(02-20-2018, 11:00 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Well, well, well...looks like the Race Baiters succeeded again. Change the rules for minorities, create another situation where the legal authorities cannot enforce the law because of skin color or name of the criminal, and then we all blame law enforcement for their ineptitude and start a movement to take away legal gun ownership by non-criminals. Almost like Obama and his Merry Band of Traitors meant for this to happen...well, not almost, clearly that was their intent.

The Broward County Solution

FTA:

"Authorities agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as school-related issues, not criminal ones.  The results impressed the people who initiated the program.  Arrests dropped from more than a thousand in 2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later.

One particular motivation behind programs like Broward County's was the pressure from multiple sources to reduce the statistical disparity between black and Hispanic student arrests on one hand and white and Asian student arrests on the other.  Benzing writes, for instance, how a Denver organization called "Padres & Jóvenes Unidos" successfully advocated for a program like Broward's to help achieve "racial and education equity" in Denver schools.

By virtue of his name alone, Nikolas de Jesús Cruz, the adopted son of Lynda and Roger Cruz, became a statistical Hispanic.  As such, authorities at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland had every reason not to report his troubling and likely criminal behavior to the police."

(02-20-2018, 11:12 AM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: David Hogg, the new Parkland student activist.  He is very articulate about gun control and Donald Trump.  He sounds like he has been extensively coached.  And true to form, there is a YouTube of him actually rehearsing his lines.  He is a brave defender of the FBI.  Why would a student defend the FBI's role in this?  Oh, that's right, Hogg's father is FBI.  David Hogg is a newly-minted media star.  He was invited to meet with Donald Trump, but he is going to snub the President and participate in an anti-gun Town Hall instead.  I hope David's school work doesn't suffer, what with flying around the country and appearing on CNN and MSNBC all the time.  This is a well-traveled young man.  He even appeared in a CBS segment in Redondo Beach, California 5 months ago involving a boogie board and a profane lifeguard.  Newsworthy events just seem to follow David around.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."