WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A Moms for Liberty leader said that a letter that Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) wrote to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland confronting him about the FBI allegedly targeting parents who protested Critical Race Theory (CRT) and pandemic restrictions isn’t enough pressure.
“Thanks for the letter but until the people own what's going on, our representatives are a little bit hamstrung,” said Mary D. Lowe, chair of the Tarrant County Moms for Liberty chapter in Texas. “That's about the most they can do is write a letter, but a letter is really nothing. We, the people, have to stop holding on to party identity, recognize the corruption and get rid of it.”
Rep. Jordan and Rep. Johnson’s May 11 letter accuses Garland of lying before the House Judiciary Committee when he denied the National School Board Association (NSBA) had advocated for the use of federal law enforcement agencies to investigate parents for “domestic terrorism and hate crime threats.”
“I think every voter should demand that their local school board disassociate from the National School Board Association and I believe voters should demand that their state association of school boards disassociate too because these nonprofit organizations are politically dominant and they are profiting 100% off of taxpayer funding that's being contributed to them because of state government education," Lowe told Legal Newsline. "That's an abuse of taxpayer funds.”
Federal law enforcement is using counterterrorism resources to investigate protected First Amendment activity among parents and activist groups, such as Moms For Liberty, according to the Congressmens' letter published in Gateway Pundit.
"We have learned from brave whistleblowers that the FBI has opened investigations with the EDUOFFICIALS threat tag in almost every region of the country and relating to all types of educational settings,” the letter states. “The information we have received shows how, as a direct result of your directive, in one investigation begun following your directive, the FBI’s Field Office interviewed a mom for allegedly telling a local school board ‘we are coming for you.’”
But Lowe said that the phrase ‘we are coming for you’ is often used among Moms For Liberty members to communicate that they are going to unseat certain board members in elections, not physically harm them.
The letter further details a complaint that was funneled through the National Threat Operations Center in which an unnamed woman who owns a gun and is a Moms for Liberty member was labeled as being a part of a "right-wing mom’s group."
“In the state of Texas, owning a gun makes a woman a very wise woman,” Lowe said. “I know more women in Texas who have a gun than don't have a gun. I don't carry a gun but everybody I know does, and they are furious with me because I'm not ‘packing,' too.”
Lowe added that like other conservative groups, Moms for Liberty has been smeared.
“I do not believe that we are right-wing but I would say that a lot of the things that we are having to combat are left-wing like transgenderism and pornographic school books, which makes us appear right-wing,” she said.