Military Accountability and Protecting Children from Online Predators

On January 22, 2024, Brad Miller, Lori Gimelshteyn, and Robin Paterson joined the show. Former Army Lt Colorado Parents Advocacy Network co-founder reveals how commercial database vendors embed obscene content in curated educational collections, and describes coordinated resistance from school boards when parents raise concerns Founder of Pornography Is Not Education describes discovering obscene content and Pornhub links in Cherry Creek School District databases.

Demanding Accountability for Unlawful Military Vaccine Mandates

Start listening at 31:24 – Hour 1

Brad Miller, a former Lieutenant Colonel and battalion commander in the 101st Airborne Division, breaks down the Declaration of Military Accountability signed by 231 active and retired service members. The open letter calls for military leaders to face consequences for enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates that Miller argues were clearly unlawful from the start.

Miller explains the legal foundation of their challenge: the mandate required a fully FDA-approved product, but when the mandate took effect in August 2021, no such product existed in the United States. The FDA approved Comirnaty on August 23, 2021, but Miller calls it a “ghost product” that was never actually available. The Department of Defense then claimed Comirnaty was interchangeable with existing emergency use authorization products, a position Miller says violated federal law.

The declaration has generated significant momentum, with over 22,000 Americans signing an associated petition at militaryaccountability.com. Miller emphasizes that those who refused the mandate demonstrated the courage that senior military leaders lacked. He warns that if Americans want to destroy the United States, they must first destroy the military, not just for its power, but because the military embodies the cultural ethos of America.

“I will tell you that if there are people out there who want to destroy the United States, they’re going to have to destroy the military to do it. Now, one reason is just because of the might and the power of the military, but there’s something far more sinister at play as well, and that is the cultural ethos of America, to some degree, has found itself most valiantly embodied in the military.”

Brad Miller, Former Lt. Col., U.S. Army

Uncovering Pornography in School Library Databases

Start listening at 70:14 – Hour 2

Lori Gimelshteyn, co-founder of Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, and Robin Paterson, founder of Pornography Is Not Education, expose a disturbing reality hidden from most parents: commercial database vendors like EBSCO and Gale embed obscene content, adult advertisements, and even hyperlinks to hardcore pornography websites within educational resources marketed to schools.

Paterson, who first discovered the problem in Cherry Creek School District in 2016, explains that these curated collections differ fundamentally from open internet access. Under the guise of scholarly articles, children conducting innocent searches on topics like race relations encounter explicit content including detailed descriptions of BDSM practices, erotic stories, and monetized links to Pornhub. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, led by the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice obscenity unit, placed EBSCO on its “dirty dozen” list after reviewing the evidence.

Gimelshteyn describes the coordinated resistance parents face when raising concerns. At a January 8, 2024 Cherry Creek School Board meeting, officials muted a speaker’s microphone when he attempted to read aloud from materials available to students, claiming his reading needed to be “appropriate for K-12.” The irony, both advocates note, is that the district considers the content inappropriate to hear at a public meeting but allows children unrestricted access through school-issued devices.

“The parents are given a different password than the child is given. And when we finally used our child’s password, we found all kinds of things in the electronic school portal, including surveys, these so-called databases, which are like the digital encyclopedias, and e-book platforms and websites and things of that nature that I think that parents don’t realize they can’t see those things if they sign in with a parent password.”

Robin Paterson, Founder, Pornography Is Not Education

“There is a huge difference between access to the Internet or Google search and curated content. So this is a collection of materials under the guise of scholarly articles that are leading our children within moments, very innocent searches into online dating apps, chat rooms, leading to sex toy advertisements and content that is so upsetting and appalling and absolutely violates our Colorado Revised Statute 18-7-108 on obscenity.”

Lori Gimelshteyn, Co-founder, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network