Nov 5, 2004 12:16 pm US/Mountain
BOULDER, Colo. (News 4) At least 85 students worried about war, a return of the draft and the future of the environment staged an overnight protest in the Boulder High School library before leaving peacefully Friday morning.
The students said they wanted assurances from political leaders about the direction of the country. Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., met with some of the students for about an hour after they left the library at 7 a.m.
"We're worried that in four years we're going to be at war with five countries and we're going to have no trees," senior Cameron Ely-Murdock said.
"I know that's an extreme position, but I'm really worried about the draft," he said.
President Bush and other administration officials have repeatedly said they have no plans to reinstate a draft, despite concerns about the number of troops needed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Principal Ron Cabrera agreed to let the students spend the night in the library if they would leave in time for Friday morning classes, which they did. A handful of teachers and parents stayed with them.
"It's become a really large learning event about civics and having a political voice. And you can't beat that," Cabrera said.
The sit-in began after school Thursday. The students, who brought sleeping bags and food, said they were not protesting Bush's re-election but were worried about the national debt, Iraq and other issues.
The students said they wanted to talk to representatives of GOP Gov. Bill Owens and U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo. Musgrave sponsored the failed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
It was not immediately known whether either received a request or responded.
Hyphenated twit! Better worry about not having any brains.
Why - are we going to be using the trees for ammo in our war with these five countries?
Ineresting. Reference the next-to-the-last line...I thought the amendment passed. Did it fail in Colorado?
Quit your whimpering kid.
Living in Boulder with a hyphenated name, you'd have about the same chance of getting drafted as your momma.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste....
"We're worried that in four years we're going to be at war with five countries and we're going to have no trees," senior Cameron Ely-Murdock said.
I don't know weather to laugh (at their stupidity) or cry (about their stupidity).
Yeah, war does cause trees to shrivel up into nothing. Hopefully we'll only be at war with 4 countries and then the trees will be okay. Talk about your ignorant statements....
Except that they are misinformed, Mr. Cabrera. The Draft issue was a canard created by Democrats. And, in case you hadn't heard, they lost.
Uh... yeah.
Well, Cameron who needs trees? All they do is cause polution and then make people drive into them, or run into them on skis!
Senior Cameron Ely-Murdock should be more concerned that in four years both his (her?) brain cells might no longer accidentally knock together to allow cogent thought.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
WTF? is their any phychotropic drugs that can cure pure unadalterated ditzyness like this?
Yeah, I know when I was a teenager I couldn't sleep at nights worrying about the national debt.
"Hi there; what's your name?"
"Sandy."
"How old are you, Sandy?"
"Sixteen."
"You look nervous. Math is a tough subject, eh?"
"No, I'm worried about war, a return of the draft, and the future of the environment."
"We're worried that in four years we're going to be at war with five countries and we're going to have no trees," senior Cameron Ely-Murdock said.
This is a senior in High School? Kindergarten maybe…
"And as long as the beer and condoms hold out, I think it will be like really, really peaceful."
Wrong: teachers teaching young mush-minds propaganda that heroizes the likes of Marxist so-called revolutionaries and Islamofascists accompanied by falsification of history to glamorize such dangerous doctrinaires while ignoring and trashing America's world revolutionary founding and beliefs is dangerous and a subversion of our tax dollars. Let's stand up to it and stamp it out. We have tolerated it too long.
We should particularly see that the young are educated in the failures south of the border and the silliness of those who misrepresent such cultures that obtain there as ideals to be followed, particularly Cuba and Mexico, but including the whole gamut of failed Marxism, caudilloism, latifundista" handful-of-families monopolistic crony capitalism, and Social Democratic Eurosocialism systems. The irony of those who flee from such failures teaching the young as if they were superior to America's successful system based on proven founding principles needs to be ended and we should have the political courage to do it, regardless of teachers' unions, leftist teacher's colleges and other institutions for the propagation of American defeat.
"We're worried that in four years we're going to be at war with five countries and we're going to have no trees," senior Cameron Ely-Murdock said.
"I know that's an extreme position, but I'm really worried about the draft," he said.
As usual, some people do not know the least about living in reality.
Note to Cameron: "What draft?" The United States of American does not have a draft. Are you sure you live in this country?