It is worth reading Blood Brotherhood about three Mafia networks that originated in Italy. Each of these organizations compete with each other but also cooperate, stretching their deadly violence across the world from prison gangs in Sicily, Calabria and Naples into the United States and other nations. Each organization has its own rituals and legends about the founding of these criminal organizations. Nevertheless, a constant theme is banding together to protect poor families from being exploited by the rich and powerful.
Freemason Models. The problem is that the secrecy of the Mafia networks, modeled along the lines of Freemasonry, evolved into complex systems of extortion and political influence that still attract the most powerful politicians and industrialists in Italy, the United States and across Europe and other continents. Operating throughout the global economic system, such organized crime networks have long been adept at shifting allegiances and opportunistically provide support to opposing political movements.
For many years there has been a movement aimed at separating children from the traditional authority of the family. Parental rights are the law of the land according to U.S. Supreme Court legal precedent.
Meyer v Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters are two landmark cases reinforcing parental rights. In Meyer, the Court struck down a state statute that criminalized teaching students in any foreign language in public or private schools. In the Pierce case, the Court struck down an Oregon law requiring attendance at public schools.
In Troxel v. Granville (2000), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Washington state law that allowed grandparents to petition state courts for child visitation rights over parental objections. The Court upheld parental rights against statutory grandparent rights. The court found Meyer and Pierce controlling,
James Payne and his wife are the parents of twin nine-year old boys. The two boys attend a school in the Highline School District which is in the SeaTac-Burien area near Seattle. Mr. Payne retained the Law Office of Mark Knapp PLLC to write a letter to Holly Ferguson and the school board demanding that the District stop posting political propaganda in school hallways and classrooms. The District’s lawyers responded in writing with a December, 2022 letter refusing to remove posters allegedly promoting the transgender, LGBQT agenda. Mr. Payne also objected to Black Lives Matter posters and other material allegedly endorsing Communist figureheads like Che Guevara, a sociopath who killed and tortured many innocent Cuban people.
Highline School District claims that these signs do not violate parents’ and children’s civil rights by creating a hostile learning environment. Ms. Ferguson, who has a law degree and seems to be the chief diversity officer for the District, responded to one of Mr. Payne’s emails as follows:
“These signs are not considered “political” for the purposes of policy and procedure 4412. That policy is talking about “political activity” in the context of lobbying officials, or other overt political acts, such as campaigning.”
