March For Our Lives - Parkland Students Demanding Action
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Do you actually know people that think this way? It's more troubling that you think they are mindless lemmings. Are you drawing off your own experience?unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.It's a hopeless situation...0 -
To be fair,,Unsung is still on full Jade Helm alert.0
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Damn socialist leftist commie pinko redsmrussel1 said:To be fair,,Unsung is still on full Jade Helm palert.0 -
This is a pretty interesting and polarizing issue. I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who stated that public education has the duty to "instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties." A peaceful walkout doesn't seem to be a waste of tax payers money but possibly a way of showing youth how to peacefully interact with our great democracy.“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America0
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They should walk out permantly until the idiot politicians guarantee that they’ll pass meaningful gun legislation...
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I'm almost never the type to say "I wish I was young again" (go through all that all over again? No thanks!) but if I were, I would walk out with the kids.Meltdown99 said:They should walk out permantly until the idiot politicians guarantee that they’ll pass meaningful gun legislation...
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This thread is more proof that we need mental health assessments for firearm purchases lol
"Old man yells at cloud" sums it up pretty perfectly.
I actually do think the students should be punished though.
The whole point of civil disobedience is that you break the rules knowingly and you accept the consequences willingly.
The kids should be given Saturday detention, en masse. Then the school should flip it around and bring in speakers to present an argument for both sides of the issue, go home and everyone is better off for it.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
And then have to use our tax payer money for extra teachers on Saturday’s? Nonsense! I need that .0000003 cents that it would cost me.rgambs said:This thread is more proof that we need mental health assessments for firearm purchases lol
"Old man yells at cloud" sums it up pretty perfectly.
I actually do think the students should be punished though.
The whole point of civil disobedience is that you break the rules knowingly and you accept the consequences willingly.
The kids should be given Saturday detention, en masse. Then the school should flip it around and bring in speakers to present an argument for both sides of the issue, go home and everyone is better off for it.0 -
Are you a parent ?unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.jesus greets me looks just like me ....0 -
How would you know this ? Who put them up too it ? You really believe 16&17 yr old kids can’t come up with this movement on their own ? ..unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.
That’s how I can tell your not a parent ...jesus greets me looks just like me ....0 -
I'm making my son write a short paper inn ent he did it and explain the change he is advocating and give it to the teacher whose class he left. It happens to be govt so worked out perfectly.rgambs said:This thread is more proof that we need mental health assessments for firearm purchases lol
"Old man yells at cloud" sums it up pretty perfectly.
I actually do think the students should be punished though.
The whole point of civil disobedience is that you break the rules knowingly and you accept the consequences willingly.
The kids should be given Saturday detention, en masse. Then the school should flip it around and bring in speakers to present an argument for both sides of the issue, go home and everyone is better off for it.0 -
Antifa made them do it.unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR;
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No.....the govt. made them do it.Halifax2TheMax said:
Antifa made them do it.unsung said:loopThey are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.
And that's because anyone with less than half a brain knows that the public school system is just a venue for the govt. to brainwash children.0 -
I couldn’t care less about the older students standing up for what they believe and deciding to suffer the consequences of skipping school as long as they are not disrupting the education of those choosing not to participate. If they do not suffer consequences, I think it would be discriminatory if a child protested for a different cause or apposing view and did suffer repercussions.unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.
When I see pictures of elementary aged children carrying the protest signs around or “skipping”, though, the word that comes to mind is “exploitation”. I am not okay with exploiting children for any means and believe it is a form of child abuse.0 -
How would you know if the so called kids are being exploited with out knowing if the parents are the ones who put them up to it , as it stands your opinion is just that an opinion..PJPOWER said:
I couldn’t care less about the older students standing up for what they believe and deciding to suffer the consequences of skipping school as long as they are not disrupting the education of those choosing not to participate. If they do not suffer consequences, I think it would be discriminatory if a child protested for a different cause or apposing view and did suffer repercussions.unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.
When I see pictures of elementary aged children carrying the protest signs around or “skipping”, though, the word that comes to mind is “exploitation”. I am not okay with exploiting children for any means and believe it is a form of child abuse.jesus greets me looks just like me ....0 -
It is totally just my opinion, as yours is. Whether or not their parents put them up to it, elementary and middle school aged children should not be allowed to skip to protest (in my opinion) and it is exploitation.josevolution said:
How would you know if the so called kids are being exploited with out knowing if the parents are the ones who put them up to it , as it stands your opinion is just that an opinion..PJPOWER said:
I couldn’t care less about the older students standing up for what they believe and deciding to suffer the consequences of skipping school as long as they are not disrupting the education of those choosing not to participate. If they do not suffer consequences, I think it would be discriminatory if a child protested for a different cause or apposing view and did suffer repercussions.unsung said:They are being used as pawns, marching to eliminate their rights, to give bad people control.
When I see pictures of elementary aged children carrying the protest signs around or “skipping”, though, the word that comes to mind is “exploitation”. I am not okay with exploiting children for any means and believe it is a form of child abuse.
If their parents specifically take them out of school, then the parents are responsible for whatever they are doing or wherever they are going. I still feel that it is exploitation to parade a child around that does not fully grasp the situation.
As a parent, though, if the school freely allowed my child to walk out the doors of the school to a non-school related event (such as a protest) without my written permission, I would probably sue the shit out of them. They are responsible for my child’s safety when there and letting them go to a non-school sponsored protest is not ensuring their safety.
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Disturbing to see Dylan Roof's sister showing some of the same mindset. I can well imagine that life hasn't been easy for her, especially given what her brother is known for, but this isn't the way you would hope it would go.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/dylann-roof-sister-arrested-weapons-national-walkout_us_5aa9e32ee4b0f4aaa1137c79The younger sister of Dylann Roof, the convicted mass murderer who killed nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly bringing weapons to her school on the same day the National Student Walkout was planned.
Morgan Roof, an 18-year-old student of A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina, was charged with possession of marijuana and two counts of carrying weapons on school grounds, according to The State newspaper.
An administrator at the school alerted a school resource officer that a student on campus had made a threatening and racist Snapchat post and brought pepper spray and a knife to school. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department later confirmed that the student was Morgan Roof.
Roof’s Snapchat post criticized her schoolmates at Flora High for participating in the nationwide student walkouts in protest of gun violence on Wednesday. The protests were being held on the one-month anniversary of a horrific mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“I hope it’s a trap and y’all get shot,” Roof wrote of the protest at her school, according to a screenshot of her Snapchat post.
“We know it’s fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway".
Roof’s racist post was especially disturbing considering the heinous crimes of her brother, who is an avowed white supremacist.In June 2015, Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and opened fire on a Bible study group. He killed nine people. The 22-year-old shooter was found guilty on 33 federal charges and sentenced to death.
One of Dylann Roof’s friends told investigators that he hoped the massacre would start a race war.
In a letter to students, parents and faculty, Principal Susan Childs said that a student’s social media post caused “quite a disruption” on campus. Childs’ letter did not identify Morgan Roof but described her post as a “hateful message” that was “extremely inappropriate.”
Chris Slick, a neighbor of the Roofs, told The Post and Courier that Morgan Roof wasn’t hateful.
“Tragedy has struck this family again,” Slick told the newspaper.
“This is not the Morgan I knew. She didn’t hate people. She didn’t have prejudices like this — in fact, I witnessed the opposite,” he added. “I hope that one day, one day she finds peace and seeks forgiveness for what she did today. I cannot say I wish the same for her brother.”
In a series of tweets, Gov. Henry McMaster said that “potential tragedy was avoided” at Flora High on Wednesday. He also called on the state General Assembly to pass legislation requiring police officers to be present at every school.
Law enforcement officials took Morgan Roof to the Richland County Detention Center, according to CBS affiliate WLTX 19. She was released on a $5,000 bond with the condition that she not return to school.
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oftenreading said:Disturbing to see Dylan Roof's sister showing some of the same mindset. I can well imagine that life hasn't been easy for her, especially given what her brother is known for, but this isn't the way you would hope it would go.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/dylann-roof-sister-arrested-weapons-national-walkout_us_5aa9e32ee4b0f4aaa1137c79The younger sister of Dylann Roof, the convicted mass murderer who killed nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly bringing weapons to her school on the same day the National Student Walkout was planned.
Morgan Roof, an 18-year-old student of A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina, was charged with possession of marijuana and two counts of carrying weapons on school grounds, according to The State newspaper.
An administrator at the school alerted a school resource officer that a student on campus had made a threatening and racist Snapchat post and brought pepper spray and a knife to school. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department later confirmed that the student was Morgan Roof.
Roof’s Snapchat post criticized her schoolmates at Flora High for participating in the nationwide student walkouts in protest of gun violence on Wednesday. The protests were being held on the one-month anniversary of a horrific mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“I hope it’s a trap and y’all get shot,” Roof wrote of the protest at her school, according to a screenshot of her Snapchat post.
“We know it’s fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway".
Roof’s racist post was especially disturbing considering the heinous crimes of her brother, who is an avowed white supremacist.In June 2015, Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and opened fire on a Bible study group. He killed nine people. The 22-year-old shooter was found guilty on 33 federal charges and sentenced to death.
One of Dylann Roof’s friends told investigators that he hoped the massacre would start a race war.
In a letter to students, parents and faculty, Principal Susan Childs said that a student’s social media post caused “quite a disruption” on campus. Childs’ letter did not identify Morgan Roof but described her post as a “hateful message” that was “extremely inappropriate.”
Chris Slick, a neighbor of the Roofs, told The Post and Courier that Morgan Roof wasn’t hateful.
“Tragedy has struck this family again,” Slick told the newspaper.
“This is not the Morgan I knew. She didn’t hate people. She didn’t have prejudices like this — in fact, I witnessed the opposite,” he added. “I hope that one day, one day she finds peace and seeks forgiveness for what she did today. I cannot say I wish the same for her brother.”
In a series of tweets, Gov. Henry McMaster said that “potential tragedy was avoided” at Flora High on Wednesday. He also called on the state General Assembly to pass legislation requiring police officers to be present at every school.
Law enforcement officials took Morgan Roof to the Richland County Detention Center, according to CBS affiliate WLTX 19. She was released on a $5,000 bond with the condition that she not return to school.
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Yikes, that family is going to leave a bleak legacy...oftenreading said:Disturbing to see Dylan Roof's sister showing some of the same mindset. I can well imagine that life hasn't been easy for her, especially given what her brother is known for, but this isn't the way you would hope it would go.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/dylann-roof-sister-arrested-weapons-national-walkout_us_5aa9e32ee4b0f4aaa1137c79The younger sister of Dylann Roof, the convicted mass murderer who killed nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly bringing weapons to her school on the same day the National Student Walkout was planned.
Morgan Roof, an 18-year-old student of A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina, was charged with possession of marijuana and two counts of carrying weapons on school grounds, according to The State newspaper.
An administrator at the school alerted a school resource officer that a student on campus had made a threatening and racist Snapchat post and brought pepper spray and a knife to school. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department later confirmed that the student was Morgan Roof.
Roof’s Snapchat post criticized her schoolmates at Flora High for participating in the nationwide student walkouts in protest of gun violence on Wednesday. The protests were being held on the one-month anniversary of a horrific mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
“I hope it’s a trap and y’all get shot,” Roof wrote of the protest at her school, according to a screenshot of her Snapchat post.
“We know it’s fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway".
Roof’s racist post was especially disturbing considering the heinous crimes of her brother, who is an avowed white supremacist.In June 2015, Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and opened fire on a Bible study group. He killed nine people. The 22-year-old shooter was found guilty on 33 federal charges and sentenced to death.
One of Dylann Roof’s friends told investigators that he hoped the massacre would start a race war.
In a letter to students, parents and faculty, Principal Susan Childs said that a student’s social media post caused “quite a disruption” on campus. Childs’ letter did not identify Morgan Roof but described her post as a “hateful message” that was “extremely inappropriate.”
Chris Slick, a neighbor of the Roofs, told The Post and Courier that Morgan Roof wasn’t hateful.
“Tragedy has struck this family again,” Slick told the newspaper.
“This is not the Morgan I knew. She didn’t hate people. She didn’t have prejudices like this — in fact, I witnessed the opposite,” he added. “I hope that one day, one day she finds peace and seeks forgiveness for what she did today. I cannot say I wish the same for her brother.”
In a series of tweets, Gov. Henry McMaster said that “potential tragedy was avoided” at Flora High on Wednesday. He also called on the state General Assembly to pass legislation requiring police officers to be present at every school.
Law enforcement officials took Morgan Roof to the Richland County Detention Center, according to CBS affiliate WLTX 19. She was released on a $5,000 bond with the condition that she not return to school.
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