Kaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 10/19/2005 6:24:11 AM PDT by detsaoT
Great reporting by THE NATION.
Since there is no draft it is hard to be "of draft age".
"I JOIN THE AF TO GET A COLLEGE DEGREE AND THEY MAKE ME GO TO WAR AND FIGHT!!"
I think we can all agree that there is one kind of dissenting veteran - Those who join for college and then suddenly get "buyers remorse" when they relaize that they may be put into harm's way.
And yet they "support the troops" and whatever you do, DON'T QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM.
There is another option. A student who supports the recruiters could wear a sign and stand beside the protestor. The sign might say "Enemy Sympathizer" or something equally accurate. Ridicule is more fun (and usually more effective) than violence.
"Khan, 27, a four-year Air Force veteran and a junior at GMU, had been walking through the Johnson Center on September 29 when he saw a Marine recruiter. He made up a sign, "Recruiters lie. Don't be deceived," and silently stood next to the recruiter's table. Less than thirty minutes later he found himself in the chokehold."
Seem like maybe, just maybe, we're not getting the complete story here?
"Khan, 27, a four-year Air Force veteran and a junior at GMU, had been walking through the Johnson Center on September 29 when he saw a Marine recruiter. He made up a sign, "Recruiters lie. Don't be deceived," and silently stood next to the recruiter's table. Less than thirty minutes later he found himself in the chokehold."
Seem like maybe, just maybe, we're not getting the complete story here?
Indeed. Patriotic students should be giving support to the recruiters when they come on campus.
"Seem like maybe, just maybe, we're not getting the complete story here?"
Like about 30 minutes worth. "I was just standing there and BAM!, chokehold."
The new Democrat party. I assume the reason why you don't see the massive 1960's type protests on campus is because there is no draft
"Peterson, Khan and others say their movement won't relent until recruiters are completely banned from the nation's educational campuses."
Free speech for me but not for thee, huh? Typical lefty.
Tariq's e-mail address is tkhan@gmu.edu.
Counter-recruiting.....more like counter culture. Same old same old.
...He says he began reading Noam Chomsky,...
Now there's an enemy of humanity.
and then, maybe we are:
Peterson, Khan and others say their movement won't relent until recruiters are completely banned from the nation's educational campuses.
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