Fighting Government Overreach Through Parental Rights, Legislative Awareness, and Medical Freedom

On this February 23, 2023 broadcast, Kim Monson examines the ongoing battle between freedom and force through conversations with Colorado State Representative Liza Frizell on harmful business legislation, education advocate Lori Gimelshteyn on the growing parental rights movement, and Dr. Rachel Corbett on the psychological tactics used to manipulate public behavior during the COVID era.

Protecting Small Businesses from Overreaching Labor Regulations

Start listening at 20:51 – Hour 1

Liza Frizell, Colorado House Representative for District 25 representing Castle Rock, joins Kim to discuss House Bill 23-1118, the predictive scheduling bill that would devastate Colorado’s small businesses. As a freshman legislator and former Douglas County Assessor, Frizell describes her experience serving on five committees including Business Affairs, where she heard over six hours of testimony on this proposed legislation.

The bill would require employers to provide work schedules two weeks in advance and pay employees even when schedules change due to weather or other circumstances. Local restaurant owners from establishments like Fam’s Number Threes and Los Dos Portillos testified that the measure could put them out of business. Frizell notes that the restaurant industry is still recovering from COVID-related shutdowns and cannot absorb such draconian mandates.

The representative reveals that much of the support for this bill comes from unionized Starbucks employees in Denver who are unhappy with unintended consequences of their own unionization efforts. She expresses concern about how the Democrat caucus pressures members to vote in lockstep, though she remains hopeful the bill will die in committee.

“We heard that a lot. It’s interesting. The people, I think you could easily call this the Starbucks and union bill, because a lot of the testimony that we heard was from very disappointed and upset Starbucks employees from Denver where they have unionized some of their stores.”

Liza Frizell, Colorado House Representative, District 25

Parents Organizing Statewide to Reclaim Education

Start listening at 35:06 – Hour 1

Lori Gimelshteyn, co-founder of the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network (CPAN), shares the remarkable growth of the parental rights movement across Colorado. Since launching in November 2022, CPAN has organized 38 grassroots groups across different school districts with a goal of establishing parent advocacy organizations in all 178 public school districts statewide.

Gimelshteyn explains how her journey began as a Cherry Creek School District parent who discovered that school board policies were being routinely violated as controversial curriculum infiltrated classrooms. Her efforts to address concerns through proper channels were repeatedly dismissed, leading her to organize with other parents. CPAN now has a network of over 125 educators within Cherry Creek alone who want to return to teaching academics rather than ideology.

The organization has gained national attention, with recent coverage in the Epoch Times highlighting their work opposing House Bill 23-1003, a mental health bill that would allow third-party government providers access to children’s personal mental health information. Disturbingly, the bill would permit 12-year-olds to opt back into assessments even if parents have opted them out. Gimelshteyn encourages parents to visit coloradoparents.org and attend the upcoming Power to the Parents event co-hosted with FreedomWorks.

“What I came to find during my research was that school board policy was being violated every day, very controversial issues being taught in the schools.”

Lori Gimelshteyn, Co-founder, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network

Understanding the Psychological Warfare Behind Public Health Mandates

Start listening at 69:27 – Hour 2

Dr. Rachel Corbett from Roots Medical returns to continue the conversation about neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and psychological manipulation tactics used during the COVID pandemic. As a trained NLP practitioner and member of PANDA, an international group with a psychological operations research arm, Dr. Corbett explains the mechanisms that prevented people from seeing the truth about vaccine injuries and government overreach.

She outlines several psychological concepts including willful blindness, where people refuse to see uncomfortable realities, and cognitive dissonance, where individuals discredit or dismiss information that conflicts with their values. Dr. Corbett explains that people who vaccinated their children will never acknowledge potential harm because doing so would mean accepting they hurt their own children. She also discusses terror management, noting that using fear of death to motivate behavior is considered one of the most immoral manipulation techniques because fear shuts down the brain’s capacity for logical thinking.

Dr. Corbett shares her personal experience of being terminated from a large medical institution for refusing vaccination and receiving an email stating they needed 100% vaccination rates to secure federal funding. She emphasizes that understanding these psychological tactics is essential for defending against future manipulation attempts and encourages listeners to visit reachingpeople.net for resources on helping others see through the propaganda.

“Coercion is never okay. Coercion is never okay when it comes to dealing with people’s health.”

Dr. Rachel Corbett, Roots Medical