Recruiters Equated to Pedophiles (Supre Barf Alert)

Ordinarily, the anti-war left only grates on me a bit, having seen them as they are for 35 years now. Tonight, however, on the blog of a local Talk Show, Victoria Taft @ KPAM AM 860 in Portland, Oregon, one sunk as low as I have ever seen one go. Below is their post;

Roger Doger said... About the Oregonian Story regarding parents that don't want their children prayed upon by Military recruiters. I don't blame them one bit.

You recall reports about military recruiters lying to new recruits, right? In the day and age where child predators are out in full force, should we let those predators access to our children just because they wear a military uniform? I don’t think so, not my child.

As a parent, I have the right to say who can have my child's information and who can contact them. I wouldn't want a child pedophile contacting my child, just like I wouldn't want a Military Recruiter, McDonald's Recruiter or a Burger King Recruiter contacting my child. They are MY responsibility and will be exposed to what I want them exposed to. That means if some if some pedophile-in-waiting from the evangelical church wants to contact them, they need to go through me. When they are 18, my child can do whatever they want. Until then, I will have the say over who, what, where and when they will be contacted. Period. And that goes for the child predators over at the Military Recruiting offices.

Look, if the Military Branches need warm bodies to go over and get wasted in Iraq for nothing, they need to get a little creative. They can advertise in the newspaper, radio, MTV, on internet sites, etc. I think most people know where to find them if they decide to go serve. Maybe not if you are a card carrying member of the Republican Party. So why don’t members of the GOP or the Evangelical Churches provide military recruiters with THEIR children's contact info? Seems like recruiters would have many willing idiots just waiting to be conned there. 14 November, 2006 19:29

Leave My Child Alone

By Lloyd Billingsley
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 2, 2005

To the casual web surfer, Leave My Child Alone appears to be a site for soccer moms, with friendly imagery and platitudes about child welfare. But slip below these surfaces and things changes. The name of the organization is an angry pun on the No Child Left Behind Act, which LMCA describes as "notorious." But the problem with the Act has nothing to do with education per se, but with a provision of the Act that allows recruiters from the United States military access to schools and to data about students. Leave My Child Alone, which began last April in San Francisco, doesn't like the military and wants recruiters to leave all students alone. It is a key part of an anti-military campaign that has targeted the nation’s schools as part of a long range strategy to undercut support for the war in Iraq and the War on Terror generally.

The group's prime mover is Megan Matson. She is now based in Bolinas but was formerly a former creative director at a New York advertising agency and a supporter of Howard Dean. Nine months before the 2004 election, Matson organized Mainstream Moms Oppose Bush (MMOB) and set out to mobilize single mothers with "Adopt-a-Swing-State" letter writing parties. MMOB also peddled "Dump Bush" bracelets parodying Lance Armstrong’s for $22. MMOB boasted 1,500 members in 45 states and got out 500,000 letters. It was not enough to carry the day 2004, but after the election the group decided to do camouflage and continue the fight by other means.

Matson changed the name to Mainstream Moms Operation Blue, allowing her to preserve the acronym and proudly wear the color of electoral defeat. She calls it an "education-in-action" project working to better the future for children. "Moms know Blue means progressive of every stripe and flavor, pure and simple," explains the organization’s ad copy, in which Matson also rails against "unauthorized recruitment."

MMOB is listed on the Leave My Child Alone website as a “partner.” In a style similar to the election campaign, LMCA operates "opt-out" parties, urging parents to remove their children from recruitment lists in a way that they might with unwanted telemarketers. These parties are pitched as a way to help people while having a good time.

Working Assets claims to have generated more than $47 million for "progressive" nonprofits such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Rainforest Action Network, Human Rights Watch, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, and People for the American Way, among many other far-Left groups. In 2004 alone, the groups says, it generated more than four million letters and e-mails to Congress, the White House and corporate leaders on issues of critical public concern.

The "Creative Producer" of Working Assets is Becky Bond, formerly online editor of San Francisco Weekly, who has made public appearances with groups such as Together We Can Defeat Capitalism. Bond hosts the web radio program "Fast Forward" and is the force behind such Working Assets new-media properties as workingforchange.com, radioforchange.com, and actforchange.com. She uses streaming technologies, as she has explained, "to radicalize the hipoisie." Bond deals with the media for LMCA, as does Felicity Crush, a former Greenpeace activist from Stinson Beach.

Leave My Child Alone enjoys support from such "co-sponsors" as the Ella Baker Center, True Majority, Code Pink, MilitaryFreeZone.org, Peace Action, Student Peace Action, WAND: Women's Action for New Directions, WiLL: Women's Legislative Lobby, Sojourners, American Friends Service Committee, Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools, Latinos for America, and Veterans for Peace.

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