Posted on 01/20/2005 7:30:43 PM PST by USArmySpouse
Edited on 02/04/2005 5:22:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A picture's worth a thousand words. My question: Why didn't the security guards escort the PROTESTERS out of the building??? Disgusting.
Updates:
To: StarCMC; trussell; Brad's Gramma; Howie66; speedy; Hondo1952; Lando Lincoln; ...
AND- Would you like the number to call someone at Students against the War who organized this stunt? Well here you go!
This is an email which I received regarding the latest in the case of the students who broke the law and ran the Army recruiter off the Seattle Campus. Please ping anyone who you think would be interested. Perhaps someone can freep their press conference????
________________________________________________________ This is the email
hi, this is a follow up email concerning the press release sent out from Students Against War, a Seattle Central Community College student association.
In protest of George Bush's inauguration on January 20th there was a walkout on the Seattle Central campus. During the walkout a group of well over one hundred students gathered around the table of two military recruiters. The recruiters were then escorted off campus by security. Some actions taken by participants have brought about disciplinary threats against Students Against War. An ultimatum was presented by the school administration - "If we do not receive a copy of your apology letter by Thursday, February 3, 2005, your club will cease to be in good standing on campus," said the letter from the Administration.
Students Against War along with members of the outside peace community will be holding a press conference tomarrow at 12:00 noon on the south plaza of SCCC.
if you have any questions please contact Gerald, a SAW representive, at: 1-206-329-2276 ___________________________________________________
spelling errors belongs to the stupid students against the war....
To: All
Students Against War will hold a press conference regarding threatened disciplinary action by the Seattle Central Community College administration on Thursday February 3rd at 12 noon on the south plaza of Seattle Central Community College.
In protest of George Bush's inauguration on January 20th, students walked out on the Seattle Central campus. During the walkout a group of well over one hundred students surrounded a table of three military recruiters and chanted anti-war slogans until they were escorted off campus by security. Some actions taken by participants have brought about disciplinary threats against Students Against War. An ultimatum was presented by the school administration - "If we do not receive a copy of your apology letter by Thursday, February 3, 2005, your club will cease to be in good standing on campus," said the letter from the Administration.
SAW's official statement in response to the Seattle Central Administration:
The group Students Against War is not responsible for the actions taken against the military recruiters on the 20th of January. We do not have the authority to speak on behalf of the individuals involved.
Any disciplinary action taken against Students Against War is without precedent or basis. SAW engaged in two permitted actions on that day, which included the rally in the south plaza and the student march to Westlake Plaza. The congregation around the military recruiters was a spontaneous event carried out by people on their own accord. SAW cannot represent these individuals or their actions, and cannot be legally held accountable.
As to the actions themselves, students were expressing their feelings about the intrusion of the military into our schools. Military recruitment on campuses nationwide has been stepped up along with military spending, while funding for education has been repeatedly cut. Military recruiters on our campus prey on the lack of options for low-income students. SAW does not support sending our low-income youth to fight and die in a war that is unjust and unfair.
Students Against War is sorry, but not about the actions of the 20th. SAW is sorry that soldiers in Iraq are dying. SAW is sorry that billions of public tax dollars are being pumped bullet by bullet into foreign soil while increasing numbers of Americans live near or under the poverty line. SAW is supporting the troops by working to bring them home.
These are our sisters and brothers. If Sgt. Due was in Iraq, one among three military recruiters asked to leave, SAW would support his right to life and human decency by bringing him home. When our friends are sent to kill and die because they didn't have the money to pay for college, we say bring them home. Why should American soldiers face death and mutilation for the lies of the Bush administration? We say bring them home. We, as Students Against War, ask you as friends and families of soldiers, to defend those troops by bringing them home NOW.
To contact Students Against War, please call our spokesperson Gerald at 1-206-329-2276
To: kittymyrib
Anti-war group targets recruiters Effort launched after campus clash By JAKE ELLISON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
A mob of Seattle Central Community College students chased military recruiters off campus last month, after a tense confrontation. Now a student anti-war group is stepping up efforts to keep them out for good.
Students Against War has launched a petition drive aimed at persuading administrators to order a halt to on-campus military recruiting.
The group points to a November ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Philadelphia-based court held that a college opposed to the policy barring gays and lesbians in the armed forces has a First Amendment right to protest by blocking access to military recruiters.
Central students opposed to the war in Iraq have been fighting the presence of military recruiters all year. The group organized a protest to coincide with President Bush's inauguration Jan. 20, but it started sooner than scheduled when several hundred students surrounded two Army recruiters.
The students hurled insults and water bottles, according to witnesses, forcing the recruiters to flee under the protection of campus security officers. There were no reports of injuries.
Administrators initially threatened to take disciplinary action against Students Against War, which denied any responsibility for the incident.
Yesterday, however, officials backed off their demand that the group apologize to the recruiters or be stripped of their affiliation with the college.
Central President Mildred Ollee said she dropped the ultimatum after discovering that members of other student groups were involved in the confrontation.
"I'm not prepared to go on a witch hunt," she said. "We did the best we could do in this, and I believe the students have learned something and we're going to move forward."
Leaders of the anti-war group told a small crowd of students yesterday that they intend to press for the military recruiting ban.
"We do not want the military in our schools asking our friends and family to fight for a war that is wrong," Nicole Thomas said. "We want recruiters out of our schools."
The incident was captured in a newspaper photograph that has made its way into conservative Web blogs. That spurred a wave of e-mails to Central administrators denouncing the conduct of the students.
One of the recruiters involved in the confrontation, Sgt. Jeffrey Due, said he was stunned how quickly things got out of hand. "I was in outright shock that they were protesting me," he said.
Due had been warned about the student walk-out demonstration, but said he didn't expect that kind of trouble. "They were all going by making off-hand comments and saying 'no war.' We just waved at them," Due said. "Five minutes later, there was just a mob of 500 people surrounding the table."
Due said he was hit in the head with newspapers, and water bottles whizzed by, pounding the vending machine and wall behind him.
The flap has energized Central's anti-war effort, sparking the petition drive. The group's goal is to get recruiters off campus "by legal means," said spokesman Gerald Lisi.
He argued that the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is in conflict with the college's code barring discrimination on campus. While petitions circulate, the group is consulting with attorneys and researching the issue.
But Ollee pointed to a government rule that allows federal money to be withheld from any college that refuses to give military recruiters access to students and student-contact information.
"I am under the law and will comply with the law as long as it is the law," she said.
P-I reporter Jake Ellison can be reached at 206-448-8346 or jakeellison@seattlepi.com
Sensitivity training? Oh, like that'll happen!
I prefer civics lessions!
PING
If I forget to put this e-mail up on the message board tonight, please do for me...
One Grateful & Patriotic Josef
Thanks. I missed that...
Incidents like this make me turn red.
Well said.
Yeah, we're confronting evil right there.
Oh I agree.. I just thought I would take an opportunity to throw it back in their faces. The party of tolerance and compassion is plain hateful- and that goes for every single one of them I have met personally. They truly are nothing more than a bunch of animals.
Sir, I am a 22-year-old citizen of this country who tried to apply for military service. Sadly, my disabilities disqualified me.
I desired to serve my nation in that fashion not because of the G.I. Bill or other such benefits, but so I could one day, somewhere as a patriot thank the nation that has given me so, so much for so little and from so many like yourself.
The last I checked, aaah, somebody's gotta keep the Commies, the facists, al Qaeda... from winning. For that, and for defending my rights, and for protecting my family from harm - like my 14 year old brother, I cannot thank you and your fellow veterans and those serving now.
That is just sick. The stupid leftists do not realize that those troops are there so they can talk like that. Leftists would not last second in say, Communist China or North Korea. But events like that can only happen in Seattle. The only city in the country with a statue of LENIN.
Second the motion.
My grandfather served in NORAD - please put me on the list for similar alerts.
You're worth it.
"I just thought I would take an opportunity to throw it back in their faces. The party of tolerance and compassion is plain hateful- and that goes for every single one of them I have met personally. They truly are nothing more than a bunch of animals."
Yeah, except I am a Dinocrat, as is my Vietnam War vet father. I'm going to move to a red state if Dino Rossi is not my Governor soon!!!
That party, oh, I cannot believe the deafening and putrid silence from Paul Berendt (cried for every vote to be counted), Christine Gregoire (who said her husband would be an advocate for vets in her "inagural"), et. al.
I think I should dye my hair gray and quote Zell Miller.
Yeah, and they elected a US Senator who praised Osama bin Laden...
Thank you very much, sir :-).
You made my weekend. I hope I made yours.
Illbedamn, but boy, that was good.
Sometimes, we all need to be reminded. Sitting here at MOBStation like this, it gets, well, hectic. Reminders are always welcome.
Jimm McDermot also went to baghdad and praised Saddam Hussein before the 2nd Iraq War too. This state might as well be called Soviet Socialist Republic of Washingon. Us FReepers who live here and those who voted for Dino Rossi are the only sane people here.
During the anti-war protests of the 60's, a favorite tactic was to put the girls in front of the march, as human shields. The male rioters behind them could throw all sorts of stuff at the riot police, but the cops could not risk injuring a girl (with all the attendent bad publicity)
Hooah, Sarge. Drive on and go get some for me.
You're added to the Washington sector of FREEPNORAD. Thanks for your interest, and if your grandad is still with us tell him I said "Thank you for serving."
It's all part of the vast right wing conspiracy. Resistance is futile!
'fraid not but I think he got the memo.
Well said. I am just burning mad w/ rage at the Derm right NOW...
We need a way for Democrats to either have a name change or expel members who dishonor the nation...
Thank you for your service to our country.
I tell ya, the outstanding Iraqi election, and watching the people made me feel pretty good....
Me too!! Look at all the good that as come from what those who have served this country have done! AMAZING!! SO MANY more people in this world are FREE tonight because of the men and women of the United States Armed Services. God bless them (you!) all!!!
It's somehow OK to send a presenter advocating "stripping" to a middle school in California, but not OK for a military recruiter to be at a Seattle college?
great image there. Thats the truth of the so-called "peace movement."
Moore's words: Students Force Army recruiters to retreat- look here
And it looks like this was orchestrated by a group who call themselves: NOT IN OUR NAME-Look Here
ARTICLE FROM THE SEATTLE-POST-INTELLIGENCE HERE
So we have photos- we know where to find the students and the left is celebrating this treatment of our recruiter as a victory and it fuels their fire. Students broke laws and the Mainstream press is saying nothing about it. Really nice. I am making some more phone calls this afternoon.
These groups will only do this more if they are not brought to justice.
Sick sick sick!
Ok, when we all sign the "Welcome to the Free World" card to the Iraqi people, we'll leave their name off. Fair enough?
I can't tell you how despicable I find this. Not here anyway - I'm sure my post would be removed.
I have a terrible cold and can hardly speak.
DANG DBR - I suck at call in shows... Do I hafta? Anyone else here better at it than me??
Uncleshag? Are you game? (See above post)
"SCCC offers financial aid availablle through the federal government and through local affiliations. You can qualify for state and federal grants and loans. Advice and help is available from the Financial Aid Office at Seattle Central Community College, phone (206) 587-3844. Its staff will guide you through the applications and alert you to key deadlines."
Federal money should be pulled immediately!
"Seattle Central Community College is known nationally for its innovative educational and student service programs. Its 10,000 students (including approximately 600 international students) compose the state's most diverse community college group in age, ethnicity, and cultural backgrounds (Kumbayah!). The state's largest English as a Second Language Program (I'll bet) is housed at Seattle Central. Seattle Central offers 37 two-year professional and technical education programs and a job placement rate of 85 percent for graduates."
Yes, another joyous melting-pot of third world hatred, partly funded by you and me. The Left must be deprived of our tax money!
And not to Ithaca?
DITTO
Seattle Central is the most left-wing campus in the state, by far. It's a bunch of brainwashed leftist pigs.
TY maudie:)
AND- Would you like the number to call someone at Students against the War who organized this stunt? Well here you go!
This is an email which I received regarding the latest in the case of the students who broke the law and ran the Army recruiter off the Seattle Campus. Please ping anyone who you think would be interested. Perhaps someone can freep their press conference????
________________________________________________________ This is the email
hi, this is a follow up email concerning the press release sent out from Students Against War, a Seattle Central Community College student association.
In protest of George Bush's inauguration on January 20th there was a walkout on the Seattle Central campus. During the walkout a group of well over one hundred students gathered around the table of two military recruiters. The recruiters were then escorted off campus by security. Some actions taken by participants have brought about disciplinary threats against Students Against War. An ultimatum was presented by the school administration - "If we do not receive a copy of your apology letter by Thursday, February 3, 2005, your club will cease to be in good standing on campus," said the letter from the Administration.
Students Against War along with members of the outside peace community will be holding a press conference tomarrow at 12:00 noon on the south plaza of SCCC.
if you have any questions please contact Gerald, a SAW representive, at: 1-206-329-2276 ___________________________________________________
spelling errors belongs to the stupid students against the war....
Please see above posts.. PING
Students Against War will hold a press conference regarding threatened disciplinary action by the Seattle Central Community College administration on Thursday February 3rd at 12 noon on the south plaza of Seattle Central Community College.
In protest of George Bush's inauguration on January 20th, students walked out on the Seattle Central campus. During the walkout a group of well over one hundred students surrounded a table of three military recruiters and chanted anti-war slogans until they were escorted off campus by security. Some actions taken by participants have brought about disciplinary threats against Students Against War. An ultimatum was presented by the school administration - "If we do not receive a copy of your apology letter by Thursday, February 3, 2005, your club will cease to be in good standing on campus," said the letter from the Administration.
SAW's official statement in response to the Seattle Central Administration:
The group Students Against War is not responsible for the actions taken against the military recruiters on the 20th of January. We do not have the authority to speak on behalf of the individuals involved.
Any disciplinary action taken against Students Against War is without precedent or basis. SAW engaged in two permitted actions on that day, which included the rally in the south plaza and the student march to Westlake Plaza. The congregation around the military recruiters was a spontaneous event carried out by people on their own accord. SAW cannot represent these individuals or their actions, and cannot be legally held accountable.
As to the actions themselves, students were expressing their feelings about the intrusion of the military into our schools. Military recruitment on campuses nationwide has been stepped up along with military spending, while funding for education has been repeatedly cut. Military recruiters on our campus prey on the lack of options for low-income students. SAW does not support sending our low-income youth to fight and die in a war that is unjust and unfair.
Students Against War is sorry, but not about the actions of the 20th. SAW is sorry that soldiers in Iraq are dying. SAW is sorry that billions of public tax dollars are being pumped bullet by bullet into foreign soil while increasing numbers of Americans live near or under the poverty line. SAW is supporting the troops by working to bring them home.
These are our sisters and brothers. If Sgt. Due was in Iraq, one among three military recruiters asked to leave, SAW would support his right to life and human decency by bringing him home. When our friends are sent to kill and die because they didn't have the money to pay for college, we say bring them home. Why should American soldiers face death and mutilation for the lies of the Bush administration? We say bring them home. We, as Students Against War, ask you as friends and families of soldiers, to defend those troops by bringing them home NOW.
To contact Students Against War, please call our spokesperson Gerald at 1-206-329-2276
Moral Support from Arizona stay safe and have lots of cameras.
And how long before the LSM spins this???
BTTT
I am calling again today to find out what the next step is by the school.
Hopefully they will remove this group from their campus. It is obvious from the SAW statement that they do know who the students were in the photo.
Seattle seems like a really crummy place...
NO taxpayer money should be going to this school or these students. They are not fit to be Americans, much less subsidized by the rest of us. I would die of shame if I saw a photo of my son or daughter hounding military personel.
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