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They would slap him on the back of his neck or and then a boy grabbed oscar and put him in a headlock and choked him to the point he lost consciousness for a moment couldnt be a feared for his life oscar was a victim of antisemitic a boy but im dizzy just a small thing while. Gemma and then so mccoskey and their two older children leonora and isaiah a german british and jewish family who live in berlin. Their youngest child oscar isnt appearing on camera and his real name is not being used in this report for months the fourteen year old was the target of anti semitic bullying at his school here in berlin oscars parents will tell his story a story that began. And almost by accident. Its. On the last day of the first week at School Ethics teacher asked what houses of worship the students were familiar with and they answered the Church Mosque Church Mosque. And also pipes up which synagogue you know im jewish by the way finagle just mentioned that just in the context of the lesson design
Later, we will focus on yesterdays gop event in ames, iowa. Reaction to your comments of donald trump. We will begin with the effort this past week to reduce prison time for nonviolent offenders. Our phone lines are open and we went to hear from you. 202 7488000 if you support the efforts to ease mandatory prison sentences. If you oppose the idea, the number to call is 202 7488001. Finally for those of you that it had experience with the criminal justice system, heres the number to call. 202 7488002. As always you can send us a tweet or join us on social media and facebook or send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Good sunday morning and thank you for being with us. Many of you weighing in on our Facebook Page and the question were asking. These efforts to ease the mandatory prison sentences. The president , the First Time Ever a prison. He did so last thursday just outside of oklahoma city. From our Facebook Page that is this from kylie says cops are one step away from being a milita
Everyone does not mean a 21yearold who just got assigned there, that it does mean a senior officer or someone who is trained in this sort of endeavor. The other issue is this issue of carrying personal firearms on base. We are seeing that debate in the Defense Authorization bill. This is a concern of a lot of folks. Military folks are a lot more chained trained than your average people. But there is still the concerned, do you have that level of opportunity experience the folks that are really pushing for allowing personal firearms are saying these are the best in america. These are people that we know have signed up, we know their motivation. We know that they have been trained and they are more responsible than another 23yearold. But there is still that concern. It was getting that weapon those weapons, do they know what to do . There was a report of something down in florida this weekend who took a personal firearm and accidentally discharged it. I dont remember if there were any in
Title for a long time on this book. There are many different theme is tried to introduce in the book, and i couldnt find that sort of single thing. So that is the midst stunning greatness. So now that greatness for what we are doing wrong and then it is close to the 60s so how is this society so they try to look at different aspects of that. With my reading. Gaspar go figure. [laughter] since 1960 we have changed and dealing with that change that with that politics a of that ideology that is our mission. And it dominated american politics over the last 60 years because to get over this terrible shame and the people will have great societies and to bring them up to power with everyone else. And that will restore our legitimacy. If your book the were the issues pretty liberal that some groups coopted . They didnt necessarily want to be but they coopted the words . Yes. For their own political purposes. And almost making a romance around it they subscribe to that word in there really hasn