12 year olds are being used as fodder by the evo-fascists to testify before the VT legislature because they have roughly the same intellectual capacity and knowledge base as most of the legislators to whom they are testifying.
Actually, the 12 year olds were smarter than the politicians.
By all accounts the Vermont legislators were entirely approving of the spectacle of sixth graders fed foie gras style, delivering their pavlovian inspired environmental gore-vomit on the marbled floors of the Vermont state house. Reid LeFrevre (sp), a man who knew his carnival charlatans, would not have been so compliant or tolerant, one hopes.