ANOTHER "BELIEVE THE CHILDREN" MOMENT – AT 3:40 P.M. ET:  Oh, I'm so tired of this stuff.  Believe the children.  The youth of America is speaking.  Speak truth to power.  We've heard it all, and it must be said that rarely have "student movements" ended well.  Ask yourself how much experience and wisdom you had at 17 or 18.

But now Harvard has gotten into the act, and students from that tragic school in Florida where the recent shooting occurred, will play the part of the useful idiots.  From College Fix:   

Some of the more vocal students from the site of the Parkland, Florida shootings are headed to Harvard University on March 20.

According to The Harvard Crimson, the high school activists will be part of an Institute of Politics panel titled “#NEVERAGAIN: How Parkland Students are Changing the Conversation on Guns,” and will feature students David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Emma González.

Dustin Chiang, president of the IOP Student Advisory Committee, said in an email “These students have rapidly organized a nationwide movement and are currently at the center of our country’s political discourse. We are eager to hear their insight on how young people can make a difference on issues they believe in.”

Panel moderator Meighan Stone, a senior fellow at the Kennedy School’s Women and Foreign Policy program, compared the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School survivors to Pakistani activist Malala and US Representative John Lewis:

“The Parkland students have refused to be silent victims, instead realizing they need no one’s permission to be a prophetic voice for change and an end to gun violence in America."

COMMENT:  These children, and that's what they are properly called, are being exploited by the political left.  Reducing gun violence is a serious issue requiring experience and study. Being present at a horrible shooting makes you no more an expert on guns than a robbery victim is an expert on property crime.

I guess the Florida kids are being invited to draw press attention.   Get those press clippings!  Great for a professor's resumé.

March 12, 2018