Posted on 03/27/2018 6:31:45 AM PDT by servo1969
The most visible activists in the latest push to tear up the Second Amendment are getting a lot of attention... and not all of it is positive.
Parkland, Florida, students David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez have become the faces of gun control as they make the rounds in the media and at rallies, but viewers have noticed some troubling "red flags" with both of them over the weekend.
On Saturday, the teenage protester Gonzalez took the stage as part of "March For Our Lives," and delivered a speech that blamed gun ownership for the tragedy which killed 17 people last month.
That by itself isn't surprising, but observers quickly pointed out something odd and ironic about her attire.
While standing on the podium, the anti-Second Amendment activist wore an olive green jacket that appeared to be a military uniform, with military-style patches sewn onto the sleeves. There was not a single American flag anywhere on the fatigues.
There was, however, a Cuban flag patch on her right shoulder -- exactly where the American flag normally is worn.
"You can't even make this up," commented one pro-gun Facebook page. "She is wearing a Cuban flag, a communist country that is well known for disarming its own people and then slaughtering them wholesale; while addressing the U.S. about gun control."
That commentary isn't wrong. There's a deep and sickening irony to replacing the U.S. flag with the symbol of a communist, tyrannical country that has been ruled by dictatorship for 60 years... while essentially telling Americans to give up their gun rights.
"Hitler took several years to disarm the population using gun registration lists, but Castro moved against private gun ownership the second day he was in power," explained Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America.
"He sent his thugs throughout the island using the gun registry lists -- compiled by the preceding Batista regime -- to confiscate the people's firearms. Different tactics, same objective. A defenseless people don't give the all-wise leader any lip," Pratt continued.
That use of gun control by the oppressive Castro regime in Cuba is common knowledge among many who fled the island.
"In modern Cuba, firearms are regulated by the National Revolutionary Police, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. The private sale and transfer of firearms is prohibited. And Cubans continue to flee for the U.S. Surprised?" asked Luis Valdes, a Cuban-American gun rights advocate.
"We should never forget that purchasing a firearm is an important part of the American Dream," Valdes explained.
"Gun ownership is the one few tangible acts that we can do when exercising our Constitutional Rights. When you hold that firearm in your hand, you're holding a literal, physical representation of freedom," he said.
Fidel Castro's Cuba "murdered thousands upon thousands. The late R.J. Rummel, a University of Hawaii professor who tracked mass-killings by governments around the world, estimated as many as 141,000 people were murdered by the Castro regime," reported Investor's Business Daily.
"And that was just through 1987. Since then, of course, thousands more have been killed," the report continued.
Between Emma Gonzalez shunning the American flag to instead dress like a Cuban dictator and David Hogg throwing a stiff-armed salute that looked disturbingly like a Nazi gesture, there are many alarms about the not-so-subtle symbolism being used by these "organizers."
That's doesn't automatically mean that they are themselves aspiring tyrants, but it does mean that they are shockingly ignorant about history and the real-life horrors of gun control... and that by itself should disqualify them as serious voices.
I agree. For Cruz and Hogg, in particular, this shooting is the greatest thing that ever happened for them. The universe sacrificed 17 people to make them famous, and it was a good trade. That's how they see it.
Sure is. Hollywood and elementary public schools—controlled by communists since 1930s with the evil Fabian Socialist takeover (John Dewey) which banned Classical Christian curricula for Pavlovian indoctrination and to embed dependency and ignorance in all children (for useful idiots) and infantilize the masses—make them into ignorant, addictive drones easily controlled and manipulated.
Sex Ed is the easiest methodology to corrupt and destroy virtue formation in our children—to turn people into objects for life. Virtue is essential for freedom. Vice only creates slaves and the Leftists have been wiping the Christian worldview (innocence/mystery) off the face of the earth for 100 years-—for Marxism—embedding using others in evil, vile ways— as a Means to an End. The Leftists are shaping the minds of little children with Hollywood and inside artificial institutions of mass indoctrination, embedding ignorance and evil, vile ways to “look” at other people. They destroy Truth—and embed division, hate and “the Same” narcissism (immaturity).
I believe this is all about registering them to vote. After what happened to hillary, they will never allow that again
My response is to first come up with a definition of the word “good”, then we can have a conversation.
Different cultures live by different ethics, meaning the understanding of the word “good” is not universal, it is subjective based on culture....which is formed by religious concepts.
I don’t believe a million people a year being killed by the hand of their own government, on average over the last 100 years, is “good”.
That the media enable such childish debates, promoting them as intellectual, speaks volumes about how dumbed down our public education system has made our children. It’s a given that the media think we’re all stupid but this is just insulting.
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By defeated I hope you mean they must be eliminated from our country one way or the other. They will never stop. If they are simply defeated and allowed to stay here they will re-group, wait for another opportunity, then push their vile agenda again and again and again until they are eliminated.
They are not something that can be changed or turned into something good. They are more like a cancer. Either excise it or kill it. Leaving even one bit of this cancer will allow it to spread again.
Then we must make sure the leftist indoctrination done in schools across America is eliminated as well. That really should have been done a decade ago but they are really organized.
It’s one thing to have a different opinion; it’s an entirely different thing to be so openly anti-American like these insidious evil people are. Sedition is a crime.
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Guns are killing children! We need to do everything we can to get rid of guns! Don’t you agree? What? Do you want to see kids murdered? You don’t hate little children, do you? I know you’re a caring person and you would never want to see children die. Surely you don’t have a problem with just a little sensible gun control, right? You’re a good person, right?
Many people, the sort of people who ‘feel’ more than ‘think,’ are very susceptible to this line of attack.
It’s a bit like using a partner’s love to manipulate them into going along with something they really do not want to do. “If you really loved me, you’d let me do it.”
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Correct. Unfort., many on the right can’t articulate past ‘but the 2nd...’ (not that NEEDS to go any further).
Really need to bone up on the absurdity of the Leftists:
- 119 kids/day die behind the wheel, shall we raise the age, ban cars over X weight...
- Since they are ‘too young’ to handle a weapon, raise the age of voting/abortion/legal age?
- Oh, you want ‘safe’, let’s attach (or mirror) the prisons...NO weapons there *wink*
- How ‘bout restoring marksman classes/JROTC. Teach gun safety, no?
Big talk around NE Fl. re: ‘resource officers’ and ‘cost’ of detectors/etc.
Not ONE I heard brought up the simplest of solutions: Allowing those that WISH to exercise their 2nd A. Rights. Such teacher(s) are already faculty and *willing*, why need for hire anyone else? Didn’t the FL shooting already show can’t trust RO/police to halt another shooting??
Weaponized Empathy is employed often.
“If you really loved me, you’d embrace my...
homosexuality
pot use
tats and piercings
f bombing
basement dwelling
...”
I was surprised there wasn’t a pic of Che Guevara there somewhere.
Knowing a lot of Cuban-Americans, most who are very conservative, they do love to display the Cuban flag, not because they support the current Cuban government. So I would be willing to give somewhat of a pass here, even though it should be displayed in a different position.
She had little time for a costume change.
The March for Life is nothing more than crawling lemmings attempting to form a pack.
Yep, agreed.
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