Stage prop Aalayah Eastmond, token circus exhibit.
Posted on 09/07/2018 12:54:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Aalayah Eastmond, a survivor of the February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Friday offered harrowing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the final day of the hearing on the nomination of President Trump Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh.
She expressed concern about Kavanaugh's views on guns, noting that she thinks he would strike down any assault weapons ban. She urged the committee to appoint a judge who will keep Americans safe from gun violence.
She told the committee in grave detail about the day a gunman opened fire in the classroom she was in and how she used the body of a classmate who had been shot to shield herself from the bullets.
“I followed every movement of his body,” she said. “When he fell over, I fell over with him. I then placed myself underneath his lifeless body. Placing his arm across my body and my head underneath his back. Bullets continued flying.”
She also slammed Kavanaugh over reports that he refused to shake the hand of a slain classmate’s father earlier in the week.
“If Kavanaugh doesn’t even have the decency to shake hands with the father of a victim, he definitely won’t have the decency to make life-changing decisions that affect real people,” she said.
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the Parkland shooting, has accused Kavanaugh of refusing to shake his hand when he tried to introduce himself to the nominee on Tuesday.
The White House pushed back on that account, saying security intervened, but Guttenberg has said he's certain Kavanaugh asked his security detail to remove him from the hearing room.
Stage prop Aalayah Eastmond, token circus exhibit.
It needs to be completely and totally destroyed in every possible way.
Why did she do this and why did Obama mention the Parkland kids in his little speech today? Coincidence, not.
“If Kavanaugh doesn’t even have the decency to shake hands with the father of a victim...”
These people are beneath contempt. The talking point about Kavanaugh not shaking the dad’s hand was certainly written weeks ago. I suppose it ended up being impractical to dig up the actual dead girl and try to get the judge to shake the hand of her corpse.
I wonder how the experiences of the past week might shape Kananaugh’s perspective on some of these issues?
Six-shot revolvers are fairly easy to make.
Guns, like recreational drugs, are not going to be eliminated.
To not get shot, be nice.
Every high school student should be well educated, and not bullied.
Because what else have they got?
That's not how it works. I'd give her an "F" in Civics.
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The committee doe not appoint.
The President appoints.
The Senate confirms.
Our education system produces idiots.
Pitiful
Like Hoggie, another Useful Idiot
Another political prop
But Mollie Tibbetts, oh no, you can’t say that
i believe there are 28 speakers.
The hand was not offered in friendship.
If Kavanaugh was not to uphold Amendment II, Amendment XIV might not be inviolate.
Kavanaugh’s future job is to uphold the Constitution and all the Amendments still legally in it.
Would you expect less?
That is not germane.
She’s quite the Qualified Witness, huh?
Who skooled her for this? The fbi? Sheriff Israel?
There isn’t one. Besides security stepped between the two men.
What about pointed sticks?
LOL! I’m sure this stupid stunt is going to change the minds of every Republican listening. Democrats are stupid. Just plain stupid.
Why not? I've read that Jesse Jackson dipped his shirt and hands in the blood of the lamb when Martin Luther King was assassinated to raise his cred.
If I've been misinformed, I'll entertain correction.
The witness has 1% of the mental knowledge of the Judge, but about equal to the Dem Senators.
She’s just there to add color commentary to Feinstein’s claim of hundreds of mass shootings with assault rifles.
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