Parental roles update:

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Newspeople will not question the US Border Patrol at Port Angeles?

Our free and independent press has stopped asking questions.

Trick-or-treat in city limits Oct. 31

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Categories Armistice Day, Celebrate Your Independence, Discover Pass, Newspeople not asking questions

Parental roles update:

September 13, 2017 //

Halloween still seven weeks out.

Local authorities dictate a 1.5 hour window for trick-or-treat time 2017:

Your family will start at 6:00 and be done for the year at 7:30 p.m.

Who gets to make decisions on how your family will behave? Not parents? Not you & the others who live in the cul-de-sac? Not the people who planned the block party last summer? Not the people who have created and enjoyed Halloween traditions in the neighborhood?

Same country that made a big deal of celebrating freedom & independence early in July.

In the news:

Kids go back-to-school with law enforcement at their side

Law enforcement authorities instead of parents assist kids with back to public school shopping where free breakfast and lunch awaits.

All set to raise up another generation of independent thinkers.

More here: Raising another generation of independent thinkers?

Parental roles update:

Edwards-Knox Wants All Students To Enjoy Free Meals

“…free breakfast and lunch for everyone.”

Looks like the federal free and reduced breakfast and lunch program may not have been getting the job done.

Now taxpayers will fund the federal program along with the Edwards-Knox school district program.

The school district moves to fade incentives for parents to pack a lunch. Get your free school breakfast and lunch- otherwise you may become part of some sort of worst case scenario that goes like this: “When a student is hungry, they can’t learn,” said Ronald Burke, district superintendent.

People in need should be able to get assistance.

Tax money- which some people intend to be used to help others via public assistance programs– also goes for bombing Iraq and Afghanistan. US bombing of Iraq goes back to 1991.

Helping others by donating to churches or private charities, food banks, etc. can avoid these conflicts.

Donors are free to opt out if a charity misbehaves.

People could keep more of their own money to donate to causes of their choosing if the federal government was not taking it to pay for failed wars that never end. The Department of Defense track record goes back to 1949.

More here: Celebrate your Independence with Free Federal Breakfast and Lunch

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Raising another generation of independent thinkers?

August 20, 2017 //

In the news:

Kids go back-to-school with law enforcement at their side

Law enforcement authorities instead of parents assist kids with back to public school shopping where free breakfast and lunch awaits.

All set to raise up another generation of independent thinkers.

People in need should be able to get assistance.

Tax money- which some people intend to be used to help others via public assistance programs– also goes for bombing Iraq and Afghanistan. US bombing of Iraq goes back to 1991.

Helping others by donating to churches or private charities, food banks, etc. can avoid these conflicts.

Donors are free to opt out if a charity misbehaves.

More here:

Celebrate your Independence with Free Federal Breakfast and Lunch

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Newspeople will not question the US Border Patrol at Port Angeles?

Our free and independent press has stopped asking questions.

San Diego teacher detained after refusing to answer Border Patrol questions at checkpoint

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Categories Celebrate Your Independence, Newspeople not asking questions

Suspicionless Checkpoints- Away From Border Crossings and Ports of Entry

July 25, 2017 //

In the news:

“Are we crossing a border?” Parmely responded.

“No. Are you United States citizens?” he repeated.

Huge number of comments here.

People seem astonished that some would decline to answer questions at checkpoints set up away from border crossings and ports of entry.

Many examples can be found here and here.

In 2008, the US Border Patrol came to Jefferson County, WA and set up suspicionless checkpoints and bus boardings- away from border crossings and ports of entry.

At a local Border Patrol forum a lady asked:

“What is the penalty for not identifying oneself to federal agents at an internal, suspicionless checkpoint?”

US Border Patrol said they would call in the Sheriff when a person refused to identify themselves.

Sheriff says they will not respond to a non-emergency situation involving a person peaceably refusing to interact with federal agents.

Question about providing ID is at 0:35

State and local law enforcement agencies do not conduct suspicionless checkpoints in Washington State.

Check your state here.

Jefferson County Sheriff says No to federal grant money Re: local Border Patrol Checkpoints:

Border Patrol criticism emerges: Sheriff Brasfield declines BP funding

In 2008, Washington was one of several legal medical marijuana states.

Olympic Peninsula immigration checkpoint-

At a checkpoint- the US Border Patrol stopped a legal medical marijuana user with a legal amount of medical marijuana. He was a passenger in a car:

Small-scale pot busts snared in Border Patrol stops

2017 update:

US Border Patrol, Port Angeles, WA-

A new, $11.9 million, 50 agent facility, secret arrest statistics, denied FOIA requests, heroin in the community & a Border Patrol whistleblower investigation Re: fraudulent overtime that resulted in further suppression of information- keep the focus on asking questions in these areas.

No cross-border USBP arrest has happened here in more than 7 years.

News links and documentation here.

Newspeople, reporters and journalists are free to ask basic public policy questions and post updated reports at any time.

Video collection- DHS checkpoints

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State tightens restrictions on how marijuana shops advertise

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Categories Celebrate Your Independence

US Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan defending the First Amendment update:

July 25, 2017 //

Q13 FOX News video:

Towns and communities have their local sign ordinances, but that’s not good enough.

Children might wander into a retail shop and pose as someone over 21- then buy product?

The freedom talk is just for federal holidays & overseas military operations.

Will the Joint Chiefs of Staff send The Troops to safeguard American freedoms?

Why do people believe The Troops are defending American rights and freedoms– as if the US Armed Forces function as some sort of giant civil rights organization?

It took a constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale of a glass of wine- why no constitutional amendment to authorize a federal war on drugs, drug czar, prohibition of marijuana, etc.

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Jet Noise Made Them Free?

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Coast Guard to enforce U.S. pot laws on water

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Categories Armistice Day, Celebrate Your Independence, Marijuana, Newspeople not asking questions, Sound of Freedom

Can’t Stop Bragging About Freedom

July 24, 2017 //

Same country that made a big deal of celebrating freedom & independence earlier this month.

In the news:

“Federal law says it’s illegal, in any quantities.”

It took a constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale of a glass of wine- why no constitutional amendment to authorize a federal war on drugs, drug czar, prohibition of marijuana, etc.

The freedom talk is just for federal holidays & overseas military operations.

Suspicionless boat boardings:

Coast Guard Boardings And Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 1

Coast Guard Boardings And Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 2

Coast Guard Boardings And Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 3

Suspicionless boat boardings and 1,200-horsepower Border Patrol Interceptor boats fail to keep heroin away from Port Angeles:

Operation Macho Swagger & Port Angeles Heroin

More here:

Coast Guard comes home to Heroin at Port Angeles

Frequent updates here.

Lee Greenwood-

“And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me”

People in uniform give rights?

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Summer Meal Program Information

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Path to the beach – Deception Pass

Categories Armistice Day, Celebrate Your Independence, Drug War, Fighting for our freedoms?, Marijuana, Olympic Peninsula Border Patrol

Celebrate your Independence with Free Federal Breakfast and Lunch

July 6, 2017 //

People in need should be able to get assistance.

Tax money- which some people intend to be used to help others via public assistance programs– also goes for bombing Iraq and Afghanistan. US bombing of Iraq goes back to 1991.

Helping others by donating to churches or private charities, food banks, etc. can avoid these conflicts.

Donors are free to opt out if a charity misbehaves.

Are federal public assistance programs working?

Summer feeding programs have been set up to provide meals when school is out.

Summer feeding program continues to grow in Peoria

“We’ve gone from 2,000 to 3,000 meals all summer five years ago to 65,000 meals this summer,” he said. The program ends Aug. 4.

Baltimore Co. schools serving free meals this summer:

“From now until July 28, 44 Baltimore County schools will be serving free breakfast and lunch to kids Monday through Friday.”

Coupeville School District

“The district participates in the federal free and reduced-price lunch program, which allows families that qualify to obtain either no-cost or reduced-price meals for their child(ren).”

Love to see newspeople ask: If a family qualifies for free and reduced price school breakfast and lunch- wouldn’t they also qualify for year-round public assistance to provide meals at home? Would this reduce the need for summer feeding programs?

USDA Federal School Lunch Program- Virgin Islands:

“…widespread waste, potential for fraud, negligence and overall a program that has not come close to being adequately administered…”

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