Child Warriors

I have had deep concerns about the fusion of Islamism and the New Left for some time.  The BDS movement, the election of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the refusal of mainstream Democrats and the Women’s March to categorically reject Louis Farrakhan have pointed to an implicit alliance between the New Left and Islamism.

And over the past year, one aspect of this alliance has alarmed me- the willingness of the New Left to adopted the Islamist tactic of using children as combatants to further their cause.

Hamas often uses children rather effectively as a defensive measure.   They create terrible dilemmas for the Israelis by using them as human shields to launch rocket attacks from Gaza.  Palestinians routinely deploy children to fling rocks at and taunt the IDF.  Last year, a video of a 16 year old girl slapping and kicking an IDF soldier went viral.  Offensively, Hamas has deployed booby trapped balloons and kites with incendiaries to terrorize Israeli children in playgrounds.

The New Left has caught on.

The New Left has now escalated its battle on a number of fronts and is using children both offensively and defensively.  Almost as if it were pre-planned, the New Left has deployed a single spokeschild in each of the discrete areas that is of most importance to it--climate change, gun control, sexuality and the economics.  The reason is simple.  As Hamas has learned, it is folly to attack a child on rational grounds, with evidence and data.  Children argue exclusively by appealing to emotion, and they can ruthlessly attack pollical opponents and they can’t be hit back, even when their arguments run contrary to fact and, in some cases, the U.S. Constitution.

Greta Thunburg (climate change)
Greta Thunburg is a 16 year old Swedish climate change “activist.”  At 16, she is not old enough to be a real scientist, do any modeling or analyze any modeling, nor is she qualified to do any economic analysis.  Yet there she is on a podium at Davos, telling world economic leaders that she will hold them accountable if they do not bend to her will.  “I want you to panic…and act as if the house was on fire,” she implored.  With no facts, no data and no practical solutions to support her other than “emissions must halt now,” she blamed the Davos elite for making “unimaginable amounts of money.”  The organizers of Davos had plenty of choices to address this issue—scientists, economists, statisticians—but they chose to put a child with no qualifications whatsoever on the podium.

David Hogg (gun control)
In the immediate aftermath Beginning with the Parkland shooting, young Mr. Hogg was ubiquitous on cable and in social media.  Hogg went after everyone, relentlessly and in a most nasty, acid, and often fact free fashion.  He accused Republicans of being in the bag with the NRA, smeared Dana Loesch, and then Marco Rubio foolishly agreed to debate him.  We have since learned that Broward County Sheriff’s department failed miserably in its response as did the F.B.I. (the shooter should have been locked up long ago).  But no matter, the New Left had their young, untouchable gun control spokesperson, who was rewarded for his efforts by admission to Harvard, despite having boards scores well below its normal admission standards and despite having been rejected by a dozen or so less prestigious colleges.

Desmond (LGBT)

Fresh off its marriage equality victory in Obergefell v. Hodges in the Supreme Court, the LGBT activists never slowed down.  The next battlegrounds were bathrooms, the military and youth sports for transgenders.  With the Trump administration putting up resistance on those fronts, the LGBT activists pivoted to the next frontier—the sexualization of children.   The New York Times began to float op-eds that talked about how pedophiles were really born that way and how criminalization of it should be softened.  Then little cross dressing 11 year old Desmond made his debut on Good Morning America to a cheering crowd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w5X4aD6mo8), followed soon thereafter by another pre-teen appearing with a nude male on social media.  Little Desmond is all over social media proclaiming that RuPaul is his hero and that RuPaul is the future.  In another era, the parents of both would have been arrested for child abuse. This is a deliberate and calculated attempt to connect pedophilia to the LGBT movement and to normalize it.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (Economics)

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or AOC is she is now known burst on to the scene by upsetting Democratic stalwart Joe Crowley in the primary and then winning the general election in a solidly blue New York district.  Ocasio-Cortez (or Occasionally Cortex as her detractors call her) is an unapologetic and strident socialist that, like David Hogg, is everywhere.   And, like Mr. Hogg, AOC has no inhibitions about taking potshots at the president and respected and seasoned politicians like Joe Lieberman.

Although she is 29 years old, she has no practical experience beyond waitressing.  Although she has an economics degree from Boston University, it is apparent that she is either lying or that she sleepwalked through basic econ.  Why do I have her on the list of child warriors even though she is 29 years old?   I have included her because she thinks, reasons, talks, acts and carries herself like a child, and not a fully functioning adult.  She complained that she couldn’t rent an apartment in D.C. because she didn’t have the money to do so before she started her job as congresswoman.  She refers to top earners as the “tippee tops.”  Just as a pre-teen would, she was broadcasting about her pajamas and skin care regimen over social media.

Without any experience in anything beyond pouring wine, she is aggressively pushing her agendas: Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, a 70% tax rate.  When questioned about how she will finance it, she childlike brushes skepticism aside and says “you just pay for it.”  Her childlike beliefs are disconnected from any basis in reality, speaking of her proposed programs as a child talks about Santa Claus.  Even Left-friendly CNN could not get her to answer basic questions about how to finance all of her fantasies, yet she is undeterrable.  When questioned about her facts, she dismissively says that she is morally right, so her factual omissions and misrepresentations are forgivable.  She may be in her late 20’s, but her language, demeanor and ability to reason say that she is mentally and emotionally about 13 or 14  years old.

But then the New Left overreached.   It switched from defense to offense, and focuseda group of teenage boys from a Catholic high school.  In partnership with the mainstream media, it sought to demonize those boys and make them the target of attack.  And it worked… for a few hours.  Almost all of social media bought the narrative that these boys encircled poor old Native American Nathan Phillips and were taunting him based on his race and ethnicity.  Fired up by the MSM, the internet mob swarmed, slimed and doxxed the boys, who, among other things, receiving death threats. 

And it was all wrong.  The entire MSM reported the events precisely backwards-- NBC, NPR, CNN and the New York Times.  They lured the diocese into apologizing to Mr. Phillips (it later apologized to the kids).  It was the Covington kids that were being taunted by the Black Israelites and it was Nathan Phillips that got in their faces.  Scott Adams spun out his apology to the kids on Periscope after carefully reviewing the videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DrAeUNPU0).   And quickly, people learned that ol’ Nate has a history of public rabble rousing and lied about his status as a Vietnam veteran.  It turns out that the boys did absolutely nothing wrong.  The howling internet mob reached peak absurdity when it pounced on young Mr. Sandmann for the dastardly deed of –get this-- smirking. 

The Covington episode will not be the last of its kind.  Until Covington, the New Left has primarily deployed children defensively.  Now we will see children become an intended target of the New Left. used a standard tactic here – Get in their faces, disrupt, hope to provoke a reaction, and if you don’t, make up a narrative.  But here, the boys of Covington were saved by technology.   The film didn’t lie and there was plenty of the whole episode to discredit ol’ Nate.  And the ability to check his background quickly further undermined his credibility.

And now, they will fight back.  Nick Sandmann, the lead boy in the photo has engaged one of the top libel lawyers in the country, and has assemble a team of several law firms.  They have announced that several lawsuits will be filed against multiple parties.  Winning these suits is not common.  Carol Burnett won against the National Enquirer.  Hulk Hogan drove Gawker into bankruptcy.  I cannot predict the outcome here, but the film of the incident is pretty clear and several versions were taken from several different perspectives.

Hamas taught the New Left the benefits of engaging children in combat.  Hamas understands that it cannot defeat the IDF conventionally, so it deploys children as a defensive measure…and attacks them as well.  The New Left likewise understands that its pet  positions are a minority position and are difficult to argue rationally – confiscatory taxes, government run health care, cessation of all emissions, gender fluidity.   All evidence (just look at Venezuela), practicality and common sense cuts against them.

So the New Left has resorted to asymmetric warfare.

One of my favorite gangster films is Scarface with Al Pacino.  Pacino played Tony Montana, a wash up from the Mariel boat lift who, through ruthlessness and ambition, climbs to the top of the Miami drug trade as an assassin and drug dealer. In the climactic scene, he is hired by a Colombian drug lord to put a hit on a government official that threatens to expose him.   When the government official gets in his car, he is unexpectedly joined by his kids and Montana cannot bring himself to blow up the car with the kids in it, and aborts his mission (which results in his undoing). (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcQtUdZ5Afs).

 As amoral and vicious as Montana was, he had boundaries, at least some semblance of a moral code--- no wife, no kids.  He would not destroy children. 

The New Left has no such boundaries.