By William Richbourg

“Never have I witnessed a greater, swifter, collapse of competence that what I have seen with the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan. Events at the airport – desperation, death – indicate the extreme chaos that ensues when the commander in chief doesn’t actually understand the value of service.”  ……. Elliot Ackerman, NY Times

However, if we look at the “awe-inspiring” armory that was left behind we have to suspect something more was going on than simple incompetence. In fact, I suspect that this is a clear case of politicized and malevolent incompetence! 

Consider for a moment the scope of this particular part of the disaster.  Left to the Taliban according to the following inventory published in the London Times:

• 22,174 armored Humvees
• 42 pickup trucks and SUVs
• 64,363 machine guns
• 162,043 radios
• 16,035 night-vision goggles
• 358,530 assault rifles (real ones not the ones Joe Biden warns about in the US)
• 126,295 pistols
• 176 artillery pieces
• 100 helicopters (including 33 Black Hawks)
• 4 C-130 transport planes
• 60 other fixed wing aircraft

Why did we do that? No one has offered an explanation. What’s worse is that, not only did we leave behind this horrifying arsenal, but the Administration lied about their intent to save all Americans. They left many of them behind as well and that is unforgivable.

The only explanation is that Biden refused to follow President Trump’s plan because it was President Trump’s plan! He came up with his own timetable so that he could claim credit for ending “America’s longest war” in a way that would clearly deny President Trump any credit and it blew up in his face.

Worse, it is likely not over. Counting on the kinder, gentler Taliban is a dangerous and foolhardy strategy and one that is likely to cause the American people additional and on-going heartache.

What else did we leave behind? Our credibility, our honor! Americans must wake up and end this Administration before it can do further irreversible damage to our country.

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William Richbourg is a Member of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee.

Honoring our first responders, we gathered last month at Bethesda District 2 to show our support for the hard working MCPD. These events, coordinated by Sandy Tuttle and Patsy Dillingham bring members of the Women's Clubs and other Republicans together to make it clear we appreciate the hard work and diligence provided by our public safety providers. The police are quite thankful, so often they get criticism and disdain - but not from us.

To join us at an upcoming event contact Sandy Tuttle at [email protected] or Patsy Dillingham at [email protected].

Testimony to the Board of Education September 9, 2021

Today, Maryland parents are concerned about the insertion of racism into school curricula under the guise of anti-racism in Crude Racist Thinking (Critical Race Theory or CRT) and the indoctrination of children into thinking and behaving along the precepts of Marxism. We ask you to demonstrate bold and courageous leadership that brought you to this position, to protect Maryland’s children from divisive and misshapen ideologies, and weld our children—“whites, Korean Americans, Latinos, Blacks, and Bengalis—into a united, tolerant, patriotic America. You must make clear to the teachers and administrators in the State that embracing a traditional American education focused on reading, writing, math, history, and civics is the only acceptable preparation for American children to graduate to a life of innovation, contribution and self-realization in our society. 

However, with certain materials now showing up in classrooms and in the US Department of Education order to provide CRT grants directly to School Districts, the purveyors of Newthink and racism will persist and their defeat requires eternal vigilance on the part of every citizen and of our State government. Their twisted and subversive thinking has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula. .  Many thinking parents in Montgomery County have protested that the School Administration and the Board of Education have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by allowing our schools to be captured by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal, racist mob.

This obsession has motivated the MCPS, an education system facing declining national rankings, to spend half the county annual budget in a worthless so-called anti-racist system audit. An investigative report by Judicial Watch (JW) concluded that “the racist, revolutionary claptrap in these documents should be nowhere near a school classroom.” Example: a social justice class where students were taught that the phrase Make America Great Again was an example of covert white supremacy ranked just below lynching, hate crimes, the N-word and racial slurs 

Probably the sickest aspect of CRT and its likes is that it deceitfully claims to combat racism but is in fact deeply racist.   Its only coin of identity is race: certain races are typed by association into inherent nasty behavior or weak performance;  attempts to break out of one’s racial category are fruitless; efforts by Blacks for example to excel in school and move ahead are “whitey; exams and grading are to be abolished because they put down weaker students; e g in California, English and math are no longer taught, to be replaced, e g in Washington, by diversity, equity and inclusion on the basis of racist categories, not performance,  qualifications, or even potential.  This is rank divisionism, inequity, victimism and exclusionism, (DIVE)  the divide-and-conquer that malevolent rulers have used to weaken their societies.  They are using the schools to turn the American motto—e pluribus unum—upside down: not one but many, and infusing personal relations with suspicion, blame, and hostility.

We cannot tolerate a school that not only judges our children by the color of their skin but encourages and instructs them to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.  By adopting CRT our schools are advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work, traits which brought the members of the Board of Education to their positions of leadership today..

We object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and in our schools. Systemic racism is the government and society of apartheid and the exterminating of Jews. It is segregated schools and separate lunch counters, which we have not had since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, half a century ago. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of American history, a motivated denial of the American virtue of progress, and a racist insult of American minorities.

An honest, academic, traditional American education is the most important gift we can give our children. We strongly request a stop by schools’ purchase of materials or conducting of any classes, workshops, etc. that embrace Crude Racist Theory, 1619 Project, and BLM Marxist messages. In addition, it must be clear that an activist teacher bringing supplemental materials into the classroom that undermine our founding ideals and basic values of progress, improvement and innovation will not be tolerated. We must stop the segregation and indoctrination of our children in Maryland and in our great Country.  Don’t teach racism!

Respectfully,

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William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Conflict Resolution and International Organization; former director, African Studies Program, SAIS-The Johns Hopkins University    

Powerful images coming out of Afghanistan. Our prayers are with our soldiers, veterans, US citizens and Afghan allies. All of this coming on the dawn of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack.

We’re the local Republican Party, and we are seeing grave changes to our quality of life instituted by the Montgomery County Executive and County Council such as: “Defund” and “Reimagine” the Police is still being supported - while crime in our area is rising; the masking, lockdown and vaccine passport restrictions proposed by the County Executive; with rampant spending inflation is taking every extra dime we make, with even steeper inflation in the headlights; and Thrive 2050 seeks to take away single family homes in our communities. 

The MCGOP is working to fight back against the Montgomery County Executive and County Council.

Our members testify in front of the School Board to uninterested officials, telling them about the dangers of teaching racial hatred, of keeping our kids masked all day, of promising - but not delivering “equality” in education for 50 years. Yet our “non-partisan” School Board members take all the time and energy they can muster to endorse only Democrat candidates for every elective seat.

We will not stand for this. We demand action and attention, improvement, a better environment for business, a better sense of election integrity, and a halt to one-party leftist control of all power in the government of our County.

Help us to make progress. 

In this newsletter you’ll see:

• Information on participating in the local community fairs and celebrations across the county
• Cautions about the limitations of Metro and public transit in the coming months
• News on the meetings, presentations, speeches and dinners to participate in - to gain a better understanding of how to get involved in making the positive changes we need
• Opinion pieces by some thoughtful Republicans
• A great invitation to participate in a Webinar on the teaching of racial hatred
• An opportunity to attend a live book signing for the great book Black Eye for America

Thanks for being a great Republican. We need you. And, of course, I’d love to hear from you. Send me a note at [email protected].  Your thoughts and notes mean a lot and I appreciate them.

Reardon "Sully" Sullivan, PE, Chairman

Black Eye for America

Meet Co-Author Dr. Christopher Schorr. who, with Dr. Carol Swain, has written the definitive book on how forced teachings inspired by critical race theory are threatening the foundation of American democracy.

With a forward by Dr. Ben Carson, this book is opening the eyes of many Americans to the threat of this baseless philosophy, and gives us all information on how to push back against this form of racism - especially here in Montgomery County.

Dr. Schorr will give comments about the book and the efforts by folks to oppose this abhorrent philosophy. We'll have books available to purchase or go HERE to purchase on-line.

To purchase a book for a Young Republican or Senior Republican make a $25 donation and we'll give them one to be signed by Dr. Schorr. DONATE HERE. Thank you!  

This event is co-sponsored by the many MC Republican clubs & organizations.

Worried about Critical Race Theory?

MONDAYS WITH MOCO SPEAKERS SERIES & SATURDAY BOOK SIGNING

September Topic: “If I Ran The Zoo – An Introduction to the Cultural Marxism and CRT Indoctrination gripping our College Campuses, K-12 Schools and Workplaces”

Monday, September 13, 2021, 7:30PM, ZOOM SEMINAR! Register HERE

First speaker from-

Jennifer Kabbany, editor of The College Fix – a publication of the Student Free Press Association. 

The College Fix, which reports on the ever-growing leftist cancel culture flourishing on campuses nation-wide, works with college-aged writers, bloggers, tweeters, podcasters, and viral video makers for the purpose of identifying and supporting young people who seek to improve campus journalism, explore careers in the media, and commit themselves to the principles of a free society. 

 Jennifer is also a visiting fellow with the Independent Women's Forum. From 2002 to 2013, she worked in various capacities for the North County Times and San Diego Union-Tribune newspapers as a City Hall, education and features reporter, as well as a weekly education columnist. 

 Previously, Jennifer served as Associate Editor of FrontPage Magazine, as well as held editorial positions at The Weekly Standard and The Washington Times. She is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship recipient and has contributed to National Review. Jennifer graduated from San Diego State University, where she served as Editor in Chief of The Daily Aztec.  The College Fix  [email protected] 

Second speakers as seen on TV-

Dr. Carol Swain, is an author/editor, and host of the podcast "Be The People" and "Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain." 

Her work Black Faces, Black Interests has won three national awards, and her book The New White Nationalism in America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  Carol is a former professor of political science at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities.  She is outspoken in her opposition to BLM and the dangers posed by Islam.  In retiring from Vanderbilt, Carol stated that she would “miss the students and the rhythm of campus, but I will not miss what American universities have allowed themselves to become”.

Her opinion pieces have been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Epoch Times. She holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She's often interviewed in the press, television and radio.

https://carolmswain.com/  [email protected]

Christopher Schorr joined the Marine Corps in 2003 and deployed to Iraq in 2005. Upon returning home, he served as a platoon sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserves and completed his BA in political science (summa cum laude) at the University of California, San Diego. 

Chris subsequently earned his doctorate in American Government at Georgetown University. His dissertation (“White Nationalism and its Challenge to the American Right”) addresses the challenge posed by white nationalism to conservatism and to the American political system. Chris has written and lectured about Critical Race Theory and its corrosive impact on race relations and our country. 

 https://christopherschorr.com/

Tonight's Important Topic

In recent years, American citizens have risen to the challenges posed by left-wing politicians and their tax and spend, deficit creating policies. New and never-ending social welfare programs, anti-police policies, rising crime and growing illegal immigration are just a few leftist policies designed to weaken our nation.  The Tea Party movement followed by the Trump Revolution were positive national reactions to the leftist Democrats attempt at the fundamental transformation of America.

Now a new neo-Marxist ideology, the baseline of seemingly all Democrat Party initiatives, has emerged from the bowels of our leftist universities.  Packaged under the term Critical Race Theory, it is an amalgamation of anti-American ideologies which crush diversity of opinion, pit Whites against the so-called ‘People of Color” and demand the destruction of our “racist” founding principles and the Constitution. 

Our speakers will delve into the actual Critical Race Theory based activities underway on university and college campuses, K-12 schools and the private sector.  The speakers will also provide insights into how we can work together to stop and reverse the spread of these hateful and destructive activities which are tearing our nation apart.  

Moderator- Dennis Melby

Dennis Melby, who is a former Party Chairman, Town Councilmember and Association President, will serve as moderator.

Register in advance for this webinar HERE or go to

For this important discussion of "If I Ran The Zoo – An Introduction to the Cultural Marxism and CRT Indoctrination gripping our College Campuses, K-12 Schools and Workplaces".

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