Anti-war Crowd Fights Military Recruiters in Schools
No, this is not about San Francisco — but Seattle, WA:
SEATTLE  When military recruiters march into any Seattle high school, they could find themselves in a war of words. Under new district guidelines, schools must allow anti-military groups to “counter-recruit” right next to them
“There might be good reasons to die for things, but there’s no good reason to kill for anything,” said Amy Hagopian, the mother of a senior at Garfield High School and the co-chairwoman of the PTSA, which passed a resolution seeking to ban the military from all Seattle schools.
Before the school board could act on the request, she berated an Army recruiter who showed up at Garfield High, told the soldier he was not welcome and waved pictures of Iraq war casualties in his face.
That incident followed a confrontation at a Seattle community college, where war protesters chased a recruiter off campus.
“It’s something we have to deal with out here as recruiters because there’s a lot of teachers and people in Seattle that just don’t like the military being in the schools,” said Sgt. James Ramsey, an Army recruiter in the area.
To add to what Sgt. Ramsey said, there are lots of teachers and people in Seattle who just don’t like the military - PERIOD. Yet these same folks who advocate nonsense like this no doubt expect the U.S. military to defend them when there is a threat. Same same for the majority in San Francisco.
So I guess the people who who are on board with this sort of thing still support the troops — just as long as they come from someone else’s city. And on a related note on the west coast, specifically in Los Angeles, they support helping students with transportation to a political rally — as long as it’s an anti-Bush rally.
SSDD on the left coast. I admire the conservatives there who are fighting the good fight in spite of that steep uphill climb they face in the form of countering the anti-war, Bush-hating left.
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November 22nd, 2005 at 8:21 am
I wonder how many people have noticed how often lefties try and take away the free speech and other rights from citizens that they disagree with?
One minute it’s trying to ban military recruiters and deny them the opportunity to share their views at school. The next minute it’s an attempt to intimidate or harass students who are organizing pro-Victory meetings as in the case of the girl in New Jersey.
And when they are not too busy trying to shout down or shut down opposing viewpoints, these CHICKEN DOVES are screaming about their rights being violated because so few people give them the respect that they feel they deserve.
February 20th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
[...] (a) “Rude and rabid”? Oh, they’re gonna love that. (b) “Imagine a future” where government spends on education instead of military? You already said that. (c) Incidentally,more money won’t help improve education. As you know, S.F. floats countless bonds for approval by foolish taxpayers, and yet the schools still stink (d) Was 9/11 a “foreign war”? If so, it was fought on our shores, and we were caught by surprise San Francisco voters have repeatedly shown their support for a less militaristic stance. In the last two years, voters have approved by landslide margins a measure that calls for the United States to withdraw troops from Iraq, and that military recruiters should not be allowed in our public schools.* [...]