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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.
Fascist dyke. This is the product of modern public education? Shut it all down.
This march was just another left wing support of Marxism! They will never stop they will never go away. They must be defeated!!!
Useful Idiots!
Her parents must be proud of their little marxist.
>>They must be defeated!!!
Exactly. They aren’t “misguided” as some suggest. They are the enemy of the United States and of our freedom. They want to start a revolution? Well, they need to learn what happens to failed revolutionaries.
That thing is a woman?
Really?
Could have fooled me.
Maybe there are more than two genders after all.
“What is a protective dike? Is that a large woman standing near the river going [in Butch voice] “Don’t go near there!” [in Girly voice] “But Betty-” [in Butch voice] “Don’t go near there! Get away from the river! Stay away from there.” I know, we can’t use the word “dyke.” You can’t even say “lesbian”, it’s “women in comfortable shoes.”
Conforming to ‘non-conformity’ is conforming just the same!
What is Weaponized Empathy? It's when you use people's morals and empathy to manipulate them into serving your own political agenda. It's basically an advanced kind of guilt-tripping designed to get people who really do care about others to vote for their own enslavement.
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."
The marches have two purposes.
The marches allow the strident coverup of the failure of all local governments in south Florida to protect the citizens while in fact not arresting young black criminals.
The marches are ancient trade union strike tactic of providing a safety valve to release the pressure. The students get to ride on paid busses to DC, freeze their butts off, and then think they have done something.
Universal background checks is the attempt to create a registry, and pretty much do what Cuba is doing.
Exactly. And exactly the tactic used on my HS daughter to try and get her to join in on the high school walkout. “Don’t you support the kids killed at Parkland?”
NO, it’s not about showing support for those slain, that is just flat out deceptive manipulation used on HS kids to emotionally force them to engage in their Marxist activity.
another wise and proud latina puta ..
F U E G
Anyone who is for gun control hates children as well as all other Americans.
These protesters are nothing more than Narcissistic attention whores....I doubt that any of them have anything resembling real emotions....they do not weep for the dead.
You nailed it.
Insufferable, lying little bitch didn’t shame me.
By her own admission, she and her “friends” tormented the shooter.
OK, but the flag should NOT be the place he left (because it is a shithole) but should be the flag of the USA.
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