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By Christopher Harper

Just a few miles west of my home in Muncy, Pennsylvania, the town of Montgomery had to shut down its police force.

The decision for the town of just under 2,000 people wasn’t because of anti-police riots; it happened because Montgomery couldn’t afford a full-time force anymore.

What happened in Montgomery is unfortunate but not uncommon to what’s unfolding in smaller municipalities nationwide.

“A lot of municipalities are going to face this as tax bases decline and costs increase exponentially,” Montgomery Mayor Rocky Sanguedolce said. “Nobody wanted to do this.”

America also faces a police officer shortage. From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over crime fighting to their county sheriff, a neighboring town, or state police.

Officer resignations were up 47% last year compared to 2019 — the year before the pandemic and George Floyd’s killing — and retirements are up 19%. That’s all according to a survey of nearly 200 police agencies by the Police Executive Research Forum. Though the survey represents only agencies affiliated with the think tank, a fraction of the more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide, it’s one of the few efforts to examine police hiring and retention and compare it with the time before Floyd’s killing.

“Fewer people are applying to be police officers, and more officers are retiring or resigning at a tremendous rate,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. “There’s a shortage of police officers across the country.” Compounding the exodus of veteran officers, young people are increasingly unwilling to undergo the months of training to become a police officer, Wexler added.

More than 500 U.S. towns and cities with populations of 1,000 to 200,000 disbanded policing between 1972 and 2017, according to a study by Rice University economics professor Richard Boylan.

With the massive amounts of money spent at the state and national levels on fighting crime, it would seem essential that governments come up with some way to provide funds to communities that cannot afford a police department.

With a dependence on the Pennsylvania Highway Patrol in the case of Montgomery, it’s unlikely that the response time to any serious crime would be good.

Fortunately, my home in Muncy has amassed enough funds to keep its police force and raised money to build a new fire and emergency services facility. I wish other communities could say the same.

It is an understatement to say that the policies crammed down the throats of the American people by radical leftists are harmful to children.  Most unfortunately, these self-titled progressives are in control of the Democrat Party, the news media, academia, the entire educational system, Hollywood, and most major corporations. 

Childhood used to be a time of joy for the vast majority of children here in the United States.  It was a time of innocence.  Children spent most of their time playing when they were not in school.  As you can see from this article, Alabama 6-Year-Old Suspended for Using ‘Finger Guns’ During Cops and Robbers Game | The Epoch Times (archive.vn), kids cannot even play their favorite games anymore.

According to the letter, on Sept. 1, 2023, two boys were playing “cops and robbers” during recess at Bagley Elementary School.

“During the course of their play, the children reportedly extended their index fingers and thumbs and said ‘bang-bang’ at each other,” the letter reads.

The child, identified as J.B., was suspended and accused of committing a Class III infraction. This is the district’s most serious infraction. According to the Jefferson County School District’s Student Parent Handbook, Class III infractions include possession of guns or explosives, sexual battery, battery of a school district employee, and robbery, among others.

Understandably, the child’s father was most upset.

“They labeled my six-year-old as a potentially violent and dangerous student because he was being a little boy and playing cops and robbers with another student (who was also suspended) and using his fingers like a gun,” Jarrod Belcher, the boy’s father, wrote in a statement released Friday, Sept. 8.

This was not an isolated incident.  Several times a year I’ve encountered similar instances.

Transgenderism is far more destructive to children than the disruption of play time.  A generation is being brainwashed into believing that gender is fluid and radical surgery is the cure for normal bouts of confusion.  This craze has reached peak insanity, California Passes Bill That Would Require Parents to Affirm Kid’s Gender (dailysignal.com)

The California State Assembly passed a bill Friday that would require judges in child custody cases to consider whether a parent has affirmed a child’s “gender transition” by making “gender affirmation” an equal part of a child’s “health, safety, and welfare” under state law.

Democratic lawmakers’ bill, AB 957, passed the Assembly by a vote of 57-16 along party lines.

Threatening the standard of “health, safety, and welfare” of a child under the California Family Code can carry penalties under the California Penal Code—prompting parents, activists, and lawmakers to speculate that AB 957 could result in parents being charged with child abuse or neglect for not participating in a child’s transgenderism. 

Libraries are being crammed full of sexually explicit books, in the name indoctrinating children with the LGBTQ agenda.   This is in sharp contrast to the way things have been done here in the United States where children have always been protected from sexually explicit material.  Any attempts to remove this inappropriate material from libraries is met with cries of book banning, as captured in this article:  You Can’t Slam ‘Book Bans’ And Turn A Blind Eye To The Content (thefederalist.com).

After a slight up tick in the number of Wuhan Flu cases, schools are bringing back mask mandates.  There is no doubt that masks are harmful to children.

The latest evidence comes from Speech and Language UK, which found one out of every five children in the United Kingdom are behind in basic speech. This is reportedly the “highest number of children with speech and language challenges ever recorded” in the UK, Sky News noted.

These issues I have mentioned in this article are just the very tip of the iceberg.  Those of us sane individuals far outnumber the radicals who are pushing all of this harmful crap on children.  Only recently have we begun to standup to this insanity and our recent attempts have been successful.  We need to do more.

Back in the days when I was learning programing in the 1979 of of the first things we learned was the If/Then or sometimes If/Then/Else

It works like this

IF X > 5 Then Y=Y-X

This means that if X has a value higher than five then subtract the value of X from Y

IF X > 5 Then Y-Y-x Else Y=0

This means if X has a value higher than five then subtract the value of X from why BUT if X is not greater than five then set Y to a value of “0”.

If Then can be used to express other things a great example of is the bill passed in California where you can lose custody of your kid if you go along with the current gender madness. The one thing that might have inhibited that bill from becoming law is that signing such a bill might inhibit a potential presidential campaign by Gavin Newson as it would be such a killer in swing states that you couldn’t steal enough votes to save him.

Expressed as an IF statement it would read:

IF Newsom = “candidate for president” THEN AB 957= “veto”

Well that’s now off the table:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he won’t run for president in 2024 or stand in Kamala Harris’s way in the future:

“We need to move past this notion that he’s not going to run,” Newsom told NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd in an interview clip released Friday. “President Biden is going to run and I’m looking forward to him getting reelected.”

Newsom’s comments further end speculation about a potential 2024 White House bid. The California governor has long said he won’t challenge Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination but has been talked about as a potential future presidential candidate.

Expressed as an IF Then Else statement that would read:

IF Newsom = “candidate for president” THEN AB 957= “veto” ELSE AB 957 = “Law”

Simple If/Then logic

If I had kids I’d get out of California as soon as possible, if I were engaged to be married I’d check my potential wife’s position on AB 957 and if she supported it I’d cancel at once.