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Two members of Mom's for Liberty visited a Florida sheriff's office; prepare to be horrified. [1]

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Date: 2023-11-06  

I would hate for anybody to share the videos below and make Tom Gurski and Jennifer Tapley go viral. The two book-banning far-right fascists walked into the Santa Rosa County sheriff’s office and unveiled a fantasy book by Jennifer Armentrout titled Storm and Fury. Reporting the book as bad as Playboy and is a “crime,” the two requested anonymity.

The YA book centers around an 18-year-old heroine who is losing her vision but can see and talk to ghosts and spirits. To keep her abilities hidden from demons and protect humankind, gargoyle shape-shifters guard her in an isolated compound.

According to Judd Jegum, who broke the story on Twitter, Gurski and Tapley have reported several librarians on the book banning law that Rod Desantis implemented in Florida.

Judd Legum obtained the video and posted it. His thread is very revealing on these two busybodies.

If you don’t tweet, note that the full video on YouTube is embedded below.

x 1. Two members of @Moms4Liberty have reported several Florida librarians to law enforcement, claiming the librarians committed felonies by distributing pornography to minors.



Popular Information obtained the video from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.



WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Korty5aoVs — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 6, 2023

Of course, Ron DeSantis enabled these two to control what children could read in school in the State of Florida. I am so happy DeSantis will never be President.

From The Guardian

Now, Mogul is prominent among the growing number of students and parents in Miami-Dade county and across Florida who are speaking out in opposition to book challenges, the capture of Florida school boards by conservative activists and this summer’s latest policy changes, which includes the expansion of DeSantis’s Parental Rights in Education Act. That backlash has increased with the governor’s recent appointment of Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich to the state ethics commission, despite having no relevant experience. The appointment grants Descovich even more power to target her political opponents and demonstrates the influence of Moms for Liberty on Florida’s policymakers. The Parental Rights in Education Act and the Stop Woke Act have led to students being barred from taking some college-prep courses that are still available elsewhere in the country (most notably African American studies and Psychology), which jeopardizes scholarship and admissions requirements.

The Daily Beast fills in some details:

Two Florida members of the right-wing Moms for Liberty group called police on a pair of school librarians over a book in a bestselling young adult fantasy series. “I’ve got some evidence a crime was committed,” said Jennifer Tapley, a member of the group’s Santa Rosa County chapter, in an Oct. 25 phone call to a local sheriff’s office. “Pornography given to a minor in a school. And I would like to make a report with somebody and turn over the evidence.” The novel in question was Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout, according to the Substack Popular Information, which obtained audio of the call and body-cam footage of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office response. Tapley told cops that a 17-year-old “minor” had checked out the book from Jay High School. Armentrout told Popular Information she was stunned to learn that the country is “living in an era where, apparently, some adults find it appropriate to contact the police over a fictional book involving gargoyles.”

The full video in all its infamy can be seen below.

Meet Vicki Baggett:

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