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I am normally 100% in agreement with everything Daniel Greenfield writes, but I disagree with his sentiments to a degree.

I simply don’t think the human shields in this case should be left alone.

It doesn’t mean we have to have ad hominem attacks on them, because unlike real human shields, these “kids” have made a choice to enter this arena, and are doing so solidly on the side of enemies of America.

Granted, some of them are going through the traditional “leftist” time of their lives that many young people go through, and they may change unless WE harden them and push them fully into the Leftist camp.

Instead of Human Shields which have no choice in the matter, I think of some of these students more in the mold of John Walker Lindh, rather than the little boy Saddam Hussein was cozying up to prior to the Gulf War (who was truly a human shield). That sounds harsh, but John Walker Lindh was as immature as these young people here, his direct actions simply couldn’t be accounted for with the leeway we should we these young people.

If you substitute “Treasonous inclinations” in John Walker Lindh with “heads full of clay willing to be shaped by leftists” in the case of some of these kids, the end result is pretty much the same.

They are being used. They are being groomed. They feel important. They are getting attention. They are being used to attack America. And the key thing here is, they are doing it emotionally, not logically. They are being used as tools.

We don’t have to attack them directly and personally. But the fact that they are being used as tools is very much in play. If we call them “Useful Idiots” (which is an appropriate moniker) they and their emotional brethren will perceive that as an ad hominem attack and take it personally as such.

But I guarantee, those clear-eyed anti-American scum who are being “shielded” by them know full well what they are, and if you could give them truth serum would smile a smug smile and say “Of course they are our Useful Idiots. How would we ever get anything done without them? These Useful Idiots are quite valuable to us due to their age and malleability.”

What these young people don’t understand is that granting the freedom to Americans to own guns results in occasionally murdered people lying on the ground, on rare occasions like the shooting at their school, more than one at at time.

But the more important thing these young people CRITICALLY don’t understand, is that taking away that freedom of the citizenry to own guns results in ditches full of hundreds or thousands of murdered people, and usually at the hands of the type of people who are grooming these young people RIGHT NOW with attention and guidance right now to suit their political ends.

And Useful Idiots of all ages have historically ended up in those ditches as well, screaming with puzzlement and fear “Why are you doing this? I support you! I’m on YOUR side!” as they are slaughtered by the very people they wanted to help achieve their political ends.

But these young people have no way of grasping or knowing that. They can’t. They don’t understand (or intentionally do not wish to see) the importance of history and precedent as tools to avoid the mistakes of the past. That is the epitome of Leftism right there.

And I think we need to fight that. We don’t have to attack those young people directly, we should have compassion for what they have experienced, and understanding that to a teenager who knows everything, they don’t know that they cannot see an issue from all ends, and we need to try to take that into account.