The primary purpose of a neighborhood watch group is to have multiple neighbors alert, and willing to communicate with each other, for potential crimes or threats in their mutual neighborhood.
The primary reason we are suggesting that Wyomingites consider starting up a neighborhood watch group is because of the escalating violence and crimes that our nation is experiencing, and how those crimes are expanding into the suburbs and rural areas.
If you are considering increasing the awareness in your neighborhood through a watch group, it is up to you to consider and thoroughly research what route you want to take and who you will need to contact – whether it is your local sheriff’s office, a national group or just a handful of neighbors that you already know. Below are a few brief descriptions – starting with a small simple group and ending with more involved national organizations.
1) Create your own small unofficial watch group Draft a very simple plan with basic ground rules ahead of time before you initiate a conversation with your neighbors.
With a few neighbors that you already know and trust. This could be neighbors who simply live on your block. Your plan can be the mutual sharing of phone numbers with a small group of neighbors who agree to contact each other if anyone sees something potentially threatening or suspicious in your neighborhood. Basic ground rules can be that watch group communications will only be for potential crimes (such as a person looking through peoples cars), threats (such as seeing smoke coming from a property or a mountain lion in your yard) or emergencies (such as a child missing or a car accident).
With a larger number of neighbors that you invite to a meeting. This could be neighbors that live within a few blocks of your home. You can consider inviting all neighbors within a few blocks, 20 people or less, or whatever you think is best. Keep in mind that no matter how many people you invite, you will probably only get a fraction of who are interested and will show up. Suggestion: If you are considering inviting only 20 neighbors or less you can narrow your choices of who you will invite based on certain criteria. For example, neighbors who live on corners, at busy intersections, or near a park. You can also consider neighbors that have similar interests, such as households with children, or households that have a U.S. flag.
The plan and ground rules can begin with the same as the first choice above, and then be expanded upon based on whatever your group decides together. It might be wise to have a simple map of your neighborhood for meetings with larger groups.
Once you have a small watch group organized, you might consider notifying your local police or sheriff’s department of your neighborhood watch effort.
Facebook – there are many private groups already created and doing this on Facebook. If you are comfortable using social meeting for this purpose, you might find there is already a group organized for your area.
National Crime Prevention Council. This organization, known for its McGruff dog character (“take a bite out of crime”), does not offer a neighborhood watch program per se, but does have other programs that families might want to learn more about.
Note that if you choose to initiate a group through #3 above you are potentially opening your effort up to government agencies that might want to expand their reach into your neighborhood with other programs that you might not be necessarily interested in – for example organized community clean-up and revitalization efforts (such as “Weed and Seed”), video-sharing of private security surveillance systems, etc . We’re not saying that you shouldn’t consider these programs, but we are pointing out that your effort could potentially be coopted by well-meaning community leaders who might want more from you than you are prepared to give – which could ultimately lead to you voluntarily giving up a certain amount of your time, labor and/or privacy.
Additionally, you should also consider how much your neighborhood group might ask or expect of you, or, on the flip side, if a member of your group might take things to a higher level than what your group agrees to. It should be pointed out that George Zimmerman, known for shooting Trayvon Martin in Feb 2012 in Sanford, Florida, was allegedly acting in the capacity as a neighborhood watch volunteer for a homeowners association (HOA). According to this article, it appears that Zimmerman chose to conduct armed surveillance on his own, even though it was ultimately the HOA that settled the wrongful death lawsuit. As extreme and unfortunate as the situation was, and later escalated to with riots, it initially began as a HOA neighborhood watch group. This article addresses the liability risks of neighborhood watch groups for associations.
Lastly, regardless of what option you decide is best, you should be selective and discerning about who you choose to invite into your watch group, or invite into your home for meetings. Even though your intentions are good, you are reaching out to some people that are still basically strangers to you and your family. Take it slow and build trust with neighbors that earn it over time. The ultimate goal is to have a safe neighborhood that is built upon neighbors looking out for neighbors.
Our Saving America series began over three months ago in our post on June 7 (What Just Happened?!), acknowledging the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent nationwide protests, riots and violence. In that post we stated, “In the coming weeks we will be sharing some material to read and watch – as our effort offered to Wyomingites to assist in educating and understanding what we now see happening to our country”. Our intention has been to educate people on how our American principles and values have been under attack, and subsequently in decline, for decades. The only way we can reverse this is to understand what went wrong and set out to correcting it. We will continue to add to this series as time allows.
However, because the radical left has been ratcheting up and geographically expanding their violent revolts to the suburbs, promising no end in sight, and organizing/planning for an intensification of “catastrophe” after the Nov 3 2020 U.S. Presidential election, we feel the need to now simultaneously begin a new series which we will be calling Saving Wyoming. In this new series we will be covering:
Neighborhood Watch Groups
Situational Awareness
Hardening Your Home
KNOW WY Gun Laws & Increase Your Competency with Your Firearms
Travel During Civil Unrest and Riots
Look for our first post in this series very soon. Meanwhile, you can begin your own research and preparations for the coming times with that list as your own starting point.
In its list of demands, MAD [Mobilized African Diaspora] contends Columbia has a “deep history of anti-Blackness” and in addition to “systemically failing Black folx on campus,” the university has “destroyed much” of West Harlem.
As part of reparations for that neighborhood (and more), MAD demands:
a commitment of 50% of Columbia’s Approved Vendors List to local black-owned businesses,
assurance that 50% of retail space within the Manhattanville General Project Area is used by local black-owned businesses,
annual donations of $500K to West Harlem’s Columbia Secondary School with “annual endowment donations of 1 million for a period of 10 years,”
a deposit of $1,000,000 “in various local minority-owned banks and credit unions in the greater Harlem area,”
Columbia end all support for the New York Police Department
The reason thisjustice is so dang poetic, and humorous, is because Columbia University is exactly where the strategy for “cultural Marxism” and “critical race theory” in America was hatched. I know, cultural Marxism is no laughing matter – however, having this 1930s communist plot to take over America (and the Western world) find its way back to its genealogical institutional origins in the USA, complete with marching boots and raised fists, is just too rich to not find some morbid delight in.
Another point dripping with irony is that the MAD activist group is doing exactly what one of Columbia’s own alumni instructed them to do:
One of the things that I recommend when I meet with young activists is to find out what are the specific things that are going to have an impact on the issue that you care about, so that when you finish a protest and you’ve gotten people’s attention, you’re able to say, ‘And by the way, here’s what we want you to do’.
Barrack Obama, Oct 11, 2016.
(Clearly, the Mobilized African Diaspora activist group should have aimed much higher with their list of demands of Columbia.)
It was the late Andrew Breitbart (RIP!) in his 2011 book, Righteous Indignation (Chapter 6 – Breakthrough), who brought conservative’s attention to the crotchety, old, scholarly highbrow communists from the Frankfurt School who made their way from Germany to America in the 30s and 40s. Apparently the fun and sun among the Hollywood elite in Santa Monica was a complete turn-off to them, and so they fled to Columbia University (with the help of John Dewey and Rockefeller money – see Epoch Times), whereupon they began to reconstruct the floundering Columbia University’s Sociology Department. According to Breitbart, ‘Columbia liked what they saw in the Frankfurt School.’ In fact, “It was a marriage made in hell”…
We will just let Andrew Breitbart tell the rest of the story. The script for the narration in the following video appears to be taken directly from Chapter 6 in Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation. (Warning – some of the imaging in the video itself is hard on the senses, which invokes impressions of the psychedelic era of the 60’s.) The content is essential for any true-blooded American who wants to know how and where the unraveling of America began:
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Russell Vought, Director (Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President)
SUBJECT: Training in the Federal Government
It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent
millions of taxpayer dollars to date “training” government workers to believe divisive, anti-
American propaganda.
For example, according to press reports, employees across the Executive Branch have
been required to attend trainings where they are told that “virtually all White people contribute to
racism” or where they are required to say that they “benefit from racism.” According to press
reports, in some cases these training have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the
belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should
receive a job.
These types of “trainings” not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our
Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the
Federal workforce. We can be proud that as an employer, the Federal government has
employees of all races, ethnicities, and religions. We can be proud that Americans from all over
the country seek to join our workforce and dedicate themselves to public service. We can be
proud of our continued efforts to welcome all individuals who seek to serve their fellow
Americans as Federal employees. However, we cannot accept our employees receiving training
that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.
The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using
taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions. Accordingly,
to that end, the Office of Management and Budget will shortly issue more detailed guidance on
implementing the President’s directive. In the meantime, all agencies are directed to begin to
identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on “critical race theory/9
“white privilege,” or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1)
that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is
inherently racist or evil. In addition, all agencies should begin to identify all available avenues
within the law to cancel any such contracts and/or to divert Federal dollars away from these un-
American propaganda training sessions.
The President, and his Administration, are fully committed to the fair and equal treatment
of all individuals in the United States. The President has a proven track record of standing for
those whose voice has long been ignored and who have failed to benefit from all our country has
to offer, and he intends to continue to support all Americans, regardless of race, religion, or
creed. The divisive, false, and demeaning propaganda of the critical race theory movement is
contrary to all we stand for as Americans and should have no place in the Federal government.
With hunting season just around the corner, Labor Day weekend is a great time to devote to getting your gear in order and sighting-in your firearms. With the highly publicized Covid19 supply chain disruptions and regional shut-downs of meat processing facilities, many Wyomingites are just that much more motivated to stock their freezers with their own meat.
Additionally, with the increasing unrest going on in our country, practicing and becoming better skilled and comfortable with your firearms is always a good idea.
Where to Sight-In Your Firearms
Cheyenne – Cheyenne Rifle & Pistol Club
The Cheyenne Rifle and Pistol Club sponsors two days at the outdoor range for both club members and to the public to sight in their rifles. Sight-In-Days for 2020 are September 5, 2020 and September 6, 2020.
This event will be held at the outdoor range in northwest Cheyenne, and is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day. There is a $3.00 charge per rifle. Bring your own eye and hearing protection and of course, your own gun and ammunition. For information on Sight-in Days, please call Ken Roylance at (307) 631-3722. Outdoor range is located on Horse Creek Road – click for directions.
Laramie – Laramie Rifle Range
Attention hunters, are you sure your firearm is dialed in for your upcoming hunt? Come check your aim from 25 yards to 200 yards for rifles and 7 yards to 50 yards for pistols. The Laramie Rifle Range is open to the public for sight-in season weekends starting September 5th and ending October 18th. We will be open from 10:00 AM–4:00 PM on Saturdays and 10:00 AM–2:00 PM on Sundays. $10 per person per day for non-members. Please bring ear and eye protection. LRRC does not sell ammo or firearms nor rent firearms. Targets are available for purchase. Visit us online at: www.laramieriflerange.org. Located at 73 Rifle Range Road, Laramie – click for map.
Casper – Stuckenhoff Shooters Complex
Thursdays-Fridays 12pm to 6pm, Saturdays & Sundays 9am to 6pm. Day rate for public/non-members = $10.00 per day. Stuckenhoff Shooting Complex is a shooting range that is operated by the Casper Shooters Club. The facilities include an indoor archery and air rifle range, 100 and 300 yard rifle ranges, shotgun range, Muzzleloading Range, Long Range, and action pistol/cowboy action range. Located at 2330 N Station Road, Casper – click for map.
Casper – Wyoming Gun Company
Wyoming Gun Company is an indoor training and shooting center offering the residents of Casper a state of the art facility to learn, train and enjoy shooting sports in a safe environment. We have 9 lanes running 25 yards and 7 lanes at 100 yards for shooters of all skill levels. Every lane is equipped with a top of the line retrieval system, operated by a touchscreen on each lane individually. The retrievals can be sent downrange from 5 to 25 yards with a touch of a button, they are also programmable to run multiple scenarios, from beginning skill level to expert training. We also have a full retail store available with guns to purchase or rent. You can “try it before you buy it!”. Hours are Monday-Friday 10 AM to 8 PM; Saturday 9 AM to 8 PM; Sunday 10 AM to 6 PM. Located at 580 Landmark Drive in Casper.
Cody – Cody Shooting Complex
The Cody Shooting Complex appears to be open to the public at 9AM on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays – click for calendar. The CSC welcomes non-members to utilize all of our shooting venue’s during our public hours. When using the long range rifle, pistol range, and plinking range, please remember to deposit a non-member $20.00 range fee in the depository box. Located at 3 miles north of Cody, Wyoming on WY 120 – click for map.
Jackson – Jackson Hole Gun Club
Located 5 miles south of Jackson on Hwy 89, past the Transfer Station on the east side of the highway, the Jackson Hole Gun Club offers target practice for a wide range of disciplines for both members and non-members. Click HERE for directions to our Jackson Hole Shooting Range. Benches, targets, sandbags, stands are available. Ear protection and hats are available for a small fee. Individual and classroom instruction is offered in the shooting sports. An event center is available with audio/visual capabilities and a library relating to the shooting sports.Non-member Daily Range Fee: Adult – $12/day; Non-member Under 18 – $2/day. Summer hours (June 1 – October 31) Non-member hours: Fri-Sun 10-5; Winter hours (November 1 – May 31) Non-member hours: Sat & Sun 10-5. Located at 5570 U.S. 89, Jackson – click for map.
Rawlins – Rawlins Shooting Complex
The Rawlins Outdoor Shooting Complex is located north of Rawlins and offers the shooter a variety of opportunities. 10 Pistol bays with various targets, rifle ranges for short range shooting and long range shooting, skeet, trap, 5-stand and archery with a shooting stand and 3 D targets. Leagues, tournaments and special events are happening. The ranges are partially funded from grants and donations from Williams, Friends of the NRA, Wyoming State Shooters Association and private donations. Range Membership available for use indoor and outdoor. Daily fees $6, $3 junior/senior. Outdoor Range open May 1st to October 31st. Tuesday – Friday 2pm to sunset Saturday & Sunday – 9am to sunset. Outdoor Range Closed November 1st to April 30th. Outdoor Shooting Complex is located at 2201 East Gun Club Road, Rawlins. Click here for more info on both Indoor and Outdoor Ranges in Rawlins.
On the day President Trump was inaugurated I can remember listening intently to his drop-down, knock-out amazing speech as he boldly articulated a modern-day list of grievances that he would attempt to appropriately resolve. Any American worth their salt should have a hard time scoffing at or rejecting the content of that speech. Here is one poignant segment that brought most average Americans immediately to their feet – clapping, laughing, crying, fist-pumping and yelling their jubilant agreement:
…Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning. Because today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another – but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.
For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.
Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth.
Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.
Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
That all changes – starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment: it belongs to you…
And while average Americans applauded and whooped, the DC elitists clenched their teeth tightly to prevent their jaws (or dentures) from falling to the ground.
Donald J. Trump gave Americans hope that we could again become happy, productive, healthy, safe, successful and, yes, employed and prosperous. Donald Trump promised that he would shrink government, rather than grow government; Donald Trump promised that we, the taxpayers, would no longer pay the way for other nations; Donald Trump promised to loosen or remove business and job killing regulations. Donald Trump promised to make our cities and streets safe again from drugs, drug-dealers and the gangs they operated from. Etcetera. While striving towards achieving a long and refreshing list of promises – promises which were shrewdly and courageously kept by the way – Trump said he would operate by two simple rules – to buy American and hire American. Donald Trump gave average Americans hope for a better future by making average Americans his top priority. While most politicians make similar promises, very few however follow through. Trump did follow through, with flying colors, and he will most certainly continue to so if he is reelected by the American people this November.
At his 2017 Inauguration it became clear that Trump was cut from a completely different cloth than any politician. It was clear that he was not a politician at all. It was clear to us average Americans, and it was most definitely clear to them – the self-proclaimed untouchable, elite, DC career politicians. And they were not happy – not one bit. The unhappiness and displeasure of the DC elite was written on every of one their dire, dark and pinching faces as can be seen in Nancy Pelosi in the image above, but also can be glimpsed in the official video of the Jan 20, 2017 President Donald J Trump Inauguration. Many politicians looked extremely dour and resentful the day that President Donald J. Trump made those promises to us. They did not want him to be successful in any way or form.
It was clear that day that we were going to have a fight on our hands. From the poor-sport snowflakes still crying, screaming and throwing childish fits about Hillary’s unbroken glass ceiling, to the highbrow Hollywood elitists sputtering and twittering about their outrage and pussy-hats simultaneously, right down to the hateful, skulking, sadistic never-Trumper who lit a Trump-supporter’s hair on fire – we knew there was going to be a fight on our hands. We just had no idea how insanely vicious it would get.
Enter the New Democratic Party – the Party of Violence and Hate. Their hate has been obvious for decades, but their rhetoric has pushed the envelope to provoking alarming levels of assault and violence – with children, the disabled, the pregnant and the elderly now being treated as fair game. Here is a small sampler:
Aug 2020 – Comedian/singer Bette Midler tweets bigoted message about First Lady Melania Trump
Just like a pack of wild dogs, they feed off of each other’s frenzy and attack, taunt, strike, mock, wound and abuse their prey. Whether it is Maxine Watters, CNN, Rosie O’Donnell, BLM, Antifa or some sorry excuse for a restaurant owner- they all take delight in their attacks.
And according to Joe Biden’s veep pick it is not going to stop – not now – not before the election, and not after the election.
The June 18, 2020 video below, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, highlights Biden VP candidate Kamala Harris emphasizing that there will be no end to the radical activist movements raging across our country. While smiling gleefully, she excitedly emphasizes, with great certainty, over and over again, “They aren’t going to stop!” How, exactly, could Kamala Harris be so certain of this? The only conclusion one could rationally draw is that she has direct insider information on the organized plans and strategies of the violent militant insurrectionists that are destroying American cities, American lives, and American’s livelihoods.
insurrection: A rising or rebellion of citizens against their government, usually manifested by acts of violence. Under federal law, it is a crime to incite, assist, or engage in such conduct against the United States. 2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8. gives power to congress ” to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.” Read more here at https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/insurrection.
Kamala is absolutely giddy about this radical leftist revolt, as she tells us all to “BEWARE!” It appears that the only way this woman has a crack at spending any time in the white house is if the entire nation is held hostage by a violent insurrection.
In this Aug 29 American Thinker article, ‘Something’s going on here and it’s much bigger than people think’, Rand Paul shares his and wife’s frightening experience of being targeted by the violent BLM mob that accosted, assaulted and threatened people leaving the RNC Convention on Thursday evening. American Thinker has another pertinent article on this issue entitled, Kamala puts a gun to our heads. We highly recommend reading both these articles and viewing the video below. In our upcoming posts we will be making suggestions on how to prepare for the coming months.
In our last post we promised we’d share our findings of any radical leftist ideology that we’ve found invading WY educational institutions. So far this is what we have found:
The 1619 Project in Campbell County
Radical organizations being promoted at the WY Superintendent of Public Instruction website
…a deliberate effort by The New York Times to displace the moral authority of the signing of the Declaration of Independence as the heart of America’s founding. The project’s supporters want Americans in the future to consider the advent of slavery in America as “our true founding.”
As an attack on the Founding Fathers generally, the 1619 Project is neither new nor unique. What is novel about the 1619 Project, however, is the cultural scope that its social justice purveyors are attempting to reach.
…is part of a comprehensive attempt at political revolution. It seeks to transform the American republican regime, which is based on equal rights for individuals, into one defined by identity politics and the unequal treatment of identity groups.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true – Nikole Hannah-Jones
If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation – Matthew Desmond
Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery – and are still believed by doctors today – Linda Villarosa
America holds onto an assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others – Jamelle Bouie
Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our prison system – Bryan Stevenson
Just a few days later, on August 16, 2019, the Pulitzer Center was pleased to announce they were selected to be the education Partner for the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project. Pulitzer proudly proclaimed,
… on August 20, 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort… Though the United States had yet to be established, their arrival marked its foundation, the beginning of the system of slavery on which the country was built.
… The Center’s education team will produce original curricular materials for teachers and bring project contributors, including Nikole-Hannah-Jones, to schools and universities across the country.
The executive director of the Pulitzer Center, Jon Sawyer, affirmed, “We are honored to have the opportunity to work with The New York Times on this landmark initiative. The education network we have built over the past 13 years is premised on the belief that journalism can be the engine for public education and civil discourse. It is hard to imagine a topic more resonant, or more important, than ‘The 1619 Project.” (‘The belief that journalism can be the engine for public education‘… let that statement sink in long enough and the hair on the back of your neck should be standing straight up and smoldering.)
The following year, on May 4, 2020, the Pulitzer Center announced that Nikole-Hannah-Jones had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for The 1619 Project. The announcement also updated readers that, since August 2019, the Pulitzer Center had connected its 1619 Project Curricula to some 4,500 classrooms including “tens of thousands of students in all 50 states“. Below is a photo (from this link) of a cartload of 1619 Project curricula being shipped out to schools across the United States.
After sifting and searching through Pulitzer Center webpages, we finally came upon a heatmap in the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 2019 Annual Report that reportedly indicates schools in the U.S. using The 1619 Project curriculum:
Zooming in on Wyoming (and overlaying with a WY county map) there is one area that correlates to Campbell County. We believe the other two blue areas represent lakes.
We have attempted to contact a few individuals that reside in Gillette to see if they can uncover what school(s) in Campbell County have approved and implemented this curriculum, but so far we have not heard anything back. We have every intention of investigating this deeper and sharing what we learn with our readers. Meanwhile, we are strongly encouraging citizens in Campbell County to contact their county school board/district to communicate their concerns:
Campbell County School District 1000 West Eighth Street P. O. Box 3033 Gillette, Wy 82717-3033 Phone: 307-682-5171Fax: 307-682-6619 https://www.ccsd.k12.wy.us/
Below are additional articles and updates on the 1619 Project that we recommend taking the time to read and consider:
To learn about the leftist leanings of the Pulitzer Prize, and its direct connection to Columbia University, we highly recommend this piece at Discover the Networks.
Radical Organizations Being Promoted at the WY Superintendent of Public Instruction Website
To view for yourself the radical organizations that are being promoted at the Wyoming Department of Education website (that we have found thus far), go to:
– The WY Superintendent of Public Instruction (SOPI) website at https://edu.wyoming.gov;
– Next, mouse over the main menu item, In The Classroom, and click on Wyoming Standards in the drop-down sub-menu;
– Next, at the Content and Performance Standards page that comes up, click on Social Studies in the gray menu box to the right;
– Scrolling halfway down the page is a list titled, Resources – Promising Links and Web Sites for Social Studies. There is a disclaimer that follows, which can be read in the image below:
It is within these ‘Promising Links and Websites for Social Studies’ that we have found a multitude of problems. Some of the direct web-links are problematic on their own because of politically biased and radically charged content, while others become an endless portal to other web-links that are clearly created to publish radical content to be utilized for turning children into political activists. Wyoming classrooms should NEVER be considered a breeding ground for political activists, and Wyoming teachers should never,EVER believe that they can brainwash, community-organize and activate Wyoming students for any reason whatsoever. We are embedding a video at the bottom of this page to show exactly what politically activated school children look like in today’s current chaos and strife.
Below are specific websites and links that are listed as “Promising” at the WY Superintendent of Public Instruction website, that we find completely unacceptable for any WY teacher to use for classroom instruction in the State of Wyoming – whether it be for social studies or any other school subject.
Civic Education:
How to Teach Civics in Action to K–12 Students, published by Baylor University. This site promotes Generation Citizen that has obvious anti-Trump propaganda and Black Lives Matter recruitment, as well as social justice propaganda regarding illegal aliens. Additionally, this site teaches ‘consensus building’ as part of their Action Civics. Consensus building is a psychologically deceptive group-manipulation technique that pressures individuals to compromise their values and principles so that they will be acceptable by a group.
The Albert Shanker Institute. This website is named after a former teacher’s union president of the American Federation of Teachers and has at least one article that compares U.S. President Donald J. Trump to Hitler and fascist regimes. Also noted above, the American Federation of Teachers has partnered with the Pulitzer Center to create/offer The 1619 Project Professional Development Available On Demand. Whatever suggestions they have for civic lessons for WY classrooms is unwelcome in the State of Wyoming.
Youth 4 Justice. This site automatically links to the Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) with the following Mission Statement: YJC is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems. Under About/Building A Movement, YJC claims to be part of a larger movement for social justice.
Cultural Diversity and Heritage:
The American Historical Association (AHA). Linking through the site’s page ‘Globalizing the US History Survey‘; “The AHA launched a program for community-college faculty development to promote a global perspective on U.S. history at the country’s increasingly diverse two-year institutions. “American History, Atlantic and Pacific” draws on a generation of innovative scholarship that has reframed the origins of the United States within a broad geographical and chronological context. Participants worked to create or revise U.S. history courses-especially the popular U.S. history survey course-with lessons, units, and other work that deepens teaching on the United States in the world.”
Teaching Tolerance. A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is notorious for its political attacks and violent rhetoric against all things, all people and all policies that are conservative. This link and this link give an overview of this heavily-funded evil organization.
Social Justice Issues:
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is notorious for its political attacks and violent rhetoric against all things, all people and all policies that are conservative. This link and this link give an overview of this heavily-funded evil organization.
Teaching for Change. Encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens. Promotes early childhood activism; Promotes the Howard Zinn Education Project, heavily laden with student political-activism, including ‘Campaigns‘ such as Abolishing Columbus Day; Teaching Climate Justice (How do we teach the climate crisis in a way that also confronts racism, economic inequality, misogyny, militarism, xenophobia, and that imagines the kind of world that we would like to live in?); and a seemingly endless list of references to white supremacy. (Note – Howard Zinn’s, The People’s History of the United States is notoriously known for its Marxist inspired America-hating propaganda and rhetoric – and yet it is widely used as a history textbook nationwide. Zinn refers to himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist.” Wyomingites need to be on the look-out if this book is being used in any form in any WY classroom!)
Someone in the WY Dept of Education took the time to post/publish and classify as “promising” the above outrageous links at their official state website… and yet WY SOPI believes the disclaimer waives any expectation of responsibility or grants protection from any wrong-doing? How exactly does that work? If they are not recommended or endorsed, then why do they exist at all at the Wyoming Department of Education website? What if the WY State Treasurer did something similar and published links to scandalous slimey-get-rich-quick-schemes at his website? Would similar shoddy, thoughtless, irresponsible and deceptive actions be considered OK by any other state elected official? Of course not. This is complete and utter B.S. and entirely unprofessional conduct of a state elected official.
The WY Dept of Education is hoping that Wyoming citizens aren’t paying attention. But we are now. The disclaimer at the WY SOPI website is not good enough – Wyomingites need to demand that the following links be removed altogether and immediately. Here is the contact info:
Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow Wyoming Department of Education 122 W. 25th St. Suite E200 Cheyenne, WY 82002 Phone: (307) 777-7675 Fax: (307) 777-6234 https://edu.wyoming.gov/
Screen shots of these ‘Promising Links and Websites for Social Studies’ are at the bottom of this page. We intend to continue to comb through other subjects at the WY SOPI website and add to this list as necessary. We will continue to post information on this subject for all Wyoming parents and grandparents so they can fight these atrocities happening in our state educational institutions
Initial Resources for Wyoming Parents and Grandparents Concerned About Education in the State of Wyoming
Read this WY Dept of Education FAQ Standards document to learn about who has control over WY education standards and curriculum – and how they are changed.
The investigative/undercover video below exposes Middle and High School student activists that were already recruited by radical political organizations to be part of the Minneapolis riots mayhem in May 2020:
Why bother with Marxists? Or Leninists? Or Stalinists? Or Maoists? Or Socialists? …Because they are all ‘fellow-travelers’ on the various roads that lead to communism. And they’re attempting to hijack our country to the same bloody destination.
Antifa thugs have proudly referred to themselves by all-of-the-above names (less commonly as socialists) and are typically seen carrying or wearing various versions of the communist hammer & sickle symbol. Black Lives Matter (BLM) founders have publicly come out as trained Marxists. BLM activists, and their dense flocks of useful idiots (most of whom have no idea what a Marxist is), are commonly seen signaling, carrying and/or wearing various versions of the upraised fist. Among the throngs of BLM and Antifa activists desecrating American cities you can also see, as shown in this video, plenty of organized Socialist groups. Many Socialist groups also use variations of the upraised fist in their logos and signage, sometimes with a rose. To keep things simple we will hereafter refer to these violent malcontents that are raging in American streets today as Marxists and/or communists.
While there are differences in the ideology of the above mentioned groups they all have the same goal of destroying the United States of America and replacing it with their own ideological version of utopia… and then we can all, theoretically, live happily ever after, just as others did in the following utopias created by revolutionaries in their quest for the perfect communist state:
The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic from 1918-1922 has an estimate of 3,284,000 deaths. This body count does not include the 6,210,000 killed in the civil war
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1922-1991 (Lenin; Stalin; Khrushchev; Brezhnev; Andropov; Chernenko; Gorbachev) has an estimated body count from 1923-1987 of 58,627,000
Stalin’s Holodomor of Ukraine (1932-1933). This resource estimates 3,900,000 deaths, while this resource estimates 10,000,000 deaths.
Soviet Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992 (Josip Broz Tito) with an estimate of 1,072,000 deaths
Soviet Romania from 1946 to 1990 (Stalin; Nicolae Ceaușescu) with an estimate of 435,000 deaths
People’s Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1990 (Gerogi Demitrov; Vulko Chervenkov; Tudor Zhivkov) with an estimate of 222,000 deaths
People’s Republic of Poland from 1948 to 1989 (Jozef Cyrankiewicz; Konstantin Rokossovsky; Edward Gierek; Wojcieech Jaruzelski) with an estimate of 22,000 deaths
Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1990 (Klement Gottwald; Antonin Zapotocky; ; Antonin Novotny; Ludvik Svoboda; Gustav Husak) with an estimate of 65,000 deaths
The murderous, tyrannical despots that ruled/rule the above mentioned countries were/are consumed with Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism – Communism.
Just like Karl Marx, most of the above dictators listed were/are also, unsurprisingly, atheists. It is often overlooked that Marx was captivated by the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin and is quoted as saying “Darwin’s work is most important and suits my purpose in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle”. While Darwin’s book is commonly referred to as “The Origin of Species”, most people are unaware that the correct published title is, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Knowing the precise title of Darwin’s book gives one a much more profound and intimate insight into the hundreds of millions of lives lost, and the hundreds of millions of families devastated, by the bloody revolutions unleashed throughout world history to, theoretically, equalize the scales ‘in the struggle for life’.
So, why are we bothering to cover this thumbnail of communist history? Because communists today are not any different from the communists of the past. They have their sights squarely aimed on us, and have been slowly squeezing the trigger for several decades.
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things… The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
There are obvious targets that Marxists have been conspiring to destroy or overthrow in the social and political order of America. They have been doing this in methodical, incremental steps, since at least the early 1900’s. Below is a partial list of these targets:
religion
the family unit, including parental rights/control of children
all American history (including art and literature)
private property
free trade/capitalism
democratic process/electoral system
infiltrate/co-opt traditional educational institutions
infiltrate/co-opt all forms of media (including movies, theater, art, etc)
law/enforcement, the justice system
What strategies or tactics have Marxists/communists employed to ultimately bring about a fundamental transformation of American society? One tactic is a Soviet formula called the Four Stages of Ideological Subversion. These stages are explained in the following interview of Yuri Bezmenov – a former KGB agent that defected to Canada around 1970. We highly recommend our readers watch this video in its entirety. Note that this interview was filmed 36 years ago.
We will re-cap the Four Stages of Ideological Subversion in our next post – where we will focus on radical leftist infiltration of the education system, including specific findings we have discovered in Wyoming.
This post is Part 2 of our Saving Wyoming Series.
