Feature Photo: All We Are Saying is Give Peace A Chance (Berkeley pre-school)

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Feature Photo: All We Are Saying is Give Peace A Chance

Friday, January 30, 2004

PHOTO/JONATHAN HAEBER

A student of the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center displays a self-made sign on the steps of Sproul Hall yesterday. He was one of 24 children who picketed there as a culmination to a unit on peace at the campus-run preschool.

[chance33_98]

I bet he never gets to play with toy soldiers!

[2banana]

"Mommy, where is my book "Daddy has a roomamte" and my tofu twinkee?"

[Guillermo]

And his parents dress him and his sister in "gender neutral" colors.

No pink for her, no baby blue for him. The decor in their rooms is likely green and yellow.

[KantianBurke]

Its wrong to use children in this manner for any political purpose. That goes for us on the right as well. Keep the kids at home. They're NOT props!

[The G Man]

I'm betting it's not "self made" either. Kids got pretty got grasp of handwriting, spelling, etc for a preschooler.

[mgist]

"Mommy, don't make me do this anymore!"

[RightthinkinAmerican]

How about a kid holding a sign that says: "My commie mommie made me hold this sign for a liberal yellow rag photo op"?

[mountaineer]

I'm betting it's not "self made" either.

The writer of the photo caption clearly knows nothing about a pre-school child's writing ability, if he thinks that little boy actually created that sign. But then, maybe the message is that anti-war pre-schoolers are geniuses.

[BrooklynGOP]

Aw. Yea. Wish Hitler was alive so I could hug him.

[FourPeas]

The writer of the photo caption clearly knows nothing about a pre-school child's writing ability

Exactly. Of course, it's likely the writer of the photo caption simply knows nothing.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Or, mommy can just TRY to hug herself a freakin' Al Qaeda! Hope he's wearing a nice suicide vest when she does. Keep hoping wishing and dreaming of that Utopian happy land of flowers and rainbows, lefty. Wish in one hand, and ....in the other - see which one fills up first. Then, don't forget to compost it and put it on your organic tomatoes.

[mountaineer]

Our little Berkeley peacenik's philosophical brethern:

[FourPeas]

Using children as puppets disgusts me also, especially when done by a "school". It's one thing for a parent to instruct their children in the family's values. It's entirely another for a school to indoctrinate them in the latest liberal tripe and parade them around as trophies of their success.

[Dead Corpse]

Kinda hard to hug someone when their religion demands that they try and stick a knife in you.

[mountaineer]

This is fun! I bet the folks in Berkeley would like for us to have a parade in their town, too! Maybe the kids at pre-school would join us in expressing our great desire for peace!

[WV Mountain Mama]

I used to teach kindergarten, and that kid did not write that. My kids who tested above 2nd grade level at the end of the year didn't write that straight on an unlined page. Also the mix of lower case and upper case in all the right places is very suspect. It is the kid's parents that think they are the geniuses. They think they tricked everyone into thinking their kid is more that a PR pawn.

[Eala]

Somebody tell him we gave peace a chance...

[Sofa King]

The liberal mind at work:

Hey, look! A kid who is too young to think about politics says we should give peace a chance! We should listen!

Really, what does this say to the thinking man other than A) they are willing to use their kids dishonestly and B) They're line of thinking makes sense to a someone who still believes in Santa Claus.

[mountaineer]

A kid who is too young to think about politics says we should give peace a chance! We should listen!

Reminds me of the Carter days, when we were supposed to heed 10-year-old Amy's warnings about nuclear war.

[Gritty]

SIGN: "You can hug each other - Robert"

Yeah, right.

I can just see myself "hugging" Osama, Yasser, or the myriads of Islamic nutjob terrorists lusting for our blood, the destruction of our country, and our forcible conversion to their Mohammedan murder cult!

I say, deport this poor kid's mother and father (if they can find him) and teachers to Pakistan or Iran and let them hold their cute little demonstrations there.