February 2025, ROPE became The ROPE Report - after our weekly Wednesday and Friday morning (9am) podcast begun in 2022. Instead of following only education - as we have since 2008 - we will research and write about any issue that poses a threat to our individual liberties as Oklahomans. We will no longer post to this blogspot, but will keep it active as a reference library for anyone interested. Please find The Rope Report on Facebook, X, LinkdIn, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok and at rope2.org.
10.12.2024
What Happens When ALPRs Are Used Unlawfully By Law Enforcement In Oklahoma?
8.15.2024
The Grift Of Economic Development; Making small towns corporate towns - Julianne Romanello
In this clip from our podcast of 8/14/24, Julianne talks about the real 'end game' for the grift of economic development. Does it really help create jobs? Yes, while it's simultaneously degenerating everything about the small town it claimed it would 'help'.
5.29.2024
Parents Hire Attorneys While OK Public Schools Fight Them With Taxpayer Dollars - ROPE Report Short
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.
5.22.2024
The Government Is Slowly Usurping Your Liberty - Julianne Romanello
5.06.2024
Oklahoma Senate Must Protect Oklahomans From The WHO Pandemic Treaty - ROPE Report Short
3.22.2024
ROPE Report Short - V1SUT; How Do We Get To One World Government?
2.11.2024
Homeschool Bills in 2024 OK Legislative Cycle Show Lack Of Protection For Oklahoma Citizen Rights
Watching how quickly legislators are trying to now suddenly regulate Oklahoma homeschoolers after decades of freedom - now that Oklahoma has passed "universal school choice" - is just an indication of what a poor job Oklahoma legislators are doing protecting the freedom of Oklahoma citizens as a whole. You may or may not homeschool, but you should care whether or not homeschoolers are left alone, because if they come for them, they'll eventually come to regulate what you're doing as well.
8.14.2021
Save Your Family - Save America
Because the Communists know that destruction of the family leads to destruction of society.
This book is a must-read for EVERY liberty-minded American concerned about why the world around them appears to be falling apart before their eyes. There are reasons for the tyranny we're experiencing and once we know the cause of the disease, we can fight the disease.
10.13.2011
John Dewey Would Be So Proud
School will provide all your needs.
That is what he wished - his Utopian fantasy. In fact, he thought parents were mostly morons and that the state could do a better job of raising little American young people than they. After all, some of them were getting divorced - as the Industrial Revolution began to re-define the stable, two parent family - some of them were neglecting their children to go to work...(if you want to really get a good feel for Dewey and his plans for public education - all of which have now come true - I urge you to get the book, John Dewey and the Decline of American Education - How the patron Saint of schools has corrupted teaching and learning by Henry T. Edmondson III)
Think on this a minute...I was told by a superintendent just recently that the reason why his district provided 'early childhood education' (tax-payer subsidized day care) was because the district 'next door' did. He would lose students as parents moved their kids to the OTHER school to take advantage of the program.
Butts + Chairs = dollars in public schools.
So...it was either provide free state-provided day care to parents, or lose his students AND his funding.
Yes folks, it's about the kids.
No. It's about class warfare, it's about building fiefdoms, it's about power, it's about MONEY. That's what public education is about in America today.
Here's what it will be soon - and a big shout out to ROPE board member Jo Joyce for this little nugget today:
Swedish Officials To Take Permanent Custody of Home Schooled Boy
Yes, according to the Home School Legal Defense Fund, little Domenic Johansson, son of Christer and Annie Johansson, has been in foster care since 2009 when he was seized from the plane on which the family was attempting to flee to his mother’s native India.
Home schooling is legal in Sweden, however, it is necessary to get materials with which to home school your child from the principal of the school of your child's prospective attendance.
And so, as it was, the principal was a man of his word and somehow got the 'state' to remove little Domenic from his parents care. He has now been a 'ward of the state' for 24 months.However, this principal was not in favor of homeschooling and was hostile to the parent’s request.
“He was very short and not at all in favor of homeschooling,” Christer told the HSLDA. “I told him that it was my right under Swedish law to home school and that I was making contact with him to make the necessary arrangements and to get the materials. We were planning to leave Sweden in just a month or two. Mr. Eneqvist told me that he ‘didn’t care about my right’ that I didn’t have a ‘right to educate my son like that’ and that he was going to take the matter farther.”
The couple, who are devout Christians, had been planning to return to India where they were going to start a new ministry with the poor, but decided to delay the trip in order to get their son’s schooling arrangements made.
Let's see. That will never happen here in Oklahoma...REALLY? We now have the FOOD NAZI'S telling kids what they can and can not eat at school and a legislator that every year submits bills to try and kill the home schooling option in Oklahoma.
Even reasonable legislators like Representative Janine Noland expresses 'concern' over the idea of home schooling because she is acquainted with a family made up of crack-addicted parents who 'home school' their kids because they are often too stoned to get them there.
If you have reasonable legislators with this perspective, what about those like the one that tries to outlaw home schooling every year?
I guess, in the end, not only do we get the government we deserve, we also get the life we deserve - we're either free to pursue our lives under the Constitution given us by our Forefathers - which requires WORK to keep in place - or we can live our life in the chains of governmental tyranny because it just takes too much time out of our little Dancing With The Stars, Blackberry-texting, salon-going, lunching-out day to make the effort to secure our liberties for ourselves and our posterity.
