JROTC Promotes Violence

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Website ^ | 11/16/2006 | Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors

[Tulsa Ramjet]

While schools work to stop violence in the wake of Columbine, many forget a source close to home. JROTC programs across the country are being rocked by scandals, ranging from military-style executions to hazing to classic military sexual assault and intimidation. JROTC's violence is promoted by the ethos and the purpose of the program itself. When war's horrors are glossed over and glorified, murder, hazing, and lesser brutality become easier to contemplate. When School Boards allow the military's JROTC program into schools despite the military's bigotry and discriminatory practices, their message condones hate-crimes. Military training is designed to dehumanize soldiers so that they will kill on command, without questioning orders. The JROTC curriculum itself praises obedience without question.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

This is website info of the groups that supported the San Francisco school boards efforts to disband jrotc.

Ranks up there with that church group in Kansas.

[Joe Brower]

"Ranks up there with that church group in Kansas."

You aren't kidding.

There was absolutely nothing like anything described here present in the USMC JROTC unit I belonged to in the late 70s.

Whoever wrote this is pathologically delusional and needs to be committed ASAP. Anyone who actually believes one word of this crap is too insane to be running around loose.

[Chewie84]

Considering who this article's coming from, I'm not surprised.

[Little Pig]

"...scandals, ranging from military-style executions..."


WTF? Where did this happen?

[webboy45]

It's a bunch of sh... JROTC teaches leadership and responsibility. Idiots like the author have no idea what they are talking about.

[thulldud]

Military training is designed to dehumanize soldiers so that they will kill on command, without questioning orders.

Spoken by one who's probably never had any.

Military training is designed to give soldiers their best chance of staying alive when they're in the presence of people who want to kill them.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

This is a total crock..... I know several young men and women in the local JROTC program and they are far more mature, stable, and intelligent than most of the other students in that high school. I also know the current CO of that Program and he would never condone such behavior.

[RightWingConspirator]

Please! This post should have a mega-barf alert attached.

[VirginiaMom]

Every day when I pick my daughter up from high school I see the JROTC in the parking lot doing drills. It just warms my heart. A great bunch of kids!

[Tijeras_Slim]

My neighbor's two boys are in JROTC, finer young men would be tough to find.

[JDPendry]

Bovine Scatology

[Tulsa Ramjet]

sorry.

[popdonnelly]

CCCO says it was founded in 1948. By Stalin?

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Frankly,
All kids should be given the opportunity to do this during the summers and one weekend a month. You could go in the supply field, medical, religious, engineering, different categories. Junior ROTC Reserves.

[verity]

"Ranks up DOWN there with that church group in Kansas

[MonicaG]

How about "JROTC Promotes Preparing for the Reality that it's a Violent World with a lot of Not Very Nice People in it."

Peace HAD a chance.

[Joe Brower]

The drooling idiots who penned this insane diatribe seem to miss one fundamental and obvious fact: If JROTC members where even 1/10th the "bloodthirsty killers" these nutjobs are babbling about, they'd already be pushing up daisies.

[Tarantulas]

Someone on Bill Bennett's show this morning was talking about a group that wanted ROTC barred from high schools because some of the kids who participated went to Iraq later. I thought he said that was in San Francisco. These folks should crawl back under their rocks and leave ROTC programs alone.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Never mind that scholastic shooting teams (frequently part of JROTC) have much higher levels of academic achievement, and that the sport has never had a documented instance of participant or spectator violence.

[Charles Martel]

Peace HAD a chance.

And it will again, eventually... the old-fashioned way.