Louisiana Voice

Editor’s Note: Carl Czervik is the new publisher of LouisianaVoice, having taken control from founder Tom Aswell. Czervik is a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, but has resided in Baton Rouge for the past 42 years. This the first of what is anticipated to be many columns on Louisiana and national politics and the occasional observations on social and legal issues.

By Carl Czervik

If you haven’t been paying attention, you may want to begin watching public education in Louisiana for a tendency to cater to the right-wing extremists.

Said another way, we may be seeing the first indications of Louisiana public education following in the footsteps of Florida, which many will agree, has recently gone off the rails.

First came the maniac push to censor books in school and public libraries by an organization calling itself Citizens for a New Louisiana, but believed by some to be financed by ultra-conservative Republicans in the Washington, D.C.-Virginia area. (It’s the same group that has crashed the Livingston Parish party by first injecting itself into the created crisis du jour of “inappropriate library books” and most recently the race for State Senate by slamming State Rep. Buddy Mincey, most likely on behalf of his opponent, State Rep. Valerie Hodge — regardless, a classic example of misleading, dirty politics of half-truths and outright distortions. Noticably nothing positive about Hodges, just negatives about Mincey. That’s because campaign contribution limitations prohibit these clowns from endorsing a candidate; they can only sling hog excrement because that’s where they live.)

Next came news that the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education had approved an outfit calling itself Third Future was taking over operations of the former PRESCOTT MIDDLE SCHOOL in Baton Rouge for the next three school years.

Then, on July 24, Louisiana Superintendent of Education CADE BRUMLEY gave an address at the regular meeting of the Baton Rouge chapter of Moms for Liberty.

So, what’s the big deal about Third Future taking over a single school – a failing school at that?

And what’s so bad about giving a speech to a group with the benign-sounding name Moms for Liberty?

Maybe nothing and maybe a lot.  More recently, on July 27 to be exact it was announced that the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Texas’s largest school district, has given the axe to 28 ACHOOL LIBRARIANS and will convert the libraries to behavior centers.

And what’s so bad about giving a speech to a group with the benign-sounding name Moms for Liberty?

Nothing…except that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has classified the national organization as a hate group with the sole intent of creating chaos and disrupting public education with the rewriting of history to fit a conservative agenda (read: book censorship, eliminating any mention of slavery, civil rights, or the massacre of Native-Americans.

Again, what’s the big deal?

Well, the superintendent of the HISD is one Mike Miles, founder of Third Future.

Of course, since becoming the HISD superintendent, Miles went through the motions of separating himself from Third Future….by appointing his sister, SHIRLEY MILES, to succeed him as Executive Director of Schools.

That’s the same Shirley Miles who while in her previous job as Director of the Department of Defense Education Activity, was accused of MISCONDUCT in a 75-page report that alleged that she flim-flammed her employer i.e. taxpayers, out of payments to which she was not entitled. In other words, financial improprieties involving travel reimbursements.

So, by connecting the dots, I’ve come up with my own wholly viable conspiracy theory: there are evil forces flying under our radar that would undermine education and basic human rights while reinvigorating the dark days of Jim Crow.

Cade Brumley, as head of Louisiana public schools, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Moms for Liberty, Citizens for a New Louisiana, and Third Future are all working in concert to totally revamp public education in Louisiana – and not for the overall improvement of education itself, but for the advancement of a political agenda that censors textbooks and library books while completely rewriting American History.

Florida, thanks to Ron DeSantis and a pliant Florida legislature, has already made education in that state a laughingstock. And it’s not just on the elementary and secondary school levels, but higher education as well. As a result, professors and public school teachers in that state are exiting the profession in staggering numbers.

The same fate awaits Louisiana if we allow this silent – but insidious – movement to flourish here.

Okay, okay, I know I’m supposed to be retired (and there are those who undoubtedly wish I’d stay that way), but as Publisher Emeritus, a title I’ve magnanimously bestowed upon myself, I reserve the right to climb out from under my rock and offer up a periodic masterpiece of literary brilliance (or nonsensical cerebral compost, depending upon one’s point of view – I leave it to the individual reader to determine the appropriate description).

I write the following after being appropriately inspired by:

• A network news story about self-described whistleblower David Grusch’s eyebrow-raising testimony before the House Oversight Committee. Grusch claimed – under oath, no less – to have seen with his own eyes physical evidence of UFOs and extra-terrestrials (all deceased, of course);
• A hilarious essay by Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank;
• And last, but certainly not least, a suggestion by one of my dearest friends who warned me upon threat of bodily harm, to “Leave my crummy arse out of this looming train wreck!”

Among the claims offered up by Grusch that Republican members of the committee seemed all to eager to believe were:

• The US is in possession of alien bodies (deceased, of course, which I suppose is redundant);
• Benito Mussolini was in on the secret but apparently never told anyone (imagine that!)
• The Vatican is part of the coverup conspiracy;
• A private contractor is storing (concealing might would be a better term) one of the football-field-sized alien crafts;
• The federal guvmint has apparently killed people in order to keep a lid on the story;
• Milbank, in his column, pointed out somewhat skeptically that Grusch had no documents, photos or other evidence to back any of his assertions – because it’s classified.

And it’s that last part that has direct ties to Mar-A-Lago and Donald Trump, which takes this entire story to a higher dimension and goes a long way in exonerating Trump for squirreling away all those docs that the Justice Department – and the Democrat World – have their drawers in a wad over.

In one of the most exclusively exclusive stories ever uncovered by LouisianaVoice, our confidential sources have (actually, that would be singular source and the third-person singular participle has since there’s actually only one source) revealed that at the very time that the 2020 election was so unceremoniously stolen from him, Donald Trump was in ultra-sensitive, top-secret negotiations with Zbyrck Obgrz, supreme Commander of the Joint Intergalactic Command Force to purge Earth of war, hunger, racial discord, poverty, pollution, crime, general ignorance and the heartbreak of psoriasis while simultaneously providing financial assistance in helping Trump to set up a series of interplanetary combination way-stations/hotel/casinos designed to dwarf the upstart Buc-ee’s that are popping up along interstate highways in Texas and Louisiana.

Now if that seems a bit much to digest, consider the destructive implications had news of these talks leaked and had given Putin or Kim Jong Un or Xi Jinping an opportunity to crash the talks with their own incentives. (That, of course, explains Trump’s seeming to cozy up to Putin, Kim and Xi: he was conducting his own intelligence in order to keep abreast of what they knew of the ongoing talks with Obgrz.) Starting to make sense now, right?

But then, in the wake of the 2020 debacle, the leak was inevitable and straightaway, special interests with their own agenda attempted to tank the negotiations. Obviously, we’re talking about Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Fulton County (Georgia) District Attorney Fani Willis, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Special Counsel Jack Smith, who have joined forces to undermine the stability and benevolence developed and nurtured by Trump.

And while Grusch didn’t say as much because of threats against his life, it’s pretty obvious that the four individuals named in the previous paragraph are part of a separate intergalactic cabal bent on eliminating Trump and Trumpism while installing an illegitimate and discordant dictatorship under the banner of the Democratic Party.

All of which brings us to Mar-A-Lago and those documents. Obviously, the US Justice Department is correct in insisting that they consist of top-secret information. But what they don’t say – and what Grusch could never say – is that much of that classified data is directly related to Trump’s highly-secret negotiations with Obgrz and the Biden administration desperately wants – must – get its hands on those documents at all costs! They wanted Tom Cruise to retrieve them but he was busy filming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One.

But thankfully, the one thing Biden and his Justice Department haven’t been able to decrypt is the method by which Obgrz and his emissaries have been able to utilize teleportation to furtively enter and depart Mar-A-Lago in a continuation of critical talks. The FBI continues to be frustrated in its inability to determine when the actual teleporting and ensuing conferences occur, thus explaining its failure to sabotage negotiations as they transpire.

Also fortunately, Trump’s enormously high IQ (bolstered by Obgrz’s injections of 400 ccs of Jqvpol solution (which is infinitely more effective than Prevagen), he metamorphosized the ability and mental acuity to memorize all the relative information contained in the documents and to cerebrally redact critical passages, forcing both informed Democrats and Republicans who remain ignorant of the critical importance of the negotiations to employ all means necessary to prevent his return to the White House.

There. That’s the explanation in a nutshell. But if you desire more confirmation, go here for Bob Newhart’s intriguing interview on a related subject:

Well now, it seems the good Christians hereabouts have forgotten the teachings of Christ who advocated charity, kindness and understanding – and most of all, love.

You see, a few of these good Christians physically set upon an actual minister of the faith last Friday at Riverside Baptist Church in Denham Springs. The event was some sort of rally called by Livingston Parish Repugnantcan Rep. Valerie Hodges, now a candidate for the Louisiana Senate to fill the seat being vacated by the term-limited incumbent Rogers Pope.

Valerie Hodges, I would remind you, is the same one who, a few years ago – as in the Jindal administration – pushed through a bill to provide financial aid to religious-based schools and then raised holy hell when an Islamic school in New Orleans applied for funding. Apparently she forgot that religious is religious, regardless of the affiliation label that may be attached.

Oh, and she’s also the one who railed against illegal immigration and then when she and her husband purchased flooded rental homes in Denham Springs, employed – guess who? – to perform renovation work. No need to guess, you know damn well who.

Anyway, Hodges called this big rally of “all Louisiana pastors with sound Biblical conviction” to gin up support for what she obviously hoped would be a massive show of support for a veto override session for three gender-related bills that passed the recent session but which Gov. John Bel Edwards has promised to veto. You can see the bills in the attached flier that Hodges sent out to invite those pastors with “sound Biblical conviction.”

Now, I’m not certain if the “Biblical conviction” alluded to by Hodges included Second Samuel 1: 26, the Bible verse which noted that Jonathan’s love for King David was “deeper than the love of women,” or First Samuel 18: 1 where it says Jonathan “stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David,” or in Ruth 1: 16-17 where Ruth tells Naomi, “Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people…” Or if it’s the same Biblical conviction in which God instructs the Israelites to attack an enemy and “Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished” and that “they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.” And in Numbers 31: 31-40, along with His instructions to disembowel pregnant women (could that be considered a form of abortion?) He tells the Israelites to take livestock and virgins for themselves. According to the Bible, the Israelites responded by destroying the Midanites, but capturing 337,000 sheep, 36,000 cattle, 30,500 donkeys and (ahem) 16,000 virgins. Of course, they tithed, giving God 675 sheep, 72 cattle, 61 donkeys, and 32 virgins (just what God did with all that booty remains unclear). If you’re good a math (or even mediocre), you can readily see that those tithes come nowhere near the 10 percent we’re told to give today.

But I digress.

What transpired was anything but Biblical in the sense of the “Biblical” teachings we hear in Sunday School (as opposed to the above-cited passages). An Episcopal minister who has asked that his name not be revealed, did the unpardonable – he spoke of Christian love and acceptance.

His message wasn’t accepted too well. Nor was it loved. Some in the crowd, which also included State Rep. Kathy Edmonston (R-Gonzales), physically attacked the good reverend with at least one person actually grabbing him around the neck. (Not saying Edmonston was one of the attackers, just that she was in attendance.

The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office had to be called in to restore order, it was reported to LouisianaVoice.

Just another of the Christian influence of the political religious right.

Remember that story Dayne Sherman and I did about how Attorney General Jeff Landry was so gung-ho over those CHILD IDENTIFICATION KITS that he wanted to tap into the National Association of Attorneys General tobacco settlement fund to underwrite distribution of the kits nationwide?

In case you don’t remember they’re the same kits that folks like Texas governors and former governors George W. Bush, Rick Perry, Greg Abbott, Texas US Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton. They’re also the same ones that, thanks to Landry’s involvement, that have been distributed in Louisiana by the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association, Ochsner Health, Our Lady of Lake Health and American Electric Power.

Well, according to PROPUBLICA, which broke the original story on the kits’ ineffectiveness in locating missing children, the State of Texas has pulled funding for the project. It’s ironic in that Texas is where the program appeared to have its strongest support via the aforementioned political heavyweights in that state.

And of course, you already know that Jeff Landry is the state’s self-proclaimed Captain America Champion of Anti-Fraud in Louisiana.

Not so much in Texas, though.

And now he wants to be governor.

As much as I hate to say I told you so….

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