Why did the military go after a regular mom?
Lawsuit alleges a military reserve officer sic'd police on a mom who complained about LGBT posters at her daughter's elementary school
A mother is suing local law enforcement and the military after she was intimidated into deleting a Facebook post drawing attention to student-made posters celebrating “polysexuality” on display at her daughter’s elementary school.
The lawsuit alleges that Angela Reading experienced "outright censorship of her speech followed by a dedicated smear campaign begun by a military officer, U.S. Army Reserve Major Christopher Schilling.” Reading is being represented by attorneys at the Thomas More Society.
“The current situation involving Ms. Reading’s actions has caused safety concerns for many families,” Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling reportedly wrote on his personal Facebook page in December last year, as we reported at the time. “The Joint Base leadership takes this situation very seriously and from the beginning have had the Security Forces working with multiple state and local law enforcement agencies to monitor the situation to ensure the continued safety of the entire community.”
Subsequently, as the suit alleges, "the police chief of North Hanover Township, acting in concert with military personnel from the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst," coerced Reading to remove her post from Facebook.
The complaint accuses defendants North Hanover Township, Police Chief Robert Duff, multiple officers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and then-North Hanover School Superintendent Helen Payne, of portraying the mother as a “security threat” who was targeted by law enforcement as a means of silencing her views.
Link: Lawsuit Alleges Military Officer Sic’d Police on Mom Who Complained About LGBT Posters at Daughter’s School
The woman behind Libs of TikTok was forced to cancel an event for her new children’s book over safety as other events for conservative authors have been crashed by outraged protesters.
Chaya Raichick, who runs the lightning-rod Twitter account that draws attention to radical ideology aimed at children, recently published the book No More Secrets with Brave Books (who also publishes Elizabeth’s children’s book, Little Lives Matter).
However, Brave Books announced Friday that they had opted to cancel a planned “story hour” event for children in New York City.
"We have received threats of potentially inappropriate and unsafe behavior at the NYC story hour with Chaya Raichik on Sunday," the publisher tweeted. Brave Books also recently revealed that Raichik has received death threats over her book.
"[We] have advised Chaya we cancel the event. With children involved, we don't want to take any chances,” they added, also noting they are planning to find a way to circumvent the threats and will update followers soon.
Also on Friday, a story hour event for actor Kirk Cameron’s faith-based Brave Books title, “As You Grow,” was crashed by drag queens in gaudy attire who bragged about assaulting event attendants, as the Post Millennial reported.
Link: Libs of TikTok Children’s Book Event Canceled Over Safety Threats
Wyoming has passed a first-of-its-kind law banning the sale and distribution of drugs used to perform chemical abortions.
Republican Governor Mark Gordon signed the legislation on Friday that makes it illegal to "prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion."
The law would appear to largely apply to the widely-used drug protocol used to abort first trimester abortions, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of the abortions in the United States.
There are notable exceptions for drugs "administered before conception or before pregnancy” to prevent the development of the fetus in the womb, "treatment of a natural miscarriage according to currently accepted medical guidelines" and "Treatment necessary to preserve the woman from an imminent peril that substantially endangers her life or health."
“Imminent peril” in this case is defined as "only a physical condition” and won’t apply to “psychological or emotional conditions."