It’s time to test the cult of the death of right-wing zombies

What will the Biden Administration do to save our children from the cult of the death of zombies, which extends to the right?

This week we started figuring it out.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education opened civil rights investigations in five states — Iowa, South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma and Tennessee — that prohibit local school districts from imposing mask warrants. They rely on two federal laws: the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which protects students with disabilities from discrimination and guarantees them the right to free education, and Title II of the American Disability Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by of public education systems. . States could be found to be violating federal law if the investigation finds that “students with disabilities who are at high risk of serious COVID-19 illnesses are prevented from returning to face-to-face education.”

Sanctions include loss of federal funding, or the school may simply agree to change its policies, which in this case would be choosing life requiring masking and vaccination for school employees.

These students at high risk for disease are my 5-year-old daughter Nusayba, a stage 4 cancer survivor who is immunosuppressed due to her liver transplant. I recently wrote about how we were desperately trying to get her into virtual school, along with her brother, Ibrahim, who has just turned 7 years old. Luckily, both were admitted and I am now at home doing technical support until 3:30 p.m. , but at least I know they’re safe.

Meanwhile, there has already been a COVID case on the second day of school. And his school is far from the worst. Thanks to the GOP’s multidisciplinary and coordinated attack on masks, social distancing and school vaccinations, Delta continues to thrive and there have been massive outbreaks in schools across the country.

This is not a problem for both parties. Of the 10 states with the most COVID-19 cases per capita, as of Wednesday, nine of them were led by Republican governors — surprise! – and voted for Trump in 2020, com The New York Times reported. Meanwhile, 16 Democratic states have state mask requirements for schools. Tennessee, one of five defendant states, has just set a new hospitalization record for COVID and previously moved to cut all vaccine disclosure to students and young adults.

Now, thousands of school-age children have COVID-19 with no end in sight. Some school districts in the United States even leave it to parents to decide whether to quarantine their exposed child or send him or her to school to spread the disease to other unvaccinated children.

Meanwhile, hosts and influential radio conservatives who tried to misinform the vax win the Darwin Awards and die weekly from the coronavirus.

Still, that doesn’t stop the hate machine on the right. From then on they persist with their march of nihilistic and counter-majority death.

Republicans, like those in Texas, believe they have the freedom to infect their son and children with coronavirus, but women should not have the freedom to control their own bodies. Other conservative activists believe that “freedom” means harassing and threatening school boards, intimidating health workers, and spreading the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory, which is now a threat of domestic terrorism. Among other things, some suggest that anyone who believes in vaccines and masks in schools is actually a “demonic entity” and bears “the mark of the beast.” This is what Melissa, an alleged nurse in Lee County, Florida, said recently at a school board meeting where she said Christians across America will “take them all out,” referring to anyone who opposed his pro-death initiatives to spread COVID. 19.

He would be thought to be an atypical person, a walking fist. But she is an ordinary soldier in this movement of death that holds hostage the safety of our children to advance in their cultural war. They are not the “American Taliban” or “enforce sharia” and we should stop using Islam and Muslims as a reference for extremism. They are agents of white Christian supremacy dedicated to ensuring the minority government of white men by any necessary violent means.

Our children are simply the bait and the collateral damage.

Steve Lynch, a Republican candidate for Northampton County executive in Pennsylvania, is an anti-masquerade who encourages violence against school boards who do not want to submit to his anti-mask belligerence. On August 29, he said, “Come in and take them out. I’m going with 20 strong men … They can leave or be eliminated.”

In Buncombe County, North Carolina, anti-masqueraders attempted to “overthrow” the school board, encouraged in part by Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who fought a tree and lost, and continued to rehabilitate the 6-year-old violent insurgents imprisoned. January at a recent rally. in referring to them as “political hostages.” He said he was working to “destroy” them, and also appeared to be calling for a new uprising, although this past actually killed five people, including a police officer, and was followed by law enforcement suicides. . He urged Republicans in Macon County to “defend their children” from harmful vaccines.

This week, one of my adorable fans sent me an email warning me that the violence “will spread in the streets” and “there” [are] 100 million Americans waiting for the day. I don’t expect any army to come to the rescue of voices like you who are spinning a web of hateful lies and rhetoric. “

He used his full name and email address. There is no need to hide in the shadows and wear hoods when their elected officials and their God-King, Trump, openly incite possible violence and crime.

They are deliberately using threats of violence to terrorize the majority and make us give way. It seems to work, as school board members leave the whole country and do not want to tolerate the “toxic and impossible” environment.

We are facing a potential criminal element and we may need to be more flexible with the Department of Education and with extensive vaccination mandates to save our children. I asked former career federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner if the Justice Department could intervene in a criminal investigation if there is evidence that these Republican-led state governments are harming children.

“I think that because education is primarily a local issue, local and state tax authorities should assess whether governors and state governments are recklessly and criminally endangering our children,” he told me. say Kirschner, considering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, “A prime example.”

He believes DeSantis mask bans in Florida school districts could provide prosecutors with enough evidence to initiate a criminal investigation. He cited the recent Florida judge who overturned the recent ban on masks and sided with parents whose lawsuit alleges, in part, that the policy violates the state constitution that requires providing a “uniform system, efficient, safe, secure and high quality ”of public schools.

“I can’t understand why our tax authorities (federal, state, and local) seem to have concluded that we should not try to hold elected politicians accountable for killing citizenship,” Kirschner added.

It is still possible for the Department of Education to introduce the carrot before the Department of Justice undoes the stick. From my eyes, these Republican Party leaders are helping to actively kill people and harm children with their pro-death policies. This should immediately justify criminal investigations and liability for causing preventable deaths by COVID.

The rest of us, the majority, must defend this belligerent minority for the safety and public health of our children.

We cannot “both sides” or seek a bipartisan solution with a pro-death movement. Enough.