Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, Marolo Alvarez, remembers students taunting and bullying mass-shooter Nikolas Cruz.
Alvarez spoke to reporters at a vigil for the victims about Nikolaz Cruz being bullied: “I could have said something to administrators, that ‘hey this kid gets bullied a lot, please help him, please reach out to him.’ I kind of regret not doing that…” See for yourself below:
Manolo Alvarez, 11th grader at #Stoneman High, says people used to bully #Parkland mass shooting suspect by saying “he looked like a school shooter.” pic.twitter.com/9HxRKTAekz
— Lucas Daprile (@LucasDaprile) February 15, 2018
So who were these kids who bullied Cruz? I doubt any reasonable person is claiming it caused the shooting or let’s him off the hook at all – but isn’t it a fair question, given the mass-protests and highly covered, well-financed efforts to blame the NRA and guns?
We’ve read a lot about bullying and how it can trigger – no pun intended – behavior in troubled kids. Bullying has become a favorite excuse on the left to control speech, associated, political discourse, social media and of course, laws which emanate from those efforts.
Whoever bullied Nikolas Cruz – and apparently there was quite a few – are not coming forward in numbers. They know who they are though.. and so do authorities. People in the know surrounding the Parkland shooting have not exactly been forthcoming, or pointing blame at anyone who may be guilty as we know.
In a speech by Parkland survivor, Emma Gonzales, she clearly says kids – possibly her and others – had bullied the school shooter before the mass shooting took place. Many publications are saying her words are being taken out of context, but we’ll let you decide here below:
To make matters worse, she shows no remorse for doing so…
‘Those talking about we shouldn’t have ostracised him, you didn’t know this kid!’ That is a clear message that these kids are not looking to take any responsibility over the shooter, they are literally saying ‘don’t blame me, blame the gun instead’.
I knew nothing of David Hogg before this and when I first saw him on television, screaming obscenities and calling for gun control – all I could feel was sorry for him. In my mind, I believed he was a traumatized kid and acting out for damn good reason. I don’t believe that any longer.
Has anyone asked the most outspoken of the child-protesters which kids were bullying Nikolas Cruz and why? Has David Hogg been asked that simple question in his several hundred interviews? Did David Hogg himself ever have a contentious exchange with Cruz? David Hogg knows everything – wouldn’t he have the answer to this?
David Hogg is not a hero, he is a puppet for the DNC, the media, rich collectivists, left-wing Corporate interests, Global Maoist-wannabes and misguided, ignorant, gigantic-pensioned government officials everywhere – created for the express purpose to confiscate guns from hundreds of millions of ordinary Americans.
The proof is simple: Nikolas Cruz violated several existing gun laws which were not enforced, despite a dozen clear opportunities to do so. Nikolas Cruz was insane and was not dealt with as such. Armed guards and other armed forces stood down, rather than save kid’s lives during the shooting.
In short – their prime directive is not to stop school shootings. Pretty obvious to anyone with an ounce of critical thinking. But back to the question: Why are we not concerned in this case about bullying? Are we saying that in fact bullying cannot cause bad behavior or unhappiness?
Are we confessing that bullying is a part of life, should be treated as such and that guns are the problem?
Consider this: In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, students with disabilities are being taunted or callously called by other students as being the next school shooter, some parents and experts are saying.
“There’s been a lot of bullying going on in our schools,” said Kelly Busch, a South Florida advocate for children with autism.
School and mental health records show that Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 and wounded 17 more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on Valentine’s Day, was reported to have numerous conditions, including autism and severe behavioral and emotional problems.
Slapping Cruz with an autistic label has increased the angst of parents of children with the neurological disorder, who already struggle to foster acceptance and compassion for their children.
Valerie Herskowitz, of Jupiter, who has a grown son with autism, said she’s heard from parents that some students have asked autistic children: “Are you going to kill us?”
Attorney Jeff Kasky of Delray Beach, whose son Cameron co-founded the #NeverAgain movement, has another child, Holden, who is autistic. Both boys attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and were hiding in a classroom in the freshman building during the shooting.
Later with his dad, Holden made a video discussing the shooting and his reaction to police who were shouting and “had a bunch of guns” and flashlights pointed at him and other students.
It’s been viewed on YouTube more than 80,000 times and 2.3 million on Facebook. The video notes that Cruz reportedly had autism, but autism did not lead to the shooting. “Autism is not a violent disorder,” Jeff Kasky says in the video. “It’s quite the opposite; the things that caused violence in this person were all the other things that were going on in his sick mind.”
True, but as we all now know, there on the platform at the March rally was one of the Parkland students-turned-anti-gun activist blurting out to the world that the peers of Nikolas Cruz bullied him — by ostracizing him and who knows what else. And Nikolas Cruz deserved to be ostracized. He deserved to be bullied.
All these kids who are now momentary celebrities and out there with more than a whiff of self-righteousness blaming… the NRA? One has to wonder. Who among them bullied Nikolas Cruz?
González admits to it. What about David Hogg? Or Cameron Kasky? Or the rest on that Time magazine cover that blares the caption “Enough.” Kasky has played an important role in the protest, writing this at CNN:
We can’t ignore the issues of gun control that this tragedy raises. And so, I’m asking — no, demanding — we take action now.
Why? Because at the end of the day, the students at my school felt one shared experience — our politicians abandoned us by failing to keep guns out of schools.
But this time, my classmates and I are going to hold them to account. This time we are going to pressure them to take action. This time we are going to force them to spend more energy protecting human lives than unborn fetuses.
Well aside from the left-wing notion that unborn babies are not human lives, Kamsky and perhaps his friends are intent on holding politicians to account.
But never did they ask themselves what 11th grader Alvarez is asking: Could they have done more? Were any of them — as Emma González admits — participating in the “ostracizing” of Nikolas Cruz? We all know what that means, dear.
Were any of these kids bullying Cruz, or is she lying? We’ve all seen the stories where some bullied kid feels so set upon, they commit suicide and that’s what Nikolas Cruz effectively did. He committed suicide, by killing seventeen people. He will face the death penalty and get it.
He had to have thought he’d be killed in a hail of gunfire from the armed guard and County authorities who responded… yeah, well – Nikolaz just walked away it turns out.
There are a large number of celebrities who either marched in and/or supported the March — who have spent years insisting that what González and her friends who “ostracized” Nikolas Cruz did was… bullying.
Created in 2005, STOMP Out Bullying focuses on reducing and preventing bullying, cyberbullying, sexting and other digital abuse, educating against homophobia, racism and hatred, decreasing school absenteeism, and deterring violence in schools, online and in communities across the country.
But the problem went silent at this rally and the responsibility of Cruz’s peers themselves in not taking the “STOMP Out Bullying” message into their own hearts and practice. Instead, as Emma González freely admits, they did exactly what so many celebrities say they are so passionate about.
They bullied a kid, taunted him. Because, like, you know, he deserved it. He was so weird.
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