Florida Shooting Survivor's Mother: We Have Received Death Threats
Florida Shooting Survivor's Mother: We Have Received Death Threats
The mother of a student who survived the deadly Florida high school shooting said her family has received death threats in the wake of the tragedy.
Student David Hogg and other survivors of the Florida shooting have made frequent media appearances in recent days to call for action on gun violence. They have since become the subject of conspiracy theories falsely claiming they are actors who were coached ahead of their television appearances.
Hogg's mother, Rebecca Boldrick, told The Washington Post her family has received death threats online since the conspiracy theories surfaced.
"I'm under so much stress," she told the Post.
"I'm angry and exhausted," she continued. "Angry, exhausted and extremely proud."
Hogg has spoken out in recent days against the conspiracy theories against him, saying he is not a "crisis actor" but is someone who had to live through this tragedy.
"It's annoying. I hate it. But it's part of American democracy," Hogg said in a phone interview with the Post. "Am I an actor? No. Am I a witness? Yes."
Earlier this week, a Florida state lawmaker's aide was fired hours after claiming two survivors of the Florida shooting - including Hogg - who had appeared on television were actors.
Benjamin Kelly, an aide to state Rep. Shawn Harrison (R), emailed a Tampa Bay Times reporter after Hogg and Emma Gonz lez called for legislation to stop gun violence in an appearance on CNN.
According to Tampa Bay Times reporter Alex Leary, the staffer said, "Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen."
Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran (R) later tweeted that he fired Kelly.
Survivors of the shooting have spoken out in multiple interviews against gun violence. Some appeared Wednesday night during a CNN town hall, in which residents of Parkland, Fla., were given the chance to question Florida lawmakers and a National Rifle Association spokeswoman.
Students in schools across the country this week have also staged walkouts and marches to demand action on gun control.
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At long last, has the alt-right no decency? No honor? No humanity? Within hours of the Parkland Florida school shooting right wing sources were spreading false news stories slandering 17 year old Parkland shooting victim David Hogg who is currently a student at the school. Someone needs answer for the lies being spread.
Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM FEB. 20, 2018
Angry indignant alt-righters defended the false news stories created to defame and slander student survivor David Hogg...
Perhaps he shouldn't have allowed himself be duped by the left wing organizers who are playing this tragedy for political gain as hard as they can. Progressives have a long history of organizing and staging demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, lay-downs, shout-downs, and in many cases riots and violence to capture all the misleading sound bites and "breaking news" video clips that they can.
Now they are being caught at it. Not a peep out of them during the shootings of the Obama years. This time, they have made the mistake of trying to cast the blame on Trump and the Republicans and the majority of sane adult citizens and voters are not falling for it. They also know, or should know, that simply banning the manufacture and sale of bump stocks and "assault weapons" will not stop mass killings because there is no way to collect the ones in circulation.
Obtuse.
You are blaming the victim. How ungallant of you. David Hogg only spoke the truth. He certainly did not deserve to have character assassinated by right wing zealots. He is just a highschool student. He is not an actor. This kind of stuff came out, predicably, again within hours of the school shooting. It is like clockwork with the far right conspiracy nuts. I cannot believe you feel he deserved to be slandered and maligned and his good character assassinated based on false made up crapola merely for expressing the same opinions regarding sensible gun control as are held by the majority of the People in these United States of America. His family is receiving death threats for gosh sake based on fake RW news reports...
Where the fuck have you been?
I won't address your comment further as it is either totally ignorant, or, you think the rest of us are.
So first the right screams "Fake!" "Actor!" and when that was shot down by facts, they start screaming "Duped!" "Used!". They can never address the content of this kids argument, they simply retreat to attacking the messenger because they've got nothing else.
I dont know who you can say all of this belongs to.. the right, the left.. both are guilty.. not this in particular. I guess I am saying America over the past 30 some odd years has become a pretty disgusting place with politics.. I mean its always had heads bumping, but its just getting down right disgusting these days. I am sick of both sides.
Sorry but the blame for this lies entirely with the right wing nuts who spread these bogus stories, including the ones here who were doing it yesterday.
No wonder Russia saw an opportunity given how gullible and unethical these dimwitted righties are.
Bullcrap Shrekk... BOTH sides are guilty for filling their pockets with money and not getting stuff done.
Dont even talk about the right being gullible.. It wasnt the right who had their emails hacked by the russians .. that was the dems.. who are too stupid to have intelligent passwords, or not having their own private server in their bathroom..
The only reason why the left gets away with so much BS is because they are that good and lying and deceiving people. Divide and conquer is all they know. Also the Russians had no influence on anything .. comparing about 47000 dollars or 1 million to hundreds of millions is nothing.
Sorry but there's a reason right wingers are so gullible that they get so easily taken in by obviously bogus stories like Pizzagate and the "crisis actor" BS. It probably explains why they're so superstitious too.
No victims were too young for despicable alt-righties to defame and slander as it suited their purposes...
Assholes!
That's the best that can be said about them lady in black.
She needs an adjective
let me help
fucking assholes
Shameless asshole character assassins is who did this despicable deed. They are, well um, deplorable to their cores...
It has like clockwork the way alt-right conspiracy gun nutters come up with this same crap immediately after ensuing gun tragedies...
The ECONOMIC BOYCOTT OF THE NRA HAS BEGUN.
The Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Torture, Pro-Capital Punishment, Culture-of-Hatred-and-Macho-Delusion is about to erode.
When a child hits another child with a stick the child should be punished …
… and the stick taken from him.
I don't think it will change all that quickly.But I do agree that something is starting to change.
After Sandy Hook for a while it looked like things would start to change, but they didn't.
However, now, for the first time, IMO there is definitely the beginning of a major shift.
Some things are starting to happen that we haven't seen before. For example:
NRA backlash
Companies may be starting to rethink their ties to the National Rifle Association in the wake of last week’s massacre at a Florida high school, with a major bank and car-rental giant announcing Thursday they were dropping partnership programs with the NRA.
First National Bank of Omaha, the nation’s largest privately owned bank, said Thursday it will not renew its contract with the NRA for a branded Visa card.
“Customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA,” a bank spokesman said in a statement. “As a result, First National Bank of Omaha will not renew its contract with the National Rifle Association to issue the NRA Visa Card,”
The bank had a relationship with the NRA for more than a decade , and the card touted a $40 cash-back bonus, enough to reimburse a one-year NRA membership.
(Link)
I have to admit this caught me by surprise.....this is significant.
And they're not the only one:
Later Thursday, privately held Enterprise Holdings Inc. — the parent company of the Enterprise, Alamo and National car rental brands — said it will end its partnership with the NRA, which gave NRA members discounts. In tweets, Enterprise Holdings said that program will end next month.
These are not isolated incidents-- its the beginning of a significant change--- in today's news, more companies are joining them:
Here is a list of companies: ( We’ll update it as the story develops.) " Here is a list of companies: ( We’ll update it as the story develops.)
(Cont'd HERE)
If America's young people (who have not yet been proselytized by their parents to adopt their religion of gun worship) want to create any kind of movement about gun controls, then they should study the youth of the 1960s and the anti-war movement. If Bob Dylan has not become moribund in his old age, perhaps he would write a protest song to serve as an anthem - or add a relevant verse to "Blowing in the Wind" - something like this:
(With apologies to Bob Dylan)
For some time now there's been a pattern after incidents like this-- a lot of outrage...then most people forget about it. And nothing changes. However as AMac has pointed out. this time there are indications that things are beginning to change. Some people have always said things were starting to change after every similar incident-- but they really weren't.
So what's different now? Just as with the anti-war movement of the 60's-- what was different is now the kids are mobilized. It was the "kids"-- those in their 20s & younger-- that made the difference in the anti-war protests in the 60s.. And suddenly we're start to seeing that same type of people leading things now.
It would appear that now, finally, "The Times they are a changin'..."
The kids of Parkland have already written one for themselves.
Reminds me of this:
. . . and a little child shall lead them.
(Isaiah 11:6....)
Since I can't open YouTube, is there a link to the lyrics?
Thanks, Dulay, I appreciate your help.
No worries.
Since conservatism has allowed itself to become illegitimate, surrounding itself with fear and suspicion, it sustains itself on the specter of lacking any semblance of memory, honor or soul.
Thusly, the victims of terror become the enemy and the reaction of conservatism is play the victim.