Submitted by: Donald Hank
When politicians say "it's the right thing to do," what they mean is they are about to do something that is either un-Constitutional or unpopular or both. Hiding behind kids to steal your rights is part of this slimy strategy. It started in Sandy Hook.
Don Hank
Prop-a-palooza: The Use and Abuse of Kiddie Human Shields
By Michelle Malkin - Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The president of the United States will release a binder full of new gun-control executive orders on Wednesday. Instead of standing alone, bearing full responsibility for the imperial actions he is about to take, President Obama will surround himself with an audience of kids who wrote to him after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre. This is the most cynical in Beltway theatrical staging — a feckless attempt to invoke “For the Children” immunity by hiding behind them.
What has happened to the deliberative process in this country? Public debate in Washington has deteriorated into Sesame Street sing-alongs. We are already inundated with logical fallacies: argumentum ad populum (it’s popular, therefore it’s true); argumentum ad nauseam (if you repeat it often enough, it’ll become truth); argumentum ad hominem (sabotage the person, sabotage the truth); and argumentum ad verecundiam (if my favorite authority says it’s true, it’s true).
