IOWA: Carly Fiorina Hijacks Preschool Field Trip, Uses Toddlers As Captive Props For Anti-Abortion Rant

[Potoooooooo]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...dren-for-anti-abortion-rally?CMP=share_btn_tw

Carly Fiorina has been accused of “ambushing” a group of children, after she ushered pre-schoolers, who were on a field trip to a botanical garden, into an anti-abortion rally in Des Moines.

On Wednesday, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive embarked on a day of campaigning across Iowa, in an attempt to boost her ailing presidential campaign.

The alleged ambush occurred when Fiorina hosted a “right to life” forum at the Greater Des Moines botanical garden. Entering the rally, before a crowd of about 60 people, she directed around 15 young children towards a makeshift stage.

The problem, one parent said, was that the children’s parents had not given Fiorina permission to have their children sit with her – in front of a huge banner bearing the image of an unborn foetus – while she talked about harvesting organs from aborted babies.

“The kids went there to see the plants,” said Chris Beck, the father of four-year-old Chatham, one of the children Fiorina appeared with. “She ambushed my son’s field trip.”

 

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Maybe she should be arrested for false imprisonment

 

[ronburgundy]

The teachers and parental supervisors are the one's most to blame here.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

She's all class, isn't she?

 

[TSwizzle]

The kids look bored and she looks creepy.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

At what point does a trip to the Botantical Gardens become a meet and greet with Carly Fiorina?

 

[Derec]

I'm confused. Is she saying a fetus is like a ficus, a plant?

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Maybe she should be arrested for false imprisonment

Why? The kids could easily have walked away. Certainly much easier than down an interstate bridge, leaving their cars parked illegally.

 

[Jayjay]

Carly Fiorina's stint as a CEO of a copy machine company makes her a perfect pro-life spokesperson... after all, what are pregnant women if not machines to churn out copies of themselves? She probably likens abortions to paper jams.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

The teachers and parental supervisors are the one's most to blame here.

They should have stopped it, but that whackjob is mainly to blame. Hijacking a bunch of preschoolers to use them as props? That's effed up.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Thug!

 

[Derec]

Carly Fiorina's stint as a CEO of a copy machine company makes her a perfect pro-life spokesperson... after all, what are pregnant women if not machines to churn out copies of themselves? She probably likens abortions to paper jams.

Well I am sure she as an HP CEO has heard of the concept on the von Neumann (or self replicating) machine.

Alt-text: "We are sexy, sexy Von Neumann machines."
Although "copy of themselves" would technically only apply in cases of parthenogenesis.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, they went there to see plants and they ended up seeing someone as dull and uninteresting as Carly Fiorina.

I don't see the problem.

 

[ZiprHead]

"Mommy, why is the bad lady from the Dalmatians movie making me stand here?"

 

[il Palazzo]

Maybe she should be arrested for false imprisonment

What about plain kidnapping. She took children somewhere without parent consent.
If she's a man she'll be a convicted sex offender by now.

 

[RavenSky]

"Mommy, why is the bad lady from the Dalmatians movie making me stand here?"

 

[TV and credit cards]

I thought that poor boy (2nd from left) had a mullet. Carly would be the least of his problems.

We have a catholic school (grades 1-8) that likes to put up about a hundred little crosses and a anti-abortion sign in the front yard once a year. I wonder if the children ask questions about it and what responses they may get. Children shouldn't have to deal with such things. Some arguments should be private.