The Kamala Devi Harris Score Card

Blah blah blah about Trump, the thread is about Kamala...

How vicious can she get?

How low will she go?

I think she's got more spine than most think.

 

Exactly.
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

 

Can't wait for former prosecutor, President Kamala, to ensure that all Trump's trials get put back on the docket and maybe add a few more indictments while she's at it. You can be sure Trump will try to cheat Kamala out of her victory. I bet she's gonna make sure all trump's henchmen get their due. Maybe she can replace that asshat judge Aileen Cannon too.

I still prefer a Newsom/Buttigieg ticket. But I can see how having a woman running for President right now could upset the race. Plus she's black and Indian so that should help too with those groups. Kamala does have some baggage from her days as Prosecutor and Senator.

She's certainly not the most liberal choice for President.

 

So I don't know why you posted that video. Cops make mistakes? Bad cops? What?

Showing an isolated incident and then generalizing to that equating to sending militarized police after parents who don't get their kids off to the indoctrination centers on time doesn't make any sense at all.

Let's start with the "militarized police".
The police in this country weren't militarized until the 1997 North Hollywood shootout.
At that time two men wearing body armor robbed the Bank of America on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. They were armed with two Norinco Type 56 rifles and a Bushmaster XM-15 Dissipator with a 100-round drum magazine all modified to be select-fire, and a Heckler & Koch HK91 and a Beretta 92FS pistol.
The responding police were armed with 9mm pistols, .38 revolvers, and shotguns.

The battle lasted 44 minutes with over 2000 shots fired as the police were outgunned and found their weapons useless against the body armor. At one point the police broke into a gun shop to secure AR 15 rifles.
Two died and twelve police officers and eight civilians were wounded.

That is why the police are now militarized.
Due to the gun culture in the U.S. they need to be ready to receive high velocity machine gun fire.

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Now, schools.
You are correct that schools are involved in indoctrination: "the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information". That is part of their mission, to indoctrinate, teach, or instruct students the history of the country and world, social norms, ethics, and morals. And things like the English language. That is one thing that holds our society together, that is one way we attain a national identity.
Same as religious instruction, or indoctrination.
The only real question is what are they being indoctrinated, or taught. That is a question you need to take up with your local school board.

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On to truancy.
In my state children are required to attend a public school from age six to eighteen, unless enrolled in some sort of approved home schooling or seven other approved exceptions.
They are required to receive 180 days comprising 900 hours of instruction. That's about one half year.

Each school must have a written attendance policy that is presented to all parents and that defines excused absences and truancy.

Now if the student is found to be chronically unlawfully absent the school has "...at least one person holding the title of attendance officer or home and school visitor whose duties shall be to enforce compulsory attendance requirements." Not a militarized police officer.
A Home School and Visitor Certification does hold the power to arrest a student but before this would happen the parents are notified in writing of every unexcused absence, in the parents native language, and it must include a notification of any possible repercussions, and offer a School Attendance Improvement Conference. And so on, the procedure is very defined.

If the unexcused absences continue a citation is filed with the magisterial district judge.
The parents and child are notified in writing of a hearing date. At the hearing the school must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt that the child was subject to compulsory attendance law." The parents, or those in the parental role, and the child may present evidence of why they could not meet the attendance policy.

If convicted of truancy a fine or community service may be imposed, or a school attendance class may be required.
First offense is no more than $300, second $500, and third $750. Failure to comply may lead to up to three days in jail.

And it goes on.
But nowhere is it lawful for a SWAT team to break into a home and kidnap a child.
I have known many truant officers and non carried a gun or ever participated in any violence of any kind.

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Schools.
Yes we need better schools. So let's fund them better.
How about we quit paying athletes millions of dollars a year and invest in our schools instead?

Kamala wants to increase Title I funding (look up Title I), increase funding to Head Start, desegregate schools, enforce Title IX, raise teacher pay to make it comparable with other professions, invest in teacher prep programs, and provide free two year post secondary education.
Trump wants to cut federal funding for schools that teach “inappropriate” lessons on race, gender, and politics (which of course means the Republican politicians and religious right, not professional educators, would decide what inappropriate means, think indoctrination), roll back protections for gay and transgender students, eliminate the Department of Education, eliminate Title I, limit the enforcement of Title IX, and siphon off money from the public schools and send it directly to parents to allow then to send their children to private indoctrination centers that only the rich can afford anyway. (How is a poor intercity child going to get to that private school in the suburbs?)
He also wants to eliminate tenure, (tenure means you have to have a reason to fire a teacher, in the old days you could fire anyone so that you could hire your brother in law, or because they were Catholic or Jewish..or black) etc., etc., etc.

In other words take over public schools and convert them to private indoctrination centers.

Sorry for the long reply, but this needed to be cleared up.​

 

I take it you see no need to educate children.
Compulsory schooling goes back to Plato:

In the U.S. Massachusetts required compulsory schooling in 1852.

Without mandatory schooling we end up with a society that has citizens that are only educated if the parents see a need for education and if they can afford an education. If some yahoo sees no need to stop their child from playing X Box all day, so be it. (And they may have to pay for a baby sitter for school age children or leave them on their own while both parents work).
Today public schools offer a free education, special ed, free health screening, and in many cases free breakfast and lunch.

I already described the legal penalties for truancy. Maybe reread it.

Is this some kind of quote? I can't find it. Source please.

The CCHR is a front group for the Church of Scientology.
So much for that.

 

Please stop spreading MISINFORMATION and telling us lies.

Your quotes are imaginary. Your facts are somewhat skewed...or completely.

People have WOKEN up to the lies and backward thinking processes of Republicans and die-hard right-wing Christians.

It is time to step forward into the future, embrace it and create a better place for all...now just a 'chosen' few.

 

Painting all liberals as drugs lovers is disingenuous. Again with disinformation.

 

No one forces parents to give Ritalin and Adderall to their children.
Maybe your buddie's grown adult offspring should have taken their child to a different doctor.