Posted on 02/23/2018 8:14:05 AM PST by TomServo
Edited on 02/23/2018 8:15:57 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
After enduring days of online vilification, Florida school shooting survivor David Hogg said he bears no grudge against the social media companies whose platforms surfaced and circulated false allegations that he was a
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Wow! Cameron sure appears to be the next school shooter. FBI and LEOs are spraining their necks trying to look the other way, no doubt.
I’m a “survivor” of 911 because it happened in America and I watched it on TV.
“He didn’t kill his friends.”
Maybe not directly. I expect he was a master of bullying and ridicule to Cruz and others like them. And now he’s a master opportinist and attention whore.
A few years earlier, at the conclusion of the War, General Washington had put his thoughts on the Common Defence into a May 2, 1783 draft to Alexander Hamilton, entitled Sentiments On A Peace Establishment:
...to prove ...the Policy and expediency of resting the protection of the Country on a respectable and well established Militia, we might not only shew the propriety ...from our peculiar local situation, but we might have recourse to the Histories of Greece and Rome in their most virtuous and Patriotic ages.... we might see, with admiration, the Freedom and Independence of Switzerland supported for Centuries, in the midst of powerful and jealous neighbors, by means of a hardy and well organized Militia. ...
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice...
The following month, June 8, 1783, Washington reported to the States, in surrendering the solemn trust of his command:
The Militia of this Country must be considered as the Palladium of our security, and the first effectual resort in case of hostility...
Washington's reference to the Swiss was quite revealing. Trained, as school boys, in the safe, correct and deadly accurate use of arms, the Swiss had and have managed to maintain an armed neutrality for generations amidst their more warlike, but less war efficient neighbors. While world travelers have reported for generations that Switzerland, where every household has its own military grade weapons, has the lowest crime rate in Europe. The Swiss have also managed to preserve the diverse rights of their 22 Cantons (or States) better than any other Federation in the world.
Yet perhaps the single most important reason why Washington wanted America to adopt the Swiss system, is that it teaches the youth--in the most immediate and compelling manner--the importance of that level of personal responsibility on which all of our other institutions are based. It gives youth a sense of purpose, importance and self-worth, for which all the words expended by "Liberal" theorists, from the Creation to this day, are no substitute.
I agree. My sympathy is with the victims. And all this nonsense that somebody lied about Hogg - big deal.
Yes, am I a cancer survivor because I’ve had friends and relatives die from it?
Do you have any proof David Hogg ever bullied anybody? Has anyone accused him of bullying any other student? What do they call accusations that aren’t true?
Step up like a man, get punched like a man....
He chose to step into the arena.
Wow. What a wonderful individual. (/s)
See my lengthy post on that point from yesterday.
-PJ
That’s one of the kids who appeared on the CNN town hall.
I’ll wager no one there had to rewrite his questions.
Spot on...
Do you not know the definition of “expect”?
When you make yourself a public figure you are inviting all comments and opinions, that’s life. And if you happen to be a lying sack of excrement you have to expect that people will naturally point that out.
He’s a very strange kid. I wonder if he has guns. You can get a lot of attention shooting up people. He’s an attention whore.
Poor, poor Hogg.
It’s all about Hogg, isn’t it?
This attention-seeking crisis actor must comment on how untrue it is that he is a crisis actor but, hey, he still gets attention for it, right? He can’t even help but say it.
While some truly mourn the tragedy and loss of what happened, it is obvious that Hogg, just like other members of the enemedia, can hardly contain how giddy he is over these needless deaths.
Hogg makes the Nightcrawler look like a piker.
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