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
Here 'tis....
jeff.due@us.army.mil
This crap is really starting to p*** me off. Peaceful dissent and opinions are guaranteed by our constitution but I see an ever increasing amount of strongarming of our institutions by the lefties. Protests are becoming more violent. You"ve seen it on the streets of Seattle and NY. They say the right has divided this country but it's THEM!!! These people had better not come to my community and stir up violence because I will be on the front lines in their faces. I've done it before and am ready to defend my family, community and liberty by any means necessary.
Wow, this is so Nazi it is amazing.
This calls for both civil rights AND criminal charges. Every one of those people whose faces are in that pic except for the Sargeant and the campus security man should be on a WANTED poster.
Yeah that's the charge! Book 'em, Danno!
Yeah you wonder how many of these protestors are homosexuals (or patrons thereof) who just want to be "tolerated".
What's the contact information for the local US Attorney's office?
NM I found it... here it is:
Seattle Office
U.S. Attorney's Office
700 Stewart Street
Suite 5220
Seattle, WA 98101-1271
Tel: (206) 553-7970
Fax: (206) 553-0882
ISDN: (206) 264-2765
From one soldier to another, Sergeant, I'll tell you why: We do it for the same reason my dad and my brother did, the same reason I did. We do it for my little girl.
If she goes to public schools and then a 'prestigious' or Ivy League school, in all likelihood, she will be one of these protesters. You cannot fight an entire culture of nihilism.
I For your children. We do it because someone gave you and I a gift far greater than anything we deserved - the gift of growing up in a free country.
This country is certainly not as free as when my dad fought for it in the Korean war.
It is perilously close to 'not free' due to taxes and regulation. About half of the civilian population doesn't want America to exist because they are not rock stars or pro athletes and blame their country rather than themselves. Piss on 'em.
Men and women far better than you or I died so that you and I could have the chance to grow up free.
That used to be true. Half of the country doesn't even want an America to exist.
I'm not sure we are even capable of fighting a war and prevailing any longer....
I'll continue to serve out of personal pride, but most of the country can kiss my @ss.
Wiil post what you find out from them?
I have left my phone number a few times and Of course.. not heard a word. I am going to call the Army recruiting office again next week and see if they know anything more at that time.
I didn't hear anything back from the three people I spoke with in law enforcement. I did find someone in a small newspaper who was interested in the story- but he couldn't promise anything because it had to go thru two other people.
So I will try again on Monday to see what I can find out.
I hope others are out there doing the same.
Who these yoyos going to call when the Islamists come for their heads? Uncle Sam and his big green killing machine, that's who!
Aw, heck, I'll give you a tiny hint. Go ahead, folks. Either bite the hands that feed you, or keep stabbing our fighting soldiers in the back with our rotten divorce and employment policies when they come home. The following are only one of the many leftist policies that are bought and paid for.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf
The following filed briefs in favor of "affirmative
action" in the Michigan "Grutter v. Bollinger"
(Michigan University) case. Be sure to save the
list of corporations below for later reference.
American Bar Association
American Council on Education, et. al.
Civil Rights Project of Harvard University
Clinical Legal Education Association
Fortune 500 Corporations that filed briefs in favor
of "affirmative action" for Michigan University
3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation
Law Deans of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, New York and Yale University, and
University of Pennsylvania
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law
Michigan Attorney General
Michigan Public Officials
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, et. al.
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Ohio State University
Thirty-six Faculty Members of The Ohio State University College of Law
UAW (International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers
LOL. That is one of the greatest benefits of the internet, as well as one of its greater flaws. The reason i chose the Spetnaz moniker is because just before i joined FR i had just finished reading an account of some of their exploits in Beirut and Afghanistan, and i wished our forces could be just as ruthless with those who would seek to harm us.
Hence, in a rush of unabated passion, i chose 'Spetznaz' as my nom de plume. There are times i wish i could change it, but doing so would basically mean losing my date of sign-up (and always been suspected of being a troll if i post a single word or phrase. LOL. The only thing worse than being zotted by mistake is waking up as Ted Kennedy).
Anyways, i pray that your coming week is great. Freep on.
Spetz!
I will call again on Monday. Everytime I see the picture of the recruiter surrounded by a mob of jeering students...I get angry all over again.
What else would you expect from this liberal mecca?
No, smart tactics. A female protestor can be as violent as she wants to be towards you, but you cannot hit her back.
big smelly liberal/socialist "can't-go-to-a-real-school-remedial-course-taking-lowlifes"...
BUMP
And if you went, or are going to a Community College...Sorry...I know all of them are not like this...
Later,
Steve
I hadn't thought about it that way, but you may be right.
Grrrrrr!!
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