Thursday, March 9, 2023

Exposing the Book Ban HOAX: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Press Conference

Book banning is a hoax, as Governor Ron DeSantis explains at his press conference entitled, "Exposing the Book Ban HOAX."  Listen to his press conference.  He destroys the false lies spread by librarians.  Just destroys them.  Are librarians in your state pulling the same shtick?  Absolutely they are.  Listen to Ron DeSantis to know how a real leader really leads and to wise up as to how librarians are pulling the wool over your eyes.

See:

Staff. “Governor Ron DeSantis Debunks Book Ban Hoax.” Office of Governor Ron DeSantis (blog), March 8, 2023. https://www.flgov.com/2023/03/08/governor-ron-desantis-debunks-book-ban-hoax/.

Because of the American Library Association from Chicago, IL, schools nationwide are flooded with many school books filled with educationally unsuitable material of a pervasively vulgar nature.  Oh, and they say parents should not control schools—while they do.  The head of ALA's, get this, "Office for Intellectual Freedom," teaches librarians they know the material is s3xually inappropriate for school children but, who cares, we have kids to s3xualize and indoctrinate, so simply "reframe" the books as "diverse" and "inclusive."  See how this works?
But ultimately, we found that the thing that needs to happen most, and it needs to happen before these bills are introduced, is sustained uh messaging that reframes this issue um that uh that takes it away from the idea that these are inappropriate for minors, or s3xually inappropriate for minors, and promotes them as diverse materials and programming that are about inclusion, fairness, and protection of everybody's right to see themselves, and their families reflected in the books in the public library.

✂️ American Library Association Admits Some School Books Are “S3xually Inappropriate for Minors” So Are Reframed as “Diverse” and “Inclusive.” Webinar: Banned Books Uncensored: LGBTQIA+ Stories & Gender Identity, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkMJFBkH5IFLMAaQaDR1iups-9FDZ5tNj.


Try to assert common sense and one is immediately attacked by librarians as a "book banner."  Librarians flood the zone with inappropriate material and anyone speaking out against this is a book banner.

Librarians will even pull out the big guns to spread the lies.  Here's author Judy Blume implying Ron DeSantis is "very scary" while CBS Sunday Morning spreads the "book banning across the US" lie:


Well one state governor has had enough of the lies used to groom school children, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida.  If only other governors would speak out in this fashion:
So a lot of that what's been going on is an attempt to create a a political narrative and it's a false political narrative and that's, that's bad enough as it is, I guess, but for me uh the important thing is that's a false narrative in service of using our schools, uh, for indoctrination rather than education.  ....  Uh, that is p0rnographic, why would we have that in a media center with the ten year old students, it's just wrong, and a lot of parents now have been empowered uh to make sure that these are appropriate environments....  [p]arents ... should not have to worry about this garbage being in the schools....  They are using your tax dollars to put that in.  How is that an appropriate use of tax payer dollars to put that in, so what you've seen is a lot of uh false narratives put out....
Listen to the press conference to hear again and again for over an hour about the fake lies librarians set up to make people think children have a First Amendment right to inappropriate material or to Marxist indoctrination in schools.  These are the same lies they use nationwide.  Learn the lies.  Expose your own librarians using the same lies in your own communities.  Get them fired like the lying librarian with the empty shelves got fired in Florida.  



To follow the lies on Twitter, follow #UniteAgainstBookBans, #FReadom, #BannedBooksWeek, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, #BannedBooks, and this year only, follow #AASL23 for the Tampa, FL, conference in October of the very school librarians spreading the very lies the Governor exposed.

During the press conference a black mother named Tia said she's with Moms For Liberty and that she was attacked for being a "token" black by the people wanting to keep the kids reading the s3xually inappropriate material.  She said it's a lie when librarians claim it's just Republicans or conservatives who seek to "ban" books.  She also called for warning labels on the books [like PAW Prints].

Then more mothers got up to say how bad the books in schools really are.  Gender Queer, of course, was mentioned.  Oh!  A satanic orgy!  I must read that!  And the gay hook up app in This Book is Gay that's in a middle school library.  The school committee voted to keep the grooming book in the school library.  "It is simply not fair to slap on the book banner label."  "It is simply a lie to say this books are banned."  "This is educational malpractice."

Dr. Stacy Hahn of Hillsborough County School Board, so good.  "It is very difficult to be in the minority on a school board."  "We have K-8 schools where these books are in those libraries."  PARENTS: YOU MUST WIN POSITIONS ON SCHOOL BOARDS.

Then the Governor spoke again: 
But you know it's also an opportunity cost with the school.  Every minute you spend focusing on some of this p0rno, p0rnographic stuff, well that's less time you're spending on doing the things that really matter to our kids in terms of them getting the education they need in math, and reading, and all these other things, and so it's, um, the only way you make that decision, in my judgment, is if you're putting your own agenda ahead of the wellbeing of the students, and, and that's what we see too, too often.
As to "putting your own agenda ahead of the wellbeing of the students":

Kleinman, Dan. “Openly Marxist American Library Association Needs To Be Defunded.” SafeLibraries® (blog), January 30, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/openly-marxist-ala.html.

Oh this press conference is all so good.  Listen to it all.  The grooming has got to stop.  We shouldn't need governors to make it stop.  We should and could do it ourselves.  Get on those school boards and make it happen.

Read:

Staff. “Governor Ron DeSantis Debunks Book Ban Hoax.” Office of Governor Ron DeSantis (blog), March 8, 2023. https://www.flgov.com/2023/03/08/governor-ron-desantis-debunks-book-ban-hoax/.










NOTE ADDED 25 MAY 2023:

The Democrats are now fund raising off of calling the Governor a fascist book banner.  And to rub it in everyone's faces, they are going to hand out s3xually explicit books to kids all across Florida.  I suggest Ron DeSantis arrest the MoveOn people under appropriate criminal laws against s3xualizing kids that somehow exempts librarians and teachers.  MoveOn comprises neither.  Arrest them.


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Sunday, March 5, 2023

Roxbury High School Librarian Roxana Caivano and Gender Queer

Roxana Caivano
On Thursday, February 9, 2023 a Paramus High School (NJ) teacher accessed inappropriate material on his computer that was still linked to the wireless projector.  Several students took photos and videos as proof and as a result the teacher was placed on unpaid leave.  This is what Superintendent Sean Adams had to say:

"I regret that the students in the class, and now many other students and families, have been subjected to this inappropriate material.  Counseling support is and will continue to be made available for any student impacted by this incident."

Superintendent Adams later said, "the administration immediately initiated—and is continuing to conduct—a thorough investigation into this matter.  I want to assure you that we take all aspects of student safety seriously."



See also:

Greene, Rebecca. “Paramus Superintendent: Teacher Did Not Know Inappropriate Material Could Be Seen by Students.” TAPintoParamus, February 13, 2023. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/paramus/sections/education/articles/paramus-superintendent-teacher-did-not-know-inappropriate-material-could-be-seen-by-students.

Media reports that the "racy images" were of women in underwear:

Hickey, James. “Paramus Teacher on Leave After Inappropriate Images Shown in Class.” North-JerseyNews.Com (blog), February 14, 2023. https://north-jerseynews.com/2023/02/14/paramus-teacher-on-leave-after-inappropriate-images-shown-in-class/.

While this is an appropriate response to an event like this, it’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room.  In New Jersey and across the country, parents have been fighting to remove s3xually inappropriate books from school libraries where their minor children attend.  

In Roxbury, NJ, the high school librarian, Roxana Caivano, pictured top right, has selected Gender Queer, Let's Talk About It, This Book is Gay, Flamer, Fun Home and many others.  Recently, Gender Queer was challenged and after careful review by Caivano, the Administration, and one anonymous parent, it was decided it should remain in the library, with no restrictions "because it's a memoir."  

If images of women in underwear are considered "racy," "inappropriate," a threat to student "safety" and a cause for increased counseling, what does that say about images of a woman sucking a strap on?  Or full frontal nudity combined with every s3x act you can imagine?  Or a 14 year old preparing to masturbate? 

This seems like an admission that images can be dangerous and unhealthy, yet our schools are allowing librarians to endanger our children every day.  These are prominently displayed books and librarians are luring minors in with their enticing "banned books" displays.  What's the difference between Paramus students and Roxbury students that one group deserves protection from adults providing s3xually inappropriate material and the other does not?  





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Author of the above: Christina Balestriere is available to media at ChristinaBalestriere at gmail dot com.  She's a mother of three Roxbury students and former teacher member of Roxbury Parental Rights in Education.

She has provided me with an email she received from Roxana Caivano, the "media specialist" who is also on the Roxbury Public Library Board of Directors.  The email states:
Mrs. Balestriere,

First of all, let me apologize for not getting back to you sooner.  The start of school has been very hectic and I wanted to make sure that my response to you had my full attention.

Yes, I do have all the titles you listed, and yes, I have read them all myself.  The District has a selection process for choosing books which require our books to be chosen based on readership level, content, and quality.  Each of the books you mentioned are on level, promote personal choice, and have received starred reviews and awards from trusted industry journals and organizations.  I also comply with all NJ State Laws which dictate we provide books that are diverse and promote inclusivity.  I do read all reviews and summaries of books before purchasing.

As your child will not be at the High School for quite some time, I cannot predict what will be in the library by the time they get here.  As a Public School, it is our mission to create a collection that reflects the community as a whole, and mirrors the diversity of the community.  While you may find some titles questionable for your child, another family may encourage their children to read those books.  It is a matter of personal choice.

Roxana Caivano
School Librarian, Roxbury High School

This media specialist, Roxana Caivano, graduate of Roxbury High School, County College of Morris, College of Saint Elizabeth, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and finally New Jersey City University with a Master of Educational Technology, School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist, somehow happens to hold that same beliefs as the child groomers at American Library Association, and she's both a school librarian and a member of the board of trustees at the Roxbury Public Library.  How convenient—for the groomers.

Oh, did I say "groomer"?  It is what it is, and here's what it is:

Rose, Judith. “‘Groomer’ Is NOT an Anti-LGBTQ Slur.” Gays Against Groomers, November 3, 2022. https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com/post/groomer-is-not-an-anti-lgbtq-slur.

And, by the way, American Library Association is now an openly Marxist organization:

Kleinman, Dan. “Openly Marxist American Library Association Needs To Be Defunded.” SafeLibraries® (blog), January 30, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/openly-marxist-ala.html.

Roxana Caivano said above, "I also comply with all NJ State Laws which dictate we provide books that are diverse and promote inclusivity."  American Library Association trains school librarians that even though librarians know certain books like "Gender Queer" contain s3xually inappropriate material for school children, librarians are to get over their personal revulsion to giving such material to children and just "reframe" the material as diverse and inclusive.  The very words Roxana Caivano used, "books that are diverse and promote inclusivity"—what a coincidence.  That's called grooming.  If you know something is wrong for children and can be removed from schools under the Board of Education v. Pico case, let alone common sense and community standards, but you are "reframing" it as diversity and inclusion to get around that US Supreme Court case and personal aversion, that's grooming.  

Specifically, American Library Association's lawyer/leader of its Office for Intellectual Freedom and its Freedom to Read Foundation said during training for librarians and media specialists:
But ultimately, we found that the thing that needs to happen most, and it needs to happen before these bills are introduced, is sustained uh messaging that reframes this issue um that uh that takes it away from the idea that these are inappropriate for minors, or s3xually inappropriate for minors, and promotes them as diverse materials and programming that are about inclusion, fairness, and protection of everybody's right to see themselves, and their families reflected in the books in the public library.

✂️ American Library Association Admits Some School Books Are “S3xually Inappropriate for Minors” So Are Reframed as “Diverse” and “Inclusive.” Webinar: Banned Books Uncensored: LGBTQIA+ Stories & Gender Identity, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkMJFBkH5IFLMAaQaDR1iups-9FDZ5tNj.

Board of Education v. Pico, by the way, allows for pervasively vulgar materials to be removed from schools immediately.  No need for any reviews, let alone the long, drawn out one Roxbury suffered while school children remained s3xualized, and indeed continue to be s3xualized to this day.

Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico, 457 US 853 (Supreme Court 1982). https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11432514393725128521

I'm not saying Roxana Caivano is a groomer.  I'm just pointing out this person in a position of influence in the public school and the public library, educated in New Jersey, even in the very school where she works, just happens to believe and promote the exact same harmful views as the groomers from the Chicago, IL, based American Library Association.  Essentially, Roxana Caivano is elevating the interests of the Chicago's American Library Association and steamrolling over the Roxbury community and the US Supreme Court.  

No one in Roxbury wants school children to have access to known s3xually inappropriate material that's been simply "reframed" as diversity and inclusion.  But, led by Roxana Caivano in service to ALA, such materials are now available to Roxbury students at will.  ALA has, via Caivano, asserted full control.  Roxbury school children will continue to be s3xualized, all while people stand back and let it happen because Roxana Caivano fooled them with diversity and inclusion.  The school board's decision must be reversed and the book and others like it should be removed per Board of Education v. Pico—and per common sense.

Interest in setting aside Roxbury interests and instead promoting external, harmful interests can be seen when Roxana Caivano repeats the mantra, "As a Public School, it is our mission to create a collection that ... mirrors the diversity of the community."  Diversity, the magic word.  Such a laudable goal.  Only "diversity" means something different to groomers.  It means a method to mislead people into accepting s3xually inappropriate material for children that librarians never used to give to students, but they do now.  Caivano/ALA's definition of "diversity" means the US Supreme Court Pico case is meaningless, powerless, overturned by librarians.  In Roxbury, Pico got nullified by Roxana Caivano.  That's the diversity Caivano has brought to Roxbury.  Lawlessness.  Roxbury's children are the target.  

DEI Explained by Dr. James Lindsay of New Discourses, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLuhY2Q7Rw.

Diversity: A Translation from the Wokish | James Lindsay, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVDWuQYzxs.

Inclusion: A Translation from the Wokish | James Lindsay, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFREDFSGZxo.


That's what Roxana Caivano is saying when she writes that "Gender Queer" and the other s3xually inappropriate material for school children is "diverse" and "inclusive," just as she was trained by American Library Association to do.

There are other coded messages within what Roxana Caivano wrote that exactly mirror American Library Association diktat.  But I've said enough for now.

The Roxbury school boards decision to keep the s3xually inappropriate material in place in the school is directly harming Roxbury children and will for years, all for someone's goal of s3xualizing children.  I urge Roxbury parents and political leaders to dig deeply into why Roxbury children have been allowed to continue reading s3xually inappropriate material, then launch a lawsuit to get the pervasively vulgar books removed from the school per the Pico case.  

18A:12-24.1(f) Code of Ethics for School Board Members says, "I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest or partisan political groups or to use the schools for personal gain or for the gain of friends."  Isn't that what the school board (and municipality) has done by following special interest ALA diktat via the Roxana Caivano filter and not Pico, community standards, and just plain common sense?  Are we just going to let the school librarians and teachers keep giving the kids pervasively vulgar books—because of "diversity" and "inclusion"?

Roxbury people should file a lawsuit against the Roxbury school and its municipal government that does nothing to stop this.  And if there's a way to challenge any teaching certificate for Roxana Caivano, do that too.  Or sit back all let Roxbury children continue to be s3xualized in school.

There's hope for you yet, Roxbury.  Coming to you straight from Maine, a school board voted to keep "Gender Queer" then, after residents complained, voted again, this time to get rid of it:

Hutchinson, Marianne. “Dixfield-Based School Board Bans Gender Book from Dirigo Library; RSU 56 Directors Voted 7-2 to Remove ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ from the High School Shelves.” Lewiston Sun Journal (blog), August 10, 2022. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/08/10/dixfield-based-school-board-bans-gender-book-from-dirigo-library/.

Farrin, Bruce. “Three Women Appeal Decision to Keep Controversial Book on Dirigo High School’s Library Shelves; a Request to Remove ‘Gender Queer: A Memoir’ Was Made This Spring.” Lewiston Sun Journal (blog), June 29, 2022. https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/06/29/three-women-appeal-decision-to-keep-controversial-book-on-dirigo-high-schools-library-shelves/.

McKenna contacted Superintendent/Principal Pam Doyen, who confirmed that the book was in the school.

“So I sent my husband to the store to buy this book, and I read it from cover to cover. … My problems with this lie with all the s3xual, disgusting details in this book,” she said.

Along with the book, McKenna brought to the podium a 20-year-old copy of Penthouse magazine. 
She said both have a lot in common. “The only difference is, this one is about a transgender, and this one (Penthouse) is about everybody.”

She said “Gender Queer: A Memoir” goes into great detail about the author’s s3xual fantasies, including one about masturbating while she is driving.

“I think it’s absolutely absurd that that is in a book in our school when we are teaching our children that it is OK to masturbate while they drive,” she said.

McKenna noted, “I don’t care who you are — if you are a man, a woman, if you’re any part of the alphabet — what your s3xuality is. Why you would think that any of this — gay s3x, straight s3x, fantasies, masturbating, strap-ons, dildos — any of it, has a place in school. It’s not educational at all!”

She said when she read the book she ran out of post-its labeling all the s3xual pictures.

“I would never have thought I’d be standing before a bunch of adults trying to explain and defend that this doesn’t belong in a school,” she said. “I don’t even know why we’re having this conversation!”

She concluded by saying, “My job as a parent does not involve educating a bunch of adults who are in charge of buying, purchasing, approving materials for our students that are supposed to be solely for educational purposes.  It’s not my place to educate you on what you’re supposed to be getting for our children.”

Cole said she believes p0rnographic and s3xually explicit materials are not made for adolescents and they should not have any access to them, whether it’s schools or other places.

“I feel it is absolutely disgusting, and beyond, that we have to come here tonight and take time off our family life, and fight over a book that everybody should know should not be in the schools,” she said.


NOTE ADDED 29 MARCH 2023:

This publication has been included in a defamation lawsuit by Roxana Caivano and her husband:
"The defendant ... published libelous and defamatory information on a blog operated by the non-party publisher Dan Kleinman....  In fact, the defendant ... published precisely the same defamatory speech she delivered on March 6, 2023 before the Roxbury Township Board of Education."

Remember, American Library Association directs librarians to file defamation suits against parents who complain.


NOTE ADDED 26 APRIL 2023:

This publication has been included in media:

Burns, Vianella. “Morris Librarian Defamed Over LGBTQ Books, Lawsuit Says; The Roxbury High School Librarian Has Filed a Lawsuit Against a Group of Residents Following Alleged Attacks Accusing Her of Child Abuse.” Madison NJ Patch, April 26, 2023. https://patch.com/new-jersey/morristown/morris-librarian-defamed-over-lgbtq-books-lawsuit-says.

Therein, it states as follows:
On the virtual blog, SafeLibraries, which is operated by the non-party publisher Dan Kleinman, Balestriere published a note saying, "These are prominently displayed books and librarians are luring minors in with their enticing 'banned books' displays."
If that is the basis for suing, then that's pure vexatious litigation as librarians regularly talk about, even brag about, creating enticing "banned books" displays to lure in more children.  Here's an example from ALA's own website:



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