Protective Parents of Texas:
Beware of Rinos
By
James Scott Trimm
The leaders of Protective Parents of Texas
(PPT) are fully entrenched in the Tarranat County Republican Party. In fact PPT founder, Jennifer Olson, is a
Tarrant County Republican Party Precinct Chair, and three other Tarrant County
Precinct Chairs (Marie Howard, Debbie Logsdon and Donna Tribunella (AKA Donna
Anderson) are closely associated with
PPT. But does that really mean PPT is a
Republican group?
Tarrant County’s Rino Infestation
Texas is red and Tarrant County is
red. Texas is so red that no Democrat
has won a statewide election in Texas
since 1994! And no Democrat has
won a Countywide office in Tarrant County since 1994 as well!
If you want to win a countywide election in
Tarrant County, you don’t run as a Democrat, you run as a Republican,
regardless of what your core principles actually are.
If you are a Democrat at heart, and you
want to have an influence in Tarrant County elections, you vote in the
Republican primary. This is because if
you vote in the Democrat primary, you will only be voting on who will be the
token Democrat to lose in the general election. The same can be said for red House Districts, red Judicial
Precincts etc. within Tarrant County.
And if you want to actually influence
politics in Tarrant County, you don’t do it thru the Tarrant County Democratic
Party, especially if you live in a red House District and/or red Judicial
Precinct in the county.
The result of this is that people who are
Democrats at heart run as Republicans, vote in Republican primaries (for the
least conservative choice) and even get deeply involved in the Tarrant County
Republican party, even acting as precinct chairs and convention delegates.
Because of this we have an extreme
“RINO” (Republican in Name Only) infestation in Tarrant County.
So how do you know a RINO? They key is that they reject the core
philosophy of the Republican Party.
Core Philosophy of the Republican Party
The core philosophy of the Republican party
is limited government and personal freedom.
Along with this core value is support for the Judeo-Christian values
that made America great, especially “family values”. If a person truly holds to these core values, they will naturally
shape his or her views on a whole host of issues, and they will have consistent
positions on those issues, in keeping with this core philosophy.
Core Philosophy of Democrats
It is hard to say that there is truly a
core philosophy driving the Democratic Party.
The Democrats are largely an uneasy coalition of various groups that
have a pet peeve issue, about which they want government to step in and solve
that problem through government regulation.
The pet peeve issues that drive Democrats
to want powerful “fix it” government different and even at time conflict. Some of them want the government to “save”
the environment. Some of them want the
government to protect animal “rights”.
Some of them want the government to redistribute wealth and guarantee
“social justice.” Some of them want the government to regulate “big business”
in support of labor unions. Some want
the government to control religion and force people to approve of homosexuality
etc.
As I said, their interests often do not
align. The lumberjack union may come
into conflict with the movement to save the spotted owl. So while they are an uneasy coalition, the
common factor is that they have a pet issue that they want big government to
fix.
The Texas Republican Platform
So now that we understand that the heart of
the underlying root philosophy of the Republican party is limited government,
personal freedom and strong family values, lets look at how these core
principles have shaped the Texas Republican Party Platform.
The Current Texas Republican Party Platform
is the 2016 platform. Let us look at
what this platform says about key issues like the sovereignty of the family,
judicial restraint, parental rights, Texas state sovereignty and the involvement
of the Federal Government in matters of Texas Family Law.
These issues spring directly from the core
principles of the Texas Republican Party, as the Preamble to the 2016 Texas
Republican Platform says, “If we fail to maintain our sovereignty, we risk
losing the freedom to live these ideals.”
“These ideals” being the principles and planks laid out in the platform.
Moreover the 3rd and 4th Party Principles
laid out in the Platform state that “these ideals” include:
3. Preserving American and Texas
sovereignty and freedom.
4. Limiting government power to those items
enumerated in the United States and Texas Constitutions.
The Texas Republican Party principle of
limited government and personal freedom is very much the root of the plank on
“The Rights of a Sovereign People” plank which states, among other things, the
Texas GOP position that the state is not sovereign over the family:
The Rights of a Sovereign People- The
Republican Party of Texas supports the historic concept, established by our
nation’s founders, of limited civil government jurisdiction under the natural
laws of God, and we oppose the humanistic doctrine that the state is sovereign
over the affairs of men, the family, and the church. We believe that government
properly exists by the consent of the governed and must be restrained from
intruding into the freedoms of its citizens. The function of government is not
to grant rights, but to protect the unalienable, God given rights of life,
liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Texans should be free to
express their religious beliefs, including prayer, in public places.
(Plank 13)
The principle of limited government is also
the root of the plank on Judicial Restraint:
Judicial Restraint- We support adopting the
Constitutional Restoration Act and the principle of judicial restraint, which
requires judges to interpret and apply, rather than make the law. We support
judges who strictly interpret the law based on its original intent. We oppose
judges who assume legislative powers.
(Plank 53)
On Parental Rights the 2016 Texas
Republican Party Platform plainly states:
Parental Rights and Responsibilities-
Local, state, or federal laws, regulations, or policies that limit parental
rights in the rearing of both biological and adopted children shall not be
enacted. Parents have the God given right and responsibility to direct and
guide their children’s moral education.
(Plank 101)
Another important issue in the Texas
Republican Party Platform is Texas Sovereignty over the Federal
Government. The Tenth Amendment to the
US Constitution reads:
The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people
This means that the federal government does
not have any power that the states have not specifically delegated to the
federal government in the Constitution.
This is why our Texas Republican Party Platform boldly declares:
State Sovereignty- Federally mandated
legislation, which infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas, should be
ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified. Regulation of Commerce in Article I,
Section 8 of the Constitution has exceeded the original intent. All attempts by
the federal judiciary to rule in areas not expressly enumerated by the Untied States Constitution
should be likewise nullified. Any federal enforcement activities that do occur
in Texas should be conducted under the authority of the county sheriff.
(Plank 14)
This plank received a yes vote from more
than 89% of the convention delegates.
Nowhere in the Constitution do the states
delegate to the Federal Government the power to regulate families and family
law. The rights of states to regulate
family law issues is clearly an area of state sovereignty. Therefore on Federal involvement in Family Law
the Texas Republican Platform is very clear:
Family and Defense of Marriage- We support
the definition of marriage as a God-ordained, legal and moral commitment only
between one natural man and one natural woman.
§ We support withholding jurisdiction from
the federal courts in cases involving family law, especially any changes in the
definition of marriage.
§ We shall not recognize or grant to any
unmarried person the legal rights or status of a spouse, including granting
benefits by political subdivisions.
§ We urge the legislature to rescind
no-fault divorce laws and support covenant marriage.
(Plank 79)
PPT vs. the Texas Republican Party Platform
Now lets look at the Protective Parents of
Texas positions on these issues.
While the Texas Republican Platform
declares strong support for parental rights Protective Parents of Texas wants
big government that has more power to strip parents of their rights more
easily.
This has been very evident in their attacks
on Judge Haddock regarding the case of Leiliana Wright. They have actively attacked Judge Haddock
because she did not remove Leiliana from the custody of her mother, despite the
fact that both parents had agreed on custody in an out of court settlement, and
CPS was not petitioning to remove the child from the home.
Republicans do not believe in the doctrine
of a nanny state. We do not believe it
is not the function of government to prevent any bad thing from ever
happening. Tragic things happen in the
world, and the death of Leiliana was among the most tragic.
We do not want to exchange the sanctity of
parental rights for more security, even for children.
PPT's whole knee-jerk reaction has reminded
me of reactions to mass shootings in which the media and Democrats immediately
start using it as a talking point for gun control. I am also reminded of how much liberty and rights are stripped
from us with the excuse that it is “for the children.”
Yes, tragedy struck. But Judge Haddock was not at fault. The fact that tragedy occurs does not
automatically mean that the government should have prevented it. This is a dangerous world. But in the end it is a far better world if
we preserve liberty and the natural rights of parents.
In this case Judge Haddock signed off on an
out of court agreement entered into by the family, and the law required her to
do.
PPT has openly criticized the judge for
doing so. In effect, PPT wants a big
nanny state government which is sovereign over the family, and in which the
judge can strip a parent of their rights, even when the family has agreed out
of court and CPS has not petitioned to remove the child.
Since Texas law compels judges to sign onto
such out of court settlements, PPT’s criticism of Judge Haddock for following
the law, also indicates support for an activist judiciary that does not follow
the law. Likewise PPT has criticized Judge Wells for 325-371563-04 (Archer v Archer), another
case in which Judge Wells simply signed off on an out of court agreement by the
families.
While the Texas Republican Platform boldly
supports Texas Sovereignty and specifically stands against and Federal
involvement in Texas Family Law, Protective Parents of Texas has begun a
campaign calling upon the Federal Government to introduce “changes” and
“reforms” to Texas Family Law. In
recent posts, PPT has encouraged its readers to contact their Federal
legislators to ask the Federal Government to supersede the rights of Texans to
govern our own state:
Moreover PPT is organizing PPT advocates
for a future march on Washington D.C. to advocate for Federal intervention in
Texas Family Law:
In reaction to recent criticisms from this
blog that Family Law is not a federal issue, PPT posted “Some say this is not a
Federal Problem, we disagree.”:
This campaign by PPT to encourage the
Federal Legislature (or any other
branch of the Federal Government) to intervene in areas of Texas Family Law is
not only a violation of our Texas Republican Party Platform, but of the US
Constitution itself. Any efforts by
Congress, or any other branch of the Federal Government to regulate Texas
Family Law would be unconstitutional!
PPT’s Underlying Philosophy is Democrat
Protective Parents of Texas is not a
Republican Organization. They do not
believe in limited government and personal freedom. They do not hold to core Republican principles, and they do not
agree with key planks in the Texas Republican Party Platform concerning parents
rights, family sovereignty, judicial restraint, and Texas Sovereignty specifically
in regards to Texas Family Law.
PPT is a group with a pet peeve issue that
they want to be fixed by big government.
They do not hold to the core principles of the Texas Republican
Party. They are RINOS who hold to a
Democrat philosophy at heart. They are Democrats at heart.
Beware, Protective Parents of Texas is
working within the Republican Party of Texas and especially Tarrant County to
push forward an agenda that is at complete odds with the Republican Party of
Texas.
If you are a Republican candidate, this is
not a group you want endorsing you. If
you are a voter, beware of this group’s activities. Don’t be fooled by RINOS.
RELATED:
See more on the Lieliana Wright case in my
previous articles:
For more information on the Archer case in
Judge Wells’ court:
For more on Jennifer Olson:
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