Posted on 01/22/2019 2:34:38 PM PST by grayboots
ver the course of the past 72 hours, students at Covington Catholic High School have been met with death threats, doxxing, and defamation. One video - taken completely out of context - has completely changed the lives of the boys of Covington Catholic.
They've been labeled racists and white supremacists - even baby bigots.
However, as this episode has played out, new videos have emerged, directly in conflict with the narrative of the mainstream media. It was not the students from Covington who approached the Native American. It was the Native American who approached the students from Covington. It was not the students from Covington who chanted "Build The Wall". It was, however, one of the Native Americans who told the students from Covington to "go back to Europe". It was not the students from Covington who instigated this fiasco. It was Native American activist, Nathan Phillips.
In their honor, and with the blessing of many parents and students at Covington Catholic, I have created this GoFundMe campaign - in honor of my newfound friends at Covington Catholic. This fund will be used to offset costs associated with the legal, public relations, and on the ground efforts of the #StandWithCovington campaign.
The Covington Boys didn't go to D.C. to become famous. They went to D.C. to March For Life - in support of the unborn.
So, with that being said, 50% of all money raised will be donated to Students For Life - the nation's largest youth pro-life organization.
I would love to donate especially for the legal costs. I will even use my REAL name: Kathy Griffin
On the other hand they also did this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUh7nlXn2k which doesn’t leave me well-disposed to that group
Thanks for posting!
This entire situation was instigated, and we saw the use of selectively edited video, to push a media narrative.
Why is there no talk of the black men who seem to have started this whole thing? Are they off limits because of being a special race?
And because some older Indian man bangs a drum, because of his special ethnic background, he too can not be criticized for his role in all of this?
This is a good example, of a situation in which we need to be skeptical of the media. Kids, white kids wearing MAGA hats, apparently were too juicy a target to avoid making their inane political statement.
I will give a couple bucks under my real name, Rachel Maddow!
As usual, you nailed it.
Ping.
JoMa
Bunch of clean cut Catholic white boys. More than plenty there for the left to hate on.
Its going up at about $100 per minute.
One jerk in the group says something stupid, so now the whole group is “pro-rape”?
It's good, but not good enough. We need a big response from people who hunger and thirst for justice.
Not directly connected to this GoFundMe, but related:
I sent a a carefully hotlinked letter to my own bishop (not Covington) outlining the whole situation: the initial hoax/libel, the resultant instant social media (and mainstream media) flailing, howling and screaming for blood; and the followup videos and reporting.
I said we should all learn from this, because the Bishop of Covington condemned (their word: condemned) the students' action --- without verifying what their "action" was: in fact it boiled down to Nick Sandmann standing there impassively, at one point smiling nervously, while Nathan Phillips stood there banging his drum in Nick's face.
I got a one-line e-mail reply from my Bishop saying "I think the Bishop has everything under control so I would advise no need for further letters to the Diocese. All the best. "
The Bishop of Covington "has everything under control." Doesn't that just tickle your innards.
The Bishop of Covington had committed the serious offense of calumny. He publicly condemned these boys, threatened punishment, and then 3 days later adding that they were going to "begin an investigation."
Right: first the accusation, then the verdict of guilty, then begin the investigation, right?
He doesn't need to "get everything under control." He needs to confess his jaw-dropping violation of justice toward these boys, admit he committed the grave sin of moral defamation against them, apologize to them in public, in the presence of their parents, the whole school, all his priests and the media, and make reparation for the way he damaged their reputations and their lives.
In the end,we will all face the same Judge.
Oh, dear.
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