Protesters block DeVos from entering DC school

[mystery-ak]

Protesters block DeVos from entering DC school
By Paulina Firozi - 02/10/17 11:10 AM EST

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was greeted with protesters when she tried to enter a Washington middle school on Friday morning.

A video from the scene shows DeVos walking away from one entrance of Jefferson Middle School after being physically blocked from the entrance. One protester stood in front of the stairway entrance in the school, and DeVos walked back to her vehicle.

“Keep giving money to senators and buying your way to the position,” one protestor holding a Black Lives Matter sign says to her, according to a video from ABC reporter. “I hope you’re proud of yourself."

“Go back,” the protestor yells and she enters the car. “Shame! Shame! Shame!”

more w/video
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/318924-devos-blocked-from-entering-dc-school

[don-o]

Mobocracy.

Keep backing down to this and you'll get more of this.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Time to invest in pepper spray futures?

[jpsb]

Having worked at NASA I know the protocol for when a "heavy" visits. This school did not follow protocol so it is pretty obvious to me the school did not want her to visit and might have even coordinated with the "protesters" bad move on the part of the schools admin and further proof at lot of our public schools don't give a damn about educating our kids.

[INVAR]

Just more evidence that the civil society has collapsed and the rule of law is indeed null and void.

We have been successfully Balkanized to the point that the ideological fractures have now physically opened.

Bad Ju-Ju usually follows where we have officially arrived.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Just more evidence that the civil society has collapsed and the rule of law is indeed null and void.

We have been successfully Balkanized to the point that the ideological fractures have now physically opened.

Bad Ju-Ju usually follows where we have officially arrived.

Hyperbole. Turn off the internet, take a walk around outside. My neighbors are calm, friendly, and smiling. During the snowstorm another neighbor did the walkway for an elderly neighbor out of the goodness of his heart.


Civil society is doing just fine. When you congregate in your own echo-chambers on the internet, things seem a lot worse than they are.


Close out of Breitbart and Drudge, close down the laptop, go for a walk outside. You will see plenty of good.


Right wing media is a mere flipside of leftwing media: it's designed to get you as emotional as possible. Because they get more bucks that way.

[INVAR]

Hyperbole. Turn off the internet, take a walk around outside. My neighbors are calm, friendly, and smiling. During the snowstorm another neighbor did the walkway for an elderly neighbor out of the goodness of his heart.


Civil society is doing just fine. When you congregate in your own echo-chambers on the internet, things seem a lot worse than they are.


Close out of Breitbart and Drudge, close down the laptop, go for a walk outside. You will see plenty of good.

I don't discount that there is still ample "good" in much of the country.  But that is not how our culture is progressing and is being governed now is it?

The fact that the vast majority of Americans were content to put on rose-colored glasses and just ignore the minority of agitators, Leftists, Community Organizers, Race Pimps and Overt Communists raising a stink about every aspect of life in America - is how we have arrived at the point we have in our politics, in our discourse and in our economics.

I'm witnessing the consequences of cultural rot and decay affect my little rural enclave of Southern pride.

[Frank Cannon]

Why is she wasting a minute going to some garbage school in DC?

[jpsb]

Why is she wasting a minute going to some garbage school in DC?

Well she is the Secretary of Education. And her primary focus appears to be getting better education to inner city kids via more choices. Maybe she wanted to go have a look see at how bad things really are. I am surprised she did not have more security. I'll bet she will not make that mistake again.

[don-o]

Hyperbole. Turn off the internet, take a walk around outside. My neighbors are calm, friendly, and smiling. During the snowstorm another neighbor did the walkway for an elderly neighbor out of the goodness of his heart.


Civil society is doing just fine. When you congregate in your own echo-chambers on the internet, things seem a lot worse than they are.


Close out of Breitbart and Drudge, close down the laptop, go for a walk outside. You will see plenty of good.


Right wing media is a mere flipside of leftwing media: it's designed to get you as emotional as possible. Because they get more bucks that way.

Churchill said.....

“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong–these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

—House of Commons, 2 May 1935, after the Stresa Conference, in which Britain, France and Italy agreed—futilely—to maintain the independence of Austria.

[truth_seeker]

Mobocracy.

Keep backing down to this and you'll get more of this.

The police should have been on hand, and should have arrested anybody that physically blocked her freedom to go where she planned to go.

The left lost, but they still FEEL like they should be in charge.

Somewhere a leftist agitator is hoping the police can be provoked to over react, so that the left can claim that Trump and his supporters are Nazis.

[Applewood]

More professional agitation. 

In Pittsburgh students walked out of school and headed for Senator Toomey's office to protest his vote for Mrs. DeVos as Educwtion Secretary.Watching this on local news, I was thinking these kids probably have no idea who Mrs. DeVos is.  They just wanted an excuse to skip school. 

So I'm wondering where are the psrents?  I know if I skipped school for any reason, my parents would have...uh...warmed my seat.

Well, about 90% of the way through the report, the news guy finally said, the walkout was organized by parents at the "encouragement" of the teachers union. 

All of these protests, demonstrations and general anarchy events are not spontaneous, grassroots or whatever other adjective the media likes to use to make them seem benign. They are highly organized and designed to create civil unrest.  With a country in turmoil, these anarchists can slip in and create a dictatorship.  Let's not give them the opportunity.

[INVAR]

All of these protests, demonstrations and general anarchy events are not spontaneous, grassroots or whatever other adjective the media likes to use to make them seem benign. They are highly organized and designed to create civil unrest.  With a country in turmoil, these anarchists can slip in and create a dictatorship.  Let's not give them the opportunity.

What did everyone think Community Organizing actually was?  We always referenced them as Sh*t stirrers back in the day in Chi-town.

Now it's national.

And no, they are not going to stop, but continually ramp-up these kinds of things to make (as their own party leaders have decreed) America 'ungovernable'.  This will do one or both things: provoke a violent reaction to violent protests that the media insists are benign, and/or; force out of frustration, capitulation to the "rightful rulers" now pushing their dominance.

[geronl]

The police should have been on hand, and should have arrested anybody that physically blocked her freedom to go where she planned to go.

Try just walking into some schools and you would be the one arrested.

[geronl]

I didn't click but did the article say why she was there? If she turned and left, it must not have been too important.

Secretary of Edumacation aren't actually in charge of schools, you know.

[Wingnut]

Secretary of Edumacation aren't actually in charge of schools, you know.

That's a good point.   

She was just slumming for a photo op.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Uhhh... don't we want to elimate this Department anyway?

[Sanguine]

Churchill said.....

“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong–these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

—House of Commons, 2 May 1935, after the Stresa Conference, in which Britain, France and Italy agreed—futilely—to maintain the independence of Austria.

That's a fantastic Churchill quote. 

[Wingnut]

Uhhh... don't we want to elimate this Department anyway?

After we break up the NEA.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Churchill said.....

“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong–these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

—House of Commons, 2 May 1935, after the Stresa Conference, in which Britain, France and Italy agreed—futilely—to maintain the independence of Austria.

Wow, never expected a Hitler comparison this early. Usually that comes on page 4-5 of the debate.

[truth_seeker]

Protesters initially block DeVos from entering DC school

Published February 10, 2017

Protesters initially blocked newly confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from entering a Washington, D.C., school on Friday – with one “Black Lives Matter” demonstrator even briefly standing in front of her vehicle.

DeVos later made it into Jefferson Middle School Academy in Southwest D.C. for her first visit as secretary to a public school. This was only after a teacher/parent “vigil” blocked the road by the front entrance, and a handful of Black Lives Matter protesters caused problems when DeVos tried to enter through the back entrance.

Protesters shouted “shame, shame” at the secretary as she was led back into her vehicle. One holding a Black Lives Matter sign then stood in front of the van, but was scolded by fellow protesters to “let her leave,” and he stepped aside.

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted afterward: "Don't we want the Sec of Education to visit schools?"

Following the visit, DeVos issued a statement thanking D.C. school officials, teachers and students for welcoming her and stressing that she believes a focus on students and families “is at the heart of providing an exceptional education.”

She added, "I respect peaceful protest, and I will not be deterred in executing the vital mission of the Department of Education. No school door in America will be blocked from those seeking to help our nation's school children."

THE WEEK IN PICTURES

The disruption is the latest in a series of protests against Trump administration officials and policies. DeVos’ nomination was fiercely opposed by teachers unions and Democratic lawmakers in large part over her long support for charter schools and other public school alternatives. Two Republicans joined Democrats to oppose her in the Senate earlier this week, but Vice President Pence broke the 50-50 tie to ensure her confirmation.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/10/protesters-initially-block-devos-from-entering-dc-school.html

She got into the school. The first article misleads one to conclude she was blocked, and a reasonable take-away would be she did not get in.

Good thing I did my own research, lest I be malinformed here.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Video:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/10/this-video-of-betsy-devos-being-blocked-by-protesters-shows-what-a-powder-keg-our-politics-are/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.f9d28b737ee6

[XenaLee]

Mobocracy.

Keep backing down to this and you'll get more of this.

Looks like our side needs some anti-heckler hecklers.  Ones that might yell to that "protestor" something like this "Keep taking money from Soros and living in yo mamma's basement." 

[XenaLee]

Video:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/10/this-video-of-betsy-devos-being-blocked-by-protesters-shows-what-a-powder-keg-our-politics-are/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.f9d28b737ee6

Rush is talking about this right now, in fact.

[geronl]

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted afterward: "Don't we want the Sec of Education to visit schools?"

Following the visit, DeVos issued a statement thanking D.C. school officials, teachers and students for welcoming her and stressing that she believes a focus on students and families “is at the heart of providing an exceptional education.”

No, your job does not involve visiting schools. It is also not your job to focus on "students and families".