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JROTC Promotes Violence
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Website ^
| 11/16/2006
| Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Posted on 11/16/2006 8:53:12 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: antimilitary; barf; jrotc; loonyleft; moonbat; moonbats; recruit; sanfrancisco; wheresthebarfalert
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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.
To: Tulsa Ramjet
"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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 8:56:42 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
Considering who this article's coming from, I'm not surprised.
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posted on
11/16/2006 8:56:43 AM PST
by
Chewie84
To: Tulsa Ramjet
"...scandals, ranging from military-style executions..."
WTF? Where did this happen?
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posted on
11/16/2006 8:58:30 AM PST
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
It's a bunch of sh... JROTC teaches leadership and responsibility. Idiots like the author have no idea what they are talking about.
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posted on
11/16/2006 8:59:06 AM PST
by
webboy45
To: Tulsa Ramjet
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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 8:59:38 AM PST
by
thulldud
("Para inglés, oprima el dos.")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:01:15 AM PST
by
SouthernBoyupNorth
("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
Please! This post should have a mega-barf alert attached.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:01:21 AM PST
by
RightWingConspirator
(Glad that Ted the Boorish Drunk, Hitlery the Witch and John Fonda/Fraud Kerry are not my senators.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
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!
To: Joe Brower
My neighbor's two boys are in JROTC, finer young men would be tough to find.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:03:08 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:03:12 AM PST
by
JDPendry
To: RightWingConspirator
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:06:32 AM PST
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
CCCO says it was founded in 1948. By Stalin?
To: 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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:08:29 AM PST
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
"Ranks up DOWN there with that church group in Kansas
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:10:43 AM PST
by
verity
(Muhammed is a Dirt Bag)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:12:53 AM PST
by
MonicaG
(Enjoying all the Freedom very much every day.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:16:37 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: Joe Brower
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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:19:49 AM PST
by
Tarantulas
( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
To: Joe Brower
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.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:20:42 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
To: MonicaG
Peace HAD a chance. And it will again, eventually... the old-fashioned way.
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posted on
11/16/2006 9:20:57 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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