You mean we're meant to read that too ?!
oy vey
Posted on 03/05/2018 11:49:21 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
At the risk of being called cold or harsh, let me begin by saying every American has a right to his/her opinion on just about any issue. Including guns.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let me add this: the people playing partisan politics on the graves of the 17 innocent dead people from Douglas High School are despicable. I don’t care what age they are.
Over the last couple of weeks, a variety of conservative voices have gotten in trouble for insinuating that the anti-gun protesters coming out of Douglas High School seem far too practiced to simply be grieving students.
Benjamin Kelly, a district secretary for Florida GOP Rep. Shawn Harrison, was fired after wondering if the anti-gun students were actually just “crisis actors.” Yes, Kelly went too far. Yes, he spoke to soon about a subject that was far too raw, and he should have known better. But in his defense, the anti-gun student leaders simply seemed too prepared to respond to such a horrible disaster.
Once the students were proven to not be “crisis actors,” others began to wonder if they had someone training them.
‘Of course not,’ we were told.
The students were “born online,” so they’re better able to handle the media spotlight, and Douglas High School simply has an excellent debate program, which helped prepare these kids to speak in public about important issues. I kid you not. The Miami Herald seemed to actually believe that a school debate program could prepare grieving children to speak on international television in such a calm and direct fashion as to make everyone wonder if they’d done this before.
(Excerpt) Read more at constitution.com ...
I’m going to guess before I even read the article.
George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.
How’d I do?
Bullsh*t is right.
Whoever wrote that line has zero experience working with kids. The ones you are seeing have been to crisis actor workshops. Likely attending for a very long time.
oy vey
Have they been taking down any more confederate statues since last summer?
A good read.
Not sure if these have all been confirmed.
It’s a picture in the internet. It must be true.
:-)
This Hogg kid looks and acts like a major dweeb. Where are all the other class mates talking about knowing him on-campus before this?
where was he hiding when it all happened?
I found out I’m Facebook friends with the sister of the teacher of all the “student reporters”.
I was also in a mass shooting many years ago.
I got Facebook friends mad when I said the march is political.
I’m very thankful that social media was not around when I went through the mass shooting at my company.
Keeper...
According to this article, Camera Hogg is an aspiring journalist, and he chose that particular high school because of the TV production classes that it offered.
So yes, Camera Hogg is a crisis actor who might very well be positioning himself for a fake news job with CNN.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/david-hogg-florida-school-shooting-california-video/
Boss Hogg!?
I’d like to get my hands on her and ask her a few simple questions.
Time to expose them all and their agenda.
[snip}So, who’s bankrolling the lefty kids from Parkland, Florida? It’s a veritable “Who’s Who” of leftwing money from Michael Bloomberg, to George Soros, to the baby killers at Planned Parenthood. (Emphasis is mine.)
The Crime spree of the Obama administration continues.........
The rest of the article:
To keep students in school and improve racial outcomes, Broward school Superintendent Robert W. Runcie – a Chicagoan and Harvard graduate with close ties to President Obama and his Education Department – signed an agreement with the county sheriff and other local jurisdictions to trade cops for counseling. Instead of the criminal justice system, students charged with various misdemeanors, including assault, were referred to counseling, which included participation in “healing circles,” obstacle courses and other “self-esteem building” exercises.
A repeat offender, Nicholas Cruz benefited from the lax discipline policy, if not the counseling. Although he was disciplined for a string of offenses — including assault, threatening teachers and carrying bullets in his backpack — he was never taken into custody or even expelled. Instead, school authorities referred him to mandatory counseling or transferred him to alternative schools.
By avoiding a criminal record, Cruz passed a federal background check in February 2017 before purchasing the AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle investigators say was used in the mass shooting. Just one month earlier, he was disciplined with a one-day internal suspension for an “assault” at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and evaluated as a potential “threat.” It was his second offense for fighting in less than four months, but campus police did not make an arrest in either case — as they typically did for repeat offenders under the district’s prior zero-tolerance policies.
A little more than a month before the Feb. 14 shooting, the FBI hotline received a tip about Cruz being a potential school gunman, but it failed to take action. If he had been previously arrested and booked for the on-campus misdemeanors, the FBI intake specialist handling the call would have seen his violent history in the federal NCIC database, which includes all state arrests, convictions, warrants and alerts. “Once the agent, or any officer, entered his name in the NCIC system, his history would have been viewed.”
As for the kids being coached and funded:
On February 28, BuzzFeed came out with the actual story: Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz aiding in the lobbying in Tallahassee, a teacher’s union organizing the buses that got the kids there, Michael Bloomberg’s groups and the Women’s March working on the upcoming March For Our Lives, MoveOn.org doing social media promotion and (potentially) march logistics, and training for student activists provided by federally funded Planned Parenthood. The president of the American Federation of Teachers told BuzzFeed they’re also behind the national school walkout, which journalists had previously assured the public was the sole work of a teenager.
This is a real mess. But you won’t hear any of this on the 11 o’clock news.
rwood
You, Sir, win the internet for that accurate partial list.
Nice to onow my PP tax money is going to antigun causes.
Why no one is denouncing this violation of separation of state and church against freedom of speech?
This was tied back to one of the “Democracy” groups early on. I don’t remember the name of the group. The repsonse is purely a democrat op though.
Treyvon Martin was also a “graduate” of the multi-agency “Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline.”
That is why he was never prosecuted for, among other things, felony jewel theft, and that is why he was skulking about on a school night - he was suspended in lieu of going to jail.
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