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George Rebane

Everyone now knows how the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School became very visible gun control and confiscation advocates after the massacre at their school which also highlighted massive government failures, cowardice, and LE incompetence.  The students were able to organize themselves into several functional and mobile teams that confronted the media, legislatures, and selected politicians all the way to the White House.  It was an amazing feat for young people with no previous knowledge of the involved intricacies required to pull off such media-wise and nationally prominent activism.  Or did they really organize ‘themselves’??

They did not.  And it’s another giant piece of evidence that the lamestream media is composed of legions of yellow journalists.  A little bit of questioning would instantly have revealed that the students became the convenient and compliant pawns of several professional progressive propaganda organizations, politicians, and liberal media outlets, that leaped into action, apparently while the 17 murder victims’ bodies were still warm.  Among these were The Miami Herald, Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Women’s March, Michael Bloomberg, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood, American Federation of Teachers, Broward County’s teacher’s union, … (even the usually astute WSJ fell for it).  This included immediate and huge donations from celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney, which should have tipped off anyone paying attention that there were bigger movers and shakers involved than just a bunch of kids suddenly being on site and on message just as if the pros had organized the whole thing.  Well, it turns out that they did.

David Hines asks, 'Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?'  H/T to a sharp-eyed reader.

[update]  Ever hear of Obama's PROMISE program in schools where undisciplined students were managed under federal guidelines that promoted the schools internal handling of cases that should have involved the police.  The whole program is based on the tenet prescribed in the PROMISE manual – “This approach focuses on the situation as being the problem rather than the individual being the problem.”  You can get the whole snootful on this feel-good progressive program (here) that also nurtures development of school shooters like Nikolas Cruz.

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8 responses to “The Progressives’ Parkland Pawns (updated)”

  1. Xeno Avatar
    Xeno

    So, you are saying that the gun issues raised subsequent to the Parkland shooting spree were part of a grassroots movement? Awesome!

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  2. George Boardman Avatar

    Many of the Parkland students who got a lot of air time are in the school’s broadcast journalism program, well known in the TV biz for its quality. Those kid are poised because they’re not afraid of a camera.
    But if they are being used by anti-gun types, it would hardly be a first in America. Who can forget Fox News’ embrace of Milo Yiannopoulos as the poster boy for academic free speech, at least until he starting talking about the benefits of pedophilia. Even the generally clueless Sean Hanity dumped him in a heart beat.

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh please, Milo was making a joke and you libs take everything as serious. Abd I don’t watch Hannity much but he is certainly more aware of the world than you.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    Boardman. Just what will these kids do when the lime light goes dim?
    From “all important” to yesterdays news. Young ones just don’t know how to deal with that new found fame, turned rejection.
    The young Hogg kid may nut up real soon. His tweets put the fear in big business.(for a week or so.) Next week he will be a nobody.
    Better keep any weapon away from him.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Wow, GB 1031am, what a pivot… from the kids in Parkland getting airtime and professional management, not to mention millions of dollars thrown their way, to Milo.
    The kids knowledge of the law, of firearms, and how the two are intertwined is weak and one-sided. Bumper sticker arguments and misplaced anger in equal measures.
    Milo Y didn’t talk about “the benefits of pedophilia”, Boredman 1031am. And Todd, no, Milo Y wasn’t really telling a joke, either. The statement that blunted his career was in two parts… the first was that he thought the ages of consent in the US were about right, and that he thought that at 13, he was mature enough to consent to sex with that priest.

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Milo is negotiating a cable deal and some friends of mine may be on the first one to air. Gonna be fun. Meanwhile, DeLeon is having to deal with his sexual harassers in the California Senate. My my my.

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    A letters to the editor writer in 5mar18 WSJ advises – “A little red button on every teacher’s desk (active-shooter alert) would save more students than one teacher with a gun.”
    And what would happen then when a teacher pushed this little red button as the killer is systematically shooting kids in her of some other classroom?
    But it’s not a puzzle if the button pushed by the teacher takes off the safety on her CCW.

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