New York moves to indoctrinate school children about J6
Democrat New York lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require schools to teach children about January 6th alongside events like slavery and the Holocaust.
Bill A3966, introduced by Assembly Members Charles Lavine, Deborah Glick, and Tony Simone, would amend New York’s education law to include the events of January 6, 2021 as part of the mandated curriculum for children over eight.
“In order to promote a spirit of patriotic and civic service and obligation and to foster in the children of the state moral and intellectual qualities which are essential in preparing to meet the obligations of citizenship in peace or in war, [the state] shall prescribe courses of instruction in patriotism, citizenship, civic education and values, our shared history of diversity, the role of religious tolerance in this country, and human rights issues, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of genocide, slavery (including the freedom trail and underground railroad), the Holocaust, the mass starvation in Ireland from 1845 to 1850, AND THE JANUARY SIXTH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE INSURRECTION AT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL AND ITS AFTERMATH, to be maintained and followed in all the schools of the state,” the amended law reads.
‘To protect democracy’
Charles Lavine, one of the bill’s sponsors, justified the indoctrination as necessary “to protect American democracy.”
“Not since the War of 1812, when British forces set fire to the Capitol, have the halls of power in Washington been overtaken by violent intruders as they were on Jan. 6,” Lavine said, as quoted by the Daily Caller. “Our students, in order to be able to protect, maintain and advance American democracy, must know what happened on that day and must be aware of those events in order to protect American democracy.”
The Democratic Party used January 6th to perpetrate human rights abuses, including the false imprisonment and torture of conservative Americans. Former US Attorney Matthew Graves extracted plea deals from defendants by charging them excessively and offering to reduce the charges in exchange for a guilty plea. As part of this strategy, he charged hundreds of defendants with violating §1512 (c )(2), a law that carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence for obstructing or attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The law was created in the wake of the 2001 Enron scandal when employees at the Arthur Andersen accounting firm illegally destroyed documents related to an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In June, the US Supreme Court effectively ended this maneuver. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled in Fischer v. USA that the law was meant to apply to cases of evidence tampering, not to taxpayers who protest peacefully.
Washington, DC Acting US Attorney Ed Martin, who succeeded Graves, last month announced an investigation into the office’s persecution of January 6th defendants.
