Mariposa_Xochipilli's Blog

Is there anyone who is above being held accountable under the law? If there is, there are a few laws that needs to be changed ... a few 'sacred cows' that are infected with mad cow disease.

Let me set up a few parameters for this discussion. A 'goal' is the purpose for which a person takes action. 'Intent' is the means by which the goal is attained. I looked it up in the dictionary.

To relieve themselves of being held accountable, an educational wrongdoer hiding behind their position of public trust need only identify their 'goal' as meaning their 'intent' ... two very different concepts. The public and the media all too often take an educational professional at their word without verifying facts. It's the only time media freely makes that mistake. They wouldn't want to be considered anti-education ... which is how school districts misrepresent and discredit anyone who tries to hold them accountable under the laws of this great nation.

That wasn't my intention' ... yes it was if the actions taken meant the goal was acheived. Their goal might be to intimidate parents into forfeiting protections under the law ... but their intent is to accomplish that via whatever means are at their disposal. Defaming a person's character and detroying a person's good name are ways school districts 'intentionally' acheive their goal of not having to be held accountable under the law.

The current form of what started out as the Espionage Act of 1917 (18USC2388) states in part ...

(a) "Whoever when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports or false statements with the intent to interfere with the operation or the success of the military or naval forces of the United States ... or,

Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States ...

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(b) If two or more persons conspire to violate subsection (a) of this section and one or more of such persons do act to affect the object of this conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall shall be punished as provided in said subsection (a)."

Subsection (c) deals with concealing someone or that someone has violated this law, with the punishment of a fine, ten years imprisonment, or both.

Subsection (d) establishes the validity of the law under maritime situations.

An admistrator with the Jordan School District initiated an action which caused my husband to need to refuse duty in Kuwait after 9/11. Do you know what it was like telling the Commander, who called our home from the field, that he would not be getting his communications sergeant back ... or the effect that loss had on the mission and the soldiers left behind?

This same administrator was told in a taped meeting that my husband would lose both his military jobs (our only sources of income) if he had to refuse deployment and return home. The following month we met with this person and the school principal to spell out the negative effect the district doing that again would have on the success of the mission and the safety of the soldiers. The two administrators waited until two days after it had been covered on the news that the unit deployed, thinking my husband had already left, arranged for me to be at school and told the resource officer I was there criminally trespassing. They knew my husband would have to refuse duty in Afghanistan to return home. Besides violation of 18USC2388, this would be entrapment ... a crime, not educational intervention as they claim.

Their goal might have been to intimidate and bully me into forfeiting my rights, but their intent was to accomplish that by willfully attempting to cause refusal of duty in time of war.

These same two adminstrators then fabricated, altered and manipulated documentation ... making and conveying false statements ... so they could have malicious criminal charges their own documentation proved were bogus filed and pursued at taxpayer expense knowing that if my husband received orders to join his unit, he would have to refuse duty.

To further willfully attempt to cause refusal of duty should he be called, the first administrator instructed a subordinate to write a letter containing false statements that would have put me out of compliance with a plea in abeyance she was lead to believe I was going to accept. Another subordinate documented that the letter was written on the day the plea was offered (five months after the alleged offense had been committed) and that the letter was held for additional weeks until the date on which I was supposed to have accepted the offered plea. With me wrongfully imprisoned for contempt of court - since courts and media professionals never independently check information school districts give them to see if districts are conveying false reports, my husband would immediately be have been caused to refuse duty.

I wish I knew how to post those, and other, documents. The district might be bound by privacy laws, but FERPA puts no such restrictions on parents (or anyone else, including media) who legally access the files.

And it would be nice if the State's top cop, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, hadn't been willing to abdicate his responsibilities to the citizens of Utah who elected him by writing a letter that stated it isn't his job to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by school districts.

But then, it would also be nice if Jordan School District's compliance officer and superintendent wouldn't enable their peers to hide behind positions of public trust with the school district and investigate when a parent brings them documents and allegations of wrongdoing.

Isn't that why the principal from the school that had the pedophile teacher is under charges and being defended by an attorney that is being paid with money given by the legislature to go to students in classrooms?

It seems as if the few corrupt members of the Jordan School District hiding behind their district positions are above the law no matter which way you turn ... parents who  have to take on the oversight roles intended for the USOE and AG are NOT the ones who are anti-education in this scenario.

The statute of limitations for violation of 18USC2388  is ten years. That leaves six years in which justice can be served and at least the one person most responsible can be held accountable.