25 August 2024
Gaea Powell
OPINION BY GAEA POWELL
In San Luis Obispo County, children are being severely injured and abused, yet our elected officials remain silent or support the abuse. To distract the public from learning the details of this unimaginable reality, our officials’ strategy is to demonize and censor those who raise the alarm.
San Luis Obispo County Councilmen Jimmy Paulding, Bruce Gibson and Dawn Ortiz-Legg, many members of the local school board, and Mayor Caren Ray Russom and her colleagues on the Arroyo Grande City Council are leading this effort. These self-proclaimed champions of social justice and identity politics have taken extreme measures to intimidate, censor and use their perceived power to overturn decades of well-established precedent and strip citizens of their freedoms – actions that betray their oath to the state and federal constitutions.
Is it because they are political puppets of Governor Newsom and his anti-constitutional administrative state, dictating the enforcement of unjust laws that sow division, violate the civil liberties of parents, and cause great physical and psychological harm to children? The state’s unjust laws and policies violate federal laws prohibiting sexual solicitation and physical violence against children, as well as laws protecting them from exposure to obscene material such as pornography.
Given these facts, why do many of our local government officials take no action to protest these laws and protect the safety and well-being of their citizens?
Regardless of identity politics, everyone should be appalled at any local official who refuses to speak out against the child pornography, offensive and vulgar content I found at Arroyo Grande High School and similar age-inappropriate content found at other local public schools. They should also be overly concerned about what it leads to: the psychological abuse, sexual indoctrination, chemical sterilization and surgical mutilation of children.
Our officials can no longer plead ignorance, having had the opportunity to view the evidence privately and then see the crimes and obscenities during my public testimony. As they ignore the evidence and their duty to our Constitution and to us, the people, I am determined to continue my mission to raise public awareness and hold accountable those who turn a blind eye and/or support heinous behavior, actions and child abuse.
I am convinced that the public, when well informed, will act immediately to remove this destructive ideology and obscene content from our public schools, regardless of the orders of local and state government. I also hope that they will insist on accountability and elect those who represent American values and provide a higher standard of leadership.
The solution some of our current politicians have chosen is to protect their progressive agenda and create arbitrary policies to silence and/or restrict the free speech of opponents during public comment. Particularly those whose principles and values do not align with theirs. The agenda of these officials reflects the efforts of the current anti-constitutional administrative state to turn California into an oligarchy of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This means forced diversity and inclusion. For example, forcing girls to include boys (who are posing as girls) in their bathrooms, locker rooms, and in their sports, with no regard for girls’ rights. Equality or social justice does not mean equal rights and opportunities for all. It says that good character, merit, ability, or talent are meaningless and that we all must lower standards to accommodate those who are neither qualified nor have worked to earn anything. That we need to treat them better than those who have a strong work ethic, who have strived to achieve their goals, and who have earned their opportunities.
Respected thought leaders such as Elon Musk, Dr. Phil, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Christopher F. Rufo, Dr. Robert Malone, and Douglas Murray, as well as thousands of other critical thinkers with knowledge of world history, have a simpler definition for DEI: Communism. A quick look at the ten points of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto provides insight.
DEI also encompasses the radicalized progressive transgenderism movement LGBTQIA+ PRIDE, which is fiercely opposed by most in the LGBT community. A movement that aggressively seeks to “normalize” the indoctrination, sexualization, and mutilation of children, as well as the forced inclusion and acceptance of pedophilia into American culture.
As a civil society with a moral obligation to protect children and our constitutional republic, we as a people must ask ourselves why. Why do so many of our local elected officials support all of the aforementioned atrocities? While demonizing those who oppose them.
Why did they ignore the evidence shared privately, and then become emotionally agitated, feign offense, and react with shock and horror when the material was presented to them at a public meeting? Why did they direct their anger at the messenger rather than at the perpetrators seen in the images and videos of DRAG queens (men in costumes) in elementary schools, DRAG shows with children on school grounds, naked men and women parading around children, PRIDE marchers chanting “We’re here, we’re gay, and we’re coming to get your children,” men engaging in sexual activities such as oral sex and peeing on each other… at “family-friendly” PRIDE events?
Why do they ignore images of severe injury and harm caused by the forced inclusion of male students in women’s private lives and sporting activities? Regulations that have resulted in devastating emotional and physical injuries to women, including sexual assault. Most importantly, why are they not forced without hesitation to speak out when confronted with images of chemically and surgically mutilated children, under the guise of irreversible “gender-affirming care”? A business model of care that ensures these poor children will suffer for life as patients of the medical-industrial complex. Imagine what their parents will have to endure then.
The excuse our politicians give for doing nothing? “This is outside of our jurisdiction.” Are they serious? All people with a moral compass can act immediately to stop this and/or at least voice their disapproval. Instead, their interest is in using their governing platforms to force their DEI and LGBTQIA+ ideology on us while wrapping their agenda in the ever-changing progressive LGBTQIA+ PRIDE flag and their proclamation of June as PRIDE month. A Trojan horse to usher in the acceptance of sexual indoctrination of children as “normal.” Harming and subjecting children to sexual assault will never be normal.
California used to have laws that protected children and their parents, but that is clearly no longer the case. Now it is up to us. We must show steadfastness, courage and diligence in standing up to and refusing to obey the unjust dictates of the unconstitutional administrative state and its minions.
In an excerpt from his famous letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: “One has not only a legal responsibility but also a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws…”
It is pathetic and sad that we the people have allowed our elected officials and government bureaucrats to use their divisive, radical agenda to strip parental rights and target children, all with funding from us, the taxpayers.
If citizens refuse to take a stand against this atrocity, what are we willing to fight for? It is time to peacefully demonstrate our strength together, using our moral compasses, our voices, and, if necessary, megaphones, to exercise our constitutional right to free children from this madness. Let’s do the right thing before it’s too late.
“When, then, is danger to be expected to approach? I answer, if it ever comes, it must come from among us,” said Abraham Lincoln. “It cannot come from without. If destruction is our destiny, we ourselves must be its authors and finishers. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times or die by suicide.”
Gaea Powell is an entrepreneur and candidate for mayor of Arroyo Grande.
