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Listen in to the Pinellas County Commission Meeting as two career tax milkers defend ignoring the will of the people so they can keep milking your taxpayer money.

Here's a letter I wrote to them on the subject :

Direction of Inquiry

• Commissioner Janet C. Long - District 1
• Commissioner Pat Gerard - District 2
• Commissioner Charlie Justice - District 3 (2021 Vice Chair)
• Commissioner Dave Eggers - District 4 (2021 Chair)
• Commissioner Karen Williams Seel - District 5
• Commissioner Kathleen Peters - District 6
• Commissioner René Flowers - District 7

Subject:  Please Stop Embarrassing Pinellas County

Message: am writing to you on behalf of an estimated 80,000 Pinellas County Residents that our various community activists groups represent, by asking you to temper the absurdity of your comments. There are videos now floating around regarding mostly Janet Long, but one also of Pat Gerard, demonstrating ignorance of the temperature of the voters and belittling those of what is likely a majority of Pinellas County Residents in favor of term limits. Our Pinellas County Commission is unfortunately a laughing stock and meme fodder simply based on the absurdity of your own sense of self importance.

The one and only time recently when term limits was put for a vote, an overwhelming percentage in excess of 70% of voters expressed that the ridiculousness of Ken Welch and Karen Seel milking the taxpayers for decades and millions of dollars should be limited to two or three terms maximum.

For Janet Long to infer that her election, as well as Justice's, when they won by a handful of votes in a county where there are 33,000 votes in question from that same election demonstrates an ideological blindness that alone is probably grounds for malfeasance and recall. If the populace summons the ire that would be appropriate for our own Marie Antoinettes, if given the chance today the vote to recall Long, Justice and Gerard would probably go with the same margins the last term limit vote went in Pinellas County.

It's probable that at least two of our sitting county commissioners were not duly elected. The minimum expected of you while you sit in our seats, soaking up our tax dollars, is that you respect the will of the people. That would include not pretending the majority of Pinellas County Residents are not in favor of term limits when in fact history shows that nearly eight out of every ten residents think Karen Seel should have been out of a job over a decade ago, had she and other ideologues not found a sympathetic judge to overturn the overwhelming popular vote.

Commissioners Justice and Long, not only were you NOT elected with a mandate, it's debatable whether or not you were even elected at all. There's an effort happening right now to audit the 2020 election, and if that were to happen fully it's likely you'd be retired before we have the chance to recall you or vote again. If the vote were held today, I can almost assure you the outcome would be the will of the people and a few of you would be unseated.

If you would like a presentation on the 2020 canvassing efforts under way in Pinellas County, let me know and I can have a representative of Defend Florida attend your upcoming meeting and let you know the reality of what is being certified via. affidavit in Pinellas County regarding the validity of the 2020 election. Since Julie Marcus won't do her job, there's a whole team of volunteers in Florida that are doing it for her.

Govern accordingly.

LEGAL AIKIDO !

Jeff J of the Florida Populist narrated version of  Attorney Jeff Childers successful  closing argument against City of Gainesville's vaccine mandate on their municipal employees.

Attorney Jeff Childers of ChildersLaw makes some brilliant and strong arguments which every American should read. " !

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/-coffee-and-covid-tuesday-september-c3b?fbclid=IwAR3jbouO9dM51tEkruPaWB0rfI7je82m-WikMWg9HZyDxKwOao59IhpoDXE

The case is

DARRIS FRIEND v. CITY OF GAINESVILLE

Case No. 01-2021-CA-2412

https://www.wuft.org/news/files/2021/09/Complaint-and-Petition-for-Emergency-Injunctive-Relief.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1tjcu1OAdiPKJIa_hlHyj3nQK5tI-zmzZiTK_97xYWHf6LbPK-kcACSOw

Here is the Judge's Order For The Injunction Against Gainesville

https://lc.org/PDFs/Attachments2PRsLAs/092321AlachuaCoOrderGrantingPlaintiffs'PetitionforTemporaryInjunction.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0jHWhCjlP1QL5mypXWBM2ohrAK7BytkD9tcmxOZQjL0iunTNBR1y-ZLXg

Attorney General Issues Memo to FBI, State Attorneys regarding school board meeting free speech

Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) questioned Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco about AG Merrick Garland's memo on school board meetings.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) questioned Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco about AG Merrick Garland's memo on school board meetings.

https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Part 1.  Why I'm filing an ethics complaint against Charlie Justice (for lying)

Part 2.  The Pinellas County Teachers Union Secret Survey

Part 3.  Masks are so 2020

Part 4.  Pinellas County raised your taxes again, because they're insatiable liberal swines

Here's some late breaking news EXCLUSIVELY from the Pirate Podcast on the Pinellas County School Board 

This is our second attempt to post it as the audio file was corrupted (or hacked) on the first attempt.  

We're going to take a detailed look at the church of CovidStan.  Is it science, or is it a cult?  When local social media pages pretend to provide COVID19 Information using doctors and mask fetish adherents, often they display the majority of qualities featured in a cult. Do they cross over at a minimum to misinformation?  Are they more harmful than helpful?  Lets look at the characteristics of a cult and see if we can better understand what we may be dealing with.  Real science uses the scientific method, but what is being promoted as blindly trusting "science" today has little resemblance to what science really is, and moreso represents blind alliegance to cult-like characters at the local, state and national level that put ideology over data in the interest of harnessing a harvest field of useful idiots towards a grander societal shift.  

This excerpt written by Janja Lalich and Michael D. Langone is from: Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships (Bay Tree Publishing, 2006). You can buy the book on Amazon.  

The group displays an excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.

• Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
• Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
• The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry—or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
• The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
• The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
• The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
• The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
• The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
• Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
• The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
• The group is preoccupied with making money.
• Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
• Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
• The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave—or even consider leaving—the group.

You can apply this to identity politics, radical liberal agendas for schools, academia, the media, planned parenthood radicalism, the current church of Faucian "science" and many other progressive movements.

1.  Dr. Rand Paul Demolishes Anthony Fauci, and we have the audio

2.  Moms for Liberty Florida Call to Action

3.  Neal Fox, award winning songwriter gives the Pirate Podcast permission to broadcast his new song "The Good In Us"

4.  Joe Biden Clears Up Everything 

5.  Pinellas County Schools Wants To Restrict Freedom of Speech

Come to the school board meeting Tuesday July 27th, 4:00PM in Largo, Florida

Pirate Podcast Endorses Stephanie Meyer for District 6 Pinellas County School Board

A candidate with traditional values, a school teacher, and a history expert with a masters in history, Ms. Meyer is coming along at the perfect time to advocate for children and we need her on the Pinellas County School Board.

Pinellas County School Board wants to suppress your free speech

Florida Department of Education, with thanks to Commissioner Richard Corcoran

Critical Race Theory and Teachers in Pinellas County that have pledged to BREAK THE LAW to teach racism

Pinellas County Commissioners Raid the Penny for Pinellas Account and then Increase Gas Taxes to Cover It 

Upcoming Meetings

Documentation, discovered by researchers, have uncovered materials that indicate that Critical Race Theory (CRT), masquerading as Culturally Relevant Teaching (CRT) is has not only arrived already into local classrooms, but is being promoted and encouraged throughout Pinellas County Schools.  On June 8th, Pinellas County School Board quietly approved through their consent agenda a CRT Czar to champion equity initiatives for implementation of their CRT curriculum.  It will be trained during a special teacher training workshop this summer, and then incentivised during the 2021/2022 school year with published CRT objectives and invecentives for staff and administration.  We're in possession of the materials, and in the process of relaying them to the State of Florida as the materials and implementation are seemingly at odds with Florida’s state Board of Education ban of “critical race theory” from public school classrooms Thursday, adopting new rules it said would shield schoolchildren from curricula that could “distort historical events.”

The new rules say classroom instruction “must be factual and objective, and may not suppress or distort significant historical events.” It goes on to mention the Holocaust, slavery and the Civil War, as well as the civil rights movement and the contributions of Blacks, Hispanics and women to the country.

But it also makes specific mention of “theories that distort historical events” that are inconsistent with board policy, including any teaching that denies the Holocaust or espouses critical race theory, which the new rules say asserts “that racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but that racism is embedded in American society and its legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons.”

The new rules also forbids use of the 1619 Project, a classroom program spawned by a New York Times project that focuses on teaching about slavery and African American history. The project’s name refers to the year popularly believed to be when slaves were first brought to colonial America.

With what has been revealed about the way that Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas County School Boards operate, do you trust them?

Do you trust their judgement?  Why do we continue to give them the benefit of the doubt, and pretend they are acting in the best interest of the children?  When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

• Bullying
• Critical Race Theory
• Gender Identity
• Planned Parenthood
• Sexual Education 
• Health Taskforce
• Curriculum Committee
• Parent Involvement
• Baker Act
• School To Prison Programs
• Equity vs. Equality

Don't leave anything to chance.  The next generation is depending on US to intercede for them.  

We wanted to see what all was available for voters interested in changing our local government, so Dave and Jeff J took a look at the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections website and discuss state, county, and local elections for 2022.  The information is rough, but interesting.

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You are starting to see a movement of people all across America fighting back against authoritarian governments at the city, county, state and federal levels.

Today in Tarpon Springs, Elijah and Ashley Durham filed suit against the CITY OF TARPON SPRINGS for a law Tarpon Springs created specifically and exclusively to harm their business and protect friends and family businesses from competition by the Durham's food truck.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

CITY OF TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA;

CHRIS ALAHOUZOS, Mayor of

Tarpon Springs, in his official capacity;

JACOB KARR, Vice-Mayor of

Tarpon Springs, in his official capacity;

TOWNSEND TARAPANI, Tarpon Springs

Commissioner, in his official capacity;

CONNOR DONOVAN, Tarpon Springs

Commissioner, in his official capacity; and

COSTA VATIKIOTIS, Tarpon Springs

Commissioner, in his official capacity,

Dave shares his thoughts after the May 11, 2021 Pinellas County School Board Meeting where 250+ people gathered to express their anger at the way the Pinellas County School Board operates.  Also, in a rare moment he may regret later, Dave admits he was WRONG about his uneducated opinion of State Representative Chris Latvala.  Also, this episode contains our first ever warning for younger ears.  Join us as we set sail on another edition of the Pirate Podcast.  

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. They are acting unlawfully so the voters should not be forced with a civil remedy for criminal actions. They are violating the law at the Pinellas County School System.  Governor Ron DeSantis, the Pinellas County School Board, Superintendent Dr. Grego, and School Board Attorney David Koperski are IGNORING your executive orders.  Is that how you will govern as president? You in charge of enforcing state law where are the local governments are violating state law. It’s not up to the people to enforce DeSantis executive orders. That’s not a recall situation. Should They be recalled? Yes. But there should be immediate state level intervention where local governments are using power to harm people and violating state executive orders. In so much is people couldn’t simply vote Hitler out of office, it’s not a reasonable expectation that we spend 90 days, thousands of hours, and thousands of dollars to get the local government to comply with state orders. They need to comply, or the state needs to intercede.  That's YOUR JOB, Governor DeSantis.

Never forget the names of the Pinellas county commissioners and the Pinellas county school board members that forced you and your children into wearing masks. As I see pictures of private events like footloose style junior and senior proms, never forget the names of the Pinellas County commissioners and Pinellas county school board members that forced things underground. Help us get rid of them all starting either with the recalls or with the 2022 elections. Never forget. Never forget their names.. Never forget the people that closed our beaches. Never forget the people that deemed our neighbors businesses unessential.. Never forget the names of the Pinellas county commissioners that voted for a tax increase during the pandemic.. Only Kathryn Peters voted against the property tax increase.  Never forget.  Never forget that while they were forcing these things on our community, they voted to abdicate their financial responsibility and give an unlimited checkbook to an unelected bureaucratic county administrator.  Never forget that children in the Pinellas County school system have worn a mask for 900 hours, and they laughed when they talked about extending that by 200 more hours to get through the rest of the school year. Never forget they wanted their audio of their meeting to be withheld from you and we had to send in a secret camera to get it.  Never forget their names.  Never forget the window of time we are in.  We have to fix this. We have to remedy this. We have to correct this for future generations. We have to get these people out of office.

The morning after... join Dave as he reflects on the Pinellas County School Board Meeting and the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners Meeting from April 27, 2021

If you want to see the Pinellas County School Board meeting in it's entirety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKhapi9Kdyg

And the Pinellas County Commission meeting 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDbU3HrDEao

On Tuesday April 14th, a first time speaker to the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners delivered an outline of an entire list of grievances against the commissioners as individuals, and as a governing body.  Let this list permeate how we move forward as a community towards reformation of how we are governed and who we are governed by.  

What do you do when the Pinellas County School Board Meeting decides to withhold audio of their workshop from the people?

You tune in to the Pirate Podcast, of course.  We have a bootleg copy of the meeting, and we're playing cuts of it for you right here.

You can also access the FULL video(s) on YouTube.  They love the masks.  They dismiss anyone that brings them science and data, if it's not confirmation bias.  

Listen to this, and join us at the Pinellas County School Board meeting on April 27, 2021.  

Join us as Dave talks about the book Words for Warriors by Sam Sorbo.  You can also listen in as Pinellas County Commissioners call you "liars" and "laughable."  Dave also talks about the upcoming National Day of Prayer, and his encounter with Pinellas County GOP Chairman Adam Ross.

Look forward to seeing some of you at the Gasparilla / Trumparilla Pirate Invasion on Saturday!  Enjoy this early release of the Pirate Podcast, as we'll be drinking grog Saturday on the high seas!

Pirate Podcast Takeover #3 with Debra Williams from PASHFreedom 

Welcome to PASH! We are parents, teachers, aunts, uncles, grandparents and citizens who advocate on behalf of choice for students, teachers and families in Pinellas County and surrounding districts. These "new norm" guidelines come with a lot of concerns for parents as well as issues with students regarding mandates and nonsensical new policies and procedures that are negatively impacting their development and mental, emotional and physical health. The purpose of this group is to stand for our children's health, well being and best interest and to fight for the health freedom of all, especially in schools, to connect and build community and a system of support with one another, to inspire and motivate and encourage one another, to share resources, educate ourselves, each other, and to press and address school board administration with our findings regarding these pressing topics. Thank you for being a part of this! You are not alone!

The PIRATE PODCAST MICROPHONE has been taken over my Michelle Stille from www.AskMichelleS.com

Michelle has been working with kids for 20 years.  She began as a camp counselor, then founded a tutoring program for at-risk youth while she was an engineering student at Georgia Tech, then homeschooled her own children, and then became a Florida certified teacher.  She has experience teaching in public school and Florida Virtual School.  Her own six children are in preschool, elementary, middle, and high school.  She has children in public school, private school, and home school.  Her current Florida teacher certifications are mathematics grades 6-12, mathematics grades 5-9, science grades 5-9, and exceptional student education grades K-12.

Michelle’s passion is helping other families reach their educational goals.  Listen in as she (and her kids) talk about education and student health freedom!

Happy Passion Week to all of our Pirate Podcast listeners. And may we be amongst the first to wish you a HAPPY EASTER!

Dave talks about all of the family favorite businesses that have helped him and his family survive the pandemic!

Is your favorite business on here?  We're NOT trying to find advertisers.  We're simply trying to recognize and support businesses that have supported us through the "Pandemic."  If you visit these businesses, please tell them you heard about them on the Pirate Podcast.  

Tiffany's Family Restaurant

SOL Burger Food Truck

Sky Zone Trampoline Park

Cosmic Donuts

Mugs Sports Bar and Grill

Johnnys Taphouse and Grill

Water Town Swim School in St Pete

Apps & Taps in Palm Harbor

Tarpon Springs Aquarium

Suncoast Gymnastics

Conservative Grounds

What can we learn from Todd Beamer and his famous "Let's Roll" action on 9-11?

We talk Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Israeli passengers standing together in solidarity, and a famous quote from Martin Niemöller

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Then we have one of the most important segments we've ever done, as historian Stephanie Meyer joins us to teach us about Critical Race Theory.  

Absentee fathers, this message is for you.  Pull your head out of your ass and take a stand on behalf of your kids.

Join us as we talk about US News and World Reports naming Florida schools #1 in the nation.  Dave also exposes the fact that you've signed away from of your parental rights to Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough schools and how you can get your parental rights restored. Join us as we set sail on another edition of the fastest growing media show in the Tampa Bay area. 

You can TALK BACK to the Pirate Podcast - click on the button at www.anchor.fm/piratepodcast to leave us a 1 minute audio recording.  We'd love to hear from you. Also, the resources mentioned in today's podcast can be reviewed at Facebook.com/PiratePod 

A rare mid-week release of the Pirate Podcast, but if you care about Pinellas County, have kids in the schools, or know anyone who lives or works in St. Petersburg, Florida you are going to want to IMMEDIATELY listen to this CALL TO ACTION.  Ladies and gentlemen, here's JEFF J from Tampa Bay.

Week 52 of 2 Weeks To Flatten The Curve

Coming up this weekend on the Pirate Podcast (the fastest growing media show in the Tampa Bay Region) we'll talk about

Introducing Pinellas County's own Marie Antoinette

Masks (of course)
The Naugty List of Pasco County Students
The 20% increase in utility fees in Hillsborough County

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About the Pirate Podcast :

Welcome to the radio show your overlords hoped we would never make. The Pirate Podcast is a Tampa, Florida based community and political activism show that was set sail by a group of local frustrated peasants that found themselves represented by local scalawag politicians. What started slowly as a grass roots movement began to organize into a group of friends with a common interest in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Welcome to the Pirate Podcast.

Welcome to the first ever edition of the Pirate Podcast!  Ye' Old David Happe hosts the Tampa based community activist radio show.  We invite you to leave us an anonymous comment at anchor.fm/piratepodcast.

On the first ever edition of the Pirate Podcast, Dave talks about cancel culture, the Gasparilla Pirate Invasion, facemasks, overreach, and activism.

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