US. Senator Harkin to follow George Miller’s Lead Announcing 2015 Retire

On January 26, 2013, Senator Harkin announced his intentions to retire from the Senate after completing his fifth term in 2015. For many, this retirement cannot come soon enough.

Senator Harkin is an example of a Senator who is completely out of touch with reality and the times. Case in point, he is responsible for introducing, misnamed legislation designed to make schools unsafe where police are called in to manage every disturbance.

Harkin should know the effect his proposed legislation will have as, Iowa experienced a 16% increase in youth incarceration as a result of the school to prison pipeline he is proposing.

The MO the Senator takes everytime he introduces this legislation is the same…. his staff contacts media. Anxious to suck up to a Senator, and be part of the DC in-crowd, the in-the-bag sycophant we-want-to-be-part-of-the-in-crowd media, manufactures a non-story relying on propagandist statements issued by political hacks.

The Senator and his staff are not without blame. Harkin and staff count on media not to fact check. That media is not doing its job is no excuse for a representative of the people to lie to the press telling them that there are no laws regarding the use of restraint. As the Senator and his staff well know because the law was given to them in submitted comments, there are many laws at the Federal and State level governing the use of restraint in schools.

Harkin’s proposed legislation is nothing more than a diversionary tactic intended to distract the public from the real threats and crises about to consume this country. Iraq is exploding, the world is going off the dollar and the Fed is saying it is tapering while having an agent in Belgium continue the QE program. The central banks have a 25:1 leverage exposure. There is no border security and the Feds are allowing an influx of immigrants to cross the border and be housed at military bases. The Feds is censoring information, and spying on everyone. With all undue respect, these are federal issues that the Senator should be concerning himself with.

Senator Harkin repeated introduction of legislation aimed at creating a school to prison pipeline has nothing to do with school safety and everything to do with his attempt to keep the public’s attention diverted from real issues, and make himself relevant in an era where his time has most definitely past.

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