Censorship in Washington D.C. and Tulsa OK Published Monday, July 24, 2023 A note from OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT BOB LINN CULTURAL DECONSTRUCTION & CENSORSHIP The Political Twins Last week bore witness to two major historic but related events. In Washington, D.C., on Thursday, July 20, 2023, a great irony of political hypocrisy was on display on national television. Author, lawyer, and son of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was being constantly interrupted and censored by his Democrat colleagues as he sought to provide testimony in last week’s congressional hearings on censorship. Perhaps it was appropriate that the Democrats demonstrated the tools in their censorship arsenal in a hearing on censorship. The next day, Friday, July 21, 2023, featured what appeared to be a collaborative effort with fellow Washington D.C. ideologues. Hecklers gathered in Tulsa to censor speech the far left does not want anyone to hear. Ryan Walters was scheduled to speak to the Tulsa press about the virtues of free speech. Outside the building that houses the Superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools, State Superintendent Walters sought to defend a Tulsa Public School (TPS) board member, E’lena Ashley, and her constitutional rights to freedom of speech. Leftist supporters of TPS's apparent ban on Christian speech came to stifle Superintendent Walter's right to free speech as well. E’lena Ashley was severely reprimanded last month by the TPS Superintendent, the TPS board president, and the TPS attorney for praying at a TPS graduation in the name of Jesus Christ. Read more here The press conference was called by Senator Dan Prieto and held on the TPS lawn. The Democrat leftists yelled, screamed, and played loud sirens during the entire press conference. They believe in censorship. I was one of five speakers whose speech was shouted down by an angry mob who were there to ensure that nothing they disagreed with could be clearly heard. The supporters of moral and academic sanity outnumbered the radical left four to one, but the screams of the minority ensured censorship was enforced. As a simple country boy having grown up in the serenity of Indiana’s corn fields, it was my first experience at being face to face with such a violent display of vitriol, hate, intolerance, contempt, and malicious hostility. Until my visit to TPS, I had seen it only on television and movie screens. Last Friday, I had my initiation of what an uncivilized and culturally illiterate mob looks, sounds, and feels like up close. I felt what the chaos that even a small mob of ill-tempered and disrespectful people create in the absence of badged disciplinary authority. Imagine a group of people with no interest in a movie attending only to disrupt its viewing by another. That is what Friday felt like. The extreme left has no rational argument and can only work to silence the arguments of others. Its only linguistic tool in the face of rational speech is censorship. Last Friday in Tulsa, they exemplified Orwell’s Thought Police. These defenders of TPS censorship policy took the form of meaningless phrases and insipid questions screamed quite loudly. A few preached their fundamentalist leftist political theory condensed to their easy-to-remember five-word mantra, “separation of church and state.” For those of you who have not taken a “Remaking of America” course in the past 50 years or so, the nation is now ruled by lawyers and their courts and not the U.S. Constitution. It is the authoritative take-over by the courts this past century that provide such great confidence on the part of academia, news media, Marxist radicals, building burners, and sign shakers, to parrot court rulings as defining what is constitutional in spite of their incompatibility with our founding documents and the many writings of those crafted the constitution. This includes the delusion that our founders wrote anywhere, including the U.S. Constitution, the concept now in vogue that God and the church are banished from governmental affairs including all educational institutions the government oversees. If the TPS school board, the TPS Superintendent, and the shouting sign shakers we encountered last Friday had their way, no classroom in the TPS school system would be allowed to read the speeches, books, or writings of any of our founders without having them first being censored for content. They could peruse none of the complete works and speeches of most of our U.S. Presidents without those works having first been subject to the censorship of the Thought Police. Children would not be allowed to read of the thoughts of the vast majority of the world’s leaders in scientific invention or the works of our leading novelists without Orwellian Thought Police first censoring for content. Some time ago, I heard a pastor talk about the July 4th entry into the diary of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. The pastor spoke of him as having recorded his conversion to Christ with the exclamation: Jesus, thou son of David, Jesus, thou exalted Prince and Savior, give me repentance! I had never known that. I’d even seen the movie version. To my amazement, I realized my copy had been sanitized of its Christian content. As have the movies. This is what they did in the Soviet Union to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and others. I confirmed the pastor's comments when I bought an "unabridged" version! And one for each of my grandchildren as well. In the original unedited version, Robinson Crusoe leads his new found friend, the "Man Friday", to Christ as well. Sanitizing literature and history is what TPS is doing to America’s Christian heritage. Christianity is being banished. The cry for separation of church and state is the cry of a new religion upon American soil. It represents a kind of secular society our founders considered putrid. The cry for the atheist revolution in America can only remind us of the bloody revolution in France or Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China. China’s Maoist revolution is still going and seeks to sweep American Christianity off the global map. It is vital that we show up in force this coming Thursday morning to the monthly board of education meeting to demonstrate by our numbers and articulate by our words, the vast support there is in Oklahoma for the policies of Ryan Walters and this state board of education. See more information below. __________ Then, on August 2, be sure to bring all your friends to hear Trevor Loudon. The promo is here. BRING YOUR FRIENDS Wednesday, AUGUST 2 Oklahoma History Center NOON _________ A few of many examples of U.S. Presidents who violated Tulsa Public School's ban on Christian speech ... and, in doing so, violated the recent doctrine known as Separation of church and state “We recognize no sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!” "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams 2nd U.S. President “We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the whole of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.” ~ James Madison 4th U.S. President “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” ~ Ronald Reagan 40th U.S. President _______________ Two of my past articles dealt with some of the men who established the physics, mathematics, and chemistry upon which modern science has been able to build. Find on in the February 7, 2022 issue and another in the May 1, 2023 issue. CONTENTS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Meeting this week  LAST WEEK AT OCPAC FOUNDATION Francis & Lera Hobbes July 19, 2023 LETTER FROM A TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER Gabe Woolley Warning: The Teacher's letter contains TPS-sanctioned material but it is not appropriate for school children JOIN BOB & JANE LINN at STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION THIS THURSDAY JULY 27, 2023 Meeting 9:30am Arrival time: 8:30am The far left seeks to combat the work being done by Ryan Walters and the State Board of Education to remove pornography from our schools, to remove racist ideology , and to re-focus on academics. They show up each month and were it not for the many of you who also show up, the news media would have a field day. Actually, they do anyway. However, Ryan Walters and the board need your presence to balance the room. Jane & I will show up at 8 AM in order to have a place in line. We encourage you all to show up by 8:30. It is for the future of our children. SEE BOARD AGENDA HERE LAST WEEK Francis & Lera Hobbes BUILDING BRIDGES USA The presentation last week from Francis and Lera Hobbes was off the charts inspiring and professional. It looked like a well-established professionally polished national organization. AND IT SHOULD BE!!! Listen to the presentation here Listen to the entire program here Wade Burleson spoke about Oklahoma County's assault on two conservatives who attended the last state board meeting. Listen to Wade here LETTER FROM A TPS SCHOOL TEACHER This letter came to us from a TPS teacher about the sexual grooming implicit in one of the programs TPS partners with. WARNING The letter contains some unedited graphic content the Tulsa Public School system is promote to the public and to their school children. Be sure to read it first before allowing your own school-aged children read it. _____________________ My name is Gabe Woolley. I am a 28-year-old Tulsa Public School teacher, as well as an alumnus of City Year Tulsa. I have been associated with City Year Tulsa for two years. In view of the issues now before Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) regarding City Year Tulsa, it is now incumbent upon me to make public my own background. City Year is an educational nonprofit currently in 29 cities and 21 states. City Year Tulsa (CYT) partners with Tulsa Public Schools in an effort to address the student drop out crisis. It places young adults, aged 17 to 25, into the classroom as assistants to the certified teacher. The at-risk youth are tutored and mentored by these young adults to help them understand the importance of school attendance, behavior and academics. I personally had a good experience with this organization. It is, in part, why I am a teacher today. However, through my conversations with its staff as well as my own research, I have now come to realize that City Year promotes a political agenda. Its publicly stated goals hides its aggressive and destructive purposes. I am a former member of the LGBTQIA+ community and have struggled with same sex attraction for as long as I can remember. My experience directly feeds into my motivation for bringing this issue to light. During the time in my life that I embraced gay culture, I lived in the center of its community. The gay lifestyle is a very sexual and promiscuous one. Sex is at the core of just about every interaction. My experience with gay and bisexual men in this community has revealed to me that sex is the essence of the culture and nature of many community interactions. Because I know the paths connected with the gay culture, I have concerns for anyone involved. It is not a path that has led me or many others to true fulfillment in life. What I found were many short-term fulfillments linked to long-term anxiety and displacement. I have no desire to interfere with decisions made by adults regarding how they live their lives. I do put my foot down and speak up for rights of youth who are being influenced by authority figures representing the government to contemplate a journey which for many has led to anxiety and ultimate emptiness. For me to testify that my life in the gay community was positive would not be true. The time I suffered in the gay community is irreconcilable with my desire to marry and raise children in truth. I have grown to love the people who have struggled and question their sexual or gender identity. How can a person truly suffer with purpose and understanding and not come to a place of love? I do not know. If someone says they can, I question their comprehension of love. Love seeks to understand and pull out the true identity and value of any human being. Love is truth. Love holds a standard. And, yes, love goes to war, and fights to death, for its children. So, when I express my concerns, it comes from a place of both love of hurting people and war against institutions who foster that painful lifestyle. We are in a worldwide identity crisis. When a person’s true identity can be stolen, perverted, or hidden, society breeds weak and needy followers and not strong, well-adjusted leaders. My concerns with Tulsa Public Schools partnership with City Year: City Year is a far-left nation-wide organization that, in Tulsa, represents an organizational brand with strategic political ideology. Its public face reflects important basic issues plaguing our nation. Hidden in the underlying culture is an organization with an agenda too blatantly destructive for me to remain silent. There is a diversity agenda, that I worry can cause discrimination, as well as promote the alternative and destructive sexual lifestyles of the gay community to children. The expressions of many City Year individuals is politically charged. City Year Tulsa has a public Instagram (social media) page that students have been encouraged, by City Year corps members, to follow and interact with. In June of 2023, City Year Tulsa posted an advertisement for Pride Month reading suggestions with nine different LGBTQIA+ books titled as follows: Kind Like Marsha, Hearing from LGBTQ+ Leaders, by Sarah Prager This Is Our Rainbow, by 14 different collaborative authors. This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson Some Girls Do, by Jennifer Dugan Beyond Magenta, Transgender Teen Speaks Out, by Susan Kuklin Melissa, by Alex Gino Star Fish, by Lisa Fipps PRIDE, The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, by Rob Sanders Sparkle Boy, by Leslie Newman Here is an excerpt from the book, This Book Is Gay, which was promoted on City Year Tulsa’s Instagram page: “If you’re THAT HORNY that you want to do a “sex meet”, meet the “trick” in a public place for a drink first. That way you can assess if you fancy them in the flesh/they are not a twitchy-eyed freakazoid letting them into your house…” “You can ALWAYS say NO. If someone from a sex app turns up and you don’t like the look of them, don’t be scared to turn them away at the door (of the safe, public venue you choose to meet at). Awkward, yes, but better than awkward sex.” I will stop quoting there, but there is much more including instructions on how to use gay sex hookup apps such as the LGBTQIA+ app, Grindr. At a board meeting on 7-10-23, Tulsa Public Schools superintendent, Deborah Gist expressed that this Instagram post was shared to the public, not to students. This is simply not true. I have personally witnessed City Year Tulsa Corps members encourage students to follow this Instagram public page. Delivering something to someone in a roundabout way is still delivering it to them. No doubt, the administrative leadership of both the Tulsa Public Schools and the Oklahoma City schools know that they do not need to insert sexuality into their own curriculum, so long as they have a partner in City Year Tulsa who will do it for them. Children are extremely susceptible to emotional and spiritual influence. It is our job as parents and educators to protect and foster them into their greatest potential. Our education system is failing in this nation and to be partnering with organizations that have concerning agendas and values at heart, is a huge step in the wrong direction. We need to get back to the basics of reading, writing, math, history, and science in the classroom and develop students that value and understand their potential and hopefully can still have a sense of pride in their nation and state. Additional Opinions on City Year: Tulsa Public Schools Board Member, E’lena Ashley stated: It is a disservice to the public to not ask any questions and just robotically say yes to just about everything on the school board agenda. Every citizen should know that these books are being suggested by City Year to our students and the public. I never mentioned that these books were a requirement, but they certainly were a suggestion from City Year. We are paying this organization to mentor our children. This issue is about Tulsa’s parents and the public citizens making an informed decision about what is being presented as acceptable in our Tulsa public schools. City Year is an organization that has suggested these books and it needs to be known. These books being broadcasted to children are inappropriate and is a form of grooming. I want the citizens, taxpayers, and parents to be made aware of this. As a concerned parent in the community, I would want to be made aware that TPS is endorsing this organization. Janice Danforth, with Mom for Liberty, Tulsa stated: City Year Tulsa has stated on their social media platform that social justice is a core value. This is a concern when the core value within education should be on academics. So, my question is why does TPS want to spend almost $1.7 Mil on a contract with an organization with social justice as the focus? TPS proficiency rates in reading, science, and math sit in the single digits at many of the schools City Year Tulsa is already involved with. Academics has to be at the forefront of our public schools if we want our children to succeed and that starts with our school board members voting no to organizations like City Year Tulsa. ~Gabe Woolley OCPAC FOUNDATION FUND RAISING OCPAC | P.O. 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