{"id":12713,"date":"2012-02-23T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2012-02-23T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:53:12","slug":"%e2%80%98lunch-in%e2%80%99-protests-crackdown-on-homemade-lunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/02\/%e2%80%98lunch-in%e2%80%99-protests-crackdown-on-homemade-lunches.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lunch-In\u2019 Protests Crackdown on Homemade Lunches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Watchwoman:<\/span><\/strong> Michele Obama’s school food police placed in the cafeteria are giving a whole new meaning to “lunch-room bullies”.\u00a0 If your children are in public schools get them out!\u00a0 Public schools are not child\/family\/parent friendly. They are communist-Marxist-Socialist indoctrination centers based upon the first building block to mock Christianity and teach all to disregard godly morals, starting with the Ten Commandments.\u00a0 They will teach your children to hate you, disrespect you and rebel against all that you cherish as holy and righteous.\u00a0 If you want an anti-American, ungodly, amoral atheist in 12 years, keep them in the public government sewer system.\u00a0 This is so obvious, they are proving to your children that you are not even capable of feeding your own children.\u00a0 If you ever had any doubts, this should prove to you, beyond a shadow of a doubt what their evil agenda encompasses.\u00a0 Only government and authorities outside the family can take care of children.\u00a0 Parents are stupid.\u00a0 Children need government and big brother is the only one you can trust!\u00a0 Open your eyes parents!\u00a0 Stop being an ostrich with your heads in the sand!\u00a0 Wake up! Instead of these women saying “Hands off my turkey sandwich,” they should be screaming, “Hands off my parental authority!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” \u25ac Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By DANIEL HALPER<\/a><\/p>\n

The National Center for Public Policy Research hosted a \u201clunch-in\u201d today at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. The target of the protest? \u201c[F]ederal school nutrition guidelines that allegedly forced at least one student to forgo her mother\u2019s home-packed lunch in favor of chicken nuggets,\u201d a press release announcing today\u2019s event read.<\/p>\n

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The alleged lunch incident happened in North Carolina. \u201cA preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious,\u201d a local reporter wrote last week<\/a>. \u201cThe girl\u2019s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the person who was inspecting all lunch boxes in the More at Four classroom that day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story quickly became national news, causing outrage from those who say the government is waging war on lunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just sat down and had a nice lunch,\u201d protest organizer David Almasi says of today\u2019s protest. \u201cIt was our way of thumbing our nose at the federal regulators.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The location of today\u2019s protest \u201clunch-in,\u201d Freedom Plaza, is on land owned by the federal government, under the management of the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Seven people at today\u2019s \u201clunch-in,\u201d which consisted of turkey and cheese sandwiches, potato chips, apple juice boxes, and bananas. It is exactly the lunch that was reportedly taken away from the four-year-old schoolgirl in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven though my four-year-old and two-year-old will both be starting at public schools in a few months, I did not agree to let the government make every decision about how they are raised,\u201d Jennifer Biddison said in advance of attending this afternoon\u2019s \u201cseditious lunch,\u201d according to a press release. \u201cJust because I choose to let government schools teach my kids math and reading doesn\u2019t mean I want them to dictate other things such as how they will eat and how they will dress. I\u2019m quite content with the way I am raising them, and I ask the government to honor my choices in such family matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s \u201cprotest is part of The National Center for Public Policy Research\u2019s Occupy Occupy D.C.<\/a>\u2019 events at Freedom Plaza,\u201d a press release announced. \u201cThe National Center obtained a five-week permit from the U.S. Park Service that forces the Occupy D.C. encampment to share the park between February 12 and March 15.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More: http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/lunch-protests-crackdown-homemade-lunches_631809.html<\/p>\n

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