George Clooney’s Letter To Parkland Students: “You Make Me Proud Of My Country Again” by Denise Petski March 23, 2018 7:19am
On the eve of the March For Our Lives demonstrations planned in Washington, D.C. and across the country, George Clooney penned a message thanking the students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida for what they “are doing to make the country a safer place.”
In a letter published in The Guardian newspaper in London, where three student journalists from Marjorie Stoneman’s award-winning Eagle Eye newspaper will edit the Guardian‘s coverage of the march Saturday in Washington, Clooney writes “Amal and I are 100% behind you and will be marching in DC on the 24th.” He adds, “We both feel very strongly that this is your march. Your moment. Young people are taking it to the adults and that has been your most effective tool.”
In February, George and Amal Clooney donated $500,000 to March For Our Lives – a sum later matched by Oprah Winfrey and others.
You can read Clooney’s letter in full below.
Zitat Dear Emma, Lauren, and Rebecca,
Thank you for your note and congratulations on the incredible work you and all of your fellow students are doing to make the country a safer place.
It’s terrific that you’re editing the Guardian. It’s a stellar newspaper and they must feel honored to be working with you.
Amal and I are 100% behind you and will be marching in DC on the 24th, but we both feel very strongly that this is your march. Your moment. Young people are taking it to the adults and that has been your most effective tool. The fact that no adults will speak on the stage in DC is a powerful message to the world that if we can’t do something about gun violence then you will. The issue is going to be this, anyone you ask would feel proud to be interviewed by you but it’s so much more effective if it’s young people.
You could talk to a dozen kids like the young kids from Chicago and LA that Emma met with. You could take over the Guardian and make it tell the stories of children by children. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to point to this moment and say it belongs to you. You certainly should do what you want but that would be my hope for you.
Amal and I stand behind you, in support of you, in gratitude to you.
Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #2We don't need less adults, we need more adults.
This business with 15 year-olds running the country leaves me SMH.
My attitude toward today's organized protest is that we're dealing with a bunch of frustrated kids. These young people are being used by the Democrats but they don't know what else to do. Today's educational system with its emphasis on indoctrinating the kids, means they're ill equipped in many ways to understand and identify root causes. Who could be FOR school shootings? Doesn't this beg the question of who they're aiming these protests at? Nobody that I know condones such deviant behavior. We're on their side as we too condemn all forms of mass murder!
We actually have a lot in common with the student protesters on a visceral level. They're horrified, we're horrified, they want to see this misery end, same here! As I said, who doesn't?
It becomes obvious that those who don't agree are the mass murderers. They're the ones who have sick, terribly troubled minds. They're the miserable individuals who lash out, willingly inflict unspeakable pain on innocents. And once they've inflicted their pain, they feel in their own twisted way, they've righted the scales of justice. But theirs isn't justice, its a sociopath's justice -- not the same. I imagine that as they inflict their felt misery on others they experience an evil elation.
We all should remember that the means chosen by the sicko's varies. Some choose bombs, some choose knives, some sabotage planes and yes, some shoot guns.
But agreeing with their frustration doesn't mean we agree with their solution.
"The demographic most opposed to President Trump is not a racial minority, but a cultural elite." Daniel Greenberg
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'Today's educational system with its emphasis on indoctrinating the kids, means they're ill equipped in many ways to understand and identify root causes'
Great point. The emphasis is on feelings at the expense of reason and logic. I've spoken to adults who praise Obama for ObamaCare because he did 'something'. They are unwilling or unable to go one step further and ask will that something makes things better or worse.
Illegitimi non Carborundum
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - Orwell