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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you know you know. What they did today was so brave and beautiful, and it gives me real hope for the future. 💙[/quote]

Agree. I saw them as I was driving by and tears came to my eyes. My dd participated and guesses 75% of students did based on what teachers said.  I watched the videos and this was not kids cutting class.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUWPRadmFWA/?img_index=1[/quote]

Thank you so much for sharing this IG link. Got me teary-eyed as well. I’m so proud of these kids for standing up for what’s right.[/quote]

Kids holding posters F*uck Ice? Are you proud of such language? [/quote]

They are speaking to the POTUS in the only type of language he understands.  Savvy.[/quote]

Then you are not different from Maga, just on the other side of the spectrum.
I really hope we have a leader that will unite rather than polarize the population. All the left and right extremists can continue fighting each other and leave us normal people alone. Im so sorry for the kids that are brainwashed on both sides. So sad that this country is falling apart 
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Explain to me what behavior demonstrated by these students would qualify as being brainwashed?  Do we need to brainwash a teenager into feeling that denying citizens and non-citizens their due process rights is unconstitutional?  Do we need to brainwash them into understanding that a badge doesn’t give someone the right to execute a person without a trial? These seem like common sense arguments and strong American values to me.  But what do I know?  I am just a Marine who spent 8 years fighting for and defending this US Constitution.[/quote]

[b]Show me articles about students in MoCo walking out of school when Obama was droning American citizens, imprisoning journalists, forcing whistleblowers like Snowden to flee to another country, and deporting 3 million people.[/b]

[b]They never did because they’re…wait for it…brainwashed and only care about civil rights abuses or migrant rights when the other team is in power.[/b] They think they’re fighting the power but only “fight the power” when it doesn’t offend their rich white liberal parents’ sensibilities. That’s not brave at all. Leading a walk out in deep red Mississippi over ICE violations would be brave. Leading a walk out in a far left school district a vast majority of parents and teachers support you is not brave. Sorry.

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here is a small sample of things MoCo HS students protested during the Biden years:

Hundreds of MCPS students walk out in protest of district’s handling of COVID-19
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/01/24/hundreds-of-mcps-students-walk-out-in-protest-of-districts-handling-of-covid-19/

Northwood Students Walk Out to Protest Delayed Facilities
https://www.mymcmedia.org/northwood-students-walk-out-to-protest-delayed-facilities/

MSP, BSU rally, raise awareness of racism in MCPS
https://www.thesentinel.com/communities/msp-bsu-rally-raise-awareness-of-racism-in-mcps/article_8a1547a4-8e5e-11ef-808b-1f3d044dcfe8.html

Walt Whitman High School students walk out in protest of antisemitic graffiti
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1157895

Students Pen Letters Calling for Ceasefire in Palestine
https://www.mymcmedia.org/students-pen-letters-calling-for-ceasefire-in-palestine/

RM students hold walkout to advocate for gun control
https://thermtide.com/16719/popular/rm-students-hold-walkout-to-advocate-for-gun-control/

It’s Really Disheartening’: Walter Johnson Students Stage Walk-Out In Response to Racist, Homophobic Graffiti
https://www.mymcmedia.org/its-really-disheartening-walter-johnson-students-stage-walk-out-in-response-to-racist-homophobic-graffiti/

As a BCC neighbor, I have frequently seen protests - peace rallies on the corner lead by teacher Coleman McCarthy ( long before Trump), Black Lives Matter protests, gun control protests (many MoCo students went to March for Our Lives and some even helped organize it), and, of course, DMV students collectively (organized by Wilson HS but with contingents from HS in MD and DC both public and private, were the first US citizens to protest Trump immediately after his first election and before the Women’s March….

https://wtop.com/dc/2016/11/protests-continue-hundreds-dc-students-walk-class-rally-trump/

The comparison you give to prove that the MoCo students are driven by liberal prejudice against Trump is a bit inapposite  - Obama drone policy, journalist arrests and Snowden, while arguably civil rights or law of war violations, are violations against a small number of people often far away about issues that are executive-driven making it hard to get mass support and hard to target mass support in a way that would matter electorally. While I think drone policy (which started under Bush and was maintained and expanded in someways under Obama) is a civil rights and law of war violation, it is an expansion that has happened under Democratic and Republican administrations and was wildly expanded under Trump in the form of drone strikes on non-combatant alleged drug running boats in international waters. No one - adults nor students - has protested any of that.  As is common with foreign policy issues short of outright war, citizen engagement is low and most of the “protest” against these policies happen in policy, advocacy, legislative and diaspora communities.

Students did not protest Obama deportation policy like they are protesting Trump deportation policy, because OFC, deportation in the Obama administration was largely done within the confines of the rule of law while giving people notice and opportunity to contest. What students (and adults) are protesting today is not the deportation itself but rather the manner in which it is being done -  in contravention of the Constitution, without judicial warrants, without notice, with no opportunity to contest, without an opportunity to consult an attorney, and in a way that is disappearing deportees and forcing them to live in inhumane conditions without adequate access to food, medical care and basic heat and sleep, and when deportees are able to get into court USDOJ attorneys are lying or misrepresenting facts and flouting judicial orders (in many dozens of cases). Additionally, people are protesting the scope of Trump’s deportation. Trump ran on deporting “criminal” immigrants, but when he got into office, it became apparent that he wanted to deport all immigrants - many of whom turned out to be longstanding pillars of communities, little innocent children or spouses or parents of US citizens.

The fact that Republicans don’t see this difference is going to be their downfall. I have no doubt if the Trump Administration had stuck to deporting convicted criminals, they would have succeeded. But instead they let their inner racism flag fly by characterizing all immigrants as criminal merely by nature of their immigration, whether done in accordance with legal process or not, and then empowering ICE to use force and violence to detain anyone with brown skin or a foreign accent without other probable cause or reasonable suspicion of a crime - a tactic we should not forget was blessed by Justice Kavanaugh himself (may he go down ignominiously in history as both a sexual assault accused and a racist). The Trump Administrations own actions have created a tremendous backlash.

Blaming the backlash on snowflake liberals is just abusive DARVO tactics - Deny, Attack, Reverse, Victim and Offender.

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