Posted on 01/21/2019 3:07:52 PM PST by Fiji Hill
It appears that most of the teenagers in this video are from a Catholic high school near Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. They mock a serious, frail-looking older man and gloat in their momentary role as Roman soldiers to his Christ. “Bullying” is a worn-out word and doesn’t convey the full extent of the evil on display here.
For some of us, the gospel stories of Jesus’s passion and death are so familiar we no longer hear them. The evangelists are terse in their descriptions of the humiliations heaped on Jesus in the final hours before his crucifixion, the consummate humiliation. Read the accounts again or, if you’d rather not, watch the video. The human capacity for sadism is too great.
The man the crowd ridiculed is Nathan Phillips, an elder of the Omaha tribe. He was in Washington for the Indigenous Peoples March, on Friday. It coincided with the March for Life, which Covington Catholic High School organized a contingent of students to attend. According to Phillips, their confrontation with him, in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, involved a disagreement about “the wall.” He’s against it. They’re for it. Some of them, including the boy who makes himself the co-star of the video by stepping forward and getting in Phillips’s face, wore “Make America Great Again” hats.
They confused issues. Over the years, I’ve heard (and perpetrated, I confess) some imaginative definitions of the “seamless garment,” or “consistent ethic of life.” It’s a matter of identifying a common principle that can be shown to underlie and unite various causes — the abolition of abortion, of euthanasia, of the death penalty, of you name it — that most people would say are disparate and unrelated. How heightened border security might be of a piece with protecting unborn children is less intuitively obvious than most such hypothetical linkages I’ve encountered.
Among the unfortunate messages that the Covington students are sending through the video, several versions of which have gone viral, is that in its heart the pro-life movement in the United States in 2019 is less concerned to advocate for human rights than to cheer for one of the two major political parties or, more broadly, for one side in the great divide between Right and Left, or red and blue, as if the abortion debate were a Yankees–Red Sox game. Don’t do that if you want to persuade Democrats and independents who are ambivalent about abortion to hear you out on why their lives mattered even when they were gestating, and on why the lives of those who at any given moment are conceived but not yet born matter no less.
In a joint statement, Covington Catholic High School and the Diocese of Covington apologized, condemning the students’ actions and noting that their conduct “is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.” I don’t know how Phillips would describe his religious affiliation. He speaks of indigenous traditions. Some people who observe them integrate them with Christianity, but some don’t. In any case, keeping in mind the parable of the proper priests and the Good Samaritan, whose religious practice Jesus’s listeners thought was wrong, listen to Phillips reflect on his experience on the Mall. Decide for yourself who is more pleasing to Christ, Phillips or his mockers. As for the putatively Catholic students from Covington, they might as well have just spit on the cross and got it over with.
Frankovich is an imbecile, and he has demonstrated that fact beyond all doubt by this garbage.
Seems to me this clown would be much happier ‘working’ for the daily kos or the dump...
Author is an unthinking buffoon, and npc.
And let's not forget some of their FReeper "fellow travelers."
I'm proud of how many FReepers didn't fall for this apostasy of journalism, and have nothing but lasting contempt for those who did.
Jonah Goldberg was just on Fox and was never challenged to apologize for this hit piece. He is the Senior Editor of the National Review.
Steyn pegs it.
I wouldn't dignify "social cowardice" with the respect of an actual sickness.
NeoCons, not conservatives.
Excellent
Which is why OAN is now my "go to" news network.
Not only do they give you the straight story; they tell you what the networks are trying to hide from you.
At five bucks a month, it's cheaper than the newspaper.
***Nathan Phillips, an elder of the Omaha tribe.***
Another tribe the US never had a war with. So what’s his problem?
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That’s good. It’s clear that today’s NR writers and editors are triggered by the sight, thought or report of MAGA hats.
Yep....worth a read.
Anyone who is familiar with the work of black supremacist Tariq Nasheed knows that he is at the forefront of almost every “racist” event in America, crying foul against evil white people everywhere.
Nothing has changed with Nasheed in 2019, as he attacked the boys from Covington Catholic High School on Monday afternoon, well after many normal people came to their senses and realized that the students were unfairly smeared by the media stemming from an incident in Washington, D.C. last Friday.
Check out article and photo at #48.
Thanks, Fred Nerks.
NR needs to learn that the fight they started is not over, that their assault on those Trumpers will not be forgotten.
Just beating deep state war drums.
Published on Jan 20, 2019
“First 45 minutes are african americans being incredibly racist and threatening violence against the students directly. Kept that in the upload in case someone accuses me of deceptive editing. Nothing here was edited, at all. This is the whole video of the entire event.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyBHTTqb38
“That clip of Mr Phillips, an elder of Nebraska’s Omaha tribe and reportedly a Vietnam war veteran, was shared online by organisers of an indigenous peoples’ march that also took place on Friday.
However, a separate and much longer video showed how the children were subjected to a barrage of abuse including homophobic slurs and racially charged language by the group of black men mentioned by the student’s mother. The men, who claimed to be “Hebrew Israelites” according to the New York Times, argued aggressively with the students.
Extended footage depicts the apparent leader of the religious group hurling homophobic slurs at the students. “That’s Make America Great Again, a bunch of child-molesting f****ts”, he is heard to say. Another member – who seems to be the person filming – is recorded calling the children “dirty-ass crackers” and “racist bastards”. Approaching the students, he continues loudly: “Look at all these dusty-ass crackers with that racist garbage on.”
The same video shows the moment Mr Phillips arrived at the scene of the confrontation, singing and playing a drum. The 64-year-old can be seen interposing himself between the two groups, before he is enveloped by the crowd.
Another separate clip appears to show further abuse directed at the boys. A man – not Mr Phillips – can be heard to say: “You white people go back to Europe, this is not your land.”
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I watched almost the total footage, frankly, it made my skin crawl. For anyone interested in the full picture, I highly recommend this video, unpleasant as it is.
I watched almost the total footage, frankly, it made my skin crawl. For anyone interested in the full picture, I highly recommend this video, unpleasant as it is.>>>
Now we see how the leftist race mongers seek to ignite civil war and bloodshed. It is sad to say, but soon guns will be brought to these “parties.”
I just watched Laura Ingharam let Glenn Greenwald lie about the Covington teens.
@IngrahamAngle Why didn’t you call out lying Greenwald when he said the students surrounded the Indian troublemaker and started mocking him. No they didn’t. The students did nothing wrong. I’m surprised you let Greenwald repeat the liberal lie. @BreitbartNews @LarrySchweikart @still
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