Disrupters Twice Disrupt Anchorage School Board Meeting
Well, we survived another Anchorage School Board meeting. Last night's meeting had its dramatic moments for sure — but once again, nearly a year and a half into a global pandemic that has stricken over 623,000 American lives — sane, reasonable individuals are inexplicably forced to endure lies about COVID-19, mask-wearing, and vaccines.
Anchorage residents Dustin Darden and Nial Sherwood Williams each disrupted last evening's school board meeting. At the meeting, Williams alleged board members had violated the Nuremberg Code and were subject to arrest for child abuse when the school district adopted a Universal Mask mandate in light of an increasing number of COVID-19 cases being reported across the Municipality of Anchorage.
Williams is the listed director, president, treasurer, and vice president of 1776 Alaska, a registered non-profit in the State of Alaska whose website has not worked for some time.
Williams ran for a seat on the Anchorage School Board this past year, writing in a questionnaire that he sought to "eliminate the Planned Parenthood slaughter clinics from our district and stop the propagandizing of our children against the will of the parents" and that he would eliminate sexual education, transgender training, and anti-racism training. Williams wrote that he would replace those items with mandatory classes about the Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution, and the Alaska State Constitution.
Williams has frequently said that he opposes mandating mask-wearing.
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Last week, Williams was escorted out of an Anchorage Assembly meeting by police officers for causing an actual disturbance in the Assembly chambers. The incident was recorded by a member of the public who had attended the assembly meeting.
Dustin Darden, also a listed director of 1776 Alaska, attempted to testify at last night's school board meeting with a shirt pulled over his head — claiming the shirt was his face covering. When asked to remove the shirt from his head (I can't believe I'm typing this) and to put a required mask on, Darden refused and left the meeting.
Darden, who suffered the same fate as Mr. Williams, was also removed from last week's meeting after creating an actual disturbance in the Assembly chambers.
Darden has been somewhat active in local politics, raising over $2,000 six months ago to recall Progressive Assembly Members Austin Quinn-Davidson and Kameron Perez-Verdia. No such recall efforts have materialized.
Darden also raised $2,376 in a separate GoFundMe campaign earlier this year. He sought to fill the non-vacant seat of Quinn-Davidson, who became acting mayor after the resignation of former mayor Ethan Berkowitz.
In recent weeks, social media commentators have decried the frequent disturbances at public meetings, with some saying they waste meeting time and others claiming the two have "frightened little kids."
