Harold Pease, Ph.D.

In 2021 we viewed televised school board meetings with parents demanding their boards allow students to take off the masks. One eight-year-old girl in particular, Fiona Lashells, having been expelled 36 times for not wearing the mask, told school board members, “In closing, I hope everyone doing this to me goes to jail, thank you” (“Fiona Lashells missed two months of school for refusing to wear a mask,” Palm Beach Post, Andrew Marra, Nov. 15, 2021).

She was far closer to the solution than anyone could imagine as we will show. Amazingly, her school board changed the mask policy. But most don’t, and it has nothing to do with health or safety—try “free” COVID money.

When confronted most board members appeared trance-like in their response as though they knew more than the parents—a secret even. They did!! Their districts were receiving millions from the Biden Administration to hold firm on all Democrat COVID mandates (decrees).

There is not a single peer reviewed study that shows masking stops viruses. The COVID virus is one micron, a cloth mask is 80 microns between threads. None of the “diapers” (face coverings), —including N95, stop viruses. Most who wear masks today are not well informed.

Only a hazmat suit has any hope of stopping a virus and that is what caused AJ Depriest, a healthcare policy analyst expert to offer a compelling unanswered question. “Why, if COVID is so deadly and masks are so necessary, why aren’t there any OSHA regulated hazmat bins in schools? Something’s up with this. It can’t be about health and safety like they’re telling us” (“AJ Depriest Uncovers the Enormous COVID Bribes to all Education and Hospitals from the US Government,” Bit Chute, Interview with Del Bigtree, the Highwire.com, January 8, 2022).

She and 25 others, on June 9, 2021, formed The Tennessee Liberty Network, to study the Cares Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act), a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law March 27, 2020, primarily the $13.2 billion earmarked under (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) money and how it was distributed and managed. They did the same respecting the ARP (American Rescue Plan Act), another COVID spending bill of $1.9 trillion signed by Joe Biden, March 11, 2021.

To date says AJ Depriest, “Schools have been given almost $200 billion of relief money.” What are the Democrats buying with all this money? Mostly the compliance of our defenseless children to their unconstitutional and unlawful COVID decrees. The federal government is waving billions of dollars in front of these boards as obedience bribes.

To get this money schools must implement the following Democrat agenda: “universal and correct wearing of masks, physical distancing, hand washing, cleaning, ventilation, contact tracing, quarantine isolation, and, the second to last on the list, is vaccinations. This is why they’re getting the money. It has nothing to do with health and safety.” And, “every state is doing it.”

None of these functions are listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution as federal powers thus they belong to the states as per Amendment 10. Congress has no authority to fund what it has no power to legislate. Because they can’t make these laws they instead give bribe money to accomplish the same thing and unscrupulous school boards lineup with alms bowls in hand.

Del Bigtree, monitor of the interview, summed it well. “So when we’re standing there as parents at the school board meetings and say ‘Get the mask off my kid, they’re getting rashes on their face, my kids depressed. They haven’t seen their teachers smile. they’re not interacting socially, I see them failing.’ We just see those blank stares because that school board knows—I’m not going to turn down—What is it, $10 or $15 million to listen to you?”

AJ. Depress broke in, “Much more than that.” In Tennessee “Shelby County gets almost three quarters of a billion dollars in COVID relief funds for education to the schools …. Nashville Public Schools is half a billion dollars in COVID relief funds.”

Apparently to get the handout (bribe) school districts must apply and thereafter, every six months, file documents proving their compliance through September 2023. They must prove how they are fulfilling these requirements “for all students, staff and teachers.” Can we comprehend the stress these mandates lay on children? How do you force them, or even staff and teachers, to do contact tracing and vaccinations without serious breaches of the Constitution? Mandates are not laws therefore are unenforcible and totally unconstitutional.

Del Bigtree added, “Billions literally billions of dollars are being funded to imprison your child, to socially distance them, to shut down the school, or make them wear masks. All of that is being funded against you by your President, by our administration.”

So what does AJ. Depress, and her Network, suggest parents do to resist this medical tyranny? First find out how much money they are receiving “to commit this, this egregious tyrannical behavior on our kids, and if they don’t know tell them how much it is and tell them to give that money back.” The Network, she offers, will “point you in the direction to find this information.”

It is not likely that little Fiona will get her wish that “everyone doing this to me goes to jail,” but boards are elected to reflect the will of their constituents—not their own—and not the agenda of the Democratic Party through bribe money. Some school boards have put money in front of honor and their responsibility; all on the backs of the children they abuse.

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.