermining this for for little personal little preferences and what I want and everybody has to think like me and that kind of stuff. No, we need to have We need to embrace the diversity. We need to embrace different opinions. We need to embrace you know, all perspectives and and so this is not going to end well, I mean, it's not going to end well. You know, it's either gonna it's either gonna work itself out or catastrophe, you know,

one of those. You know, we're not this is not going to be Jesus Land. Okay, It's just we're too many of us know too much and are too aware of what's going on for this for this to happen. And so I don't know, I'm any somebody else take it. I'm getting all flustered. One thing I really find is the fact that they've fared so poorly recently, at their most recent and seeing someone like her become the forefront, even briefly, as the poster child for how to not be a good

mom. You know, regardless of how you feel about it, you're you're making a mockery of education. And I hope that she's able to see this as well and go maybe I'm thinking this for the wrong reasons. I'm not hopeful, but I am hopeful that others like her will. And that's the thing where I continue to say, maybe this is one of those that they're going to not get what they want, because as we know, when they get what they want, almost without fail, they end up screwing it up.

They end up doing the wrong thing because they're really bad at governing. They're not good at this. They're good at screaming, they're good at yelling, they're good at demonizing people. They're good at bringing out the worst in people, but what they're not good at is consensus building, at constructing something that's better that they have no experience, this not even there in their mind.

So I'm hoping that a few of these chalk these up and let's go ahead and start pushing the moms for liberty where they belong, and let's talk about actual liberty. Uh. And it doesn't have to be moms or dads or whatever. Let's just shoot for liberty and that's actually mean it instead of that being a buzzword for liberty for me. At Well, those people's expend

late, did you have anything to finish up with us? I'll keep it short, just I guess add on to a little bit of what I was saying when I'm saying they're the loudest people in the room because that's what they're comfortable with. Yep, regular people like I guess us. That makes us uncomfortable to be that loud. But if you want to combat that, sometimes

you're going to have to be uncomfortable. And I think that's what's going to be necessary moving forward for us to just have a little bit of discomfort so we can help push these people where they're supposed to be, Like if Adulsia, Oh yeah, that's all I've got to say on it. So I'm going to leave everybody with this question, do you find Gargoyle's offensive on that? Consider and contemplate your that decision. Have a great night.

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