Calming Rooms & Safe Spaces

The below Public Mind article was submitted to and published by Parsons, Kansas newspaper, the Parsons Sun (re: page 4, July 13-14, 2019, Weekend Edition).

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The July 10, 2019 edition of the Sun included an informative front-page article titled, “Teacher raises funds for calming room.” A reporting in large part about various teachers in this area seeking donations—“to help them provide students tools for learning everything from technology to self-regulating behaviors when school starts in the fall.” Including, for example, a place within Meadow View School “that the students can access at their request to calm down.” Reportedly, “kind of a chill-out room basically.”

No doubt it is too often overlooked that countless of our nation’s students continue to be blessed in various life-meaningful ways, by teachers who dream of being able to do something special for their students. Dreams that to be truly realized, most often entail special effort, sacrifice, and financial cost.

Also too often disregarded are many of the unsettling reminders of various dangerous paths our society has for too long been treading. None the least, the through ignorance or intent passing-the-buck of responsibility for “raising our children” to our educational institutions and various aspects of government. Including delegated or assumed responsibility for their social and emotional needs, and ability to manage stress, etc.

Present trends suggest that it is likely we will, for some time yet, continue to support or otherwise tolerate pursuit and funding of “Calming Rooms & Safe Spaces” equipped with counselors, soothing tropical beach themes, and pet kittens/puppies, etc., reportedly to help students “de-escalate their emotions and be ready to go back to class ready to learn.”

Hopefully, however, somewhere between kindergarten-age and the early years of so-called adulthood, a nation-saving number of our youth will somewhere and somehow get a survival-essential grasp of reality. Such as, the indisputable and ultimately inescapable fact that: life is not fair; nothing is truly “free”; the right to offend and to be offended are essential elements of our precious U.S. Constitution recognized “freedom of speech”; and, those who are hell-bent to do us harm couldn’t care less about rules, regulations, laws, thou-shall-not signage, or our feelings.

For, it is to our demise that the reins of responsibility for this great nation ever be turned over to a generation ignorant, unconcerned, and inattentive of the origin of our too-often taken for granted and abused liberty and freedom. A precious liberty and freedom not spawned from avoidance of responsibility and a false sense of reality, security, and entitlement. But from a deep grasp of truth, freely-assumed responsibility, great sacrifice, and unrelenting courage.

And, may we responsibly do much more than hope that our nation’s colleges and universities will soon voluntarily, or otherwise, focus more on “educating” and less on “political activism.” And that our valued K-12 administrators and teachers will likewise one day soon be freed up to spend more of their limited time and resources on “teaching”—and less on struggling to compensate for neglected “parental responsibilities.”

                                                   —William James Moore

"How To Show You Truly Care!"

To U.S. citizens who:

(1.) Choose not to accept and embrace two realities: (A.) Nothing is truly “free”—someone, somewhere, somehow, at some point, “pays”; and (B.) The U.S. cannot protect, feed, clothe, and provide shelter and medical care, etc., for every real, and falsely claimed to be, disadvantaged human being on the planet Earth; and

(2.) Truly desire and support unsecured U.S. borders, unrestricted immigration, and “catch and release” policies being applied to illegal aliens caught on U.S. soil . . . the following is offered for consideration . . . as another way you can demonstrate how much you truly care:

“ILLEGAL ALIEN CUSTODIAN/GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM”: If you truly put the welfare of illegal aliens above that of your fellow U.S. citizens, then please unrelentingly pressure your representatives in the House and Senate to timely establish a volunteer “Illegal Alien Custodian/Guardianship Program” that will help you put “your” time, money, and other personal resources where your heart and mouth are.

For example, a federal government administrated program whereby, through a user-friendly government website, you can register and apply for an official “Illegal Alien Custodian/Guardianship” role. Whereby, after appropriate vetting and acceptance, you can be assigned, for example, five appropriately vetted illegal aliens from our existing “catch and release” immigration policy. Five individuals who, as their designated custodian/guardian, you will be totally responsible—at your personal expense—for their housing, clothing, food, education, medical care, entertainment, and other humanitarian needs, as well as accountability for their physical location, general conduct, and availability for government monitoring, etc.

A responsibility that will continue lawfully and uninterrupted until the illegal aliens assigned to you have within applicable U.S. Government designated time frames, either become: (1.) English speaking, English using, U.S. culture-assimilating, self-supporting, law-abiding, legal U.S. citizens; or, (2.) lawfully deported from U.S. soil.

However, should you choose not to have, support, and personally participate in an “Illegal Alien Custodian/Guardianship Program” such as described above, then it should reasonably be assumed that you are among those who recognize their patriotic duty to constructively support responsible U.S. immigration policies. Policies designed to secure our U.S. borders, mandate merit-based immigration, and eliminate “catch and release” and other nation-threatening or otherwise irresponsible handling of illegal aliens.

Policies that address long-available fixes such as roughly summarized in the following “Eleven Point Plan”:

(1.) Accept and embrace two realities: (A.) Nothing is truly “free”—someone, somewhere, somehow, at some point, “pays”; and (B.) The U.S. cannot protect, feed, clothe, and provide shelter and medical care, etc., for every real, and falsely claimed to be, disadvantaged human being on the planet Earth.

(2.) U.S. Congress fund, and President Trump’s Administration oversee the priority building of a permanent and truly functional security wall (barrier) across our country’s southern border.

(3.) Guard our country’s borders, and enforce U.S. immigration control laws, with as-needed Border Security and Military support, equipped with state of the art security technology.

(4.) U.S. Congress pass, and Federal and State executive branches of government enforce, a truly merit-based immigration policy, that as a minimum mandates that accepted immigrants be self-supporting (not reliant upon the public treasury); English-speaking and English-users; U.S. culture-assimilating, persons.

(5.) Cease U.S. foreign aid to any country that abuses its citizens’ inalienable rights and drives or otherwise encourages them to seek refuge in the U.S.

(6.) Prosecute to fullest extent of U.S. and International Law, George Soros and others who organize, support, or otherwise enable invasions upon U.S. borders, or otherwise illegal entry into our country.

(7.) Outlaw and de-fund so-called “sanctuary cities” throughout the U.S.

(8.) Physically deport all illegal aliens, including any/all non-U.S. citizens who enter the U.S. through other than U.S. established official Ports of Entry.

(9.) Prosecute to fullest extent of U.S. Law, any and all U.S. businesses that hire illegal aliens.

(10.) Pass and enforce federal and state laws mandating that only U.S. citizens can participate in U.S. elections, and that access to voting privilege include photo I.D. and other state of the art background verification technology.

(11.) U.S. citizens restrict from office, and/or vote out of office, any politician failing to truly embrace “(1.) Through (10.)” above.

                                               --- William James Moore