5.29.2024

Parents Hire Attorneys While OK Public Schools Fight Them With Taxpayer Dollars - ROPE Report Short


When taxpayer and citizen of Stillwater, Oklahoma, Brice Chaffin, attended a Stillwater Public Schools School Board meeting to express his concern over an SPS 'policy' of allowing boys into girl's restrooms during a public comment portion of the meeting where he had 3 minutes to speak, he was removed from the meeting after reading scripture.

Maria Seidler, an attorney with her own group, Legal Overwatch for Parent's School Rights, filed a lawsuit against SPS Board Members based on the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act, with ROPE on behalf of Brice. The lawsuit was lost at all levels - including the OK Supreme Court. All the lawsuit asked for was for SPS Board Members to make a public apology to Brice for reacting to his comments by directing a police officer to remove him from the podium after he had used scripture in his comments.

Instead of an apology, SPS used 45 THOUSAND taxpayer dollars to fight the lawsuit in court and in appeals. Additionally, SPS's attorneys filed a countersuit against ROPE and Chaffin for attorney's fees. Though the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act did not prevail in favor of Chaffin's religious commentary, it did prevail in preventing the court from directing ROPE and Chaffin from awarding SPS's attorneys with 45 THOUSAND dollars.

How is it that parents have to hire an attorney with money out of their own budgets to force public schools to treat parents with respect for their religious views or their rights, yet public schools will use taxpayer dollars to fight the religious views and rights of parents with money that was taken from them to fund the school?

When a public entity holds all the cards, it can only be called, TYRANNY.

Find the full video on our YouTube or Rumble channels.

Parents Can't Fight Issues Schools Say Aren't Happening - ROPE Report Short; Maria Seidler and Brice Chaffin


When citizens of Stillwater, Oklahoma, concerned that boys were being allowed in girl's bathrooms went to the school district to discuss the issue, the school lied and said there was nothing like that happening in the district. Only after administrators of Stillwater Public Schools were confronted with a witness, did they acknowledge the practice. They then said it was a policy, but when citizens asked for the policy, SPS officials couldn't produce the policy. At that point, they told citizens that SPS didn't have a policy, President Obama had put the policy in place.

How can concerned citizens/taxpayers/parents deal with an issue in their schools if the school will just lie and say it's not happening and/or say it's a policy when it's not - or even make up a policy to put in place after the policy has been questioned. Why should we allow schools to teach our impressionable children when they don't have a set of morals or ethics that directs them not to lie?

See the full video on our Rumble and our YouTube Channels.

5.24.2024

Land Grab Disguised As A Turnpike To Make The Rich Richer - PikeOffOTA; ROPE Report Short




This will be the most important video you've seen if you really want to know the way citizens are being tyrannized by Oklahoma's governmental bureaucracy. This video connects all the dots. Suffice it to say, 'the people' simply don't matter in the face of business interests that want to enrich themselves.

Friday, May 24th, ROPE Report hosted Whitney Mullica and Kelly Wilson of PikeOffOTA (Citizens For Responsible Transportation) to talk about how the Oklahoma Transportation Authority - the pseudogovernmental agency peopled with unelected bureaucrats unaccountable to the public - work with members of the business development community to develop tolled roads that, not only must the citizens of Oklahoma pay to use, but that removes their property from them using the force of the state to create.

Here, Kelly provides THE CIRCLE OF GOVERNMENT INTERESTS - the ways in which the rich just keep getting richer off the backs of
those whose property is seized by eminent domain to create roads they'll be forced to pay to use.

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Who Is Buying OTA Surplus Land? - PikeOffOTA; ROPE Report Short





Friday, May 24th, ROPE Report hosted Whitney Mullica and Kelly Wilson of PikeOffOTA (Citizens For Responsible Transportation) to talk about how the Oklahoma Transportation Authority - the pseudogovernmental agency peopled with unelected bureaucrats unaccountable to the public - work with members of the business development community to develop tolled roads that, not only must the citizens of Oklahoma pay to use, but that removes their property from them using the force of the state to create.

Here, Kelly shows that, while eminent domain is used to remove property owners from their property, the 'surplus' land 'left over' after the turnpike has been created, is then sold to the public. Many times, the purchasers of the land are people who benefitted in some way through the OTA turnpike process in the first place.

While this is not illegal, personally benefitting from the process of removing the property of a citizen using the force of the state is ethically and morally wrong. If people can't police themselves along moral and ethical lines, why is the state not protecting citizens by preventing this kind of behavior? Could it be that 'the state' would rather have the money afforded it by the rich and powerful - especially when it comes time to be re-elected?

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10-15% Of OTA Eminent Doman Cases Go To Court - PikeOffOTA; ROPE Report Short


Friday, May 24th, ROPE Report hosted Whitney Mullica and Kelly Wilson of PikeOffOTA (Citizens For Responsible Transportation) to talk about how the Oklahoma Transportation Authority - the pseudogovernmental agency peopled with unelected bureaucrats unaccountable to the public - work with members of the business development community to develop tolled roads that, not only must the citizens of Oklahoma pay to use, but that removes their property from them using the force of the state to create. 


Though many people do eventually cut a deal with the OTA for the 'sale' of their house and property to the Authority, many people refuse. It does not matter, however, because the state kicks them off the property anyway only to wait - in some cases - over A YEAR to have the issue settled by the court. This is OUTRAGEOUS and citizens of Oklahoma simply shouldn't tolerate this kind of nonsense.

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5.22.2024

Taxes And Insurance Will Break The Middle Class - Julianne Romanello



Living in the world today is becoming a rapidly unsustainable situation. Of course, before any of the truly New World Order/s can be implemented, the middle class has to be destroyed. The easiest way to do that is by mandating things that have to be paid for through household budgets and then blocking free market access to those things through legislation, rules and administrative actions. Once the cost goes up beyond the family's ability to pay - it's game over.

See the whole video on our Rumble and YouTube channels.

The Government Is Slowly Usurping Your Liberty - Julianne Romanello


A MUST SEE! Here, Julianne, Michael and Jenni talk about how just the act of buying insurance for your home or car will become nearly impossible from the private sector, all the while, the government is mandating insurance needs and then - helpfully - providing that for us...Really think about what we're saying as you watch...AND SHARE!

See the full video on our Rumble and YouTube channels!

5.20.2024

Less Than 1% Of Their Districts Donate To Reps Wallace, Pfeiffer, Roe, McBride and Senators Garvin and McCortney – WHAT?

On our podcast Friday, May 17th, Michael Grande and I took election data that had been provided by former HD31 candidate Karmin Grider, and went through it on air – live. It wasn’t pretty, I can assure you, but you can see the full video for yourself on our Rumble and YouTube channels. If you’ve ever wanted to see how to look up candidates on the Oklahoma Ethics website, you can forward to 1:11:20 on the live video where I walk you through the process.

We began our video with state Senator Jessica Garvin. She was elected to SD43 in 2020. This year, Senator Garvin is being challenged by McClain County Assessor, Kendal Sacchieri. We interviewed her about school financing April 3rd of this year and it was a fascinating interview – if not frustrating as a taxpayer.

Senator Garvin has some very low contribution stats when it comes to donations from her district. So where DOES her money come from if it isn’t coming from people who would elect her in her district? Here is the YouTube link to this short.

We talked briefly about Senator Greg McCortney as well, though we’ve talked about him with Karmin before in February of 2024. McCortney is being challenged this year by fellow Republican Jonathan Wingard.

The Senator was voted Pro Temp by the Senate Caucus in February after a 501C4-funded campaign.

This video is a bit over 2 minutes, but it’s very well worth the watch to see who funds Greg McCortney’s Senate campaigns – very instructive.

Now let’s jump to the Oklahoma House.

We’ll start with Oklahoma Representative Kevin Wallace. Representative Wallace has been in his HD32 chair in the legislature since 2014. He is the head of the Appropriations and Budget Committee in the House – a very important assignment. So important in fact, that over the course of his 10 years in the House, he’s run almost ONE MILLION dollars through his campaigns.

This year he is being challenged by Lincoln County resident Jim Shawwhom we interviewed on our podcast when we spoke to Jeff and Robbie McCommas about the engineered buy up of private land for wind turbines.

Here’s more:

From there, let’s talk about Representative Mark McBride. He was elected to the Oklahoma Legislature HD53 in 2012. In Oklahoma, Representatives are only allowed to serve 12 years (thank goodness!), so Representative McBride will not return to session in 2025. Four candidates are running for that seat – all Republicans: KATHREN STEHNO (who ran against McBride last term), JASON BLAIRNICK POKORNY and HEATHER BOSS. HD53 will need to do their DUE DILIGENCE on each candidate.

It might be interesting to know who funded Mark McBride’s campaigns over the course of a dozen years in the legislature because it surely wasn’t people in his district.

Our next House member is John Talley from HD33, who was elected in 2018. Talley has been challenged by fellow Republican Brice Chaffin twice and this year, former ROPE Board member Molly Jenkins is running to take his seat.

Only 1.2% of Talley’s campaign financing comes from INSIDE his own district. Maybe that’s why Jenkin’s campaign motto is NO LOBBYIST MONEY? Find the ROPE Report Short here on YouTube.

Next, we’ll talk about Cynthia Roe from HD42, elected in 2018. Hers is one of the lowest funded campaigns from inside her district. Roe couldn’t even garner a tenth of one percent of her campaign finances from her own district. Why? Maybe the answer explains why she has two challengers this year – Matt Huggins and Tony Bowen.

Find the YouTube link here.

The last House District member we profiled in our Friday’s ROPE Report Live podcast, was Representative John Pfeiffer from HD38, elected in 2014. Representative Pfeiffer had absolutely the worst rating of all the legislators we reviewed for Friday’s podcast for in-district donations. In fact, according to data assimilated by Karmin Grider from Oklahoma Ethics Commission data,

John Pfeiffer had only NINE PEOPLE IN HIS DISTRICT DONATE TO HIS CAMPAIGN OVER 10 YEARS

Who in the world could John Pfeiffer serve if for over 10 years, only 9 people financially supported his campaigns?

Interestingly, part of Pfeiffer’s district happens to be Blackwell, a town which our V1SUT Vantage Substack author and podcast regular has hammered numerous times in numerous different articles from allowing drag queens to perform in a public park and associated issues with their city council and city attorney, to GIVING Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower to a group of what look to be BitCoin scammers.

This year, Pfeiffer does have a CHALLENGER in Marven Goodman. If you are in the district, look him up. It would certainly appear that HD38 could use a Representative of the PEOPLE and not the corporate.

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In closing, I’d like to point out – for those who think it’s really no big deal that these elected officials are bought and paid for by corporatists – how the election cycle actually works and how the educated voter gets screwed.

Here’s how it very often works: Campaign consultants (or legislators themselves), find people in districts who they believe can win an election because they have some kind of name recognition – usually they own a business. The candidate then raises money through his/her candidate campaign and their consultant may tap into a direct network of PAC’s funded in great part by 501C4’s (dark money) to buy items like mailers – sometimes two a week at approximately $6 thousand a pop – push polling through text messagesFacebook/social media ads and, if possible, radio and TV.

Because they know that most people have no idea where to get information on voters (even though the thing in their hand they use to watch incessant cat videos on social media uses Google and could pull up a candidate’s website with a basic search) and because they know that most people believe something they read due to personal confirmation biases, they know that putting together slick mailers and ads that stick to specific talking points and misuse, or misinform readers about candidates, will win votes.

So yes, people in their district may elect candidates, but the process is highly suspect and works only because people remain (willfully?) ignorant of how to vet candidates.

So what is the answer to getting representation in the state capitol that care about their district and not their corporate sponsors?

SHARE THE INFORMATION YOU GATHER ABOUT CANDIDATES WITH OTHERS; neighbors and friends are more willing to believe you than an ad. SET THEM STRAIGHT. Post to social media, call, stop by – whatever works. This is really the only way. We’re never going to beat these people with money – they’ll always have more than us. The only way to beat the game is by waking up others and getting information directly to them that they can use to vote – and in turn influence others on their own.

5.15.2024

ACT Scores Recentered To Make Results Look Better - ROPE Report Live



Many years ago while writing about Common Core, I (Jenni White) found an indicator of student achievement that made me blanch. This graphic was taken from an old paper on ACT scores over the years. This graphic - including the original discussion on how Oklahoma has manipulated Student Achievement data to make it seem as though public schools were doing better than they are, especially when compared to testing scores - is a truly damning measure of how DUMB Americans educated in public schools have become and how our legislators and Education industrial complex has been stealing our tax dollars to dumb our students down. After all, people who can't think for themselves are easily led.

Here are some of the articles I've written over the years about this very same issue:




OSDE Test Scores VS Achievement Scores - ROPE Report Short



With our V1SUT blogger, Michael and Jenni went over the Oklahoma State Department of Education proficiency and achievement data through the school Report Card. Though we've had Reed Downey on the program previously to tell us how badly Oklahoma students are performing on Achievement data, it's even worse when we compare Achievement data with Assessment (testing) scores. Suffice it to say that the Oklahoma legislature should not give public schools in Oklahoma one more thin dime until they can actually show that they are EDUCATING Oklahoma students. This is truly tragic.

5.10.2024

The Failure Of Schools To Protect Their Students Costs Taxpayers Money - ROPE Report Short; Rep. Sherrie Conley



Oklahoma Representative Sherrie Conley was on with Michael and Jenni this morning (5.10.245). She talked about the ramifications of her bill to stop school officials from texting privately with a child without permission from a parent and where she wants to go with this legislation once she's out of the legislature and a private citizen next year.


In this clip, Rep. Conley makes it clear that, because Oklahoma has mandatory reporting laws for child endangerment, the Superintendents and Principals who know/knew that children are/were being sexually abused by school employees, should be brought up on criminal charges once investigations have been completed and school employees formally charged with child predation.


See the full video on our Rumble and YouTube accounts.


 

People Who Allow Child Predation Should Be Held Criminally Liable - ROPE Report Short With OK Rep. Sherrie Conley



Oklahoma Representative Sherrie Conley was on with Michael and Jenni this morning (5.10.245). She talked about the ramifications of her bill to stop school officials from texting privately with a child without permission from a parent and where she wants to go with this legislation once she's out of the legislature and a private citizen next year. 

In this clip, Rep. Conley makes it clear that, because Oklahoma has mandatory reporting laws for child endangerment, the Superintendents and Principals who know/knew that children are/were being sexually abused by school employees, should be brought up on criminal charges once investigations have been completed and school employees formally charged with child predation.

5.08.2024

How To Keep Your Local Government Honest - By Attending Their Meetings!



On Wednesday, May 8th, NeAnne Clinton, a resident of Enid fighting a 10k acre solar farm installation, talked about how - with a lack of transparency by both the solar company and Garfield County government - the Garfield County Conservation Coalition has been able to stay abreast of all transpiring details of the project. 

Watch this short clip to see how NeAnne - and her friends - find out what their local governmental officials are doing. 

Unfortunately, there are no Freedom of Information seminars scheduled by the Oklahoma AG's office or the Oklahoma Press Association for 2024. 

After calling the OPA it was discovered that instructional seminars only occur every other year as the Freedom of Information booklet is re-published with updated laws ad citations in those years. 

Please go to the Oklahoma Press Association Website where you can order an Open Meeting, Open Records booklet to help you understand Oklahoma's FOI laws. You can find that here: https://okpress.com/page/seminars 

Follow NeAnne's lead. The nation may be in tatters, so let's fight to protect the ground under our feet and we can only do that by attending the meetings of our local governmental entities!

Lack of Transparency, Danger, Fuels Concerns About Enid Solar Installation - ROPE Report Short


NeAnne Clinton, a resident of Enid, Oklahoma, came on the program today to talk about NextEra's decision to attempt to create a 10 thousand acre solar installation on the south side of Enid between the municipal airport and Vance Airforce Base.

What we learned was shocking. 

From lack of transparency (at least one contract being signed without benefit of an open meeting) and fudging of reported 'profits' (essentially, NextEra saying that the installation would bring in 63 million dollars in value to the City of Enid, but then not saying that the return would come solely from an increase in property taxes) to unaddressed safety concerns, Enid citizens are rightly angry and want the project scrapped. 

As we talk about in the video, 'green' energy is usurping private property, generating more landfill because it can't be recycled, using toxic and flammable constituents that create hazards for humans and wildlife alike and scamming citizens of tax dollars. IT MUST BE STOPPED. 

links from the video include: 



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lithium-ion-battery-blamed-yet-another-fast-moving-fire-nyc-officials-rcna73566

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/solar-farm-battery-fire-upstate-new-york-possible-toxic-smoke-shelter-in-place-lyme-jefferson-county/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/firefighting-foam-polluted-water-with-pfas-decades-later-pentagon-changes-course/ar-AA1o3m1C

See the full video on our YouTube channel and our Rumble channel here: What's Wrong With A Huge Solar Farm In Enid - ROPE Report Live! (rumble.com)

5.06.2024

Oklahoma Senate Must Protect Oklahomans From The WHO Pandemic Treaty - ROPE Report Short


The WHO Pandemic Treaty is not to be taken lightly. As our guests today explain, there are mechanisms in the Treaty to force citizens to comply with whatever rules the WHO feels it necessary to implement with the next pandemic. States must act to protect their citizens against forced compliance with an international treaty created by unelected bureaucrats who should have no control over Oklahoma citizens. 

Please contact your Senator IMMEDIATELY and tell them you expect a YES vote on SB426.

Well-Meaning Republicans Nearly Trampled The Free Speech Of Oklahoma Citizens - ROPE Report Short


SB1100 - a bill meant to help curb bullying after the suicide of Dagney Benedict - would have, instead, significantly curbed the freedom of speech Constitutionally enjoyed by Oklahoma citizens. 

As it is said, "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" and we MUST stop our elected representatives from creating law from intentions, feelings, or pressure from special interest groups. The only 'intention' of law created in Oklahoma must be that to protect the individual rights of its citizens.

Installing Chaplains In OK Public Schools Will Create Unexpected Repercussions


SB36 - a bill once about Freedom of Information Requests on certain law enforcement recordings and now about introducing Christian chaplains into public schools - has been approved by the House. 

At the same time, the Satanic Temple has said that if the bill is signed into law in Oklahoma, they will ALSO seek to install their own 'chaplains' in public schools. 

Continuing to blur the line between church and state will eventually result in the state possessing full control of churches. If that seems unrealistic, think on the number of churches that closed during COVID because the state said to and those in other countries without separation of church and state, which were forced to close down by the state during the 'pandemic'.

Governor Stitt Signs Illegal Immigration Bill Only to Open Door To VISA Taskforce


Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt Signs Illegal Immigration Bill Only To Open Door To VISA Taskforce


April 20th, Governor Stitt played at giving with one hand and taking away with the other.

On the one hand, Governor Stitt signed ‘controversial’ ‘immigration’ bill HB4156; a solid bill that provides deportation and fines and/or jail time for those found to commit ‘impermissible occupation’, defined thusly

“A person commits an impermissible occupation if the person is an alien and willfully and without permission enters and remains in the State of Oklahoma without having first obtained legal authorization to enter the United States.”

All Senate Republicans voted for the bill as did all Republicans of the House. Democrats voted in blocks against the bill in both chambers.

While many ‘press’ headlines center around the word ‘controversial’, only one headline contained the fact that an Executive Order on immigration was signed by the Governor on the same day as his signature was inked to the bill.

During a press conference of the signing, the Governor announced the task force, saying, “Our hands have been forced by the unprecedented border security crisis that has seen more than 52,000 Chinese Nationals, along with terror organizations, illegally infiltrate and wreak havoc on our great nation and state,” he says. “Simply put, we will not tolerate threats to our communities and we will not become home to sanctuary cities.”

So this bill is about Chinese nationals?

Since Oklahoma passed a state question deciding the use of medical marijuana in 2018, there has been a steady rise in violent crime in once idyllic rural countrysides thanks to Chinese national-run marijuana grows. This has largely stemmed from the fact that the Oklahoma legislature not only got off flat-footed on the creation of laws to regulate the ‘medical’ marijuana industry after the question was passed, but then found themselves apparently unprepared to regulate the NEW state agency they created to regulate the industry.

Sadly, and thanks mainly to these factors, Oklahoma is now #1 in illegal importation of marijuana – GO SOONERS!

Reading the Executive Order signed directly after the bill, is instructive. Here are the first two whereas’:

Note the wording in the second paragraph, “…honest, hardworking Hispanic or OTHER international migrant populations here…”. How is anyone here in the state illegally, honest. This begs many questions then. Are shoplifters honest? What about murderers?

The EO then goes on to blame the Biden administration for not issuing VISAs or permits (how can he be blamed when he’s allowing millions of people to flood the borders of this nation illegally – there’s no possible way to keep up with the backlog that kind of volume of humanity would generate) to those immigrants who have “long filled gaps in Oklahoma’s workforce”.

In fact, it’s almost as though the EO says, ‘We have a bunch of Chinese Nationals who are causing crime in Oklahoma, so we’re going to get these people out of the state, but everyone else here illegally is honestly working to fill jobs too good for legal Oklahomans and we need them to stay, so we’re going to figure out a way to make that happen’.

Here is what the Task Force is assigned to do.

Who will serve ON the Task Force?

Look at #5. Is Oklahoma a border state? What about an international airline hub? No? Why then is there a Mexican Consul located in Oklahoma?

According to the largest post to the Oklahoma Mexican Consul page on the Mexican Consulate website, the Oklahoma Consul can help to REGISTER Hispanics to VOTE. As to what the Twitter page for the Oklahoma Mexican Consul says, one wouldn’t know unless one was fluent in Spanish.

According to the Oklahoman, the Mexican Consul was opened last year (5.20.23), to provide people with their “Mexican passports, birth certificates and other government-issued documents” in order to keep them from having to journey to Little Rock, AK, Kansas City, MO, or Dallas, TX – the latter of which is a four hour drive from Oklahoma City.

HB4156 is being lauded among Conservatives as helping to stem the tide of illegal immigration in Oklahoma, but clearly, that’s not the bottom line. If the bill is going to be signed and touted as ‘controversial’ yet the Governor goes on to sign an EO for a task force to make ‘honestly’ illegal aliens, legal, what exactly does the bill mean then?

No, Oklahomans do not want high crime rates – certainly not drug trafficking crime which tends to be graphically violent – but Chinese nationals are not the only ones here in Oklahoma committing drug crimes.

In January, Representative Justin Humphrey – a former law enforcement officer with years of experience in drug court – filed HB3133 to have drug trafficking become an act of terrorism. This bill blew up in the media, but not for the terrorism designation for drug trafficking. It blew up because he identified two Mexican cartels – the Sinola and New Age – as primarily trafficking in fentanyl, a drug responsible for many tens of thousands of deaths across the US and a skyrocketing number in Oklahoma according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.

Because Humphrey also used the word ‘Hispanic’ in the bill, a firestorm ensued in which Humphrey was accused of racism. This prompted him to comment, “I believe these continual accusations of racism present an indisputable danger to America freedom and democracy.” (Apparently, the Legislature is aware of this issue and did add fentanyl to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act this year through SB1280 – a bill that doesn’t contain the word ‘Hispanic’.)

In fact, the Governor’s EO goes out of its way to eliminate any appearance at all of considering a member of the Hispanic population as here NOT ‘honestly’.

Biden won 63% of the Latino vote in 2020 and is now appealing again to Latino voters by saying that they are the reason he won the election against President Donald Trump. According to Oklahoma Watch, Hispanic voters outvoted Black and Asian voters in the 2022 Oklahoma mid-terms by a large margin.

In fact, the RNC helped open an Hispanic Community Center in south OKC, where former Oklahoma Republican Committeewoman, Pam Pollard said they were “also going to be doing voter registration”. Clearly, the Latino vote is important and catering to that vote is something the Oklahoma GOP hopes to do.

Last year, Oklahoma Senator Michael Brooks (D), an Hispanic, proposed a bill to allow illegal immigrants to gain state driver’s licenses. The only thing an illegal person here in Oklahoma had to do to obtain a DL was show that they had been paying their taxes. This ignited a firestorm among Oklahoma citizens who believed that such cards could be used to allow the owner to vote illegally.

So it would seem that politics is out in full force when looking at the scope of HB4156. After all, our Governor is nothing if not a ‘workforce’ governor who sees it as his job to “make Oklahoma the state where it’s easiest to start and grow a business’. Yes, government MUST get out of the way to do that, but that will absolutely not happen by making lawlessness legal and more efficient.

President Biden will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the worst presidents in all American history – especially on immigration. If the President won’t act to stem the tide of people illegally entering the United States, Oklahoma, should act in its own best interest to protect its citizens. It should secure its own borders from those wishing to enter illegally, whether they bring crime and brutality, OR NOT.

Just like President Biden’s student loan bailout is a slap in the face to all the hardworking young people who have worked hard to pay their way through colleges and universities, ANY attempt to give people who come to Oklahoma illegally an end around the immigration system is a slap in the face to those who have come here the right way – the HARD way – the EXPENSIVE way – the way that includes NATURALIZATION.

Today in Oklahoma, rather than a tapestry of Oklahomans of different international backgrounds united together under the Oklahoma flag, we have different areas of our cities and towns devoted to Hispanic populations, or Asian populations, or Islamic populations (including taxpayer sponsored Madrasas) – many of whom came to Oklahoma but can barely speak a word of English.

To this end, Oklahoma has an entire division of the State Department of Education – the Office of English Language Proficiency – which is allocated $1392 for each pupil to be instructed in reading, writing and understanding of the English language.

Cynically, maybe this is the reason the Superintendent of one of the largest Hispanic population schools in Oklahoma is so annoyed about HB4156. Mr. Brewster’s X feed is full of similar posts. Is there a reason that a taxpayer funded Superintendent shouldn’t be fired for advocating lawlessness? Or is lawlessness just really fine anymore – especially if it occurs in the Hispanic population?

Governor Stitt is a professing Christian. Just a basic reading of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible would confirm that Jewish communities did not welcome ‘outsiders’. Yes, they were to be kind to those who lived among them, but they were not to intermarry, or allow others outside their faith to serve in their governments or in their Temples. Why? Because when they let down their guard and assimilated those of other faiths, their communities lost their identity in their God and quickly became affiliated with those of the outsiders.

Thanks in large part to unchecked immigration at the federal level, this country is completely different in values today, including that of national pride, than even during the 1960’s with all its generational upheaval. One has only to look at the demonstrations on college campuses in favor of Hamas – a known terrorist organization – to see that statement as absolute truth.

Should Oklahoma be a state closed to immigration? Of course not. Our country has been richer for the many legal immigrants it has welcomed from across the world over its several hundred years, as is our state. However, Identifying people here in Oklahoma illegally as ‘honest’ is wrong and on the very dangerous downhill side of a very slippery slope.

Allowing Oklahoma to develop its own system for vetting and assimilating people into the state because ‘we need workers’, or because they are already here working, is wrong.

In Biden’s economy, it may be hard for many to feed their families. Are we going to allow these families to steal food from grocery stores because Biden won’t do anything about inflation except print more money? Biden is paying off student loans. Because of this, are we to allow every student who wants to attend a school of higher learning for free to do so?

Actions have consequences and allowing lawlessness – especially lawlessness based on identity – has arguably the most far-reaching and frightening of all to the safety and security of ALL Oklahomans. The bill passed by Oklahomans to protect Oklahomans from unchecked illegal immigration and signed by Governor Stitt is a good bill. The Governor shouldn’t even consider providing an end-around.