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YouTube deletes videos claiming Florida school shooting survivor is an actor

YouTube deleted a video that was trending on its site that accused a Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor of being an actor, according to Fox News.

The video featured student David Hogg being interviewed on local news in California over the summer about a time a friend got into an argument with a lifeguard. It was titled, “David Hogg the actor.”

YouTube removed the video, saying “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on harassment and bullying.”

YouTube responds to criticism

After the video spent several hours as the top trending video on YouTube, the company deleted the video and admitted it should not have appeared on its site.

“This video should never have appeared in Trending,” a YouTube statement to Variety read. “Because the video contained footage from an authoritative news source, our system misclassified it. As soon as we became aware of the video, we removed it from Trending and from YouTube for violating our policies. We are working to improve our systems moving forward.”

Conspiracy theories

The video in question isn’t the only one accusing Hogg of being an actor paid by gun control advocates, and YouTube has taken many of them down.

One user posted a video titled, “David Hogg Can’t Remember His Lines When Interviewed for Florida School shooting,” that was also removed.

Survivors of the shooting have been vocal since the tragedy, calling for lawmakers to enact stricter gun control laws for their safety.

The intense activism of the students has led some to speculate that the media is manipulating and exploiting the teenagers to further a political narrative.

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Texas school will suspend gun control protesters: ‘Here for education, not political protest’

Students who join in scheduled gun control protests and walk-outs during school hours will be suspended for three days, according to a letter from the superintendent of Needville Independent School District in Texas.

In the week since 17 people were killed during a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, gun control advocates have organized several national marches and other forms of protest calling for action by lawmakers.

What was in the letter?

Needville Superintendent Curtis Rhodes sent the following message to parents and students in a letter and on social media:

The Needville ISD is very sensitive to violence in schools including the recent incident in Florida. Anytime an individual deliberately chooses to harm others, we are sensitive and compassionate to those impacted. There is a “movement” attempting to stage walkouts/disruptions of the school through social media and/or other media outlets.

Please be advised that the Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!! Should students choose to do so, they will be suspended from school for 3 days and face all the consequences that come along with an out of school suspension. Life is all about choices and every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative. We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved. All will be suspended for 3 days and parent notes will not alleviate the discipline.

A school is a place to learn and grow educationally, emotionally and morally. A disruption of school will not be tolerated.

Respect yourself, your fellow students and the Needville Independent School District and please understand that we are here for an education and not a political protest.

When are the scheduled protests?

Students in Florida have planned the “March for our Lives” on March 24 in Washington, D.C.

The group that organized the Women’s March has planned a National School Walkout on March 14.

Another National School Walkout is planned for the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, April 20, organized by a student who lives near Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of a 2012 school shooting.

(H/T: Houston Chronicle)

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WALSH: 60 Million Reasons Why Democrats Don’t Actually Care About Protecting Children From Violence

In response to the horrific school shooting in Florida, Senator Kamala Harris has declared that she cannot take any “pride in our country” while “our babies are being slaughtered.” Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly expressed a similar sentiment while protesting outside of NRA headquarters. “Children are dead because of you,” he yelled.

You always hear these kinds of things from Democrats after a mass shooting. Suddenly they are very anxious to talk about violence against children. Suddenly they are very ashamed of a country where children so often fall prey to horrific brutality. Suddenly, when they have a gun control agenda to push, they sound almost pro-life.

I don’t believe them. Every baby slaughtered in an abortion clinic with their enthusiastic approval is a reason not to believe them. That adds up to 60 million reasons and counting.

It should be noted that Kamala Harris is perhaps the most rabidly pro-abortion politician in a party that is nothing more than a subsidiary of the abortion industry. She is so strenuous in her abortion enthusiasm that she turned the Attorney General’s office in California into a legal defense fund for Planned Parenthood. She supports slaughtering babies at every stage of development up until the very moment of birth. And yet this woman who does not wince at the thought of a nine-month-old infant having his skull crushed is somehow deeply upset at the thought of high school students being shot to death?

Nonsense.

Harris may be a leading member of the Democrat death cult, but her views are not anymore extreme than the rest of them. The Democratic platform calls for abortions at every stage, free abortions, funding for abortions overseas. Abortions everywhere. All kinds of abortions. The Democratic love for abortion is so intense and bizarre that you may even call it a fetish. They have never met an abortion they don’t like. “More! Give us more,” they shout as they stand on a pile of 60 million dead babies. “Oh, and gun violence is bad,” they add. But it’s hard to hear them as the mountain of corpses grows taller and taller beneath their feet.

Abortions and school shootings are symptoms of the same spiritual disease in our culture. They are born from a complete disregard for the sacredness of human life. A school shooter and an abortionist may have different motives, but they possess the same internal emptiness, the same deadened conscience, the same contempt for humanity. They are apples falling from the same tree and landing not all that far apart. If Nikolas Cruz had only gone to medical school and become an abortionist, he could have discovered an outlet for his bloodlust and been hailed as a saint and a hero by these very same Democrats who pretend to cry over the victimization of “our children.”

But the Democrats are correct when they say that children have a right to live and grow and become adults in peace, without having to worry that some monster will rob them of a life they barely had the chance to live. It is a shame that kids are not safe in school. And it is an even greater shame that they are not safe in the womb. It seems they are not safe anywhere. And our nation will have to answer to God for that.

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Parents Lose Custody Of Child For Refusing To Support Transgenderism

On Friday, Ohio parents were denied custody of their daughter for not being supportive enough of her alleged transgenderism.

The 17-year-old biologically female child identifies as a boy and claims she has suicidal thoughts over her parents’ lack of support for her transgenderism (they won’t, or example, call her by her new chosen male name). The parents were fighting for custody of their daughter back from the state in an effort to stop potential transgender hormone treatment.

An attorney representing the parents, whose names have not been disclosed because of privacy concerns, argued that the girl was not “even close to being able to make such a life-altering decision at this time.” Representatives of the girl argued that a “medical team” claimed that the treatment was a matter of life and death.

Hamilton County Judge Sylvia Sieve Hendon granted custody to the girl’s maternal grandparents, who are open to transgender hormone therapy. The teenager has been living with them since 2016.

According to CNN, Hendon also granted the grandparents the option to petition to change the teen’s name to her new male name in probate court. The girl is now covered by their insurance.

“The grandparents, rather than parents, will be the ones to help make medical decisions for the child going forward. But before any hormone treatment is allowed, the court ordered, the teen should be evaluated by a psychologist who is not affiliated with the current facility where he is receiving treatment, on ‘the issue of consistency in the child’s gender presentation, and feelings of non-conformity,'” notes CNN.

The parents were granted visitation rights.

Karen Brinkman, the parents’ attorney, argued that granting the grandparents custody was merely an act to circumvent “the necessity of parents’ consent” and was not in the child’s best interest.

The parents “have done their due diligence contacting medical professionals, collecting thousands of hours of research and relying on their observation of their own child … that led them to the conclusion that this is not in their child’s best interest,” she said.

The parents’ Christian faith was used against them in the case by Donald Clancy of the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office.

“Father testified that any kind of transition at all would go against his core beliefs and allowing the child to transition would be akin to him taking his heart out of his chest and placing it on the table,” argued Clancy.

Brinkman denied the allegations and argued that the parents believed hormone therapy was “unnecessary” and “would do more harm than good.”

In her decision, Judge Hendon urged Ohio lawmakers to create legislation that “would give a voice and a pathway to youth” like the child who has been ripped from her parents to receive “gender therapy” without parents’ consent.

“What is clear from the testimony presented in this case and the increasing worldwide interest in transgender care is that there is certainly a reasonable expectation that circumstances similar to the one at bar are likely to repeat themselves,” wrote Hendon. “That type of legislation would give a voice and a pathway to youth similarly situated as (the teen) without attributing fault to the parents and involving them in protracted litigation which can and does destroy a family unit.”

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‘Pig supporters not welcome’: Pro-police stores threatened, vandalized, harassed

St. Louis antique store owner Cherri Elder formed positive relationships with police patrolling in the area, so she decided to display an American flag containing a thin blue line — a symbol for police sacrifice — in front of Elder’s Antiques.

But the gesture didn’t go over well with everybody.

“People came by, they would cuss at you, they would harass you,” Elder told KMOV-TV, “they would harass the customers.”

Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot
Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot

Elder told the station she took down the thin blue line flag to avoid continued trouble.

“I thought things were getting better,” she told KMOV. “But apparently it’s not.”

What happened?

A month after taking down the thin blue line flag — which is now displayed inside her 32-year-old store — Elder told the station she found a large handwritten sign on the front window of Elder’s Antiques that read: “Pig supporters not welcome. Flag goes down or you go down.”

On the right bottom corner of the sign was a hammer and sickle — presumably standing for communism and the former Soviet Union — along with the letters “MLM,” which KMOV said often stands for Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot
Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot

“Oh, it’s most definitely a threat,” Elder told the station, adding that the sign was “big” and “for everybody to see.”

What happened at a nearby store?

A window at Delmay Ltd. Antiques — one of Elder’s neighbors a few doors down — is now boarded up.

Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot
Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot

Why?

Three individuals were seen on surveillance video kicking in the window and running off, KMOV reported.

Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot
Image source: KMOV-TV video screenshot

Delmay also had a thin blue line flag hanging on her storefront, the station added, but it was stolen.

How is Elder reacting?

“My business, my friends are being targeted,” Elder told KMOV.

While Elder added to the station that she has “every right to fly a flag,” she said she doesn’t think she’ll be putting it back on display.

But whatever Elder decides, she told KMOV that these actions must “stop before somebody gets hurt” and that she desires a return “to some kind of normalcy where people have respect for one another.”

(H/T: Blue Lives Matter)

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How a union sank a mom and pop company overnight

This is a sad story out of Connecticut brought to us this week by the Washington Free Beacon. It involves J-Con Woodworking, located in Thomaston. Hilary and Mark Converse own the business and it’s been in operation there for more than three decades. Now, however, the formerly successful operation is shuttered and the owners are left with nothing. It happened in rapid fashion after eight union carpenters working for them decided to withdraw from the Carpenters Union. That triggered a demand for pension fund payments from the union which essentially bankrupted the family.

J-Con Woodworking in Thomaston, Conn., closed its doors after 34 years in operation in order to cover $633,667.80 in retirement and health benefits as part of a multiemployer pension system maintained by the Carpenters Union. The mass payout was triggered after the company’s eight union carpenters decided to withdraw from the union in a unanimous vote, according to reporter Marc Fitch.

“They wiped us out,” Hilary Converse, who owns the business with her husband Mark, said in an article posted at the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. “We basically have nothing left.”

The Converse family liquidated all of its assets and sold off its machinery to cover expenses resulting from a suit brought by the Carpenters Labor-Management Pension Fund. Multiemployer pension funds were developed for union laborers who fulfill numerous contracts for different companies over the course of their careers. Participating employers pool their resources together to cover the retirement costs and provide defined benefit plans to the workers in the same manner that an automotive or manufacturing worker does from his lifelong employer.

Just as we’ve seen with public employee unions in Washington and around the nation, the culprit at the bottom of all this is the system of lucrative pension plans which the unions negotiate for. They promise the moon in terms of retirement plans and pension payments unavailable to most private-sector workers today, and the cost of these systems swells over the years until the pension costs devour the host they are feeding on. In the case of the Converse family, they had no say in whether or not their eight carpenters stayed in their union and the unions refuses to disclose how they arrived at the whopping figure of well over a half million dollars as being their “share” of the bill for the pension plan.

All of this happens with the blessing of both the state and federal government. The unions have long been so fully in control of politics, primarily through the Democratic Party, that they’ve been able to write their own rules. This essentially translates into the ability to write your own meal ticket. Then, when poor management of the systems and a failure to anticipate long-term costs begins to bring them down, rather than curbing the pension benefits to allow the system to remain solvent, they make increasingly steep demands on the employers. Eventually, the system proves unsustainable and, in cases like that of J-Con Woodworking, the employer folds and nobody has any jobs.

There are union reforms underway today in DC and some of the states, but it’s going to take a massive amount of effort to make any headway. The unions are weaker than they were a few decades ago but they still have tremendous clout and will tie up any reform efforts in court for years.

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MRC Supporters Make 25,000 Phone Calls Demanding ABC Apologize for Attacking Pence, Christians

<p>As of Monday morning, the Media Research Center and its grassroots members made over 25,000 calls lambasting ABC and demanding a full apology for anti-Christian comments made by <em>The View </em>on February 13 that suggested Vice President Mike Pence’s “dangerous” Christian faith was a “mental illness.”</p>

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Chelsea Manning Tweets That We Shouldn’t Have A President. The Internet Drops An Anvil On Him.

On Monday, Presidents Day, Chelsea Manning, the darling of the Left, decided to take another shot at President Trump and presidents in general with an ill-advised tweet that elicited an avalanche of scorn on the internet. Manning, the traitor and former intelligence analyst who is running for the Senate in Maryland and whose 35-year sentence for giving classified information to WikiLeaks was infamously commuted by former president Barack Obama just before he left office in January 2017, tweeted:

Manning was pummeled by a variety of people on Twitter for one obvious reason:

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WashPost Column Blames ‘Word-Abusing’ Trump for NBC’s Flubs at the Olympics

<p>Just imagine a world where seemingly everything bad is President Trump’s fault. For <em>Washington Post</em> sports columnist Jerry Brewer, that seems to be the world he inhabits. In his column for Friday’s print edition, Brewer blamed “our most profane, word-abusing leader” and President for three screw-ups by NBC guest host Katie Couric, former Asia expert Joshua Cooper Ramo, and Alpine skiing commentator Bodie Miller.</p>

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Brainwashed Kids Say “We Will Be The Last Mass Shooting”

This is exactly what happens when impressionable kids are brainwashed by both a leftist media and their equally left-wing teachers. ……

God bless children, but they know nothing save for tidbits of knowledge gleaned from their left-wing schools, the left-wing media and the very left-wing entertainment industry.

And so it should surprise nobody that brainwashed kids from Florida, where last week a 19-year-old maniac killed 17 during a mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, are now championing left-wing gun control policies and claiming, “We will be the last mass shooting,” as reported by USA Today:

Students at a power-packed rally in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday made impassioned pleas for legislation to regulate guns. “We will be the last mass shooting,” Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez declared to wild cheers.

Their calls for gun control have been steadily growing since the school shooting. Twenty-four hours after a gunman killed 17 at the school in Parkland, Fla., senior David Hogg implored lawmakers to take action.

“We are children; you guys are the adults,” Hogg told CNN. “You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Come over your politics and get something done.”

God bless these kids’ hearts, but their belief that mere legislation could transform mass shootings from an inexorable characteristic of contemporary life to a figment of history isn’t just naive — it’s impossible.

Add to that the fact that Democrats politicians have yet to propose a single policy that would have prevented last week’s shooting, let alone the the shooting in Las Vegas late last year.

And according to Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire, even when Democrats controlled the White House, the House and the Senate, they themselves passed no relevant gun control measures.

“If the Left were to propose a piece of legislation, they’d have to defend it on the merits. They wouldn’t be able to posture about how ‘everyone but those evil Second Amendment advocates agrees!’ Because not everyone would agree with their proposals. In fact, most people typically haven’t,” he wrote last week.

“Which is why Democrats, enjoying a 60-vote majority in the Senate and a wide majority in the House from 2009-2011, passed precisely zero major pieces of gun legislation — and why when Barack Obama attempted to use the Social Security Administration to seize guns from elderly people who used a proxy for their finances, even the ACLU opposed him.”

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Look, if these kids genuinely want to make a difference, I recommend they consider pursuing reasonable preventative measures involving perhaps improved mental health care and definitely a grossly less incompetent FBI.

But if they instead seek to use draconian gun regulations to bring about some perfect utopia where mass shootings disappear into the dustbins of history, then I’m sorry to say, but they’re being very childish.

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