Parental Rights Under Attack as Fluoride Ruling Exposes Public Health Failures

On October 24, 2024, Carolyn Martin, Peter Bernegger, and Pam Long joined the show. Martin warned that Amendment 80’s language grants children independent rights to school choice, creating a constitutional framework that could undermine parental authority when conflicts arise Bernegger presented evidence of tens of thousands of inaccurate voter records in Colorado and announced an imminent lawsuit against the Secretary of State for failing.

Amendment 80’s Hidden Dangers to Parental Rights

Start listening at 16:41 – Hour 1

Carolyn Martin, government relations director for Christian Home Educators of Colorado, sounded the alarm on Amendment 80, the so-called school choice ballot measure. While the initiative sounds appealing on the surface, Martin warned that its specific language grants rights directly to children rather than parents, creating a dangerous constitutional precedent.

The amendment’s text states that each K-12 child has the right to school choice, separate from parental authority. Martin explained that this framework mirrors Marxist ideology aimed at separating children from parental guidance. She noted that law professors teaching the next generation of judges increasingly view parental rights as government-conferred rather than God-given, making constitutional language granting children independent rights particularly dangerous.

“It’s when you start giving children the right to a quality education and the right to school choice that it runs into problems for me, because of what we’re seeing across the nation and the world with this idea of giving children rights, where the state needs to then come in and be the arbiter between the child and the parent.”

Carolyn Martin, Government Relations Director, Christian Home Educators of Colorado

Tens of Thousands of Dirty Voter Records Exposed

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Peter Bernegger, founder of the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, revealed that Colorado’s voter rolls contain tens of thousands of inaccurate records despite the state’s claims of clean data. His organization ran the statewide voter list through multiple databases, including US Postal Service records, and found widespread problems.

Citizens flooded Bernegger’s team with photos of ballots mailed to former residents, some who moved out of state years ago. One case involved a person receiving ballots for someone who left Colorado for Wyoming nine years prior. Another showed Jefferson County continuing to mail ballots to a voter who moved to Oregon in 2007 despite the mother’s repeated notifications. Bernegger announced that a lawsuit against Colorado’s Secretary of State would proceed after the office failed to respond to their National Voter Registration Act letter.

“We’re talking tens of thousands, tens of thousands dirty on the voter list that should not be receiving ballots and at the minimum should be investigated and see what’s going on before a ballot is sent to them. So it could easily flip elections when they’re so close many of the times.”

Peter Bernegger, Founder, Wisconsin Center for Election Justice

Federal Court Rules Fluoride Poses Unreasonable Risk to Children

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Pam Long, former Army captain and West Point graduate who directs the Children’s Health Defense Military Chapter, explained the historic September 2024 federal court ruling that found water fluoridation poses unreasonable risks to children’s brain development. The seven-year legal battle produced a 300-page document of evidence from top toxicologists demonstrating that fluoride at current levels can lower children’s IQ by three to seven points.

Long traced fluoridation’s origins to the 1940s and 1950s when the aluminum industry rebranded its toxic byproduct as beneficial for dental health. She highlighted Dr. Linda Birnbaum, a 40-year veteran of federal health agencies, who reversed her career-long position after the lawsuit’s evidence became undeniable. Despite this ruling, Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment immediately announced it would maintain current fluoridation levels, claiming cavities remain the leading chronic health issue for children, a claim Long called preposterous given autism rates of one in 36 children.

“It’s forced medicine where it says, you know, an industry decided that everyone benefits from fluoride, But the choice, personal choice on your health and what drugs you want in your body should always prevail.”

Pam Long, Director, Children’s Health Defense Military Chapter