Military madness comes to school

[fed-up]

This is the editorial by the editor of our local weekly alternative paper, "Chico News and Review" that accompanies the article I posted in latest breaking news
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1897016

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/chico/2005-11-03/editorial.asp
Editorial
Military madness comes to school

We find last week's actions by military recruiters on the Chico High School campus disturbing at any number of levels. Army recruiters came to school during Red Ribbon Week, a program designed to heighten children's awareness of the dangers of illicit drugs.

The recruiters set up a booth and a climbing wall to attract the students' attention. Fine and dandy. But in order to play on the wall, the students were told they would have to sign a waiver releasing the U.S. Army from any liability should they get hurt or killed while on the wall. The waiver, of course, was nothing more than a ruse to get information on potential future soldiers.


Why else would a waiver ask for information like e-mail address, ethnic background and social security number? In fact, the small print on the card says the information will be used for recruiting purposes.

One of the problems here is that this is nothing more than an end run around the wishes of a parent who has signed an opt-out card to keep the school from providing essential information to the military as allowed, if not encouraged, by President Bush's No Child Left Behind program. The Marines did the same thing with an inflatable fun house last May for the school's career day....

[mark11727]

1. Gung-ho jock types need only apply here... sneaky little f*ckers.

[thecodewarrior]

2. They need a speaker right after the military

To warn of the dangers of joining the military.

You get reprogrammed, dumbed down, turned into a neocon, probably killed for bullshit reasons. Lied to about re-enlistment bonuses, but hey most are to stupid to care because they worship Bush. Its Bring Your Own Body Armor or BYOBA.

Then when you get back you can always get a job as a crooked NO cop, tasering, raping, and beating people up, just like in Iraq, as long as its not caught on tape.